Book of Life
Deborah ConwayRRP: £16.99
A no-holds-barred memoir that charts the rise and fall – and rise – of one of Australia’s most iconic music performers.You think you know Deborah Conway? You think seeing her scowling and striding and …
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Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
Josie ShapiroRRP: £14.99
‘A sophisticated debut that will capture the racing hearts of its readers.’ – Sue Orr, Loop Tracks’Josie Shapiro’s accomplished debut novel has the compulsive forward motion of a world-class race. You …
The Women and the Girls
Laura BloomRRP: £14.99
It’s 1977, and bohemian Libby – stay-at-home mother, genius entertainer and gifted cook – is lonely. When she meets Carol, recently emigrated from London with her controlling husband, and Anna, who lo …
The Last Lighthouse Keeper
John CookRRP: £14.99
In Tasmania, John Cook is known as ‘The Keeper of the Flame’. As one of Australia’s longest-serving lighthouse keepers, John spent 26 years tending Tasmania’s well-known kerosene ‘lights’ at Tasman Is …
Boy on Fire
Mark MordueRRP: £12.99
An intensely beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of rock ‘n’ roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave’s creation story, a portrait of the artist first as a boy, th …
The Twentieth Man
Tony JonesRRP: £8.99
He was the only one left alive; now it was his turn to die.In September 1972, journalist Anna Rosen takes an early morning phone call from her boss at the ABC, telling her about two bombings in Sydney …
Sh*t Towns of New Zealand
AnonymousRRP: £14.99
Based on the hugely popular Facebook page ‘Shit Towns of New Zealand’, this book describes New Zealand’s towns and suburbs from the affluent to the effluent, the rural to the urinal, profiling all the …
Sh*t Towns of New Zealand
RRP: £14.99
Based on the hugely popular Facebook page ‘Shit Towns of New Zealand’, this book describes New Zealand’s towns and suburbs from the affluent to the effluent, the rural to the urinal, profiling all the …
The House
Helen PittRRP: £14.99
The best-loved building in Australia nearly didn’t get off the drawing board. When it did, the lives of everyone involved in its construction were utterly changed: some for the better, many for the wo …
Strayapedia
Dominic KnightRRP: £14.99
Patriotically basted in the goon trough of Australian values, this book is as fundamentally Strayan as bowling your final over underarm, not asking awkward questions about what’s in your meat pie, and …
Island Nurses
Leonie HowieRRP: £14.99
Leonie Howie and Adele Robertson live and work on remote Great Barrier Island – so called because it faces the full brunt of the wild Pacific weather and acts as a barrier for the mainland about 100 k …
The Life to Come
Michelle de KretserRRP: £8.99
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award, 2018Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, 2018 New Statesman’s best books of the year, 2018Michelle de Kretser’s fifth novel is both a delicious s …
Daughter of the Territory
Jacqueline HammarRRP: £9.99
Daughter of the Territory is the amazing life story of Jacqueline Hammar. Born in Darwin in 1929, Jacqueline’s childhood was spent in a succession of bush towns before she was sent to school in Darwin …
Evil Life
Clive SmallRRP: £14.99
The Calabrian mafia is Australia’s oldest, largest and most ruthless crime syndicate, trafficking drugs worth billions of dollars and laundering the proceeds through sophisticated international networ …
The Flying Kangaroo
Jim EamesRRP: £16.99
From its earliest days, Qantas has attracted its fair share of unusual challenges and unique characters. These are the stories of a great airline and the people who made it, told by a man who has Qant …
The Short and Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott
Andrew P StreetRRP: £14.99
In August 2013, Australia welcomed Tony Abbott as its new prime minister. This promised to be a marriage between responsible government and a nation tired of the endless drama of the Gillard-Rudd year …
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