Australian fiction 2019

Red Can Origami

Madelaine Dickie

Ava has just landed a job as a reporter in Gubinge, a tiny tropical town in Australia’s north. From the rodeos and fishing holes of northern Australia, to the dazzling…

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The Orange Grove

Kate Murdoch

An eighteenth-century tale of politics and intrigue, love and betrayal, among the French Aristocracy Blois, 1705

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Hide

S.J. Morgan

Like a dark unsettling road movie, Hide takes us on a chilling ride from 80s urban Britain to the menace of the Australian outback.

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Field of Poppies

Carmel Bird

Atmospheric and beguiling Field of Poppies is a novel the seduces the reader with mysteries and beauties but also speaks of something much larger.

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The Sea & Us

Catherine de Saint Phalle

From the Stella shortlisted author of Poum and Alexandre, this is a heartwarming novel about longing, absence and the people we unexpectedly come to love.

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Cilka’s Journey

Heather Morris

Her beauty saved her life - and condemned her.

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Act of Grace

Anna Krien

The exhilarating debut novel from the award-winning author of Night Games.

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Being Black ‘n Chicken, and Chips

Matt Okine

When his mum is suddenly diagnosed with advanced breast and brain cancer, Mike knows it’s a long shot, but if he manages to achieve his dreams, maybe it’ll give his…

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Wearing Paper Dresses

Anne Brinsden

A tremendously polished, heartbreaking debut perfect for fans of Rosalie Ham’s The Dressmaker, Joy Rhoades’ The Woolgrower’s Companion, Madeleine St John’s The Women in Black or Colleen McCullough’s Thornbirds.

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There Was Still Love

Favel Parrett

The profoundly moving new novel from the critically acclaimed and Miles Franklin shortlisted author of Past the Shallows and When the Night Comes. A tender and masterfully told story of…

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The House of Youssef

Yumna Kassab

The House of Youssef is a collection of short stories set in Western Sydney. The stories explore the lives of Lebanese migrants who have settled in the area, circling around…

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The Burnt Country

Joy Rhoades

The stunning new novel from the author of The Woolgrower’s Companion, whom the Australian Women’s Weekly described as ‘a wonderful new voice in literary rural fiction’.

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Meet Me at Lennon’s

Melanie Myers

Olivia Wells is struggling with her university studies, her relationship with her father and her love life. Throwing herself into her thesis research, she stumbles across details of a young…

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Wild

Nathan Besser

An absolute romp, lead by Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Wild, through the criminal underbelly of thriving 17th century London.

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The Old Lie

Claire G. Coleman

A thrilling and ambitious new novel from the author of the bestselling and prize-winning Terra Nullius

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The Breeding Season

Amanda Niehaus

A breathtaking debut that explores love, science, loss and the so-called feminine ideal.

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Here Until August: Stories

Josephine Rowe

A masterful collection of horizons and departures, heartbreak and seduction, from an internationally acclaimed Australian author.

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Wolfe Island

Lucy Treloar

The stunning new novel from the award-winning author of Salt Creek is Barkskins or The Son meets The Road…

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Lucky Ticket

Joey Bui

A debut collection of stories announcing an intelligent, vibrant and highly original Australian-Vietnamese voice in contemporary literature.

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Out of Time

Steve Hawke

From the author of The Valley comes this immensely readable love story, and family story, that explores the difficult ethical and emotional terrain of dementia, and each person’s right to…

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Taking Tom Murray Home

Tim Slee

The winner of the inaugural Banjo Prize, Taking Tom Murray Home is a funny, moving, bittersweet Australian story of fires, families and the restorative power of community.

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The Trespassers

Meg Mundell

The Trespassers is a beguiling novel that explores the consequences of greed, the experience of exile, and the unlikely ways strangers can become the people we hold dear.

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The Returns

Philip Salom

From Miles Franklin finalist Philip Salom comes this new story about the eccentricities, failings and small triumphs that humans are capable of. The Returns is a novel that pokes fun…

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The Desert Midwife

Fiona McArthur

What if the love of your life forgot who you were?

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The Blue Rose

Kate Forsyth

Moving between Imperial China and France during the ‘Terror’ of the French Revolution and inspired by the true story of the quest for a blood-red rose.

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The Pillars

Peter Polites

A thrilling new novel from the author of critically acclaimed DOWN THE HUME.

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While You Were Reading

Ali Berg,Michelle Kalus

Words are messy. Love is messier. A hilarious, insightful new novel from the creators of Books on the Rail

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Minotaur

Peter Goldsworthy

A gritty and clever thriller from long-time Penguin author Peter Goldsworthy.

