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Malcolm Knox
A tour de force set in 1938 Stalin Soviet Union, this chilling black comedy it is at once a satire and a thriller, a survivor's tale in which a father…
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Even before the boom, Australia owed more to the shovel than the sheep. One of Australia’s best and most lively writers shows that the story of mining is the Australian…
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‘Filled with biting observations about our culture and our families so starkly insightful, they make you gasp.’ Charlotte Wood A stunning new novel about longing, regret, redemption and the terrible…
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The cricket field is a unique stage, where the player at the centre is the most easily overlooked. Yet the wicketkeeper, always at the heart of the action, knows the…
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For a period in 2019, a tweet from rugby player Israel Folau became the biggest story in the nation. His urging of homosexuals to ‘repent’ or face damnation cost him…
Down, down … In hardware, petrol, general merchandise and liquor, and above all in groceries, Coles and Woolworths jointly rule Australia’s retail landscape. On average, every man, woman and child…
Why did the sacking of rugby player Israel Folau over his homophobic social media posts become one of the nation’s most polarizing controversies? How could one man’s religious views activate…
A hilarious re-telling of Australia’s glorious history from critically acclaimed author Malcolm Knox. Also features the cartoons of David Messler.
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In hardware, petrol, merchandise, liquor and above all in groceries, Coles and Woolworths now jointly rule Australia’s retail landscape. On average, every man, woman and child in this…
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Published to coincide with the 2013 Ashes Test series between England and Australia, this is the extraordinary story of how the 1948 Invincibles turned the cricket pitch into a battlefield.
Lifelong friendships are put to the test in a Martin Amis-style dissection of privilege and mid-life crisis set against the backdrop of a marathon relay swim in Jamaica. Compulsive reading…
What’s the worst thing that can happen to a man who has not one, not two, but three secret families on the go? A spectacular new work of imagination and…
He looked into the Pacific and the Pacific looked back into him. The Life tells the story of former-world-champion Australian surfer, Dennis Keith, from inside the very heart of the…
Covering the extraordinary story unfolding in the courtroom, to the equally amazing account of how events unfolded in the jury room during the trial, to interviews with barristers, solicitors and…
In an exciting fiction debut–a Great Gatsby for the gilded youth of the 21st century–Richard remembers a lost paradise with his charismatic friends. But as he confronts his golden memories…
Malcolm Knox contemplates love, Proust, soulmates in fiction, palindromic numbers and bloodlines, among other fixations, and wonders if the obsessive quest marks a retreat from life a
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A house perched impossibly on a cliff overlooking the stunning, iconic Bluebird Beach. Prime real estate, yet somehow not real estate at all, The Lodge is, like those who live…
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