Set in a town in northern Australia, this is a vast novel in which climate crisis, colonial history, family rupture, and Indigenous sovereignty all collide. It combines mythic imagination with social critique and stretches the realities of community through the force of its language.

A latest novel from Alexis Wright in which the climate crisis and the presence of the ancestors rise together.

Set in an aged-care home in suburban Sydney, this generational novel follows a Sri Lankan Australian family through memory, discrimination, and mutual support within a community. It moves between humor and urgency while asking what home and inheritance really mean.

A place for the people who have been lost, and for the stories they have carried.

This novel traces a life shaped by harm within child welfare and foster care, as past memories break into the present. With restrained prose, it quietly explores the lingering effects of institutional violence and the difficulty of recovery.

A single photograph brings a sealed-off past back into view.

A powerful novel about Wiradjuri family, land, language, and the return home after loss.

A sharp, darkly funny novel about a woman returning home to face family wounds, land, and the violence around survival.

A sharp, darkly funny novel about a woman returning home to face family wounds, land, and the violence around survival.

Set in Sydney, Paris, and Sri Lanka, this novel loosely interweaves the lives of several characters, including the aspiring writer Pippa. With sharp satire and finely observed characterization, it examines migration, class, ethnicity, friendship, aging, and the violence that can be done by storytelling.

A novel that quietly exposes the distortions created when people turn themselves and others into stories.

Jake Whyte lives alone on a remote island, where sheep are being killed and a buried past begins to surface. The novel braids isolation, trauma, and the hard edge of survival into a bleak but luminous story.

Something is killing the sheep, and the past she tried to bury is closing in too.

19世紀初頭の西オーストラリアを舞台に、先住民と入植者の接触とその結果として生じる文化的変容を描く歴史小説。複数の視点を通じて、植民地主義の複雑さと文化の持続を繊細に描写する。

メルボルンを舞台に、政治的腐敗とメディアが絡む事件を追う犯罪小説。元刑事やジャーナリストらの捜査を通じて、真実と倫理、権力の腐敗を浮き彫りにする。冷静で硬質な文体と緻密な構成が特徴。

Breath is a story of adolescent risk and self-discovery through surfing. It explores the pull of masculinity, dangerous adventure, and the uneasy balance between salvation and ruin through the relationship between a younger boy and an older mentor.

A boy tests his limits in the pull of waves and danger.

『The Time We Have Taken』は郊外の町の時間とそこに暮らす人々の人生を丁寧に追う小説。1960年代からの変化や世代交代、日常の細部が積み重なり、記憶と時間の流れが個々の人生にどう影響するかを静かに描き出す。

『Carpentaria』は架空の北オーストラリア沿岸の町を舞台に、先住民コミュニティと外部勢力の対立や環境破壊を神話的かつ詩的に描く大作。複層的な語りと強烈なイメージで抵抗と連帯の群像劇を展開する。

『The Ballad of Desmond Kale』は植民地時代のオーストラリアを舞台にした歴史小説。脱獄や逃避、復讐や贖罪を主題に、植民地社会の暴力や生存の物語を叙情的に描き出す大作である。

『The White Earth』はクイーンズランドの農地と家族史を背景に、植民地主義の遺産と土地をめぐる権力闘争を描く。若き主人公が家族の過去と向き合うことで、歴史的な罪と現代の緊張が明るみに出る物語である。

『The Great Fire』は戦後を背景に、愛や喪失、責任の問題を繊細に描く長編。崩れゆく秩序の中で個人が負う道徳的な重さや記憶の扱いを問う作品であり、洗練された文体で登場人物の内面を精緻に描写する。

Journey to the Stone Country by Alex Miller is an award-winning work.

Journey to the Stone Country remains a work that continues to attract readers.

Set in New South Wales, the novel begins with a strange condition for marriage based on knowledge of trees. Family, landscape, and the power of storytelling intersect in a novel that blends playfulness with seriousness.

A condition about naming trees changes the course of family and love.

Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs is a historical novel set in nineteenth-century London that follows a transported convict returning to confront his past.

A transported convict returns to London to confront the life he was forced to leave behind.

Built around the disappearance of a war photographer, this novel follows memory and testimony across Cambodia. Personal experience and historical violence overlap until the reality of war emerges with unsettling clarity.

As the search for a missing friend continues, the shape of war slowly comes into view.

A controversial Australian novel about family memory during World War II and the ethical tensions that emerge after the war.

The unease of the narration sharpens the pain of history.

In the wheatbelt of Western Australia, beneath a vast blue and gold landscape, lie disused mine shafts. Above the ground rise the silos. University student Fin Torrent goes to work in this remote country during his summer holidays, drawn into the land's myths and mysteries. Part whodunit, part psychological thriller, part magical fantasy, the novel charts the rises and falls of the Cleaver farming family against a landscape of extraordinary power and menace.

A bold, genre-defying novel where violence rubs shoulders with a strange lyricism.

Christopher Koch’s Australian novel blurs music and fantasy, using the world of a band to explore the instability of identity and reality.

Through the world of music, the border between reality and fantasy begins to shift.

Set against coastal and fishing communities, the novel explores the relationship between nature and humanity, the bonds of community, and a sense of individual loss through a poetic, sensory style. Its portrayal of life rooted in land and sea reveals both human resilience and fragility.

A quiet, sharp portrait of the tension between sea and human life.

A vast novel set in northern Australia, confronting colonialism, racism, and the collisions of community and nation.

A vast novel set in northern Australia, confronting colonialism, racism, and the collisions of community and nation.

A novel about memory and coming of age in a country town in Australia.

Boyhood memories rise with the smell and texture of place.

An early novel by Thomas Keneally, it follows a young priest’s faith and rebellion while drawing on satire and psychological detail to depict the authority of the Catholic Church and the tensions between generations.

Within faith itself, the boundary between obedience and rebellion slowly gives way.

A historical novel that traces community, power, and moral conflict in Australian life.

A historical novel that traces community, power, and moral conflict in Australian life.

A satirical social novel about Jack Trap, a mixed-race man on the outskirts of Melbourne, and his attempt to build a cooperative community with a group of outsiders.

Seen through people at the edge of the city, the novel exposes the tensions and distortions within Australian society.

Set in suburban Queensland, the novel traces middle-aged boredom, teenage rebellion, religious pressure, and family estrangement through the breakdown of one household.

The cracks in an ordinary family gradually come into view through the dissonance between adolescence and middle age.

A semi-autobiographical Australian novel about brothers and national identity.

David Meredith reflects on what makes Jack different from him.

Through the drifting life of a young journalist, Thea Astley's third novel explores vanity, stagnation, and the strains of marriage. Its sharp imagery and dense prose let urban comedy and loneliness coexist.

A novel that captures modern vanity and loneliness through the life of a restless reporter.

Through the empty routine of the young journalist George Brewster, the novel explores urban stagnation, the fraying of marriage, and the danger of self-absorption. Its style balances wit and bite, bringing loneliness and absurdity into the same frame.

An early novel that cuts sharply into urban vanity and loneliness.

Set against suburban Sydney and a spiritual crisis, this novel follows several characters whose lives intersect through visions and private prejudices. In Patrick White's densely symbolic prose, it explores faith, loneliness, and the fragility of salvation.

Beneath suburban calm, faith and vision quietly unsettle the lives around them.

A 1960 Australian novel set in the remote north of Queensland. Through the lives of horse wagoner Paddy Doolan and his son Michael, it shows how changing transport reshapes a family and the community around it.

In a changing age, the paths of father and son keep colliding.