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J. P. Monninger
Everyone remembers the summer after college, a time in life when everything is a possibility and heartbreak is never too near. Heather has graduated from college and is traveling around…
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Jodi Perry
What would you do if the love of your life had no memory of you? A man tries to win back the love of his life after an accident has…
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Mudrooroo
Balga Boy Jackson is the long awaited new novel of Mudrooroo. He returns to his roots to give us a vivid life story of an Australian Black Boy - naturally…
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Stephen Orr
As Hitler’s war looms, famous Australian artist Roland Griffin returns home with his family to live a simple life of shared plums and low-cut lawns in the suburbs. In the…
Kathy Lette
Now an adult on L-plates, Debbie and her girlfriends reveal what women talk about when there are no men around. Prepare yourself for full-frontal comedic camaraderie.
After breaking off with…
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Peter Barry
A provocative and unsettling novel about the morality of charity, the media and public relations
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Maxine Beneba Clarke
In The Best Australian Stories, acclaimed writer Maxine Beneba Clarke brings together our country’s leading literary talents. An award-winning short-story writer herself, Clarke selects exceptional stories that resonate with…
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Lynette Washington
Peer through the windows and doors on Plane Tree Drive to find a streetscape that is diverse, heartbreaking, funny and strange, where the loneliness of domestic isolation and the joy…
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Gerald Murnane
A new work by a master of contemporary Australian fiction, highly regarded overseas, but little-known here. Giramondo’s publication of Border Districts, and the retrospective volume Collected Short Fiction (early next…
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Kaz Cooke
Kaz Cooke invites you to an audience with the amazing Ada. She’s a showgirl and a story teller with a trunk full of stories and secrets. A funny, tender novel…
Helen Garner
This new edition of Helen Garner’s collected short fiction celebrates the seventy-fifth birthday of one of Australia’s most loved authors.
A.S. Patric
The new novel from Miles Franklin award-winning author A.S. Patrić.
Jeremy Chambers
A coming-of-age drama that superbly evokes the sights, smells and sounds of suburban life in the 80s and the angst of teenagers trapped in the lives of their parents.
Odette Kelada
Drawing Sybylla is a novel about the challenges women writers have faced in pursuing the writing life.
Stephen Wright
Winner of the 2017 Seizure Viva La Novella Prize
Mirandi Riwoe
Sparked by the description of a ‘Malay trollope’ in W. Somerset Maugham’s story, The Four Dutchmen, Mirandi Riwoe’s novella, The…
Cass Moriarty
A much-awaited second novel that asks: how well do we really know our parents?
Claire Aman
The sparkling debut from an exciting new voice in Australian fiction, Claire Aman Bird Country is a collection of spare and affecting portraits of ordinary people in rural Australia
Venero Armanno
Charlie Smoke is living out his early retirement from the boxing ring as a bricklayer. It is the mid-1970s and he believes his best days are behind him. He has…
Les Zig
The Slap meets Liane Moriarty.
Harriet McKnight
Alan and Pina have lived contentedly in isolated - and insular - Boney Point for thirty years. Now they are dealing with Alan’s devastating early-onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
Ali Alizadeh
Ali Alizadeh's novel The Last Days of Jeanne d'Arc The Last Days of Jeanne d'Arc
Catherine Cole
The room rustled as the children looked around. They knew no one had been to the coast but they checked in case for liars, for the too-dumb to know the…
Garry Disher
Beautifully and powerfully written, this is a look at the darker side of Australia’s past - and particularly the status of girls and women in our society - that will…
Nicole Trope
In a single day, a simple mistake will have life-altering consequences for everyone involved…
Kylie Ladd
All she wanted was to escape. But why does she still feel trapped. A gripping psychological drama by the author of Mothers and Daughters and Into My Arms.
Rachel Leary
Van Diemen’s Land, 1826. A desperate convict flees into the wilderness. But the land that hides her will show her no mercy. A brilliant literary debut from a writer of…
Jock Serong
A literary novel about politics and seeking asylum, with the pace and tension of a political thriller. Plus some of the most compelling writing about the sea since Patrick O'Brian.
Anna George
A gripping, atmospheric novel from the acclaimed author of What Came Before that asks: how much should you do to help a stranger’s child?
Jennifer Down
Pulse Points is the collected stories by Jennifer Down, author of Our Magic Hour and one of Australia’s newest and most promising literary talents.
Tony Jones
Terrorism, politics and betrayals collide in this unputdownable, fast-paced thriller.
Kim Scott
From the two-times winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, comes a work charged with ambition and poetry, brutality and mystery about a young woman cast into a drama that…
Rose Michael
'Old magic and strange memories swirl through The Art of Navigation , as Elizabethan alchemy and the technologies of the future ingeniously intersect.' - Brenda Walker
Rachel Matthews
A brave new novel that sensitively explores one woman's experience of sexual violence and the silencing of those who feel compelled to speak out.
Emily Brewin
It’s 1968 and free-thinking country girl Maya Callaghan’s world is turned upside down when she finds out she’s pregnant to her boyfriend Sam, who is awaiting draft orders. A profoundly…
Michael Fitzgerald
This remarkable debut novel tells of the last days of Tusitala, ‘the teller of tales’, as Robert Louis Stevenson became known in Samoa where he chose to die.
Cory Taylor
The Text Classics edition of Cory Taylor’s extraordinary debut novel, Me and Mr Booker, a sharply observed and darkly comic story about lust, deceit and the line between adolescence and…
Steven Lang
‘We have this idea we can live anywhere, that we make a choice, but it’s not true. There are places that are for you and places that aren’t. You can…
Pip Smith
A stunningly original debut novel inspired by the life of Eugenia Falleni.
Hoa Pham
Touched by the Lady of the Realm, Liên dreams of bones and bodies under the sea. The prescient warnings from the Lady weigh heavily on Liên, who is burdened by…
Lang Leav
Sad Girls is the much anticipated debut novel from international best-selling author Lang Leav. A beautifully written and emotionally charged coming of age story, where young love, dark secrets, and…
Melanie Joosten
A heartrending portrait of how we rebuild when the worst has happened.
Sandra Leigh Price
Look first. Reach second. Vanish third.‘ London, 1825: Eglantine has always had an eye for the shine. Born the same day as the young princess destined to be…..
Ben Hobson
The story of a young boy who has recently lost his mother, trying to make sense of the world of men and then embarking on a breathtaking adventure of his…
Wayne Macauley
It begins with the normally healthy Beth-aged-care worker, wife of David, mother of Lettie and Gem-feeling vaguely off-colour. A locum sends her to Dr Yi for some tests. ‘There are…
Daniel Findlay
Dystopian tale-telling at its absolute best. A worthy successor to The Chrysalids and Riddley Walker.‘ David Hunt (Girt, True Girt) 'The ravaged land and the….
Moira Burke
A powerful reflection of early 80s working-class Melbourne, Losing It is set in a time of tight jeans, blue eyeshadow and Countdown - and of risky underage sex and drugs
Felicity Castagna
The new novel by Felicity Castagna, whose previous book, The Incredible Here and Now, won the 2015 Prime Minister’s Award for Young Adult Fiction and was shortlisted for the CBCA…