Category: Fiction

Helen Hodgman | Waiting For Matindi | What the critics have said about Helen Hodgman: ‘Owing nothing to other Australian novelists yet at the same time distinctively Australian. There’s fo

Rhona Cameron | The Naked Drinking Club | It’s the late eighties and 24-year-old Kerry has been drifting aimlessly through life. Rarely having plans of any kind, she gets drunk and things happ

Regina Marler | Queer Beats | The writings that shocked America out of the 1950s. Blasting through the crew-cuts and conformism of their day, the Beat writers were queer in the ful

Alison Lurie | The Truth About Lorin Jones | Polly Aller, a single parent and compassionate feminist, researches the untimely death of painter Lorin Jones, only to be exposed to fast-paced worlds

Jeanette Winterson | Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit was published in 1985 and subsequently adapted into a BBC television drama of the same name. It is a coming-of-age stor

Rosamond Lehmann | The Ballad And The Source | Ten-year-old Rebecca is living in the country with her family when Sibyl Jardine, an enigmatic and powerful old woman, returns to her property in the

Trin Denise | Worth Dying For | Have you ever asked yourself, ‘Is this worth dying for?’ FBI Special Agent Rheyna Sorento must answer that question when she gets the assignment of he

Laurinda D. Brown | Fire & Brimstone | I read your reviews and heard your suggestions. Now, I want you to know that I really was listening. I present to you the new and improved, Fire and B

Elizabeth Lang | Anna’s Country | Arriving in a small town in Upper New York State with her husband and children, Anna Johnson is befriended by her neighbor, nursery owner Hope Alford.

Brigid Brophy | The King Of A Rainy Country | In this captivating novel the stylish Brigid Brophy portrays the impoverished bohemianism of young Londoners during the post-war years. Susan, working