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Now a feature film based on the Booker Prize-winning novel. As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he...

WINNER OF THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST CRIME FICTION 2022. The new novel by New York Times #1 bestselling author Candice Fox is an electrifying cat-and-mouse thriller set in...

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,...

In Amnesia Peter Carey, 'the greatest Australian writer' (Richard Flanagan), asks the most vital question of the past seventy years- Has America taken us over? When Gaby Baillieux releases the...

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...

From the Booker-winning author of Schindler's Ark, a compelling and spirited novel about Charles Dickens' son and his little-known adventures in the Australian Outback. In the late 1800s, rather than...

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...

The groundbreaking classic about economic rationalism and its effect on good, honest people. The groundbreaking novel about economic rationalism and its effect on good, honest people. At once humorous and...

One of Patrick White's most loved novels in which he creates a memorable portrait of human resilience Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for companions, journeys to...

An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on the frontier of Australia - with introduction from Inga Clendinnen. An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on...

'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...

When they were accused of trying to overthrow the monarchy, the feared warriors the Seven Deadly Sins were sent into exile. Princess Elizabeth discovers the truth - the Sins were...

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...

The film-tie in edition to Jonathan Glazer's award-winning new adaptation THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE OSCAR WINNING FILM Amidst the horrors of Auschwitz, German officer, Angelus Thomsen, has found love....

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...

Good dad or good assassin? Can he be both?- From the internationally bestselling author of BULLET TRAIN. Good dad or good assassin? Can he be both? From the internationally bestselling...

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...

Detective Michael Bennett must discover who's murdering glamorous young women - before his eldest daughter is targeted. A serial killer with a dangerous infatuation... Detective Michael Bennett and the NYPD...

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...