Teenage Marianne falls deeply in love with her neighbour Simon, but when he leaves her dreams of their future are shattered. Undaunted, she departs the suburbs for 1960s Chelsea and the thrills of independence. A delightful coming of age story about acceptance and being true to oneself.
An affecting depiction of the role of women on the periphery in times of conflict set in Saigon in 1963 where two service wives, navigating the moral complexities of supporting their husbands, form a wary alliance.
A sensitive and elegantly written story of the love a now dying botanist had for an escaped slave while he was on a research expedition in Senegal as a young man, set amidst the savagery of French colonialism.
Injured Lieutenant Jean Chenneville returns home from the civil war to the devastating news of a murder in the family and resolves to track down the killer. A vivid and compelling rendering of one man’s pursuit of justice.
A romantic comedy with a difference, narrated almost entirely by the bemused Andy, a hapless and not very successful comedian struggling to dea lwith a breakup. Very funny, very astute, and very honest.
The story of Lena and he rmother, caretakers at the holiday home of a wealthy city family. The house is surrounded by a security fence, rebels are rumoured to be nearby and nothing is quite what it seems. An inventive and gripping take on the perils of AI.
A gripping espionage thriller combining two stories: the young Lachlan Kite and his girlfriend’s hunt for a Rwandan genocidaire in 1995, and the unfinished business from their mission in the present.
Six astronauts go about their daily tasks on the International Space Station while observing the Earth from afar. Exquisite writing, impressionistic and magical, setting human fears and aspirations against the vista of the universe.
Colourful fictional account of the life of the author’s remarkable, clever and ambitious grandmother, born into a farming family in Australia at the end of the 19th century, determined to escape a harsh rural life.
A darkly funny and bizarre thriller set in New Zealand in a bleak future where it serves as a bolthole from climate change for the wealthy, termed ‘wealthugees’.
A gripping tragicomedy set in rural Ireland which details the fall of the Barnes family, whose car dealership is failing in the recession while their family life founders under the shadow of climate change.
A masterful depiction of how a seemingly safe life can implode, presented as a suspenseful, unsettling examination of what happens when a mother begins to suspect her teenage son of deceiving her in relation to a local crime.
The author of I Am Pilgrim returns with a nail-biting thriller set in the violent, unstable borderlands between Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan where CIA agent Kane has been sent to exfiltrate a potentially dangerous threat to western power.
Lara’s three daughters, back at the family orchard to help gather the fruit, persuade theirmother to tell them the full story of her first love and early career on the stage. A poignant, touching examination of memory, family relationships and roads not taken.