Springtime

Picking up her pace, Frances saw a woman in the leaf-hung depths of the garden. She wore a long pink dress and a wide hat, and her skin was a creamy white. There came upon Frances a sensation that som …

The Ancestor Game

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Steven Muir, August Spiess and his daughter Gertrude, and Lang Tzu all acknowledge a restless sense of cultural displacement, an ambivalence in their relations with the culture of European Australia. …

The Eye of the Sheep

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Winner of the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary AwardShortlisted for the 2015 Voss Literary Prize and the 2015 Stella Prize Longlisted for the 2016 International IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardMeet Jimmy Flick …

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos

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Longlisted for the 2017 Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionIn the 1600s Sara de Vos loses her young daughter suddenly to illness. In her grief, she secretly begins painting a dark landscape of a …

The Life

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He looked into the Pacific and the Pacific looked back into him.Now bloated and paranoid, former champion surfer and legend Dennis Keith is holed up in a retirement village, trying not to think about …

The Simplest Words

From one of Australia’s greatest novelists comes this fine collection, a storyteller’s journey. These short stories and essays, written over the last forty years, comprise an insightful and intelligen …

The Sitters

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A sensuously written, peculiar novel about the relationship between a painter and his subject.A narrow, vertical painting, tightly enclosing the scene. Her pale arm and her pale thigh. Viewed at a dia …

The Tivington Nott

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Based on the lives of real people in Somerset on the borders of Exmoor, Miller tells his own story of a young labourer swept up in the adventure of riding second horse in a west country stag hunt. Fin …

The Wonder Lover

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Longlisted for The Indie Book Awards 2016Longlisted for The Voss Literary Prize 2016This is the story of John Wonder, a man with three families, each one kept secret from the other, each one containin …

Watching the Climbers on the Mountain

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‘His beauty and aloofness disturbed the equilibrium of the Rankin family…The stockman for a long time offered a resistance to the efforts of the members of the family to involve him in their lives. …

After Gregory

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From the author of the lost masterpiece, Tony and Susan, comes a kind of intellectual who dunnit, a novel with the thrill of the chase combined with a meditation on who we are, and who we might like t …

Disciples

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Harry Field, an elderly professor looking after his baby granddaughter, allows Oliver, the child’s absentee father, to take her to the park. Only too late do Harry and his daughter Judy realise that t …

Telling Time

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As a college president, Thomas Westerly, 72, was a paragon of virtue, a crusader for everything from civil rights to ecology. Now, as he lies dying surrounded by his children, he asks them to go throu …

Peacekeeping

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A dazzling, bravura display of sex, small-town politics and the stifling heat of the Haitian sky, by the National Book Award finalist of Fieldwork.When Terry White, a former deputy sheriff and a faile …

The Jesus Man

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From the international bestselling and Booker Prize nominated author of The Slap comes a blazingly brilliant new novel.One of the earliest Christos Tsiolkas novels – a dark, violent, pornographic and …

Mischling

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Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2018It’s 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge …