Favourite reads of 2021 so far

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All Systems Red

Martha Wells

In a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.

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Girl, Unframed

Deb Caletti

While spending a summer with her famous mother and her criminal boyfriend, Sydney Reilly, age fifteen, finds love with Nicco but her premonition of something bad coming proves dreadfully accurate.

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Apples Never Fall

Liane Moriarty

From the outside, the Delaneys appear to be an enviably contented family. But now Joy Delaney has disappeared and her children are re-examining their parents’ marriage and their family history…

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Switch

A.S. King

A brilliant and surreal novel about isolation and human connection, from award-winning author A. S. King.

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Hold Your Fire

Chloe Wilson

Dark and dangerous, brilliantly unsettling and chillingly funny, this extraordinary debut shows us what we usually deny - the uneasy truce we make with our ruthless desires and gothic fears…

$32.99

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Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle

An unnamed young woman in her late twenties navigates unemployment, boredom, chronic illness and online dating

$24.95

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The Inseparables

Simone de Beauvoir

This recently rediscovered novel from the author of The Second Sex is the compulsive story of two close friends growing up and falling apart.

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Perfect On Paper

Sophie Gonzales

A bisexual girl who gives anonymous love advice to her school friends is hired by the hot new kid to help him get his ex back. Leah on the Offbeat…

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The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett

A powerful new novel about the parallel lives of estranged twin sisters who choose to live in two very different worlds - one black and one white.

$22.99

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Exit Through the Gift Shop

Maryam Master

Ana’s on a wild roller-coaster of life and death, kindness and cruelty, ordinary and extraordinary. And she’s got a few things to do before she exits…

$16.99

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Real Estate: Living Autobiography 3

Deborah Levy

Fearless and essential - the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy’s critically acclaimed ‘Living Autobiography

$22.99

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Nightbitch

Rachel Yoder

For readers of Jenny Offill and Curtis Sittenfeld, this is a funny, provocative, pin-sharp novel that redefines modern motherhood

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Stone Fruit

Lee Lai

An exhilarating and tender debut graphic novel that is an ode to the love and connection shared among three women and the child they all adore.

$49.99

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Freedom Day: Vincent Lingiari and the Story of the Wave Hill Walk-Off

Rosie Smiler, Thomas Mayo, Samantha Campbell

When many voices are joined together, with courage, change can happen. In 1966, more than two hundred courageous Aboriginal people walked off the Wave Hill Cattle Station in the Northern…

$29.99

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how to make a basket

Jazz Money

A powerful and lyrical collection of poetry by the winner of the 2020 David Unaipon Award.

$24.99

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Crossroads

Jonathan Franzen

Set in a historical moment of moral crisis, Crossroads - the first instalment of the trilogy A Key to All Mythologies - is the stunning foundation of a sweeping investigation…

$71.99

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Wild Abandon

Emily Bitto

A breathtaking new novel from the Stella Prize-winning author of The Strays.

$34.99

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Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn

Brett Anderson

The essential second volume of memoirs by Brett Anderson, which reveals the key years of the Suede story

$42.99

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Coal Black Mornings

Brett Anderson

A brilliant, beautifully written memoir from Suede founder and lead singer Brett Anderson.

$33.99

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The Woman in the Purple Skirt

Natsuko Imamura

Clever, bewildering and darkly comic, The Woman in the Purple Skirt is the story of two women whose lives are set to become terribly entwined.

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Terminal Boredom: Stories

Izumi Suzuki

The first English language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural icon.

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Signs and Wonders: Dispatches from a Time of Beauty and Loss

Delia Falconer

The celebrated, Walkley Award-winning author on how global warming is changing not only our climate but our culture.

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Gunk Baby

Jamie Marina Lau

The brand new novel from the Stella Prize shortlisted author of Pink Mountain on Locust Island

$32.99

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A Feather on the Breath of God

Sigrid Nunez

From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of The Friend, comes this mesmerising story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and…

$22.99

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One Hundred Days

Alice Pung

From one of Australia’s most celebrated authors comes a mother-daughter drama exploring the faultlines between love and control.

$34.99

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Born Into This

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.  

$32.99

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