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A cryptic message from an oddly familiar winged visitor is all Paul Jonas has to help him survive in the complex virtual reality world known as "Otherland."

When we think of pirates we conjure up images of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, but these characters hailed from one period.

The author explores her own conflicting feelings as a mother as she protects her offspring and probes the roots and tendrils of the girlie-girl movement and concludes that parents who think through

Three friends descend upon an art auction and concoct a plan to "liberate" several paintings from the National Gallery.

The impressionistic memoir of an artist who was blinded in a sudden act of violence.

Is it really possible to change the structure and function of the brain, and in so doing alter how we think and feel? The answer is a resounding yes.

Shreve (Testimony), who worked in Kenya as a journalist early in her career, returns to that country in her slow latest, the story of a photojournalist and her doctor husband, whose temporary reloc

With great wit and irony and with no insight whatsoever, popular ABC radio personality Eoin Cameron recalls the people, fashions, films, in fact everything that made the Sixties such a fabulous dec

Looking for Australia is a fascinating collection of essays by author and historian John Hirst.

Heartless opens with a girl who is faced with life

An extraordinary story of courage and survival in the tradition of Angela's Ashes.

What has happened to Ingrid? Beautiful Ingrid inherits a fortune and leaves Australia, and her friends, and Ralph who loves her, to marry Gil Grey and set up home amid the New York art world.

Simone Harlowe is young and clever, an Aboriginal lawyer straddling two lives and two cultures while studying at Harvard.

Kenny Fletcher, a lonely only child with an irrepressible spirit, used to bang a tennis ball against the board in his back garden, day and night.