Every city, town and village has it memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people's battles - from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and...

The Roman poet Ovid, exiled to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea, tells the story of his meeting with a feral boy, brought up among wild animals in the snow. It is a luminous encounter between civilization and nature.

A classic of the Australian outback, SUCH IS LIFE is the farcical, tragic reminiscences of Tom Collins, philosopher and rogue.

A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land and terrified by the harsh and alien continent. Shot through with humour, and poetic...

Who else, but a writer, is really able to interrogate the work of other writers? From Christina Stead, Les Murray and Patrick White to Proust, Shakespeare and Charlotte Bronte, David Malouf reads and examines the work of writers...

A work of lingering beauty and emotional resonance. As Jim Saddler introduces his young employer to the ways of swamp wildlife, the lines of class and education dissolve in a brief space of time on the edge of the 20th century. We...

Focuses on Homer's Iliad , adding twists and reflections and flashes of earthy humour. This work engraves the epic themes of the Trojan war onto a miniature - themes of war and heroics, hubris and humanity, chance and fate, the...

Every city, town and village has it memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people's battles - from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and...