Christos Tsiolkas

'A humble book. A generous book. Perhaps his best.' - The Guardian AustraliaSelected as one of the Best Australian Fiction titles for 2023 by Readings Books No life is simple, and no life is without sorrow. No life is perfect. Two middle-aged men meet on an internet date. Each has been scarred by a previous relationship; each has his own...

WINNER - Best Fiction, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards WINNER - Melbourne Prize for Literature 'They kill us, they crucify us, they throw us to beasts in the arena, they sew our lips together and watch us starve. They bugger children in front of their mothers and violate men in front of their wives. The temple priests flay us openly in...

At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the event. In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye on to that which connects us all: the modern family and...

An electrifying introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning writer's work that identifies its distinctly Australian point of view and accounts passionately for what White's novels mean to readers now. Patrick White, the un-Australian writer who did more than any other writer in the twentieth century to create an imaginative language that we can call Australian, who unshackled us from the demand...

Winner, Melbourne Prize for Literature Shortlisted, Voss Literary Prize Shortlisted, ALS Gold Medal Shortlisted, Indie Awards ABC TV Miniseries He asked the water to lift him, to carry him, to avenge him. He made his muscles shape his fury, made every stroke declare his hate. And the water obeyed; the water would give him his revenge. No one could beat...

Selected as one of the Best Australian Fiction titles for 2023 by Readings BooksShortlisted, Literary Fiction Book of the Year, ABIA AwardsShortlisted, Fiction Award, South Australian Literary AwardsShortlisted, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, NSW Premier's Literary Awards No life is simple, and no life is without sorrow. No life is perfect. Two middle-aged men meet on an internet date. Each...

Special edition to coincide with the Australian release of the film Dead Europe. An unsettling, brilliant novel about the truths and lies of mythology and history from the acclaimed author of The Slap. Isaac is a photographer in his mid-30s, travelling through Europe. It is the post-Cold War Europe of a united currency, illegal immigration, and a globalised homogenous culture....

Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, brutality, sacrifice and revelation. This incendiary collection of stories from acclaimed writer Christos Tsiolkas, bestselling author of The Slap and Barracuda, takes you deep into worlds both strange and familiar, and introduces you to characters who will never let you go and situations that will haunt you forever. "...one of the most significant...

Winner of the 2021 Melbourne Prize for Literature Art is not only about rage and justice and politics. It is also about pleasure and joy; it is also about beauty... In a time of rage and confusion, I wanted to write about beauty. -Christos Tsiolkas A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from...

Winner of the 2021 Melbourne Prize for Literature Art is not only about rage and justice and politics. It is also about pleasure and joy; it is also about beauty... In a time of rage and confusion, I wanted to write about beauty. -Christos Tsiolkas A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from...

The first novel from the author of the bestselling The Slap. Families can detonate. Some families are torn apart forever by one small act, one solitary mistake. In my family it was a series of small explosions; consistent, passionate, pathetic. Cruel words, crude threats... We spurred each other on till we reached a crescendo of pain and we retired exhausted...