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Allee Richards
From the acclaimed author of Small Joys of Real Life comes a compelling novel that distils the magic of theatre as the backdrop for an unforgettable examination of friendship, vulnerability…
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Jane Harrison
While stock lasts we have signed copies available at the special price of $26.50.
The most exciting debut in 2023, The Visitors is an audacious, earthy, funny, gritty and powerful…
Chris Womersley
It could have been any summer evening, but of course it wasn't. It was the end of some things, the beginning of so many others.
Nadine J. Cohen
A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister.
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.
Lang Leav
A stirring coming-of-age novel about guilt, loss, love and memory.
Sara M Saleh
A stunning coming-of-age tale played out across generations and continents, from Palestine to Australia.
Leah Kaminsky
Sometimes there may be more to things than meets the eye.
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…
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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Mirandi Riwoe
1941, West Java. Love and revolution are in the air. And war is on its way.
Rachel Matthews
Never Look Desperate is Sedaris meets Fleabag, a tragi-comedy romance set in Melbourne 2023
Nicholas Jose
New work by celebrated novelist and essayist Nicholas Jose, set against the turmoil of the independence movement in East Timor
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Suzy Garcia (ed.)
A new collection of short fiction from Kill Your Darlings.
Kirsty Manning
A true story of a WWII European heirloom that brought down war criminals and travelled through history …
Emily Spurr
Beatrix is a loner. She has a love-hate relationship with her one friend, Ray, a hate-hate relationship with everyone else in her office and a genuine attachment to a stuffed…
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…
Steph Vizard
An award-winning modern rom-com for all fans of fake dating, enemies-to-lovers stories.
Emma Young
Every woman should have reading this book on their to-do list.
Colin Batrouney
The Bannerman Shortlist has been announced. Six authors. Six stories. And Gideon Bannerman is missing.
Justin Smith
From the acclaimed author of Cooper Not Out comes a delightfully comic novel set in the Melbourne Goldrush era that reimagines the running of the inaugural Melbourne Cup.
John Morrissey
A wildly imaginative, page-turning collection featuring ghost stories, science fiction and satire, with Aboriginal characters at its heart
Dennis Glover
Some secrets won't stay buried.
Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Featuring an intersecting cast of glamour-hungry public schoolgirls, WAGs, mining heiresses, backpacker-barmaids, and cosmetic nurses, West Girls examines beauty, race, class divisions, and social mobility in Australia’s richest state.
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…
Tracy Sorensen
From the author of The Lucky Galah, comes another inventive, playful and thought-provoking exploration of very human stories from non-human perspectives.
Leslie Kilmartin
Batman University plans an open day to impress its new President. After a series of calamitous events, the careers of the President and his senior staff end in tatters. Media…
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Angela O'Keeffe
A highly original work narrated by Hortense Cezanne, the wife of the celebrated artist, as she witnesses an author in 2020 write a book about her life.
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…
Kate Mildenhall
An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread and their determination to shape their own stories
Peter Polites
A stunning new novel from the author of Down the Hume and The Pillars, God Forgets About the Poor is a love story to a migrant mother, whose story is…
Amal Awad
Funny, touching uplit set in the Sydney restaurant scene. Bitter & Sweet will be Amal Awad's breakout book
Gabbie Stroud
A powerful and moving debut novel about a school community in crisis from the bestselling author of Teacher.
Lauren Aimee Curtis
From the author of Dolores, Strangers at the Port is an exquisite, enchanted, atmospheric novel about myth and memory, suspicion and dislocation, emigrants and explorers.
Silvia Kwon
A stunning novel detailing the real relationship between Vincent van Gogh and his mistress, model and muse, Sien Hoornik.
Eugen Bacon
A novel bathed in sensuous, original language, a love letter to the strong women who bind families together despite everything.
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Joel Deane
Judas Boys is the eagerly-awaited new novel from Joel Deane: a searing de profundis that reads like the secret history behind today's political headlines
Sarah Smith
A dark comedy about how to live your best life, even when you're dead.
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…
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.
Kirsty Jagger
An unforgettable novel about growing up in public housing in Western Sydney.
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…
Anna McGahan
Immaculate is a provocative and tender exploration of loss, identity and healing, and the secret worlds we hide within in order to survive.
Carrie Cox
When thirty-something Nessa emerges from a horrific car accident facially disfigured, she must work to heal herself from the inside out.Sharply funny, tender and full of pathos, this is a…
Sophie Green
Noosa Heads, 1987: Newly divorced Cynthia has returned to her home town from Los Angeles to reconnect with her 19-year-old daughter, who is pregnant and determined not to listen to…
Rachael Mead
In 1960, when the legendary icebreaker Magga Dan set sail for Antarctica, it contained a secret. Hiding on board was Nel Law, who would become the first Australian woman to…
Mark Brandi
The unforgettable new novel from the Dagger award-winning author of Wimmera, Mark Brandi. A novel that shows small-town life is unforgiving if you're from the other side of the tracks.
Vidya Madabushi
The most unexpected friendships really can transform your life.
