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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Shankari Chandran
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens is about family and memory, community and race, but is ultimately a love letter to storytelling and how our stories shape who we are.
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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
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Amanda Lohrey
A moving tale of grief, community and the possibility of starting over, by an award-winning Australian author.
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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…
Josephine Wilson
Humorous, poignant and galvanising by turns, Extinctions is a novel about all kinds of extinction - natural, racial, national and personal - and what we can do to prevent them.
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A.S. Patric
Intensely human, yet majestic in its moral vision, Black Rock White City is an essential story of Australia’s suburbs now, of displacement and immediate threat, and the unexpected responses of…
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Sofie Laguna
Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2015.
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Michelle de Kretser
A dazzling, compassionate and deeply moving novel from one of world literature’s rising stars.
Peter Temple
Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead, a panic button within reach. Villani’s…
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Steven Carroll
A luminous exploration of public and private reckoning in a Melbourne suburb during the upheavals of the 1970s. It is a celebration of the rhythms and the intricacies of suburban…
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Tim Winton
Tim Winton’s Breath, winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, is a story about the wildness of youth and learning to live with its passing.
C.J. Koch
This novel tells the story of the search for Mike Langford, a war photographer with a reputation for risk-taking, who disappears inside Cambodia after its fall to the Khmer-Rouge. The…
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David Foster
A powerful, many layered, erudite retelling of the blood-soaked Attis myth strained through twentieth centuary Australian life. Winner Miles Franklin Award 1997.
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Murray Bail,Murray Bail
The author of Homesickness returns with his eagerly awaited book about a man who promises his daughter’s hand to any suitor who can name every species of eucalypt planted on…
Kim Scott
I tell you that this story of my own is part of a much older story… one of a perpetual billowing from the sea, with its rhythm of return, return…
Andrew McGahan
In late 1992, 8 year-old William looked out from the back verandah of his home and saw the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion. There was no sound, but William…
Alex Miller (Author)
Winner of the 2003 Miles Franklin Award. A superbly compelling work of betrayals, compassion, secrets and reconciliation.
Shirley Hazzard
The sweeping story of men and women struggling to reclaim their lives in the aftermath of world conflict by ‘one of the greatest writers working in English today’ (Michael Cunningham)…
