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Tony Birch
Shadowboxing is a collection of ten linked stories in the life of a boy growing up in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy in the 1960s. A beautifully rendered time capsule…
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From the author of the much-loved Shadowboxing comes this new collection of short fiction. Tony Birch has an eye for life lived at the margins and in Father’s Day he…
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The river is a place of history and secrets. For Ren and Sonny, two unlikely friends, it’s a place of freedom and adventure. For a group of storytelling vagrants, it’s…
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Jennifer Down
Katy’s unexpected suicide forever changes life for her best friend Audrey, and their group of close friends in their twenties.
Alison Whittaker
From a remarkable new voice in Indigenous writing comes this highly original collection of poems bristling with stunning imagery and gritty textures. At times sensual, always potent, Lemons in the…
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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.
Claire G. Coleman
In the near future Australia is about to experience colonisation once more. What have we learned from our past? A daring debut novel from the winner of the 2016 black&write…
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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Elena Gomez
Poetry. Women’s Studies. I once wrote to a poetry advice column because I was afraid of my emotions and the havoc they wreaked on me. I called them ‘a huge…
Sisonke Msimang
A moving portrait of the life journey and all the romance, heartache and grief that has helped to make Sisonke Msimang the writer, activist, mother and woman she is today.
Alice Bishop
A young and exciting new literary voice, emerging from one of Australia’s worst natural disasters
A thrilling and ambitious new novel from the author of the bestselling and prize-winning Terra Nullius
An elegant and challenging portrait of the extraordinary, glamorous, complex and brutal revolutionary, Winnie Mandela
In The White Girl, Tony Birch has created memorable characters whose capacity for love and courage are a timely reminder of the endurance of the human spirit.
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Evelyn Araluen
This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconography of an unreconciled nation with biting satire and lyrical fury.
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Ellena Savage
A stimulating combination of memoir, essay, poetry, confession and critique, Blueberries is a powerful and revealing collection from a rising star in Australian creative non-fiction.
Katerina Bryant
When Katerina Bryant suddenly began experiencing chronic seizures, she was plunged into a foreign world of doctors and psychiatrists, who understood her condition as little as she did. Reacting the…
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Victoria Hannan
Winner of the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. Both tender and fierce, heartbreaking and funny, Kokomo is a story about how secrets and love have the…
Laura McPhee-Browne
Beautifully written and intimate, Cherry Beach is a revelatory story of friendship and desire.
Adam Thompson
Engaging, thought-provoking stories from a young Tasmanian Aboriginal author who addresses universal themes - identity, racism, heritage destruction - from a wholly original perspective.
Sam van Zweden
Eating with My Mouth Open is food writing like you’ve never seen before: honest, brave, and exceptionally tasty. Lyrically written, Sam van Zweden offers a millennial response to classic food…
Fiona Murphy
A vivid and essential memoir of deafness, disability and identity by Australian writer Fiona Murphy
Ella Baxter
A stunning, heartbreakingly funny debut novel from a brilliant new literary voice. Sex, death, grief, running away…only one of these makes Amelia feel like a new animal.
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Veronica Gorrie
The story of an Aboriginal woman who worked as a police officer and fought for justice both within and beyond the Australian police force.
In this stunning collection Tony Birch invites the reader into a tender conversation with those he loves - and has loved - the most
Jamie Marina Lau
The brand new novel from the Stella Prize shortlisted author of Pink Mountain on Locust Island
