LITERATURE AND FICTION

All Our Shimmering Skies is set in Darwin in 1942. As Japanese bombs rain down, motherless Molly Hook, the gravedigger’s daughter, turns to the sky...

Good mothers are expected to be selfless. Artists are seen as selfish. So what does this mean for a mother with artistic ambitions?Enter: frustrate...

LOOK INSIDE ISBN: 9781035046300 Format: Paperback Pub Date: 26/05/2026 Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post C 1945), Fan...

Gundagai, 1852The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in its wake. It is a stark reminder that while the ...

  Judith Wright (1915­—2000) was one of Australia’s most celebrated poets and one of only two to be considered for the Nobel prize. Her volume Bir...

  A poignant and powerful novel about a fire-obsessed Indigenous boy living on the margins - from an electrifying new First Nations voice in Austr...

Six murders. One hundred pages. Millions of possible combinations... but only one is correct. Can you solve Torquemada's murder mystery? 'If James...

  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 s...

   A young woman has arranged a holiday with her mother in Japan. They travel by train, visit galleries and churches chosen for their art and arch...

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

Inspired by a real person, In the Margins is the story of spirited book-collector Frances Wolfreston—the woman who uniquely preserved the earliest ...

Australia's crusaders for women's voting rights and the radical feminists of the 1970s changed lives across the country and around the globe. But w...

  From the winner of the Miles Franklin Award.The story of Syms Covington, Darwin's manservant on the Beagle and afterwards.the story of Syms Covi...

Inti Flynn arrives in the Scottish Highlands with fourteen grey wolves, a traumatised sister and fierce tenacity. As a biologist, she knows the ani...

  Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has becom...

  Two small-town booksellers (and their cowardly dog) solve a decades-old murder-mystery in this witty debut novel, full of literary clues, sparkl...

 In 1901, the word 'Bondmaid' was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Esme is born ...

 The Drover's Wife is utterly authentic, brilliantly plotted, thoroughly harrowing and entirely of our times exploring race, gender, violence and i...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ever imagine in "...