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In February 1956, a remarkable young woman named Christina McCall began her working life as an editorial secretary at Maclean's magazine.

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Award The benefits of living in a digital, globalised society are enormous; so too are the dangers.

In the autumn of 1943 Giuseppe Lazaro, an Italian prisoner of war, is dropped into a small rural outpost on the edge of the West Australian wheatbelt.

Lying is an intrinsic part of our social fabric, but it is also a deeply problematic and misunderstood aspect of what makes us human.

The Withdrawal Method is a remarkably inventive, assured, and smart collection from one of our best young writers, one who pairs emotional depth with great technical skill.

Literary legend Jim Harrison gives us a brilliant new work that finds him writing at the height of his powers, and in fresh and audacious new directions.

A dramatic family saga, where the human passions are as savage as the wilderness of the Kimberley.

We live in an age dominated by the cult of efficiency. Efficiency in the raging debate about public goods is often used as a code word to advance political agendas.

Mean is a stunning exploration of the threshold and divide between our primeval origins and the meanness of our everyday lives.

Textbook covering human development.

In nineteenth-century Quebec a woman plots the murder of her husband after the death of their child.

A vivid and powerful novel set in post-WWII Japan, Fireflies chronicles the lives of four interweaving characters navigating the war-torn streets of Tokyo during the American occu

Long-listed for the Green Carnation Prize and The Sunday Times' selection for Memoir of the Year.

In this extraordinary sequel to Just Fine, we follow many of the same characters who dreamt of escape from the insular, predictable cadences of life in Acadia -- from Baltimore to Israel, San Franc