The Broadsheet Melbourne Cookbook by Broadsheet Media
$49.99 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking
Broadsheet is the go-to arbiter of taste when it comes to where and what to eat in Melbourne. Here, for the first time, they present the recipes for their pick of the best dishes for breakfast, lunch and dinner from its cafes and restaurants. Featured cafes and restaurants include: * The Premises * Chez ...Show more
On Brunswick Ground by Catherine de Saint Phalle
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A fresh and sparkling book that strikes deep notes as it flows along.' Helen Garner 'Like the suburb it depicts, On Brunswick Ground teems with lives at once familiar and strange, all beautifully lit by the glint and warmth of Saint Phalle's prose. Shadowed by local tragedy, we come to care for these ch ...Show more
My Brother Jack by George Johnston
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Classics
'The thing I am trying to get at is what made Jack different from me. Different all through our lives, I mean, and in a special sense, not just older or nobler or braver or less clever.' David and Jack Meredith grow up in a patriotic suburban Melbourne household during the First World War, and go on to ...Show more
Anguli Ma: A Gothic Tale by Chi Vu
$24.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Chi Vu takes the central figure in a traditional Buddhist folktale, a deranged killer who wears his victims’ fingers in a garland around his neck, and turns him into a menacing abbatoir worker who carries bloody chunks of meat home to his lodgings in plastic bags, in this suburban Gothic tale set in 198 ...Show more
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab: Text Classics by Fergus Hume
$14.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Text Classics
Fergus Hume's sensational novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is Australia's original blockbuster and international best-selling crime novel. First published in 1886, it was an overnight sensation, selling hundreds of thousands of copies around the world and being translated into eleven languages. Over a ...Show more
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE 2009 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010 'A tremendously vital book in every sense.' - Sunday Times At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through th ...Show more
Shadowboxing by Tony Birch
$27.99 AUD
Category: 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
The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Tom Loxley, an Indian-Australian professor, is less concerned with finishing his book on Henry James than with finding his dog, who is lost in the Australian bush. Joining his daily hunt is Nelly Zhang, an artist whose husband disappeared mysteriously years before Tom met her. Although Nelly helps him ...Show more
Birth of Melbourne by Tim Flannery
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
In 1835 John Batman sailed up the Yarra and was astonished by the beauty of the land. It was a temperate Kakadu, teeming with wildlife and with soils rich enough to spawn pastoral empires. With the discovery of gold, the city was transformed almost overnight into 'marvellous Melbourne'. And yet, as Tim ...Show more