It's the bicentennial year and as Gordon's life is going nowhere, he takes up Wayne's offer to stay as weather operators at an isolated lighthouse at the top end of the Northern Territory. As a would-be writer and a budding

Philadelphia Gordon is an artist and a riverboat skipper. Orphaned by a shipwreck, she grows up on the banks of Murray River in Australia with her kindly uncle and strict aunt. But then tragedy leads her to a successful care

After her grandfather's death, Essie returns to Bruny Island, Tasmania and to the lighthouse where her great-great-grandfather kept watch for nearly 40 years. Beneath the lighthouse, she begins to write the stories of her an

The Roman poet Ovid, exiled to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea, tells the story of his meeting with a feral boy, brought up among wild animals in the snow. It is a luminous encounter between civilization and na

Piecing together the puzzle of exiled artist, Lang Tzu, last of a wealthy Chinese lineage, writer Steven Muir finds himself caught in a strange and haunted landscape. Both know the solitude of the only child and the poignanc

'Bible-black humour...enough visitations, portents and religious lunacy to qualify as the second-greatest story ever told' - "Elle". 'It is as if a Faulkner novel had been crossed with "Whistle Down the Wind" and

For Cassandra, an editor, books are easy. It's the real life that's the challenge: it doesn't sit quietly and let itself be fixed. Right now Cassandra's life seems far too heavy on the suspense, while the romance is d

Arlington Reef is set in Cairns, Australia and is a page turning thriller. When a large tanker runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Manager Will Stromme and his diving buddy Santo speed out to investigate the

This is an elegant and resonant story of change and the loss of innocence set in post-war Melbourne. This is the story of one evening in the lives of the residents of a new outer suburb. As a mighty s

Offered the professional opportunity of a lifetime, Peta leaves her coastal life and doting boyfriend James in Sydney for a 12 month stint in the 'fashion capital of Australia', Melbourne. Although Melbourne is full of straight males

A tale of love, loss and dislocation, Beneath the Bloodwood Tree is the unsettling and powerful new novel by The Australian/Vogel Award winner, Julienne van Loon. 03 Now she listens, perhaps unwisely, to a prickling benea

Winner of the 2008 Dylan Thomas Prize The Boat will take you everywhere.

In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le'

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.

Liesel Meminger and her younger brother are being taken by their mother to live with a foster fami

When paramedic Bruce Pike arrives too late to save a boy found hanged in his bedroom he senses immediately that this lonely death is an accident. Pike knows the difference between suicide and misadventure. He understands only too well the force

Coolly impassioned, this book tells shocking truths about love and sex. These are the kind of revelations that best friends whisper to each other and then decide to forget they ever revealed. It will make you question whethe

Inspired by the remarkable life of Charmian Clift, this is a complex and compelling novel. Katherine Elgin grows up in a small coastal town of Australia and becomes a stunningly beautiful young woman with

02 From one of Australia's leading business executives comes a darkly comic, rambunctiously rollicking novel that charts the rise and fall of a tycoon. 03 Set in the boardrooms, yachts and waterfront mansions of Austra

Rome's leaders are frightened: the brilliant, ruthless Gaius Julius Caesar must be crushed before he can overthrow the government and become dictator. This novel opens in Gaul, scene of Caesar's magnificent victory

A love story and a novel about addiction. From the heady narcissism of the narrator's first days with his new lover, Candy, and the relative innocence of their shared habit, Candy charts their decline.

Jess is a stunt-rider who can outride any man. In the early days of film, she finds her calling, playing wild outlaw women who answer to no one. However, when her Chinese circus-owner husband is killed she is left pregnant a

Winner of Miles Franklin 2007 -

Shortlisted for 2006 Man Booker Prize

From one of Australia's finest writers, a novel that exposes the tenacious grip of childhood, the way siblings seem to grow apart but never do, and the price paid for bearing witness to the suffering of others. You bri

02 A story of gluttony, madness, boiled tomatoes and a woman who will stop at nothing in her search for a perfect recipe. 03 Amelia wants to be the best cook in the world. But being the best cook is not just about preparing

Byron Bay, 1962. On the second last day before the whaling station is closed down for good, Flinch the young spotter, is involved in a terrible accident.

A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities he is expected to apologize to save his job, but instead he r

Clive Broderick, guitar-teacher and occultist - the Doubleman of the title - is speaking of power, and of a realm beyond reality. This is a fable of the sixties, when shared belief-systems crumbled, and the spiritual bazaars