Fiction

combines Peter Carey's bizarre, brilliant, chilling short stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes, plus three not in either. The Fat Man in History and Other Stories...

An Australian literary hoax lies at the core of My Life as a Fake, Peter Carey's captivating, 'continuously startling' (John Updike) contemplation of the art world. In steamy, fetid Kuala...

Peter Carey's first novel and first Miles Franklin winner, Bliss remains a work ahead of its time. It takes dying during a heart attack for Harry Joy to realise that...

One of Peter Carey's most searingly inventive novels yet. Wise, funny, profound. Michael 'Butcher' Boone is an ex-'really famous' painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and...

The incomparable Oscar and Lucinda won Peter Carey his first Booker Prize, and the Miles Franklin Award. Oscar Hopkins, the hydrophobic, noisy-kneed son of a preacher, renounces his father's stern...

Peter Carey is at his inventive, brilliant best in His Illegal Self, a novel about a family who, once met, will never leave you. Che is the precocious son of...

A wickedly funny satire on modern life and families. The Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since Dostoevsky's Karamazovs. Granny Catchprice runs her family business, and her family,...

Peter Carey hilariously conjures up dystopia in his picaresque The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith. Severely afflicted, doomed never to be taller than three foot six, Tristan Smith faces death...

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Award, Peter Carey's Jack Maggs is dazzlingly entertaining. The year is 1837 and ex-convict Jack Maggs has returned illegally to...

True History of the Kelly Gang is Peter Carey's stunning, Booker Prize-winning novel about Australia's most famous outlaw. As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate...

In The Chemistry of Tears Peter Carey delivers a heartbreakingly beautiful and archly inventive story of love, loss and the birth of the machine age. When her lover dies suddenly,...

Australia's master novelist takes us on the race of a lifetime. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in western Victoria. Together they enter the...

WINNER OF THE 2019 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION. THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION 'Haunting . . . Beautifully written' The New York Times Book...

In his most autobiographical novel to date, Paulo Coelho interweaves adventure, philosophy and the true stories of his own life to give readers an essential book for our time. A...

What do you do when you're told you've got terminal cancer at 50? Take up crochet, get religion and bow out gracefully? Or upend your life and spend every remaining...

This is the story of how a struggling convict settlement grew into six dynamic colonies and then the remarkable nation of Australia. Told through the key figures who helped build...

The autobiography of three time Tour de France Green Jersey winner. The autobiography of three time Tour de France Green Jersey winner. I am a sprinter. And to understand why...

'They watched and warned and died that we might live.' (Inscription on the Coastwatcher Memorial at Madang, PNG) After Pearl Harbor, Japan swept unchecked through the Pacific. But a tiny...

Winner of the 1968 Miles Franklin Award Winner of the 1968 Miles Franklin Award From the moment he allows his young cousin and bride to spend the night in his...

'Thomas Keneally is one of the historical novel's most expert practitioners, and his new book sees him back on the form that produced Schindler's Ark. Giles Foden, Guardian 'Thomas Keneally...

B-format of one of 2007's Australian non-fiction bestsellers. In 1959 David Hill's mother - a poor single parent living in England - reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge...

Murder, Love and politics in Civil War America. Murder, Love and politics in Civil War America. On the last, cold Sunday of February 1859, Daniel Sickles shot his wife's lover...

A new manga from the creator of the acclaimed A Silent Voice, featuring intimate, emotional drama and an epic story spanning time and space... A new manga from the creator...

A Silent Voice is a thought-provoking, dramatic story of a deaf student and the boy who bullies her. 16 and up. Four volumes and ongoing in Japan. Shojo. LEARNING TO...

A supernatural action-comedy series with themes similar to Bleach, Soul Eater, and Death Note. DIVINE INTERVENTION FOR SALE Yato is a homeless god. He doesn't even have a shrine, not...

From the creator of the smash hit Rave Master, Hiro Mashima, Fairy Tail is an adventure series full of magic, action, humor and fantastic characters! THE WICKED SIDE OF WIZARDRY...

The much-anticipated sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling YA novel Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. The #1 New York Times best-selling series To find a cure for...

The New York Times Best Seller The #1 New York Times best-selling series An abandoned orphanage on a mysterious island holds the key to supernatural secrets in this unusual and...

Life on our planet as you've never seen it before **WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024** **THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'A slim, profound study of intimate human fears set...

An unforgettable and sweeping interwar love story, from the Costa-shortlisted and bestselling Irish author of Life Sentences **A BOOK OF 2023 IN IRISH TIMES, RT GUIDE AND SUNDAY INDEPENDENT** An...

Welcome to a world where, livestreamed to millions, prisoners fight like gladiators for the ultimate prize- their freedom. FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. FIGHT FOR LOVE. WELCOME TO THE KILLING GROUND. 'America's...

Meet Jamie and his community on the west coast of Ireland in the most uplifting and tender book of the year Jamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves...

A woman reeling from a disastrous love affair finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine A woman reeling from a disastrous love affair finds love and hope in Shakespeare...

The atmospheric, haunting new thriller from the author of R&J pick The Memory Wood - original, moving and oh-so-dark. 'Propulsive, sinister, gripping' - ALEX MICHAELIDES, international bestselling author of The...

The very first book by number one bestseller Lee Child, which introduces his iconic hero Jack Reacher. 'This was the first Jack Reacher novel and with its lean, spare prose...

A breathtakingly powerful epic that weaves together the astonishing lives of a 1950s vanished female aviator and the rebel-hearted Hollywood millennial who plays her on screen. A New York Times...

A gruesome murder. Two sides. One truth. Gripping investigative drama perfect for fans of Michael Connelly. There are two sides to every story. Husband and wife Archie and Francine Hughes...

A new look for the twenty-fifth installment in the award-winning Brunetti series by crime fiction writer Donna Leon 'There is no one better than Donna Leon at showing the ripple...

The SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES bestselling novel from The Martian author, Andy Weir. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL A BARRACK OBAMA READING PICK A lone astronaut. An impossible...

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ***NEW NOVEL ATMOSPHERE COMING JUNE 2025 - PREORDER NOW*** From the bestselling author of DAISY JONES & THE SIX and THE SEVEN...

With a brand new introduction from Greg James, this caper of supreme joy is a Wodehouse classic. 'A colourful universe of aristocratic buffoonery and public school nonsense' Greg James, host...

A new thriller in James Patterson's bestselling Private series, featuring private investigator Jack Morgan In Afghanistan, a US Special Forces pilot is shot down during a covert mission. In New...

Stylish and open-hearted, this is a very different kind of love story, elevated and energised by being set in the world of creativity and video gaming THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON 'I...

Escape to the ocean this summer with the Costa Book of the Year 2020 Escape to the ocean with the entrancing, unforgettable winner of the Costa Book of the Year...

The thrilling, furious and stunningly original debut novel about womanhood, art and life, from the blazing new star in contemporary literature, for fans of Eimear McBride, Ali Smith and Deborah...

The magical Booker Prize-winning novel that journeys between the land of the Living and the spirit world Journey between the land of the Living and the spirit world in this...

For readers of Jenny Offill and Curtis Sittenfeld, this is a funny, provocative, pin-sharp novel that redefines modern motherhood *NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING AMY ADAMS* Are you looking for...

The stories in Emma Cline's stunning first collection consider the dark corners of human experience, exploring the fault lines of power between men and women, parents and children, past and...