The Readings

Author: Eleanor Limprecht Alice is only nine years old in 1910 when she is sent to the feared Coast Hospital lazaret at Little Bay in Sydney, a...

Author: Helen Hagemann The Ozone Café, a historical novel with three separate owners, is about the café’s demise through council corruption....

Author: Mawunyo Gbogbo Mawunyo Gbogbo is a church-going African Australian girl growing up in the sleepy mining town of Muswellbrook, NSW. At home,...

Author: Warren Ward Lovers of Philosophy explores the love lives of seven philosophers, and how their most intimate experiences came to shape their...

Author: Dinuka McKenzie In Northern New South Wales, heavily pregnant and a week away from maternity leave, Detective Sergeant Kate Miles is...

Author: Josh Kemp Garreth Hoyle is a true crime writer whose destructive love affair with hallucinogenic drugs has sent him searching for ghosts in...

Author: Sally Bothroyd Brick Brown has problems: she hates her day job, and her beloved Uncle Baz has gone missing. Although a bartender by trade,...

Author: Linda Jaivin From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, military strategy, aesthetics...

Author: Lee Kofman The Writer Laid Bare is a book for everyone who loves the craft of good writing. Be they a voracious reader wanting to know more...

Author: Lynn Garlick As a social worker, Lynn supports families in trouble, only to find that her own family is unravelling. Binding is an enjoyable...

Author: Maryam Master Anahita Rosalind Ghorban-Galaszczuk (yes, that really is her name but you can call her Ana) is discovering that life is...

Author: Fiona Kelly McGregor Buried Not Dead is a collection of essays on art, literature and performance, sexuality, activism and the life of the...

Author: Patti Miller Friendships are among the most important relationships in our lives, often outlasting love affairs, marriages, even, at times,...

Author: Micheál Lovett Boudicca Moriarty never thought she would become a child warrior or that she would have to fight to save her mother's life....

Author: Su-May Tan Two young boys dream of greener pastures in a Western country. A teenage boy falls in love with his best friend’s mother. An...

Author: Anwen Crawford No Document is an elegy for a friendship and artistic partnership cut short by death. The memory of this collaboration...

Author: Grace Karskens A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area, which was on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River....

Author:Eugen Bacon Danged Black Thing is an extraordinary collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, patriarchy and...

Author: Bronwyn Alcock The Currowan fire – ignited by a lightning strike in a remote forest and growing to engulf the New South Wales South Coast –...

Author:Heather Taylor-Johnson Imagine if six famous protagonists transcended chronological and geographical barriers to come together through a...

Author: William Lane Alice is only nine years old in 1910 when she is sent to the feared Coast Hospital lazaret at Little Bay in Sydney, a veritable...