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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Pip Williams
The follow-up and companion to one of the most successful Australian novels ever, The Dictionary of Lost Words
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Curtis Sittenfeld
A novel in which the unexpected becomes inevitable, and the pleasures and pain of intimacy and love are laid bare.
Tony Birch
In The White Girl, Tony Birch has created memorable characters whose capacity for love and courage are a timely reminder of the endurance of the human spirit.
Robbie Arnott
Utterly original in conception, spellbinding in its descriptions of nature and celebration of language, Flames is one of the most exciting debuts of recent years.
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Kate Grenville
A universal and timeless story of love, identity and belonging
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Helen Garner
An elegant edition of the novel that launched Helen Garner’s career.
Tara June Winch
An exquisitely written, heartbreaking and hopeful novel of culture, language, tradition, suffering and empowerment
Richard Osman
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club –
Donna Tartt
Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt’s novel The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.
Damon Galgut
Discover the Booker Prize-shortlisted literary masterpiece of a family in crisis.
Amor Towles
Two brothers venture across 1950s America to New York in the absorbing new novel by the author of the bestselling A Gentleman in Moscow.
Maggie Shipstead
It is Marian’s life dream and her final journey, before she disappears without a trace. Half a century later, Hadley Baxter, a scandal-ridden Hollywood actress whose own parents perished in…
Zadie Smith
Two dancers with different approaches to their craft share a complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, in a story that transitions from northwest London to West…
Miranda Cowley Heller
A magnificent literary debut about the myriad loves that make up a life
Richard Powers
A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe.
Ocean Vuong
Brilliant, heartbreaking and highly original, Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling.
Haruki Murakami
The haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title throughout the world.
Ottessa Moshfegh
It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?
Deborah Levy
Explores the violently primal bond between mother and daughter. Examining female rage and sexuality, this novel explores the strange and monstrous nature of motherhood, testing the bonds of parent and…
Bernardine Evaristo
From one of Britain’s most celebrated writers of color, a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity among an interconnected group of Black British women
Dolly Alderton
The bestselling razor-sharp debut novel by the author of Everything I Know About Love
Taylor Jenkins Reid
They were the new icons of rock and roll, fated to burn bright and not fade away. But on 12 July 1979, it all came crashing down.
Tim Winton
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreet is Tim Winton’s sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and…
Emily Henry
He doesn’t believe in happy endings. She’s lost her faith that they exist. But could they find one together?
Ian McEwan
A story that begins with three young people in the garden of a country house on the hottest day of 1935, and ends with three profoundly changed lives. A depiction…
21 June 1922 Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin…