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Winner of the 2018 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry Suffering from a fatal disease, Lucien Gracq travels to Paris to complete the epic poem he is writing and live...

One of Australia’s most important novelists writes about the experience of old age. Abraham Quin is in his mid-seventies, a migrant, thrice-divorced, a one-time postman and professor, a writer now...

Recipes and Stories from Australia’s Regional Chinese Restaurants Chopsticks or Fork? is a collection of stories and recipes from Chinese restaurants in regional Australia, based on the six-part ABC series created...

A young woman chosen as the crown prince's bride must travel to the royal palace to meet her new husband — but her world is shaken when she discovers the...

Melanie Cheng's vivid and absorbing panorama of Australian culture was the winner of the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Indie Book Award...

Perfect for fans of Haruki Murakami, Ghost Cities is a profound and highly imaginative novel that cleverly draws on Chinese history to explore the absurdity of modern life and work.Ghost Cities - inspired...

‘He looked down at his watch and saw that the long hand was overlapping the short, pointing towards twelve. The old year had passed and the new year had begun....

How an unfulfilled daughter of a tiger mother went way off script We all grow up with rules. Do this, be this, don't be that. Qin Qin was all about...

When my dad dropped us off at the front gate, the first things I saw were the rose garden spreading out on either side of the main driveway and the...

How to say no, when to say yes and everything in between An inclusive, frank and funny guide to navigating consent for tweens and teens of all genders, from the...

Chinese Australian Voices South Flows the Pearl is a fascinating journey through the history of Chinese Australia. Taking the reader from Shanghai and the Pearl River Delta to Sydney, Perth,...

I know lots of things now that I'm dead. Peter from Apartment Two has a spastic bladder. My former boss Morgan keeps her toenails in a gold jewellery box. My...

Four people, figuring out sex, love, and how to ‘adult.’Sydney — one of those places that just consumes you. A private school boy, a tortured drug dealer, a starving writer...

A frank, funny and inclusive guide to dealing with your breasts, from the award-winning authors of Welcome to Your Periodand Welcome to Consent.Adolescent health experts Dr Melissa Kang and Yumi...

A frank, funny, age-appropriate guide for pre-teens about getting your period, from Dr Melissa Kang (a former Dolly Doctor) and Yumi Stynes (all-round excellent woman). Getting your period for the...

Born in dire poverty but writing poetry all his life, even when he ran a successful business, Xifeng Yedu is one of the Chinese oral poets who doesn’t belong but...

In writing her sister Annie's eulogy, Kathy reflects on the complexities that shaped their family and their identities. It’s winter in Logan, south-east Queensland, and still warm enough to sleep...

Exploring the blurry frontier of fertility and its very human fallout.An astonishing real-life whodunnit and investigative exposé, Brave New Humans reveals the uncomfortable realities of assisted reproduction and its very...

A memoir with bite Growing up Cantonese in the racist outer suburbs was hard enough for Jess Ho, but add in a dysfunctional family who only ever made peace over...

Wen Zhou is determined to create a future for herself that is more satisfying than the life her parents expect her to lead. Equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful, Tiger Daughter...

Following on from the groundbreaking Argosy, Li's second collection Lost Lake ups the ante, taking the reader and literature alike into new reaches and realms of the imagination. Lost Lake,...

WINNER of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2018 (Poetry)WINNER of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2018 (Poetry) This innovative full-length collection, drawing inspiration from the surrealist collage novels of Max...

Joint winner of the Tafeda Best Designed Independent Book in the 70th Australian Book Design Awards 2022Shortlisted for the Small Press Network Book of the Year 2022Shortlisted in the NSW...

A work of defiance, Ouyang Yu's most recent bilingual collection gathers much of his experimental work, with some of the poems collected in this book dating as far back as...

‘Ouyang Yu’s Foreign Matter rages against the vacuity of suburban life, alert to every racist slight, with a linguistic playfulness that shuffles and bounces through English language via the “gibberish...

'Terminally Poetic is Ouyang Yu working through the colonial alphabet and undoing it and himself at various turns and forks in the road. This is the individuated poet — one...

Kingsbury, Victoria is where poet Ouyang Yu has been based since he came from the People's Republic of China in 1991. It was here where he first came into contact...

‘The Kingsbury Tales: A Complete Collection is a revolution in what a poetry book might be: a monumental and iconoclastic declaration at once, a refusal to be downtrodden but equally...

'Ouyang Yu’s Living After Death comprises poems written from CHina and Australia that also subtly question and provoke the ambitions, trials, and motivations of a writer’s life. In excursions through...

Essays and CriticismISBN: 9780975609231 | Published: 2010 | Paperback | 278 pages

How to Navigate the World as an Asian Woman Today A specially curated travel guide for Asian women, by Asian women. The second in the Girls Guide to the World...

Tom Cho's collection of fictions and fantasies is all about morphing and transformation. Through the shape-shifting, we follow the narrator on his surreal adventures, which include dirty dancing with Johnny...

HUGO AWARDWINNER FOR FOR BEST NOVEL 2022 THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER An absorbing historical fantasy, She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan reimagines the rise to power...

Delicious Dishes to Satisfy Your SoulIf you've been searching for flavorful recipes within the realm of Asian cuisine that hit all the right notes, look no further than This Is...

A darkly funny memoir and investigation into the charms and crimes of the untrustworthy. Romance scams, pyramid schemes, bogus debts and fake news, the world is awash with confidence tricksters...

But the Girl is a wry and razor-sharp coming-of-age novel about belonging, alienation, and the exquisite pleasure and pain of girlhood, for readers of The Idiot by Elif Batuman and...

Joan Chang-Hunt has no idea she's part monster until she's thrust into a battle between the boy she has a crush on and one of the most ruthless monster families...

Despite the odds, Joan achieved the impossible. She reset the timeline, saved her family — and destroyed the hero, Nick. But her success has come at a terrible cost. She...

After their family encounters terrible hardship in rural China, siblings Fu and Pei must draw on all their resilience and courage as they embark on a dangerous journey towards a...

Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan – a dazzling queer historical fantasy of war and destiny set in an epic alternate China, and sequel to Sunday Times bestselling She...

Echoesis a lyrical collection of personal essays which references art and literature, pop culture and nostalgia. It gathers small joys, from a figure-hugging 'disco dress' to learning to sing Koo...

Lessons on Fear, Intimacy and ConnectionA blend of memoir, essay and affirmations exploring love in all its forms.Be Not Afraid of Loveis a stunning collection of interconnected essays and affirmations...

How to Win at Life and Love as a Highly Sensitive and Emotionally Intense Person This is a book about being successful, fulfilled and happy in a world in which...

Shanghai Dancing is the most highly regarded and popular novel by multi-award winning Australian author, Brian Castro. In it, his fictional persona Antonío Castro faces dispossession in Australia after the...

Writer and columnist Benjamin Law revisits his joyous and much-loved family memoir, spilling the tea on his family's latest anticsThe book that inspired the major SBS television series!Meet the Law...