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Find your next read amongst these new Australian books, hot off the press!
Eleanor Limprecht
A stunning novel of love and courage by the bestselling author of The Passengers.
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Nell Pierce
Winner of the prestigious The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award.
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Sally Piper
This third novel from acclaimed Queensland author Sally Piper focuses on the repercussions, within one family, of a terrible crime.
Julie Fison
Two boys, two mothers, one catastrophic night
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Bernadette Jiwa
The Making of Her is a page-turning mother-daughter love story, spanning the 1960s to 1990s, charting one woman’s journey to escape the legacy of the society that shaped her.
John Tesarsch
An uplifting romantic comedy brimming with offbeat ideas about modern life, love and finding your voice.
Edwina Preston
Good mothers are expected to be selfless. Artists are seen as selfish. So what does this mean for a mother with artistic ambitions? Blending wit and pathos, love and fury…
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Paul Dalla Rosa
Oscillating between elation and despair, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life is the debut short story collection from Sunday Times Short Story Award finalist Paul Dalla Rosa.
Felicity McLean
From award-winning writer and journalist Felicity McLean comes Red, a spirited and striking contemporary retelling of the Ned Kelly story
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Sharron Booth
It’s the turn of the century when Fan’s mother, Agnes, announces the family is moving to Western Australia to take care of Agnes’s father - a man they’ve never spoken…
Mykaela Saunders
A world-first collection of blackfella speculative fiction from well-known and emerging First Nations writers.
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Steve Toltz
A firecracker of a novel by the Booker-shortlisted author of A Fraction of the Whole - a scathingly funny and affecting tale of life, death, love and the questionable existence…
George Haddad
A stunning, thought-provoking novel about facing up to your family and your future
Ashley Goldberg
A compelling and compassionate debut about friendship, faith, family and identity.
Caroline Petit
The Natural History of Love is based upon the true story of 19th century French explorer, naturalist and diploma the Count de Castelnau and his lover Madame Fonçeca; a sweeping…
Diane Connell
If you were charmed by The Curious Incident, laughed with Eleanor Oliphant and cried over A Man Called Ove, you will love Ricky Bird.
Brendan Colley
The Signal Line is a warm-hearted, unforgettable novel about what we are all searching for, even when our personal dreams and aspirations have collapsed: love and acceptance.
Michelle Cahill
A meditation on art, race and class in a postcolonial world, Daisy and Woolf is a masterpiece of postmodern fiction to rival The Hours or Wide Sargasso Sea. Powerfully recentring…
Paddy O'Reilly
Other Houses is a masterful and tender story about people who live from payday to payday. Acutely observed and lyrical, Paddy O'Reilly’s novel paints a haunting picture of class, aspiration…
Alexis Wright
A masterful novel from the only writer to have won both the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize
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Hilde Hinton
The new novel from the bestselling author of The Loudness of Unsaid Things. A novel of heart, wisdom and unforgettable characters for readers of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and…
Toni Jordan
You can marry into them, but can you ever really be one of them? A novel about marriage, love and family.
Mirandi Riwoe
This stunning story collection includes two prize-winning novellas along with an impressive range of historical and contemporary stories, all written by characters who yearn to belong and find acceptance.
Mark Lamprell
For readers of Robert Hillman and Toni Jordan, and written by an award-winning author and screenwriter, The Secret Wife a tense, heartfelt story of female friendship and liberation in the…
Sean Rabin
Set in the near future The Good Captain follows a group of radical environmentalists committed to a mission of extreme civil disobedience against the powers threatening to destroy the last…
David Whish-Wilson
This sweeping tale of a larger-than-life figure is a must-read for lovers of historical fiction
Steven Carroll
From one of our finest writers - winner of the Miles Franklin, the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award - comes a wistful and emotional story that…
Kari Gislason
An epic and compelling novel that reimagines the fate of one of Iceland’s famous women of history
Yumna Kassab
One small town, a multitude of stories.
Robert Lukins
Compelling, compassionate and profoundly moving, this new novel by the acclaimed author of The Everlasting Sunday confirms Robert Lukins as one of our finest writers.
Ennis Cehic
An electrifying collection of stories from the febrile imagination of a young writer who traverses culture, genre and form.
Rhett Davis
From the winner of the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript comes a genre bending tour-de-force debut
Jessica Stanley
John Clare was a titan in Australian politics. The head of a powerful union, he had long been tipped as a future leader himself. But now John has fallen, brutally…
Dominique Wilson
Orphan Rock is a complex and richly detailed story of secrets and heartbreak that will take you from the back streets of Sydney’s slums to the wide avenues of the…
Andrew Roff
This daring, irreverent short-story collection dissects and explores the conundrums of contemporary life and what it is to be human, through a world very like our own.
Indyana Schneider
They say it takes 28 Questions to fall in love. Then what?
Portland Jones
Only Birds Above by Portland Jones spans two wars and two generations, looking at the lasting impacts of war on the lives it touches.
Miles Allinson
In present-day Melbourne, a man attempts to piece together the mystery of his father’s apparent suicide, as his young family slowly implodes.
Liane Moriarty
From the outside, the Delaneys appear to be an enviably contented family. But now Joy Delaney has disappeared and her children are re-examining their parents’ marriage and their family history…
Jennifer Down
Jennifer Down cements her status as a leading light of Australian literary fiction in this heart-rending and intimate saga of one woman’s turbulent life
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Antoni Jach
Travelling Companions is charming, amusing and philosophical - a wholly original exploration of what it means to honour our strangest dreams and disappointments
Christos Tsiolkas
An audacious and transformative novel about the past, the present and the power of writing and imagination from the award-winning author of Damascus and The Slap.
Fiona Robertson
From the 2020 QLA Glendower winner comes a timely and insightful collection of stories about how we pursue happiness in a turbulent world.
Emily Brugman
A moving and original debut novel. Observant, warm and extraordinary.
Jessica Au
Winner of the inaugural Novel Prize, an elegant and subtle exploration of the mysteries of our relationships to others.
Craig Sherborne
The Grass Hotel is a story of damage and repair, of familial obligation and the resentments it can cause. It is also about the profound comfort that a connection with…
