General & literary fiction Books

*Shortlisted for the Small Press Network 2021 Book of the Year Award*The Tiniest House of Time is more than a family saga, ranging across continents and decades seamlessly, from colonial Burma in the 1930s to nationalist Malaysia in the 1990s and beyond,...

In the story that first established the monstrous cosmic terrors of his Mythos, writer H. P. Lovecraft said, "We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity..." Which makes it all the more fitting that the adepts of...

Australia: the land where everything wants to kill you. A continent filled with some of the deadliest animals in the world. From creepy-crawlies to crocodiles, you'll have plenty to fear in this anthology penned by Australian authors. Killer...

An agency that sends social workers into the homes of grieving families to impersonate dead loved ones... The kind old woman who saved a teenager's life but now finds herself haunted by the weight of a cheated suicide... And the daughter of a...

You burn your bridgesgoing into a foreign forestDorothy PorterThree people form an unlikely but spirited connection.Adrian is a renowned scholar, an expert on death in the modern age whose life has stalled.Kezi, a young and passionate artist, has been...

Forty-year-old Alice Kaczmarek has lost so much. She wants a baby, but her husband Daniel is serving a life sentence, accused of orchestrating an accident on Sydney's new transport system. When T, the subject of medical experimentation, crawls up the...

Set between the wars, A Cold Season is rich in voice, character and landscape.It follows the story of fourteen-year-old Beth, who is also the narrator. Beth's brother Sam and her father Owens have gone missing in a freak winter storm. In a small house in...

As a young girl in Sydney, Rachel pays more attention than she perhaps should to a cartoon character who accesses different personas on separate adventures each time he goes into the changing room of a London costume shop. Then at an opportune moment the...

An exhilarating and unforgettable love song for our world. Heartbroken and in fear for his life, corporate whistle blower, Jagger Eckerman, escapes to hide out in a remote cave, but kick-arse radical, Nia Moretti, is furious a 'capitalist suit' has taken...

The scar on the back of Sweeney's head is shaped like an S. He is obsessed with the beauty of bicycles, which he steals after painting his face in astonishing shapes and patterns.Asha Sen is the psychiatrist he begins to see for sessions. Then...

Winner of the Unpublished Manuscript Prize, Tasmanian Premier's Literary Awards Brothers Geo and Wes are testing their relationship now that their parents have passed away. Geo and Wes rarely agree on anything, especially not the sale of the Hobart...

Set in the near future during a time of plummeting fish stocks, toxic algae blooms and jellyfish swarms The Good Captain follows a group of radical environmentalists committed to a mission of extreme civil disobedience against the powers threatening to...

Orphan Rock is a complex and richly detailed story of secrets and heartbreak that will take you from the back streets of Sydney's slums to the wide avenues of the City of Lights.The late 1800s was a time when women were meant to know their place. But...

She wanted to photograph time: everything lost to time, and everything returned by it.Anna grows up in a third-storey unit in Parramatta with her adoptive Russian mother Sophia. When her teacher Miss Glass gives her a Box Brownie camera, small acts of...

These are the last days of 1999. At St Peter's Basilica in Rome, as the world waits for the new millennium, Lucy, a young Australian woman looks up at Michelangelo's Piet behind its pane of bullet-proof glass; a red kabbalah string circles her wrist...

The Pines, an outer Melbourne suburb down on its luck. A country in the grip of recession.Experienced collector Ron senses new possibilities: swift evictions provide hard-rubbish to scour and garage-sales have doubled. There's only one problem: since...

Fromthe Stella shortlisted author of Poum and Alexandre, this is aheartwarming novel about longing, absence and the people we unexpectedly cometo love.Aftermany years spent living in Seoul, a young man called Harold drifts back toAustralia and...

*Longlisted for the 2020 Davitt Awards: Adult Crime*Keen to escape the pressures of city life, Marsali Swift and her husband William are drawn to Listowel, a glorious historic mansion in the seemingly tranquil small town of Muckleton. There is time to...

*Winner of the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing*Middle-class,clever and white, Nick is a child of privilege while his best friend Andie isthe daughter of Indo-Chinese refugees. Despite their very...

Fascinated by caves and digging holes since childhood,Manfred discovers a path through to another realm via a Neolithic copper mineat Mount Gabriel in Schull, Ireland. The world of Hollow Earth, while noUtopia, is a sophisticated civilisation. Its...

On the morning of her wedding, 24-year-old BethShaw drives down the peninsula to the Portsea Hotel. She is uneasy and confusedbecause she has just learnt something devastating about her fianc, Jordan,that completely changes her view of him.As Beth's...

Castadrift by loss, Monica Sparrow is marooned in her semi in Neasden, theso-called 'loneliest village in London', her home stuffed with nothing sheneeds. Is it time for her to finally get her house in order? Can she isolatewhat really matters, and clear...

