The sparkling debut from an exciting new voice in Australian fiction, Claire Aman Bird Country is a collection of spare and affecting portraits of ordinary people in rural AustraliaBird Country is a collection of stories that are steeped in the rural...

From the author of The Road to Winter comes an exciting, action-packed sequel about friendship and loyalty, and how far we would go to protect the ones we love when survival is at stake.Finn, Kas and Willow have survived the winter of storms. Severe...

A highly awarded work of non-fiction, Dancing with Strangers is a close analysis of the initial encounter between the British settlers of New South Wales and Australia's first peoples.Dancing with Strangers is Inga Clendinnen's seminal account of the...

The Text Classics edition of the beloved Australian classic Romulus, My Father by Raimond GaitaRomulus Gaita fled Yugoslavia aged thirteen, and came to Australia with his wife and their son soon after World War II. Tragic events were to overtake the...

Internationally renowned climate change expert Professor Tim Flannery presents a detailed and fascinating vision of the technologies that will prove invaluable in ensuring a sustainable future for our planet.Acclaimed scientist Tim Flannery investigates...

From the author of The Fiftieth Gate, Mark Raphael Baker's new book Thirty Days is a meditation on life, death, love and marriage, written with an honesty that bares the souls of two people who shared their lives.Thirty Days is a portrait of grief, of a...

Sixteen-year-old Sarah can't draw. This is a problem, because as long as she can remember, she has 'done the art.' She thinks she's having an existential crisis. And she might be right; she does keep running into past and future versions of herself as...

Dying- A Memoir is a deeply affecting meditation on dying, but it is also a funny and wise tribute to life.Cory Taylor wrote this remarkable book in the space of a few weeks before her death from cancer in July 2016. In a tremendous creative surge, as...

From the prize-winning author of The Rules of Backyard Cricket and Quota comes a timely literary political thriller with a cracking narrative and heart-stopping writing.Amid the furious ocean there was no human sound on deck- some people standing,...

On its initial release in 1976, Helen Hodgman's Blue Skies was met with critical acclaim. Blue Skies now takes its rightful place as a Text Classic, cementing Helen Hodgman's place in the Australian literary canon.In Helen Hodgman's dazzlingly written...

The Text Classics edition of Cory Taylor's extraordinary debut novel, Me and Mr Booker, a sharply observed and darkly comic story about lust, deceit and the line between adolescence and adulthood.Martha could have said no when Mr Booker tried to kiss her...

A deliciously bawdy and wholly original new novel from one of Indonesia's most influential and critically adored young writers.Told in short, cinematic bursts, Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash is gloriously pulpy. Ajo Kawir, a lower-class Javanese...

An outrageous and unbelievable true story of a convict pirate named Swallow from Simon Barnard, the 2015 CBCA winner of A-Z Convicts in Van Diemen's LandIt's 23 October 1821 and convict William Swallow stands on the deck of the Malabar for muster. He is...

Pulse Points is the collected stories by Jennifer Down, author of Our Magic Hour and one of Australia's newest and most promising literary talents.The characters in Jennifer Down's Pulse Points live in small dusty towns, glittering exotic cities and slow...

A powerful memoir by a grieving husband, about true love and a courageous woman's battle to change the law and die with dignityA successful young lawyer in Wellington, Lecretia Seales met and fell in love with Matt Vickers in 2003. In Lecretia's Choice,...

A boy's chance encounter with a scruffy dog leads to an unforgettable friendship in this deeply moving story about life, loss and the meaning of family Ben Coffin has never felt like he fits in. A former foster kid, he keeps his head down at school to...

Ballad for a Mad Girl is a ghost thriller with a literary angle. An action-packed page turner about survival and the different ways we deal with grief.Everyone knows seventeen-year-old Grace Foley is a bit mad. She's a prankster and a risk-taker, and...

Anne Buist, herself a leading perinatal psychiatrist, has created an edge-of-the-seat mystery with a hot new heroine-backed up by a lifetime of experience with troubled minds.Forensic psychiatrist Natalie King works with victims and perpetrators of...

She turned to look at the sea. Flat stretch of water, blank and blue as the sky above. Pretty as a picture, except with black and grey craters where the bombs had fallen- as though some thuggish child had scrawled all over the picture out of spite alone....

Once prosperous, the town of Tourmaline in outback Western Australia is dying. The mines are drying up and the land is riddled by drought. Those townspeople left have little to do but wile away the hours with drink. Salvation of sorts arrives in the...

What will Australia be like in 2040?Will society be more unequal, the fair go long gone? What will drive economic growth? Will our democracy become ever more fractious, or can we revitalise it? And how should we respond to the Digital Revolution, climate...

In the Memorial Room is a brilliant black comedy, by the celebrated author of An Angel at My Table. Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Watercress-Armstrong Fellowship-a 'living memorial' to the...

Long ago, when the men were away at the war, Alma began painting the women of the town. They sat for him in lieu of payment for his work catching rats.Alice, his favourite, returned his attentions, and when her husband, George, came home from the war, he...

Mark is a Day Boy. In a post-traumatic future the Masters-formerly human, now practically immortal-rule a world that bends to their will and a human population upon which they feed. Invincible by night, all but helpless by day, each relies on his Day...

