Barren red deserts dotted with post-colonial ghost towns, dilapidated inner city factories, discarded country homesteads and a succession of dormant, soot-filled power stations are just a handful of the desolate, yet vis...

488 Rules for Life is Kitty Flanagan’s way of making the world a more pleasant place to live – providing you with the antidote to every annoying little thing, these rules are not made to be broken. 488 Rules ...

Discover the world of a small homestead perched on the sunburnt farmland of northern Victoria. Meet Elise, whose urbane 1950s glamour is rudely transplanted to the pragmatic red soil of the Mallee when her husband return...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019, in this electrifying sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood answers the question that has tantalised readers for decades: What happened to Offred? Margaret Atwood’s dystopia...

In this thrilling historical fantasy from the author of the Sevenwaters Trilogy, a young woman is both a bard – and a warrior in Juliet Marillier’s The Harp of Kings. Eighteen-year-old Liobhan is a powerful s...

A timely work of unbridled imagination from a startling new voice, Elizabeth Bryer, From Here On, Monsters is an ambitious, noirish allegory for any fan of Claire G. Coleman’s Terra Nullius or Shaun Prescott’...

Every child who grew up in Australia in the 70s and 80s remembers the Curiosity Show – the science show that encouraged kids to build their own experiments at home. Running for 18 years, it was a groundbreaking tel...

From the award-winning author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, comes a luminous novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent-film director and his muse. Dominic Smith’...