Ceridwen Dovey

A transformative new collection from the award-winning author of Only the Animals. Ceridwen Dovey has a rare, wild genius. The stories in Only the Astronauts are extraordinary, funny, delightful and moving. Dovey sees tenderly what it is to be human - from a perspective that is out-of-this-world imaginative. - Anna Funder Adrift in outer space, a motley crew of human-made...

Exquisitely written, playful and poignant, Only the Animals is a remarkable literary achievement by the award-winning Ceridwen Dovey, one of our brightest young writers. Perhaps only the animals can tell us what it is to be human. The souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century tell their astonishing stories of life and death. In...

From the award-winning author of Only the Animals comes an unputdownable novel of obsession, guilt, and the power of the past to possess the present. Almost twenty years after forbidding him to contact her, Vita receives an email from her old benefactor, Royce. Once, she was one of his brightest protegees; now her career has stalled and Royce is ailing,...

From South Africa to Australia, Dovey draws on family history to explore the Nobel Prize-winning writer's work, tracing an intellectual heritage that has been passed from mother to daughter. I was born in the year J.M. Coetzee published his third novel, Waiting for the Barbarians. My mother read this dark, disturbing book with its multiple scenes of torture as she...

A radical collection of reimagined fairytales from three incredible Australian authors, for readers of all ages.In the middle of a great famine, two siblings are cast out into a forest that holds both danger and beauty. Perpetual winter descends upon a giant’s garden after rowdy children are shut out by a massive wall. In the year 3099, humans find themselves...

At their fifteen-year reunion, a group of Harvard graduates—labouring with early middle age, marriage and children, unrealised aspirations and a depressing political climate—rekindle old loves and old resentments. Fifteen years after graduating from Harvard, five close friends on the cusp of middle age are still pursuing an elusive happiness and wondering if they've wasted their youthful opportunities. Jules, already a...