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Melanie Saward
A poignant and powerful novel about a fire-obsessed Indigenous boy living on the margins - from an electrifying new First Nations voice in Australian fiction, Melanie Saward.
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Anna Kate Blair
The Modern is a brilliantly wry and insightful debut about art, sexuality, commitment and whether being on the right path can lead to the wrong place.
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Sara M Saleh
A stunning coming-of-age tale played out across generations and continents, from Palestine to Australia.
Nadine J. Cohen
A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister.
Elise Esther Hearst
Sorrow and Bliss meets Normal People in this utterly compelling, darkly humorous millennial coming-of-age novel about a 27-year-old single Jewish woman in Melbourne who must learn to reconcile family expectations…
Jessie Stephens
Adella is facing the dawn of a new year and the end of her twenties - and she's in a psychiatric unit recovering from a mental breakdown. A decade earlier…
Steph Vizard
An award-winning modern rom-com for all fans of fake dating, enemies-to-lovers stories.
Airana Ngarewa
An unforgettable debut by a major new literary talent.
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Jenny Fran Davis
Sasha and Jesse are professionally creative, erotically adventurous, and passionately dysfunctional twentysomethings making a life together in Brooklyn. When a pair of older, richer lesbians - prominent news host Jules…
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Maud Ventura, Emma Ramadan (trans.)
A dangerously charming French thriller about a woman's obsession for her husband
Yomi Adegoke
From award-winning journalist and bestselling co-author of Slay in Your Lane, Yomi Adegoke, comes The List, a sensational, page-turning debut novel about secrets, lies and our lives online.
John Morrissey
A wildly imaginative, page-turning collection featuring ghost stories, science fiction and satire, with Aboriginal characters at its heart
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
A novel about belonging, alienation, and the exquisite pleasure and pain of girlhood, But the Girl is a wry and razor-sharp coming-of-age novel for readers of The Idiot by Elif…
Jessica Seaborn
A smart, funny and heartfelt anti-romcom by a bright new voice in Australian fiction.
Prue is about to turn thirty and feels like everyone else is living their best life…
Emily Habeck
An emotional exploration of motherhood, marriage, transformation, and letting go, Shark Heart is an unforgettable love story that examines what it truly means to be human.
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Crystal Smith Paul
A multigenerational saga that traverses the glamour of old Hollywood and the seductive draw of modern-day showbiz
Gabbie Stroud
A powerful and moving debut novel about a school community in crisis from the bestselling author of Teacher.
Soraya Palmer
A dazzling debut novel weaving together Caribbean myth and the contemporary story of multiple generations of one immigrant family
Sarah Smith
A dark comedy about how to live your best life, even when you're dead.
Michael Magee
Luminous and devastating, a portrait of modern masculinity as shaped by class, by trauma, and by silence, but also by the courage to love and to survive
Jamila Ahmed
A spellbinding reimagining of the Arabian Nights and the fearless woman at the heart of it all: Shaherazade.
Lindsay Lynch
A glamorous, gossipy, whip-smart and poignant vision of behind-the-scenes 1940s Hollywood, perfect for fans of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Mercury Pictures Presents.
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Amy Lovat
Mistakes and Other Lovers explores the pressure, pain and freedom of being on the cusp of adulthood and realising things aren't what you thought they'd be.
Tony Santorella
Juno Dawson's Her Majesty's Royal Coven meets a Jim Jarmusch movie , a directionless college-dropout deals with sexuality, minimum-wage jobs, lunar cycles, toxic masculinity and the everyday perils of life…
Claire Daverley
The love story that will keep you awake at night.
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Two Black sisters growing up in small-town New England fight to protect their home, their bodies, and their dreams as the civil right movement sweeps the nation.
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Zeynab Gamieldien
'An incisive meditation on devotion, desire and double standards.' - Sarah Malik, author of Desi Girl and Safar
A stunning debut novel that follows the intertwined lives of three friends…
Szilvia Molnar
The walls begin to close in on a new mother during the fragile first few days of parenthood
Elvin James Mensah
The sensational debut novel about love, friendship and finding happiness in the most unexpected places.
Annette Higgs
Told from five different points of view, each one revealing a little more of the story, On a Bright Hillside in Paradise, tells the story of a family of convict…
Margaret Meyer
East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer and servant, has lived for more than four decades in her beloved coastal village of Cleftwater. Everyone knows Martha, but no one…
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Priya Guns
A spiky, blackly funny reboot of the classic Taxi Driver, in which Travis Bickle is a woman of colour, left behind by the big city and out for revenge.
Esther Yi
An unmissable debut about a Korean American woman whose obsession with Moon, a member of a wildly popular K-pop band sends her to Seoul on a journey of literary self-destruction.
A. Y. Chao
This richly told adult fantasy debut teems with Chinese deities and demons cavorting in jazz age Shanghai.
Ayesha Inoon
A finely observed debut novel of a young Muslim woman's experience of immigration to Australia from Sri Lankan-Australian writer Ayesha Inoon.
Vanessa Walters
This twisty and electrifying debut novel about a young woman who goes missing in Lagos, Nigeria, and her estranged auntie who will stop at nothing to find the truth is…
K Patrick
Powerfully sensual and sublimely stylish, Mrs S is a tale of queer love that smoulders with the heat of summer.
Pip Finkemeyer
A young woman tries to figure out if she’s the best (a creative genius) or if she’s maybe just the worst (completely delusional).
Coco Mellors
For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple’s impulsive marriage.
Maggie Millner
An electrifying love story about one woman's coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming-undone.
Katie Bishop
The explosive and conversation-starting book-club debut from a stunning new talent. A book for every woman that turns the idea of ‘the one that got away’ on its head.
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The hotly anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black
Wiz Wharton
Heartfelt, beautiful, funny and real, Ghost Girl, Banana is an irresistibly compelling exploration of family, identity and what it costs to belong from a wonderful new voice in fiction, Wiz…
Elyse John
A stunning, enthralling story about unconventional love, the power of creativity and the courage of women who struggle to make their voices heard.
Amy Taylor
Rebecca meets Fleabag in a sharp and funny debut novel about dating in the internet age.
Melissa Coss Aquino
As tough and tender as its main characters, Carmen and Grace is a devastatingly wise and intimate story about the bonds of female friendship, ambition and found family.
Nina Wan
A big-hearted, beautifully written, utterly engaging novel about love, fear, second chances and the hardest shot in golf, from a sparkling new Australian voice.
Andre Dao
Anam is a novel about memory and inheritance, colonialism and belonging, home and exile.
