Empire Falls

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONMiles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him th …

Everybody's Fool

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The great American master Richard Russo, at the very top of his game, returns to the characters who made Nobody’s Fool (1993) a contemporary classic.Richard Russo’s new novel takes place in the decayi …

Mohawk

Mohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks. Its citizens, too, have fallen on hard times. Dallas Younger, a star athlete in high school, now …

Nobody's Fool

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Richard Russo’s slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected workings of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York – and in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been do …

Risk Pool

In Mohawk, New York, Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult.His father, Sam, cultivates bad habits so assiduously that he is s …

Straight Man

**THE BASIS FOR THE NEW TV SERIES, LUCKY HANK**Hank Devereaux is the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Devereaux’s reluctance i …

The Natural Way of Things

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Winner of the Stella PrizeWinner of the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for FictionShortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlisted Christina Stead Prize for FictionShortlisted for Intern …

After Isabella

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‘Both heartwarming and sad, it’s an insightful, thought-provoking glimpse into female friendships, love and loyalty.’ – Julie Cohen’After Isabella is a beautiful, absorbing novel that deals with the i …

Autumn Laing

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Autumn Laing seduces Pat Donlon with her lust for life and art. In doing so she not only compromises the trusting love she has with her husband, Arthur, she also steals the future from Pat’s young and …

Coal Creek

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WINNER OF THE 2014 VICTORIAN PREMIER’S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE 2014 IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 PRIME MINISTER’S LITERARY AWARDS AND THESHORTLISTED FOR TH …

Conditions of Faith

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Winner of the 2001 Christina Stead Prize for FictionFrom the Author of Miles Franklin Literary Award and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Winner With university behind her, Emily Stanton finds herself on t …

Foal's Bread

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Set in hardscrabble farming country around the show jumping circuit that flourished in Australia prior to the Second World War, Foal’s Bread tells the story of two generations of the Nancarrow family …

Journey to the Stone Country

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Betrayed by her husband, Annabelle Beck retreats from Melbourne to her old family home in tropical North Queensland where she meets Bo Rennie, one of the Jangga tribe. Intrigued by Bo’s claim that he …

Landscape of Farewell

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Landscape of Farewell is the story of Max Otto, an elderly German academic. After the death of his much-loved wife and his recognition that he will never write the great study of history that was to b …

Lovesong

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Winner of the 2011 Christina Stead Prize for FictionWinner of The Age Book of the YearWinner of thePeople’s Choice Award at the NSW Premier’s Literary AwardsStrangers did not, as a rule, find their wa …

Prochownik's Dream

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What is true for one relationship, for one painting, is not true for another… each possesses its own strange inevitability that resists us and we can never finally know what it is we are doing until …