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Steven Amsterdam

'Okay, tell me which do you want: to be able to fly or to be invisible?' 
 
This question leads to thirty years of discoveries, extraordinary strengths and closely guarded secrets. 
 
'To tell you the narrative concens a family whose members have superpowers is only to graze the surface of a moving and beautifully realised meditation on what it is to be an ordinary human being' 
Australian 
 
'A wonderful novel: imaginative, intelligent, empathetic... Like a cross between The Corrections and The Slap' 
Sydney Morning Herald 
 
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 ENCORE AWARD

What the Family Needed

Haruki Murakami

What will you find in the city? 
 
READERS LOVE THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS‘Felt like stepping into a dream’ 
‘I really loved getting lost in this book’ 
‘Everyone on this planet should read Murakami at least once in their lifetime’ 
‘Riveting and irresistible’ 
‘It’s magical, it’s wise . . . deeply comforting’A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, a breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from the Sunday Times bestseller. 
 
When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he sets his heart on finding the imaginary city where her true self lives. His search will lead him to take a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own. 
 
When he finally makes it to the walled city, a shadowless place of horned beasts and willow trees, he finds his beloved working in a different library – a dream library. But she has no memory of their life together in the other world and, as the lines between reality and fantasy start to blur, he must decide what he’s willing to lose. 
 
PRAISE FOR THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS 
‘Quietly miraculous’ Telegraph‘Bewitching’ Financial Times‘Enveloping’ Independent

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

Joe Stretch

Are you ready to come together? 
 
Are you tired of typing out your interests and hyping up the details of your everyday life? Imagine then a social network that touches and loves, sweats and farts. Imagine romance in real time. Imagine humans licking rather than double clicking each other. Imagine the Wild World. Are you ready to come together? 
 
Lonely, horny and young, Janek, Anka, Roger and Joe find themselves being dragged out of their isolated existences and towards the promise of a perfect future - in the Wild World. Sex lives and real lives and written lives merge and tangle like wires until reality begins to crumble and the sky falls in...

Wildlife

Kirsty Logan

A flooded world. 
A floating circus. 
Two women in search of a home. 
 
North lives on a circus boat with her beloved bear, keeping a secret that could capsize her life. 
 
Callanish lives alone in her house in the middle of the ocean, tending the graves of those who die at sea. As penance for a terrible mistake, she has become a gracekeeper. 
 
A chance meeting between the two draws them magnetically to one another - and to the promise of a new life. 
 
But the waters are treacherous, and the tide is against them. 
 
'The Gracekeepers is enchanting and heart-tugging. If you love Margaret Atwood you'll love this' Sunday Telegraph 
 
'A wondrous read' Stylist 
 
'Clever and original' The Times 
 
'Truly magical' Heat

The Gracekeepers

Ian McEwan

Peter Fortune is a boy who likes to daydream. He dreams about swapping bodies with his cat and with his baby cousin, but he gets so lost he's unsure where one fantasy finishes and the next begins. Cartwheeling through these transformations, Peter eventually finds himself in an adult body experiencing the adventure of falling in love. 
 
'As far-fetched and funny as anything by Roald Dahl' Vogue 
'Perfectly judged, scary, poignant, meaningful; he makes it look easy, but this is brilliantly achieved' Guardian

The Daydreamer

Keith Donohue

Angels of Destruction is the mesmerising story of Norah, a nine-year-old girl who seems to materialise out of thin air when she arrives one bitterly cold night on the doorstep of Margaret Quinn. A widow who lives alone, Margaret has never got over the loss of her own child, a runaway called Erica who fled with her high school sweetheart, Wiley, to join a '60s-style band of West Coast revolutionaries known as Angels of Destruction. 
 
Norah becomes Margaret's secret, a child possessed of magical qualities. But who is she really? And what is her purpose here? And what is this strange child's connection to Margaret's missing daughter?

Angels of Destruction

'Absolutely obsessed. Savage, strange and spicy' Lucy Rose, author of Lamb 
 
Can 'no' be a declaration of love? What happens when love is savage, dangerous and all-consuming? In this gorgeous and unsettling collection, women navigate the complexities and cruelties of desire across time and place, from a medieval convent to a Victorian parlour to a 1990s high school. 
 
Intensely atmospheric, surprising and darkly funny, No & Other Stories is a richly flavoured feast from a brilliant writer in full command of the form. 
 
'Unsettling and addictive, glistening with transgressive thrills and erotic appetites' Daily Mail 
 
'Gleefully depraved, gloriously queer and thrillingly bold' Leon Craig, author of Parallel Hells 
 
'A dark delight, steeped in blood red honey' Heather Parry, author of Orpheus Builds A Girl 
 
'A gothic homage to the visceral, haunting, unnerving nature of human connection' Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller 
 
'Full of strange beauty and shining humour' Stylist 
 
'No one writes about the horrific and the erotic, and the tangled up intersections of both, like Kirsty Logan' Anna Bogutskaya, author of Feeding The Monster 
 
'Darkly graceful, innovative, sexy and funny. Kirsty Logan is a jewel' Camilla Grudova, author of The Doll's Alphabet 
 
'Crackling with smarts, marvellously formally varied, deliciously strange' Laird Hunt, author of Zorrie

No & Other Love Stories

Helen Sedgwick

Two lives. One night sky. 
 
Róisín and François first meet in the snowy white expanse of Antarctica, searching for a comet overhead. 
 
While Róisín grew up in a tiny village in Ireland, ablaze with a passion for science and the skies, François was raised by his restless young mother, who dreamt of new worlds but was unable to turn her back on her past. 
 
As we loop back through their lives we see their paths cross as they come closer and closer to this moment, brought together by the infinite possibilities of the night sky.

The Comet Seekers

Margo Lanagan

In her inspired re-working of the fairy-tale Snow White and Rose Red Margo Lanagan has created characters that are vivid, passionate, flawed and fiercely devoted to their hearts' desires, whether these desires are good or evil. It is the story of two worlds - one real, one magical - and how, despite the safe haven her magical world offers to those who have suffered, her characters can never turn their backs on the real world, with all its beauty and brutality. 
 
Tender Morsels is an astonishing novel, fraught with the tension between love and horror, violence and tenderness, despair and hope.

Tender Morsels

Anne Enright

Man Booker winner Anne Enright’s moving and darkly funny debut novel of sex, death and reproduction 
 
Grace is a TV producer whose life is transfigured when she answers the door to a fully-fledged angel. Stephen was a bridge-builder in Canada before he killed himself, but now that he has come to stay with Grace he spends the night hanging by the neck in her shower, to help himself think. She falls in love, moving steadily from the spiritual to the anatomical. 
 
Meanwhile, as her TV day job on the 'Love Quiz' begins to spiral out of control, on the other side of her life is her father, benign, bewigged and stricken by a stroke - apparently mad but probably the sanest person in her life. As the three worlds meet and merge in a forest of contradictions, we watch Grace take the pacific path from cynicism to innocence, as all around her the novel thunders to a conclusion. 
 
‘Reckless intelligence, savage humour, slow revelation, no consolation: Anne Enright's fiction is jet dark - but how it glitters’ New York Times Book Review

The Wig My Father Wore

Toby Barlow

An ancient race of lycanthropes survives in modern L.A. and its numbers are growing as packs convert the city's downtrodden into their fold. Stuck in the middle are a local dogcatcher and the woman he loves, whose secret past haunts her as she fights a bloody one-woman battle to save their relationship. 
 
Sharp Teeth is a novel-in-verse that blends epic themes with dark humour, dogs playing cards, crystal meth labs, and acts of heartache and betrayal in Southern California.

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