While living in Central Australia Arthur Groom fell under the spell of our harsh and fascinating country, captivated by its limitless distances and unbelievable colour. Hermannsburg, the home of artist Albert Namatjira and of other well-known painters,...

As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance of a residency aboard an aircraft carrier.Another Great Day at Seachronicles Dyer's experiences on the USSGeorge H.W. Bushas...

TheNew York Timesbestselling author ofTurn Right at Machu Picchusets out to uncover the truth behind the legendary lost city of Atlantis. A few years ago, Mark Adams made a strange discovery- everything we know about the famous city of Atlantis comes...

A new, much anticipated collection of stories from the inimitable Kelly Link. 'These nine stories may begin in familiar territory-a birthday party, a theme park, a bar, a spaceship-but they quickly draw readers into an imaginative, disturbingly ominous...

In the early hours of the morning DI Mark Tartaglia is sent to a London hotel to investigate the murder of a young woman. When he recognises the victim, the case takes a dark and personal turn. Another case he has been investigating-the body of a...

This is an intimate story about unexpected gifts and unbearable losses, and the perpetual ache for belonging. It is exquisitely written and profoundly moving.Academy Street is the heart-breaking and evocative story of one woman's life spanning six...

At turns heartbreaking and wise, tender and wry, Bobcat and Other Stories establishes Rebecca Lee as one of the most powerful and original voices in contemporary fiction. A university student on her summer abroad is offered the unusual task of arranging...

Shy. It's a shy word, a timid little word that begs to remain unnoticed. Only three letters long, and itbegins with an exhortation to silence. Shhh. Reserved is different. It's for tall men with juttingjaws. Prime ministers can appear reserved- never...

'The baby started to come out. Head first, everything OK. But then I saw that there were no arms. And then no legs. The little girl had only a torso and a head.'Lyn Rowe was born in Melbourne in 1962, seven months after her mother Wendy was given a new...

At the outbreak of World War I, Dominic Langton leaves his wife on a remote sheep farm in New South Wales to enlist in the British Army. What he experiences in the trenches changes him forever; his return home sees him cast off his past and find his own...

Data theft, internet memes, advertising, terrorism, indigenous sovereignty, drone warfare, opium addiction, syphilis, the moon landing, mining, oil slicks, climate change, giant octopuses- nothing is spared in this collection. Nic Low's stories go beyond...

No one had talked about fuel; what was the use of talking, anyway? But they all knew that engines which run on fuel have to run out of fuel sometime, and that the Egret just couldn't keep on going for ever. They seemed to have been sitting in this plane,...

Set in a not-too-distant future, and moving between Rome and Amsterdam,God's Dog is a detective novel unlike any you have read before. It is the eve of Pope Benedict XVIII's canonisation and Domingo Salazar, a Haitian orphan and now a Vatican secret...

By the Book is Ramona Koval's love letter to books and writing. What is it about reading that we love so much? Why do books make our lives so much richer? Ramona Koval's By the Book is about reading and living, and about the authors that have...

When documentary maker Jane Takagi-Little finally lands a job producing a Japanese televisionshow that just happens to be sponsored by an American meat-exporting business, sheuncovers some unsavoury truths about love, fertility, and a dangerous hormone...

Yumi Fuller hasn't set foot in Liberty Falls, Idaho-heart of the potato-farming industry-since sheran away at age fifteen. Twenty-five years later, the prodigal daughter returns to confront herdying parents, her best friend and her conflicted past, and...

Seventeen-year-olds Craig and Harry are trying to set a new Guinness World Record for kissing. Around them, Ryan and Avery are falling in love, Neil and Peter are falling out of love, and Cooper might be somewhere, but he is also, dangerously, nowhere. ...

One side of the street glittered like a brilliant eruption with the light from a row of shops; theothers, lined with houses, was almost deserted, for the people, drawn like moths by the glare,crowded and jostled under the lights. It was Saturday night,...

Four English orphans-Cherry, Nigel, Brick and Nippy-migrate to Tasmania, to the care of theirAunt Jandie on her farm outside Hobart. Their arrival is greeted with enthusiasm by young farmboy Tas, and weeks of exploration and good times follow before Aunt...

What exactly is the message of Robert Rose? One year after his death, twenty-six years afterjust another of our crashes, knowing the effect it had on his family and friends, and thousands ofothers who hardly knew him, I want to go back there, I want to...

He would relive for a long time everything she said to him in the room at the mission. He wouldrecall the way her voice had grown thicker and thicker, and how her head had begun to hang toone side from the exhaustion of her telling, and how he made...

'She's going now,' said Henry Watter if he said anything at all. Or, 'It's a tricky place, the world.You've got to be sharp to manage it.''Leave her be. She'll be back,' said Mrs Watter. 'This isher home. She knows that.' Lark Watter had always planned...

The final book by Sumner Locke Elliott, the award-winning author of Careful, He Might HearYou. Drawing heavily on Locke Elliott's own experiences, Fairyland charts the life of Seaton Daly, anaspiring writer coming to terms with his homosexuality in the...

Abandoned by her feckless husband during the Depression, Amy decides to leave her countrytown-and her three infant children-and try her luck in the big smoke. Life in wartime Sydney is far from easy, but for Amy there are the hard-won satisfactions of...