Translated by Penny Hueston

Naor, a young filmmaker, is driving with his mother. He tells her about being in Tel Aviv after a recent evacuation. Everyone else has fled, except for Naor and Yaël, his artist girlfriend, and Saba, his grandfather, who is a writer. The occasional missile explodes nearby. But Saba refuses to leave the place he loves. And Yaël...

Translated by Imogen Taylor

Beside Myself is the disturbing and exhilarating story of a family across four generations. At its heart is one woman’s search for her twin brother.

When Anton goes missing and the only clue is a postcard sent from Istanbul, Alissa leaves her life in Berlin to find him. Without her twin, the sharer of her memories and the mirror...

Kipp Kindle, Tobias Treachery and Cymphany Chan live in Huggabie Falls, the weirdest town on Earth, so weirdness is pretty normal for them. But then unbelievably scary things start to happen. Suddenly everyone is being confronted by their worst fears (giant Brussells sprouts, terrifying teddy bears and huge spiders are just the beginning). But where did all...

When a mummified Viking corpse is discovered on Greenland ice sheet, journalist Matthew Cave is sent out to report on the finding. The next day, the mummy has disappeared. The body of the police guard lies on the ice naked and flayed, echoing a gruesome series of unsolved murders from many years earlier. With no faith in the police, the only person Matthew...

Dr Jeremy Brown, a veteran ER doctor, explores the troubling, terrifying, and complex history of the flu virus, from the surprising origins of the 1918 flu that killed millions, to vexing questions such as: are we prepared for the next epidemic, should you get a flu shot, and how close are we to finding a cure?

While influenza is now often thought of as a...

Emcke, a former war correspondent, turns her reporter’s eye to her own experiences, exploring questions about identity, sexuality and love. Emcke draws back the veil on how we experience desire, no matter what our sexual orientation. What if, instead of discovering our sexuality only once, during puberty, we discover it again later—and then again, after...

Introduction by Michael Sala

Two novellas about the deep connections we forge with the people we love, and the pain of breaking those connections.

In Honour, Kathleen and Frank are amicably separated, in contact through shared parenting of their young daughter, Flo. But when Frank finds a new partner and wants a divorce, Kathleen is hurt. And Flo...

‘In Radiant Shimmering Light, @SarahSeleckyWS nails the Perfect-Yourself 35-43 gen in all of its hopeful internet-brand-conscious pyramid-scheming empowering goddessiness. Social satire + cultural insight whipped into a yummy froth! You’ll laugh + shed a tiny precious tear, my petals!'—@MargaretAtwood

‘A funny, tender, gimlet-eyed dive into the cult of...

"Wonderfully weird and lots of fun!" —Andy Griffiths, author of theTreehouse books

Kipp Kindle always knew his family were weird. In fact they were probably the weirdest family on Earth. It was just as well they lived in the town of Huggabie Falls, because Huggabie Falls was the weirdest place on Earth. On top of all the usual weird things that happened in...

One minute my wife was there. In a flash she was gone. In the ten months of Kerryn’s dying, I prepared myself for everything except for her death. Now that she is gone, I am desperate to know her as I never knew her.

Kerryn Baker lived for only ten months after her shock cancer diagnosis. Before she died, she told her historian husband to write about...

Translated by Penny Hueston

In the near future, a woman is writing in the depths of a forest. She’s cold. Her body is falling apart, as is the world around her. She’s lost the use of one eye; she’s down to one kidney, one lung. Before, in the city, she was a psychotherapist, treating patients who had suffered trauma, in particular a man, “the...

"A fast, twisty read for fans of Paula Hawkins and Gillian Flynn." —Booklist on The Trap

"The tables turn and turn again, while the reader's trust in the narrator's credibility is tested to the max." —Sydney Morning Herald on The Trap

"Raabe cleverly sets up her story, inserting twists and red herrings so that the reader is kept guessing until the final...

"A remarkable tale of Holocaust survival, love and genealogical sleuthing."—Books + Publishing

"Lyrical, impassioned and culturally rich."—Saturday Paper

"As in Sebald's prose narratives, Presser's novel inhabits and the dynamic region between fiction and non-fiction."—Australian Book Review

"A heartfelt and original attempt to bridge the ever-growing gaps...

"Shows Dekkers once again to be in possession of a golden pen." —New Scientist

A witty, fascinating look at something we generally prefer not to look too closely at.

We are very discreet. We disappear into a private room, perform the task, flush, wash, and reappear as if nothing happened. Of course, hygiene is necessary—some faecal bacteria, if re-ingested...

Long listed for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize

Taiwan Literary Award, 2015 (Taiwan)
China Times Open Book Award (Six-time winner, including 2015) (Taiwan)
Eslite Bookseller Award for Author of the Year, 2015 (Taiwan)
Dream of the Red Chamber Award, Judge Recommendation 2016 (Hong Kong)
UDN Grand Literary Award, 2016...

Translated by Imogen Taylor

A nuanced and funny novel about losing sight of your self amidst the demands of parenting.

The violent outbursts and unpredictable behavior of 11yo Helli have put an end to her mother’s dream of continuing her career. Katharina holds on to her sanity by making lists for herself –...

A chilling debut thriller in the vein of Dexter and The Talented Mr Ripley.

Martin Reese has a hobby: he digs up murder victims.
He buys stolen police files on serial killers, and uses them to find and dig up missing bodies. Calls in the results anonymously, taunting the police for their failure to do their job.

Detective Sandra Whittal takes that a...

This handsome hardback 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, darkness and joy of life—are all told with her characteristic sharpness of observation, honesty and humor. Each one a...