Xou Creative: 56 books

On 21 May 2009, after weeks of gruelling climbing, Mick Parker reached the summit of Makalu in the Himalaya, 8463 metres above sea level. He was now a veteran of the ‘8000ers club’ those elite adventurers who have scaled the world’s highest mountains. What’s more, as with all his climbs, he’d...

The flickering, faded footage shows the ruler of Palanpur’s summer house. On a terrace overlooking the lake, Joan tilts her head and turns slightly, with unconscious grace. She smiles enigmatically. It appears to be a scene of great happiness. But who can tell? In 1939, young Joan Falkiner’s spirited...

Objects thrown by invisible hands, showers of stones that pass through solid walls and ceilings, sudden, inexplicable fires, wall-shaking raps and thumps, creepy voices from nowhere … Mind-boggling poltergeist events have occurred all over the world for hundreds of years. While many books have been...

Seventeen-year-old Jed White lives with his mum and dad behind the Ampol service station in the small coastal town of Plenty. His girlfriend Chrissy works in the local fish cannery. When a foreign trawler crashes on the rocks one night, Jed and Chrissy figure from the rolls of stained bedding below deck...

Shortlisted for the Association for the Study of Australian Literature Gold Medal and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards Highly commended for the FAW Christina Stead Award, the Age Book of the Year and the National Book Council CUB Banjo Awards Adopted as a baby towards the end of World War II,...

Leopold Method’s Quarterly Edition is a cross between the world renowned UK football publication the Blizzard and Australian current affairs journal Quarterly Essay. Issue 1 covers regional football, coaching and development, Aboriginal football and a historical narrative on a migrant community football...

For forty years, until the day he died, Ivan Turgenev, one of the greatest novelists of Russia’s Golden Age, was passionately devoted to the diva Pauline Viardot. He followed her and her husband around Europe, even living with them amicably at times as part of their household. Yet as far as we know,...

Winner of the 2000 Ned Kelly Award for Non-Fiction A true crime classic, Huckstepp investigates the murder of the charismatic young woman who has fascinated Australians since she first appeared on national television to accuse NSW detectives of shooting her boyfriend in cold blood. Throughout her short...

Have you ever had a psychic dream or compelling feeling? Does an inner voice guide the decisions you make? Can our pets really be spiritual messengers? Is it true all children areborn psychic? Drawing on his remarkable life and years of experience, celebrity medium Mitchell Coombes explains how people...

“The story of Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA is the story of workers and people struggling against poverty and injustice across the globe. The work of APHEDA, as detailed here in this dramatic blow-by-blow account, can inspire new generations of activists, unionists and campaigners for global justice, in...

‘House in Gastouri for rent for 2 mths. Occupant travelling. Reasonable rent.’ In a village on the island of Corfu, alone in the cottage of a man he’s never met, a young Australian actor pieces together the strange life story of the Australian writer whose house he’s living in. As he explores...

Australia’s best-loved scientist is back with a revised and by popular demand digital edition of Doctor Karl’s Australia: Great Australian Facts & Firsts. Doctor Karl’s Australia: Great Australian Facts & Firsts brings together hundreds of scintillating, amazing and frequently funny stories about...

Set in a future where consumerism has made much of Earth into a junk heap, Peter Payne is a trashformer, a scavenger, a kid under the thumb of a world too brutal to stay human. When his one chance for love and to change his fate is violently torn away from him, he embarks on a quest to rebuild the object...

The kid’s in a state and if he doesn’t play his cards right that could read Islamic State. Terrorists want to recruit him but he’s too terrified to oblige. Instead he calls in Rainbow who finds himself in the thick of an affair that threatens to end in a bloodbath. Can Rainbow prevent it? How...