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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Lauren Aliza Green
The poignant debut novel of two families brought together to celebrate an unexpected marriage over a sunny Maine weekend, for fans of Anne Tyler and Elizabeth Strout.
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Anita Desai
Rosarita is a beautiful, haunting novel that explores memory, grief, and a young woman’s determination to forge her own path.
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Melanie Cheng
In her unforgettable new novel, Victorian Premier's Literary Award-winner Melanie Cheng has created this year's literary masterpiece.
Kate Kruimink
A sad, sly and darkly comic story about the weight of grief and the ways in which family cleave to us, for better and for worse.
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Evie Wyld
Set between rural Australia and London, The Echoes is a story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future
Kirsty Capes
Girls is as devastating as it is hilarious, as tender and moving as it is shocking - this is a book that will stay with you long after you have…
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Julia Armfield
The bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea returns with a stunning, unsettling novel following three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world.
Amy Neff
Every great love story deserves a great ending.
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Christine Paice
Tender, endearing, lyrical, surprising, and magical - think Hilary Mantel meets Sarah Winman with a dash of Neil Gaiman - The Oxenbridge King is a delight, a true original.
August Thompson
A gorgeous modern love story about the lives that change us, and the loves that haunt us, Anyone’s Ghost will break your heart.
Trish Bolton
An unexpected death finds Lizzie, Alice and Margot at various crossroads in their lives, torn between looking back and moving on.
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Sarah Sasson
A tender coming-of-age novel about growing up in the face of unimaginable loss. It examines the stories we subconsciously write for ourselves, and what remains later, when we have the…
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Jo Ann Beard
This heart wrenching novella honours all the wonders of life through the lens of one woman's journey towards death
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Alison Edwards
A brilliant debut reaching from the picturesque South Coast of NSW to the cloisters of Cambridge, following two young women's lives as they become entwined in ways neither could have…
Daniel Kraus
The Martian meets 127 Hours in this powerfully humane thriller about a scuba diver who's been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape…
Noel O'Regan
From an exciting new voice in Irish fiction, a powerful novel set on an Irish clifftop - a story about duty, despair and the chance encounters upon which fate turns
Ron Rash
Set in a small Appalachian town, The Caretaker by award-winning author Ron Rash is a breathtaking love story and a searing examination of the acts we seek to justify in…
Balsam Karam, Saskia Vogel (trans.)
Lyrical and breathtaking, a study of grief, migration, and motherhood from one of Sweden's most exciting new novelists.
Lucy Treloar
For all her life, Till, now twenty-three, has lived in the shadow of the abduction of a childhood friend, and her tormented half-wondering about whether she might have been able…
Elizabeth Acevedo
A big-hearted, compassionate novel about three generations of women preparing for a living wake - from award-winning poet and author Elizabeth Acevedo
Melissa Broder
The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story.
Breanne Randall
For fans of Practical Magic and Gilmore Girls, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic is a debut novel that explores the shields we build around our hearts…
Katherine Arden
In a world torn apart by war, a brother and sister fight to find each other. The sweeping new novel from New York Times bestselling author Katherine Arden.
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Lang Leav
A stirring coming-of-age novel about guilt, loss, love and memory.
Alice Winn
An epic, gripping, heart-shattering love story about two soldiers in the First World War
Tessa Hadley
From the incomparable Tessa Hadley, a masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships
Ella Baxter
A stunning, heartbreakingly funny debut novel from a brilliant new literary voice. Sex, death, grief, running away…only one of these makes Amelia feel like a new animal.
Wenyan Lu
An Yu's Braised Pork meets Flaubert's Madame Bovary in this unforgettable, tragicomic tale of one woman's mid-life re-awakening in contemporary rural China.
Marija Peričić
Set in Stockholm in 1930 and based on true events, Exquisite Corpse is a story about the madness and horror of a romance that knows no bounds.
Elizabeth McCracken
The Hero of This Book is a searing examination of grief and renewal, and of a deeply felt relationship between a child and her parents.
Rick Feneley
A tragic accident tests the strength of family ties.
Jente Posthuma, Sarah Timmer Harvey (trans.)
What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without them?
Zahid Gamieldien
Ilene, a working-class mother, is struggling to survive and desperate to reconnect with her children, Jack and Lonnie, in the aftermath of a near-fatal tragedy.
But her children vanish, setting…
Finegan Kruckemeyer
A debut novel from one of Australia's most internationally celebrated playwrights, The End and Everything Before It is a kaleidoscopic story about the way love and loss shape a community.
Gabriel Smith
From a stunningly original new talent, this is a debut novel unlike anything you have read.
Coco Mellors
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Cameron Stewart
A lyrical and profound debut novel that celebrates the kindness of strangers and those living in pain who recognise that in others.
Susannah Begbie
A perceptive and unforgettable debut novel, The Deed explores the messy, sometimes volatile, complications that only the best and worst of family can bring. Sometimes greed can be good.
Alison Bechdel
Fun Home is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel’s sweetly gothic drawings.
Nina LaCour
After leaving her life behind to go to college in New York, Marin must face the truth about the tragedy that happened in the final weeks of summer when her…
Patrick Ness,Siobhan Dowd
An extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss.
Ambelin Kwaymullina,Ezekiel Kwaymullina
Winner of the Prize for Young Adult Writing at the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. Told in two unforgettable voices, this gripping novel interweaves themes of grief, colonial history, violence…
Max Porter
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother’s sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning…
Mel Tregonning
An ordinary boy in an ordinary world…With no words, only illustrations, Small Things tells the story of a boy who feels alone with his worries, but who learns that help…
Sigrid Nunez
Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion.
Thi Bui
Now in paperback, Thi Sui’s intimate and moving portrait of her family’s journey from their war-torn home in Vietnam to their new lives in America.
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Claire Zorn
CBCA Book of the Year Award Winner (Older Readers) 2017
Sam stared at the picture of the boy about to be tipped off the edge of the world: the crushing…
Jay Carmichael
Shortlisted for the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Unpublished Manuscript Award.
