Readings Recommends: Australian Fiction
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 Penguin Book Of Australian Bush Writing
$32.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
A selection of our finest writing about the mystery and majesty of the Australian bush.
Since settlers and explorers first started recording their experiences of the Australian bush, is has loomed as large in our imagina... Buy or find out more →
The Opal Desert
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan
Kerrie, in her 40s, has just lost her famous sculptor husband who had been the centre of her existence and for whom she sacrificed her own art career. Now she needs to find the courage to rekindle her dreams.
Shirley, ap... 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Caleb's Crossing
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Fourth Estate
Once again, Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Geraldine Brooks takes an unlikely shard of little-known history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young Indian named Caleb from the island of Martha′s Vineyard became th... 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 →
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 →
My Dog Gave Me The Clap
$22.95 – Paperback book / Fremantle Arts Ct Pr
The author swears this isn't one of those semi-autobiographical first novels. Although we once heard him say it was, he's adamant that was a joke. Maybe it's just as well he clarified that point for us. Adam's dog has al... Buy or find out more →
That Deadman Dance
$22.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Winner of the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Big-hearted, moving and richly rewarding, That Deadman Dance is set in the first decades of the 19th century in the area around what is now Albany, Western Australia. In ... 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 →
Traitor
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Winner of the 2011 Prime Minister's Award for Fiction.
What would make a soldier betray his country?
In the battle-smoke and chaos of Gallipoli, a young New Zealand soldier helps a Turkish doctor fighting to save a boy’s... Buy or find out more →
Past The Shallows
$26.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
Hauntingly beautiful and told with an elegant simplicity, this is the story of two brothers growing up in a fractured family on the wild Tasmanian coast. The consequences of their parents' choices shape their lives and u... Buy or find out more →
Scenes From Provincial Life
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Here for the first time in one volume is JM Coetzee's majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir, Boyhood, Youth and Summertime.
Scenes from Provincial Life opens in a small town in the South Africa of the 1940s. We meet a... Buy or find out more →
The Roving Party
$27.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
An unforgettable new novel from the 2011 winner of The Australian/Vogel Literary Award. 'I really, really am in awe of the amount of work that's gone into this...' Margo Lanagan.
'I'm still talking about this story to pe... 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 →
The Pacific
$32.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
As a war correspondent covering the Second World War, Ilsa Stahl isn't afraid to be on the front line. But when her plane goes down in a terrible storm over Papuan waters and she is taken prisoner by the Japanese, she ha... 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 →
Berlin Syndrome
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Read Melanie Joosten's guest blog post about the story behind Berlin Sydrome
Berlin. The once-divided city still holds its share of secrets.
One afternoon, near the tourist trap of Checkpoint Charlie, Clare meets Andi. ... Buy or find out more →
Bereft
$24.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Shortlisted for the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
It is 1919. The Great War has ended, but the Spanish flu epidemic is raging across Australia. Schools are closed, state borders are guarded by armed men, and train ... Buy or find out more →
Triptych
$29.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
A solitary young woman called Lilly pursues online adventure among the anonymous torsos of Chatroulette, and finds a soul mate.
Leda's first love brings tenderness, heartbreak and a powerful sexual awakening at the behes... Buy or find out more →
Smythe's Theory Of Everything
$24.95 – Paperback book / Hybrid
In 2004 the author found a little diary of 386 pages written by a 62 year old man in a nursing home. This story is inspired by that diary.
E=mc2? Jack Smythe thinks Einstein is wrong and he has a theory to prove it. But ... Buy or find out more →
The Monsoon Bride
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Burma, 1930.
At their final marriage lesson, when the priest had talked on and on, Desmond bent his head to hers and whispered, ‘Our world is newer, faster and better—you will see.’ She took his hand in hers then and squ... 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 →
With My Body
$29.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
The long-awaited follow-up to the international bestselling phenomenon THE BRIDE STRIPPED BARE, WITH MY BODY is an intensely personal tale of sexual awakening as well as one wife′s story about every woman′s marriage.... Buy or find out more →
War And Peace And Sonya
$29.99 – Paperback book / Pier 9
‘Like Hilary Mantel, in her Booker Prize-winning novel Wolf Hall, Armstrong puts her scholarly imagination to work on a known period and a set of famous figures. At the heart of it is Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy’s best lo... 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 →
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 →
Five Bells
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
An exquisite and moving new novel from this master storyteller.
