LITERATURE AND FICTION

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...

A collection of stories and essays by the award-winning author of Dark Emu, showcasing his shimmering genius across a lifetime of work. Bruce Pasco...

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...

'Will I ever really belong to this country? As a Chinese Australian? As a non-Indigenous Australian? . . . I was 32 years old and barely knew the c...

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...

  Two small-town booksellers (and their cowardly dog) solve a decades-old murder-mystery in this witty debut novel, full of literary clues, sparkl...

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...

  A brilliant new novel about love and marriage, twenty years after the bestselling hit Essays in LoveModern love is never easy. Society is obsess...

 In 1901, the word 'Bondmaid' was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Esme is born ...

  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...

 The Drover's Wife is utterly authentic, brilliantly plotted, thoroughly harrowing and entirely of our times exploring race, gender, violence and i...

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...

A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years-an epic of love and family, India and Americ...

  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 ...