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Are you ready to fall in love? Pour a cuppa and come home to the country with these five short stories from Australia's small-town storyteller and bestselling author of House for all Seasons and the Calingarry Crossing Collection. Like all Jenn's full-length novels, these compact reads with a bac...

'There are good publishers and there are great publishers. And then there's Anthony Cheetham.' Richard Dawkins In November 1966, by way of Mexico City, Eton College, Balliol College, Oxford, and a Norwegian raspberry farm, Anthony Cheetham entered the doors of a publishing company for the first ...

Welcome to Watercolour Cove... Life on top of the mountain is simple for the two Hill brothers. While Matthew will one day take over the family's banana plantation, young David, an aspiring artist, dreams of becoming the next Pro Hart, and marrying the teasing and tantalisingly pretty Tilly from...

Don’t look back.  Did Eurydice want to return from the underworld? Did anybody ask? Weaving together Greek mythology, neuroscience, and memories inherited from her Korean grandparents, the narrator grapples with death by telling stories to her younger brother that ask what life means for him, f...

When her hippie mother Edi goes missing the same week Sky Richard is assaulted at work—Sky wants to run away from everything. Instead, Sky goes looking for her mother and finds an estranged grandmother, the cult she was born in, and an unlikely ally. But the most important thing she discovers in ...

Dear Edna Sloane is a funny, fast-paced epistolary novel about fame, writers, ambition, and the ups and downs of a creative life.

Ancient and contemporary myths—including both Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby—overlay a coming-of-age story set in remote northern Minnesota.

Set in contemporary Iran, Mirage delves into the complicated relationship between Roya and her identical twin sister, Tala. Their inseparable bond becomes hard to maintain as they grow older, but when they both get pregnant at the same time, their relationship is rekindled. After an accident cau...

From a writer Steve Almond calls “the master of the down and out that just got worse” comes a collection of stories that live vividly in the reader’s memory long after the final page has been turned. Taking place in a world of desperate people who cling to hope, but have few expectations, Roberge...

Environmental catastrophe has driven four people inside the dark throat of a cave: Sky, a child coming of age; Tie, pregnant and grieving; Mark, a young man poised to assume primacy; and Teller, an elder, holder of stories. As the devastating heat of summer grows, so does the poison in Teller’s i...