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Nick Bhasin
A hilarious, satirical, madcap and moving roller-coaster ride through the world of Hollywood as seen through one person's descent into despair.
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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.
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Briohny Doyle
Why We Are Here is a love story revelling in the beauty and solace of the natural world, embracing the bonds between humans and celebrating the empathy and wisdom provided…
Gretchen Shirm
The Crying Room movingly explores family boundaries and stories, finding original ways to express the contradictory experience of belonging to a family, and being an individual at the same time.
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J. M. Coetzee
Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee reaffirms his place as one of the English language's most acclaimed authors with this fascinating examination of life, death and animals.
Marija Pericic
Set in Stockholm in 1930 and based on true events, Exquisite Corpse is a story about the madness and horror of a romance that knows no bounds.
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).
Roanna McClelland
In a near future where it never stops raining, a young adolescent runs wild. With only the cantankerous Gammy and a band of broken villagers for company, this story explores…
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Jennifer Neal
The Colour of Her Blood is a novel where the strange and surreal meets the kitsch of Florida as it explores the dynamic of a family traumatised by racial violence…
Tara Calaby
A compulsively readable historical romance, House of Longing combines an effortless instinct for narrative with impeccable research, lightly worn. The debut of a major talent.
Kerry Taylor
A novel based on the true story of Australian jockey Bill Smith – a life lived in secret.
Magdalena McGuire
Filled with humour and heart, Born for You charts the lives of women as they transition from self to mother, from child to adult, from certainty to uncertainty.
In twelve…
Sanya Rushdi
In Melbourne a one-time research student with interests in philosophy and psychology is diagnosed with her third episode of psychosis. As she is moved from her family home to a…
Jacqueline Ross
A tense, chilling novel that will lock you in and throw away the key.
David Cohen
From the winner of the Russell Prize for Humour Writing. David Cohen's most wryly humorous and disturbing work of fiction yet.
A public memorial's name is changed to avoid any…
Emily O'Grady
Feast is the story of three women connected beyond blood, and what happens when their darkest secrets are hauled into the light.
Libby Angel
A striking, lyrical work of autofiction that follows a struggling artist living on the margins in 1990s Melbourne.
Susan Paterson
An evocative novel of love and art, and one man’s journey to find his place in the world. Where Light Meets Water is a moving debut traversing nineteenth-century London, Melbourne…
Rick Feneley
A tragic accident tests the strength of family ties.
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Ya Reeves
I shake my head - it's only day one. That wind is hot. I can feel the salt drying and gluing my eyebrows and lashes and gripping to the fine…
Michael Buxton
1964 tells the story of a city lost in a world of relentless change. The year 1964 was one of transition from the certainty of the 1950s to the doubt…
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.
Mikki Brammer
A big-hearted and life-affirming novel that turns the normally taboo subject of death into a reason to celebrate life!
Andre Dao
Anam is a novel about memory and inheritance, colonialism and belonging, home and exile.
Robert Gott
"It’s wicked and just a bit wonderful." Sue Turnbull, The Age/Sydney Morning Herald
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.
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.
Kim Lock
A story about stories: those we tell, those we believe and those we make into a reality, whether true, murky or not true at all.
Kylie Needham
Is it possible for one relationship to survive two ambitious artists?
Far away from the glittering lights and famous personalities of the Sydney art world she once knew, Frances now…
Catherine de Saint Phalle
Set in both Prague and Melbourne, Call Me Marlowe captures a man’s search for his motherland in the hope of making sense of his life.
Kim E. Anderson
When two artists enter the 1943 Archibald Prize, a scandal erupts that grips not only the art world, but the nation. A poignant love story with shattering consequences, inspired by…
Jen Craig
A woman returns to Australia to clear out her father’s house, with an eye to transforming the contents into an art installation in the tradition of the revered Chinese artist…
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Genevieve Novak
When do you stop starting over? The sparkling new novel from the author of No Hard Feelings. Getting over someone is not that difficult. All you have to do…
Megan Rogers
Absorbing, lyrical, vivid and compulsively readable - The Heart Is a Star is beautiful storytelling from a talented new writer. A novel for fans of Holly Ringland, Jacqueline Maley, Hannah…
Kate Morton
The highly anticipated new novel from the worldwide bestselling author of The Clockmaker’s Daughter, a sweeping saga with a thrilling mystery at its heart tracing a shocking crime whose effects…
Amy Taylor
Rebecca meets Fleabag in a sharp and funny debut novel about dating in the internet age.
Joanna Horton
Between You and Me is a riveting portrayal of female friendship, and the frayed boundary between loyalty and desire.
Mari and Elisabeth have been at the centre of each other's…
Claire Christian
Cleo has a few things going on. Two beautiful kids and a less beautiful ex-husband, a share house arrangement with her long-term bestie Jude (complete with a third child, also…
Madelaine Lucas
A compelling and unforgettable debut novel by an acclaimed young Australian writer - a mesmerising story of desire and its complexities and a powerful reckoning with memory, loss and longing.
Pip Williams
In this beautiful companion to the international bestseller The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams explores another little-known slice of history seen through women’s eyes
Toni Jordan
"Jordan is a kind of Australian Marian Keyes, combining overdrive pace and throwaway humour with a razor intelligence and a deft, illuminating touch on darker subjects and themes." The Age/SMH
Stephanie Bishop
From award-winning Stephanie Bishop comes a dark and compulsive novel about writing and desire that everyone will be talking about in 2023
Rijn Collins
Prepare to be bewitched by Iceland and the book that has enchanted readers for decades – and imprisoned one of them.
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…
Alexis Wright
Winner of the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards: The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award
Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language…
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…
Zoya Patel
Mum was sick. Mum was dying.
Laila wanted her to come home.
She wasn’t sure which of the two truths was more frightening.
Ayat hasn’t seen or spoken to her…
Shirley Le
A coming-of-age tale that reveals a side of Australia so ordinary it's entirely bizarre.
