In a world divided into fliers and non-fliers, how far would you go to be able to fly? How much would you sacrifice— perhaps your own child? A beautifully written and compellingly original novel of sacrifice, betrayal and love.

The dream of being able to fly is now physical reality but only the rich and powerful can afford the surgery, drugs, and gene manipulation to become fliers. Peri, a poor girl from the regions, will sacrifice anything to get her wings and join this elite but the price is higher than she could have imagined. So why then does she throw it all away?

An unnamed man, M, arrives at a remote house on the fringe of a vast wilderness and soon disappears into a world of silence and stillness. His one mission: to find the last thylacine, the fabled Tasmanian tiger. She is said to have passed into myth but a sighting has been reported…

Uncompromising and compelling, Julia Leigh's stunning first novel does not give up any of its secrets easily. The Hunter is a haunting tale of obsession that builds to an unforgettable conclusion.

This is a new edition of the book, published to tie in with a forthcoming movie which stars Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill and Frances O'Connor. Julia Leigh is also the author of the critically-acclaimed short novel, Disquiet.

Winner of the 2010 David Unaipon Award for Indigenous Writing, Purple Threads is a humorous collection of rural yarns by a gifted storyteller. Jeanine Leane grew up on a sheep farm near Gundagai, and the stories are based on her childhood experiences in a house full of fiercely independent women. In between Aunty Boo's surveillance of the local farmers' sheep dip alliance and Aunty Bubby's fireside tales of the Punic Wars, the women offer sage advice to their nieces on growing up as Indigenous girls in a white country town.

The cast of strong Aboriginal women in a rural setting gives a fascinating insight into both Aboriginal and rural life. Farming is not an easy pursuit for anyone, but the Aunties take all the challenges in their stride, facing torrential rain, violent neighbours and injured dogs with an equal mix of humour and courage. Purple Threads uses an irreverent style, but offers a unique perspective on the Australian country lifestyle.

Feminist classic re-release. It started with a challenge from the late Christina Stead: it's very difficult to make an interesting novel with no men in it at all.

Released to acclaim in 1987, Remember The Tarantella was heralded as a great work of feminist fiction. Twenty four years later the prose continues to have a fresh and contemporary feel. Remember The Tarantella is a remarkable work. It's learned and frivolous, female not feminine, silly and serious.

Remember the Tarantella is a novel with twenty-six characters each represented by a letter of the alphabet with the vowels as central characters.The quality of the prose achieves a kind of concerto-like poetry where the many instruments of differing tones assist the reader to know who is who.

This new edition includes an Afterword, an interview with the author and novelist Sue Woolfe about the making of Remember The Tarantella, complete with diagrams and extracts from early drafts. (The interview was first published in 2001 in Making Stories: How ten Australian novels were written by Sue Woolfe and Kate Grenville)

Notorious Australian Women celebrates the lives of some of Australia's most fearless, brash and scandalous women. There's Tilly Devine, who went from streetwalker in London to wealthy Sydney madam and stander merchant (a sort of Mafioso); Mary Bryant, the highway robber and First Fleeter who escaped by rowing from Port Jackson to Timor with her two children; Lola Montez, the Irish-born grande horizontale (a courtesan), who destroyed King Ludwig I of Bavaria; Ellen Tremaye and Marion Edwards, women who challenged the gender order and became men; and Helena Rubinstein, who rewrote her humble Polish background and became one of the most successful and astute businesswomen in the world.

From bushrangers, courtesans and cross-dressers, to writers, designers and a radical or two, what these splendid rebels have in common is a determination to take their destinies into their own hands.

"My marriage was arranged on a hot summer day over my mother's Masala tea and famous crispy samosas which my prospective mother-in-law was pleased to learn I knew how to make. I was selected from a number of girls they had seen. I was the chosen one, imported from Fiji."

Meeta can't believe her good fortune when she marries Amit, a handsome, young, Hugh Grant look alike, Indian man living in New Zealand. When she gets off the plane she is too eager to start her new life but not long after she discovers that not only does she know very little about her new country but also about her husband. Some years later, she knows altogether too much. Against all the odds that come with an arranged marriage, Meeta copes and although her life has its fair share of ups and downs, she has her own way of dealing with it. She takes up writing, a passion she indulged in childhood, and befriends a Kiwi woman. However it is when Amit falls in love with another woman that Meeta finds herself having to make some hard decisions. To make matters worse her childhood past returns to haunt her… She has the perfect plan to end everything.