From an exhibition at the British Museum, marking 200 years since the fatal visit of King Liholiho and Queen Kamamalu to London (who both died after contracting measles, to which they had no... read more
A reissue of Frame's 1966 novel, in which a middle-aged art teacher retires from the suburbs to a cottage on a warm island in the north of New Zealand. Her new freedom and solitude are not t... read more
A nimble novel in which a postgrad working on Virginia Woolf finds her life and work turning into a sort of Möbius strip. Funny, sharp, engagingly odd.
A man and a child take refuge in an abandoned mine, only to discover that they are not alone... Dystopian brilliance from the author of Dirt Music, Cloudstreet and others.
From New Jersey she went to Iran, where she abandoned her PhD on Jane Austen while fleeing the 1979 Revolution; then China and Saudi Arabia, before settling in Venice. There she began lookin... read more
The British empire observed through the lens of a single day: the 29th September 1923, when the Mandate for Palestine became law and the British empire reached its maximum extent, just as i... read more
The fraught symbiosis of a billionaire and a group of guerrilla gardeners. A skilful and thrilling novel from the author of The Luminaries that interweaves intentions and consequences.
Aaron Falk, federal investigator, begins picking over the loose ends in the case of a woman's disappearance and finds a growing chill in her small-town community in South Australia. By the a... read more
Born in Victorian Sydney, she was presented at Court to Queen Victoria and then married a Prussian count. The marriage was unhappy, and her subsequent marriage to Bertrand Russell's brother ... read more
Born in Australia, she lived and worked in Hong Kong after WW2 and then for the UN in New York. After marrying the great Flaubert scholar Francis Steegmuller, she lived mostly on Capri. She ... read more
An Australian police sergeant returns to the land of his forebears, on the border of Greece, Albania and North Macedonia and is drawn into an investigation into a missing person. An exemplar... read more
Nellie Melba, the diva from Queensland who transfixed the world for three decades in the roles of Violetta, Juliette, Rosina, Mimi and co... She was adored by gossip columnists and honoured ... read more
A group biography of five women at Oxford in the early C20th who pioneered the study of remote communities in Siberia, Egypt, New Mexico and Easter Island. The women were Katherine Routledge... read more
The indefatigable author of 'Schindler's Ark' picks up here on the story of Dickens's youngest son, who emigrated to Australia to become a sheep farmer.
Few seasoned visitors to Sandoe's will have escaped without copies of 'The Transit of Venus', 'The Bay of Noon' or 'The Great Fire'. Hazzard is one of our favourites here, and publication of... read more
Tall, red-haired, green-eyed, Enid Lindeman caused havoc in pursuit of love and wealth. No less than five lovers killed themselves, her husbands died at regular intervals (one was known as C... read more
A sensitive novel about Elizabeth MacArthur, who managed to flourish at the end of the world (Australia in the 1790s) despite being married to an exceptionally obnoxious man.
In a silty blend of ecology and economics, ALT takes the matsutake mushroom – the most valuable mushroom in the world, comfortable in ravaged landscapes - as a metaphor for the intricate n... read more
Oceans, deserts and mountains through Salgado's inimitable eye, their peoples and their animals. Stunningly beautiful black and white images, this volume is Taschen's special, limited editio... read more