1. The global invention of the Australian novel Paul Giles; 2. Colonial adventure novels Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver; 3. Beyond Britain and the book: the nineteenth-century Australian novel unbound/ed Katherine Bode, Sarah Galletly and Carol Hetherington; 4. Transnational optics: the late colonial fiction of Ada Cambridge and Catherine Martin Robert Dixon; 5. The novel in the late colonial period: the book trade, readers and their cultural outlook Paul Eggert; 6. Love is not enough: Australian romantic fiction from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century Hsu-Ming Teo; 7. The Australian crime novel, 1830–1950 Rachel Franks; 8. The novel nation: critical histories for the Australian novel, 1850s–1970s David Carter; 9. Selling Australian stories to the world: the dynamics of twentieth century publishing Roger Osborne; 10. Women Writers and the Emerging Urban Novel, 1930–1952 Meg Brayshaw; 11. The National trilogy and mining Philip Mead; 12. Nation and environment in the twentieth century novel Tony Hughes-d'Aeth; 13. Henry Handel Richardson, Christina Stead and the transnational fiction of provincial development Fiona Morrison; 14. The mid-century Australian novel and the end of world history Elizabeth McMahon; 15. Race, romance and anxiety: a history of mid-twentieth century commercial fiction Catriona Elder; 16. Whiteness, aboriginality and representation in the twentieth century Australian novel Michael R. Griffiths; 17. When the twain meet: the Australian novelist in Asia David Walker; 18. From bunyip to boom: Australian fiction, 1955–1975 Paul Sharrad; 19. Unsettling archive: suburbs in Australian fiction Brigid Rooney; 20. The novel at arms: rereading Australian mid-century realism Nicole Moore; 21. 'Our least-known best seller': Alan Yates and Australian pulp fiction Andrew Nette; 22. Writing, women and the Australian novel Tanya Dalziell; 23. White Lies: colonial mythology and the decolonial impasse in the award-winning novels of Roger McDonald, Kim Scott and Alex Miller Christopher Lee; 24. The economics of the literary novel Emmett Stinson; 25. Mabo, history, sovereignty: the contemporary postcolonial novel Geoff Rodoreda; 26. Indigenous futurism Iva Polak; 27. The regional novel in Australia Emily Potter and Brigid Magner; 28. Children's and young adult literature Michelle J. Smith; 29. Grunge, nation and literary generations: Christos Tsiolkas and genre Jessica Gildersleeve; 30. The making of the Asian Australian novel Emily Zong; 31. Screening the Australian novel, 1971–2020 Imelda Whelehan and Claire McCarthy; 32. Australian fantasy, crime and romance fiction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Beth Driscoll and Kim Wilkins; 33. Uncertain futures: climate fiction in Australian literature Jessica White; 34. A (Sovereign) body of work: Australian indigenous literary culture and the literary fiction novel Eugenia Flynn; 35. The novel road to the global south: Australian fiction, international exposure and the transnational politics of disadvantage Sascha Morrell; 36. The fortunes of the miles franklin: Australian life in all its phases Nicholas Birns; 37. The Arab-Australian novel: between Nation and Diaspora Jumana Bayeh; 38. Riddling the nation: allegory in twenty-first century Australian fiction by women Maria Takolander; 39. Migrant writing and the invention of Australia Lynda Ng.