Robert Crofts, a young Englishman, arrives in Australia in the 1950s, determined to inhabit the outback. After five years of life on the land, he makes his way to Melbourne where, living in a boarding...

Landscape of Farewell is the story of Max Otto, an elderly German academic. After the death of his much-loved wife and his recognition that he will never write the great study of history that was to be...

Autumn Laing seduces Pat Donlon with her lust for life and art. In doing so she not only compromises the trusting love she has with her husband, Arthur, she also steals the future from Pat's young and...

What is true for one relationship, for one painting, is not true for another... each possesses its own strange inevitability that resists us and we can never finally know what it is we are doing until...

Betrayed by her husband, Annabelle Beck retreats from Melbourne to her old family home in tropical North Queensland where she meets Bo Rennie, one of the Jangga tribe. Intrigued by Bo's claim that he...

'His beauty and aloofness disturbed the equilibrium of the Rankin family...The stockman for a long time offered a resistance to the efforts of the members of the family to involve him in their lives....

A sensuously written, peculiar novel about the relationship between a painter and his subject.A narrow, vertical painting, tightly enclosing the scene. Her pale arm and her pale thigh. Viewed at a diagonal...

Steven Muir, August Spiess and his daughter Gertrude, and Lang Tzu all acknowledge a restless sense of cultural displacement, an ambivalence in their relations with the culture of European Australia....

Based on the lives of real people in Somerset on the borders of Exmoor, Miller tells his own story of a young labourer swept up in the adventure of riding second horse in a west country stag hunt. Finding...

From one of Australia's greatest novelists comes this fine collection, a storyteller's journey. These short stories and essays, written over the last forty years, comprise an insightful and intelligent...

Winner of the 2011 Christina Stead Prize for FictionWinner of The Age Book of the YearWinner of thePeople's Choice Award at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Strangers did not, as a rule, find their...

Winner of the 2001 Christina Stead Prize for FictionFrom the Author of Miles Franklin Literary Award and Commonwealth Writers' Prize Winner With university behind her, Emily Stanton finds herself...

WINNER OF THE 2014 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE 2014 IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARDS AND THESHORTLISTED FOR THE...

« C’est ici que tout a commencé il y a cinquante-trois ans. » C’est ici, dans la moiteur des environs de Melbourne, qu’Autumn Laing, née Gabrielle Louise Ballard, connut l’unique passion de son existence....

Robert Blewitt, alias Bobby Blue, a vingt ans lorsqu’il rejoint Daniel Collins au sein de la police de Mount Hay, dans l’état du Queensland, Australie. Il fait alors la connaissance d’Esme, l’épouse de...