Story Snippets

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!


Book cover: Once A Stranger by Zoya Patel

“As we landed I felt a rush of conflicting emotions, anxiety and excitement, and a nostalgia I felt deep in my bones.”


Read Once a Stranger

 

Read the first chapter for free of Once a Stranger by Zoya Patel. 


Book cover: This Devastating Fever by Sophie Cunningham, featuring a comet in the night sky

“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 This Devastating Fever

Read the first chapter for free of This Devastating Fever by Sophie Cunningham. 


Book cover: Limberlost by Robbie Arnott

“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 Limberlost

 

Read the first chapter for free of Limberlost by Robbie Arnott. 


Book cover: The Angry Women's Choir by Meg Bignell

“On a gloomy Tuesday morning in early August, Freycinet Barnes wakes with a potent and unaccountable sense of dread.”


Read The Angry Women’s Choir

 

Read the first chapter for free of The Angry Women’s Choir by Meg Bignell. 


Book cover: Wish & Co

“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 With Love From Wish & Co

 

Read the first chapter for free of With Love from Wish & Co by Minnie Darke. 


Book cover: The Bluffs by Kyle Perry

“The legend said that if you didn’t see his face he wouldn’t take you.”


Read The Bluffs

 

Read the first chapter for free of The Bluffs by Kyle Perry. 


Book cover: The Gifted Son by Genevieve Gannon

“Lilian slipped the key into the Narnia door’s lock and turned it until she heard it click. They had made it.”


Read The Gifted Son

 

Read the first chapter for free of The Gifted Son by Genevieve Gannon.


Book cover: The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey

“This is the place where I knew my mother, knew her for the first and last time.”


Read The Labyrinth

 

Read the first chapter for free of The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey.