'This profoundly moving story is beautifully told by Rintoul without sentimentality . . . [but] with sympathy, truthfulness and restraint. In Rintoul, Lowitja O'Donoghue has found the biographer she (and we) deserve.' - Robert Manne, Sydney Morning HeraldI am sometimes identified as one of the 'success stories' of the policies of removal of Aboriginal children. But for much of my childhood I was deeply unhappy. I feel I had been deprived of love and the ability to love...

A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A people obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure.Winner of the Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the YearShortlisted for the BookPeople Non Fiction Book of the Year 2023When Richard Fidler came across the account of Ibn Fadlan - a tenth-century Arab diplomat who travelled all th...

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023WINNER OF THE 2024 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE * SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN PO****ST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 * SHORTLISTED FOR THE STREGA EUROPEAN PRIZE * SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICEAN AMAZON TOP 10 BOOK OF DECEMBER 2023A Bo...

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from international bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies, Trent Dalton.WINNER 2024 ABIA BOOK LITERARY FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR 2023 DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2024 INDIE BOOK AWARDS, 2024 BOOKPEOPLE FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR and ...

The yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the language of the Wiradjuri yield is the things you give to, the movement, the space between things: baayanha.Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was eve...

An unputdownable standalone thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands.In the desolate outback town of Finnigans Gap, police struggle to maintain law and order. Thieves pillage opal mines, religious fanatics recruit vulnerable young people and billionaires do as they please.Then an opal miner is found crucified and left to rot down his mine. Nothing about the miner's death is straightforward, not even who found the body. Sydney homicide det...

Spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark and tender, full of pathos, fury and wit, Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason is a dazzling, distinctive novel from a boldly talented writer - now an instant Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Women's Prize.'Sorrow and Bliss is a brilliantly faceted and extremely funny book about depression that engulfed me in the way I'm always hoping to be to be engulfed by novels. While I was reading it, I...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FOR 2023At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother having vanished into the crowds.A year on, Kim Gillespie's absence casts a long shadow as her friends and loved ones gather deep in the heart of South Australian wine country to welcome a new addition to the family.Aaron Falk, federal investigator, is joining the celebrations. But as he soaks up life in the lush vall...

FROM THE MULTI-AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF BURIAL RITESGrowing up in the village of Kay in Prussia, 1836, Hanne Nussbaum would rather run wild in the forest thanconform to the limitations of womanhood. Hanne is friendless and misunderstood ... until she meets Thea.When Hanne and her family are forced to flee religious persecution, they board a crowded, disease-riddled shipbound for the colony of South Australia. In the face of brutal hard...

⭐ The sensational Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller ⭐ ⭐ Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction**, shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and a finalist for a Hugo Award** ⭐ 'The hit of the year' GuardianA civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry gathering 'expats' from across history to test whether time-travel is feasible.Her...

**SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIESFrom the international bestselling author of The Dry with new novel Exiles out now.**Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences.The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal community he once called home.Kieran's parents are struggling in a town where fortunes are forged by the sea. Between them ...

Now a major TV series The Sunday Times bestseller Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the Booker Prize‘It is a book not read, but lived’ Telegraph‘Mantel has taken us to the dark heart of history … and what a show’ The Times‘If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?’The Mirror & the Light begins after the death of Anne Boleyn. As her...