AustLit

'The Airways is Jennifer Mills’ third novel and ranges from Sydney to Beijing as it explores themes of infection and the banality of violence.' 

The new thriller from the award-winning author of Call Me Evie and In the Clearing has a disturbing premise.

'Cassandra Austin’s second novel is a page-turner that weaves together themes of motherhood and family secrets.'

'The deceptions in Suzanne Leal’s third novel span World War II Czechoslovakia and the Holocaust to present-day Sydney.' 

'Kim Kelly’s newest novel is a story of love, ambition and prejudice in the medical world.'

'Adrian McKinty has won multiple awards for his crime novels featuring Belfast detective Sean Duffy. With The Chain he moves into new territory, producing a flat-out thriller.' (Introduction)

'Kim Kelly’s Sunshine, set in the aftermath of the First World War, offers hope amid loss and despair.'

'The struggle over the building of  the Opera House is part of Australia’s ongoing quest for a national identity and the country’s truncated sense of itself at this time resonates through Shell.' (Introduction)

'This Stella Prize-winning novel from Helen Rose is a masterpiece of introspection. Passages linger in the mind; her evocative prose demands that we stop and ask What would I do?' (Introduction)

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'An Australian Pride and Prejudice? This love story spans race and class in colonial Australia.

'In Kim Kelly’s new novel, her seventh, a simple scaffold of romantic historical fiction allows for a more sophisticated commentary on race, privilege and the place of women.'  (Introduction)

'Burke writes about Louisiana, McKinty about Belfast, but these two crime writers have more in common than you might think.'

'Michael Giacometti is skilled in the short form – with much to excite, to heighten our senses, before a swift close. Running through many of the stories in this collection is discovery and the yearning, futility and fallout that it brings. The act of discovery, the process of searching, can be driven by boastful pride or by reflection. Giacometti takes his readers on an arc of exploration, from the epic – journeys into Australia’s deserts and across the Southern Pacific ocean at the time of the Napoleonic Wars – to looking for answers inside ourselves.' (Introduction)