Collection: Large Print Fiction

Connie Mulligan, daughter of a fourth-generation Tasmanian dairy farmer, feels like she doesn't belong - anywhere. She's got big dreams and big ideas, but she made a mess of her university degree and has been sent home in disgrace. The man who was responsible for her failure won't get out of her ...

When a violent brawl erupts at a suburban junior soccer game, some onlookers are shocked. But others saw it coming. Rivalry, parental pressure, coaching bias, inequity, and many other factors have played a part in turning Saturday mornings into a pressure cooker. Thirteen-year-old Audrey is a tal...

Mary Anne is painfully aware that she's not a good wife and not a good mother, and is slowly realising that she no longer wants to play either of those roles. One morning, she walks out of the family home in Wollongong, leaving her husband and teenage daughters behind. Wounded by her mother's aba...

French countryside, present day. Blythe Bricard is the daughter of famous fashion muses but that doesn't mean she wants to be one. She turned her back on that world, and her dreams, years ago. Fate, however, has a different plan, and Blythe will discover there is more to her iconic mother and gra...

When twenty-five-year-old Heather Russo breaks up with her boyfriend - again - she can't figure out if she's to blame or he is. Either way, she's miserable, and working at home via Zoom meetings is only making it worse. What's more, all the women in her family are struggling. Mom Sandy is convinc...

1959. Grace is a young mother with four children under four. All she ever wanted was to have a family of her own, but there are thoughts Grace cannot share with anyone in the months after childbirth. Instead she pours her deepest fears into the pages of a notebook, hiding them where she knows hus...

Literature. Short stories. Since Archie Weller was runner-up for the first Vogel Award in 1980 for his novel The Day of the Dog, he has become an important voice in contemporary Indigenous writing. The Window Seat is a collection of his best fiction and a tribute to his contribution to Australian...

Georgia Williams, a woman fleeing her past, finds solace in the small town of Gleneagle. She is stalked by daily phone calls and is drawn to a man named Trent Turner, who works his family's cattle stud. Trent, unlucky in love, dreams of becoming a husband and father. When he meets Georgia, he is ...

For Ava, heading to university in the city is her escape from a poverty-stricken upbringing in a tiny coastal town. Her mother deserted the family when she was a baby, leaving her with a chronically ill father who was able to provide love but little else. On the other side of the world, Laurie to...

Helen Walsh is searching for her daughter who ran away at fifteen. Tia has found her, and Helen longs for her daughter's forgiveness. Ed Collins, who has walked Helen's path, feels compelled to help her. He is drawn to her kind and loving heart. Meanwhile, Ed's wife Stephanie returns to the outba...