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Avi Duckor-Jones
A beautifully written coming-of-age novel from an exciting new voice in antipodean fiction
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Sophie Matthiesson
A stunning debut novel from a bright new voice in Australian fiction in this deeply affecting portrait of a dysfunctional family.
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Joan Didion
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure…
Hanya Yanagihara
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015 A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance.
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Michael Magee
Luminous and devastating, a portrait of young manhood and working class life from Observer Best New Novelist Michael Magee
Sean is back. Back in Belfast and back into old habits…
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Dylin Hardcastle
The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire is her best friend, also a girl. It's the kind of power…
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Finegan Kruckemeyer
A debut novel from one of Australia's most internationally celebrated playwrights, The End and Everything Before It is a kaleidoscopic story about the way love and loss shape a community.
Roz Dineen
A startlingly beautiful story of a family's survival, and an unforgettable dystopian vision of a familiar world in flames
V. V. Ganeshananthan
A searing, gripping novel about a young Tamil woman living through the Sri Lankan civil war
Alison Bechdel
DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the 2019 Olivier Award nominated musical. ‘A sapphic graphic treat’ The Times A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel’s…
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Chigozie Obioma
The story of a young man seeking redemption in a nation on fire, Chigozie Obioma's novel is an odyssey of brotherhood, love and unimaginable courage set during the Biafran War.
Paul Morgan
A sumptuous novel of war, survival and enduring love.
Nanae Aoyama, Jesse Kirkwood (trans.)
A Perfect Day to be Alone is a moving, microscopic examination of loneliness and heartbreak. With flashes of deadpan humour and a keen eye for poignant detail, Aoyama chronicles the…
Chukwuebuka Ibeh
A stunning debut novel charting the coming-of-age of a young gay man in 2010s Nigeria, from a young rising star in literary fiction
Alice Robinson
The eagerly anticipated, breakout novel from the 2019 Winner of the Readings Prize for New Writing.
Neel Mukherjee
From Booker-shortlisted author Neel Mukherjee, a devastating new novel that exposes the myths of individual choice. How have we come to live this way? At what cost? Who pays the…
Cameron Stewart
A lyrical and profound debut novel that celebrates the kindness of strangers and those living in pain who recognise that in others.
Shankari Chandran
The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens.
Evie Wyld
Set between rural Australia and London, The Echoes is a story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future
Daniel Kraus
The Martian meets 127 Hours in this powerfully humane thriller about a scuba diver who's been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape…
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Kaveh Akbar
A transcendental debut novel from a multiple prize-winning poet; a story of mothers and sons, empires, and what it might mean to strive for love in a world that feels…
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Julia Armfield
The bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea returns with a stunning, unsettling novel following three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world.
Karen Jennings
A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family's troubled past in this taut and compelling novel from the Booker Prize longlisted author of An Island
Tommy Orange
The heart-rending story of a Native American community told through the generations, from the author of New York Times bestseller There There
Helen Signy
A powerful novel of survival, resilience and enduring love, based on an incredible true Holocaust story.
Courtney Collins
A masterful and profoundly moving novel about a girl determined to live on her own terms, no matter the cost. Bird is an unforgettable story of hope, resilience, the power…
Zahid Gamieldien
Ilene, a working-class mother, is struggling to survive and desperate to reconnect with her children, Jack and Lonnie, in the aftermath of a near-fatal tragedy.
But her children vanish, setting…
August Thompson
A gorgeous modern love story about the lives that change us, and the loves that haunt us, Anyone’s Ghost will break your heart.
Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson (trans.)
From the bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes the story of one man's promise to keep a secret that may hold him from the greatest joy possible.
Amy Neff
Every great love story deserves a great ending.
Coco Mellors
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Rainbow Rowell
Rainbow Rowell is back with her first adult novel in ten years in this uplifting novel about star-crossed lovers and the power of second chances
Anna Quindlen
For fans of Elizabeth Strout and Anne Tyler comes a brilliant and poignant novel from the Richard and Judy Book Club and Number One bestselling author Anna Quindlen
Ingrid Persaud
An unforgettable story of four incredible women: this novel combines the depth, and flair of The Seven Moons Maali Almeida with the devastating brilliance and truth of A Brief History…
Andrew McMillan
The debut novel from award-winning poet Andrew McMillan exploring community, masculinity and post-industrialisation in Northern England
Victoria Hannan
A raw, powerful novel from the prize-winning author of Kokomo that exposes the ripple effect of grief.
Claire Keegan
A heartbreaking, haunting story of childhood, loss and love.
Lai Wen
A stunning, deeply moving autobiographical novel about growing up in Beijing in the 1970s and 80s and taking part in the Tiananmen Square protests.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun is the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017.
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past…
Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England.
Ian McEwan
A story that begins with three young people in the garden of a country house on the hottest day of 1935, and ends with three profoundly changed lives. A depiction…
Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch “Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty’ Benedict CumberbatchOn a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter…
John Green,John Green
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot…
Stephen Chbosky
A powerful and perceptive coming-of-age story, in the tradition of The Catcher in the Rye, from a talented young filmmaker, screenwriter and novelist.
Katherine Paterson
Jess Aarons wants to be the fastest boy in the class, but when a girl named Leslie Burke moves into the neighbouring farm his life changes forever. Even though she…
Timothy Conigrave
At an all-boys school in Melbourne, Timothy Conigrave falls wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of the football team. So begins a relationship that weathers disapproval, separation and…
Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett (trans.), David Boyd (trans.)
From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a teenage boy subjected to relentless bullying.
