Books from Picador Australia
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El Dorado
By Dorothy PorterHe believes in Childhood Innocence, and he will kill to entomb them there...This is a book about a friendship under siege, and how jealousy and betrayal cast very long shadows - which can stalk you to the grave.
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The Monkey's Mask
By Dorothy PorterWinner of the 1994 'Age' Poetry Book of the Year, the National Book Council for Poetry and the Braille Book of the Year. Previous titles include several collections of poems and other verse novels, 'Akhenaten' and 'What a Piece of Work'.
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Akhenaten
By Dorothy PorterAkhenaten was a fascinating, shadowy figure in Egyptian history - archaeologists have discovered attempts to eradicate all traces of his brief reign, but enough remains to tell a remarkable story of incest, heresy, androgyny and a massive ...
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Little White Slips
By Karen HitchcockAn outstanding collection of short fiction from a bold new voice in contemporary literature. The 13 stories in Karen Hitchcock's debut collection Little White Slips showcase a formidable new talent.
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Minding the Earth, Mending the World
By Susan MurphyBy shining a sober light on the current state of emergency, Murphy delivers a brilliant rethink of the crisis we face, radically reimagining the stories we tell ourselves about the world, and illuminating the ways humanity might become the ...
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Life In His Hands
By Susan WyndhamAlexander Hughes Bennett, a neurologist at the National Hospital in London, was certain the man had a brain tumour, and that he could identify its precise location and remove it. It was understood by that time that each hemisphere of ...
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Wolfe Island
By Lucy TreloarThanks to my lovely agent Fiona Inglis, and to Geordie Williamson for timely reading suggestions and for believing in the project from the beginning. Thanks to my amazing supervisors Paddy O'Reilly and Alexis Harley at LaTrobe ...
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A Nest of Occasionals
By Tony MartinI recall how one time when Mrs Kemp read aloud the story of 'Little Black Sambo', three Maori boys stood up from their desks and walked silently to the corridor . . . and Mrs Kemp did nothing to stop them. It was electrifying.
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Lies I Told About a Girl
By Anson CameronHe's just and only a boy.
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The Paper House
By Anna Spargo-Ryan"Gorgeously written and genuinely assured, The Paper House is a moving and viscerally real portrait of family bonds pushed to their limits ... Anna Spargo-Ryan is a rising star." Jo...
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Collected Poems: 1958 - 2015
By Clive JamesThe "technically and emotionally heart-stopping poems" (Spectator) of Clive James are collected in this decades-spanning volume. Clive James's reputation as a poet has become impossible to ignore.
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Just Between Us
By VariousWhich doesn't mean the pain is less - quite the opposite, as we discover in this extraordinary collection of heartfelt fiction and non-fiction works that put female friendship in the spotlight.
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
By Colm TóibínIn Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, Colm Tóibín presents an illuminating, intimate study of Irish culture, history and literature told through the lives and works of Ireland's most famous sons, and the complicated, influential relationships ...
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What a Piece of Work
By Dorothy PorterThis verse novel deals with mental illness and tells of the efforts of the new superintendent at Callan Park Psychiatric Hospital to cure diseased minds.
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Taming the Beast
By Emily Maguire" Sydney Morning Herald "what you get, along with a sharp mind and a keenness to investigate cultural confusions, is an engaging ability to put the vitality of the story first." Weekend Australian
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The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers and Selected Stories
By Delia FalconerThis publication includes the novel, The lost thoughts of soldiers, together with a selection of stories.
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Lies I Told About a Girl
By Anson CameronHe's just and only a boy.
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Sons of the Rumour
By David Foster... used in treating aconite poisoning, bound for the court of the Byzantine king; gum guggul, the frankincense adulterant, ... proboscis monkeys from Borneo bound for Chang'an; there was Khotanese jade, red Idrisid coral, pods of musk, ...
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Last Day in the Dynamite Factory
By Annah Faulkner'Silence, Chris discovered, is easy.
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The Gospel According to Luke
By Emily Maguire" Sydney Morning Herald "what you get, along with a sharp mind and a keenness to investigate cultural confusions, is an engaging ability to put the vitality of the story first." Weekend Australian