Many great men are remembered for only one thing, and for Charles Todd it is building the Overland Telegraph line from Adelaide to Darwin.

Ann Liang’s first novel for adults reimagines an ancient Chinese tale of deception and betrayal – and a legendary beauty.

Emily Maguire turns to historical fiction to tell the story of a young ninth-century woman whose quest for knowledge will not ...

Rodney Hall has won the Miles Franklin Award twice; his new novel is a panoramic alternative history of the twentieth century ...

Novelist Amitav Ghosh turns to non-fiction to chart the greed and racism at the heart of British and American opium sales to ...

The author of Love Objects and An Isolated Incident turns to historical fiction to tell the story of a young ninth-century woman whose quest for knowledge will not be denied. Rapture is a romance. Not ...

The author of Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone returns with another witty homage to the Golden Age of crime fiction.

Part memoir, part guidebook, part history, Twenty-Two Impressions shows the strangeness and wonder of the tarot. In 1442, an apprentice beats sheets of gold leaf out of a coin, 100 sheets to the ...

Award-winning novelist Amitav Ghosh turns to non-fiction to chart the greed and racism at the heart of British and American opium sales to China. In researching his Ibis Trilogy novels – Sea of ...