Fiction 2015

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Mrs Engels

Gavin McCrea

From the bathing huts of Ramsgate to the hovels of Soho, from a surreptitious life in Manchester to a notorious one on the handsome new parade that is London’s Regents…

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Day Boy

Trent Jamieson

In a post-traumatic future the Masters - formerly human, now practically immortal - rule a world that bends to their will and a human population upon which they feed. Invincible…

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On Brunswick Ground

Catherine de Saint Phalle

A fresh and sparkling book that strikes deep notes as it flows along. Helen GarnerLike the suburb it depicts, On Brunswick Ground teems with lives at once familiar and strange…

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In the Quiet

Eliza Henry-Jones,Eliza Henry-Jones

A moving, sweet and uplifting novel of love, grief and the heartache of letting go, from a wonderful new Australian author. Cate Carlton has recently died, yet she is able…

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Grey: The #1 Sunday Times bestseller

E L James

Christian Grey exercises control in all things; his world is neat, disciplined, and utterly empty - until the day that Anastasia Steele falls into his office, in a tangle of…

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A Time for Everything

Karl Ove Knausgaard

A stunning reimagining of man’s relationship with angels. Utterly original, perceptive, and alive. A modern masterpiece.

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In the Approaches

Nicola Barker

‘Open yourself up again to all that terrible light and savage bliss and deafening reverberation …

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The Secret of Raven Point: A Novel

Jennifer Vanderbes

A powerful story of love, loss, and redemption amidst the ruins of war-torn Italy.

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The Underwriting

Michelle Miller

Get rich. Get laid. Get even.

Todd Kent is young, hot, and on his way to the top of Wall Street when the eccentric founder of Hook, the popular new…

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Leap

Myfanwy Jones

A few weeks after finishing their final exams high school sweethearts have an argument at a party. Joe wants to go - Jen begs him to stay. They fight in…

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West of Sunset

Stewart O'Nan

In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long behind him. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his…

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Charlie Anderson’s General Theory of Lying

Richard McHugh

Ranging from the politics of the bedroom to the post-GFC economy, Charlie Anderson’s General Theory of Lying is a wildly entertaining portrait of coming unstuck. Funny, provoking and confronting, it…

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Princess Bari

Hwang Sok-Yong

In Cheongjin, one of North Korea’s drab urban enclaves, a seventh daughter is born to a couple longing for a son. Abandoned hours after her birth, she is dragged away…

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The Mothers

Rod Jones

A moving multi-generational story of motherhood, adoption, and the inescapable presence of the past in all our lives.

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Almost Sincerely

Zoe Norton Lodge

When Zoe Norton Lodge was growing up in Annandale in the eighties and nineties, the self - proclaimed Heartland of the Inner West was a heady brew of somewhat maladjusted…

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My Documents

Alejandro Zambra

My Documents is the latest work from Alejandro Zambra, the award-winning Chilean writer whose first novel was heralded as the dawn of a new era in Chilean literature. My Documents…

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Prayers for the Stolen

Jennifer Clement

On the mountainside in rural Mexico where Ladydi lives, being a girl is dangerous. Especially a pretty one. If the Narcos hear there is a pretty girl on the mountain…

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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Haruki Murakami

This is a mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84.

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The Four Books

Yan Lianke

In charge of this process is the Child, who delights in draconian rules, monitoring behaviour and confiscating treasured books. The inmates - and hundreds of intellectuals just like them -…

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Some Luck

Jane Smiley

The first novel in a dazzling new epic trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize; a literary adventure that will span a century in America.

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Young Skins

Colin Barrett

A collection that takes us to Glanbeigh, a small town in rural Ireland - a town in which the youth have the run of the place. Boy racers speed down…

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In Wilderness

Diane Thomas

Suspenseful, intensely erotic and unflinching, this spine-chilling love story will haunt you long after the last page. After learning she has a terminal illness, Katherine abandons her successful advertising firm…

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The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry

Traces Russian poetry from its Golden Age to the modern era, including work by several great poets - Georgy Ivanov and Varlam Shalamov among them - in captivating modern translations…

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Guilt

Matt Nable

Guilt starts off with a group of friends getting ready for an eighteenth birthday party. Life is exciting and the world is at their feet.

Jump forward twenty years and…

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The Adventures Of Holly White And The Incredible Sex Machine

Krissy Kneen

An amazing literary sci-fi superhero sex romp from Australia’s genre-bending queen of erotica.

