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Doug McEachern
We'll play this silly game, but we're not going into the army. We're not going to support this war. We'll do anything we can to stop it.
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Susan Midalia
A satisfying and romantic read about love, friendship and political engagement - and what Jane Austen might be able to teach a young woman looking for love in the 21st…
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Mira Robertson
It’s 1944 when bookish, unworldly Emily Dean is shipped off to the relatives in rural Victoria after her mother has a nervous breakdown.
Gerald Murnane
Definitive collection of the short fiction of an Australian master-storyteller who is in a league of his own.
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Joanna Atherfold Finn
Rising and recoiling like the ocean, Watermark cracks open the coastal idyll of a quintessentially Australian seaside landscape to reveal shifting sands, fractured relationships, and innocence lost against a backdrop…
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Andrew Hutchinson
Why do we do such crazy things when we’re in love?
Rodney Hall
From the two-time winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award winner Rodney Hall comes a novel moving, disturbing and compelling in equal measure…
Gail Jones
Gail Jones’s mesmerising new novel tells a story about parents and children, it is about love and art, about grief and happiness, about memory and the mystery of time.
Jenny Ackland
A rare, original and stunning novel about a remarkable girl who learns the hard way that the truth doesn’t always set you free - with echoes of Jasper Jones, Seven…
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Ringland
The most enchanting debut novel of 2018, this is an irresistible, deeply moving and romantic story of a young girl, daughter of an abusive father, who has to learn the…
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Avan Judd Stallard
For years Nick Harris has been drifting, until the day he finds himself surrounded by red dirt and razor wire, staring at brownskinned men inside a detention centre. He’s no…
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Julia Prendergast
The Earth Does Not Get Fat is a powerful and gut-wrenching debut about intense suffering and love-fierce, searing love.
Roger Averill
Michael and MajorieMadigan refuse to be interviewed by biographer Sinclair Hughes for his new book Inside the Lion's Den: The Literary Life of Gilbert Madigan. Thisis not surprising as Gilbert…
Tim Winton
The Shepherd’s Hut is an exquisite, brutal coming of age novel. It tells the story of Jaxie, a boy on the run from his past, and explores the way love…
Jeremy Stanford
First time parents Tim and Nicole give birth to a baby with a halo. For a couple of atheists, it’s a bit of a shock. In his gripping and darkly…
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Tracy Sorensen
A magnificently original debut novel about fate, Australia and what it means to be human… that just happens to be narrated by a galah called Lucky.
Michael Mohammed Ahmad
A confronting new novel from award winning Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist Michael Mohammed Ahmad.
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Laura Elvery
‘Radiant, accomplished and exquisitely written, this is an outstanding collection.’ Ryan O'Neill
Ceridwen Dovey
From the award-winning author of Only the Animals comes an unputdownable novel of obsession, guilt, and the power of the past to possess the present.
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Robert Lukins
At once both beautiful and brutal, The Everlasting Sunday is a haunting debut novel about growing up, growing wild and what it takes to survive.
Sunni Overend
All’s fair in love and couture … Fashion and love collide in the stylish new novel from the author of The Dangers of Truffle Hunting.
Debra Oswald
From the creator of ‘Offspring’ and author of Useful, a gripping, wry and tender novel about how holding on too tightly can cost us what we love.
Craig Sherborne
A satirical novel by Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlisted author Craig Sherborne, Off the Record stylishly skewers tabloid journalism and male vanity.
Glenda Guest
A tender, thoughtful story about a woman’s journey back to her home town - and the painful moment that changed her life forever.
Michelle Johnston
Dustfall is the tale of the crashing consequences of medical error, the suffering caused by asbestos mining and the power of storytelling.
Colin Dray
Sometimes even the best intentions can lead you down a very dangerous road.
Heather Morris
Based on interviews author Heather Morris conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov, The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a heart-wrenching, illuminating, and unforgettable tale of hope and…
Glenna Thomson
A beautiful novel about two women - a generation apart - thrown together by circumstance, who slowly come to love and understand one another.
Stella and her mother-in-law Margie are…
