LITERATURE AND FICTION

In a novel of stark and lyrical beauty, award-winning author Stephen Daisley portrays the brutal effects of war on two New Zealand brothers.People ...

 John Clare was a titan in Australian politics. The head of a powerful union, he had long been tipped as a future leader himself. Supporting him in...

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...

A BTS fan favorite! A WALL STREET JOURNAL STORIES THAT CAN TAKE YOU ANYWHERE PICK * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S STAY HOME AND READ PICK * SALON'S BEST A...

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best ...

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

An unforgettable and sweeping family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller The Book Thief.  Bridge of C...

From multi-award-winning author Jock Serong comes Cherrywood, an imaginative, darkly playful and deeply meaningful delight, a novel about legacy, c...

  Jackson Brodie returns! From the Number One bestselling author, a brilliantly clever take on the classic country house murder mystery; a homage t...

  Demon Copperhead is a once-in-a-generation novel that breaks and mends your heart in the way only the best fiction can.Demon's story begins with...

Miinaa was a young girl when the white ghosts first arrived. She remembers the day they raised a piece of cloth and renamed her homeland ‘Bathurst’...

  Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart.When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people st...

'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...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 Thomas and Grace are fellow worshippers at the Baptist chapel in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though sep...

  In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain's greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant streets of sixties London, as an accidental sp...

  Hera Stephen is clawing through her mid-twenties, working as an underpaid comment moderator in an overly air-conditioned newsroom by day and kick...

Two damaged people, one unlikely friendship and a way to find hope in the darkness. Anna has survived the worst. So has Nat. Two broken souls, stru...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARA HISTORICAL NOVEL PRIZE 2022 'He tilted his desk lamp so that the light fell on the image. The head of a bright bay colt gaz...

  An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024! 'Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and James is a canon-shatteringly great book' - Hernan Diaz...

  Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive all night across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, they roll into an abandoned mine site. From the vehicle...

  Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from international bestselling author of Boy Swallows Un...

Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: 'Can you please tell me a love story?'   ...