* Fans of Farahad Zama will applaud his nimble use of well-drawn exotic locations and gently humorous depictions of a colourful cast of characters, who find themselves taking part in an exciting story full of challenges for them all.

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.'

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...

A funny, sexy and bittersweet novel about the joys and miseries of sisterhood

Police were called to a housing estate an hour west of Melbourne. They found a five-year-old boy lying on the carpet. The paramedics could see no obvious signs of trauma other than an almost imperceptible indentation to his skull, but he died the next day. His mother said he was attacked on the way home. But local gossip pointed to his sister...

From the award-winning journalist who first broke the story, here - in forensic detail - is the incredible true story of how the Australian Wheat Board funnelled hundreds of millions of dollars to Saddam Hussein's regime on the eve of the 2003 war.

An uplifting tale of one woman juggling her dream job as a foreign correspondent, the demands of 2-year-old twins, a high-flying husband who can't get a green card, and all the temptations of life in New York.