The Slap is a novel about the relationships between children and adults, and the new Australian multicultural middle-class from the controversial cult author of Loaded and Dead Europe.
A portrait of life in the newly established coastal town of Desperance centres on the powerful Phantom family, whose members are are the leaders of the Pricklebush people. Winner of Miles Franklin Literary Award 2007.; W ...
A contemporary fable, this book shows that when life seems dull and cruel, it is the power of the natural world, and our ability to imagine it, that can bring the wonder back into living. In the village of Stellanuova in ...
Sixty Lights is the captivating chronicle of Lucy Strange, an independent girl growing up in the Victorian world. From her childhood in Australia through to her adolescence in England and Bombay and finally to London, Lu ...
Once a upon a time that was called 1828, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a white convict who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that love is not safe. From the author of The sound of One ...
