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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The hotly anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black
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Rebecca Makkai
The new novel from the author of The Great Believers, winner of the Carnegie Medal and a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist.
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Jacqueline Crooks
This is our dancing time.
Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club in the industrial town on the…
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Bret Easton Ellis
A sensational new novel from the bestselling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial…
Robbie Arnott
The much-anticipated third novel by award-winning Australian author Robbie Arnott, Limberlost is a story of family and land, loss and hope, fate and the unknown, and love and kindness
Monica Heisey
One of the most hotly anticipated, hilarious and addictive debut novels of 2023, from Schitt’s Creek screenwriter and electric new voice in fiction, Monica Heisey.
Jennifer Egan
The long-awaited sibling novel to Jennifer Egan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad. A fierce and exhilarating testament to the transcendence of human longing for real…
Emily St. John Mandel
The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912…
Deepti Kapoor
A gripping literary thriller, one of the most anticipated novels of 2023, rights sold in fifteen territories, 20-way bidding war for film rights won by FX and Fox 21.
Diana Reid
Feminism, power and sex play out through the eyes of young Australian uni students in a contemporary narrative that is fiercely authentic
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
Ian McEwan
Epic, mesmerising and deeply humane, Lessons is a chronicle for our times - a powerful meditation on history and humanity through the prism of one ordinary man.
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Percival Everett
Provocative, fast-paced and morbidly funny, The Trees is an urgent novel of lasting importance, from an author with a finger on America’ s pulse.
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Kamila Shamsie
A contemporary reimagining of Sophocles’ Antigone, Home Fire is an urgent, fiercely compelling story of loyalties torn apart when love and politics collide - confirming Kamila Shamsie as a master…
Inga Simpson
From the critically acclaimed author of Mr Wigg comes an enthralling literary novel about a batmaker and a gifted young cricketer, set around the time the game began changing. For…
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.
Bianca Pitzorno, Brigid Maher (trans.)
An immersive and vividly written historical novel for anyone who loved Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels or Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Maggie O'Farrell
Set at the heart of the treacherous political world of the Italian Renaissance, this is the masterful story of a young woman’s battle for her very survival, written with all…
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Mohsin Hamid
From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change
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Elif Batuman
Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard and finds herself dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood. She studies linguistics and literature…
Julie Otsuka
A bold and lyrical novel about memory, love, a swimming pool - and the many ways we lose and find each other again
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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
Andrew Sean Greer
A scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, a bittersweet romance of chances lost, Less is the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize…
Elena Ferrante
A memorable portrait of two women, My Brilliant Friend is also the story of a nation. Through the lives of Elena and Lila, Ferrante gives her readers the story of…
Colson Whitehead
From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.
Sarah Winman
From the author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a big-hearted story of the families we forge and the friendships that make us.
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Jonathan Franzen
'His best novel yet ... A Middlemarch-like triumph' Telegraph
R.F. Kuang
A new dark academic fantasy by the New York Times bestselling author of The Poppy War
Kay Dick
Introduced by Carmen Maria Machado, the radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years: in a nightmarish through-a-glass-darkly Britain, they are coming closer…
Traditonal Chinese version of Exit West, a novel about migration and mutation, full of wormholes and rips in reality, begins as it mostly doesn’t go on.
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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…
Victoria Hannan
The winner of the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript.
Evie Wyld
Three women, hundreds of years apart, slip into each other’s lives in a novel of darkness, violence and madness.
Jason Mott
An astounding work of fiction with its sights set on getting to the heart of racism in America. In short, this is one Hell of a Book.
Rachel Yoder
For readers of Jenny Offill and Curtis Sittenfeld, this is a funny, provocative, pin-sharp novel that redefines modern motherhood
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Jennifer Down
Jennifer Down cements her status as a leading light of Australian literary fiction in this heart-rending and intimate saga of one woman’s turbulent life
Alice Pung
From one of Australia’s most celebrated authors comes a mother-daughter drama exploring the faultlines between love and control.
Susanna Clarke
From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality.
Raven Leilani
Razor sharp. provocatively page-turning and surprisingly tender, Luster is a painfully funny coming-of-age story told by a fresh new voice.
Anna North
A feminist Western about a world in which women’s worth and right to live are determined by the vagaries of fertility.
Sigrid Nunez
From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of The Friend, comes this mesmerising story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and…
Meg Mason
Spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark and tender, full of pathos, fury and wit, Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason is a dazzling, distinctive novel from a boldly talented writer. For fans…
Nardi Simpson
A captivating Australian saga from the winner of the 2018 black&write! fellowship.
Andrew Pippos
An exuberant, magical Australian saga of family, love and second chances.
Melissa Lucashenko
Too much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get to swallow her opinions. The avalanche of bullshit in the…
Tony Birch
In The White Girl, Tony Birch has created memorable characters whose capacity for love and courage are a timely reminder of the endurance of the human spirit.
Andrea Lawlor
Transposing Virginia Woolf’s Orlando to 90s San Francisco, this novel of transgender metamorphosis is a wild, sexy, funny and moving story of living on the edge.
Pat Barker
The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War –
