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Find your next read amongst these new Australian books, hot off the press!
James O'Loghlin
Speak your truth. Or at least the truth you want others to believe.
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John Kinsella
Shifts in tone, setting and narration create a sense of the uncanny in Beam of Light, Kinsella's haunting collection of stories.
Amanda Willimott
Inspired by a notorious werewolf trial, blending history with paranormal and feminist themes, and with a moving queer romance at its core, this is an unmissable Australian debut.
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Ella Baxter
A darkly funny, pyrotechnic and deeply unsettling novel from the internationally acclaimed author of New Animal.
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
Anita Heiss
From the bestselling author of Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (River of Dreams) comes another groundbreaking historical novel about resistance, resilience and love during the frontier wars.
Melanie Saward
A cross-cultural romcom about pursuing dreams, dog-sitting, and uncovering secrets, by exciting Bigambul and Wakka Wakka author Melanie Saward.
Courtney Collins
A masterful and profoundly moving novel about a girl determined to live on her own terms, no matter the cost. Bird is an unforgettable story of hope, resilience, the power…
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…
Fiona McFarlane
A gripping, provocative work by one of our finest writers, the internationally acclaimed author Fiona McFarlane.
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…
Maria Linwood
Centuries ago, a kingdom was torn apart by old magik long forgotten. It caused a rift separating the lands into one of peace and one of torment.
Now, as the…
Michelle See-Tho
A fierce and deeply felt novel about the joys and pains of growing up, of accepting who you are and where you come from.
Becka Mack
From bestselling author and TikTok sensation Becka Mack comes the next book in her sizzling hockey romance series about a playboy defenseman and the team photographer who reforms him.
Jaxon…
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John Byrnes
An epic saga of brotherhood, betrayal and revenge.
Joel Deane
A stylish blend of gothic mystery and modern crime noir. Evoking the spirit of Joseph Conrad and Edgar Allan Poe, Joel Deane creates a violent and lyrical vision of contemporary…
Anna Johnston
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife is a warm, life-affirming debut about a bizarre case of mistaken identity that allows a lonely old man one last chance to be part…
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Jessie Tu
A wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner of the ABIA for Literary Fiction Book of the Year.
Sophie Green
Sophie Green, Top Ten bestselling author of The Bellbird River Country Choir and Weekends with the Sunshine Gardening Society, returns with a warm-hearted new novel about friendships, fresh starts…
Dylin Hardcastle
The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire is her best friend, also a girl. It's the kind of power…
Jordan Prosser
The most electrifying debut novel of 2024 - Almost Famous meets Slaughterhouse-Five.
Patrick Holland
Evocative and sparely written, in the tradition of The Mary Smokes Boys, this is a novel where the journey becomes the story, filled with acute observation, desire and dreams.
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Alice Robinson
The eagerly anticipated, breakout novel from the 2019 Winner of the Readings Prize for New Writing.
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.
Sophie Matthiesson
A stunning debut novel from a bright new voice in Australian fiction in this deeply affecting portrait of a dysfunctional family.
Mark Wales
Jack Dunne will do anything to save his son.
Daniel Tamone
In the heart of western Sydney, three generations of men in a family of champion boxers are trapped in a cycle of violence.
Kristina Ross
For readers of Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler and Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors, First Year is a deeply intelligent and insightful exploration of…
Bruce Pascoe
Imperial Harvest is a timely book that speaks to the universal lessons of war. It addresses pertinent themes of dispossession by tracing imperialist tactics all the way back to the…
Shirley Barrett
A witty and poignant final novel from acclaimed author and filmmaker Shirley Barrett about what destroys us, what sustains us, and what we carry from one world into the next.
Heather Taylor-Johnson
Part memoir, part biography, part imagination, Little Bit is a story with a third side. Told in the alternating perspectives of Debbie and Stella, Heather writes the story of her…
Louise Le Nay
The warm, heroic story of a grandmother's determination to save her family from themselves.
Jenny Ackland
A powerful and important novel with a crucial and timely feminist message, from the Stella Prize-shortlisted author of Little Gods.
Lia Hills
In this stunning, lyrical novel of nature and history, a girl walks out of the desert and shakes a community to its core.
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.
Nicola Moriarty
Who killed Harriet? The unputdownable new thriller from the bestselling author of You Need to Know.
Pitaya Chin
The Director and the Daemon follows the director of a big budget Australian sci-fi TV show grappling with the dilemma of corporate sponsorship, and their infatuation with their beautiful but…
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Beverley Farmer
A new edition of Beverley Farmer's classic 1980 debut, out of print for many years. Alone captures the emergence of one of Australia's most powerful and distinctive writers.
Deborah Callaghan
When you are heading towards 40 and people start to notice you a little bit less, what do you do with your new powers of invisibility?
Mark Lamprell
A brilliantly observed novel about families and secrets, from acclaimed writer and film director Mark Lamprell
Katherine Allum
Full of simmering tensions, Katherine Allum's award-winning debut novel, The Skeleton House, pulls back the layers on a seemingly perfect family, exposing the complexities of marriage and motherhood when…
Francesca de Tores
Breathing life into the Golden Age of Piracy, Saltblood is a wild adventure, a treasure trove, weaving an intoxicating tale of gender and survival, passion and loss, journeys and transformation…
Ceridwen Dovey
A transformative new collection from the award-winning author of Only the Animals.
Melissa Goode
In this powerful and complex debut, Melissa Goode interrogates what makes a life worthwhile, and has created a vivid, intricate portrait of the relationships that shape and connect us, and…
Sara Haddad
Nabila Yasmeen is in her eighties. She lives alone with over a hundred plants that she keeps in pots because she can't bear to put them in the ground.
In…
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.
Cameron Stewart
A lyrical and profound debut novel that celebrates the kindness of strangers and those living in pain who recognise that in others.
Shankari Chandran
The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens.
