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Ben Doherty
Nagaland is the story of Augustine and of the Naga people, set in India’s far north-east. With sensitively poetic prose, former foreign correspondent Ben Doherty draws the reader into worlds…
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Alison Weir
The third stunning novel in the Six Tudor Queens series by foremost and beloved historian Alison Weir
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Enza Gandolfo
Drawing on true events of Australia’s worst industrial accident - a tragedy that still scars the city - The Bridge is a profoundly moving novel that examines class, guilt, and…
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Emily Robbins
A mesmerising debut set in Syria on the cusp of unrest, A Word for Love is the story of a young American woman transformed by language, risk, war, and a…
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Daniel Alarcon
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction An unforgettable collection of stories from Daniel Alarcon, one of the New Yorker’s 20 best writers under 40, and one of the…
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Gregory Day
A sweeping and humane novel of Sebaldian scope and power - the story of a man’s life, the obsession which consumed him, all reconstructed from the prodigious archive he left…
Carys Davies
A spellbinding and timeless tale of isolation, the power of grief and the pull of home.
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Peter Cochrane
A devastating flood on the Hawkesbury almost wipes out the young colony, bringing to the surface many secrets and desires in this masterpiece of historical fiction
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Sally Seltmann
An offbeat and beguiling story of finding your own happiness.
Justine Ettler
While her therapistNelly advises her to abstain, Cathy's relationship with drink, and Tomas, draws her deep into a whirlpool of events as mysterious, tense and seductive as Prague itself. Justine…
Dan Chaon
A psychologist is unwillingly embroiled in two spectacular unsolved murders, one past and one present, in this haunting suspense novel.
Janet Beard
In November 1944, eighteen-year-old June Walker boards an unmarked bus, destined for a city that doesn’t officially exist. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, has sprung up in a matter of months-a town…
Annalena McAfee
Scottish form of “home’: a valued place regarded as a refuge or place of originAfter her relationship breaks down, Mhairi McPhail dismantles her life in New York and moves with…
Doug McEachern
We'll play this silly game, but we're not going into the army. We're not going to support this war. We'll do anything we can to stop it.
Susan Midalia
A satisfying and romantic read about love, friendship and political engagement - and what Jane Austen might be able to teach a young woman looking for love in the 21st…
Mira Robertson
It’s 1944 when bookish, unworldly Emily Dean is shipped off to the relatives in rural Victoria after her mother has a nervous breakdown.
Charlotte Grimshaw
From award-winning author Charlotte Grimshaw, this is a beautifully evocative, sensual portrayal of a woman’s search for freedom and love
Gerald Murnane
Definitive collection of the short fiction of an Australian master-storyteller who is in a league of his own.
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Philip Hensher
The things history will do at the bidding of love
Jesse Ball
A captivating novel about free will, grief, the power of memory and the ferocity of parental love.
Anna-Marie Crowhurst
The charming, droll (and just a little bit bawdy) picaresque tale of one woman’s coming of age both on and off the stage in seventeenth-century England.
Joanna Atherfold Finn
Rising and recoiling like the ocean, Watermark cracks open the coastal idyll of a quintessentially Australian seaside landscape to reveal shifting sands, fractured relationships, and innocence lost against a backdrop…
Christine Mangan
A nailbiting thriller set in 1950s Morocco, soon to be a major film starring Scarlett Johansson and produced by George Clooney.
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Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
A emotionally wrenching, character-rich debut from a National Book Award-longlisted rising American star
Tom Rachman
A grand and moving family drama set against the pretention, prestige and pomp of the international art world.
Frances Mayes
By the bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, and written with Frances Mayes’s trademark warmth, heart, and delicious descriptions of place, food, and friendship, Women in Sunlight is the…
Andrew Hutchinson
Why do we do such crazy things when we’re in love?
Rodney Hall
From the two-time winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award winner Rodney Hall comes a novel moving, disturbing and compelling in equal measure…
Gail Jones
Gail Jones’s mesmerising new novel tells a story about parents and children, it is about love and art, about grief and happiness, about memory and the mystery of time.
Yvonne Fein
Oh Lord, I know we are the Chosen People but just for once couldn’t you choose somebody else? is an old plea, and with it these stories lift off on…
Augur Ava Olafsdottir
A funny, wistful and utterly beguiling novel about a man whose life is falling apart, and how he learns to put it back together
Jenny Ackland
A rare, original and stunning novel about a remarkable girl who learns the hard way that the truth doesn’t always set you free - with echoes of Jasper Jones, Seven…
Ringland
The most enchanting debut novel of 2018, this is an irresistible, deeply moving and romantic story of a young girl, daughter of an abusive father, who has to learn the…
Avan Judd Stallard
For years Nick Harris has been drifting, until the day he finds himself surrounded by red dirt and razor wire, staring at brownskinned men inside a detention centre. He’s no…
Julia Prendergast
The Earth Does Not Get Fat is a powerful and gut-wrenching debut about intense suffering and love-fierce, searing love.
Roger Averill
Michael and MajorieMadigan refuse to be interviewed by biographer Sinclair Hughes for his new book Inside the Lion's Den: The Literary Life of Gilbert Madigan. Thisis not surprising as Gilbert…
Tim Winton
The Shepherd’s Hut is an exquisite, brutal coming of age novel. It tells the story of Jaxie, a boy on the run from his past, and explores the way love…
Mary Miller
Deftly crafted (New York Review of Books), with its collection of lusty, lazy, hard-drinking characters, Always Happy Hour showcases transcendent contemporary talent at its best.
Jin Yong
The most popular series by the most successful Chinese author - a cultural monument translated into English for the first time
Emily Fridlund
A spellbinding collection of short stories from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of History of Wolves.
Tracy Sorensen
A magnificently original debut novel about fate, Australia and what it means to be human… that just happens to be narrated by a galah called Lucky.
Michael Mohammed Ahmad
A confronting new novel from award winning Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist Michael Mohammed Ahmad.
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Karl Ove Knausgaard
Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna Bjerger.
Mareike Krugel
From a multi award-winning German novelist comes this finely nuanced and disarmingly funny novel about a woman who has lost sight of who she once was.
Laura Elvery
‘Radiant, accomplished and exquisitely written, this is an outstanding collection.’ Ryan O'Neill
Ceridwen Dovey
From the award-winning author of Only the Animals comes an unputdownable novel of obsession, guilt, and the power of the past to possess the present.
Heidi Sopinka
A thrillingly elegant yet raw evocation of a woman clawing her way to a creative life, inspired by the story of surrealist artist Leonora Carrington.
Robert Lukins
At once both beautiful and brutal, The Everlasting Sunday is a haunting debut novel about growing up, growing wild and what it takes to survive.
