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The Collected Regrets of Clover

Mikki Brammer

A big-hearted and life-affirming novel that turns the normally taboo subject of death into a reason to celebrate life!

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After the Rain

Aisling Smith

After the Rain is a moving, exquisitely observed novel about marriage and family, dislocation, culture and belonging, from an exciting new voice in Australian literature.

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One Illumined Thread

Sally Colin-James

A beautiful, enthralling and powerfully resonant story of three women, separated by centuries, yet connected to each other through a thread of longing, a yearning for independence and a singular…

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I’m a Fan

Sheena Patel

An exhilarating, addictive take on obsession, race, gender and power dynamics through the lens of a corrosive relationship.

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Go as a River

Shelley Read

What I’ve learnt about becoming is that it takes a long time.

Nestled in the foothills of the Elk mountains and surrounded by sprawling forests, wandering bears and porcupine, the…

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The Dream Builders

Oindrila Mukherjee

Creative writing professor Maneka Roy has not returned to India in years, and when she arrives in her home country to mourn the loss of her mother, she finds herself…

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Wandering Souls

Cecile Pin

There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies - everything in between is speculation.

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Funny Ethnics

Shirley Le

A coming-of-age tale that reveals a side of Australia so ordinary it's entirely bizarre.

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For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain

Victoria MacKenzie

An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives of women - by a major new talent

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The Wakes

Dianne Yarwood

This is a story about Clare, Louisa and Chris. And sometimes Paul, and less often, Beth. It is most certainly not about frittatas (a terrible concession), and more to do…

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Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

Laura Warrell

For Fans of Daisy Jones and the Six and Half-Blood Blues, a sultry sensuous novel about looking for love in all the wrong places and 'the myriad syncopations of…

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In the Upper Country

Kai Thomas

The fates of two unforgettable women - one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life’s last vital act - intertwine in this ambitious…

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Compulsion

Kate Scott

Set against the backdrop of the new millennium, a seductive summer read about obsession, sex, friendship and music from an exciting new talent.

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River Sing Me Home

Eleanor Shearer

A mother’s desperate search to find her stolen children and her freedom takes her across the Caribbean in a gripping, moving, redemptive and unforgettable story of survival and hope.

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Weyward

Emilia Hart

A riveting debut that explores witchcraft and female intuitive powers, told over five centuries through three connected women, for fans of Kate Morton, Diane Setterfield, and Sarah Perry.

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The Matchmaker

Saman Shad

Sparks fly in this glittering romantic comedy about love, marriage and mistaking your own identity.

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Maame

Jessica George

The debut of 2023. A blisteringly funny, heartbreaking novel about twenty-something British Ghanaian Maddie as she grapples with identity, love, loss, and becoming the woman she wants to be -…

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The Dawnhounds

Sascha Stronach

A queer fantasy debut about a police officer who is murdered, brought back to life with a mysterious new power, and tasked with preventing an attack on her city.

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Nightcrawling

Leila Mottley

A searing debut novel inspired by a true story from the streets of Oakland, California, announcing the arrival of a blazing, young talent.

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All That’s Left Unsaid

Tracey Lien

All That's Left Unsaid is both a study of the effects of inherited trauma and social discrimination, and a compulsively readable literary thriller that expertly holds the reader in its…

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Disorientation

Elaine Hsieh Chou

Disorientation is at once a blistering send-up of privilege and power, and a profound reckoning of individual complicity and unspoken rage - an electrifying debut novel from a provocative new…

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Sunbathing: A Novel

Isobel Beech

A powerful debut that explores life, death and the restorative power of friendship under the warm summer sun of Umbria.

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Beasts of a Little Land

Juhea Kim

An epic story of love and war, set during the turbulent decades of Korea’s fight for independence

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After Sappho

Selby Wynn Schwartz

A literary reimagining of some of history’s greatest queer women.

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Brother Alive

Zain Khalid

In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef.

