In this mesmerising book, at once fable and history, fiction becomes a way of remaining faithful to the stories of cities strung across the globe like pearls on a string, to the maps and narratives etched in the minds of old men talking in a cafe ...

The Fig Tree is a tender book of true stories about family, about journeys, about home. Zable writes with wonderful feeling about the Greek villagers who made the long journey to and from Australia, about those lost in the Holocaust and postwar di...

In 1958, the Melbourne working-class suburb of Carlton is home to many immigrant families trying to begin new lives. Among them, Romek and Zofia, liberated from the camps in Poland, work hard at the local market, but their love is in ruins. Zofia ...

Xanthe is drawn to Ithaca, the birthplace of her father Manoli and her grandfather Mentor. She is translating Mentor's manuscript, his story of leaving Ithaca and his life in Australia. Sea of Many Returns is a profound meditation on displacement,...