Michelle de Kretser

A passionate, illuminating tribute to one of Australia’s greatest writers, by Miles Franklin-winning author Michelle de Kretser. Hazzard was the first Australian writer I read who looked outwards, away from Australia. Her work spoke of places from which I had come and places to which I longed to go ... It was reading as an affair of revelations and gifts....

It’s 1986, and ‘beautiful, radical ideas’ are in the air. A young woman arrives in Melbourne to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In bohemian St Kilda, she meets artists, activists, students—and Kit. He claims to be in a ‘deconstructed’ relationship, and they become lovers. Meanwhile, her work on the Woolfmother falls into disarray. Theory & Practice is a mesmerising...

A mesmerising literary novel, Questions of Travel charts two very different lives. Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works for a publisher of travel guides. Ravi dreams of being a tourist guide until he is driven from Sri Lanka by devastating events. Around these two superbly drawn characters, a double narrative assembles an enthralling array of...

SHORTLISTED Miles Franklin Literary Award WINNER Rathbones Folio Prize for Fiction SHORTLISTED Multicultural NSW Award, NSW Premier's Literary Awards SHORTLISTED Kirkus Prize SHORTLISTED Voss Literary Prize LONGLISTED Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 'A novel of luminous intelligence and profound depth, written with verve, humour and exceptional elegance.' - Monica Ali, author of Brick Lane When my family emigrated it...

SHORTLISTED Miles Franklin Literary Award WINNER Rathbones Folio Prize for Fiction SHORTLISTED Multicultural NSW Award, NSW Premier's Literary Awards SHORTLISTED Kirkus Prize SHORTLISTED Voss Literary Prize LONGLISTED Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 'A novel of luminous intelligence and profound depth, written with verve, humour and exceptional elegance.' - Monica Ali, author of Brick Lane When my family emigrated it...

Picking up her pace, Frances saw a woman in the shadowy depths of the garden. She wore a wide hat and a trailing pink dress; a white hand emerged from her sleeve. There came upon Frances a sensation that sometimes overtook her when she was looking at a painting: space was foreshortened, time stilled. When Frances met Charlie at a...

Tom Loxley is holed up in a remote bush shack trying to finish his book on Henry James when his beloved dog goes missing. What follows is a triumph of storytelling, as The Lost Dog loops back and forth in time to take the reader on a spellbinding journey into worlds far removed from the present tragedy. Set in present-day...

Winner, Miles Franklin Literary Award Winner, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction - NSW Premier's Literary Awards Shortlisted, Stella Award Shortlisted, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards - Fiction Shortlisted, Kibble Literary Prize 'I so much admire Michelle de Kretser's formidable technique - her characters feel alive, and she can create a sweeping narrative which encompasses years, and yet still retain the sharp,...

A name is the first story that attaches itself to a life. Consider mine: Stanley Alban Marriott Obeysekere. It tells of geography, history, love and uncertainty. I was born on an island suspended midway on the golden trade route between East and West… Ceylon in the 1930s is a crumbling outpost of empire hemmed in by jungle and tea plantations....