In this fresh and distinctive collection, Comfort Food offers a close inward focus and an exquisi...

A poignant memoir of love, loss, and literary life in Australia. Jacqueline Kent reflects on her ...

Images in an Antique Book: Dante in Shakespeare

Is there a place for personal beliefs in public life?Is a Catholic health minister in a fit posit...

Magnificently illustrated, this fascinating account chronicles the life of the Australian phenome...

A heartwarming verse novel about love, loss, and the extraordinary bond between humans and their ...

The Geography of Friendship

The much-anticipated new volume of poetry from the winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Bo...

The inspiring story of a Queensland woman who fought for recognition of nurses throughout her lon...

The wintamarra tree is a permanent reminder of the beginning of my life. The journey of healing a...

Ten-year-old Andy's peculiar little family is on the brink of collapse. His mother is eagerly awa...

The Promise

Set in the early 1980s, this novel follows would-be rock star Neil, weaving through his tentative...

A comprehensive and detailed analysis of the controversial debate about Australia's population nu...

An Open Book celebrates the power of poetry and reaffirms David Malouf as one of Australia's most...

A daunting descent into the tragedies of the lives in a small town community with a legacy of sha...

Eileen Chong's luminous poetry examines the histories--personal, familial, and cultural--that for...

A timely and compelling novel about the legacy of war, the power of art and the possibility of at...

A story of care, compassion, and community.

Blind from birth, Graeme Innes was blessed. Blessed because he had a family who refused to view h...

Celebrating the Wayside Chapel in Sydney's inner city, this beautifully illustrated book honors b...

The premise of this intriguing book is technical innovation and scientific development. It is abo...

In Danger

Behind the Legend: The Many Worlds of Charles Todd

DIGITAL DISRUPTION

Paint-up is the Aboriginal Australian tradition of decorating the bodies of dancers. Each body-pa...

An illuminating group biography of the fascinating women who contributed to the postwar era's lit...

A sweeping memoir of family, identity, and the search for home across generations.

The much anticipated second volume from an award-winning poet.

In 2003 David Smiedt traveled to South Africa and found a very different country from the one he ...

There's nothing like a blog post to inspire angry rants from anonymous readers: it's the talkback...

'Grace's table' is a moving and often funny novel about the power of memory and the family ritual...

From the mid-1830s until the end of the nineteenth century hundreds of plays were written and sta...

This exhaustive guide to Australian literature provides a comprehensive look at all works publish...

Originally published in 1978, God's Gentlemen remains the only detached and detailed historical a...

The Battle of Parramatta: 21 to 22 March 1797

'Extraction of Arrows' is Kathryn Lomer s first collection of poetry. Divided into three parts, t...

Growing up on the west coast of Queensland's Cape York Peninsula in the 1970s and 1980s, Fiona Wi...

At the closely guarded and secretive military facility, Pine Gap in Australia's Northern Territor...

From grass roots activism to national politics and international human rights advocacy, Margaret ...

The Trespassers

Twenty-five years later, Wilson's nephew Bill decides to tell some of the stories hidden beneath ...

An inventive and incandescent collection from an award-winning Australian poet.

Traumata

A sure-footed collection that won the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize in 2006, these...

'At school I have lots of friends. I have so many friends that sometimes I don't know who to play...

Exploring the history of the Wiradjuri people, the conflict of colonization, their mythologies, a...

A visionary gothic novel exploring dark secrets and moral ambiguity in early 20th century Australia.