Introduced by Amie Kaufman, the first novel in a heartwarming, humorous series set in 1940s rural Australia, from much-loved author Robin Klein.All in the Blue Unclouded Weather begins the story of the Melling sisters, four girls growing up in an...

A gripping literary thriller set in the Scottish Highlands in 1869. Longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize.Longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize.The year is 1869. After a brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands, a young...

Steph Bowe is back. Night Swimming is a love story with a twist, and a whole lot of heart.Imagine being the only two seventeen-year-olds in a small town. That's life for Kirby Arrow -- named after the most dissenting judge in Australia's history -- and...

'I absolutely loved Cooee by Vivienne Kelly, who writes so incredibly well. It's sort of a dark and elegant literary mystery.' Wendy HarmerIsabel Weaving is pining for her second husband, the charismatic Max, but he is no longer around. She adores her...

From 96-year old Robin Dalton, an eye-opening memoir of love, relationships and sexual liberation during and after WWIIAt the age of ninety-six Robin Dalton looks back on a rich and colourful life, and especially her sumptuous love life. This is a story...

A humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the acclaimed author of Travels with Epicurus.As a young college student studying philosophy, Daniel Klein filled a notebook with short quotes from the world's greatest thinkers, hoping to find some...

This Text Classics edition features a new introduction by Rohan Wilson, author of the Vogel-winning novel The Roving Party. A masterpiece in style and scope, Marcus Clarke's For the Term of His Natural Life is an ambitious tale of tragedy, redemption,...

From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia.Bringing together dozens of...

Take Me to Paris, Johnny is John Foster's moving yet unsentimental account of the life of his partner, Juan Cespedes. It traces Juan's youth in Cuba and his move to New York, where he struggles to make it as a dancer. There, in 1981-in 'a chance...

Winner, The Hawthornden Prize, United Kingdom Winner, The Encore Award, United Kingdom Shortlisted, Man Booker Prize Longlisted, Orange Prize for Fiction John Egan lives with his mother, father and grandmother in rural Ireland.The Guinness Book of...

Charlie Jardim has just trashed his legal career in a spectacular courtroom meltdown, and his girlfriend has finally left him.So when a charitable colleague slings him a prosecution brief that will take him to the remote coastal town of Dauphin, Charlie...

Nance was a week short of her sixth birthday when she and Frank were roused out of bed in the dark and lifted into the buggy, squashed in with bedding, the cooking pots rattling around in the back, and her mother shouting back towards the house- Goodbye,...

My great Aunt Juliet was knocked over and killed by a bus when she was eighty-five. The bus was travelling very slowly in the right direction and could hardly have been missed by anyone except Aunt Juliet, who must have been travelling fairly fast in the...

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, 2014Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon after I had watched a magistrate...

Exhausted and losing faith, Anglican minister Stephen Heriot abandons his mission in Australia's northwest. Wracked with guilt for his past transgressions, Heriot flees to the vast emptiness of the outback, searching for the islands of the Aboriginal...

When Patrol Officer Alistair Cawdor commits suicide on a small island off New Guinea a colonial inquest is launched. Five witnesses are called to give testimony- the government interpreter, the territory's cadet officer, a planter who claims ownership of...

Shortly before his death in 1981, Stefan Hertmans' grandfather gave him a couple of filled exercise books. Stories he'd heard as a child had led Hertmans to suspect that their contents might be disturbing, and for years he didn't dare to open them.When...

It's 1838 and London is gripped by orchid fever. Charles Darwin's diary turns up Higgins's bookshop, closely followed by two ex-bodysnatchers and a peculiar fellow with small teeth. Why do they want the diary? Could it have something to do with the...

Fear Drive My Feet is Peter Ryan's enduring account of his time patrolling isolated regions of New Guinea during World War II.Far from his fellow Australians and with Japanese forces closing in around him, the eighteen-year-old Ryan endures the hardships...

Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award, 2010 Introduced by Yann Martel Abandoned in a big city at the onset of winter, a hungry four-year-old boy follows a stray dog to her lair. There in the rich smelly darkness, in the rub of hair, claws and...

In 2009 Elspeth Muir's youngest brother finished his last university exam and went out with some mates to get drunk. Later that night he wandered to the Story Bridge. He put his phone, wallet, T-shirt and thongs on the walkway, climbed over the railing,...

Introduced by Gideon Haigh I disapproved of bankers, on principle. Not that I knew any. Until this job, I had worked and made friends with people who shared my views. Mostly moral, mostly kind. An unlikely candidate, then, for the job of executive...

This brilliant young adult fantasy debut from young Australian writer Meg Caddy sees the emergence of an exciting new talent in speculative fiction.As night fell, something stirred the darkness. Birds shrieked, rising into the air as the peace cracked...

Daniel Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne from 1917 until his death, aged ninety-nine, in 1963, was a towering figure in Melbourne's Catholic community. But his political interventions had a profound effect on the wider Australian nation too. Award-winning...

