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Shortlisted for the 2007 Age Book of the Year Award. Murray Whelan's sixth adventure. Now pushing fifty, Murray is spinning his wheels in Parliament: a toothless cog in a stalled political machine. The millennium is coming but the prospect of Labor regaining power is utterly remote. But...

Winner, Colin Roderick Award, 2010. The Water Dreamers is a story for all Australians. For thousands of years, water has shaped where we live, how we struggle with each other and how we imagine our country. The first settlers' dreams of mighty inland rivers evaporated in the silent deserts...

Erudite, affectionate and witty, with more meanders and diversions than the river itself, Yarra is both a fascinating read and a fitting tribute to the 'noble stream'. In September 1835 surveyor John Wedge misheard the local Kulin identify the river as 'Yarrow Yarrow'. It was only some months...

Kathy Marks' essay 'Channelling Mannalargenna', about the survival and sense of self among Tasmania's aboriginal population, won the 2013 Walkley Award for Indigenous Affairs. A ground-breaking and topical edition of Griffith REVIEW that will highlight rapid changes in Tasmania, past and present,...

Detective Sergeant Harry Belltree, back on the job after a near-fatal confrontation with corrupt colleagues, has become a departmental embarrassment. The solution is a posting away from Sydney and a quiet life in Newcastle. Or maybe not so quiet. A body’s been found buried just offshore on...

By the Book is Ramona Koval's love letter to books and writing. What is it about reading that we love so much? Why do books make our lives so much richer? Ramona Koval's By the Book is about reading and living, and about the authors that have written themselves into her life: from Oliver...

A wonderful collection of twenty-four short stories that celebrate the history, culture and creativity of Tasmania. This handsome collection, the first to bring together the finest stories about Tasmania, includes works by notable early Australian writers, such as Marcus Clarke and Tasma; internationally...

Audrey, Katy and Adam have been friends since high school—a decade of sneaky cigarettes, drunken misadventures on Melbourne backstreets, heart-to-hearts, in-jokes. But now Katy has gone. And without her, Audrey is thrown off balance: everything she thought she knew, everything she believed...

Third in the Triptych collection: a trio of erotic novellas from the acclaimed author of Affection. Some couples find that as time passes they start to become like brother and sister. For Aaron and Katherine, it's more complicated. Transgressive, sardonic, lyrical, comic; irresistibly...

‘Garner is scrupulous, painstaking, and detailed, with sharp eyes and ears. She is everywhere at once, watching and listening, a recording angel at life’s secular apocalypses...her unillusioned eye makes her clarity compulsive.’  James Wood, New Yorker Helen Garner visits the morgue,...

A spellbinding meditation on art and life that travels from Eastern Europe to Northern Australia, from World War II to the present. Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, 2014 Elegiac and seductive, Belomor is the frontier where truth and invention meet, where fragments...

As economic, political and cultural power moves from North America and Europe to the Asia-Pacific, Australia is enjoying a new relationship with its neighbours. The shift of individuals and ideas across borders is giving rise to new voices in literature. Griffith Review's highly regarded second...

In this fictional tour de force Jay Griffiths, acclaimed author of Wild, creates a portrait of the artist Frida Kahlo, her devastating accident and her love for Diego Rivera, that is also a celebration of the spirit of poetry and the art of rebellion. This edition contains a preface by John...

‘Garner is a natural storyteller.’ James Wood, New Yorker This handsome edition of Helen Garner’s collected short fiction celebrates the seventy-fifth birthday of one of Australia’s most loved authors. These stories—that delve into the complexities of love and longing, of the pain,...