An extraordinary literary novel, this is prize-winning author Emily Perkins's greatest work to date

Madeleine Wolfe is looking forward to taking her mind off things with some retail therapy - even if her budget stretches to prunes rather than Prada. But her day out takes an unexpected turn for the worse when she is mistakenly arrested in Harrods for shoplifting...

Stories about refugees and asylum seekers from Linda Jaivin, Arnold Zable, Amitav Ghosh, Jamil Ahmad, Abdul Karim Hekmat, Sophie Masson, Anu Kumar, Deepa Agarwal, Michelle Cahill and others. In this collaboration between Indian and Australian writers these stories describe the experiences of refugees in powerful and poignant detail.'

In the tradition of Joe Brainard s I Remember and Georges Perec s Je me souviens, this delightful novel offers a thousand answers to the question, What are you thinking? (Or, as translator Ian Monk puts it: Penny for them? )

Showcases Australias leading historians writing about cultural history, both in theory and practice.

On the eve of her mother's wake, Grace Tay flies to Singapore to join her family. There, she explores her history, looking for answers to the death. This novel evokes the life, traditions and tastes of a Chinese family, moving between Singapore, Malaysia and Australia.