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James Colley
Part young-love rom-com, part David and Goliath story, The Next Big Thing is a heartwarming, hilarious, quintessentially Australian debut.
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Sharlene Allsopp
How long can you run from a lie, if that lie is what your life is founded on?
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Lottie Hazell
A claustrophobic novel - like a pot boiling over - Piglet charts the gap between how people see themselves and want to be seen.
Vanessa Chan
Destined to become a modern-day classic, The Storm We Made is a dazzling saga about the power of familial love in the face of the horrors of war, for fans…
Julius Taranto
Both hilarious and thought-provoking, How I Won a Nobel Prize approaches our moral confusion in a genuine and fresh way, examining the price we're willing to pay for progress and…
Liam Murphy
A road trip across America, following in the footsteps of the father who abandoned him, leads young Mark Ward to new peace and understanding.
Elly Conway
A luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny. A CIA plane downed in the jungles of the Golden Triangle. A Nazi hoard entombed in the remote mountains…
Kate Brody
A deliciously dark and twisted debut about family secrets, true crime, and destructive obsession by a striking new talent
Mick Cummins
So Close to Home is a pacey, gritty and captivating novel exploring homelessness, power dynamics and the ties that bind.
Alicia Elliott
And Then She Fell is an unflinching and fiercely witty debut novel of Indigenous life, womanhood and mental health, heralding the arrival of an important and urgent new voice in…
Andrea Hotere
A dazzling and spellbinding debut about a mysterious painting, the secrets it keeps, and the two women connected across centuries by a quest to discover the truth - for readers…
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Eleanor Elliott Thomas
Wickedly sharp and absurdly funny, The Opposite of Success introduces a sensational new voice to remind us that failure is always an option.
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Melanie Saward
A poignant and powerful novel about a fire-obsessed Indigenous boy living on the margins - from an electrifying new First Nations voice in Australian fiction, Melanie Saward.
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Anna Kate Blair
The Modern is a brilliantly wry and insightful debut about art, sexuality, commitment and whether being on the right path can lead to the wrong place.
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Sian Hughes
A gripping psychological mystery longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize.
Sara M Saleh
A stunning coming-of-age tale played out across generations and continents, from Palestine to Australia.
Jonathan Escoffery
An electrifying, hilarious and deeply moving tragicomic debut novel following a Jamaican family grappling with a new life in the US.
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Nadine J. Cohen
A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister.
Elise Esther Hearst
Sorrow and Bliss meets Normal People in this utterly compelling, darkly humorous millennial coming-of-age novel about a 27-year-old single Jewish woman in Melbourne who must learn to reconcile family expectations…
Jessie Stephens
Raw and revelatory, Something Bad is Going to Happen is a heart-stopping work from one of Australia's most exciting writers
Steph Vizard
An award-winning modern rom-com for all fans of fake dating, enemies-to-lovers stories.
Airana Ngarewa
An unforgettable debut by a major new literary talent.
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Jenny Fran Davis
Sasha and Jesse are professionally creative, erotically adventurous, and passionately dysfunctional twentysomethings making a life together in Brooklyn. When a pair of older, richer lesbians - prominent news host Jules…
John Morrissey
A wildly imaginative, page-turning collection featuring ghost stories, science fiction and satire, with Aboriginal characters at its heart
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
A novel about belonging, alienation, and the exquisite pleasure and pain of girlhood, But the Girl is a wry and razor-sharp coming-of-age novel for readers of The Idiot by Elif…
Jessica Seaborn
A smart, funny and heartfelt anti-romcom by a bright new voice in Australian fiction.
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Crystal Smith Paul
A multigenerational saga that traverses the glamour of old Hollywood and the seductive draw of modern-day showbiz
Kate Briggs
Windham Campbell Prize-winner Kate Briggs’ long-awaited debut novel, imagining new forms of life, writing and experience.
Soraya Palmer
A dazzling debut novel weaving together Caribbean myth and the contemporary story of multiple generations of one immigrant family
Sarah Smith
A dark comedy about how to live your best life, even when you're dead.
Madelaine Lucas
A compelling and unforgettable debut novel by an acclaimed young Australian writer - a mesmerising story of desire and its complexities and a powerful reckoning with memory, loss and longing.
Jamila Ahmed
A spellbinding reimagining of the Arabian Nights and the fearless woman at the heart of it all: Shaherazade.
Ore Agbaje-Williams
Wife. Husband. Best friend. What if your two favourite people hated each other with a passion?
Lindsay Lynch
A glamorous, gossipy, whip-smart and poignant vision of behind-the-scenes 1940s Hollywood, perfect for fans of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Mercury Pictures Presents.
Amy Lovat
Mistakes and Other Lovers explores the pressure, pain and freedom of being on the cusp of adulthood and realising things aren't what you thought they'd be.
Tony Santorella
Scooby Doo with Grindr or Stranger Things with sex and ennui, a directionless college-dropout deals with sexuality, minimum-wage jobs, lunar cycles, toxic masculinity and the everyday perils of life as…
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Two Black sisters growing up in small-town New England fight to protect their home, their bodies, and their dreams as the civil right movement sweeps the nation.
Zeynab Gamieldien
A stunning debut novel that follows the intertwined lives of three friends as they navigate the complexities of university life, adherence to their faith, and the transition into adulthood.
Szilvia Molnar
The walls begin to close in on a new mother during the fragile first few days of parenthood
Nicole Flattery
A wildly original debut novel about two young women navigating the complex worlds of Andy Warhol's Factory, and coming of age in 1960s New York
Elvin James Mensah
Moving, funny and tender, Small Joys is an epic novel about ordinary lives that introduces the world to an unforgettable cast of characters and a major new literary talent.
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Annette Higgs
Told from five different points of view, each one revealing a little more of the story, On a Bright Hillside in Paradise, tells the story of a family of convict…
Margaret Meyer
East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer and servant, has lived for more than four decades in her beloved coastal village of Cleftwater. Everyone knows Martha, but no one…
Priya Guns
A spiky, blackly funny reboot of the classic Taxi Driver, in which Travis Bickle is a woman of colour, left behind by the big city and out for revenge.
Susan Paterson
An evocative novel of love and art, and one man’s journey to find his place in the world. Where Light Meets Water is a moving debut traversing nineteenth-century London, Melbourne…
Louise Kennedy
Tender and shocking, Trespasses is an unforgettable debut of people trying to live ordinary lives in extraordinary times.
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Esther Yi
An unmissable debut about a Korean American woman whose obsession with Moon, a member of a wildly popular K-pop band sends her to Seoul on a journey of literary self-destruction.
A.Y. Chao
This richly told adult fantasy debut teems with Chinese deities and demons cavorting in jazz age Shanghai.
