Meanjin A-Z - Fine Fiction 1980 to now
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The Leavers - Winner of the PEN/Bellweather Prize for Fiction
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Narrative Fiction
Narrative Fiction
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Meanjin A-Z - Fine Fiction 1980 To Now

A Passion for Narrative: A Guide for Writing Fiction

This book is not intended to persuade you to take up writing novels or short stories – “It’s going to be a lot of work;” Jack Hodgins warns. Nor will it tell you how to market your stories. But it will take you through the problems facing any fiction writer and show you how some of the best writers in English have solved them.The chapters are clear and comprehensive: Finding Yo...

The Complete Short Fiction

Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners – the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde’s name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in a wide range of literary styles. Victorian moral justice is comically inverted in ‘Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime’ and ‘The Canterville Ghost’, and society’s materialism comes under sharp, humorous critici...

Sing, Unburied, Sing - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2017ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S BEST BOOKS OF 2017SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW STATESMAN, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, TIME AND THE BBC ’A must’ Margaret Atwood’Staggering’ Marlon James’A searing, urgent read’ Celeste Ng’Disarmingly beautiful’ Spectator...

The Glorious Heresies - Winner of the Baileys' Women's Prize for Fiction 2016

WINNER OF THE BAILEYS’ WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE 2016 We all do stupid things when we’re kids. Ryan Cusack’s grown up faster than most – being the oldest of six with a dead mum and an alcoholic dad will do that for you. And nobody says Ryan’s stupid. Not even behind his back. It’s the people around him who are the problem. The gangland boss using...

The Leavers - Winner of the PEN/Bellweather Prize for Fiction

FINALIST, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2017 FINALIST, PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION 2017 WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN/BELLWETHER PRIZE FOR FICTION NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2017 BY OPRAH, NPR, BUZZFEED AND HUFFINGTON POST ’Sensational’ – Guardian ’Utterly immersive’ – Daily Mail ’There was a time I would have called Lisa Ko’s novel beautifully written, ambitious, and moving...

Telling True Stories - Navigating the Challenges of Writing Narrative Non-Fiction

‘In this excellent and provocative book, Matthew Ricketson lays bare the challenges of modern storytelling. I have found myself thinking about it every day, long after I put it down.’ – William Powers, author of Hamlet’s BlackBerry ’An essential guide for the true storyteller.’ – Chloe Hooper, award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction It’s etched into our neurological pathways; we ...

The Dark Circle - Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017

Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction’Extraordinarily affecting’ Alex Preston, Observer ’This is a novel whose engine is flesh and blood, not cold ideas . . . Grant brings the 1950s – that odd, downbeat, fertile decade between war and sexual liberation – into sharp, bright, heartbreaking focus’ – Christobel Kent Guardian All over Britain life is beginning again now the wa...

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In The Name of the Family - A Times Best Historical Fiction of the Year Book

A Times Best Historical Fiction Book of the YearA Cosmopolitan Best Book of the Year A History Today Book of the Year ’Dunant has made completely her own the story of the Italy’s most infamous ruling family . . . in a way that we can see, hear and smell’ Mark Lawson, Guardian ’A stunning tale of power and family . . . In Dunant’s telling of the Borgia story, Lucrezia is not the sluttish pow...

Sight - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 ’A stunning debut’ GuardianIn Jessie Greengrass’ superb debut novel, our unnamed narrator recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death of her own mother ten years before, and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother.Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history...

Lonely Planet Better than Fiction - True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers

“…a brilliant collection of travel stories…threaded with great warmth, as readers are invited to travel in the company of these famous authors and experience their passions and revelations.” BOOKSELLER + PUBLISHER We asked some of the world’s most acclaimed fiction authors, including Isabel Allende, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Tea Obreht and DBC Pierre, to ...

Barkskins - Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the world’s forests. In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, Rene Sel and Ch...

Creating Characters - The Complete Guide to Populating Your Fiction; Foreword by Steven James

Create characters that leap off the page—and into readers’ hearts! Populating your fiction with authentic, vivid characters is a surefire way to captivate your readers from the first sentence to the last. Whether you’re writing a series, novel, short story, or flash fiction, Creating Characters is an invaluable guide to bringing your fictional cast to life. This book is a comprehensive referenc...

The Green Road - Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016

Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2016 Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize Winner of the Irish Novel of the Year 2015 Hanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet return to the west coast of Ireland for a final family Christmas in the home their mother is about to sell. As the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from Ros...

Word Painting Revised - The Fine Art of Writing Descriptively

Paint Masterful Descriptions on the Page! Writing strong descriptions is an art form, one that you need to carefully develop and practice. The words you choose to describe your characters, scenes, settings, and ideas—in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction—need to precisely illustrate the vision you want to convey. Word Painting Revised Edition shows you how to color your canvas with descriptions tha...

Sing, Unburied, Sing - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2017ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S BEST BOOKS OF 2017SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW STATESMAN, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, TIME AND THE BBCFinalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionFinalist for the Kirkus PrizeFinalist for the Andrew Carnegie MedalFinalist for t...

The House of Fiction - Leonard, Susan and Elizabeth Jolley ( a memoir)

Susan Swingler is the step-daughter of one of Australia’s most revered writers – Elizabeth Jolley. Abandoned by her father Leonard at the age of four, Susan had no contact with the Jolley family until they found and reclaimed her at the age of twenty-one. Why they were kept apart is the subject of this startling new memoir. The House of Fiction tells the story of Swingler’s quest to fi...

The Wicked Boy - Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2017

Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2017 The gripping, fascinating account of a shocking murder case that sent late Victorian Britain into a frenzy, by the number one bestselling, multi-award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher ’Her research is needle-sharp and her period detail richly atmospheric, but what is most heartening about this truly remarkable book is the st...

Gerald Murnane - Collected Short Fiction

Definitive collection of the short fiction of anAustralian master-storyteller who is in a league of his own. Released simultaneously with Farrar Straus Giroux’seditions of Border Districts and Collected Short Fiction in New York, anevent which is likely to get international media attention. This volume brings together Gerald Murnane’s shorter works of fiction, mostof which have been out of...

The Writing Book - A Practical Guide for Fiction Writers

The Writing Book doesn’t just talk about how to write fiction; it takes you, step-by-step, through the process of doing it. Each chapter concentrates on one aspect of writing: getting started, bringing characters to life, writing convincing dialogue, revising and writer’s block, etc. Exercises in each chapter are carefully structured so that each one builds on the one before. Examples from con...

The Wicked Boy - Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2017

Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2017 Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to watch a cricket match at Lord’s. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, the boys told their neighbours, and their mother was visiting her fami...