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Electric and Mad and Brave

Tom Pitts

Shamelessly wearing its heart on its sleeve, Electric and Mad and Brave is a heightened and technicolour story about the soaring joy and numbing nightmare of being young and hopelessly…

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We Do What We Do in the Dark

Michelle Hart

In this enthralling debut novel, the complexities of influence, obsession, and admiration reveal how desire and its consequences can alter the trajectory of a life.

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Hydra

Adriane Howell

Hydra is a novel of dark suspense and mental disquiet, struck through with black humour., Adriane Howell beguilingly explores notions of moral culpability, revenge, memory, and narrative - all through…

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Diary of a Void

Emi Yagi, David Boyd & Lucy North (trans)

A hilarious Japanese debut novel, where a young woman, thoroughly fed up with gendered expectations at work, announces she’s pregnant. She’s not.

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Basin: A Novel

Scott McCulloch

A dark and compelling work by a new voice in Australian - and world - literary fiction

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Olga Dies Dreaming

Xochitl Gonzalez

A dazzling debut about a status-driven wedding planner for New York’s elite grappling with her absent mother and her Puerto Rican roots in the wake of Hurricane Maria

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Wahala

Nikki May

Fabulous debut novel: a multi-cultural ‘Sex and the City’ with a killer edge: for fans of Expectaction, Queenie and My Sister the Serial Killer

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Aue

Becky Manawatu

Here is a novel that is both raw and sublime, a compelling new voice in New Zealand fiction. Haere mai, Becky Manawatu.

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Hovering

Rhett Davis

From the winner of the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript comes a genre bending tour-de-force debut

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Sadvertising

Ennis Cehic

An electrifying collection of stories from the febrile imagination of a young writer who traverses culture, genre and form.

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Peach Blossom Spring

Melissa Fu

An epic, powerful and intensely personal debut about war, migration, family, and the search for a place to call home. For fans of Pachinko, Wild Swans and All the Light…

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Shit Cassandra Saw

Gwen E. Kirby

In this collection, virgins escape from being sacrificed, witches refuse to be burned, whores aren’t ashamed, and every woman gets a chance to be a radioactive cockroach warrior who snaps…

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Memphis

Tara M Stringfellow

A spellbinding ode to Memphis, as well as a celebration of the strength and defiance of three generations of a Southern black family who live there.

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Happy Stories, Mostly

Norman Erikson Pasaribu

A collection of twelve stories that queer the norm.

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Portrait of a Thief

Grace D. Li

A cinematic, entertaining and fast-paced debut novel that is part-Ocean’s Eleven, part-The Social Network and part-Crazy Rich Asians, Portrait of a Thief is an addictive mix of heist and unlikely…

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Six Days In Rome

Francesca Giacco

A young artist travels to Rome to heal a broken heart in this visceral, decadent and deeply evocative debut novel.

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Hush

Kate Maxwell

A gripping, beautifully written and taboo-busting debut novel about motherhood and female identity, for readers of Anna Hope’s EXPECTATION and Sheila Heti’s MOTHERHOOD.

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Abomination

Ashley Goldberg

A compelling and compassionate debut about friendship, faith, family and identity.

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Losing Face: A Novel

George Haddad

A stunning, thought-provoking novel about facing up to your family and your future

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Fever

Jonathan Bazzi

A multi-award winning Italian debut, from a bold new voice in contemporary queer literature.

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None of This Is Serious

Catherine Prasifka

A sharp and addictive modern debut set in Dublin, about female friendship and our obsession with being online - from an exciting new voice in Irish fiction.

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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

Deesha Philyaw

An intimate, irresistible collection of stories about the hidden desires of generations of church-going Black women, soon to be an HBO TV series.

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An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life

Paul Dalla Rosa

Oscillating between elation and despair, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life is the debut short story collection from Sunday Times Short Story Award finalist Paul Dalla Rosa.

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