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Liane Moriarty
Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One playful dog. It’s an ordinary weekend in the suburbs. What could possibly go wrong?
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Jennifer Down
Katy’s unexpected suicide forever changes life for her best friend Audrey, and their group of close friends in their twenties.
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Laura Elizabeth Woollett
The Love of a Bad Man is a collection of short stories that imagine the lives of thirteen women, all of whom were the lovers, mistresses, or wives of various…
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Tara June Winch
A collection of prodigious depth and variety, After the Carnage marks the remarkable evolution of one of our finest young writers.
Tania Chandler
Dead in the Water is about trying to escape the cycle of trauma. It delves into the darkness beneath the surface of fear, betrayal, and revenge, to find a glimmer…
Larissa Behrendt
A vital Aboriginal perspective on colonial storytelling
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Ruth Quibell
Some of our strongest, most lasting relationships are hidden in plain view-those we have with objects. What do our possessions do for us? And how do they do it? In…
Julia Leigh
At the age of 38 acclaimed novelist Julia Leigh made her first visit to the IVF clinic, full of hope. So started a long and costly journey of nightly injections…
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Elizabeth Tynan
In 1950 Australian prime minister Robert Menzies blithely agreed to atomic tests that offered no benefit to Australia and relinquished control over them - and left the public completely in…
Kim Mahood
Imagine the document you have before you is not a book but a map. It is well-used, creased, and folded, so that when you open it, no matter how carefully…
Fiona McFarlane
These wide-ranging stories resonate in the way of only the finest writing and the most pleasurable reading. There are storylines that seem straightforward on the surface but have a dozen…
Elspeth Muir
In 2009 Elspeth Muir’s youngest brother finished his last university exam and went out with some mates to get drunk. Later that night he wandered to the Story Bridge. He…
C.S. Pacat
Book 3 of the Captive Prince trilogy
Ellen van Neerven
Following on from the success of their award-winning fiction debut, Heat and Light, Ellen van Neerven announces themself as a talented poet with this intoxicating collection. Moving between places…
Michelle Wright
A brilliant debut of originality, depth and beauty.
Toni Jordan
A romantic comedy about sex, marriage and the benefits and drawbacks of being a grownup.
Georgia Blain
Ester is a family therapist with an appointment book that catalogues the woes of the middle class. She spends her days helping others find happiness, but her own family relationships…
Josephine Rowe
It is New Year’s Eve, 1990, and Ru’s father has disappeared again. Haunted by the horrors of the Vietnam War, Jack has been an erratic - and at times violent…
Julie Koh
In Portable Curiosities, Julie Koh re-imagines our world with a dark, satirical twist. These twelve stories combine absurd humour with searing critiques on contemporary society - the rampant consumerism, the…
Kate Mildenhall
‘A brave, beautiful and richly textured book that delicately explores the fault lines in love and friendship.’ –Lucy Treloar A spellbinding tale of friendship and desire, memory and truth, which…
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Madelaine Dickie
Troppo‘s a story about black magic, big waves and mad Aussie expats. Set in Sumatra, it’s told from the perspective of Penny, a young surfer who’s landed a job…
Marie Munkara
Heartbreaking, darkly funny and deeply moving, Of Ashes and Rivers that Run to the Sea is a fearless account of being a young woman caught between two worlds.
Michelle Cahill
"Line by line, Cahill's writing is musical, assured: cumulatively, her seriousness isevident, her ambition impressive." - Hilary Mantel
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Leah Kaminsky
A joyful book about the necessity of celebrating life in the face of death. The one certainty about life is that everybody is going to die. Yet somehow as a…
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Eva Orner
Filmmaker Eva Orner takes us on a personal, gripping and compelling journey to show us how she came to make her documentary about Australia’s asylum seeker policies.
