Literary Fiction

It was old Ben Shadbolt, who burgled a Hertfordshire drapery in 1845, who started it. By way of a terrible prison term in Australia he rose to be ...

  Summary Specs   When it comes to fame and fortune, how high a price is too high, and when do you know that you've paid too much? This d...

A huge selection of Shadbolt's best stories written over a forty-year period, including his three Mansfield Short Story Award winners. AUTHOR: Maur...

On an atoll not far from now, nor far from here, we meet a young man named Mala, who is eager to discover the secrets of his island home. Woleai is...

Tail of the Taniwha is a collection of short stories by writer, poet and playwright Courtney Sina Meredith that builds on the themes and ideas of h...

Anne Powell's poems reach from the soul-baring Waikanae River all the way across the earth to cascades of stars over cold desert sand. At times foc...

The Izu Dancer, Yasunari Kawabata's first work to bring him recognition as a writer, is a novella about six Izu Peninsula travellers. As the six tr...

Three generations, one family, connected by an historic secret. 1917 - Private Daniel Dawkins fights at Messines Ridge and Passchendaele. He writes...

Summary Specs It's 1832 on an isolated coast on the ...

Christel is at shattering point. She's got two small children, her job in reality television is super high stress, she's an activist with Women Aga...

She's six feet tall and handles a motorbike like a professional, but Kate has insecurities that match her height and she ignores her past by pushin...

Set in contemporary Spain, Susana Aikin's latest novel is a colorful, beautifully written examination of memory, romance, and the intricacies of fa...

"I am two people now. I have split. One of us will be seeing Caroline's fiance later this evening. The other is smiling politely. He is a square of...

Summary Specs "The New Year's Eve is more precious t...

A seminal novel of factory life in wartime England. Praised for its detailed portrayal of the roles of women in wartime society, Monica Felton's ...

Summary Specs Notes Twins Jeanie and Julius have ...

Kara lives in Victory Park council flats with her young son, just making a living by minding other people's kids - her nightly smoke on the fire es...

Summary Specs The celebrated Italian writer Italo Ca...

A wonderful collection of stories and memoir from childhood. Childhood is at times joyful, at times traumatic. In this anthology twenty-six disting...