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Just for the Summer
Every July, the lucky owners of Cornish holiday homes set off for their annual break. Loading their estate cars with dogs, cats, casefuls of wine, difficult adolescents and rebellious toddlers,...
The Multiple Effects Of Rainshadow
$25.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA remote island off the Queensland coast becomes the stage for a haunting moral reckoning in Thea Astley's The Multiple Effects of...
Reaching Tin River
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the sun-scorched landscape of rural Queensland, Thea Astley's Reaching Tin River chronicles the restless inner journey of Belle, a woman consumed by an...
A Descant For Gossips
$45.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the cloistered world of a small Queensland town, where conformity is currency and difference is punished with devastating precision, Thea Astley's A Descant...
An Item From The Late News
$20.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedIn the sun-drenched yet morally suffocating landscape of small-town Queensland, Thea Astley's An Item from the Late News chronicles the quiet destruction of...
A Boat Load Of Home Folk
$30.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Light foxing on book block. Set against the sweltering backdrop of a small Pacific island in the 1960s,...
The Slow Natives
$45.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Binding remains tight. Clean and bright copy. This compelling literary novel, The...
Vanishing Points
$25.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedFrom one of Australia's most celebrated and uncompromising literary voices comes Vanishing Points, a collection of stories that tears back the comfortable...
It's Raining In Mango
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedFrom the steamy, storm-laden tropics of north Queensland, It's Raining in Mango chronicles five generations of the Luce family, whose story is inseparable from...
A Descant For Gossips
$100.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: unclipped dj with small tears. Name penned on fep, small ink tick on verso of half-title...
Hunting The Wild Pineapple: And Other Related Stories
$50.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFrom one of Australia's most celebrated and uncompromising literary voices comes Hunting the Wild Pineapple and Other Related Stories, a razor-sharp collection...
Coda
$25.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedIn the searing heat of Queensland's coastal towns, Thea Astley's Coda presents the fierce and darkly comic story of Kathleen Hackendorf, a...
Drylands
$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
The Astaires: Fred & Adele
Before "Fred and Ginger," there was "Fred and Adele," a show-business partnership and cultural sensation like no other. In our celebrity-saturated era, it's hard to comprehend what a genuine phenomenon...
A Kindness Cup
$25.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the sun-scorched Queensland outback of the 1890s, a town reunion becomes a reckoning when a group of settlers are...
Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Appears unread. What does it take to forge a literary identity in a land that has...
The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton: A Richard and Judy Book Club pick for summer 2019
$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...