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The Roadhouse

Kerry McGinnis

When aspiring actress Charlie Carver learns that her cousin Annabelle has died, she immediately leaves Melbourne to fly home to the remote family roadhouse east of Alice Springs.

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A Constant Hum

Alice Bishop

A young and exciting new literary voice, emerging from one of Australia’s worst natural disasters

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Blood in the Dust: Winner of a Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing prize

Bill Swiggs

For readers of Wilbur Smith, Jeffrey Archer and Bryce Courtenay, as fast-paced adventure story and the winner of the best unpublished manuscript category of the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize…

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Fortune

Lenny Bartulin

A gripping, globe-spanning historical epic from the author of Infamy

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Shepherd

Catherine Jinks

Compulsive and terrifying adult fiction from renowned Australian author Catherine Jinks

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Lyre

Stuart Cooke

Lyre is a sonic, sculptural cornucopia of new and startling forms. Stuart Cooke proposes that all kinds of life - animal, plant and otherwise - have their own modes of…

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Daughter of Bad Times

Rohan Wilson

A suspenseful, truthful and compelling novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Roving Party.

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The Subjects

Sarah Hopkins

A literary, and terrifyingly credible, novel about our juvenile justice system written by a lawyer working in the field.

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Little Stones

Elizabeth Kuiper

Hannah lives in Zimbabwe during the reign of Robert Mugabe: it’s a country of petrol queues and power cuts, food shortages and government corruption. Yet Hannah is lucky. She can…

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Hitch

Kathryn Hind

Winner of the inaugural Penguin Literary Prize.

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This Taste for Silence

Amanda O'Callaghan

Subtle, compelling and unsettling, Amanda O'Callaghan’s stories work at the edges of the sayable, through secrets, erasures and glimpsed moments of disclosure. They shimmer with unspoken histories and characters who…

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Losing the Plot

Elizabeth Coleman

Funny, charming and captivating, with a plot within a plot, and a girl who is looking for love in all the wrong places.

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Bodies of Men

Nigel Featherstone

A beautifully evocative tale of two men whose lives are brought together in tragedy - for lovers of books by Kevin Powers and Sebastian Barry.

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Gravity Is The Thing

Jaclyn Moriarty

The new adult novel from award-winning young adult author Jaclyn Moriarty-a frequently hilarious, brilliantly observed story in the spirit of Maria Semple, Rainbow Rowell, and Gail Honeyman-that follows a single…

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Typhoon Kingdom

Matthew Hooton

Based on the seventeenth-century journal of a shipwrecked Dutch sailor, and testimonies of surviving Korean 'Comfort Women,' Typhoon Kingdom is a story of war, romance, and survival that brings to…

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The Aunts’ House

Elizabeth Stead

Elizabeth Stead brings her classic subversive wit and personal insight to this nostalgic portrait of wartime Sydney. In Angel Martin, she has created a singular and irrepressible character. A true…

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Simpson Returns

Wayne Macauley

A satirical and surreal twist on the Anzac legend of Simpson and his donkey

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Invented Lives

Andrea Goldsmith

Knowing what you want is hard. Accepting what is possible is harder still.

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The Artist’s Portrait

Julie Keys

Murderer, narcissist, sexual deviant or artistic genius and a woman before her time: Who really is Muriel Kemp?

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The Shining Wall

Melissa Ferguson

The Shining Wall is at once a frightening parable of our unjust world of haves and have-nots, a richly imagined yet thrilling story of technological control and the fight for…

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Australian fiction 2019

Red Can Origami

The Orange Grove

Hide

Field of Poppies

The Sea & Us

Cilka’s Journey

Act of Grace

Being Black ‘n Chicken, and Chips

Wearing Paper Dresses

There Was Still Love

The House of Youssef

The Burnt Country

Meet Me at Lennon’s

Wild

The Old Lie

The Breeding Season

Here Until August: Stories

Wolfe Island

Lucky Ticket

Out of Time

Taking Tom Murray Home

The Trespassers

The Returns

The Desert Midwife

The Blue Rose

The Pillars

While You Were Reading

Minotaur

The Roadhouse

A Constant Hum

Blood in the Dust: Winner of a Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing prize

Fortune

Shepherd

Lyre

Daughter of Bad Times

The Subjects

Little Stones

Hitch

This Taste for Silence

Losing the Plot

Bodies of Men

Gravity Is The Thing

Typhoon Kingdom

The Aunts’ House

Simpson Returns

Invented Lives

The Artist’s Portrait

The Shining Wall