Shortlisted for Most Underrated Book Award 2019'Cristina and his work evoke Franz Kafka and Arshile Gorky. This novel is an astute exploration of the nature of identity.' - Janette Turner HospitalIt's the 90s. Silvio Portelli returns to Melbourne after...

Catherine Bell, a famous concert pianist, is struggling  to hold on to her career in a competitive international arena that spans the classical music capitals of the world. After a disastrous show in Copenhagen, Cathy is about to attempt her...

In 1896 Louis and his father, seduced by the allure of North Africa, travel to Algeria in search of a better life. There, Louis befriends Imez, a Berber boy, and the two become firm friends. They grow and prosper, and become like...

Afresh and sparkling book that strikes deep notes as it flows along.' HelenGarner'Like the suburb it depicts, On Brunswick Ground teems with lives at once familiar and strange, all beautifully lit by the glint and warmth of Saint...

It is 1997 in San Francisco and Simon and Sarah have been sent on a quest to see America: theymust stand at least once in every 25-foot square of the country. Decades later, in an Australian citythat has fallen on hard times, Caddy is camped by the...

From Las Vegas to Melbourne, from Europe to a doomed airplane in mid-flight, from a seedy motel to the local bookstore, the true setting of these stories is the human heart. A son spends the day at work having left his father dying on the kitchen floor,...

Michael and MajorieMadigan refuse to be interviewed by biographer Sinclair Hughes  for his new book Inside the Lion's Den: The Literary Life of Gilbert Madigan. Thisis not surprising as Gilbert is Marjorie's ex- husband and Michael's...

'A powerful and mesmerising voyage into darkness. Atlantic Black creates an indelible portrait of humanity sailing towards war.' ~ Heather Rose, Winner of the 2017 Stella PrizeIn this haunting new novel, Katerina Klova and her mother are...

'Do Ilook strange?'Thesewere his last recorded words. That night Sosimo kissed his hands and laid themacross his breast, knitting his fingers together like flowers. The next morningthe household watched his coffin, held aloft by a dozen brown hands,...

'This is the shape-shifting detail of life, the tiny horrible and beautiful things we don't notice until fever or trauma stop us in our tracks; Lane has pulled them from the depths of our psyche and written them into a story of family...

A unique experience. A novel in 'spindle' sonnets. A drama. An impassioned cry for a beautiful and stolen world under threat. A 'protester' who has been living in a shallow cave in the limestone cliff in front of Bathers Beach under the colonial Round...

Mila can't shake her grief for the life she thought she'd have. She's broke, childless, and single. But her developing relationship with Josh, a 'sugar baby', opens her eyes to new possibilities.Then Josh goes missing on a trip to Europe a presumed...

*Shortlisted for the TAG Hungerford Manuscript Award 2018**Shortlisted for the International Chaffinch Press Manuscript Award (Ireland)*Chilling to read, cut with powerful energy and strong feeling.T or Timothy lives on the economic margins, both using...

Never Look Desperate is Sedaris meets Fleabag, a tragi-comedy romance set in Melbourne 2023. It features cremation bling, pineapple underwear, grief and vaccinated cruise ships. The central characters Bernard, Goldie and Minh are everything TED Talks...

The Crying Room movingly explores family boundaries and stories, finding original ways to express the contradictory experience of belonging to a family, and being an individual at the same time.When Bernie Rodgers and her husband move to the coastal town...

In the one tumultuous day, Ch'anzu loses hir job and finds wife Scarlet in bed with a stranger. As life unexpectedly spirals out of control, Ch'anzu turns to hir charismatic Aunt Ma for comfort and wisdom, and makes the bold move to work on a project in...

From the winner of the Russell Prize for Humour Writing. David Cohen's most wryly humorous and disturbing work of fiction yet.A public memorial's name is changed to avoid any mention of the tragedy it has been set up to commemorate. Two...

Set in both Prague and Melbourne, Call Me Marlowe captures a man's search for his motherland in the hope of making sense of his life.With a delicate touch, the novel embodies the nature of trauma - both personal and political - in people's lives. Harold...

'You gonna sell your soul for a fist full of diamonds?'David's family think he's come home for the anniversary of his Dad's death. But he's got another reason to return home he's working to broker a deal with a mining company to dig up his own sacred...

JONO: 'Sometimes it feels like...' [Pause]. 'I don't fit in at home! I'm tryin' to juggle two worlds here and if you don't tell me things, it gets easier and easier to keep my life at camp separate to my life at home.'FIFO Fit In or F**k Off! explores...

'I can talk for as long as you like, no problem. You'll just have to tell me when to stop. How far back do you want to take it?'Tell is a probing and compelling examination of the ways in which we make stories of our own lives and of other people's...

The new novel from the author of The Magpie Wing, longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award.It's 2022 and Helen is starting again. Newly single, adrift in a hostile rental market, she finds a four-bedroom house flanked by apartment blocks that...