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Find your next read amongst these new Australian books, hot off the press!
Tom Keneally
A retelling of the life and exploits of Irish patriot John Mitchel, with a particular focus on his time in exile on Van Diemen’s Land.
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Michelle Johnston
Miracles are notoriously unreliable. But sometimes, just when they're needed, they turn up - although not always in the form that we expect ...
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Kevin Brophy
A collection of stories worth noticing
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Diana Reid
Seeing Other People is the darkly funny story of two very different sisters, and the summer that stretches their relationship almost to breaking point.
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Robbie Arnott
The much-anticipated third novel by award-winning Australian author Robbie Arnott, Limberlost is a story of family and land, loss and hope, fate and the unknown, and love and kindness
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Fiona Kelly McGregor
Acclaimed and bestselling literary novelist Fiona Kelly McGregor dives into the criminal underground of 1930s Sydney and the life of petty criminal, prostitute and murderer Iris.
Holly Ringland
From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a haunting and magical novel about joy, grief, courage, and transformation.
Fiona McFarlane
The Sun Walks Down is a startling, brilliant, beautiful epic set in Colonial Australia from Fiona McFarlane, a writer at the height of her enormous powers.
Sean Wilson
An epic tale, breathless with intrigue and soaring with humanity.
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Angela Meyer
This genre-defying stunner asks how we might make the most of our power in the face of fear, loss, and the unknown. It celebrates our ability, despite great challenges, to…
Sophie Cunningham
Sometimes you need to delve into the past, to make sense of the present
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Anne Casey-Hardy
Excitable girls rush out to meet life; what could go wrong? A masterful debut about the terrifying thrills of innocence from a voice of experience.
Tracey Lien
All That's Left Unsaid is both a study of the effects of inherited trauma and social discrimination, and a compulsively readable literary thriller that expertly holds the reader in its…
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Kathryn Hore
An uncompromising and compelling feminist Western for readers of The Natural Way of Things.
Stephanie Bishop
From award-winning Stephanie Bishop comes a dark and compulsive novel about writing and desire
Jock Serong
A career-defining masterpiece by internationally award-winning Australian storyteller Jock Serong
Peggy Frew
A compassionate and surprisingly funny novel that is impossible to put down and even harder to forget, from the award-winning author of Islands.
Chris Flynn
A collection of funny, brilliant, boundary-pushing stories from the bestselling author of Mammoth.
Kgshak Akec
Inspired by the author’s own experience of migration from Africa to Australia, Hopeless Kingdom signals a powerful new voice in Australian writing.
Tori Haschka
Perfect for fans of Meg Mason and Sally Hepworth; a powerful and heart-rending story about how food connects us and assumptions divide us - and how true family can come…
Katharine Pollock
A very funny confessional novel set in one of the only Australian independent record stores still functioning, if barely. This is High Fidelity with a female gaze.
SBS Emerging Writers' Competition
Between Two Worlds brings us thirty of the best short stories chosen from the thousands of entries in the SBS Emerging Writers’ Competition.
Shaun Prescott
Taking in a world of peculiar anarchies and regulations, of secret roads and portals that lurk beneath the country’s failing design, Bon and Lesley is an urgent, surreal dispatch from…
Lyn Hughes
Our story begins when a sea chest of books is delivered to Antonio Mateus João Carvalho Cabral, the youngest son of the Carvalhos family on the whaling island of Pico…
Alice Nelson
A passionate love story and an honest depiction of the self-deceptions we pursue seeking family and attachment.
Robert Drewe
The untold story of Johnny Day, Australia’s first international sports hero - a tale of mishap, adventure, chase, chance and luck - from one of Australia’s finest writers.
Else Fitzgerald
Grief, loss, pain, love, and the future - an achingly human debut short story collection, from the winner of the Richell Prize.
Adriane Howell
Hydra is a novel of dark suspense and mental disquiet, struck through with black humour., Adriane Howell beguilingly explores notions of moral culpability, revenge, memory, and narrative - all through…
Siang Lu
Siang Lu’s searing debut is a black comedy about the whitewashing of the Asian film industry, told in the form of an oral documentary
George Alexander
Giramondo is proud to republish George Alexander’s award-winning novel Mortal Divide, one of the great works of fiction on the relationship between migration and identity in Australian literature.
Jay Carmichael
The stunning new novel from the author of Ironbark.
Bronwyn Birdsall
A vivid and compelling novel that goes right to the beating heart of modern-day Sarajevo
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Tom Pitts
Shamelessly wearing its heart on its sleeve, Electric and Mad and Brave is a heightened and technicolour story about the soaring joy and numbing nightmare of being young and hopelessly…
Pirooz Jafari
Spanning continents and centuries, Forty Nights is a tale of the ongoing effects of dispossession and dislocation - a struggle humankind has faced long into its past. Ultimately it is…
James McKenzie Watson
A rural thriller from the winner of the 2021 Penguin Literary Prize.
Georgina Young
A queer time-travel adventure from the award-winning author of Loner
Luke Carman
A new collection of stories by the award-winning author of An Elegant Young Man and Intimate Antipathies.
Jodi McAlister
A hilarious and heart-warming romantic comedy that examines how the unlikeliest of loves can bloom in - well, the most likely of places.
Alex Sarkis
A novel about loving home and leaving home, but never escaping your roots. Or your footy colours.
Neela Janakiramanan
Sometimes in hospital people die - but not all of them should. A moving, addictive debut novel for readers of Going Under and Emotional Female.
Yvonne Weldon
An intense and mesmerising story of first love, culture and belief.
Paul Daley
From award-winning journalist Paul Daley comes a gripping multi-generational saga about Australian frontier violence and cultural theft that will capture the national imagination.
Matthew Ryan Davies
Three siblings, reunited in their home town, are struggling to deal with the fallout of a car crash that almost killed their father. This, on top of everything else life…
Katerina Gibson
Unpicking the stitches of gender and genre, the stories in this searing, funny, haunting debut explore how our ideas of womanhood shape us, and what they cost us.
Sarah Schmidt
From the Women’s Prize longlisted author of SEE WHAT I HAVE DONE comes a masterful reworking of the road novel into a portrait of the complex relationship between mothers and…
Claire G. Coleman
From the critically acclaimed author of Terra Nullius comes a novel in the tradition of Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman that explores a future of surveillance, disruption and segregation that…
Scott McCulloch
A dark and compelling work by a new voice in Australian - and world - literary fiction
Zaheda Ghani
Taking us from Afghanistan to Australia, this is an evocative and beautifully written debut novel about tradition, family, war and displacement. Shortlisted for the 2018 Richell Prize it heralds an…