On a radiant day in Sydney, four adults converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Crowds of tourists mix with... Buy or find out more →
Griffith Review 34: The Annual Fiction Edition
$27.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Griffith REVIEW's highly anticipated third annual new fiction collection explores islands, both geographical and personal.
This assortment of new fiction from the best emerging and established writers from Australia and ... 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 →
Tiger Men
$32.95 – Trade paperback /
This town is full of tiger men,' Dan said. 'Just look around you. The merchants, the builders, the bankers, the company men, they're all out for what they can get. This is a tiger town, Mick, a place at the bottom of the... Buy or find out more →
Ruby Blues
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
In Campaign Ruby, Ruby managed to get:
- drunk
- the leader of the Opposition elected
- Luke
Now that the balloons from the election night party have sagged, as well as the electorate’s enthusiasm for the new PM, Ruby is bat... 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 →
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 →
Matilda Is Missing
$32.95 – Paperback book / Random House
Garry Hartshorn and Softie Monaghan were never love's young dream. Not even on their wedding day.
Softie was sophisticated, a career woman, who owned a nice apartment overlooking St Kilda Beach. Garry had a few rough edg... Buy or find out more →
Empire Day
$32.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
A heart-warming novel in the tradition of CLOUDSTREET and THE HARP IN THE SOUTH
Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But ... Buy or find out more →
Spirit House
$32.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan
Read Mark Dapin's guest blog post about the story behind Spirit House.
David is thirteen and confused. His mum has gone off with her lover and sent David to his grandparents in Bondi to give her new relationship some 's... Buy or find out more →
The Girl And The Ghost Grey Mare
$29.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Collected short stories from the bestselling author of The Cattleman's Daughter
A diary farmer's daughter searches for love in a city pub, a grieving widow heals her heart and her community, a cheated wife finds the ulti... Buy or find out more →
Fall On Me
$24.95 – Paperback book /
Lou Bard busies himself running a humble Launceston café, looking after his son Luke, and doing his best to bring a sense of normality to the old worker's cottage they rent with a series of housemates. But when Luke, an ... Buy or find out more →
Two Steps Forward
$24.95 – Paperback book / Affirm
It’s easy to get stuck in a rut. What binds the characters in Two Steps Forward is an indomitable desire to climb their way out.
Located in familiar Australian settings, this collection of stories brilliantly weaves to... Buy or find out more →
The Briny Cafe
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
Brimming with warmth and wit, Susan Duncan's first novel is a delicious tale of friendship and love, and the search for a place to call home...
Ettie Brookbank is the heart and soul of Cook's Basin, a sleepy offshore com... Buy or find out more →
Bite Your Tongue
$29.95 – Paperback book / Spinifex Press
There are some things you should never speak about.
In Francesca Rendle-Short’s family, silence was golden. So to break ranks and tell stories about her peculiar family life and her mother’s moral crusading should send t... Buy or find out more →
Watch Out For Me
$29.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
"Everything about them seemed atavistic, elemental-wild hair matted like savages, jutting shoulders and collarbones, sharply angular limbs. The movement and wonder were captured and held in suspense, eternally. And in th... 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 →
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 →
Thought Crimes
$27.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
In Thought Crimes, Tim Richards takes the reader on a mind-bending ride through a world where nothing is quite as it seems. The lives these stories describe are almost ordinary – but an ambush lurks around every corner.... Buy or find out more →
Spirit Of Progress
$29.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Read our Q&A with Steven Carroll about writing Spirit of Progress.
The thing that makes you, it never goes.
