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Find your next read amongst these new Australian books, hot off the press!
Rachel Matthews
Never Look Desperate is Sedaris meets Fleabag, a tragi-comedy romance set in Melbourne 2023
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Suzy Garcia (ed.)
A new collection of short fiction from Kill Your Darlings.
Kirsty Manning
A true story of a WWII European heirloom that brought down war criminals and travelled through history …
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Elise Esther Hearst
Sorrow and Bliss meets Normal People in this utterly compelling, darkly humorous millennial coming-of-age novel about a 27-year-old single Jewish woman in Melbourne who must learn to reconcile family expectations…
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Steph Vizard
An award-winning modern rom-com for all fans of fake dating, enemies-to-lovers stories.
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Emma Young
Every woman should have reading this book on their to-do list.
Colin Batrouney
The Bannerman Shortlist has been announced. Six authors. Six stories. And Gideon Bannerman is missing.
Justin Smith
From the acclaimed author of Cooper Not Out comes a delightfully comic novel set in the Melbourne Goldrush era that reimagines the running of the inaugural Melbourne Cup.
John Morrissey
A wildly imaginative, page-turning collection featuring ghost stories, science fiction and satire, with Aboriginal characters at its heart
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Dennis Glover
Some secrets won't stay buried.
Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Featuring an intersecting cast of glamour-hungry public schoolgirls, WAGs, mining heiresses, backpacker-barmaids, and cosmetic nurses, West Girls examines beauty, race, class divisions, and social mobility in Australia’s richest state.
Jessica Seaborn
A smart, funny and heartfelt anti-romcom by a bright new voice in Australian fiction.
Tracy Sorensen
From the author of The Lucky Galah, comes another inventive, playful and thought-provoking exploration of very human stories from non-human perspectives.
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Leslie Kilmartin
Batman University plans an open day to impress its new President. After a series of calamitous events, the careers of the President and his senior staff end in tatters. Media…
Angela O'Keeffe
A highly original work narrated by Hortense Cezanne, the wife of the celebrated artist, as she witnesses an author in 2020 write a book about her life.
Hossein Asgari
Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024
Saeed has not returned to Iran after publishing his novel The Imaginary Narrative of a Real Murder for fear of political persecution. He is…
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Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
A novel about belonging, alienation, and the exquisite pleasure and pain of girlhood, But the Girl is a wry and razor-sharp coming-of-age novel for readers of The Idiot by Elif…
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Peter Polites
A stunning new novel from the author of Down the Hume and The Pillars, God Forgets About the Poor is a love story to a migrant mother, whose story is…
Amal Awad
Funny, touching uplit set in the Sydney restaurant scene. Bitter & Sweet will be Amal Awad's breakout book
Lauren Aimee Curtis
Strangers at the Port is an exquisite, enchanted novel about myth and memory, suspicion and dislocation, emigrants and explorers.
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Silvia Kwon
A stunning novel detailing the real relationship between Vincent van Gogh and his mistress, model and muse, Sien Hoornik.
Eugen Bacon
A novel bathed in sensuous, original language, a love letter to the strong women who bind families together despite everything.
Joel Deane
Judas Boys is the eagerly-awaited new novel from Joel Deane: a searing de profundis that reads like the secret history behind today's political headlines
Sarah Smith
A dark comedy about how to live your best life, even when you're dead.
Annette Higgs
Told from five different points of view, each one revealing a little more of the story, On a Bright Hillside in Paradise, tells the story of a family of convict…
Amy Lovat
Mistakes and Other Lovers explores the pressure, pain and freedom of being on the cusp of adulthood and realising things aren't what you thought they'd be.
Kirsty Jagger
An unforgettable novel about growing up in public housing in Western Sydney.
Zeynab Gamieldien
A stunning debut novel that follows the intertwined lives of three friends as they navigate the complexities of university life, adherence to their faith, and the transition into adulthood.
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Anna McGahan
Immaculate is a provocative and tender exploration of loss, identity and healing, and the secret worlds we hide within in order to survive.
Carrie Cox
When thirty-something Nessa emerges from a horrific car accident facially disfigured, she must work to heal herself from the inside out.Sharply funny, tender and full of pathos, this is a…
Sophie Green
A warm, uplifting story of female friendship, community and new beginnings from the beloved Sophie Green, the Top Ten bestselling author of The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle and The…
Rachael Mead
In 1960, when the legendary icebreaker Magga Dan set sail for Antarctica, it contained a secret. Hiding on board was Nel Law, who would become the first Australian woman to…
Mark Brandi
The unforgettable new novel from the Dagger award-winning author of Wimmera, Mark Brandi. A novel that shows small-town life is unforgiving if you're from the other side of the tracks.
Vidya Madabushi
The most unexpected friendships really can transform your life.
Nick Bhasin
A hilarious, satirical, madcap and moving roller-coaster ride through the world of Hollywood as seen through one person's descent into despair.
Ayesha Inoon
A finely observed debut novel of a young Muslim woman's experience of immigration to Australia from Sri Lankan-Australian writer Ayesha Inoon.
Briohny Doyle
Why We Are Here is a love story revelling in the beauty and solace of the natural world, embracing the bonds between humans and celebrating the empathy and wisdom provided…
Gretchen Shirm
The Crying Room movingly explores family boundaries and stories, finding original ways to express the contradictory experience of belonging to a family, and being an individual at the same time.
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J. M. Coetzee
Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee reaffirms his place as one of the English language's most acclaimed authors with this fascinating examination of life, death and animals.
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.
Pip Finkemeyer
A young woman tries to figure out if she’s the best (a creative genius) or if she’s maybe just the worst (completely delusional).
Roanna McClelland
In a near future where it never stops raining, a young adolescent runs wild. With only the cantankerous Gammy and a band of broken villagers for company, this story explores…
Jennifer Neal
The Colour of Her Blood is a novel where the strange and surreal meets the kitsch of Florida as it explores the dynamic of a family traumatised by racial violence…
Tara Calaby
A compulsively readable historical romance, House of Longing combines an effortless instinct for narrative with impeccable research, lightly worn. The debut of a major talent.
Kerry Taylor
A novel based on the true story of Australian jockey Bill Smith – a life lived in secret.
Magdalena McGuire
Filled with humour and heart, Born for You charts the lives of women as they transition from self to mother, from child to adult, from certainty to uncertainty.
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Pip Williams
The follow-up and companion to one of the most successful Australian novels ever, The Dictionary of Lost Words
Jacqueline Ross
A tense, chilling novel that will lock you in and throw away the key.
