New Australian Fiction
The Remnants
$29.95 – Paperback book / Univ West Aust Pr
The Remnants is a novel about legacy and influence. The central story deals with exile, memory and loss and a son’s terrible desire to exorcise the past and recreate himself.
A manuscript written by an Australian art h... Buy or find out more →
My Hundred Lovers
$27.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
A woman on the eve of her fiftieth birthday reflects on her life in the extraordinary, beautiful and shocking new novel from one of Australia's premier novelists.
That afternoon in the small bedroom the light was blue. T... Buy or find out more →
We All Fall Down
$29.95 – Paperback book / Transit Lounge
We All Fall Down is a vivid and compelling narrative of middle class friends and families, relationships and the contemporary workplace. Kate and Hugh Drysdale, like many couples, buy a house that stretches them to the l... Buy or find out more →
The Mountain
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Read Drusilla Modjeska's interview with Geordie Williamson about The Mountain.
Special Readings edition with cover quote from Readings boss Mark Rubbo.
"The Mountain is a truly remarkable book - lush and fascinating, it... Buy or find out more →
Running Dogs
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Read our Q&A with Ruby Murray about Running Dogs.
Jakarta, 1997, and the city is on the verge of a revolution.
Even the Jordan children — Petra, Isaak and Paul — can feel it coming, shaking the edges of their privil... Buy or find out more →
The Meaning Of Grace
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
'Mum is the reference point. If you ever get confused about anything, there she is, waiting with all her knowledge of you.' Grace Fisher, mother of three, one day decides her husband is a sore disappointment and moves th... Buy or find out more →
The Hanging Garden
$29.95$24.95 – Hardcover book / Random House
A previously unpublished novel from the winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature. Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. The boy's mother has ... Buy or find out more →
The Recluse
$24.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
Evelyn Juers’ biographical essay focuses on Eliza Emily Donnithorne, long considered the model for Charles Dickens’s character Miss Havisham in Great Expectations. For most of her life she lived in isolation in a large h... Buy or find out more →
Anguli Ma: A Gothic Tale
$24.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
Anguli Ma is the central figure in a traditional Buddist folktale, a deranged killer who wears his victims’ fingers in a garland around his neck. In this novella, Chi Vu takes the character, and turns him into an menacin... Buy or find out more →
Alien Shores: Tales Of Refugees And Asylum Seekers From Australia And The Indian Subcontinent
$24.95 – Paperback book / Hunter Publishers
It is the writer's act of imagination which is the basis of all good fiction, the kind of fiction that opens new worlds to the reader. The power of literature to move people, allow us to see into one another's hearts, to... Buy or find out more →
The Wedding Season
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster
Meet Shani - she's thirty-two, single and has a job to die for. And she likes her life just the way it is, thank you! So why do her family and friends insist on trying to convince her that the only way to the perfect lif... Buy or find out more →
Mary Bennet
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
'I prayed for a brother every night. My two older sisters also prayed. They felt the want of a brother equally keenly, for our father's estate was entailed upon a male heir, and without a brother to provide for us or a r... Buy or find out more →
The Cleansing Of Mahommed
$27.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Based on a true story, this beautifully crafted novel gives a startling insight into how the seeds of terrorism are sown.
Gool Mahommed worships Allah and Lifebuoy soap. In 1914, the young Afghan returns to Broken Hill, ... Buy or find out more →
The Architecture Of Song
$27.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Small, but perfectly formed... Augustus is not a dwarf. He's perfectly proportioned, just on a smaller scale than other people. Abandoned by his mother at the circus, he is taken on by Rosa, a fiery and supremely pragmat... Buy or find out more →
The Weight Of A Human Heart
$27.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
Read our Q&A with Ryan O'Neill about The Weight of a Human Heart.
Sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, this collection turns the rules of storytelling on their head.
A series of graphs illustrates the disintegration o... Buy or find out more →
Floundering
$27.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Read Romy Ash's interview with Tony Birch about Floundering.
Tom and Jordy have been living with their gran since the day their mother, Loretta, left them on her doorstep and disappeared.
Now Loretta’s returned, and she... Buy or find out more →
Fault Lines
$22.99 – Paperback book /
Read our Q&A with Pierz Newton-John about Fault Lines.
What makes a man? In this collection of short stories, Pierz Newton John moves through the full range of masculine experience, with an openness not afraid to sh... Buy or find out more →
The Light Between Oceans
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
A captivating, beautiful, and stunningly accomplished debut novel—the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who make one devastating choice that forever changes two worlds.
