Kate Grenville had always associated perfume with elegance and beauty—then the headaches started. Like perhaps a quarter of the population, Grenville reacts badly to the artificial fragrances around us: other people’s perfumes, and all those scented cosmetics, cleaning products, and air fresheners. On a book tour in 2015, dogged by ill health, she started...

“A classic, dark Australian crime thriller.”—PS News

“A fast-paced, elaborate tale centered on misplaced ethics, wrongful convictions and multigenerational trauma.”—Big Issue

Jason Ginaff doesn’t get out much. Partly because of the anxiety, mainly because he works at home, researching people on the internet—job candidates doing party drugs on...

'Speculative fiction that twines science fiction with erotica with philosophical questions of gender and sex…endlessly curious and inventive, provocative and inspiring.’—Sydney Morning Herald

Some time in the near future, university lecturer Caspar receives a gift from a former student called Liv: a memory stick containing a virtual narrative. Hooked...

Lecretia Seales, a respected lawyer, campaigned New Zealand's High Court for the right to die, after being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. Her case captured hearts worldwide. She died, aged 42, the day the judged denied her right. Lecretia’s legacy has resulted in a raft of political actions in the US, UK, Australia, NZ and South Africa.

Essential reading in a time of global upheaval—a unique, impassioned and vital guide to peaceful, creative resistance in a violent era.

‘Now more than ever, the world needs a book like Draw Your Weapons. With mastery, urgency and great courage, Sarah Sentilles investigates the histories of art, violence, war and human survival.’—Ruth Ozeki

‘A unique and...

Tuscany, 1096 AD. Young aristocrat Luca can see demons invisible to others, but must hide the fact. A powerful book seems to hold the key to their mystery, but he can’t decipher it. In Cappadocia, during a Crusade, Luca encounters Suzan, a girl who can read the book's cryptic language. Together, Luca and Suzan realize their true quest.

At the age of ninety-five, Robin Dalton looks back on her life, particularly on her love life.

Married at nineteen, disastrously, Robin has a lucky escape—her ‘Society Divorce’ makes the front page of Sydney newspapers, bumping the war to page three. Then there are the American and British servicemen in Sydney—the dancing, the many trysts and a number of...

Since a deadly virus and the violence that followed wiped out his parents and most of his community, Finn has lived alone on the rugged coast with only his dog Rowdy for company.

He has stayed alive for two winters—hunting and fishing and trading food, and keeping out of sight of the Wilders, an armed and dangerous gang that controls the north, led by a...

A creator of virtual memories struggles to distinguish real-life experience from manufactured events. A childless couple conceive two children in an online world, only for their imagined life to be infected by a computer virus. The robotic brother of an adopted Chinese child ‘dies’, and a family realises how real a son he had become.

Alexander...

Six essays exploring the connections between old world Europe, aboriginal Australia, religion, meaning and the power of the sacred.

Beginning in contemplation of a lizard in the outback, Quicksilver moves to the Russia of Tolstoy and Gorky, and on to other lands and times, bringing into play universal questions about the essential nature of the human...

From the million copy #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE HISTORIAN.

THE SHADOW LAND blends history and the present in a suspenseful journey that spans three generations and reveals the dark secrets of a family’s—and a nation’s—history.

A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will...

A reportage of Nir Baram’s year-long journey along the Green Line, the focus of all hopes for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Throughout their youth Nir Baram’s generation were bombarded with news about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—the injustices, the wrongdoings, the killings. Over the decades, the horror and despair had become habit—he noticed people had...

Winner of the 2014 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing

‘Delivers some devastating truth bombs. Sexuality is hard. Identity is hard. Love is hard. School is hard…This book shines a much-needed light back through the tunnel. It is a call-out to teenagers still struggling to find their way.’—Books + Publishing

A funny, sad and serious memoir, this...

A stuffed bear beats with the rhythm of a dead baby’s heart; a crew on a space mission are dying of exposure to alien dust and at the hands of a killer among them; and a town keeps receding to the east as a man travels back to the father who drove him away.

In these stories, Brian Evenson unsettles us with the everyday and the extraordinary—the...

"An engaging series starter."—Booklist on The Firebird Mystery

Neo City, 2509. Some serious operational bungles, plus the accidental death of his partner, put Special Agent Blake Carter's career at the Planetary Bureau of Investigation in jeopardy. To make matters worse, his new partner happens to be a cyborg.

When infamous criminal Bartholomew Badde steals a...

'A gripping book about a mysterious murder that delves deeply into the psyches of its protagonists. Anja Reich-Osang’s clear language cuts like a knife, exposing the layers of two lives and one unhappy marriage. A great read!’—Melanie Raabe, author of The Trap

In December 2011, a corpse was found in a forest in Ludwigsfelde, a small and peaceful town south...

THE PERFECT THRILLER

Ted has it all: a beautiful wife, two daughters, a high-paying job. But after he is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour he finds himself with a gun to his temple, ready to pull the trigger. That’s when the doorbell rings.

A stranger makes him a proposition: kill two deserving men before dying. The first is a criminal, and the...