Patrick White's magnificent debut novel-first published 1939, long out of print and now a Text Classic. Based on Patrick White's own experiences in the early 1930s as a jackaroo at Bolaro, near Adaminaby in south-eastern New South Wales, Happy Valley...

They returned to the main part of the shed and it was Lew's turn to sharpen his cutters. Thewoolshed now bright and well lit. Painter walked to his stand and connected the handpiece tothe down-rod. He drizzled oil over the comb and the cutter, adjusted...

So the day promised fair, and the sea lay like a quilt with the waves tucked under, and the trees wavering like leafless water, cut to fit from a transparent block of blue air and frost. Owls Do Cry tells the story of the Withers family- Francie, who is...

This was life- no sooner had you built yourself your little raft and felt secure than it came to pieces under you and you were swimming again. Born into a world without welcome, Isobel observes it as warily as an alien trying to pass for a native. Her...

It takes a lot to rattle Jack Irish but, as Melbourne descends into a cold, wet winter, his mood is on the same trajectory. The woman in Jack's life has reconnected with an old flame. He has gambled and lost massively and seen a champion horse put down...

Christine wakes in a strange bed beside a man she does not recognise. In the bathroom shefinds a photograph of him taped to the mirror, and beneath it the words 'Your husband'. Each day, Christine wakes knowing nothing of her life. Each night, her mind...

A classic of the Australian outback, Such Is Life is the splendidly farcical, tragical reminiscences of Tom Collins, philosopher and rogue. As Tom drives his team across the plains of the Riverina and Northern Victoria, he gets wildly entagled in the...

Introduced byDelia Falconer. Esther Prescott has seen little of life outside her wealthy family's Rose Bay mansion-until flashyStan Peterson comes roaring up the drive in his huge American car and barges into her life.Within a fortnight they are living...

'But what if we can't find Jude?' He leans closer. His breath is warm on my ear. 'We will.' 'How can you be so sure?' I want to believe him so badly, but this is Rafa. The guy who's allaction and no plan. His smile is tired, knowing. An echo of a...

Addition is the bestselling debut novel of Toni Jordan, author of Fall Girl and Nine Days. Grace is witty, flirtatious and headstrong. She's not a bit sentimental but even so, she may be about to lose track of the number of ways she can fall in love...

Introduced byAlice Pung Growing up in an Australian country town before World War I, Jackie Hanna and Cushie Moy are carefree and innocent in their love for each other. But Jackie is a dwarf, and his devotion to the beautiful Cushie is condemned by...

Introduced by Helen Garner Barbara Baynton's short-story collection Bush Studies is famous for its stark realism-for not romanticising bush life, instead showing all its bleakness and harshness. Economic of style, influenced by the great...

Winner, 2015 CBCA Eve Pownall Award for Information BooksSeventy-three thousand convicts were transported to the British penal colony of Van Diemen's Land in the first half of the nineteenth century. They played a vital role in the building of the...

Challenged by the unexpected, by differences and subtleties, Bail's tourists are in turn repelled and attracted-and all are altered.Introduced by Peter Conrad Winner, National Book Council Award for Australian Literature Winner, Age Book of the Year...

Christine wakes in a strange bed beside a man she does not recognise. In the bathroom she finds a photograph of him taped to the mirror, and beneath it the words 'Your husband'. Each day, Christine wakes knowing nothing of her life. Each night, her mind...

Nina doesn't have a conventional family. Her family robs banks-even she and hertwelve-year-old brother Tom are in on the act now. Sophia, Nina's mother, keeps chasing thethrill- 'Anyway, their money's insured!' she says. After yet another move and...

Will Grayson- What if your oldest, wildest, only best friend started writing a musical about your life...and it made you look like a joke? What if the girl you didn't think you were interested in started being interested in you? And who is this other...

An Inspector Challis and Sergeant Destry novelNine-year-old Katie Blasko is missing.Detective Sergeant Ellen Destry, alert to rumours of a paedophile ring operating on the Peninsula, is thinking abduction. Her colleagues are thinking bad family, truancy...

The Cold War is long dead but the trade in deceit and lies is still running hot. In Hamburg, John Anselm is hiding from the ghosts he has left behind in foreign war zones. He spends his days working for a surveillance firm whose business is just this...

Shortlisted, Dobbie Literary Award for a first published book Shortlisted, Australian Newcomer of the Year, Australian Book Industry AwardsIn My Skin describes an extraordinary journey through an often hidden world of heroin and prostitution. Kate's...

Award-winning filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a startling, sexy, and tender collection. In these stories, July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter,...

Kevin Katchadourian killed seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher, shortly before his sixteenth birthday. He is visited in prison by his mother, Eva, who narrates in a series of letters to her estranged husband...

Born in 1909, King made his home at Melaleuca in Tasmania's remote South-West, one of the most spectacular and rugged terrains in the world. By the time of his death in 1991 he was truly the king of his remarkable wilderness, and internationally...

'An enthralling introduction to the mountain people of New Guinea - unimaginably remote, charming, cunning, cruel, subtle and appealing - and to their magnificent land.' New York Times Book Review'This book combines an irresistible author with an...