Taboo by Kim Scott
Category: Fiction
From the two-times winner of the Miles Franklin AwardFrom Kim Scott, two-times winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, comes a work charged with ambition and poetry, in equal parts brutal, mysterious and idealistic, about a young woman cast into a drama that has been playing for over two hundred ye ...Show more
The Enigmatic Mr Deakin by Judith Brett
Category: Biography
Alfred Deakin - scholar, spiritualist, prime minister - was instrumental in creating modern Australia. In the first biography of Deakin in more than half a century, the acclaimed political historian Judith Brett deftly weaves together his public, private and family lives. She brings out from behind the ...Show more
The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize "For a novel concerned with dislocation, there's a lot of grounding humor in The Life to Come. Most of it comes at the expense of Pippa and her ilk, but de Kretser's observations are so spot on, you'll forgive her eve ...Show more
Hark, It's Me, Ruby Lee! by Lisa Shanahan
Category: Graphic Novels
The story of an irrepressible little girl and her very big imagination, from two award-winning creators of Australian picture books - Lisa Shanahan and Binny Ruby Lee is a little girl with a very big imagination. Every week Ruby's teacher, Mrs Majestic-Jones, asks special people to do special jobs in he ...Show more
No Front Line: Australia's special forces at war in Afghanistan by Chris Masters
Category: Australian History
The soldiers of the SAS, the Commandos and Special Operations Engineer Regiment are Australia's most highly trained soldiers. Their work is often secret, their bravery undeniable and for thirteen years they were at the forefront of Australia's longest war. Shunning acclaim, they are the Australian Defen ...Show more
Unbreakable by Jessica Halloran; Jelena Dokic
Category: Sports and Hobbies
This is a story of Jelena Dokic's survival. How she survived as a refugee, twice. How she survived on the tennis court to become world No. 4. But, most importantly, how she survived her father, Damir Dokic, the tennis dad from hell. Jelena was a prodigious talent, heralded as Australia's greatest tennis ...Show more
John Curtin's War: The Coming of War in the Pacific and Reinventing Australia by John Edwards
Category: Politics
John Curtin became Australia's Prime Minister eight weeks before Japan launched war in the Pacific.Curtin's struggle for power against Joe Lyons and Bob Menzies, his dramatic use of it when he took office in October 1941, and his determination to be heard in Washington and London as Japan advanced, is a ...Show more
Domestic Interior by Fiona Wright
Category: Poetry
Many of the poems in Domestic Interior were written around the same time as Fiona Wright's award-winning collection of essays Small Acts of Disappearance, and they share with that work her acute sensitivity to the details that build our everyday world, and hold us in thrall, in highly charged moments of ...Show more
Ruben by Bruce Whatley
Category: Children's Graphic Novels
Rubens dreams were of places that made no sense to him. Places that didnt exist. At least not anymore. Ruben is a triumph of Bruce Whatleys imaginative and technical skills.
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