Gail Jones

Winner of the Kibble Literary Award. Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, the Adelaide Festival Award for Literature, The ALS Gold Medal, the Barbara Jefferis Prize, and the Indies Award. On a radiant day in Sydney, four adults converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Crowds of tourists mix with...

This is a story that can only be told in a whisper... In the remote outback of North-west Australia, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife Stella raise a curious child, Perdita. Her childhood is far from ordinary; a shack in the wilderness, with a distant father burying himself in books and an unstable mother whose knowledge of Shakespeare forms...

The Death of Noah Glass is a touching portrait of love, loss, and regret, now available in a smaller, competitively priced edition. Winner of the 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award The art historian Noah Glass, having just returned from a trip to Sicily, is discovered floating face down in the...

Eminent Australian author Gail Jones examines the intersections of art and life in her distinctively immersive and rich prose. At Cambridge, in the summer of 1992, Australian student Helen is completing her thesis on Joseph Conrad. But she is distracted by a charming and dangerous lover, Justin, and by a ghost manuscript, her anti-thesis, which she has left on a...

Our Shadows tells the story of three generations of a family living in Kalgoorlie, where gold was discovered in 1893 by an Irish-born prospector named Paddy Hannan, whose own history weaves in and out of this beguiling novel. Sisters Nell and Frances were raised by their grandparents and were once closely bound by reading and fantasy. Now they live in...

In this spellbinding new literary novel from award-winning author Gail Jones, the arrival of a mysterious young woman triggers an unstoppable series of events in the nearby town of Broken Hill. A young woman stumbles onto an outback road at night, and is caught in the headlights of an approaching car. Who is she? Nobody knows, and she has lost...

Four historical figures cross paths amidst the chaos of war in this immersive and beautifully written tale by an award-winning Australian novelist Macedonia, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war. Amid the destruction are those who have come to the frontlines to heal- surgeons, ambulance drivers, nurses, orderlies and...

Victoria Morrell was once a great artist. She led the high life—living and working in Paris, mixing with the artists of the Surrealist movement. Her work was largely forgotten in the fifties and sixties, but was rediscovered in the seventies, when she became something of a cult figure on the London art scene. She now lives as a recluse in...

Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and longlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize. A Guide to Berlin is the name of a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1925, when he was a young man of 26, living in Berlin. A group of six international travellers, two Italians, two Japanese, an American and an Australian, meet in empty...