The Norseman’s Song is a stylish blend of gothic mystery and modern crime noir. Evoking the spirit of Joseph Conrad and Edgar Allan Poe, Joel Deane creates a violent and lyrical vision of contemporary Australia with the pace and energy of a road movie and the haunting atmosphere of a nightmare.

Torpedo Greatest Hits showcases the best writing from the first three years of Torpedo, Australia’s most innovative fiction quarterly. Featuring the best of a new generation of writers from Australia and around the world, including Steven Amstredam, Toby Litt, Krissy Kneen, Clancy Martin, Josephine Rowe, and Jon Bauer, plus graphics from Oslo Davis, Mandy Ord, and Paul O’Connell.

The Convalescent is the story of a small, bearded man selling meat out of a bus parked next to a stream in suburban Virginia, USA . . . and also, somehow, the story of 10,000 years of Hungarian history.

Set in contemporary India, Big Girl Now follows the story of a young woman who moves from a small hill town to Bangalore. This is one of the first Indian novels to explore the situation of a young girl in a big city and to do so in a way that balances cynicism with wit, warmth with uncertainty, existential doubts with the pulls of the everyday world.

Set against the backdrop of a small Indian hill town called Shillong, this title is a beautiful lyrical novel about three lives in limbo. A compelling debut by a major new talent, will appeal to readers of Arundhati Roy.

A father teaches his daughter how to break whiskey bottles. A woman looks for an old lover in a satellite photograph. A man finds the voice of his dead wife on an unlabelled cassette tape. A blind girl dreams about the taste of the moon.

Tony Birch’s first collection of stories, Shadowboxing, was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards in 2006 and was voted top five in a State Library of Victoria poll of readers’ all-time favorite books set in Victoria.

Published to mark the 25th anniversary of the author’s death, this modern American classic celebrates Richard Brautigan at his wry, playful best.