A sleek high-speed train glides silently through the French countryside, bearing Michael, an Australian wri... Buy or find out more →
Pepsi Bears And Other Stories
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Daring and provocative short stories from one of Australia’s best comic writers.
A collection of fables in which the intuition of animals is set against the hubris of man, Anson Cameron is part court jester, part accla... Buy or find out more →
When We Have Wings
$32.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
In a world divided into fliers and non-fliers, how far would you go to be able to fly? How much would you sacrifice - perhaps your own child? A beautifully written and compellingly original novel of sacrifice, betrayal a... Buy or find out more →
The Chase
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Picador
They're all doing it... It's not so much a contest between horses, as a race to find the best recipe.
When young scientist Jean Campbell is invited help root out drugs in sport, she enters a murky world where power, priv... Buy or find out more →
Chelsea Mansions
$24.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
An edlerly American woman is brutally murdered in London. Why? Why had she chosen to stay in the slightly run down hotel next door to the palatial, yet ostentatious, mansion owned by a Russina billionaire who himself is ... Buy or find out more →
Babylon
$32.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Read Stephen's guest blog post about the story behind Babylon.
A new novel from the author of the novelisation of Animal Kingdom and the screenwriter of the movie The Boys.
An English backpacker heads north for sun, wom... Buy or find out more →
Last Summer
$29.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Rory has it all: looks, talent, charisma - an all around good-guy, he's the centre of every party and a loving father and husband. Then one summer's afternoon tragedy strikes ... and those who closest to him struggle to ... Buy or find out more →
Small Indiscretions: Stories Of Travel In Asia
$29.95 – Paperback book / Transit Lounge
A traveller becomes a Monroe impersonator in the casinos of Macau. An obsessive son of Australians living in Jakarta confronts his strange rituals. A young woman is trapped in the boredom of her father’s ministry in exot... Buy or find out more →
A Break In The Chain: The Early Kozminskys
$27.95 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
In 1856, Simon Kozminsky travelled from Prussia to begin a new life in the fledgling colony of Victoria. In the hea... Buy or find out more →
There Should Be More Dancing
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Random House
Margery Blandon has led a life of principles. Now she finds herself sitting on the 43rd floor of the Tropic Hotel, preparing to throw herself to her death.
Margery Blandon was always a principled woman who found guidance... Buy or find out more →
Whispering Death
$32.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Hal Challis is in trouble at home and abroad: carpeted by the boss for speaking out about police budget cuts; missing his lover, Ellen Destry, who is overseas on a study tour.
But there’s plenty to keep his mind off his ... Buy or find out more →
The Slap
$24.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary
Award.
Winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers'
Prize
Winner of the 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Vance
Palmer Prize for Fiction
At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a ... Buy or find out more →
The Vanishing Act
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
This is a story about a snow-covered island you won't find on any map.
Minou and her Papa live on a tiny island in the middle of nowhere. Minou’s mother has been missing for a year and despite what everyone tells her, Mi... Buy or find out more →
I Am Max Lamm
$27.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
‘I am Max Lamm is an unusually good comic novel. If you enjoy the neurotic, close-to-the-bone humour of Steve Toltz, Woody Allen or John Safran, you’ll like this. This is one author definitely worth watching.’ Australian... Buy or find out more →
Machine Man
$27.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
When Charles Neumann loses a leg in an industrial accident, it's not a tragedy. It's an opportunity.
As a scientist, Charlie always thought his body could be better. His employer, military contractor Better Future, has t... Buy or find out more →
Two Greeks
$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
Oddly, I am only intermittently aware that our lives are dismal. I think all fathers must be part ogre, part child, part Zeus in the clouds – or all Greek fathers, even if I know no others.
