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Nine Days

by Toni Jordan

It is 1939 and although Australia is about to go to war, it doesn't quite realise yet that the situation is serious. Deep in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Richmond it is business-your own and everyone...

A minor loss of fidelity

by Christine Kearney

It's an hour by plane from Dili to Darwin. It may as well be a hundred years, as Kate discovers when her daughter comes down with Dengue fever. Kearney embraces the complexities of the mythic and contemporary...

Unzipped

by Nicki Reed

Before the couch, Peta knew who she was. A 34-year-old professional, married to the man of her dreams and thinking about motherhood. After the couch, Peta tries to get pregnant, tries to make sure she isn't...

The Cook

by Wayne Macauley

At Cook School, Zac dreams about becoming the greatest chef the world has seen. Zac thinks he's on his way when he gets a job as house cook for a wealthy family-the Mistress and Master and their daughters, Melody...

Warra Warra: A Ghost Story

by John Scott

Warra Warra is a dot on the map, at least until a jumbo jet explodes above the town, killing all aboard the plane and many of the locals.

For those who survive, though, this is only the beginning of their nightmare....

Women & Power: Griffith REVIEW 40

by Julianne Schultz

The empowerment of women it is one of the most remarkable revolutions of the past century. But like all good revolutions it is still not settled.

In a generation women have taken control of their economic fate,...

Steeplechase

by Krissy Kneen

Bec Reich is recovering from surgery when Emily calls, so naturally she thinks she is hallucinating. Emily, famous worldwide for her paintings, and also for her schizophrenia, lives in Beijing. But that's not...

Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John

by Helen Trinca

Helen Trinca has captured the troubled life of Madeleine St John in this moving account of a remarkable writer. After the death of her mother when Madeleine was just twelve, she struggled to find her place in...

Murder with the Lot

by Sue Williams

A smart, sassy self-appointed private investigator, Cass Tuplin is unforgettable and the town of Rusty Bore will never be the same...

Cass Tuplin's takeaway isn't the last shop left in Rusty Bore. There's also...

Nothing But Gold: The Diggers of 1852

by Robyn Annear

Gold was discovered in Australia in 1851, and within a year the infant colony was transformed from a sump for convicts to a Land of Opportunity. Robyn Annear's lively history describes in detail life on the...

Death in Brunswick: Text Classics

by Boyd Oxlade & Shane Maloney

Down on his luck and hard up for cash, Carl works in the kitchen of a seedy rock 'n' roll joint in ethnically diverse Brunswick. The bouncers and bosses terrify him, he's desperately in love with a much younger...

A Woman of the Future: Text Classics

by David Ireland & Kate Jennings

An imaginative tour de force, A Woman of the Future is the story of the young life of Anthea Hunt-from conception to sexual awakening. It is controversial and brilliant, and unlike anything else in Australian...

The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke: Text Classics

by C.J. Dennis & Jack Thompson

The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, a comic verse novel, was first published in book form in 1915 and sold more than sixty thousand copies in nine editions within a year. By the mid-1970s nearly three hundred...

By The Book: A reader's guide to life

by Ramona Koval

Ramona's Koval's By the Book is about reading and living, and about the authors that have written themselves into her life: from Oliver Sacks to Oscar Wilde, Christina Stead to Grace Paley. This is a book for...

The Amateur Science of Love

by Craig Sherborne

Colin dreams of escaping his parents' farm for a grand stage career. He makes it to London and a disastrous audition before meeting Tilda. Tilda is beautiful, older, an artist and she brings his future with...

The Fringe Dwellers: Text Classics

by Nene Gare & Melissa Lucashenko

Set in a remote area of Western Australia, The Fringe Dwellers is the story of two part-Aboriginal sisters, Noonah and Trilby, who live in a family camp on the fringe of white society. Noonah accepts her position-but...

Selected Stories: Text Classics

by Katherine Mansfield & Emily Perkins

Here in one volume are twenty-three of the finest stories by Katherine Mansfield. Considered one of the finest short-story writers of the twentieth century, Mansfield was from a young age heavily influenced...

The Long Prospect: Text Classics

by Elizabeth Harrower & Fiona McGregor

Sharply observed, bitter and humorous, The Long Prospect is a story of life in an Australian industrial town. Growing up neglected in a seedy boarding house, Emily Lawrence befriends Max, a middle-aged scientist...

River Street

by Jim Hearn

Jimmy is a junkie in trouble. He is also a man with a plan and a way with the pans. He knows how to keep everyone else happy, but not himself. Hearn cooks up a challenging but satisfying feast with a side serve...

Intimate distance

by Katerina Cosgrove

Mara escapes Athens, but the fall-out of her love for two brothers, one the father of her child, follows her to Sydney. Cosgrove combines a portrait of strife-torn Greece with a tale of tortured love. This novella...