A cutthroat and daring new YA release, featuring one of history's greatest anti-heroines.Anne Bonny was eighteen when she ran away from her violent husband, James, into the arms of pirate captain Calico Jack Rackham. Now she's ensconced aboard Jack's...

Winner of the inaugural Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel, Ruby Porter is a leading voice in young New Zealand Literature.The present reckons with the past in Attraction. Porter's unnamed narrator is on a road trip between Auckland, Whangara...

Shooting Star is classic Peter Temple, and now a Text Classic.Pat Carson's old eyes were on me, looking for something. 'Man is born unto trouble,' he said. I said, 'As the sparks fly upwards.' Deep lines at the corners of his mouth. 'Know your Job...

A groundbreaking portrait of an ordinary English gentlewoman who would go on to become one of Australia's most significant, if little known, historical figures.In 1788 a young gentlewoman raised in the vicarage of an English village married a handsome,...

A raw and powerful memoir of motherhood, autism and filmmaking by Australian director, Jocelyn Moorhouse.Jocelyn Moorhouse has a successful career as a gifted scriptwriter and film director, as well as a maintaining a marriage and a family of four...

One of the last undiscovered personal accounts of an Australian soldier fighting to survive WWI.Philip Owen Ayton was working on the Sydney tramways when the call to join the fight against Germany came. Keen for action, he found himself in the First...

Alone among English-speaking democracies, Australia compels its citizens to vote . . . It forces politicians to consider the impact of their policies on all groups of Australians, especially the disadvantaged and marginalised, and so contributes to a...

Following on from A Fence around the Cuckoo, this is the second volume of autobiography by one of Australia's best storytellers, Ruth Park, author of The Harp in the South and the Miles Franklin-winning Swords and Crowns and Rings.Born in New Zealand,...

The fourth and final book in the iconic Jack Irish series, and the winner of the 2003 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel.Jack Irish-gambler, cook and cabinetmaker, finder of people who don't want to be found-has a new job, hunting for evidence that...

The third novel in the Jack Irish series won the 2000 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel, and has earned its place as a modern Australian crime classic.Jack Irish-lawyer, gambler and people-finder-is hunting down the villains who hijacked the winnings...

The award-winning second novel in the Melbourne crime series featuring Peter Temple's best loved character- Jack Irish-lawyer, gambler, part-time cabinetmaker, finder of missing peopleJack Irish has no shortage of friends. Jockeys and journos, lawyers...

A classic edition of the first novel in Peter Temple's beloved Jack Irish novels-now a major series on ABC TV starring Guy PearceMelbourne in winter. Rain. Wind. Pubs. Beer. Sex. Corruption. Murder.A phone message from ex-client Danny McKillop doesn't...

The latest gripping novel in the popular Wyatt series kicks off with our enigmatic anti-hero committing a robbery in Sydney, then unfolds on the beaches of Newcastle.Some people just work better alone. Wyatt's one of them. He's been getting by on nice...

The gripping new standalone mystery from one of Australia's most celebrated crime writers, longlisted for the 2018 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime NovelThe young detectives call Alan Auhl a retread, but that doesn't faze him. He does things his own...

A landmark D. H. Lawrence novel, considered to be among the best writing about AustraliaAfter the Great War, Richard Lovat Somers, a writer, and Harriet, his wife, leave disillusioned Europe for Australia. Almost immediately, Somers comes into the orbit...

An elegant hardback edition of the novel that launched Helen Garner's careerHelen Garner's gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Grip is regarded as a masterpiece-the novel that shines a light on a time...

A profound, funny and uplifting collection of reminiscences about a life in booksHere are forty texts to read at some stage in your life- forty texts that can enrich you in all manner of ways. Some are recent, like Harry Potter; some ancient, like Homer...

A subversive, entertaining noir novel from one of Poland's most important writers and the winner of the 2018 Man Booker International PrizeDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead takes place in a remote Polish village, where Duszejko, an eccentric...

A groundbreaking work of storytelling and scholarship from Dr Clare Wright, winner of the Stella Prize for The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka.For the ten years from 1902, when Australia's suffrage campaigners won the vote for white women, the world looked to...

Maybe it's the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma's offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance.Candace Chen, a millennial drone...

Awarded the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction in 2014, Madeleine is a meticulously researched and beautifully written portrait of the beloved author of The Women in BlackAt the age of fifteen Madeleine saw herself as a painter and pianist,...

A timeless tale from a more innocent era, first published in 1969 at the time of the first moon landing.Peter sets out into the Australian bush on his pony that leaps like lightning to find a princess to rescue from a dragon - something only a brave and...

There's no doubt Australia is in the grip of housing crisis, and from hotly contested think pieces and intergenerational mud-slinging, to embattled episodes of Q&A and the much-maligned smashed avocado, it seems everyone has an opinion on the...

A moving portrait of the life journey and all the romance, heartache and grief that has helped to make Sisonke Msimang the writer, activist, mother and woman she is today.Sisonke Msimang was born in exile, the daughter of South African freedom fighters...

