Books from Picador Australia

  • The First Stone: Some Questions about Sex and Power
    The First Stone: Some Questions about Sex and Power
    By Helen Garner

    The book focuses on Garner's personal response to the event and greater issues of sex and power. The author has written many acclaimed novels and short stories, including 'Monkey Grip' and 'The Last Days of Chez Nous'.

  • Shantaram
    Shantaram
    By Gregory David Roberts

    This is the setting of Shantaram. Apart from having this highly unusual personal background, Greg Roberts is a very gifted writer.

  • Shantaram: A Novel
    Shantaram: A Novel
    By Gregory David Roberts

    This is the setting of Shantaram.Apart from having this highly unusual personal background, Greg Roberts is a very gifted writer.

  • Brief Encounters: Literary Travellers in Australia 1836-1939
    Brief Encounters: Literary Travellers in Australia 1836-1939
    By Susannah Fullerton

    Davies, Hunter, The Teller of Tales: In Search of Robert Louis Stevenson, Sinclair Stevenson, UK, 1994 Ellison, Joseph W, ... Letter 2214 'beautiful places, green forever ... desire to go there', The Quest For Robert Louis Stevenson, ...

  • We Never Asked for Wings
    We Never Asked for Wings
    By Vanessa Diffenbaugh

    Honest and compelling, We Never Asked for Wings is about family; it's about the decisions we take, the mistakes we make, the people we trust and, above all, how - and where - we find love.

  • It's Too Late to Die Young Now
    It's Too Late to Die Young Now
    By Andrew Mueller

    It's Too Late to Die Young Now answers the question: what became of the rock writer the day the music died?

  • People Like Us
    People Like Us
    By Waleed Aly

    No two civilisations have spoken so many words about each other in recent years as those of Islam and the West. And no two seem to have communicated less. People...

  • That Deadman Dance
    That Deadman Dance
    By Kim Scott

    In playful, musical prose, the book explores the early contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the first European settlers. The novel's hero is a young Noongar man named Bobby Wabalanginy.

  • Taboo
    Taboo
    By Kim Scott

    We learn alongside them how countless generations of Noongar may have lived in ideal rapport with the land. This is a novel of survival and renewal, as much as destruction; and, ultimately, of hope as much as despair.

  • A Great Hope
    A Great Hope
    By Jessica Stanley

    Jessica Stanley's A Great Hope is that kind of magic novel; a literary, multi-generational family saga that's ambitious, smart and wholly engaging. Here is a book that wields a page-turning plot and gripping, complicated characters.

  • The Poison Principle
    The Poison Principle
    By Gail Bell

    Herself a chemist, she listened for echoes in the great cases of the nineteenth century, in myths, fiction, and poison lore. Intricate, elegant, and beautifully realised, this is a book about family secrets and literary poisonings.

  • The Patron Saint of Eels
    The Patron Saint of Eels
    By Gregory Day

    Winner of the Patrick White Literary Award A contemporary fable, this book shows that when life seems dull and cruel it is the power of the natural world, and our ability to imagine it, that can bring the wonder back into living.

  • Ron McCoy's Sea of Diamonds
    Ron McCoy's Sea of Diamonds
    By Gregory Day

    Written in a precise, painterly style, Gregory Day's follow-up to his award-winning debut novel, The Patron Saint of Eels, is a powerful meditation on belonging, on landscape, and on love.

  • A Lovely and Terrible Thing
    A Lovely and Terrible Thing
    By Chris Womersley

    This collection is playful, and skips between the known and unknown, the palatable and uncomfortable. Like water, these stories are unpredictable, often turbulent, and contain great depth.

  • The Diplomat
    The Diplomat
    By Chris Womersley

    Praise for The Diplomat 'This is a gem of a novel, full of all the good stuff - love, art, failure, heartbreak - told in a clear, strong voice brimming with loss and longing. A novel of propulsive storytelling and moving depth.

  • Bridge of Clay
    Bridge of Clay
    By Markus Zusak

    " Entertainment Weekly "As with The Book Thief, much of the appeal of the novel lies in Zusak's heartfelt love for his characters and for language. The book sings in short musical sentences like poetry, and words stop you in your tracks.

  • Highway to Hell: The Life and Death of Bon Scott
    Highway to Hell: The Life and Death of Bon Scott
    By Clinton Walker

    Since it was first published in Australia in 1994 - and subsequently in Britain and the US - Highway to Hell has become a classic of rock writing, and a classic Australian biography.When Bon Scott, front man of one of rock's biggest-ever ...

  • The Lucky Galah
    The Lucky Galah
    By Tracy Sorensen

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 RUSSELL PRIZE FOR HUMOUR WRITING SHORTLISTED FOR THE UST GLENDA ADAMS AWARD FOR NEW WRITING (2019 NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS) SHORTLISTED FOR THE READINGS PRIZE FOR NEW AUSTRALIAN FICTION 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE ...

  • Joe Cinque's Consolation
    Joe Cinque's Consolation
    By Helen Garner

    His girlfriend and her best friend were charged with murder. Helen Garner followed the trials in the ACT Supreme Court. Compassionate but unflinching, this is a book about how and why Joe Cinque died.

  • Those Who Come After
    Those Who Come After
    By Elisabeth Holdsworth

    She travels the world. At the end of her career, against the backdrop of drought and a crumbling marriage, she tells of what happened after the war. For herself, yes, and for all those who come after.