Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Rose Grower | 1999 | Buy |
| The Hamilton Case | 2003 | Buy |
| The Lost Dog | 2008 | Buy |
| Questions of Travel | 2012 | Buy |
| Springtime: A Ghost Story | 2014 | Buy |
| The Life to Come | 2017 | Buy |
| Scary Monsters | 2022 | Buy |
| Theory & Practice | 2024 | Buy |
Writers on Writers Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| On Kate Jennings | 2017 | Buy |
| On John Marsden | 2017 | Buy |
| On Patrick White | 2018 | Buy |
| On J.M. Coetzee | 2018 | Buy |
| On David Malouf | 2019 | Buy |
| On Shirley Hazzard | 2019 | Buy |
| On Robyn Davidson | 2020 | Buy |
| On Beverley Farmer | 2020 | Buy |
| On Thomas Keneally | 2021 | Buy |
| On Helen Garner | 2022 | Buy |
| On Tim Winton | 2022 | Buy |
Michelle de Kretser is an Australian author born in Sri Lanka who writes literary fiction that often explores displacement, cultural identity, and the tension between old and new worlds. She moved to Australia as a teenager and later lived in France, and these cross-cultural experiences inform her fiction. Her debut novel, The Rose Grower (1999), was set during the French Revolution, and The Hamilton Case (2003) drew on the colonial history of her native Sri Lanka.
De Kretser has published eight novels across a career spanning twenty-five years. Questions of Travel (2012) and The Life to Come (2017) both won the Miles Franklin Award, and her more recent works Scary Monsters (2022) and Theory & Practice (2024) continue her exploration of lives shaped by migration, memory, and cultural dislocation. She is also associated with the Writers on Writers essay series published by Black Inc.