Ten-year-old Andy senses tha... Buy or find out more →
End Of The Night Girl
$24.95 – Paperback book / Wakefield Press
Molly, a sassy Australian waitress, is haunted by the ghost of a murdered Polish Jew. The two young women's stories, each a compelling page-turner, combine teasingly in one as End of the Night Girl explores shadows cast ... Buy or find out more →
Prohibited Zone
$24.95 – Paperback book / Wakefield Press
Steve West, mining engineer and ex-footy star, just wants a dirty weekend in town, but he can't stop people telling him their secrets. When crusading Kara incites a breakout in the desert, Westie finds himself her reluct... Buy or find out more →
The End Of Longing
$32.95 – Paperback book / Univ West Aust Pr
Frances, a New Zealand woman, is laid to rest in an unmarked grave in Jamaica in 1894. Her enigmatic husband, the Rev. William Hammond, cannot be found. Reports are later sent to her brothers with allegations of cunning,... Buy or find out more →
You Lose These And Other Stories
$27.95 – Paperback book / Freemantle Press
Short stories from Goldie Goldbloom, award-winning author of The Paperbark Shoe.
Dark. Delicious. Superb.
‘Prepare to encounter startling epiphanies, wonderfully eccentric conceits, and standout instances of wit and obse... Buy or find out more →
The Precipice
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
What happens when an obsession takes over and there is no one to hold you back?
Thea Farmer, a reclusive and difficult retired school principal, lives in isolation with her dog in the Blue Mountains. Her distinguished ca... Buy or find out more →
It Takes A Village
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan
Growing up in conservative, postwar Australia isn't easy. For eight-year-old Sophie, who has just been told that she's a bastard, it seems that she lives in a world of secrets, unanswered questions and whispers.
Who is h... Buy or find out more →
The Ottoman Motel
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Welcome to Reception…
Simon and his parents arrive in the small town of Reception and check in to the Ottoman Motel. Then, while Simon is asleep, his parents disappear.
Are they lost? Has something terrible happened to... Buy or find out more →
Permission To Lie
$19.99 – Paperback book /
In Permission to Lie, Julie Chavalier casts a curious eye into many different worlds. Her characters ride the citybound bus route, spend the night in a nudist colony and wait tables. Quirky and beautifully-written, these... Buy or find out more →
I Hate Martin Amis Et Al
$29.95 – Paperback book / Transit Lounge
It is 1995. Milan Zorec, an aspiring yet rejected novelist, travels from England to Bosnia to join the Serbian forces as a sniper in Sarajevo, in the final months of the longest siege in history. Hes determined to find a... Buy or find out more →
Those Who Come After
$29.99$24.95 – Hardcover book / Picador
Juliana Stolburg was a pretty child, but small. She would collect sounds and mimic them: the hollow clip-clop of horses' hooves on cobblestones, the growl of Papa's motorbike. Papa was a hero of the Resistance. His long ... Buy or find out more →
Paris Dreaming
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
Libby is on a man-fast: no more romance, no more cheating men, no more heartbreak. After all, she has her three best girlfriends and two cats to keep her company at night and her high-powered job at the National Aborigin... Buy or find out more →
Under The Influence
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Eve Hardy is exactly where she wants to be in life. She is a successful concert cellist for the Royal Opera, living with her handsome partner in his London apartment. Everything is possible.
Sarah lives in Sydney with he... Buy or find out more →
The Secret Fate Of Mary Watson
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
A daring heroine tests her wits against secrets, spies and smugglers on a remote Australian island
′It′s peculiar, the assumptions we all make. For instance, how, in a diary, the truth bone′s connected to the hand bone .... Buy or find out more →
The Power Of Good: True Stories Of Great Kindness From Total Strangers
$24.95 – Paperback book / Hybrid
Seventy short, heart-warming stories from mostly prominent Australians telling of moments of unexpected kindness they have experienced, with an introduction based on research by the McCrindle organisation and brought to ... 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 →
Cloudstreet (TV Tie-In)
$26.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Could you share a haunted house with eight strangers and a talking pig? Well, sometimes you don't get a choice.
