‘While you live, live in clover. For when you’re dead, you’re dead all over.’ — Squizzy Taylor

In razor-sharp prose touched with poetry Chris Grierson brings the secret world of Squizzy Taylor to life.

Winner of the Scott Prize

From medieval Europe to outback Queensland, from war-torn Bosnia to China and on to the shores of the Aral Sea, The Source of the Sound traces the journeys of exiles in search of home.

In subtle, understated prose Patrick Holland charts a world of belonging and loss, lingering in its silence to capture the light that penetrates its deepest shadows. Sparse yet evocative, intimate yet powerful, these stories will resonate with readers long after they are finished.

Tales Of Refugees And Asylum Seekers From Australia And The Indian Subcontinent
Contibutors: Deepa Agarwal, Jamil Ahmad, Ali Alizadeh, Meenakshi Bharat, Michelle Cahill, Susanne Gervay, Amitav Ghosh, Adbul Karim Hekmat, Linda Jaivin, Tabish Khair, Anu Kumar, Andrew Y M Kwong, Julia Mackay-Koelen, Sophie Masson, Joginder Paul, Sharon Rundle, Sujata Sankranti, Bijoya Sawian and Arnold Zable

‘In brooding, other-worldly prose, Mridula Koshy tells us the stories other writers overlook, or do not wish to tell … If It Is Sweet is a book of savage, beautiful writing, whose empathy and curiosity flood over the usual barricades of the imagination’. — Rana Dasgupta, Winner of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize

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.

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.