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Brotherhood of St Laurence
Prize-winning and highly commended stories from the Brotherhood of St Laurence Hope Prize.
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Toni Jordan
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Addition and Nine Days, a superbly crafted and captivating literary mystery about a lost book and a secret love.
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A.S. Patric
'One of the most interesting and valuable writers working in Australia today.' - The Australian
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Helen Garner
A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia’s most respected authors.
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An elegant hardback edition of the novel that launched Helen Garner’s career.
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Steve Hawke
A murder in the remote bush in 1916 sparks a chain of events that will haunt a family for generations.
Shirley Barrett
Bridget Jones meets The Exorcist in a devilishly funny new novel from the acclaimed filmmaker, screenwriter and author of Rush Oh!
David Malouf
This is only David Malouf’s third new poetry volume in nearly 40 years, so it is a significant publishing event. As one of Australia’s greatest living poets, Malouf continues to…
Ilka Tampke
Set in Iron-Age Wales during the turmoil of Roman invasion, Songwoman explores one woman’s quest to defend her culture.
Alice Nelson
Alice Nelson skilfully weaves together these shared stories of displacement and trauma into a beautifully told, hope-filled, outstanding novel.
Katherine Johnson
Matryoshka is a haunting and beautifully written story about the power of maternal love, and the danger of secrets passed down through generations.
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Fiona Palmer
A poignant novel of heartbreak, adoption and family secrets by beloved bestselling Australian author, Fiona Palmer.
Ken Saunders
Move over Shaun Micallef … a work of comic genius that takes the mickey out of anything and everything to do with Australian politics.
Janet Lee
Finally, convicted murderess Louisa Collins can tell her own story. But will she confess?
Martine Murray
A beautiful and affecting story about the fragility of family relationships and about the pervading effects of secrets we keep
Greg Fleet
A charming and uplifting novel about love, belonging and facing mortality, from one of Australia’s most loved and acclaimed comedians.
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Stephanie Bishop
From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of The Other Side of the World comes a brilliant and provocative new novel about inheritance and self-destruction.
William Lane
William Lane's disarming new novel, The Word, The Word
Alison Whittaker
Alison Whittaker’s Blakwork is an original and unapologetic collection from which two things emerge; an incomprehensible loss, and the poet’s fearless examination of the present.
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Robert Drewe
The long-awaited new collection of short stories from Australia’s master of the short-story genre.
Claire Varley
Six strangers bound by fate.
Laura Elizabeth Woollett
The thrilling new novel, inspired by Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple, from the author of The Love of a Bad Man.
Ross Watkins
A gripping psychological drama about family, betrayal and the limits of forgiveness
Margaret Morgan
Control the brain and you control the world. In a fractured nation, two women are left with a choice - risk all to bring humanity together or let it fall…
Jarrah Dundler
A genuine and compellingly portrayed family drama of a tough kid from rural Australia.
Lexi Freiman
A search for belonging in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs turns into a riotous satire of identity politics in this wildly irreverent coming-of-age story.
Ruby J Murray
The Biographer’s Lover is a novel about Australia’s complex relationship with memory, and the role gender plays in the ways we represent not only national myths but our private versus…
Tom Lee
One of the strangest and most appealing novels you will read this year!
Liz Byrski
From ‘the doyenne of women’s fiction’: four women from an online book club spend a month in the Blue Mountains reading and talking about books.
Moreno Giovannoni
Tuscany as you have never seen it before …
Kate Lyons
A superbly written and compelling novel about the bonds of family and home set against the outback landscape.
David Whish-Wilson
San Francisco, 1849. The hills are swarming with desperate men from all over the world, come to seek their fortune in the grip of yellow fever.
Kate van Hooft
A haunting and deeply moving novel with a brilliant voice in the tradition of The Eye of the Sheep and Jasper Jones.
Sally Piper
When three young women set off on a hike through the wilderness they are anticipating the adventure of a lifetime. Over the next five days, as they face up to…
Tiffany Tsao
A powerful and evocative literary thriller from a stunning new Australian voice, for fans of Donna Tartt and Alice Sebold.
Future D. Fidel
A Congolese refugee getting by in the Australian suburbs, Isa has a background that seems unimaginable in his new country - a childhood as a boy soldier. Now, Isa’s a…
James Cristina
Shortlisted for Most Underrated Book Award 2019 'Cristina and his work evoke Franz Kafka and Arshile Gorky. This novel is an astute exploration of the nature of identity.' - Janette…
Belinda Castles
With sea-salt authenticity, Belinda Castles sets the Bright family in the sprawling paradise of Bilgola Beach. But darkness is found both in the iconic setting as well as in the…
Various
UQP celebrates 70 years of publishing the best Australian writing with a unique anthology that showcases the diversity of the Australian literary landscape.
Anthony Uhlmann
An ambitious novel of ideas set against a phantasmagoric Sydney - J. M. Coeztee
Ali Berg,Michelle Kalus
Sometimes love means having to broaden your literary horizons
Jay Carmichael
Shortlisted for the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Unpublished Manuscript Award.
Enza Gandolfo
Drawing on true events of Australia’s worst industrial accident - a tragedy that still scars the city - The Bridge is a profoundly moving novel that examines class, guilt, and…
Ben Doherty
Nagaland is the story of Augustine and of the Naga people, set in India’s far north-east. With sensitively poetic prose, former foreign correspondent Ben Doherty draws the reader into worlds…
Gregory Day
A sweeping and humane novel of Sebaldian scope and power - the story of a man’s life, the obsession which consumed him, all reconstructed from the prodigious archive he left…
Sally Seltmann
An offbeat and beguiling story of finding your own happiness.
Peter Cochrane
A devastating flood on the Hawkesbury almost wipes out the young colony, bringing to the surface many secrets and desires in this masterpiece of historical fiction
Justine Ettler
While her therapistNelly advises her to abstain, Cathy's relationship with drink, and Tomas, draws her deep into a whirlpool of events as mysterious, tense and seductive as Prague itself. Justine…