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Coming Rain

Stephen Daisley

Set in 1950s rural Australia, a moving and profound examination of masculinity and the complex nature of male friendship.

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Big Little Lies

Liane Moriarty

Liane Moriarty’s latest New York Times no.1 bestseller following The Husband’s Secret.

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The Bird’s Child

Sandra Leigh Price

A novel of magic, birds, lost letters and love. Sydney, 1929: three people find themselves washed up on the steps of Miss Du Maurier’s bohemian boarding house in a once…

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Everland

Rebecca Hunt

1913: Dinners, Millet-Bass, and Napps - three men bound not by friendship, but by an intense dependence founded on survival - will be immortalised by their decision to volunteer to…

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The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher

Ahn Do-hyun

A life-affirming, inspirational modern fable about love, life and daring to be different.

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Captive Prince (Captive Prince, Book 1)

C.S. Pacat

From global phenomenon C.S. Pacat comes the compelling first adventure in her critically acclaimed trilogy.

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Too Many Men

Lily Brett

As the child of survivors of the Holocaust, Ruth Rothwax is obsessed with returning to Poland with her father, but doesn’t understand her need to make the journey. Although she…

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In Certain Circles

Elizabeth Harrower

Internationally acclaimed novel by the award-winning author of The Watch Tower. Now available for the first time in paperback.

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The Life of Houses

Lisa Gorton

The Life of Houses is the new novel by the acclaimed poet Lisa Gorton, whose first book of poetry, Press Release, won the Victorian Premier’s Award for Poetry, and whose…

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Bark

Lorrie Moore

A new collection by one of America’s most beloved and admired short story writers; her first in fifteen years, since Birds of America.

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Dept. of Speculation

Jenny Offill

The second novel from an LA Times First Fiction Prize finalist, Dept. of Speculation is an annihilating, electrifying account of marriage and motherhood, love and madness

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The Forever Girl

Alexander McCall Smith

A beautiful, touching and often heart-breaking standalone novel about love and friendship from Alexander McCall Smith, bestselling author of the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.

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Something Special, Something Rare: Outstanding Short Stories by Australian Women

Black Inc.,Various Authors

Something Special, Something Rare presents outstanding short fiction by Australia’s finest female writers. These are tales of love, secrets, doubt and torment, the everyday and the extraordinary.

A sleepy town…

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These are the Names

Tommy Wieringa

A small group of emaciated and feral refugees appears out of nowhere, spreading fear and panic in the town. When police commissioner Pontus Beg orders their arrest, evidence of a…

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Goodbye Sweetheart

Marion Halligan

From the author of Valley of Grace comes a powerful novel of love, the desire for understanding, and the inevitable messiness of life.

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The Enchanted

Rene Denfeld

A prisoner sits on death row in a maximum security prison. His only escape from his harsh existence is through the words he dreams about, the world he conjures around…

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Saint Monkey: A Novel

Jacinda Townsend

Jacinda Townsend’s remarkable first novel is a coming-of-age story made at once gripping and poignant by the wild energy of the Jazz Era and the stark realities of segregation. Marrying…

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Love Hotel

Jane Unrue

Love Hotel explores a heartbreaking and nightmarish world of unrelenting excess, impossible convergences, undeniable urges, and inexorable loss. Jane Unrue’s writing, beautifully cunning and mysterious itself, twists and turns and…

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Famous Writers I Have Known: A Novel

James Magnuson

In this brilliant mix of literary satire and crime caper, Frankie Abandonato, a small-time con man on the run, finds refuge by posing as V. S. Mohle-a famously reclusive writer-and…

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Black Rock White City

A.S. Patric

Intensely human, yet majestic in its moral vision, Black Rock White City is an essential story of Australia’s suburbs now, of displacement and immediate threat, and the unexpected responses of…

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Ruby (Oprah’s Book Club 2.0)

Cynthia Bond

Full of life, exquisitely written, and suffused with the pastoral beauty of the rural South, Ruby is a transcendent novel of passion and courage.

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Dark Rooms

Lili Anolik

A stunning debut coming-of-age novel set in the ambiguous and claustrophobic world of an exclusive New England prep school.

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Haifa Fragments

Khulud Khamis

Raised a Christian, in a relationship was a Muslim man and enamoured with a Palestinian woman from the Occupied Territories, Maisoon must decide her own path.

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