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‘This is a terrific book. Dr Batthyány has created an enlightening examination of the phenomenon that is very familiar to those who care for the terminally ill and their families. Threshold should have a positive effect on the care of the terminally ill.’ Dr Raymond Moody, author of Life After Li...

Detective Sergeant Philip ‘Cato' Kwong is light on sleep but high on happiness with his new wife Sharon Wang and their baby girl. But contentment is not compatible with life in the Job, and soon a series of murders of Fremantle's homeless people gets in the way of Cato's newfound bliss. As New Wa...

*Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available*In Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive Hollywood Hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musi...

'A work of art...altogether a joyous and lovely thing' New York Times Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji is entrance...

If you liked The Plot . . .'Insanely readable.' Stephen King'Breathtakingly suspenseful.' Megan Abbott'Smart, surprising and stealthily unsettling.' The Times'So clever, so taut, so dazzling.' Lisa JewellYou'll love The Sequel.The wildly twisty and devilishly clever new thriller from the author o...

The Mama Car has big wheels and a soft cushion. It can take you outside and anywhere and right back home again. The Mama Car has so many things, but the best thing is, it has Mummy. This way, Mama Car! The Mama Car can take children on adventures, big and small. Even just going to the kitchen for...

‘This detailed and yet marvellously readable look at our climatic past offers us the information we need to understand our climatic future — and more importantly, to act to shape that future in the here and now.’ Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature In this sweeping work of science and his...

‘I chose the jagged rocks, the broken bones, the spattered brains. I chose beauty. I'd choose it again.' Luna Lewis is white. But her friends aren't, nor are her brothers, nor her one-time Princess of Indonesia–finalist stepmother. After transforming from pudgy preteen to ‘exotic' beauty, Luna re...

‘We All Lived in Bondi Then is a vibrant and adroit collection of distinctive, faceted stories … As Blain limns the interior lives of her characters, so the collection glows against the darkness of its author’s early death.’ Felicity Plunkett, The Saturday Paper From the author of the multi-awar...

‘Audacious, pained, heartfelt: I couldn’t put it down.’ Helen Garner A multi-award-winning journalist and former editor-in-chief of a major Australian newspaper searingly explores his Jewish identity at a time when a substantial — and growing — part of the left is opposed to the very existence o...