The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly
Memoir offering a haunting, harrowing look inside the cruel prison of locked-in syndrome. More
Wolf Hall
Winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. More
Love and War in the Apennines
The early life story of a man who would become one of Britain’s best-loved literary adventurers. More
Bring Up the Bodies
Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the first to win as a sequel. More
Richard Fidler
Books have always excited me, and helped me place my tiny life in the great stream of events and ideas. More
People of the Book
Winner of the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year 2008. More
Pilgrim
A finalist for the Giller Prize and a Canadian bestseller that surpassed the author’s own impressive sales records. More
James Rollins
I owe my mother everything. More
Stuart MacBride
I write because I love to read. More
The Man from Snowy River
Iconic Australian classic and one of the most famous poems in Australian literature. More
The Crying of Lot 49
This highly original satire is a classic of postmodern literature. More
Caroline Overington
I read to observe the world as it is seen by others; to walk the planet as strangers do; to breathe a story that is not my own. More
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
This 1972 Booker Prize–nominated novel was also made into a 1978 Australian film. More
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Irving’s beloved coming-of-age tale that ranks among the most cherished of American classics. More
A Soldier’s Tale
Enduring novel that has met with critical acclaim and been reprinted many times since its first release. More
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Multimillion-copy global bestseller that won critical acclaim for its beautifully wrought depiction of innocence corrupted. More
T. C. Boyle
I read in the way that I breathe, as a necessity of life. More
Under the Volcano
A landmark of modernism, hailed as “one of the towering novels of this century” (New York Times). More
Tracy Chevalier
I read because I want to know what it’s like to look at the world through someone else’s eyes, and reading is a remarkably efficient and vigorous way of doing that. More
Building Literary Identities: Canada, Australia, India
In the mid-1800s, William Collins took his UK publishing business international–from the Americas, through Australia, to Africa. More
The Thorn Birds
McCullough’s sweeping family saga of forbidden love in the Australian outback; became a bestselling phenomenon. More
Papillon
A bestselling phenomenon and classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure. More
Seven Years in Tibet
A landmark in travel writing, it has been translated into fifty-three languages. More
Nostromo
A sweeping masterpiece considered by many to be Conrad’s greatest novel. More
Angela’s Ashes
The phenomenal worldwide bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner. More
Letter from Stella Miles Franklin submitting her novel My Brilliant Career
Stella Miles Franklin submitted this letter along with the manuscript of her first novel, My Brilliant Career, to Angus & Robertson in Australia, in March 1899, when she was just nineteen years old. More