Melbourne Writers Festival 2011
Her Father's Daughter
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
Read our Q&A with Alice Pung about Her Father's Daughter.
From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Unpolished Gem.
At twenty-something, Alice is hungry for the milestones of young womanhood: leaving home, choosi... Buy or find out more →
There Goes The Neighbourhood: Australia And The Rise Of Asia
$32.95 – Paperback book / New South Books
For the first time in history, Australia will be uncomfortably close to the designs and demarches of competing great powers. In the years ahead, we will no longer be too small to make a difference. In his book, Wesley po... Buy or find out more →
Melbourne
$29.95 – Hardcover book / New South Books
Read our Q&A with Sophie Cunningham about Melbourne.
Sophie Cunningham writes a year in the city’s life, a year that takes us from the heatwave that culminated on Black Saturday when temperatures soared to 47 degree... Buy or find out more →
Sarah Thornhill
$39.95$34.95 – Hardcover book / Text Publishing
This powerful novel will enthrall readers of Kate Grenville’s bestselling The Secret River, winner of the Commonwealth Writers‘ Prize.
From the beginning Jack and I was friends. Somehow our way of looking at things f... Buy or find out more →
How I Became A Famous Novelist
$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Read Steve Hely's guest blog post about the story behind his novel How I Became A Famous Novelist.
A razor-sharp evisceration of celebrity culture and literary fame, How I Became a Famous Novelist is a satirical novel m... Buy or find out more →
Freedom
$19.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
′He has done it. Another nine years later, he has produced a novel as rich, knowing, limber and comic as THE CORRECTIONS′ THE AUSTRALIAN
Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul - the gentrifie... Buy or find out more →
All That I Am
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton
ABIA Book of the Year 2012
Winner of the Barbara Jefferis Award 2012
Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award 2012
Read our Q&A with Anna Funder about All That I Am.
'When Hitler came to power I was in the bath. The... Buy or find out more →
1835: The Founding Of Melbourne And The Conquest Of Australia
$44.95 – Hardcover book / Black Inc
In 1835 an illegal squatter camp was established on the banks of the Yarra River. In defiance of authorities in London and Sydney, Tasmanian speculators began sending men and sheep across Bass Strait – and so changed the... Buy or find out more →
Blood Line
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster
Under the watchful eye of Detective Chief Superintendent James Langton, Anna is given her first case. But is it a full-blown murder investigation or purely a missing person's case? An ominous pool of blood and no victim ... Buy or find out more →
Cargo
$19.99 – Paperback book / Picador
Read our Q&A with Jessica Au about her debut novel Cargo.
Frankie is fifteen and beginning to realise that when it comes to sex, or even love, she doesn’t seem to play it like other girls. As summer begins, she find... Buy or find out more →
State Of Wonder
$29.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
Heart of Darkness meets The Poisonwood Bible in this dazzling tale of science and ritual, terror and love from the Orange prize-winning author of Bel Canto.
There were people on the banks of the river.
Among the tangled ... Buy or find out more →
Feeling The Heat
$36.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
In Feeling the Heat, journalist Jo Chandler sets out on a quest that takes her across the Antarctic ice, under the seas and through the tropical rainforests of far north Queensland. Her mission is to explore one of the d... Buy or find out more →