ARA Historical Novel Prize 2024
With prize money of $150 000, the ARA Historical Novel Prize gives Australian and New Zealand historical novelists the chance to be recognised in a class of their own, with the most significant prize purse for literature in Australasia. The Prize incorporates both an Adult category and a category for Children and Young Adult (CYA). Learn more about the Prize here, and browse the titles below. Please note our list here includes both Adult and CYA categories.
To Sing of War by Catherine McKinnon
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of the Miles Franklin Award shortlisted Storyland, comes a rich, layered and thrilling novel of love, war and friendship, To Sing of War. December 1944: In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse, Lotte Wyld, chances upon her first love, Virgil Nicholson, there to fight the Japanese and ke ...Show more
The Beauties by Lauren Chater
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An incomparable beauty. A promise to a king. A portrait that can never be completed. In the seventeenth-century court of King Charles II, Anne Hyde, the Duchess of York has commissioned a series of ten paintings of the most beautiful women in the entourage. She hopes her series will capture something m ...Show more
Women and Children (HB) by Tony Birch
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby, spending his days trying to avoid trouble with the nuns at the local Catholic primary school. One evening his Aunty Oona appears on the doorstep, distressed and needing somewhere to stay. As his mum and ...Show more
Silver Linings by Katrina Nannestad
22.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
A new heartwarming novel set in 1950s Australia from bestselling author Katrina Nannestad. Nettie Sweeney has a dad, three big sisters, a farm full of cows and a cat called Mittens. But it's not enough. She longs for a mother. One with a gentle touch and sparkles in her eyes. Instead, she has Aunty Edi ...Show more
The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard by Natasha Lester
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Three generations, one chance to prove themselves. Can the women of the Bricard fashion dynasty finally rewrite their history? French countryside, Present Day: Blythe Bricard is the daughter of famous fashion muses but that doesn't mean she wants to be one. She turned her back on that world, and her dr ...Show more
Edenglassie: Longlisted for the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award by Melissa Lucashenko
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with ...Show more
The Detective's Guide to Paris by Nicki Greenberg
17.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
1920s Paris bursts to life in this captivating return to the world and characters of Nicki Greenberg's The Detective's Guide universe. It's springtime in Paris, and crime is in the air ... Pepper Stark and her friends came to Paris for the glamour, the gteaux and the good times. But intrigue seems to f ...Show more
The Fortune Maker by Catherine Norton
22.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
In a world captivated by the temptation of fortune telling, twelve-year-old orphan Maud Mulligan finds herself caught up in a web where strangers are making plans for a future they believe she can foretell. Which is more dangerous - a future you can't see - or one that you can? Twelve-year-old Maud Mu ...Show more
The Visitors: The remarkable debut novel from an award-winning author and playwright, for readers of Melissa Lucashenko, Shankari Chandran and Tara June Winch by Jane Harrison
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The most exciting debut in 2023, The Visitors is an audacious, earthy, funny, gritty and powerful re-imagining of a crucial moment in Australia's history - an unputdownable work of fiction.WINNER OF THE 2024 INDIE BOOK DEBUT FICTION AWARD 'An extraordinary read.' Herald SunOn a steamy, hot day in Januar ...Show more
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were starting to creak ajar for women. Growing up in a poor f ...Show more
Secret Sparrow by Jackie French
17.99 AUD
Category: Teenagers
This is the story of women who fought during WW1, but not as nurses or ambulance drivers. In 1917 sixteen-year-old Jean McLain is working as a Post Office assistant in England. But when she wins a national Morse code competition, the British army makes a request Jean cannot refuse – to take a secret pos ...Show more
Spies In The Sky: Inspired By The True Story Of The Pigeons Who Went ToWar by Beverley McWilliams
16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
From the writer of The Reindeer and the Submarine comes a tale of courage and hope, inspired by the true lives of the brave pigeons who helped win the war -Royal Blue is a royal racing pigeon of impeccable pedigree. His father was a racing champion, and Blue can't wait to follow in his impressive footst ...Show more