Once a wild gold mining town, Whitey's Fall is now a small, brooding community of close and distant relations. One by one, the young are leaving for the alluring uncertainties of the world beyond. The old stay on, steadfast in their pride and sense o...
Partially based on a never-solved triple murder committed in Australia in 1898, this novel, narrated by the bookish Patrick Murphy, chronicles the grisly events brought about when the self-enclosed Murphy family turns on itself...
Australia declares its independence but finds that, under the leadership of American Bernard Buchanan, troubles grow, and the seeds are sown to overthrow the new, oppressive regime in a speculative novel set in the near future...
The first novel in a trilogy by the winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Australia's most presitigious literary prize, who has been compared to Joyce, Faulkner and Marquez. Set in the early nineteenth century, it tells the story of a young English con...
Catherine Byrne, a nineteenth-century English missionary, travels to remote Australia with her prophetic husband and his band of eight female disciples and is led through severe hardship--shipwreck, disease, and death....
A man awakes to find himself in a strange alley. Not sure of what city he is in, or even his own name. As he moves to the sounds of the busy street, he only knows one thing. And that is that he has to find the answers. He has to find out who he is an...
"a triumph of daring and narrative skill, the more remarkable because it comes towards the end of a long career that has been marked by both patience and flair." Sydney Morning Herald Adam's life has been ruined by war . . . A veteran of the...
New York City, the early 1990s: the recession is in full swing and young people are squatting in abandoned buildings in the East Village while the homeless riot in Tompkins Square Park. The Internet is not part of daily life; the term dot-com has yet...