Desperate to get away from her family’s expectations of success in love and in work, Dr Beth Harding leaves Sydney behind and takes a locum job at Iron Junction – a mining town in the distant Pilbara. With the...

GOLD. THEFT. MURDER. A ROAD TRIP TO DIE FOR. ‘An unrelenting page-turner’ CHRIS WHITAKER, author of WE BEGIN AT THE END ‘Thrilling . . . It left me breathless’ ALEX MARWOOD, author of THE WICKED GIRLS ‘Relevant, powerful and...

“Outback noir has a new star” Mark Sanderson, The Times With DS Manolis on leave in Greece, Senior Constable Sparrow receives a phone call from a man who wants to turn himself in. Bob is sixty-five years old, confined...

Perth, Australia, towards the end of WW2.The Lambs and the Pickles are forced by dint of circumstance to share a run down house on Cloudstreet. Each member has his/her story to tell in lovely rendered detail and everyday experience....

A powerful and triumphant novel concerned with the reclaiming of personal and cultural history. The narrator sets out to trace his connection to family and country through the minefield of post colonial Aboriginal history. This writer has the scope...

It is 1956, and twelve-year old Gin has arrived at the family farm, ‘Grasswood’, in the South West of Western Australia. She has been left in the care of her lively, idiosyncratic aunt, Attie, while her mother, an English...

‘Ford laid his fingertips gently on the cut in his shoulder where the bullet had clipped him. His best chance would be to hitch a ride south at the first opportunity, before the police started looking for him. He...

Summer, 1965. In the fictional town of Corrigan, WA. Late one night, thirteen-year-old Charlie Bucktin is startled by a knock on his window. His visitor is Jasper Jones. Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasper is intriguing. And he needs Charlie’s...

On childhood holidays to the western coast, Tim Winton’s days followed a joyous rhythm. In the mornings, the sun and surf kept him outside, in the water. In the afternoons, as the horizon wobbled with mirages and the wind...

Seeking asylum from the wreckage of her life, Yvette Grimm arrives in Australia on a holiday visa. She applies for permanent residency with no hope of success. Resisting advice that she marry to stay in the country, Yvette invests...