From the bestselling author of The Slap comes a novel of shimmering intensity - a young man's journey in the land of his ancestors becomes a wild and page-turning flight from a crime that he did not commit, but is doomed to repeat.

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, THE SLAP is the most talked-about novel of 2010, and looks set to be the most read book of 2011.

At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly 3-year-old boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but this one slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it happen.

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, THE SLAP was the most talked-about novel of 2010, and looks set to be one of the most read book of 2011.

The first two volumes in the series, which is based on the British Film Institute film studies, will be The Devil's Playground and The Mad Max Trilogy by Adrian Martin. The series aims to (re)introduce Australians to their own screen history and broaden their knowledge of screen culture.

Ari is 19, Greek, gay, unemployed and looking for something to take him away from his aimless existence in suburban Melbourne. Caught between the traditional Greek world of his parents and friends and the alluring destructive world of clubs and drugs, Ari eases his pain the only way he knows how.