Australia's favourite novel is a funny, heartbreaking story of making-do and yearning to belong. Now a major... Buy or find out more →
Yellowcake
$19.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Yellowcake brings together another ten short stories from this extraordinarily talented writer - each of them fiercely original and quietly heartbreaking. 'Lanagan is in a class of her own.' Weekend Australian 'The geniu... Buy or find out more →
Snake
$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
My life is about to begin. This is the only thought in Irene's head on the day she marries a handsome Second World War veteran. But Irene is restless and rebellious, dangerously bored by her life as a farmer's wife. As t... Buy or find out more →
Little People
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
When Mary Ann, an impoverished governess, rescues a child from the Yarra River, she sets in motion a train of events that she could never have foreseen. It is not a child she has saved but General Tom Thumb, star of a ce... Buy or find out more →
Friends Like These
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
A sparkling novel about friendship, love, betrayal and money - a modern, witty and wise comedy of manners set among the wealthy elite where a glittering harbour view is the ultimate prize.
Greed, fraud, betrayal and resu... Buy or find out more →
The Sparrows Of Edward Street
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
A unique fictional view of a little-known corner of Australian history.
Sydney, 1948: When Hanora Sparrow and her teenage daughters, Rosy and Aria, fall upon difficult times they are forced to leave their comfortable mid... Buy or find out more →
Last Chance Cafe
$14.95 – Trade paperback / Pan Macmillan
Margot detests shopping malls. Any distraction is welcome, and the woman who has chained herself to the escalator, shouting about the perils of consumerism, is certainly that. She recognises Dot immediately – from their ... Buy or find out more →
Beyond Fear
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
An adrenaline-pumping suspense thriller from an extraordinary new talent.
Imagine if your worst fears came true . . . again.
At seventeen, Jodie Cramer survived a terrifying assault at the hands of three strangers. Her s... Buy or find out more →
Bright And Distant Shores
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
brilliant novel that is at once a rollicking yarn and a beautiful love story, with an amazing cast of unforgettable characters and exotic settings - a feat of imagination and storytelling.
Description They were showing t... Buy or find out more →
Flock
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Sometimes you have to leave what you most love behind . . . Sydney, 1950. Following a chance encounter at Central Station, Francis Sprigge and Lilian Powys, two strangers escaping their past, fall in love and move to the... Buy or find out more →
Moth To The Flame
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan
In Moth to the Flame, Joy Dettmann returns with another dazzling tale of the unforgettable characters of Woody Creek.
The year is 1946. The war ended five months ago. Jim Hooper, Jenny Morrison's only love, was lost to t... Buy or find out more →
Changing Land
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
Past and present interweave in A Changing Land, the continuing legacy of the Gordon family. It's the early 19th Century and Hamish Gordon has a massive rural holding built on stock theft and is determined to ensure that ... Buy or find out more →
Blue Skies
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
A young wife and mother watches a clock that seems forever stuck at three-in-the-afternoon. Her neighbour obsesses over the front lawn, and the women at the local beach chatter about knitting patterns. Her husband didn't... Buy or find out more →
This Too Shall Pass
$27.95 – Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing
"It should be known, if you treat the symptom rather than always concentrating on the cause, paths for recovery can be opened up. The deepest of problems can be cleared." "You could say I'm a walking mirage, a hologram t... Buy or find out more →
Black Glass
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Tally and Grace are teenage sisters living on the outskirts of society, dragged from one no-hope town to the next by their fugitive father. When an explosion rips their lives apart, they flee separately to the city.
The ... Buy or find out more →
Heart Of Gold
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph
CJ Wishart is a hardworking country girl with a heart of gold but a life that can be tough. Her job as a wool classer is back-breaking, her family life is a disaster and, after a string of dating debacles, she's put men ... Buy or find out more →
The Indigo Sky
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
A heart-breaking novel of family and friendships, from the author of STILLWATER CREEK.
It is the spring of 1961, and the sleepy little town of Jingera is at its most perfect with its clear blue skies, pounding surf and b... Buy or find out more →
Raven's Heart
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Fourth Estate
I am awaiting my castle and the Queen is waiting for love.
