LITERATURE AND FICTION

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 ...

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

  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?'   ...

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...

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 exp...

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...

  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...

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...

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee sho...

  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...

  Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity pundit - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for controversy and novelty, h...

  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 hims...

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 simpl...