The Beloved
Annah Faulkner
Picador, PB, 9781742611556
When Roberta "Bertie" Lightfoot is crippled by polio, her world collapses. But Mama doesn't tolerate self-pity, and Bertie is nobody if not her mother's daughter - until she sets her heart on becoming an artist. Through art, the gifted and perceptive Bertie gives form and voice to the reality of the people and the world around her. While her father is ... More/Buy
Beneath the Darkening Sky
Majok Tulba
Hamish Hamilton, PB, 9781926428420
When the rebels come to Obinna's village, they do more than wreak terror for one night. Lining the children up in the middle of the village, they measure them against the height of an AK-47. Those who are shorter than the gun are left behind. Those who are taller are taken. Obinna and his older brother Akot find themselves the rebel ... More/Buy
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Jessie Cole
Harper Collins, PB, 9780732293192
My dad, he collects broken things ... Where other people see junk he sees potential ... My dad collects broken people too ... Vincent is nearly forty years old, with little to show for his life except his precious sixteen-year-old daughter, Gemma: sensitive, insightful and wise beyond her years. When a stranger crashes her car outside Vincent and Gemma’s bush home, ... More/Buy
The Edge of Bali
Inez Baranay
Transit Lounge, PB, 9781921924194
Three people travel to Bali for very different reasons. Marla is well read in Bali’s culture; she distrusts false ideologies, orientalism and tourism. To her surprise she finds the echoes of a golden age and a passionate lover. Nelson, a young woman from Sydney returns in the hope of reuniting with her Balinese boyfriend, but encounters the unexpected. Tyler, a New ... More/Buy
Great Australian Ghost Stories
Richard Davis
ABC books, PB, 9780733331077
From gore-spattered convicts and elegant women out of our colonial past to the mysterious ghost lights of the outback and angry poltergeists that wreak havoc on modern homes, Australia seems to be teeming with the restless spirits of our ancestors. Join a terrified young couple on a Ferris wheel when a spectre appears inside their cage, you'll learn about Australia's most ... More/Buy
Last Summer
Kylie Ladd
Allen & Unwin, PB, 9781743310816
NOW IN B FORMAT. Rory Buchanan has it all: looks, talent, charisma-an all around good-guy, he's the centre of every party and a loving father and husband. Then one summer's afternoon, tragedy strikes. Those who are closest to him struggle to come to terms with their loss. Friendships are strained, marriages falter and loyalties are tested in a gripping and brilliantly ... More/Buy
No Sex in the City
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Macmillan, PB, 9781742611372
Twenty-eight-year old Esma has a Masters in human resources management, never orders just a salad, is well-travelled, has excellent taste in music, watches the ABC news, has The Guardian saved as an application on her iPhone, knows all the two-letter words in Scrabble and can tell the difference between a Ford and Holden. Armed with a personalised check-list, she's on the ... More/Buy
The Oldest Song in the World
Sue Woolfe
Harper Collins, PB, 9780732294991
Kate, a lonely city woman and reluctant student, is asked by her teachers to travel to the middle of the Australian desert to record a dying Aboriginal woman singing an ancient song. She accepts because she believes that she might be able to reunite with a childhood love and solve the mystery of her past. But once there, she's confronted by ... More/Buy
The Rest is Weight
Jennifer Mills
UQP, PB, 9780702249402
A girl searches for her lost grandmother while her parents quarrel at home. A young architect finds herself entangled by a strange commission. A man contemplates inertia after toxic fallout changes life in a remote Australian town. A woman imagines a mother's love for her autistic son. The award-winning stories in The Rest is Weight reflect Jennifer Mills' years in Central ... More/Buy
There Should Be More Dancing
Rosalie Ham
Vintage Australia, PB, 9781864711912
Margery Blandon was always a principled woman who found guidance from the wisdom of desktop calendars. She lived quietly in Gold Street, Brunswick for sixty years until events drove her to the 43rd floor of the Tropic Hotel. As she waits for the crowds in the atrium far below to disperse, she contemplates what went wrong; her best friend kept an ... More/Buy
Unzipped
Nikki Reed
Text Publishing, PB, 9781921922459
Peta Wheeler measures time differently now. Before the couch. After the couch. Before the couch, Peta knew who she was. A 34-year-old information-dissemination professional, married to the man of her dreams and thinking about motherhood. She'd never been late for work, drunk beer or kissed a stranger. After the couch, Peta hits a cyclist, tries to get pregnant, tries to make ... More/Buy
Waratah House
Anne Whitehead
Michael Joseph, PB, 9781921518744
In the tradition of Downtown Abbey comes a vivid story of life in the servant's quarters. Waratah House, a beautiful mansion in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, is the only home Marina has ever known. Orphaned at a young age, Marina finds a new family in the colourful characters that occupy the bustling servants' quarters of this stately house. ... More/Buy
Welcome To Normal
Nick Earls
Vintage Australia, PB, 9781864711547
This collection of stories showcase the calibre and versatility of Nick Earls at his perceptive best. An Australian wine-maker tries to crack the Taiwanese market. Two holiday-makers in Spain decide to tell a lie about each other every meal. A man drives home from work trying not to dwell on what he has just done. From Arizona to Taipei to suburban ... More/Buy
The Yalda Crossing
Noel Beddoe
UQP, PB, 9780702249396
What action would be best for me?' I asked. We waited together. I thought for a while that he meant not to reply. 'James,' he said at last, 'that's something no-one can decide but you.' New South Wales, 1832 Captain James Beckett and his lover, Harriette, leave behind the proprieties of Sydney society and pioneer far west of the Blue Mountains to the ... More/Buy