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'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...

From the author of The Undoing'Remarkable.' Stephen King'Breathtakingly suspenseful.' Megan Abbott'Smart, surprising and stealthily unsettling.' The TimesWhen a young writer dies before completing his first novel, his teacher, Jake, (himself a failed novelist) helps himself to its plot. The resul...

'A telling and compelling exploration of spoken English, charting the joys and risks of individual accents, and why we perceive them the way we do. Through a mix of history, anecdotes, and topical examples, Drummond brings light and humour into a gnarly subject that affects every one of us.’ Susi...

The brilliant new short story collection from the Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning author of The Animals in That Country.,/B. A family of cat farmers gets the chance to set the felines free. A group of chickens tells it like it is. A female-crewed ship ploughs through the patriarchy. A support gro...