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A wildly imaginative, page-turning collection featuring ghost stories, science fiction and satire, with Aboriginal characters at its heart. An imprisoned man with strange visions writes letters to his sister. A...

'These are troubling times. The world is a dangerous place,' the voice of the Chairman said. 'I can continue to assure you of this: within the Wall you are perfectly...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE 2018 Jacky was running. There was no thought in his head, only an intense drive to run. There was no sense he was getting anywhere,...

SHORTLISTED for the 2022 CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers; 2022 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Indigenous Writing Prize; 2022 NSW Premier's Literary Award, Indigenous Writers' Prize; 2022 Adelaide Festival...

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of...

A sharply humorous tale of romantic love and cultural warfare. When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected farm in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping...

The unforgettable winner of the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Too much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get...

A gripping tale of murder and prejudice from the Miles Franklin Award-winning author of Too Much Lip.Koori teenager Darcy Mango is young, broke and on parole. His biggest problem isn't...

A powerful story of life and death on the run, from the Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning author of Too Much Lip Roo Glover has two highly desirable talents - he...

I looked at the streets of Yagoona through eyes stinging with melted Maybelline liquid liner. Yagoona looked back at me, the wannabe hipster who dreamed of moving to a share...

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home is nestled in the quiet suburb of Westgrove, Sydney –...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE VICTORIAN PREMIER’S AWARD FOR FICTION‘her writing is poetic and reverential. The author’s understanding...

Winner of the 2022 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize. A finely observed debut novel of a young Muslim woman's experience of immigration to Australia from Sri Lankan-Australian writer Ayesha Inoon.Zia secretly longs...

‘And then there is a scream. Ragged and terrified. A beat of silence even after it stops, until we all seem to realise that the Reading Room Rules no longer...

A story about what it means to be a friend … Five women, best friends for decades, meet once a month to talk about books … and life, love and...

A powerful, personal novel about women and justice, from one of this country's most loved and clear-eyed storytellers. It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with...

They claim they saw nothing. She knows they’re lying. 1996 – Cabramatta, Sydney ‘Just let him go.’ Those are words Ky Tran will forever regret. The words she spoke when...

Malti Fortune is uneasy. She has turned away from her birthplace of Fiji to make a new life in Melbourne. But all that she thought was certain is now in...

A stunning debut novel of a family torn apart by tradition and brought back together again by loveTheir mother was sick. Their mother was dying. Laila wanted her to come...

She Is the Earth is the luminous new verse novel from celebrated poet Ali Cobby Eckermann. It charts a journey through grief and celebrates the healing power of Country. We...

'The gut-truths presented in Benevolence are tied to a larger reckoning needed in Australian society one that involves a centring of First Nation voices, a willingness to address not just a violent...

A science-fiction novel involving clones, a psychic, and empathy as a recreational drug.We have always been we. Then they forced us to become you and I...Empathy consists of two stories...

A hauntingly beautiful love story about the ties that bind from award-winning author, Simone Lazaroo.Elspeth is full of inexpressible longings — to leave behind her beginnings in a small wheatbelt...

The slide opened and I heard a gentle, kind voice: 'What is your confession, my child?' I was stuffed. The priest would declare me a heretic; my parents would call...

Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, Blood is a coming-of-age story set on the back roads of Australia, with an introduction by Larissa Behrendt.From multi-award-winning author Tony Birch comes...

Winner of the 2013 David Unaipon Award Ellen van Neerven's award-winning collection of stories was inspired by the elements, and is exceptionally imaginative and varied. In this award-winning work of...

Winner of the David Unaipon Award, an engaging, moving and often funny yarn about growing up in the home of two Aunties running a sheep farm in rural Gundagai. Growing...

Runner-up for the inaugural Vogel Award in 1980, Archie Weller is a master storyteller. In these short stories, take a seat and rethink what it means to be Australian.Since Archie...

Written by the legendary Queensland drover Herb Wharton, this is a striking vision of outback Australia — the friendship story of three stockmen working on mulga country in the far...

A charming debut historical mystery set in 1914 Fiji.1914, Fiji: Akal Singh, 25, would rather be anywhere but this tropical paradise — or, as he calls it, 'this godforsaken island'....

The most unexpected friendships really can transform your life.Malli is unable to speak outside her own home. The highlight of her life is a weekly phone call with her younger...

Meet Me at the Intersection is an anthology of short fiction, memoir and poetry by authors who are First Nations, People of Colour, LGBTIQA+ or living with disability.The focus of...

Funny, touching uplit set in the Sydney restaurant scene. Bitter & Sweet will be Amal Awad's breakout book The lake in the middle of her father's kitchen is only the...

Winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Prize for Indigenous writing A CAPTIVATING YOUNG ADULT DEBUT FROM A BLACK&WRITE! WRITING FELLOWSHIP WINNER Three misfits. Two warring spirits. One chance to save...

In the cafe, I watch as a woman takes a photo of her plate an impressive, glossy lime-coloured dessert with shards of chocolate perched on top. I want to feel...

A grandson tries to learn the family story. But what kind of story is it? Is it a prison memoir, about the grandfather imprisoned without charge or trial by a...

Winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Prize for Literature The inaugural winner of The Novel Prize, an international biennial award established by Giramondo (Australia), Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) and New Directions...

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...

'It wasn't long before my wet and sticky fascination with life beyond the walls of our home could be read all over my face like soot.' Gabrielle has inherited the...

Now in B format, the superb novel from leading Indigenous storyteller Tony Birch exploring the lengths we will go to in order to save the people we love. 'Odette, be...

In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the...

Winner of the 2013 Miles Franklin Award A mesmerising literary novel, Questions of Travel charts two very different lives. Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works...

Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award 2022 When my family emigrated it felt as if we'd been stood on our heads. Michelle de Kretser's electrifying take on scary monsters turns...

When the ground beneath your feet is always shifting, how can you ever know where you belong? Jamilah has always believed she knows where her home is: in a house...

Libby is determined to stay on her no-man fast: no more romance, no more cheating men, no more heartbreak. But in the city of love there is no escaping fate...

A reception is being held at the prime minister's official residence, The Lodge, to celebrate democratic multiculturalism in Australia, when a young guests suddenly attacks the prime minister.Walking through the...

Jono, a city-born Indigenous teenager is trying to figure out who he really is. Life in Brisbane hasn’t exactly made him feel connected to his Country or community. Luckily, he’s...

Kuracca — meaning white sulphur crested cockatoo — is a multi-lingual anthology featuring eleven Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women writing poetry, prose, songs and stories about their unique lives....

**Winner of the Daisy Utemorrah Award 2022** Age range 12+ Compulsory reading for early teens and young adults. Based on true events, this gripping thriller sheds light on the brutalities...

A parent's worst nightmare. A case that's too close to home. The tense, must-read new Detective Kate Miles novel from the award-winning author of The Torrent. 'I was in the...