General & literary fiction Books

A sweeping new epic fantasy series from worldwide bestselling author Raymond E Feist, marking the 20th year since the first publication of his first novel, Magician. Featuring one of the most fascinating characters and scenarios ever created in the...

The second book in the Darkwar series, from world-wide bestselling author of Magician, Raymond E. Feist. Chaos threatens to overwhelm two worlds as the most dangerous force ever encountered threatens to invade Midkemia, while the most treacherous...

Beautifully written and compelling, About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr. Growing up in Alaska, young David Winkler is crippled by his dreams. At nine, he dreams a man is decapitated by a passing truck on the path outside his...

In the second instalment of The Conclave of Shadows. The Conclave demands its membership price from their new protégé: Tal must gather information on the sinister magician Laso Varen. But, to do this means service with the sorcerer's master, Duke Kaspar...

*Shortlisted for the Small Press Network 2021 Book of the Year Award*The Tiniest House of Time is more than a family saga, ranging across continents and decades seamlessly, from colonial Burma in the 1930s to nationalist Malaysia in the 1990s and beyond,...

In the story that first established the monstrous cosmic terrors of his Mythos, writer H. P. Lovecraft said, "We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity..." Which makes it all the more fitting that the adepts of...

Australia: the land where everything wants to kill you. A continent filled with some of the deadliest animals in the world. From creepy-crawlies to crocodiles, you'll have plenty to fear in this anthology penned by Australian authors. Killer...

An agency that sends social workers into the homes of grieving families to impersonate dead loved ones... The kind old woman who saved a teenager's life but now finds herself haunted by the weight of a cheated suicide... And the daughter of a...

You burn your bridgesgoing into a foreign forestDorothy PorterThree people form an unlikely but spirited connection.Adrian is a renowned scholar, an expert on death in the modern age whose life has stalled.Kezi, a young and passionate artist, has been...

Forty-year-old Alice Kaczmarek has lost so much. She wants a baby, but her husband Daniel is serving a life sentence, accused of orchestrating an accident on Sydney's new transport system. When T, the subject of medical experimentation, crawls up the...

Set between the wars, A Cold Season is rich in voice, character and landscape.It follows the story of fourteen-year-old Beth, who is also the narrator. Beth's brother Sam and her father Owens have gone missing in a freak winter storm. In a small house in...

As a young girl in Sydney, Rachel pays more attention than she perhaps should to a cartoon character who accesses different personas on separate adventures each time he goes into the changing room of a London costume shop. Then at an opportune moment the...

An exhilarating and unforgettable love song for our world. Heartbroken and in fear for his life, corporate whistle blower, Jagger Eckerman, escapes to hide out in a remote cave, but kick-arse radical, Nia Moretti, is furious a 'capitalist suit' has taken...

The scar on the back of Sweeney's head is shaped like an S. He is obsessed with the beauty of bicycles, which he steals after painting his face in astonishing shapes and patterns.Asha Sen is the psychiatrist he begins to see for sessions. Then...

Winner of the Unpublished Manuscript Prize, Tasmanian Premier's Literary Awards Brothers Geo and Wes are testing their relationship now that their parents have passed away. Geo and Wes rarely agree on anything, especially not the sale of the Hobart...

Set in the near future during a time of plummeting fish stocks, toxic algae blooms and jellyfish swarms The Good Captain follows a group of radical environmentalists committed to a mission of extreme civil disobedience against the powers threatening to...

Orphan Rock is a complex and richly detailed story of secrets and heartbreak that will take you from the back streets of Sydney's slums to the wide avenues of the City of Lights.The late 1800s was a time when women were meant to know their place. But...

She wanted to photograph time: everything lost to time, and everything returned by it.Anna grows up in a third-storey unit in Parramatta with her adoptive Russian mother Sophia. When her teacher Miss Glass gives her a Box Brownie camera, small acts of...