Scotland, 1561. A ship carries Mary, the young Queen of Scots, home from the French court to wrest back control of her throne. Masquerading as a male crew member... Buy or find out more →
Stone Angel
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Fifteen years later, Stella's life is full of excitement and danger as she travels the world writing magazine articles about women. But then one day she receives an urgent message that changes everything. Her father is m... Buy or find out more →
Yearn: Tales Of Lust And Longing
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Fourth Estate
A collection of nine sensual, witty and mystical stories marking Tobsha Learner′s return to the short story format after the international success of both QUIVER and TREMBLE, and exploring the universal experiences of ob... Buy or find out more →
The Shelly Beach Writers' Group
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
What do you do when your husband dumps you for his PA, your company goes broke and your nearly published novel is cancelled?
Gina, a barely 50-something corporate high-flier, is counting her losses when a chance meeting ... Buy or find out more →
Gone
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
After prison, there can be no straight road home.
A young man is released from a Sydney prison, his hands empty, his identity gone. He catches a southbound train out of town, then hitchhikes west. He hasn’t been home for... Buy or find out more →
The Source Of The Sound
$24.95 – Paperback book / Salt Publishing
The Source of the Sound traces the journeys of exiles in search of home, through the terrestrial infernos and purgatories of supermodernity. In almost every story there is some elemental contact with light and sound; the... Buy or find out more →
Wyatt
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Winner, Best Crime Fiction, Ned Kelly Awards, 2010
Wyatt’s been away. Now he’s back.
Garry Disher’s cool, enigmatic anti-hero has been, uncharacteristically, out of action for a while. Now there’s a new Wyatt—and his... Buy or find out more →
Notorious
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
A literary mystery, a love story, a book of poetry and violation, faith and chaos, redemption and destruction, Notorious is a masterpiece of imagination and evocation. It will take your breath away.
She came walking out ... Buy or find out more →
Having Cried Wolf
$24.95 – Paperback book / Affirm
Small towns harbour secrets. Rising, receding and returning like the tides lapping the fictional coastal town of Kinsale, the stories in this collection revolve around Alice and Grace, friends since childhood, who grow t... Buy or find out more →
Beneath The Shadows
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
How do you begin to move on, if the past won't let you go?
When Grace's husband, Adam, inherits a cottage on the Yorkshire moors, they leave London behind to try a new life. A week later, Adam disappears. The following y... Buy or find out more →
Night Street
$23.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
An intensely satisfying novel that celebrates the short richly lived life of Australian artist, Clarice Beckett.
Co-winner of the 2009 Australian/Vogel Literary Award.
Night Street is the passionate story of a young pain... Buy or find out more →
Utopian Man
$23.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
An exquisite historical novel about a remarkable man who chose his own path, charming and scandalising others in equal measure.
Co-winner of the 2009 Australian/Vogel Literary Award.
'Really impressive, vivid and enjoyab... Buy or find out more →
Hamlet
$55.00 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
Read Nicki Greenberg's guest blog post about adapting Hamlet into a graphic novel.
Richly imagined, this is an audaciously brilliant tour de force from the creator of the graphic novel adaptation of The Great Gatsby.
Th... Buy or find out more →
The Mary Smokes Boys
$29.95$24.95 – Paperback book / Transit Lounge
Grey’s mother dies giving birth to his sister Irene and the tragedy haunts his life in the small town of Mary Smokes. Grey prays that his mother will be returned to him in some form, so he might protect her from the worl... Buy or find out more →
Comrades
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
Romeo and Juliet amidst university campus politics
Sydney University is Australia's pre-eminent finishing school for politicians, and its Students' Representative Council is the nursery where generations of future leader... Buy or find out more →
Reading Madame Bovary
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
Read Amanda Lohrey's guest blog post about Reading Madame Bovary.
From one of Australia’s leading short-fiction writers comes a thrilling collection of stories that deal with transition and transformation.
A woman fin... Buy or find out more →
Campaign Ruby
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
When she gets the email announcing her redundancy, Ruby Stanhope hopes to maintain the composure expected of your average London investment banker.
