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  • Telling Tennant's Story

    The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence

    by Dean Ashenden ...
    Winner of the 2022 Australian Political Book of the Year Award 'A drily elegant, bracing work from a pained and open heart' —Helen Garner 'Refreshing and original. A unique window on Australia's past and its barbed resonance today … Essential reading for anyone interested in the challenge of truth-telling.' —Mark McKenna 'A graceful, unostentatiously scholarly, wise (and highly readable) book on a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Telling Tennant’s Story

    The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence

    by Dean Ashenden ...
    Narrated by Ant Neate ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 14 min

    The tale of a town, and a nation. Provoked by a half-hidden account, Ashenden sets out to understand how the story of ‘relations between two racial groups within a single field of life’ has been told and not told, in this town and across the nation. In a riveting combination of memoir, reportage and political and intellectual history, Ashenden traces the strange career of the great Australian ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The Successor

    The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch

    by Paddy Manning ...
    Narrated by David Linski ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 54 min

    The first major biography of Lachlan Murdoch, one of the world’s most powerful and enigmatic people—an epic saga of ruthless power plays and family battlesAs heir apparent to the first global media dynasty, Lachlan Murdoch has been waiting to run his father Rupert’s empire all his life. In this riveting first biography of a little-understood but hugely influential figure, acclaimed journalist ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stone Yard Devotional

    A Novel

    **BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTA NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARA WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARA LOS ANGELES TIMES TOP FIFTEEN BOOK OF THE YEAR“Stone Yard Devotional is as extraordinary as you’ve heard.” —The Washington Post“An exquisite, wrenching novel of leaving your life behind.” —*New York Times Book Review"*Riveting prose about how humans beat back despair."—Los Angeles Times</em ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Killing for Country: A Family Story

    Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award

    by David Marr ...
    A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier warsDavid Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result – a soul-searching Australian history.This is a richly detailed saga of politics and power in the colonial world – of land seized, fortunes made and lost, and the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Wren, the Wren

    A Novel

    by Anne Enright ...
    **Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by TIME, The Millions, and Literary Hub“A magnificent novel.” —Sally RooneyAn incandescent novel from one of our greatest living novelists (The Times) about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women.**Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Revenge Club

    the wickedly witty new novel from a million copy bestselling author

    by Kathy Lette ...
    'Fast moving and frothing with the fun kind of female fury' JO BRANDWHEN THE ODDS ARE AGAINST YOU, IT'S TIME TO GET EVEN.Matilda, Jo, Penny and Cressy are all women at the top of their game; so imagine their surprise when they start to be personally overlooked and professionally pushed aside by less-qualified men.Only they're not going down without a fight.Society might think the women have passed ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • The Bee Sting

    A Novel

    by Paul Murray ...
    One of The New York Times T**op 10 Books of the Year**Winner of the An Post Irish Book of the Year, the Nero Gold Prize, and the Nero Book Award for FictionShortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Writers' Prize for FictionFinalist for the Kirkus Prize for FictionOne of The New Yorker's Essential Reads<... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Season

    A Fan's Story

    by Helen Garner ...
    **THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • A NEW YORKER NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025 ∙ A LITHUB FAVORITE BOOK OF 2025From the beloved master of Australian letters Helen Garner comes a brand new work of nonfiction, exploring boyhood, football, and the quotidian joys of family life."Inclusive and universal, curious and tender, perceptive and wise."—The New York Times**Helen Garner is one of the most ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Demon Copperhead

    A Novel

    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONNew York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21**st** Century • An Oprah’s Book Club Selection • An Instant New York Times Bestseller • An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller • A #1 Washington Post Bestseller • A New York Times "Ten Best Books of the Year""Demo... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Drowning

    by Bryan Brown ...
    The sensational thriller from iconic Aussie actor and storyteller Bryan Brown.'A work of rattling and serpentine suspense ... gripping and sinuous and so, so good.' Trent DaltonThe body of a local teenage boy is found on the beach of a sleepy northern New South Wales town. David went for an evening swim and got into trouble ... at least, that's what it looks like.Three weeks before, Leila, a young ... Read more

    $10.19 USD

  • The Talented Mrs Greenway

    The unmissable Australian historical novel of 2023 for readers of Kate Grenville and Geraldine Brooks

    by Tea Cooper ...
    From a bestselling Australian author, this compellingly realised novel brings to life the story of an enigmatic figure, wife to feted colonial architect Francis Greenway, and asks, whose hand really shaped Sydney? Who is the talented Mrs Greenway?1814 Sydney When Mary Greenway, freshly arrived from the old country, steps into the maelstrom of Sydney Town with three children at her skirts, she has ... Read more

    $8.99 USD