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Durian Sukegawa
A charming tale of friendship, love and loneliness in contemporary Japan
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Winston Groom
Three decades after the publication of Forrest Gump, Winston Groom returns to fiction with a sweeping epic.
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Nicola Barker
Imagine a perfect world where everything is known, where everything is open, where there can be no doubt, no hatred, no poverty, no greed. Imagine a System which both nurtures…
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Garth Risk Hallberg
From the author of the New York Times bestseller City on FireA Granta Best of Young American Novelist 2017 “A young author of boundless and unflagging talents’ New York TimesWe…
Danzy Senna
A subversive and engrossing novel of race, class and manners in contemporary America.
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Mudrooroo
Balga Boy Jackson is the long awaited new novel of Mudrooroo. He returns to his roots to give us a vivid life story of an Australian Black Boy - naturally…
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Stephen Orr
As Hitler’s war looms, famous Australian artist Roland Griffin returns home with his family to live a simple life of shared plums and low-cut lawns in the suburbs. In the…
Ben Okri
A new collection of meditations and stories from the Booker Prize-winning author, Ben Okri. Illustrated by Rosemary Clunie.
Kathy Lette
Now an adult on L-plates, Debbie and her girlfriends reveal what women talk about when there are no men around. Prepare yourself for full-frontal comedic camaraderie.
After breaking off with…
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Maxine Beneba Clarke
In The Best Australian Stories, acclaimed writer Maxine Beneba Clarke brings together our country’s leading literary talents. An award-winning short-story writer herself, Clarke selects exceptional stories that resonate with…
Sarah Holland-Batt
The Best Australian Poems reveal the impressive depth, diversity and boldness of this country’s poetic talent. For the second year in a row, award-winning poet, critic and academic Sarah Holland-Batt…
Lynette Washington
Peer through the windows and doors on Plane Tree Drive to find a streetscape that is diverse, heartbreaking, funny and strange, where the loneliness of domestic isolation and the joy…
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Gerald Murnane
A new work by a master of contemporary Australian fiction, highly regarded overseas, but little-known here. Giramondo’s publication of Border Districts, and the retrospective volume Collected Short Fiction (early next…
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Marni Jackson
What if some of the artists we feel as if we know - Meryl Streep, Neil Young, Bill Murray - turned up in the course of our daily lives? This…
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Lily Tuck
From one of America’s most acclaimed writers, an elegant and biting portrait of a marriage and a woman consumed by secrecy and jealousy.
Kaz Cooke
Kaz Cooke invites you to an audience with the amazing Ada. She’s a showgirl and a story teller with a trunk full of stories and secrets. A funny, tender novel…
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Graeme Macrae Burnet
There does not appear to be anything remarkable about the fatal car crash on the A35. But one question dogs Inspector Georges Gorski: where has the victim, an outwardly austere…
Helen Garner
This new edition of Helen Garner’s collected short fiction celebrates the seventy-fifth birthday of one of Australia’s most loved authors.
A.S. Patric
The new novel from Miles Franklin award-winning author A.S. Patrić.
Kurt Vonnegut
Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers.
Maggie Shen King
Includes reading group discussion guide.
Nicola Lagioia
Winner of the 2015 Strega Prize, Italy’s preeminent prize for fiction, Ferocity is a cinematic suspense novel that also addresses vital social questions, a combination of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl…
Michael Tolkin
A panoramic vision - suspenseful, comedic, prophetic - set in a near-future California that has been devastated by NK3, a memory-destroying virus from North Korea
Rupi Kaur
From Rupi Kaur, the bestselling author of Milk and Honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry.
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Maria Duenas
A sweeping historical epic by an author whose novels have sold over 6 million copies worldwide.
Salvatore Striano
A wonderfully affecting novel about crime, redemption, the Mafia and the power of Shakespeare to transform a person’s life.
Robin Sloan
From the author of the much-loved novel Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore comes a satirical and infectiously intelligent follow-up about a life-changing loaf of bread.
Sebastian Hampson
A novel of profound insight about the complexity of human relationships, morality and the transformative power of art set in New York’s glamorous world of galleries and high-end magazine publishing.
Jeremy Chambers
A coming-of-age drama that superbly evokes the sights, smells and sounds of suburban life in the 80s and the angst of teenagers trapped in the lives of their parents.
Odette Kelada
Drawing Sybylla is a novel about the challenges women writers have faced in pursuing the writing life.
Jay Kristoff
A ruthless young assassin continues her journey for revenge in this new epic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Jay Kristoff.
Venero Armanno
Charlie Smoke is living out his early retirement from the boxing ring as a bricklayer. It is the mid-1970s and he believes his best days are behind him. He has…
Devin Murphy
Includes reader’s extras, including a short story entitled Off Dead Hawk Highway.
Lindsey Lee Johnson
An unforgettable cast of characters is unleashed into a realm known for its cruelty - the American high school - in this captivating debut novel.
Mary Gaitskill
Don’t Cry is Mary Gaitskill’s first collection of stories in over ten years, following the tremendous success of her previous collections, Bad Behaviour and Because They Wanted To.
Stephen Wright
Winner of the 2017 Seizure Viva La Novella Prize
Mirandi Riwoe
Sparked by the description of a ‘Malay trollope’ in W. Somerset Maugham’s story, The Four Dutchmen, Mirandi Riwoe’s novella, The…
Carmen Marcus
Ten years old and irrepressibly curious, Ellie lives with her fisherman father, Peter, on the wild North Yorkshire coast. It’s the 1980s and her mother’s breakdown is discussed only in…
Harriet McKnight
Alan and Pina have lived contentedly in isolated - and insular - Boney Point for thirty years. Now they are dealing with Alan’s devastating early-onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
Dirk Kurbjuweit
A dark and powerful story of adolescence, friendship and rivalry from one of Germany’s great literary talents.
Tom Rachman
From the author of The Imperfectionists comes a series of witty and addictive stories set across America during the years of Trump’s presidency.
Philip Miller
The Lovely Bones meets Margaret Attwood in this extraordinary, deeply moving, supernatural story of a young man’s journey to find his mother, wrapped in a dystopian novel about an epic…
Orhan Pamuk
On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle…
Ali Alizadeh
Ali Alizadeh's novel The Last Days of Jeanne d'Arc The Last Days of Jeanne d'Arc
Catherine Cole
The room rustled as the children looked around. They knew no one had been to the coast but they checked in case for liars, for the too-dumb to know the…
Garry Disher
Beautifully and powerfully written, this is a look at the darker side of Australia’s past - and particularly the status of girls and women in our society - that will…
Nicole Trope
In a single day, a simple mistake will have life-altering consequences for everyone involved…
Kylie Ladd
All she wanted was to escape. But why does she still feel trapped. A gripping psychological drama by the author of Mothers and Daughters and Into My Arms.
