Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award 2020'A novelist for our times' Anna Funder, author of StasilandIn this brilliant novel of fear and sacrifice, trauma and survival, four characters' lives intertwine across time and place. Australian soldier Toohey returns from Baghdad in 2003 with shrapnel in his neck, crippled by PTSD. A decade earlier, aspiring pianist Nasim falls from favour with Saddam Hussein and his psychopathic son Uday...

For the first time in history, humans sit unchallenged at the top of the food chain. As we encroach on the wild and a vast wave of extinctions gathers force, how has our relationship to animals changed? In this dazzling piece of reportage, Anna Krien investigates the contemporary animal kingdom and our place in it. From pets to food, from wildness to science experiments, Krien also reveals how animals are faring in this new world order. Examples range from the joyful to the deeply unsettli...

NEW FOREWORD BY VIRGINIA TRIOLIWinner, Davitt Award for Best True Crime BookWinner, William Hill Sports Book of the YearWinner, New Writer of the Year Award at the Cross British Sports Book AwardsShortlisted, Walkley Non-Fiction Book AwardShortlisted, Adelaide Festival Award for Non-FictionShortlisted, Stella PrizeShortlisted, Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Non-FictionShortlisted, Cross British Sports Book Award for New ...

The exhilarating debut novel from the award-winning author of Night Games.Australian soldier Toohey returns from Baghdad in 2003 with shrapnel in his neck, crippled by PTSD and white-knuckling life. In the Iraq of a decade earlier, aspiring pianist Nasim falls from favour with Saddam Hussein and his psychopathic son Uday, triggering a perilous search for safety. In Melbourne as the millennium turns, Robbie, faced with her father’s dementia and the family silences that may never find...