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WINNER OF THE ACT BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE NED KELLEY AWARD FOR BEST CRIME FICTION Yuwonderie's seven founding families have lorded it over their district for a century, growing ever more rich and powerful. But now—in startling circumstances—one of their own is found dead in a ditc...

Laura Murphy will need to call on all her grit and determination to retain her beloved farm. But will her fierce self-reliance close her off to the possibility of love? Since inheriting Nambina, the property that's been in her family for generations, Laura Murphy has worked wonders. Rather than ...

A prisoner of war's daring escape from a speeding train . . . a Greek resistance heroine's fateful decision to harbour the fugitive . . . and a young dressmaker's curiosity spark a chain of events that has consequences none of them could ever have imagined. Peter Blunden, a New Zealand soldier c...

Want to be more creative and efficient in life and work? It's all about killer thinking. Killer Thinking is the ultimate guide to creating, developing and recognising incredible ideas that will revolutionise the way you work, from the bestselling author of Cult Status. We need better ideas right ...

Hera Stephen is clawing through her mid-twenties, working as an underpaid comment moderator in an overly air-conditioned newsroom by day and kicking around Sydney with her two best friends by night. Instead of money or stability, she has so far accrued one ex-girlfriend, several hundred hangovers...

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWAR...

Unanovelainédita,muyíntima, de la granautorafrancesaganadora delPremio Goncourt eicono delfeminismo «Una pequeña novela, corta pero llena de significado y en la que De Beauvoir vertió su alma.» Telva Escrita en 1954, cinco años después de la publicación de El segundo sexo, Las inseparables narra ...

When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the ground floor of a block of flats - she thinks it will be like any other shift work. She cleans toilets, sweeps popcorn, avoids the belligerent old owner, Iris, and is ignored by her aloof but tight-...

Peterdown, an industrial town with a noble past and a lacklustre present, has been chosen as the regional hub for a soon-to-be-built, ultra-high-speed railway line. The development promises to propel Peterdown headlong into a prosperous future; but in order to get there, something from the landsc...

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 'Utterly compelling' Irish Times 'Original, funny, disarmingly oblique' CLAIRE KILROY 'A triumph.' Guardian In an unnamed city, where to be interesting is dangerous, an eighteen-year-old woman has attracted the unwanted and unavoi...