Evocative, taut and wryly funny, this stunning novel is about faith and lies, the spirit and the flesh'The Healing Party succeeds in the aim all novels share: it suggests new ways of seeing.' --The MonthlyEstranged from her family, Natasha is making a life for herself in Darwin when her sister calls with bad news. Their mother is ill, with only a few months to live. Confused and conflicted, Natasha returns home. But her father, an evangeli...

What ails the NDIS?Caring or careless? In this powerful and moving essay, Micheline Lee tells the story of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, a transformative social change that ran into problems. For some users it has been "the only lifeboat in the ocean," but for others it has meant still more exclusion.Lee explains what happened, showing that the NDIS, for all its good intentions, has not understood people with disabilities well enough. While go...

Estranged from her family, Natasha is making a life for herself in Darwin when her sister calls with bad news. Their mother is ill and has only a few months to live. Confused and conflicted, Natasha returns to the home she fled many years before. But her father, an evangelical Christian, has not changed – he is still the domineering yet magnetic man she ran from, and her sisters and mother are still in his thrall. One night, her father makes an astonishing announcement – he has received a ...

WINNER OF THE 2017 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE 2016 UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND FICTION BOOK AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 STELLA PRIZEONE OF BOOKPEOPLE’S ‘100 BEST AUSTRALIAN BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY’‘Whenever I need reminding of the preciousness of ordinary life I return to this stunning novel of forgiveness and family, which gives clear, beautiful voice to the fierce luck of bei...

SHORTLISTED: Miles Franklin Literary Award SHORTLISTED: Stella Prize SHORTLISTED: Ned Kelly Prize for Best Crime Novel When 25-year-old Bella Michaels is brutally murdered in the small town of Strathdee, the community is stunned and a media storm ensues. Unwillingly thrust into the eye of that storm are Bella's beloved older sister, Chris, a barmaid at the local pub, and May Norman, a young reporter sent to cover the story. Chris's ex-husband, friends and neighbours do their best to suppor...

WINNER OF THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHRISTINA STEAD PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE VOSS LITERARY PRIZE 2016LONGLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 2016LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017It has been six months since Tess Müller stop...

A tender and gorgeously written novel of a marriage in crisis in the tradition of Revolutionary Road, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD by Stephanie Bishop was an Australian bestseller (2015), and winner of the ABIA Award for Literary Fiction Book of the Year and the 2015 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. It has gone on to garner international literary acclaim.'A stunning writer... her attention to detail makes each scene visceral' New York ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future.In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters.Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such a small...

Longlisted for the 2017 Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionIn the 1600s Sara de Vos loses her young daughter suddenly to illness. In her grief, she secretly begins painting a dark landscape of a girl watching a group of ice skaters from the edge of a wood.In 1950s New York, Martijn de Groot has At the Edge of a Wood hanging above his bed. Though it is a dark, peculiar painting, he holds it dear and when it is stolen, he is bereft. In Brooklyn, struggl...

'Dazzling … life-affirming and compulsively readable' Sunday Times'Patchett blends wisdom and humanity jointly with the icy forensic gaze of someone not afraid to expose the frailties of human behaviour ... Read it' Jojo Moyes'An outstanding novel ... a master of her art' ObserverIt is 1964: Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited and notices a heart stoppingly beautif...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ERIC BANA"I love Jane Harper's Australia-based mysteries." —Stephen KingGoodreads Choice Award Finalist (Mystery & Thriller, 2018)BookBrowse Best Books of 2018Winner of the Prix Polar Award for Best International NovelBookRiot’s 25 Best Suspense Books from 2018Davitt Awards shortlist for Adult Crime Novel 2018Dead...

'Spellbinding' Ian Rankin'A riveting murder mystery and a beautifully wrought picture of a rural community under extreme pressure' Mail on Sunday Thriller of the Week'P****acked with sneaky moves and teasing possibilities that keep the reader guessing...The Dry is a breathless page-turner' Janet Maslin, New York TimesWHO REALLY KILLED THE HADLER FAMILY?