Instead, the next day’s hangover brings two unfortunate discoveries. Fir... Buy or find out more →
Rocks In The Belly
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
How far can you push a child before he snaps?
Rocks in the Belly is about a precocious eight-year-old boy and the volatile adult he becomes. During childhood his mother fosters boys despite the jealous turmoil it arouses... Buy or find out more →
The Vintage And The Gleaning
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
The Vintage and the Gleaning is set in a winemaking town in the north-east of Victoria, close to the Murray River. Smithy is a retired shearer turned vineyard worker who has recently been forced to give up drinking after... Buy or find out more →
The Sleepers Almanac No 6
$24.95 – Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing
The annual Sleepers Almanac continues to be the must-have for indie Gen-Y kids - the over-educated bunch who need a short, sharp fix of top-quality fiction.
When Cate Kennedy spoke at the opening night of the Wheeler Cen... Buy or find out more →
Like Being A Wife
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
“She finds more ways to be funny than I could count, yet she can cast a light into a dark corner before you know she's done it.” Nick Earls
Daisy is married to her job, Shirley de Young is engaged to Jack but would a... Buy or find out more →
How It Feels
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Picador
"I had no idea how free we were. That's how free I was."
An old friend, a best friend, a first love and the dreamer Neil Cronk who connects them all...
Four schoolfriends are on the verge of adulthood and the next 12 hou... Buy or find out more →
The Plantation
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan
When Australian Julie Reagan discovers a book written about wild Malaysia in the 1970s, she decides to find out more about the author - her great aunt. Why did her grandmother refuse to speak about her sister who disappe... Buy or find out more →
Somebody To Love
$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
A provocative novel about love and death and the narrow line between them.
Over one weekend in a small Tasmanian town, a transexual mortician prepares three bodies for burial at a funeral home. As she carefully works on ... Buy or find out more →
Hand Me Down World
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
A woman washes ashore in Sicily. She has come from north Africa to find her son, taken from her when he was just days old by his father and stolen away to Berlin. With nothing but her maid’s uniform and a knife stashed i... Buy or find out more →
Preincarnate
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
Australia's pre-eminent comic Renaissance man turns his genius to novel writing. Having conquered television, radio, theatre and film, Shaun Micallef smashes his mighty fist onto the keyboard of his soul and produces a n... Buy or find out more →
Griffith Review 30: The Annual Fiction Edition
$24.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Griffith REVIEW’s second annual fiction collection will focus on the Pacific region: from the Americas to Asia, the Pacific islands, New Zealand and Australia. What binds us? What pulls us apart?
As economic, political... Buy or find out more →
A Pure Clear Light
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Simon and Flora Beaufort have three perfect children and a comfortable, happy life in London. When Flora takes the children for a month-long vacation in France, Simon stays home to work on his latest film project … what ... Buy or find out more →
A Darker Music
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Winner of the 2010 Scribe Fiction Prize.
When Mary Lanyon takes on the job of temporary housekeeper at Downe, a famous Merino stud, she is looking forward to staying in a gracious homestead with the wealthy Hazlitt famil... Buy or find out more →
Fall Girl
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
‘The secret to having people give you money is to act as though you don’t want it.’
Meet Ella Canfield, highly qualified evolutionary biologist. Attractive, if a little serious-looking in those heavy glasses—but th... Buy or find out more →
The Distant Hours
$39.99 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
The discovery of a long-lost letter reveals an old secret and the truth behind a woman's mysterious past in the eagerly awaited new novel from international publishing sensation, Kate Morton, author of The Shifting Fog a... Buy or find out more →
Lovesong
$39.99$26.95 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
Seeking shelter in a Parisian cafe from a sudden rainstorm, John Patterner meets the exotic Sabiha and his carefully mapped life changes forever. Resonant of the bestselling Conditions of Faith, Alex Miller's keenly awai... Buy or find out more →
New Australian Stories 2
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
This eclectic anthology of new stories showcases some of our finest short-story writers, and proves that the short story is alive and well in Australia. From seasoned practitioners of the form through to rising and emerg... Buy or find out more →