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Helen Macdonald, Sin Blache
Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new duo in genre fiction
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Paul Lynch
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author
Sara M Saleh
A stunning coming-of-age tale played out across generations and continents, from Palestine to Australia.
Shelley Parker-Chan
Riding high on her recent victory, Zhu Yuanzhang is now the Radiant King - brilliant, ambitious and unstoppable in her quest for greatness. But she will soon discover the price…
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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Steph Vizard
An award-winning modern rom-com for all fans of fake dating, enemies-to-lovers stories.
Jessa Maxwell
Six contestants. The nation's favourite baking show. And a prize worth killing for...
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Amy Doak
Karen McManus and Holly Jackson meets Fleur Ferris in this fast-paced YA murder mystery.
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.
Charles Frazier
The stunning new novel from the author of international million-copy bestseller Cold Mountain.
Julie Mae Cohen
Even serial killers want a happily-ever-after. The darkly funny, ingenious and outrageous thriller debut from Julie Mae Cohen.
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Elle Kennedy
Return to Avalon Bay with the third book in New York Times bestselling author Elle Kennedy's addictive and romantic series
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Temi Oh
A reimagining of the Greek myth of Eurydice and Orpheus
Sarah Smith
A dark comedy about how to live your best life, even when you're dead.
Jenny Fran Davis
Sasha and Jesse are professionally creative, erotically adventurous, and passionately dysfunctional twentysomethings making a life together in Brooklyn. When a pair of older, richer lesbians - prominent news host Jules…
A. J. Betts
Aspiring singer-songwriter Eva has one last chance to enter Triple J Unearthed High and break into the music industry.
K Patrick
Powerfully sensual and sublimely stylish, Mrs S is a tale of queer love that smoulders with the heat of summer.
Neil Blackmore
A queer love story about how desire can take us to the edge of madness... and then beyond.
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…
Jen Beagin
Greta is miles away, sitting at a desk in her own house, wearing only headphones, fingerless gloves, a kimono, and legwarmers, transcribing this disembodied voice. What Greta doesn’t know is…
Margot Douaihy
Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to the test in this unique and confident debut crime novel.
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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…
Samantha Shannon
The stunning, standalone prequel to the New York Times bestselling The Priory of the Orange Tree.
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Kylie Scott
New York Times bestselling sensation Kylie Scott's sexy, smart and unconventional opposites-attract love story looks at what happens when fate refuses to give up on what's meant to be...
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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.
Shirley Le
A coming-of-age tale that reveals a side of Australia so ordinary it's entirely bizarre.
Mali Waugh
Family law judge Kaye Bailey is found murdered in her chambers. Is this the work of a disgruntled complainant? Or an inside job by a jealous colleague? Or is there…
Madison Godfrey
A memoir made of poetry, Dress Rehearsals documents a decade of performing womanhood in a non-binary body.
Saman Shad
Sparks fly in this glittering romantic comedy about love, marriage and mistaking your own identity.
Hiroko Oyamada
Fish-breeding and weasel infestations punctuate this disarming, strange and strangely resonant story of one man's journey toward impending fatherhood, from an award-winning Japanese novelist.
Billy-Ray Belcourt
A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief.
An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern…
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.
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.
Laura McPhee-Browne
Bold, dark and sensuous, Little Plum is the stunning follow-up to the award-winning debut Cherry Beach.
Jess Ho
Fierce, funny and razor-sharp, Raised by Wolves is a potent coming of age story from a savage new voice.
Claire G. Coleman
From the critically acclaimed author of Terra Nullius comes a novel in the tradition of Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman that explores a future of surveillance, disruption and segregation that…
Carmel Bird
Carmel Bird seizes on an enforced isolation to re-read a rich dispensary of books from her past
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Liza Klaussmann
An intoxicating novel of love, loss and longing from the international bestselling author of Tigers in Red Weather
James McKenzie Watson
A rural thriller from the winner of the 2021 Penguin Literary Prize.
Georgina Young
A queer time-travel adventure from the award-winning author of Loner
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Katerina Gibson
Unpicking the stitches of gender and genre, the stories in this searing, funny, haunting debut explore how our ideas of womanhood shape us, and what they cost us.
Chris Womersley
Shot through with grief and dark comedy, The Diplomat is a powerful story of love and recovery - and a stark evocation of the fine line between self-destruction and redemption.
Daisy Buchanan
The new novel from Daisy Buchanan, the queen of the unconventional love story. What’s the most toxic love story in your life… what about the one with your job?
Rhett Davis
From the winner of the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript comes a genre bending tour-de-force debut
Fernanda Melchor
Author of the acclaimed novel Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor leads us into a different kind of hell: paradise
Karen Joy Fowler
A major new novel from million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.
Yumna Kassab
One small town, a multitude of stories.
Jessica Au
Winner of the inaugural Novel Prize, an elegant and subtle exploration of the mysteries of our relationships to others.
