Fiona McFarlane

WINNER - 2025 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction WINNER - 2025 NSW Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction WINNER - 2025 ALS Gold Medal WINNER - 2025 Story Prize HIGHLY COMMENDED - 2025 Davitt Award for Adult Fiction SHORTLISTED - 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award SHORTLISTED - 2025 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction SHORTLISTED - 2025 Australian...

One morning, Ruth wakes thinking a tiger has been in her seaside house. Later that day, a formidable woman called Frida arrives, looking as if she's blown in from the sea. In fact, she's come to care for Ruth. Frida and the tiger: both are here to stay, and neither is what they seem. Which of them can Ruth trust?...

In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm, and the whole town is intent on finding him. As they search the desert and mountains for the lost child, the residents of Fairly—newlyweds, landowners, farmers, mothers, artists, Indigenous trackers, cameleers, children, schoolteachers, widows, maids, policemen—explore...

The Night Guest introduced an Australian writer 'with the promise of literary greatness' (Los Angeles Times). The High Places delivers on that promise. The dazzling stories in this collection find those moments when people confront the strangeness and mystery of their lives. The revelations of intimidating old friends on holiday. An accident on a dark country road. A marine biologist...

WINNER - 2025 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction WINNER - 2025 NSW Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction WINNER - 2025 Story Prize SHORTLISTED - 2025 Australian Book Industry Award for Literary Fiction Book of the Year SHORTLISTED - 2025 Age Book of the Year Fiction Award LONGLISTED - 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award LONGLISTED - 2025 ALS...

A gripping, enigmatic collection of linked short stories about the reverberations of a serial killer's crimes in the lives of everyday people. In the small town of Barrow, Australia, people go about their ordinary lives. They drive to work through the dense state forest. They raise their families. They flirt and yearn. They lie and confess. Some of them leave...