Xou Creative: 56 books

Winner of the 2014 Viva La Novella Prize'This extraordinary book is so beautiful, its heartbeat loud and clear as a bell. Filled with a voice that is both innocent and wise, it is a literary embodiment of the Heart Sutra.’ Alice PungWhen the dead begin speaking to sixteen-year-old Kim Nguyen, her...

In collaboration with SWEATSHOP: Western Sydney Literacy Movement, Seizure is proud to publish Stories of Sydney.Stories of Sydney celebrates the diversity that exists in this city. A place that is simultaneously welcoming and prejudiced, kind and cruel, aspirational and eccentric in its mundanity. The...

From Sami Shah comes Fire Boy, an urban fantasy set in modern-day Pakistan, where djinns roam the street alongside corrupt cops, hustling beggars, and creatures from the darkest corners of Eastern mythology. Growing up in Karachi isn’t easy. Wahid has a lot on his mind: the girl he likes, mostly,...

Journeying to the world of djinns was never going to be easy; Wahid just didn’t know it would be this hard. Is his travelling companion the Devil called Iblis a worthy friend, or a sinister enemy? And what manner of underworld beast will assault them next as they look for the soul of Maheen? Whatever...

When Mister Rainbow finds a headless honcho in a Kings Cross alleyway, the tattoo around the corpses neck leaves little doubt as to its identity. Thomas L. Tycho was everybodys enemy a trickster, a dirty dealer, and a wide boy who made the mistake of wide boys the world over not making himself a great...

You think your phones are bugged and people are out to get you. Everyone’s a suspect and violence is the answer to everything. Put bluntly, you’re a psychopath who might one day kill a loved one in mistake for the Devil. You describe your nemesis as ‘horribly scarred’ one minute and ‘beautiful’...

When a few too many dead bodies turn up on Sydneys mean streets, Mister Rainbows too busy to investigate – until an old flame goes up in smoke.Then its no holds barred as the famous PI with the dancing feet finds himself pitted against the citys crooked gamblers – and the dame determined to whip...

Stories of life, love & family from the bestselling author of Baby Love A distraught father is prevented from comforting his little boy. A baby’s life is put in danger by a well-meaning but offbeat couple. Two mothers fight each other for the love of their son. A couple’s desperation for a child...

One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the 20th-century French writer Andre Gide spent his childhood. Recalling the excitement he felt when he first read Gide as a teenager, Dessaix sets off to recapture what it was that once drew him so strongly...

Having barely made it out of Orphancorp alive, Mirii is on a mission to find the most important babe in her life, Vu. Vu has been taken to ‘Psynode’, a secret facility operated by the megacorp Allnode. After wrangling her way into the Allnode warehouse as a picker, Mirii meets Rowe, the daughter...

Something mysterious is happening on the South Pacific island of Motulava. A plane goes missing. Then a scientist. Then the search parties.The enraged President wants answers and for the development of the island to carry on unimpeded but the jungle holds a secret no one can grasp ...Enter Jim of a...

Winner of the 2015 Seizure Viva La Novella Prize ‘Dazzling, intelligent and heart-rending. I have long been a fan of Collins, and this is why.’ Toni Jordan Determined to discover the truth about the disappearance of her partner, Nick, Ana sets out to re-trace the route he took as a photojournalist...

The only toddler book needed to keep parents informed, sane and smiling. Urbanbaby.com.auRecommended by Choice MagazineFrom the no. 1 bestselling author of Baby Love comes The Mighty Toddler, the most comprehensive, practical and informative guide to raising children aged one to four.Xoums fully revised...

For more than forty years, Len Evans cajoled, charmed and bullied his fellow Australians into drinking wine. He left England for beer-soaked Australia in the 1950s, and soon found work as glass washer in a Sydney pub. From these humble beginnings was launched one of the wine industry’s great careers....