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THE HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR PICK, EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE*'Clever, satisfying, impossible to put down and gloriously inventive. It's fantastic' STUART TURTONSIX WRITERS. FIVE DETECTIVES. FOUR DAYS. THREE WEAPONS. TWO MURDERS. ONE TRAIN . . .When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelai...

Black sheep - there's one in every family . . . Orphaned at sixteen, James Wakefield was determined to be a gun shearer like his father. Now he's killed twice, changed his name, and is on the run from the law. He had his reasons for both murders, and he felt no joy in taking life ... Or did he? Ben McKinnon, meanwhile, is heir to the vast Glenfinnan sheep property near Goulburn, New South Wales. He too has a secret that, if ever revealed, woul...

Anna Winter, a young woman unwittingly caught up inside a ring of sophisticated Nazi spies, chooses to flee Germany in 1933, taking her precious doll collection with her as she sets sail for Australia. Soon after her arrival she finds herself in a remote outback town, working as a nanny for the family of Tom O' Hara, owner of the Birdum Hotel. Doubling up as the local bartender and cook, Anna hides her past from the world, until a chance encou...

Intimate, beautiful, unsparing and profound' Anna FunderWho loves longer?Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows.By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair, through 1930s nuclear physics, to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events re...

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I used to have this line I saved and brought out for grant applications and writers festivals - that having been Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Esther Greenwood all my life, my writing was an opportunity for the reader to have to be me.Irreverent, witty and wise, But the Girl is a coming-of-age story about not wanting to leave your family behindGirl was born on the very day her parents and grandmother immigrated from Malaysia to Australia. The s...

Set between rural Australia and London, The Echoes is a story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future'A book that will stay with you for ever' OBSERVERMax didn't believe in an afterlife. Until he died. Now, as a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he remains, he watches his girlfriend Hannah lost in grief in the flat they shared and begins to realise how much of her life was invisible to him.In the weeks and months before...

How do you catch a killer, when all your suspects know how to get away with murder?*PRE-ORDER NOW! AN INVENTIVE, HILARIOUS AND ORIGINAL NEW THRILLER FROM THE WRITER OF EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE, FOR FANS OF KNIVES OUT AND RICHARD OSMAN*When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my seco...

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Frank Moorhouse was legendary in Australian literary and cultural life, the author of a huge and diverse body of work - essays, short stories, journalism, scripts, the iconic Edith Trilogy - an unapologetic activist, intellectual, libertarian and champion of freedom of speech and sexual self determination. Though he lived his life publicly, his private stories have not been shared, the many paths he forged left unexamined, until now. Matthew L...

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Passion pieces from the next generation of Australian longform journalists. Ten Australian writers, mentored by ten experienced Australian journalists developed stories that they new needed to be shared. Claire Keenan mentored by Amanda Hooton from GW, explores Catholicism in rural Australia, sexual abuse and why she is no longer a Catholic. Dan Jervis-Bardy mentored by legendary Michael Brissenden from the ABC, looks at the death of the Sudan...

Discover la dolce vita with P Mami's nine principles for a pleasure-filled, colourful life of love, creativity - and pasta. Jenna Holmes, known affectionately by her community as P Mami, has cultivated a lifestyle centred around extracting the most pleasure from the simplest of things. The ones readily available to us if we just open our eyes: a perfectly juicy peach, an ocean swim on a hot day, a salted margarita rim, a hyena laugh with a fri...

Life's tricky, cooking doesn't have to be. Nat's here to take the nonsense out of the kitchen with Smash Hits Recipes. Featuring Nat's most popular, tried-and-true dishes and some all-new hit singles, this special hardback collection is a sweary best mate for your kitchen. There are heaps of savory power moves that'll sort your dinner any night of the week, and some sweet sh*t too. Look out for Zero F*cks Mac 'n' Cheese, Crowd Goes Mild Curry,...

Emmett Brown was a charming young man who quoted poetry and read to his wife and young family from the great novels of the world. But failed efforts to win a fortune at the racetracks turned Emmett into a broken down gambling drunk who terrorized his wife and children. Starting at Emmett's funeral and reflecting back, the two eldest Brown children--Louise and Rob--recount the rise and fall of their family. Each of Emmett's children must addres...

THE HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR PICK, EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE*'Clever, satisfying, impossible to put down and gloriously inventive. It's fantastic' STUART TURTONSIX WRITERS. FIVE DETECTIVES. FOUR DAYS. THREE WEAPONS. TWO MURDERS. ONE TRAIN . . .When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelai...

From the author of the bestselling Cutters End and Stone Town, a captivating new crime novel featuring Detective Mark Ariti. Old loyalties and decades-long feuds rise to the surface in this stunning crime novel, set in a spectacular Australian landscape known for its jagged cliffs and hidden caves. Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti has taken a few days' holiday in Broken Bay at precisely the wrong time. The small fishing town on South Australia's ...

Comedian Oliver Twist was four years old when he and his family fled the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda for Malawi, their exile for the next fourteen years. Twist has turned the turmoil he and his family endured into a thrilling adventure of a hero's journey. A natural born storyteller, propelled from the cold alleys of a Malawian refugee camp to the warm spotlight of the Australian stage, he vividly describes what it's like to leave your hom...

A vibrant and uplifting collection of comic illustrations about LGBTQ+ life, for the community and beyond, from the creator of the online sensation @queeeerchameleon that's loved by millions. Queer Chameleon and Friends reminds us that all experiences are valid, empowers us to accept and express our identities and those of others, and reassures us that even in challenging moments along the way, there's light and humor to be found. In this colo...