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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Emma Young
Every woman should have reading this book on their to-do list.
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Colson Whitehead
From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead comes the thrilling and entertaining sequel to Harlem Shuffle
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Jodie Chapman
Three women. Three lives. One chance to find themselves...a stunning new novel from the author of BBC2 Between the Covers pick, Another Life
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
Dennis Glover
Some secrets won't stay buried.
Claire North
From the multi award-winning and award-nominated Claire North comes the second book in a trilogy of stories retelling of the classic Greek myth of Penelope. It’s time for the woman…
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.
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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Caroline Lea
On his deathbed in 1920s Toronto, a wealthy man decides to make some trouble … An astonishing new novel based on one of history’s most shocking untold stories, from the…
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.
Alice Hoffman
From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of the Practical Magic series comes an enchanting novel about love, heartbreak, self-discovery and the enduring magic of books.
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.
Ore Agbaje-Williams
Wife. Husband. Best friend. What if your two favourite people hated each other with a passion?
Eliza Clark
An utterly chilling, compulsive story of a murder among teenagers, on the eve of the historic Brexit vote, by a major new voice in British fiction.
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.
John Morrissey
A wildly imaginative, page-turning collection featuring ghost stories, science fiction and satire, with Aboriginal characters at its heart
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…
Fernanda Trías, Heather Cleary (trans.)
Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolome-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Literature Prize.
A port city is in the grips…
Claire Kilroy
An urgent, memorable, gut-wrenching novel about motherhood, creativity and identity which is sure to get people talking.
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.
Marcel Proust, Sam Taylor (trans.)
Presented for the first time in English, the recently discovered early manuscripts of the twentieth century’s most towering literary figure offer uncanny glimpses of his emerging genius and the creation…
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Charles Frazier
The stunning new novel from the author of international million-copy bestseller Cold Mountain.
Ann Patchett
In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter…
Jenny Erpenbeck & Michael Hofmann (trans.)
From an internationally acclaimed, multi award-winning author: this is a story of love and betrayal set in Berlin during the years before and after the fall of the Wall.
Claire McGlasson
Miss Margaret Finch - a rather old-fashioned young woman - is spying for the mass observation project when she happens across the disgraced Reverend Stiffkey (aka Harold Davidson) who is…
Chetna Maroo
A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself.
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Catherine Chidgey
When a charismatic new teacher arrives, everyone longs to be her pet. A gripping story of deception and guilt, set in a Catholic school during the 1980s.
Michiko Aoyama, Alison Watts (trans.)
At once heart-rending and heartwarming, this bestselling shortlistee of the Japan Booksellers' Prize is a celebraton of community libraries and the life-changing power of book recommendation.
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…
Bruce Fulton (ed.), Kwon Youngmin (intro.)
This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea’s dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating…
Alice Winn
An epic, gripping, heart-shattering love story about two soldiers in the First World War
It’s 1914, and talk of war feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the…
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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
Silvia Kwon
A stunning novel detailing the real relationship between Vincent van Gogh and his mistress, model and muse, Sien Hoornik.
Cho Nam-Joo & Jamie Chang (trans.)
From the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982. Eight women. Eight stories. One reality.
Deborah Rodriguez
Set against the terrifying fall of Kabul in 2021, Deborah Rodriguez concludes her bestselling Little Coffee Shop trilogy with a heart-stopping story of resilience, courage and, most importantly, hope.
Andrew Lipstein
From the critically acclaimed author of Last Resort comes a brilliant tale of guilt, greed and how far we'll go to be good.
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Gabbie Stroud
A powerful and moving debut novel about a school community in crisis from the bestselling author of Teacher.
Maryse Conde, Richard Philcox (trans.)
A miracle baby is born on Easter Sunday, rumoured to be the child of God. Award-winning Caribbean author Maryse Conde follows his journey in search of his origins and mission.
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…
Eugen Bacon
A novel bathed in sensuous, original language, a love letter to the strong women who bind families together despite everything.
J K Chukwu
An edgy, bitingly funny debut about a queer, half-Nigerian college sophomore who, enraged and exhausted by the racism at her elite college, sets out to find truth about The Unfortunates…
Jess Walter
In this dazzling collection of stories, a son must repeatedly come out to his senile father while looking for a place that will care for the old man. An elderly…
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Hollywood glamour, Mexican horror movies and Nazi magicians!
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.
Amal Awad
Funny, touching uplit set in the Sydney restaurant scene. Bitter & Sweet will be Amal Awad's breakout book
Colin Walsh
A big, suspenseful, page-turning debut novel of teen summers and unsolved murders, by an award-winning rising Irish star
Megan Nolan
London in the nineties - a tabloid journalist begins to probe long-held secrets of an Irish family implicated in a shocking crime
Sarah Smith
A dark comedy about how to live your best life, even when you're dead.
