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Tom Drury
In a triumphant return to the characters that launched his career two decades ago, Tom Drury travels back to Grouse County, the setting of his landmark debut, The End of…
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Mai Jia
Hidden deep in the mountains, the recruits at ‘Unit 701’, China’s secret services, operate in a dark, shadowy world. There is the ‘wind-listener’, a blind surveillance officer who can hear…
Stephan Eirik Clark
Fast Food Nation meets The Corrections in the brilliant literary debut T.C. Boyle calls ‘funny and moving.
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Nicki Reed
Ruby tells Mark she wants a divorce. It’ll be a fake separation, a protest against marriage inequality. As soon as her sister Peta can marry her girlfriend, BJ, they’ll get…
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Chuck Palahniuk
Penny Harrigan is a low level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great…
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Lindsay Hunter
A powerful, voice-driven novel with the breakneck pace that people have come to expect from Lindsay Hunter.
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Sofie Laguna
Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2015.
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Morrissey
Shows the reality of what is true battling against what is permitted to be true.
100 scary stories to read with the light on selected and introduced by award-winning author Louise Welsh.
Debra Adelaide
After her mother’s death, Dove decides to write a whole new story for herself, for her mother and for their literary heroines. In undertaking this labour of love, Dove unwittingly…
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Andre Alexis
An utterly convincing and moving look at the beauty and perils of consciousness.
Melissa DeCarlo
A poignant, darkly funny debut novel about a young woman who travels-penniless, pregnant, and homeless-to her deceased mother’s small southern hometown, and becomes embroiled in a local mystery: what forced…
Gregory Maguire
What happened to those left behind when Alice went to Wonderland?
Carys Davies
Carys Davies’ short story collections Some New Ambush and The Redemption of Galen Pike (winner of the 2015 Frank O'Connor Award), now published in a single volume.
In a remote…
Christopher Raja
The Burning Elephant is set in Kolkata before and after the assassination of Indira Gandhi, which led to widespread violence against India’s Sikh population. The novel is told from the…
David Arnold
A debut novel of astounding power and heart, MOSQUITOLAND is perfect for fans of Rainbow Rowell, John Green and David Levithan.
Peggy Frew
‘They were inescapable, the tensions of the adult world - the fraught and febrile aura that surrounded Ishtar and those in her orbit, that whined and creaked like a wire…
Ceridwen Dovey
A chef, a portraitist and a barber are taken hostage in a coup to overthrow their boss, the President. They are held captive in a palatial retreat high above the…
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Tony Birch
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…
Louise O'Neill
The Handmaid’s Tale meets Mean Girls in the award-winning, critically acclaimed debut.
Jack Livings
A wealthy factory owner - once a rural peasant - refuses to help the victims of an earthquake until his daughter starts a relief effort of her own; a powerful…
Kate Racculia
A genre-bending page-turner, full of knowing nods to pop culture classics from The Shining to Agatha Christie to Glee, Bellweather Rhapsody is a wholly winning new novel from a writer…
Randolph Stow
Set in the desolate outback landscape of Australia’s north-west, the novel tracks the last days of a worn-out Anglican missionary. Fleeing his mission after an agonising confrontation, he immerses himself…
Ayn Rand
Beautiful but tormented actress Kay Gonda, accused of murder is on the run, and she turns for help to six fans who have written letters to her, each telling her…
Ron Rash
From the bestselling author of Serena, a haunting tale set against the backdrop of contemporary Appalachia about lives shaped by violence, passion, and a powerful connection to the land.
Cass Moriarty
A poignant, mesmerising debut novel about an unlikely friendship An elderly man, living alone in the suburbs, thinks back on his life - the missed opportunities, the shocking betrayals, the…
Marlee Jane Ward
A sharp-edged semi-futuristic riff about a rebellious teenager’s last week at an industrial orphanage.
Jane Rawson
Lives turned upside down by a bureaucratic error in this Kafkaesque work of neo-absurdism.
Christy Collins
Determined to discover the truth about the disappearance of her partner, Nick, Ana sets out to re-trace the route he took as a photojournalist on the other side of the…
Rachel Elliott
Sometimes the world can seem too much for just one person
Eka Kurniawan
The English-language debut of Indonesia’s rising star.
Jenny Ackland
I know that two men are coming up the mountain, at this moment, including the boy from far away. I wonder what my grandson’s face will look like.This is a…
Leah Kaminsky
The Waiting Room captures the sights, sounds, accents and animosities of a country overflowing with stories. Dina is a family doctor living in the melting-pot city of Haifa, Israel. Born…
Miles Allinson
With the inheritance he received upon his father’s death, Miles has come to Europe on the trail of the Romanian surrealist, who disappeared into a forest in 1967. But in…
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Patrick Modiano
A mesmerizing novel by Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano, now superbly translated for English-language readers
Mark Dapin
John ‘Nashville’ Grant is an American military policeman in the R&R town of Vung Tau, tucked safely behind the front lines of the Vietnam War. Nashville knows how everything works…
Bernard Keane
They are watching you. Every move you make. Gripping fiction with an edge of terrifying truth - a brilliant and timely debut novel.
Sonja Dechian
It’s a good father-daughter moment for them. When they finally spot Venus through the telescope, they share a similar sense of looking at something larger than their lives. It’s a…
Anna Funder
The Girl with the Dogs is a poignantly beautiful novella about what’s really precious in life, from Miles Franklin Award-winning Anna Funder, author of All Th
Franz-Olivier Giesbert
The international bestseller, Himmler’s Cook is an utterly charming and beguiling tale of a woman who witnessed the very worst of the 20th century but never lost her passion for…
Ishmael Beah
Now Beah, whom Dave Eggers has called arguably the most read African writer in contemporary literature, has returned with his first novel, an affecting, tender parable about post-war life in…
Victor Pelevin
S.N.U.F.F. is a hard-hitting and timely satirical story about war, revolution and their relationship with the media.
Lori Roy
First paperback printing, June 2016. Previously published as a Dutton hardcover, 2015.
Jesse Ball
From the acclaimed author of Silence Once Begun comes a beguiling new novel about a man starting over at the most basic level, and the strange woman who insinuates herself…
C.S. Pacat
Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos, but when his half-brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity…
Michael Parker
Part empathetic portrait of troubled souls and part Springsteenian ode to the promise and heartbreak of the highway … Told with … emotional complexity and subtlety. - The New York…
Gerbrand Bakker,Gerbrand Bakker
On a hot summer’s day in June 1969 everyone is gathered to welcome Queen Juliana. The young boys and girls wave their flags enthusiastically. But just as the monarch is…
Paddy O'Reilly
A teenager on the tram meets an old man claiming to be Jesus Christ. Six young women band together on a night prowl. A Filipino immigrant clashes with his eldest…