Now a major film directed by Michael Sucsy and starring Australian actress Angourie RiceEvery morning, A wakes in a different person's body, a different person's life. There's never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace...

An uplifting novel for 11-13 year olds about oppression, privilege, girls and womens' status, education and diversity, and also a heartwarming story about a girl with a missionTwelve-year-old Amal loves learning and dreams of becoming a teacher.Then...

Two classic Helen Garner novellas introduced by Michael Sala, award-winning author of The Last Thread and The RestorerTwo novellas about the deep connections we forge with the people we love, and the pain of breaking those connections.In Honour, Kathleen...

A twisted and surreal new thriller from the bestselling author of Let the Right One InIn September 1985, nineteen-year-old John Lindqvist moved into a dilapidated old building in Stockholm, planning to make his living as a magician. Something strange was...

As unusual as the man himself, Room to Dream is the highly anticipated memoir from the revolutionary and elusive David Lynch, co-creator of Twin Peaks and director of groundbreaking films like The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive.The...

A genre-busting, thoughtful exploration of sexuality and identity by one of Germany's most admired writers in the vein of Maggie Nelson, Eula Biss and Emily Witt.What if, instead of discovering our sexuality only once, during puberty, we discover it...

First published in 1999, Drylands was Thea Astley's fourth and final Miles Franklin winner.In the dying town of Drylands, Janet Deakin sells papers to lonely locals. At night, in her flat above the newsagency, she attempts to write a novel for a world in...

A woman becomes obsessed with the story of a long-dead colonial pioneer, and her research becomes a way of coming to terms with her own past.Researching in the archives Belle discovers the long-dead Gaden Lockyer, a colonial pioneer in Jericho Flats, and...

Feisty, forty-something and fearless, Cass Tuplin isn't exactly the Sherlock Holmes type. Yet as Rusty Bore's peer-appointed private investigator she just can't seem to avoid ending up in hot water.For Cass Tuplin, proprietor of the Rusty Bore Takeaway...

Gold was discovered in Australia in 1851, and within a year the infant colony was transformed from a sump for convicts to a Land of Opportunity.Robyn Annear's lively history describes in detail life on the diggings- the mud of winter and dust of summer,...

A crucial on-the-ground account of the Australian Imperial Forces' Gallipoli campaign by one of Australia's key World War I correspondents.Published soon after the evacuation from Gallipoli, Australia in Arms is a vital early account of the Dardanelles...

A sophisticated psychological thriller from a fine literary talent that will keep readers guessing until the last page.Martin Reese has a hobby- he digs up murder victims. He buys stolen police files on serial killers, and uses them to find and dig up...

The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher John McPhee.Draft No. 4 is a master class on the writer's craft. John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his long career, and has refined while teaching...

An hilarious take on the philosophy, theology and psychology of mortality and immortality, using jokes to explore life, death and everything in between.Featuring Freud! Groucho Marx! Socrates! Lily Tomlin! Kierkegaard! Buddha! New Yorker cartoonists!...

The latest instalment in the Natalie King, Forensic Psychiatrist series of gripping psychological thrillers from Professor Anne Buist.Psychiatrist Natalie King is the expert witness in a vicious child custody battle, and the stakes are high. Getting it...

The biography of one of the most original and elusive characters in Australian sporting history, by renowned cricket writer Gideon Haigh.In 1950, aged in his mid-thirties, 'tall, shy, shambling' Jack Iverson burst forth from obscurity in suburban...

This new edition of Helen Garner's collected short fiction celebrates the seventy-fifth birthday of one of Australia's most loved authors.These stories - that delve into the complexities of love and longing, of the pain, darkness and joy of life - are...

An extraordinary book of collected short non-fiction, spanning fifty years of work, by one of Australia's great writers.Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her...

The extraordinary survival story of William Buckley (1780-1856), 'the wild white man', edited and introduced by Tim Flannery.In 1803 the convict William Buckley, a former soldier, escaped from the first official settlement in Victoria, near Sorrento on...

A witty, surprising, often moving and always insightful work of scientific writing that will ensure you never look at a clock the same way again.For more than two thousand years the world's great minds have argued about the true essence of time. Is it...

A wonderfully affecting novel about crime, redemption, the Mafia and the power of Shakespeare to transform a person's life.Sas grew up in Naples. He never went to school, and instead grew up with street violence and bloodshed, becoming the leader of a...

From the author of The Imperfectionists comes a series of witty and addictive stories set across America during the years of Trump's presidency.A Manhattan party on election night. Liberal media types gather with big grins and high-end canapes to watch...

Two of the greatest and most influential works of the twentieth century, together in one edition.George Orwell's novels about the dangers of tyranny, the corruption of the state and the enslavement of the individual are essential reading. In an era of...

The gripping seventh novel in the Peninsula Crimes series sees Inspector Challis and Sergeant Destry on the hunt for a serial rapist, while Australia's ice epidemic starts encroaching on their beat.A small bushfire, but nasty enough for ice cooks to...