Christos Tsiolkas

• Dec-1996
• / General Fiction
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Families can detonate. Some families are torn apart forever by one small act, one solitary mistake. In my family it was a series of small explosions; consistent, passionate, pathetic. Cruel words, crude threats... We spurred each other on till we rea...

• 2008
• / Literary
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The slap seemed to echo. The little boy looked up at the man in shock. There was a long silence. IN THIS POWERFUL AND RIVETING NOVEL, literary phenomenon Christos Tsiolkas unflinchingly exposes the inner workings of domestic life, friendship, and pa...

• May-2012
• / General Fiction
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Compelling short fiction from Christos Tsiolkas, bestselling author of The Slap.'My God,' she thought, a coldness settling in her, 'do I hate him?' After witnessing her teenage son insult a disabled girl, a mother struggles with contempt for her chil...

• Sep-2014
• / Psychological Suspense
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Fourteen-year-old Daniel Kelly is special. Despite his upbringing in working-class Melbourne, he knows that his astonishing ability in the swimming pool has the potential to transform his life, silence the rich boys at the private school to which he ...

• Dec-2015
• / Literary
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Isaac, a young Australian photographer, is travelling through Europe. His whole life he has longed for the sophistication and wealth of the Europe of his father s stories, the Europe at the centre of civilisation and culture.

But behind the fac...

• Nov-2016
• / General Fiction
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From the international bestselling and Booker Prize nominated author of The Slap comes a blazingly brilliant new novel.One of the earliest Christos Tsiolkas novels - a dark, violent, pornographic and vividly imagined portrayal of family life behind c...

• Jun-2017
• / Literary
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Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, brutality, sacrifice and revelation.

This incendiary collection of stories from acclaimed writer Christos Tsiolkas, bestselling author of The Slap and Barracuda, takes you deep into ...

• Mar-2020
• / Historical
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'We are despised, yet we grow. We are tortured and crucified and yet we flourish. We are hated and still we multiply. Why is that? You must wonder, how is it we survive?' In a far corner of the Roman Empire, a radical sect is growing. Alone, unloved...

• Sep-2021
• / Literary
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• Feb-2022
• / General Fiction
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A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in the pyrotechnic beauty of nature, just as the world he has shut out is experiencing a cataclysmic shift. The pr...