Best Fiction of 2011
The Sense Of An Ending
$29.95$24.95 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumo... Buy or find out more →
All That I Am
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton
Read our Q&A with Anna Funder about All That I Am.
'When Hitler came to power I was in the bath. The wireless in the living room was turned up loud, but all that drifted down to me were waves of happy cheering, like... Buy or find out more →
The Summer Without Men
$25.00 – Paperback book / Sceptre
An exhilarating tragicomedy about the war of the sexes and what makes women tick by the internationally bestselling author Siri Hustvedt.
'Some time after he said the word pause, I went mad and landed in the hospital. He... Buy or find out more →
The Language Of Flowers
$32.99$29.99 – Paperback book / Picador
In The Language of Flowers, Vanessa Diffenbaugh's powerful first novel, a damaged young woman, Victoria Jones, who can only communicate through the Victorian language of flowers, goes from being homeless to a sought afte... Buy or find out more →
Blood
$29.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
Read our Q&A with Tony Birch on Blood
‘Many of us have known for a long time what a wonderful storyteller Tony Birch is. Blood confirms it – and how. The terrain is hard, unflinching but also imbued with a deeply re... Buy or find out more →
The House Of Silk: The New Sherlock Holmes Novel
$32.95$29.95 – Paperback book / Orion
The first official new Sherlock Holmes mystery, written by global bestseller Anthony Horowitz.
Bestselling novelist and Holmes expert Anthony Horowitz will bring the great man to life again for a new generation of reader... Buy or find out more →
Animal People
$32.95$29.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Read our Q&A with Charlotte Wood about Animal People.
The hilarious, tender and heartbreaking story of a watershed day in the life of Stephen - aimless, unhappy and unfulfilled, this stiflingly hot December day is t... Buy or find out more →
1Q84
$39.95$34.95 – Hardcover book / Harvill
The Australian edition, exceeding 900 pages, comprises all three volumes of the book (which were published in Japan and the UK as separate books).
Read an early review of 1Q84 by friend of Readings and Melbournian Louis ... Buy or find out more →
The Tiger's Wife
$19.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
Winner of the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction.
'Tea Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years.' - Colum McCann (and she's only 24!).
As Natalia and a friend travel across the former Yugoslavia, immunising vi... Buy or find out more →
The Street Sweeper
$32.95 – Paperback book / Random House
Read our Q&A with Elliot Perlman on The Street Sweeper.
How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away.
From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanit... Buy or find out more →
What The Family Needed
$24.95 – Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing
Read our Q&A with Steven Amsterdam about What the Family Needed.
"Okay, tell me which do you want: to be able to fly or to be invisible?"
And so begins the tale of one particularly gifted family as it finds itself. ... Buy or find out more →
Autumn Laing
$40.00$34.95 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
Read our Q&A with Alex Miller on Autumn Laing
Autumn Laing has long outlived the legendary circle of artists she cultivated in the 1930s. Now 'old and skeleton gaunt', she reflects on her tumultuous relationship wit... Buy or find out more →
The Life: A Novel
$32.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
He looked into the Pacific and the Pacific looked back into him. Malcolm Knox is one of Australian literature's rising stars. No less a literary authority than the Guardian had this to say after Jamaica, Malcolm's third ... Buy or find out more →
Cold Light
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Read Frank Moorhouse's interview with Patrick Allington about Cold Light.
It is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed United Nations has rejected all those who worked and fought for the League. ... Buy or find out more →
The Cook
$29.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Read Wayne Macauley's interview with Ben Pobjie about The Cook.
Power through service, says Head Chef. It's one of the first lessons taught at Cook School, where troubled youths learn to be master chefs by bowing to dec... Buy or find out more →
The Map And The Territory
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Heinemann
If Jed Martin, the main character of this novel, was to tell you its story, he would perhaps begin by talking about a boiler breaking down, one 15th December. Or about his father, a well-known and committed architect, wi... Buy or find out more →
What The World Will Look Like When All The Water Leaves Us
$24.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
The stories in Laura van den Berg’s rich and inventive debut illuminate the intersection of the mythic and the mundane.
A failed actress takes a job as a Bigfoot impersonator. A grieving missionary becomes obsessed wit... Buy or find out more →
House Of Sticks
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Read Peggy Frew's interview with Kate Veitch about House of Sticks.
Peggy Frew’s debut novel, House of Sticks, won the 2010 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. Her story ‘Home Visit’ won ... Buy or find out more →
Bearings
$24.95 – Paperback book / Affirm
Are we slaves to destiny or architects of our own fate? Bearings is about challenging the course of our lives as well as keeping a foothold during unpredictable times. In this affecting novella and collection of stories,... Buy or find out more →
The Hypnotist
$29.95$0.00 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
When a whole family is murdered in Stockholm, Detective Inspector Joona Linna knows there is only one person who can help find the perpetrator. Erik Maria Bark, retired hypnotist, is called in to work with Josef Ek, a fi... Buy or find out more →
Caribou Island
$24.95 – Paperback book / Viking
An Alaskan Revolutionary Road, Caribou Island from David Vann, bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Legend of a Suicide, is a devastating novel about a marriage, a couple blighted by past shadows and the weight... Buy or find out more →