Andrew McGahan

Winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 1991. Praise is an utterly frank and darkly humorous novel about being young in the Australia of the 1990s. A time when the dole was easier to get than a job, when heroin was better known than ecstasy, and when ambition was the dirtiest of words. A time when, for two hopeless souls, sex...

WINNER, Miles Franklin Literary Award WINNER, Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the South East Asia and South Pacific region WINNER, Age Book of the Year WINNER, Courier Mail Book of the Year Award SHORTLISTED, Queensland Premier's Literary Awards One spring day in late 1992, when William was halfway between his eighth birthday and his ninth, he looked out from the back...

WINNER, Best Horror Novel, Aurealis AwardsSHORTLISTED, Voss Literary Prize In the freezing Antarctic waters south of Tasmania, a mountain was discovered in 1642 by the seafaring explorer Gerrit Jansz. Not just any mountain, but one that Jansz estimated was an unbelievable height of twenty-five thousand metres. In 2016, at the foot of this unearthly mountain, a controversial and ambitious 'dream...

It is no easy thing, to take leave of the world. At very long last a captain of his own ship, Dow Amber is determined to venture beyond the final frontier - the still, stagnant waters of the Doldrums - in search of a New World. With Nell finally by his side, he is hopeful that they can start again,...