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Who killed Martin Friedrich? From award-winning writer Steven Carroll comes the first book in a series of post-war literary crime novels featuring Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter, with shades of The...

From one of our finest writers - winner of the Miles Franklin, the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Award - comes a wistful and emotional story that imagines a happier ending...

'A woman writes a story for her married lover. Something she always thought of as a fairy tale. A fairy tale with a dark side, like the best of fairy tales...'Occupied France, 1943. France's most shameful...

'He is one of the best we've ever had' Geraldine BrooksOne of Australia's finest and most critically acclaimed writers returns with a powerful novel that goes back to the very beginning of the story,...

An immensely moving novel of lost love and missed moments from Steven Carroll, one of Australia's greatest writers, multi-award winner of the Miles Franklin Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize and...

The fifth novel in the acclaimed Glenroy series by multi-award winning novelist Steven Carroll.  Shortlisted for the 2016 Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary...

Cinematic, intense and unflinching, A WORLD OF OTHER PEOPLE is a supremely life-affirming evocation of love in war time, when every decision, and every day, matters.Joint winner of the 2014 Prime Minister's...

On a hot summer's night in the 1950s, the old and the new, diesel and steam, town and country all collide - and nobody will be left unaffected.As a passenger train leaves Spencer Street Station on its...

The history of his summer is written in the grass ... In 1960 the West Indies arrive in Australia, bringing with them a carnival of music, colour and possibility. Michael, who is sixteen, is enthralled....

That exotic tribe was us. And the time we have taken, our moment. One summer morning in 1970, Peter van Rijn, proprietor of a television and wireless shop, pronounces his Melbourne suburb one hundred...

A story about love, chance and T.S. Eliot.England, September 1934. Two young lovers, Catherine and Daniel, have trespassed into the rose garden of Burnt Norton, an abandoned house in the English countryside....

The thing that makes you, it never goes.A sleek high-speed train glides silently through the French countryside, bearing Michael, an Australian writer, and his travelling world of memory and speculation.Melbourne,...