STORY SNIPPETS
Looking for a great new Australian story to read?
To celebrate Australian Reading Hour, get a taste of eight fantastic works of fiction from Australian authors.
Each book features on special Story Snippets posters, which you can download and share for free to spread the bookish love!
“As we landed I felt a rush of conflicting emotions, anxiety and excitement, and a nostalgia I felt deep in my bones.”
Read the first chapter for free of Once a Stranger by Zoya Patel.
“Unfortunately for Alice, writing a novel was not the same as playing a game of Trivial Pursuits. It was much harder to win at writing a novel.”
Read the first chapter for free of This Devastating Fever by Sophie Cunningham.
“IT WAS BELIEVED a whale had gone mad at the mouth of the river. Several fishing boats had been destroyed in acts of violence so extraordinary they were deemed inhuman.”
Read the first chapter for free of Limberlost by Robbie Arnott.
“On a gloomy Tuesday morning in early August, Freycinet Barnes wakes with a potent and unaccountable sense of dread.”
Read the first chapter for free of The Angry Women’s Choir by Meg Bignell.
“There was not, and never had been, any beholder alive who would have said Wish & Co’s rented premises were any kind of beautiful.”
Read the first chapter for free of With Love from Wish & Co by Minnie Darke.
“The legend said that if you didn’t see his face he wouldn’t take you.”
Read the first chapter for free of The Bluffs by Kyle Perry.
“Lilian slipped the key into the Narnia door’s lock and turned it until she heard it click. They had made it.”
Read the first chapter for free of The Gifted Son by Genevieve Gannon.
“This is the place where I knew my mother, knew her for the first and last time.”
Read the first chapter for free of The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey.