LITERATURE AND FICTION

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...

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...

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

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

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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...

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...

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