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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Rick Moody
Everyone needs to tell their story, that’s what the internet is for. But what kind of person becomes a top reviewer on RateYourLodging.com and tells their story that way? Rick…
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Sean Rabin
Michael, an aspiring writer who has recently finished his PhD, takes a job as the secretary to his literary hero, Lucian Clarke, a reclusive novelist with a mysterious cosmopolitan past…
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Larry Kramer
This is the story of one nation under a plague, contaminated by greed, hate, and disease and host to transcendent acts of courage and kindness. The American People is a…
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Valeria Luiselli, PhD (Columbia University)
Bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneerthe story of Highway and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico.
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Maxine Beneba Clarke
A haunting visit to the International Museum of Slavery, in Liverpool England. A feisty young black girl pushing back against authority. The joy and despair of single parenthood. A love-hate…
Martin Seay
THE MIRROR THIEF is a masterful puzzle: a genre-hopping novel that combines a layered, rewarding mystery with serious literary ambition. Set in three cities in three eras, it calls to…
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Ye Xin
During the Cultural Revolution over 14 million Chinese high school graduates were sent from the cities to live and work in the countryside. They were known as zhiqing - ‘educated…
Jack Cox
Eliza travels to Sydney to deal with the estate of her Aunt Dodge, and finds Maxine, a hitherto unknown cousin, occupying Dodge’s apartment. When legal complications derail plans to live…
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John Foster
First published in Australia in 1993. An unforgettable memoir of love, loss and humanity.
Toni Jordan
A romantic comedy about sex, marriage and the benefits and drawbacks of being a grownup.
Nir Baram
Set in Berlin and Leningrad during WWII, a profound exploration of individual lives caught in the tide of history.
Rupi Kaur
milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss and femininity.
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Tom Drury,Yiyun Li
One of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists returns to the American Midwest with a powerful and often funny chronicle of one October weekend in the lives of a precarious family.
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John Boyne
Explores the extremities of the human condition in all its brilliance and brutality. Drawing on a host of enthralling characters - a farmer, a cuckold and a teenager exploring his…
Thomas Savage
Phil and George are brothers, more than partners, joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley. Phil is the bright one, George the plodder. Phil is tall and…
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Mark Lamprell
A beautifully written, funny and compelling novel full of heart and pure romantic delight.
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Charlie Jane Anders
Childhood friends Patricia Delfine, a witch, and Laurence Armstead, a mad scientist, parted ways under mysterious circumstances during middle school. But as adults they both wind up in near-future San…
Agota Kristof
Claus and Lucas are twins. Their new life begins when they are left with their grandmother, the ‘Witch’, in a village in an occupied country. It’s wartime. Their angelic looks…
Debra Jopson
It’s 1969 and the world is alight with revolution. Oliver Lawrence, a Bondi Beach kid, is transported to one of the world’s most bewitching cities: Beirut in the Levant.
Georgia Blain
Ester is a family therapist with an appointment book that catalogues the woes of the middle class. She spends her days helping others find happiness, but her own family relationships…
Mette Jakobsen
Vera and David have been passionately in love since the day they met more than twenty years ago. They live in the Blue Mountains where Vera is a sculptor and…
Amanda Ortlepp
The past will always find you.
Susan Crandall
Bestselling author Susan Crandall sends an unlikely trio on an exhilarating adventure high above the American Midwest of the 1920s in a spirited novel in league with Water for Elephants.
Torsten Hojer
In this exciting new collection of gay short stories, we hear from authors imagining, surmising, and revealing aspects of gay life from a multitude of perspectives, ages, eras, locations, cultures…
Lian Hearn
In this magnificent new epic, destined to become a classic, bestselling Australian author Lian Hearn transports us to a mythical Japanese world set 300 years before Tales of the Otori.
Guillermo Fadanelli
Set in modern - day Mexico City, See You at Breakfast is the story of four characters, leading lives of quiet desperation, who are thrown together by a despicably violent…
V.C. Chickering
Nookietown is the story of two friends - Lucy and Nancy, and what happens when Nancy asks Lucy to sleep with her husband to save the marriage. Together they discover…
Lina Wolff
Award-winning Barcelona novel with Bolano-esque humour: with women, men, lovers, loners, Marilyn (a cat) and Bret Easton Ellis (a dog).
Tom Cooper
Originally published in hardcover in 2015 by Crown Publishers.
Victor Pelevin
EMPIRE V is a post-modern, timely, whimsical and satirical story about a young man who involuntary joins a revolutionary cult …
Ann Beattie
A new collection of stories from an award-winning master of the form, about the stories we tell about ourselves to others and the stories we're told.
Tom Drury
At the heart of Grouse County, in the American midwest, is an unforgettable triangle: Dan Norman, the county sheriff whose empathy exceeds his love for law enforcement; Tiny Darling, a…
Oleg Kashin
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Caroline Lea
Jersey, June 1940: it starts after the bombs land; obliterating the last shred of hope that Hitler will avert his attention from the Channel Islands.
Tommy Wieringa
When Ludwig Unger returns to his hometown after a decade, he arrives with a plastic bag filled with his mother’s ashes and little else. He was there to make amends…
After a farming accident plunges him into a coma for months, Frankie Hermans wakes up to discover that he’s paralysed and mute. Confined to a wheelchair, Frankie struggles to adjust…
Josephine Rowe
It is New Year’s Eve, 1990, and Ru’s father has disappeared again. Haunted by the horrors of the Vietnam War, Jack has been an erratic - and at times violent…
Jennifer Down
Katy’s unexpected suicide forever changes life for her best friend Audrey, and their group of close friends in their twenties.
Robyn Mundy
‘You spend your whole time on an island looking out to sea. It’s a kind of meditation. Perhaps what you’re really facing is yourself.
Dimitry Elias Leger
A native of Haiti, Dimitry Elias Leger makes his remarkable debut with this story of romance, politics, and religion that traces the fates of three lovers in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and…
Libby Cudmore
Listening to someone else’s mix tapes is a huge breach of trust. But KitKat was dead… and curiosity got the better of me –Page 4 of cover.
Joseph Kanon
A sweeping novel of postwar East Berlin, a city caught betwen political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation
Lesley Truffle
London’s luxurious Hotel Du Barry has been left unscathed by WW1 and the party has just begun: tainted love, murderous desires and gin. It’s THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL with a…
Lindsay Tanner
An astute novel about inner-city Australian racism - and about humanity emerging in the face of reality.
Jack van Duyn is in his comfort zone. A pot-bellied, unfit, round-shouldered cabbie…
C.S. Pacat
Book 3 of the Captive Prince trilogy
Kenneth Cook
A nail-biting chase into the outback, towards the devil lurking at its center. Adrenaline-fuelled reading.
Diego Marani
After the acclaimed New Finnish Grammar and The Last of the Vostyachs, The Interpreter is the third in a trilogy of novels on the theme of language and identity.
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Fiona McFarlane
These wide-ranging stories resonate in the way of only the finest writing and the most pleasurable reading. There are storylines that seem straightforward on the surface but have a dozen…
