Allen & Unwin
Currawalli Street
Currawalli Street is an average rural Australian street. It has orderly numbered homes with normal people who uniquely blend into…
Utopian Man
Lang’s award-winning debut is a delight, as a novel, as biography, and as history. Based on the life of Edward…
A Prayer for Blue Delaney
1950s Australia. Colm McCabe is one of thousands of children torn from their families in the U.K. and sent ‘for…
The Sacrifice
Editors' choice
In the hot Australian summer of 1939, young factory manager Robert Wells and his friends are still trying to work…
Little People
This is a Gothic novel set in Australia. Unbelievable! –Australia must be the least Gothic country on earth, but here…
Australians: Eureka to the Diggers
This is the second part of a two-part history of a nation which began as a British colony. Keneally is…
Fire & Song: The Story of Luis de Carvajal and the Mexican Inquisition
One thinks of the Inquisition as a European phenomenon, but as Anna Lanyon shows in this highly readable account of…
Deception
In this many-layered story, Meehan (The Salt of Broken Tears) takes the reader from the Paris of the French Revolution…
The Devil & Maria d’Avalos
The year is 1590; the setting rich with art, magnificent architecture, lavish costumes. Yet all is not right in Denmark……
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