LITERATURE AND FICTION

In the tradition of Shakespeare's theatre, Malediction: The Cursed Play blends the humour of wordplay and mistaken identity with the trials of fami...

  Welcome to the Marigold Mind Laundry where we wash away the stains from your heart.After young Jieun accidentally misuses her powers, causing her...

Longlisted for Booker Prize 2024 Rafi and Todd are two polar opposites at an elite high school where they bond over a 3,000-year-old board game. El...

Red Dirt Scrawl is a collection of poems written for, inspired by, and read during the successive 2018 and 2020 Red Dirt Poetry Festivals. It provi...

ISOLATED INCIDENT Darnmoor, The Gateway to Happiness. The sign taunts a fool into feeling some sense of achievement, some kind of end- that you hav...

Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious communit...

Taboo seizes and will not release.' Robert Macfarlane One may as well begin, 'Once upon a time...' Except this is no fairytale. Kim Scott's powerfu...

  The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Mieville team up on this genre-bending epic of ancient powers, modern war, and an outcast ...

What is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nati...

Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern—too old, n...

  The breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from the internationally bestselling author of 1Q84.The breathtak...

  Introduced by Geoffrey BlaineyWills knew that he was fading fastest. On 26 June, he decided the only honourable thing to do was to sacrifice him...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby brilliantly captures the disillusion of a society obsessed with wealth and status. Young, handsome and fabul...

  The remarkable new novel from the author of the multimillion-selling international sensation The Midnight Library' What looks like magic is simp...

  In the near future, a disaffected civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry gathering 'expats' from across...

  Despite their differences, sisters Viann and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann is content wit...

Tender, endearing, lyrical, surprising, and magical - think Hilary Mantel meets Sarah Winman with a dash of Neil Gaiman - The Oxenbridge King is a ...

  HE POET X – THE WINNER OF THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL. A stunning New York Times bestseller with a powerful and unforgettable YA voice. Perfect for ...

'This hypnotic debut novel brilliantly captures the unease of our times.' Jane Caro'Wildly entertaining and frighteningly plausible.' James Bradley...

  Originally published in 2014, Alexis Wright’s classic novel The Swan Book is being rereleased in a new edition designed by Jenny Grigg. Accompani...

There are animals in the camouflage of undergrowth; they forage this final, fading night hour. They hear the grunting men and lift their heads, lis...

  On a steamy, hot day in January 1788, seven Aboriginal men, representing the nearby clans, gather at Warrane. Several newly arrived ships have be...

 Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award.Winner, Book of the Year, People's Choice, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction at NSW Premier's Literary Awa...

Behind the uneasy trees rose the hills, and beyond them again the country of the lost, huge wilderness between this last haunt of civilization and ...