Sixty Lights is the captivating chronicle of Lucy Strange, an independent girl growing up in the Victorian world. From her childhood in Australia through to her adolescence in England and Bombay and finally to London, Lucy is fascinated by light and ...
Hi. I'm Rachel. I'm fifteen.
When we moved house (Dad's idea), I was so dreading starting my new school. Turns out, that was the least of my worries. Within weeks I'd:
1. Fallen out with my new best friend.
2. Found out I was adopted a...
Hi. This is Rachel again. After all the trouble I told you about in my first book 'Family Secrets', I was really looking forward to going back to Scarborough for the summer holidays. I was gonna see my gran and all my old friends and get away from al...
On a radiant day in Sydney, four adults converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbor Bridge. Crowds of tourists mix with the locals, enjoying the glorious surroundings and the play of light on water. But just as ...
After the trauma of finding out she was abandoned at birth and adopted, fifteen-year-old Rachel Brooks hoped for a relaxing summer back in Scarborough. Instead she faced death at the hands of her birth brother. Now back in Rotherham, her nemesis, Emm...
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 STELLA PRIZE
We travel to find ourselves; to run away from ourselves.
‘A Guide to Berlin’ is the name of a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1925, when he was a young man of 26, living in Berlin...
Winner of the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for fictionShortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2019The art historian Noah Glass, having just returned from a trip to Sicily, is discovered floating face down in the swimming pool at ...
Our Shadows tells the story of three generations of family living in Kalgoorlie, where gold was discovered in 1893 by an Irish-born prospector named Paddy Hannan, whose own history weaves in and out of this beguiling novel.Sisters Nell and Frances we...
Greece, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war. Amid the destruction, there are those who have come to the frontlines to heal: surgeons, ambulance drivers, nurses, orderlies and other volunteers. Four ...
At Cambridge University, in the summer of 1992, Australian student Helen is completing her thesis on Joseph Conrad. But she is distracted by a charming and dangerous lover, Justin, and by a ghost manuscript, her anti-thesis, which she has left on a t...