Item category 2: Newmarket - Aussie authors

Max didn't believe in an afterlife. Until he died. Now, as a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he remains, he watches his girlfriend Hannah lost in grief in the flat they shared and begins to realise how much of her life was invisible to him. In the weeks and months before Max's death, Hanna...

Twenty years ago, Grace wanted nothing more than to be with Trent - a boy with a guitar and a lot of promises. Twenty years ago, Dorothy wanted nothing more than for her daughter to fulfil her potential. In a moment of heartbreak and fury, Grace makes a split-second decision to board a plane to L...

The Christmas Contract by Pamela Cook: No-nonsense lawyer turned farmer Bridie Grainger is determined to make a go of her organic produce business, but life is conspiring against her. Her father is calling time on the loan he gave her to set up the farm. Her ex is demanding more time with their f...

A wartime hero refuses to pick up his weapon. Koalas begin a mass exodus. A writer finds her voice again. New Australian Fiction showcases the strength and diversity of Australian short fiction at its best. Now in its sixth year, these stories will move, entertain and enlighten you. Featuring awa...

Australian icon Kylie Minogue is the musical muse for this sparkling new anthology. Twenty-four writers, a third of whom identify as LGBTQIA, used a Kylie Minogue song as the springboard for a new, original piece of work, covering the genres of crime, memoir, speculative fiction, poetry and scien...