2017 literary prize winners
The Museum of Modern Love
Winner of the 2017 Stella Prize. A mesmerising literary novel about a lost man in search of connection - a meditation on love, art and commitment, set against the backdrop of one of the greatest art events in modern history,...
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Lost Pages
In this inspired novel of friendship, fraud, madness and betrayal, Marija Peričić writes vividly and compellingly of an extraordinary literary rivalry.
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The Windy Season
An energetically wonderfully Australian story: set in Geraldton, WA, there are sharks, fishermen and accidents with evocative, memorable descriptions of the sea, fishing and the emptiness of loss.
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Days Without End
Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year and longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize: Sebastian Barry's sensational new novel set in mid-19th Century America.
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The Dry
The Dry is the highest selling Australian debut in 2016.
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The Power
The Power is speculative fiction at its most ambitious and provocative, taking us on a thrilling journey to an alternate reality while exposing our own world.
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LaRose
In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally haunting contemporary tale of a...
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The High Places
These wide-ranging stories resonate in the way of only the finest writing and the most pleasurable reading. There are storylines that seem straightforward on the surface but have a dozen things circling underneath, others that sit...
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The Underground Railroad
From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
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Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
Gathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary literature. His pages represent the human voice in all its extreme registers, whether it's...
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The Last Days Of Ava Langdon
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Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers
Absurd, original and highly addictive ... In Their Brilliant Careers, Ryan O'Neill has written a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers. Meet Rachel Deverall, who discovered the...
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Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story
In 1950 Australian prime minister Robert Menzies blithely agreed to atomic tests that offered no benefit to Australia and relinquished control over them - and left the public completely in the dark. This book reveals the...
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Quicksilver
Six essays exploring the connections between old world Europe, aboriginal Australia, religion, meaning and the power of the sacred.
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H(A)PPY
Imagine a perfect world where everything is known, where everything is open, where there can be no doubt, no hatred, no poverty, no greed. Imagine a System which both nurtures and protects. A Community which nourishes and...
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The Invisible War: A Tale on Two Scales
While treating a patient with dysentery, Sister Annie Barnaby encounters a strain of lethal bacteria. As the invaders journey deep into her gut, the resident microbes must ght to survive. Annie's life hangs in the balance. Enter...
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The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
Putin's bestselling biographer reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.
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Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly
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The Drowned Man: A true story of life death and murder on HMAS Australia
Had a gay man been secretly murdered on HMAS Australia during the Second World War?
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Ghost Girls
A student leaps to her death. Was the girl who she said she was?
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A Second Life
Winner of the 2017 Seizure Viva La Novella Prize
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Can You Tolerate This?
Can You Tolerate This? is a collection of twenty-one personal essays by Ashleigh Young.
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Before Rupert
An impressive study of the Murdoch genius for government by media.' Chris Masters. 'In this engrossing study Tom Roberts draws on a remarkable range of sources, many for the first time, to show how Keith Murdoch succeeded in his...
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Music and Freedom
Alice Murray learns to play the piano aged three on an orange orchard in rural Australia. Recognising her daughter's gift, her mother sends Alice to boarding school in the bleak north of England, and there Alice stays for the rest...
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False Nostalgia
False Nostalgia is rare among poetry collections, a work which is both lyrical and philosophical. It explores the way memory works, and the role memory plays in our sense of identity, and what we take to be the significant moments...
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A Horse Walks into a Bar
Flaying alive both himself and the people watching him, Dovaleh G provokes both revulsion and empathy from an audience that doesn't know whether to laugh or cry - and all this in the presence of a former childhood friend who is...
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A General Theory of Oblivion
On the eve of Angolan independence, Ludo bricks herself into her apartment, where she will remain for the next thirty years. She lives off vegetables and pigeons, burns her furniture and books to stay alive and keeps herself busy...
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Mend the Living
From fatal accident to life-saving operation, Maylis de Kerangal, one of the brightest and boldest writers of modern literary fiction, returns with the epic story of a heart transplant.
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The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between
A memoir of a son's search for his father and the return to a homeland he never thought he'd see again. This is a personal tale of loss. It deals with history, politics and art. It's about what it is to be human.
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Evicted
Arleen spends nearly all her money on rent but is kicked out with her kids in Milwaukee's coldest winter for years. Doreen's home is so filthy her family call it 'the rat hole'. Lamar, a wheelchair-bound ex-soldier, tries to work...
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
Reviving the life and work of a neglected master, this biography establishes Shirley Jackson as a towering figure in American literature.
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
From the Civil War to our combustible present, an acclaimed historian reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America.
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Homegoing
Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow.
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Between a Wolf and a Dog
Ester is a family therapist with an appointment book that catalogues the woes of the middle class. She spends her days helping others find happiness, but her own family relationships are tense and frayed. Estranged from both her...
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When Michael Met Mina
Michael has always believed that everything in life is black and white. But that was before he met Mina.
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Carrying the World
A haunting visit to the International Museum of Slavery, in Liverpool England. A feisty young black girl pushing back against authority. The joy and despair of single parenthood. A love-hate relationship with words.
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Golden Hill: ‘My favourite book of the last 5 years’-Richard Osman
New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island. 1746. One rainy evening, a charming young stranger fresh off the boat from England pitches up to a counting house on Golden Hill Street, with a suspicious yet compelling...
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The Bombs That Brought Us Together
This second book from the acclaimed author of When Mr. Dog Bites is powerful, warm, funny, and moving - the story of two friends, one shed, a war, and a terrible choice.
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Falling Awake
Mutability - a sense that all matter is unstable in the face of mortality - is at the heart of this new collection and each poem is involved in that drama: the held tension that is embodied life, and life's losing struggle with...
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Jackself
Jackself is the fourth collection from one of Britain's finest poets, and sees Jacob Polley at the height of his powers.
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