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A heart-renching exploration of loneliness as a damaged and alienated protagonist tries to come to grips with the nature of love and friendship. Helen Gildfind lives in Melbourne and has been published in Australia and overseas. 
‘Quarry’ was completed as part of a short-story collection...

Griffith Review’s seventh annual edition dedicated to the novella eschews a set theme to showcase work across a spectrum of subjects. Open to both fiction and creative non-fiction, Griffith Review’s dedication to the novella form has been hailed by Nick Earls as central to the revival of the form...

Winner of the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, Acorn Foundation Literary Award Western Australia, the wheatbelt. Lew McLeod has been travelling and working with Painter Hayes since he was a boy. Shearing, charcoal burning, whatever comes. Painter made him his first pair of shoes. It's a...

In The Lucky Country*, Donald Horne wanted to capture ‘what the huge continent was like…before it was peopled from all over Asia’. Sixty years later, we need to ask what Australia is like today, as it is being ‘peopled from all over Asia’, and what a century of nation building in the image...

‘The Starlings is another brilliant offering from this talented Australian author.’ BookMooch It’s March 1985 and Nicky Starling is turning eight, but it’s a sad day. Nicky’s grandmother Didie has just died. Almost worse—his father’s beloved football team has lost the first match...

A classic of Australian literature, with an introduction by Dr Brenda Niall. It is 1949, and Guy Langton's house, like his family's fortunes, has seen better days. The wealth and social standing that his grandparent's generation enjoyed is all but gone. Only ageing uncles and half-remembered...

The Birthmark is an irresistible page-turner, a novel that takes us into a world of adventure and secrets, a place where the past and present collide with astonishing results. The Birthmark interweaves the stories of two generations on the fictional Pacific island of Tevua, north-east of Australia....

Forensic psychiatrist Natalie King works with victims and perpetrators of violent crime. Women with a history of abuse, mainly. She rides a Ducati a size too big and wears a tank top a size too small. Likes men but doesn’t want to keep one. And really needs to stay on her medication. Now...

It's an hour by plane from Dili to Darwin. It may as well be a hundred years, as Kate discovers when her daughter comes down with Dengue fever. Kearney embraces the complexities of the mythic and contemporary reality of life in East Timor. This novella originally appeared in Griffith REVIEW 38: The Novella Project.