Shadow Lines by Stephen Kinnane
$8.73 AUD
$34.90 (74% off)
Category: Australian Fiction
A powerful and lyrical work by a writer of vision and imagination, Shadow Lines is the story of Jessie Argyle, born in the remote East Kimberley and taken from her Aboriginal family at the age of five, and Edward Smith, a young Englishman escaping the rigid strictures of London. In a society deeply divi ...Show more
Shadowboxing by Tony Birch
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
COMMENDED FOR THE 2011 KATE CHALLIS RAKA AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2006 QUEENSLAND PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS -- AUSTRALIAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION Shadowboxing is a collection of ten linked stories in the life of a boy growing up in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy in the 1960s. A beautifully rend ...Show more
Shallows by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
No.1 Australian Bestseller.Author Published Internationally. Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, a small town on the south coast of Western Australia. Their annual passinig defines the rythms of a life where little changes, and the town depends on their carcasses. So when the battle begin ...Show more
Shelter by Catherine Jinks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Meg lives alone. A little place in the bush outside town. A perfect place to hide. That's one of the reasons she offers to shelter Nerine, who's escaping a violent ex. The other is that Meg knows what it's like to live with an abusive partner. Nerine is jumpy and her two little girls are frightened. It ...Show more
Shelter by Catherine Jinks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The 'masterful' rural thriller by acclaimed writer Catherine Jinks, now available in a smaller formatMeg lives alone- a little place in the bush outside town. A perfect place to hide. That's one of the reasons she offers to shelter Nerine, who's escaping a violent ex. The other is that Meg knows what it ...Show more
Shore Leave by David Whish-Wilson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Frank Swann Ser.
It is Fremantle in 1989 and Frank is at home, suffering from an undiagnosed nd debilitating illness. When Frank is called in to investigate an incident at a local brothel, it soon appears there is a link between the death of two women and the arrival of the US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Carl Vinso ...Show more
Sick Bay by Nova Weetman
$16.95 AUD
Category: Middle Grade
Two very different Grade 6 girls meet in their school sick bay. Meg is a loner. Grieving over the death of her father, and struggling with changes at home, she wears slippers to school and hides out in sick bay to avoid other kids. New girl Riley, is a Type 1 diabetic and already popular. She doesn't ...Show more
Since the Accident by Jen Craig
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In a suburban Sydney pub, a woman tells her younger sister the story of how her life has changed since a serious car accident. She speaks of the blossoming of romance, the rediscovery of her long-dormant creativity: her ability to draw. And yet an exhibition comes to nothing, a lover is abandoned. She l ...Show more
Skimming Stones by Maria Papas
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Grace first met her lover, Nate, as a teenager, their bond forged in the corridors and waiting rooms where siblings of cancer patients sit on the sidelines. Now an adult, for Grace, nursing is a comforting world of science and certainty. But the paediatric ward is also a place of miracles and heartbreak ...Show more
Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Conspiracies, memes, and therapies of various efficacy underpin this beguiling short-story collection from Elizabeth Tan.In the titular story, a cat-shaped oven tells a depressed woman she doesn't have to be sorry anymore. A Yourtopia Bespoke Terraria employee becomes paranoid about the mounting coincid ...Show more
Smokehouse by Melissa Manning
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A man watches a boy in a playground and pictures him in the grey wooden shed he's turned into a home. A woman's adopted mother dies, reawakening childhood memories and grief. A couple's decision to move to an isolated location may just be their undoing. A young woman forms an unexpected connection at a ...Show more
So Close to Home by Mick Cummins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A tense, moving novel about a young man struggling with addiction and trauma from the winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. For fans of Craig Silvey's Honeybee and Mark Brandi's Wimmera Eighteen-year-old Aaron is charismatic, resourceful and addicted to he ...Show more