Xou Creative: 56 books

Seizure Doubles is a series of ebooks highlighting some of the excellent writing that has been published in Seizure, Australia's number one creative platform, bringing you the best and most cutting-edge writing we can get our hands on.CRIME features P.M. Newtons stunning essay, The Sadistic Art of...

‘Of the many anthologies coming out of university writing programs, the annual UTS collection has always been the standout.’ Kerryn Goldsworthy, The Sydney Morning Herald The UTS Writers’ Anthology is an annual publication produced by the University of Technology, Sydney. Students from the undergraduate,...

‘Of the many anthologies coming out of university writing programs, the annual UTS collection has always been the standout.’ Kerryn Goldsworthy, The Sydney Morning HeraldThe UTS Writers’ Anthology is an annual publication produced by the University of Technology, Sydney. Students from the undergraduate,...

At least one in three legal professionals suffers from depression. A litigious culture, extreme hours and relentless pressure both internal and external can all take their toll. Young lawyer Jerome Doraisamy learnt the hard way how pushing yourself to the physical and emotional limit can wreak havoc...

When Dr William Macbeth poisoned two of his sons in 1927, his wife and sister hid the murders in the intensely private realm of family secrets. Macbeth behaved as if he were immune to consequences and avoided detection and punishment. Or did he? Secrets can be as corrosive as poison, and as time passed,...

Winner of the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award Every night for twenty nights in a hotel room in Venice, an Australian man recently diagnosed with an incurable disease writes a letter home to a friend. In these letters, against a rich background...

It is nearly twenty years since Scheherazade spun her tales for a thousand and one nights; the tales that saved her life and immortalised the city that she had never seen until now. Scheherazade and her husband, King Shahriyar, arrive in Baghdad to a rapturous welcome from the Caliph and his people,...

Do you long for a life brimming with opportunity and fulfilment? An Abundant Life introduces Dr Ezzie Spencer’s Lunar Abundance practice a way of living in the flow: a state of open mind and heart and peaceful effectiveness. Based on the eight phases of the Moon, An Abundant Life is a practical guide...

Do we all have a spirit guide to watch over us? Where do our loved ones go when they die? Can they return to visit and what signs do they send? Drawing on his remarkable life and experiences, celebrity medium Mitchell Coombes explains what happens when people die including what happens to children and...

Winner of the 2015 Seizure Viva La Novella Prize ‘Original, intelligent and compelling a rare combination. Formaldehyde pulls off a complex narrative with frequent time and point-of-view shifts without ever losing the reader. For a novella that borders on the Kafkaesque, it has a good deal of heart....

When the three runaways — Sal, Shilly and Skender — finally arrive at the remote island of the Haunted City, home of the Sky Wardens, Sal’s great-aunt, the Syndic, is determined to keep them under control. And if that means imprisonment, so be it. But the Syndic isn’t the least of Sal’s worries....

Sal’s life has been thrown into turmoil. Homeless and haunted by a past he never suspected he had, he is unsure where he is running to — but Shilly is very clear on what she wants. She wants to find Lodo’s old teacher and learn from him. To search for the Mage Van Haasteren they must head north...

Winner of the 2015 Seizure Viva La Novella Prize ‘Takes all of your dystopian nightmares and connects them to a mother lode of pure emotional intensity. There’s so much keen detail here about the cruel logic of oppressive institutions, you’ll feel Mirii’s yearning for freedom in your bones and...

From the bestselling author of Huckstepp comes a riveting new novel of intrigue and suspense. When Dimitri Telegonus is promoted to the Serious Unsolved Crime Unit to investigate the disappearance of a beautiful blonde escort, he thinks he’s finally made the big time. He’d always wanted to do detective...