LITERATURE AND FICTION

There is a woman, somewhere, here, in Van Diemen’s Land, unless she had died or otherwise departed, called Maryanne Maginn. Gabriel Fox, the young...

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...

From the award-winning author of Nona & Me comes a stunning new novel about two teenagers separated by cultural differences, their parents' exp...

  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...

Meet Keiko.Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years.Keiko's family wis...

'Magnificent' Tim Winton In the distant highlands, a puma named Dusk is killing shepherds. Down in the lowlands, twins Iris and Floyd are out of wo...

From Booker-shortlisted author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his gras...

The soaring and emotional novel shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 A soaring, breathtaki...

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

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...

   Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favourite Atlas’ side of the story and shares what comes next in this l...

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it's th...

  The much-anticipated third novel by award-winning Australian author Robbie Arnott, Limberlost is a story of family and land, loss and hope, fate...

  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...

I can change the story because I am the story- a celebration of the power of storytelling, a guide to starting your life as a reader, and a delight...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024   A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific e...

  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...

  Tessa is a thoroughbred. A young, brilliant barrister from a working-class background now at the top of her game: defending, cross-examining and...