William Lane

Ambrose and Ursula, two librarians, strive to have a baby in a world where children seem less prevalent. Their story becomes increasingly punctuated by seemingly random episodes of violence inflicted upon their world as Bottrell, a fascist leader, preys on the insecurities of a populace saturated with information and the act of remembering. He attempts to master the past, viewing...

She wanted to photograph time: everything lost to time, and everything returned by it. Anna grows up in a third-storey unit in Parramatta with her adoptive Russian mother, Sophia. When her teacher, Miss Glass, gives her a Box Brownie camera, small acts of observation coupled with the art of photography become her escape. On visiting the suburb of Castle Hill...

This is the shape-shifting detail of life, the tiny horrible and beautiful things we don't notice until fever or trauma stop us in our tracks; Lane has pulled them from the depths of our psyche and written them into a story of family that shifts and tilts the world we know. Dreamlike, nightmarish, unforgettable. - Jane Rawson, author of A...

The Workingman's Paradise is set in the context of the defeat of the shearer's and maritime strikes of the early 1890s. The novel is essential reading for an appreciation of the context of the rise of the union movement in Australia. William Lane was born in Bristol, England in 1861, and died in Auckland, New Zealand in 1917. In 1885,...