In 1918, after four harrowing years on th... Buy or find out more →
The Mother's Group
$24.95 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
An unthinkably shocking event sends shockwaves through a tight-knit mother's group, testing their bonds and revealing closely-held secrets that threaten to shatter their lives in an explosive, enthralling debut novel abo... Buy or find out more →
The Memory Tree
$27.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
When Paulina dies mid-dance, she leaves 12-year-old Zav and 7-year-old Sealie with their loving but unstable father, Hal. The grieving family decides to plant a tree in her memory - a magnolia which, growing along with t... Buy or find out more →
Sweet Old World
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Read Deborah Robertson's interview with Sian Prior about Sweet Old World.
'He goes down the stairs, singing Johnny Cash. It's a song about a man who's fallen real low, but he's not low, he's forty-three years old today,... Buy or find out more →
The Mistake
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph
We all have secrets…
Jodie Garrow is a teenager from the wrong side of the tracks when she falls pregnant. Scared, alone and desperate to make something of her life, she adopts out the baby illegally– and tells nobody.... Buy or find out more →
In Search Of The Blue Tiger
$29.99 – Paperback book / Transit Lounge
'This is a marvellously surprising and rewarding work. By turns precociously clever and darkly disturbing, 11 year old Oscar Flower’s quest for the mythical blue tiger takes the reader on a transformative journey that ch... Buy or find out more →
Closer To Stone
$29.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
The story of two brothers from 'The Springs' (a fictional former spa town near Brisbane) – one a soldier peacekeeper with the UN and one a sculptor. Set in 1993 in northern Africa (Morocco, Western Sahara and Algeria) an... Buy or find out more →
A Tiger In Eden
$22.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Read our Q&A with Chris Flynn about A Tiger in Eden.
Beautiful beaches, sexy young backpackers, cheap drinks: southern Thailand in the mid- 1990s is the perfect place for a holiday.
It’s also the perfect place for B... Buy or find out more →
The Chemistry Of Tears
$39.95$29.95 – Hard back / Penguin
When her lover dies suddenly, all Catherine has left is her work.
The long affair had been kept secret from their colleagues at London's Swinburne Museum and now she must grieve in private. Or almost. In an act of compas... Buy or find out more →
Queen Of The Night
$19.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
The dark is dangerous. So is the past. So are your dreams.
For six months Nia—Wildgirl—has tried to forget Wolfboy, the mysterious boy she spent one night with in Shyness—the boy who said he’d call but didn’t. Buy or find out more →
The Fine Colour Of Rust
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Read our Q&A with Paddy O'Reilly about The Fine Colour of Rust.
Single mother and dreamer Loretta Boskovic lives in Gunapan, a town lost in the scrubby Australian bush. She has fantasies about dumping her two kids i... Buy or find out more →
Blue
$20.00 – Hardcover book / Giramondo Publishing
Part sci-fi part autobiography, this book is about localism and racism on the Australian beach. Lushly produced hardback printed in two Pantone inks on lovely thick cream coloured paper. Blue is 96 pages long with the fu... Buy or find out more →
The Cartographer
$29.95$24.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Set in Melbourne in the 1950s, a 11-year-old boy witnesses a murder when he is spying through a window of a strange house.
In the following weeks he comes to map out all the significant adventures he has in the labyrinth... Buy or find out more →
The Last Thread
$24.95 – Trade paperback / Affirm
Read our Q&A with Michael Sala about The Last Thread.
The Last Thread is Michael Sala’s fascinating life in fiction. From his early years in the Netherlands to growing up in Australia during the 1980s, Michael recal... Buy or find out more →
The Longing
$32.95 – Paperback book / Random House
In Australia in the 1840s, the lives of two very different women intersect. Ellis MacRorie is shipped to Victoria from her Scottish homeland by her bankrupt father; Leerpeen Weelan, her Aboriginal servant known as Louisa... Buy or find out more →
The Rook
$29.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
At the start of Australian author Daniel O'Malley's impressive debut, a supernatural detective thriller distinguished by its adept use of humor, an unknown woman reads a letter that opens Dear You and closes Sincerely, M... Buy or find out more →
Currawalli Street
$27.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A beguiling celebration of the extraordinary in ordinary people's lives, this gently moving and beautifully written novel tells the stories of the people of Currawalli Street across the generations. It's a modern classic... Buy or find out more →
Free-Falling
$32.95 – Paperback book / Bantam Press
The Fiancee
Belinda's life is in free-fall after the sudden death of her fiancé
Andy.
But then ghostly signs begin to appear which suggest he might not really be gone. And Belinda begins to tumble even further.
