A collection of stories selected by some of Australia's greatest writers as their best or favourite story and edited by Garry Disher. Each author also discusses the story's origins and how it was made, thus providing a glimpse of the writer at work.

Personal best (Imprint)

Garry, Disher

Angus&Robertson

Paul is a dreamer, his head is alive with rippling pianos, gentle violins and the smiles of Margaret, the one he loves.  But in the cold light of day, Margaret snubs him at school, the piano has been sold, his father is battling to keep the farm, and dejected men are tramping the roads ... looking for work, a sandwich, a cup of tea... No-one has time for music or dreams. Then Eric the Red comes along with his silver flute, his knowing wink and boots held together with wire. Eric the Red who knows how to make a flute from a piece of bamboo...

The Bamboo Flute

Children's Books

Action & Adventure

The divine wind

Hodder Headline

Eva's Angel

Lothian Children's Books

A gripping novel about a boy who begins to uncover his past, only to realise it's not so different to to the present. Nat Whistler discovers he's descended from the Whistler who rode with bushranger Captain Kidd. Nat begins to investigate the past, reading the journal of Moondyne Kate, but finds the present dangerous too...Age 11-14.

Moondyne Kate

Hodder

Hachette Australia

Short Story International (SSI) Volume 11, Number 64 (Tales by the World's Great Contemporary Writers Presented Unabridged, Volume 11)

Irena Ioannidou Adamidou

International Cultural Exchange

Who shall inherit the sins of the father?\nTwenty years ago, Charlie Deravin's mother went missing, believed murdered. Her body has never been found, and his father has lived under a cloud of suspicion ever since.\nNow Charlie has returned to the coastal town where his mother vanished, on disciplinary leave from his job with the police sex-crimes unit, and permanent leave from his marriage. After two decades worrying away at the mystery of his mother's disappearance, he's run out of leads.\nThen the skeletal remains of two people are found in the excavation of a new building site... and the past comes crashing in on Charlie.

The Way It Is Now: a totally gripping and unputdownable Australian crime thriller

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Viper

The Way It Is Now

'Disher is the gold standard for rural noir' CHRIS HAMMER 
'The equal of Joseph Wambaugh and James Lee Burke' - THE TIMES\nWHEN HATE RUNS DEEP, THE INNOCENT SUFFER\nConstable Paul Hirschausen's rural beat in the low hills of South Australia is wide. Daybreak to day's end, dirt roads and dust. Every problem that besets small towns and isolated properties, from unlicensed driving to arson.\nBut now, just as Hirsch has begun to feel he knows the fragile communities under his care, the isolation and fear of the pandemic have warped them into something angry and unrecognisable. Hirsch is seeing stresses heightened and social divisions cracking wide open. His own tolerance under strain; people getting close to the edge.\nToday he's driving an international visitor around: Janne Van Sant, whose backpacker son went missing while the borders were closed. They're checking out his last photo site, his last employer. A feeling that the stories don't quite add up.\nThen a call comes in: a roadside fire. Nothing much - a suitcase soaked in diesel and set alight - but two noteworthy facts emerge. Janne knows more than Hirsch about forensic evidence. And the body in the suitcase is not her son's.\nFrom the multiple Ned Kelly Award-winning author of Consolation comes a stunning new thriller, for readers of Jane Harper, Ian Rankin and Chris Hammer.

Day's End

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