In her debut poetry book, the acclaimed author of Saudade unravels myths of homecoming and return, belonging and displacement, patrimony and sovereignty. Marked by its attention to the body, its strengths and infirmities, The Prodigal explores the experience of suffering through earthly and human ecologies and primordial connections.

In the character of Abraham Quin – a thrice-divorced migrant and writer, and a one-time postman and professor living alone in the Adelaide Hills – one of Australia’s most important novelists writes about the experience of old age. As Quin becomes increasingly engaged in an epistolary correspondence with a woman seeking refuge from the war in Ukraine, he offers up memories and anxieties, obsessions and opinions, and his thoughts on solitude, writing, friendship and time.

Šime Knežević’s first book-length poetry collection gestures towards the elusive and often fragmented reality of dreams and recollections. The poems speak of distance, dislocation and longing, evoked by the poet’s cultural ties to Croatia, the awkwardness of personal relations and the discomforts of language.

First published to acclaim in 1992, and out of print for many years, The Seal Woman is an intense and evocative portrait of a widow in mourning by one of Australia’s most important women writers. The novel explores the mind of a middle-aged Danish woman mourning the recent death of her husband at sea, in a cottage lent to her by friends in the seaside village in Victoria where she had spent her honeymoon.