Will his... Buy or find out more →
Flight
$27.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
′That one will be the death of her father ... Mark my words, the death of him.′
So says the prophecy that accompanies Fern′s birth. Her mother, fearing the wrath of the baby′s father, is forced to give Fern up for ad... Buy or find out more →
Mateship With Birds
$19.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Read Carrie Tiffany's interview with Gregory Day about Mateship With Birds.
On the outskirts of an Australian country town in the 1950s, a lonely farmer trains his binoculars on a family of kookaburras that roost in a t... Buy or find out more →
Comeback
$29.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Australia's best-known private investigator, Cliff Hardy, might have his licence back but does he still have what it takes to cut it as a PI on its seedy streets?
Cliff Hardy has his PI licence back - but does he still h... Buy or find out more →
Sea Hearts
$19.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A mesmerising selkie novel from multi-award winning, internationally acclaimed Australian author, Margo Lanagan - one of the most exciting voices in speculative fiction.
A HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL NOVEL FROM THE WINNER OF FO... Buy or find out more →
A Common Loss
$29.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Read our Q&A with Kirsten Tranter about A Common Loss.
They were originally five. Elliot. Brian.Tallis. Cameron. And Dylan -- charismatic Dylan -- the mediator, the leader, the man each one turned to in a time of cr... 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 →
Poor Man's Wealth
$27.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Part fable, part love story, part comi-tragedy, Poor Man´s Wealth is narrated, somewhat unreliably, by El Gordo--the Fat One. He is the mayor of Higot, a dusty village in an unnamed Spanish-speaking country under militar... Buy or find out more →
What Remains
$29.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
'Before you fall in love, or find a dear friend, you should know: this is the day I will meet someone whose memory will touch my heart and change my world forever. I believe the ability to do this is buried deep within e... Buy or find out more →
Forecast Turbulence
$22.99 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
The turbulent river rushes on.
′Everything flows,′ wrote Heraclitus, ′and nothing stays fixed.′
FORECAST TURBULENCE is a breathtaking and exquisitely lyrical collection of nine short stories and one memoir piece ... 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 →
The Dark Wet
$26.95 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
The Dark Wet is Jess Huon’s first collection of short stories. Its three sequences explore the intense relationships between childhood friends, and later their spiritual companions, through the experience of sex, drugs, ... Buy or find out more →
Silence
$24.99 – Paperback book / Murdoch Books
Silence is an exquisite, poignant collection of ‘fictions’ by one of Australia’s finest writers. Each piece has its own startling imagery. This is a book that constantly surprises with its echoes of famous voices, and wh... Buy or find out more →
Life Kills
$24.95 – Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing
“It was just one of those girly little fights we have my precious little sparkles my little fudgy wudgy bunnikins so drop the gun my little sparkles dear cos i know it isn’t loaded and i hate to break it to ya honey chil... 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 →
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 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 →
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 →
The Rattler And Other Stories
$19.99 – Paperback book /
In this wonderfully eclectic collection published by Spineless Wonders, A.S. Patric shows us a surreal side of Melbourne where anything can happen. A tram driver makes a mercy dash with a carriage full of show dogs, a bo... 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 →
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 →
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 →
The Slap (TV Tie-In)
$24.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
To smack or not to smack is the question that reverberates through the interconnected lives dissected in Christos Tsiolkas' award-winning novel, now a prime time ABC TV series, starring Melissa George and Alex Dimitriade... Buy or find out more →
The Thread
$29.99 – Trade paperback /
The enthralling new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of THE ISLAND and THE RETURN.
Thessaloniki, 1917. As Dimitri Komninos is born, a fire sweeps through the thriving multicultural city, where Christians, J... Buy or find out more →
The Long Road Of The Junkmailer
$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
‘A quite brilliant debut’ THE AUSTRALIAN
‘Quirky, magical, melancholic and utterly readable’ BOOKSELLER AND
PUBLISHER
A lonely junkmailer, his bag full of real estate leaflets, wanders the streets of a sleeping s... Buy or find out more →
Foal's Bread
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Read our Q&A with Gillian Mears about Foal's Bread.
The sound of horses' hooves turns hollow on the farms west of Wirri. If a man can still ride, if he hasn't totally lost the use of his legs, if he hasn't died to t... 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 →
The Sleepers Almanac No. 7
$24.95 – Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing
Every year, Sleepers assembles a motley crew of new and established (but mostly new – mostly never heard of) writers for their critically acclaimed collection of short fiction (with occasional miscellany): The Sleepers A... Buy or find out more →
The Low Road
$24.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
New edition.
Shortlisted, The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer, 2006 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
'Chris Womersley's first novel is so stark and pitiless that it's hard to keep r... Buy or find out more →