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Looking for a new book? Browse the latest fiction releases.
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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Kate Atkinson
From the Number One bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, a full collection of short stories to delight, intrigue and surprise.
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Mieko Kanai, Polly Barton (trans.)
With shades of Clarice Lispector, Mavis Gallant and Lucy Ellman, this late-period novel by the esteemed novelist, essayist, and film and literary critic Mieko Kanai is a disconcerting and astute…
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Nadine J. Cohen
A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister.
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Airana Ngarewa
An unforgettable debut by a major new literary talent.
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Jessie Stephens
Adella is facing the dawn of a new year and the end of her twenties - and she's in a psychiatric unit recovering from a mental breakdown. A decade earlier…
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Shida Bazyar, Ruth Martin (trans.)
An explosive feminist and anti-racist novel about the importance of friendship.
Yan Ge
The highly anticipated English-language debut from a literary star - nine iridescent, beguiling, witty and wonderous stories of dispossession and longing.
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Helen Macdonald, Sin Blache
Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new duo in genre fiction
Lee Geum-yi, An Seon Jae (trans.)
Two women's lives and identities are intertwined - through World War II and the Korean War - revealing the harsh realities of class division in the early part of the…
Emma Donoghue
Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins…
Colin Batrouney
The Bannerman Shortlist has been announced. Six authors. Six stories. And Gideon Bannerman is missing.
Leah Kaminsky
Sometimes there may be more to things than meets the eye.
Lucinda Riley
The first book in the Seven Sisters series from the number one international bestseller.
Kirsty Manning
A true story of a WWII European heirloom that brought down war criminals and travelled through history …
Sarah Gilmartin
The waitress. The chef. The chef's wife. Three different stories, but which one contains the truth?
When Hannah learns that famed chef Daniel Costello is facing accusations of sexual assault…
Mirandi Riwoe
1941, West Java. Love and revolution are in the air. And war is on its way.
Sara M Saleh
A stunning coming-of-age tale played out across generations and continents, from Palestine to Australia.
Rachel Matthews
Never Look Desperate is Sedaris meets Fleabag, a tragi-comedy romance set in Melbourne 2023
Emma Young
Every woman should have reading this book on their to-do list.
Dennis Glover
Some secrets won't stay buried.
Claire North
From the multi award-winning and award-nominated Claire North comes the second book in a trilogy of stories retelling of the classic Greek myth of Penelope. It’s time for the woman…
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.
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…
Caroline Lea
On his deathbed in 1920s Toronto, a wealthy man decides to make some trouble … An astonishing new novel based on one of history’s most shocking untold stories, from the…
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.
Alice Hoffman
From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of the Practical Magic series comes an enchanting novel about love, heartbreak, self-discovery and the enduring magic of books.
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.
Ore Agbaje-Williams
Wife. Husband. Best friend. What if your two favourite people hated each other with a passion?
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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Jessica Seaborn
A smart, funny and heartfelt anti-romcom by a bright new voice in Australian fiction.
Fernanda Trías, Heather Cleary (trans.)
Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolome-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Literature Prize.
A port city is in the grips…
Marcel Proust, Sam Taylor (trans.)
Presented for the first time in English, the recently discovered early manuscripts of the twentieth century’s most towering literary figure offer uncanny glimpses of his emerging genius and the creation…
Charles Frazier
The stunning new novel from the author of international million-copy bestseller Cold Mountain.
Ann Patchett
A meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents lead before their children are born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even…
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Claire McGlasson
Miss Margaret Finch - a rather old-fashioned young woman - is spying for the mass observation project when she happens across the disgraced Reverend Stiffkey (aka Harold Davidson) who is…
Chetna Maroo
A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself.
Catherine Chidgey
When a charismatic new teacher arrives, everyone longs to be her pet. A gripping story of deception and guilt, set in a Catholic school during the 1980s.
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…
Michiko Aoyama, Alison Watts (trans.)
At once heart-rending and heartwarming, this bestselling shortlistee of the Japan Booksellers' Prize is a celebraton of community libraries and the life-changing power of book recommendation.
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…
Bruce Fulton (ed.), Kwon Youngmin (intro.)
This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea’s dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating…
Alice Winn
An epic, gripping, heart-shattering love story about two soldiers in the First World War
Crystal Smith Paul
A multigenerational saga that traverses the glamour of old Hollywood and the seductive draw of modern-day showbiz
Silvia Kwon
A stunning novel detailing the real relationship between Vincent van Gogh and his mistress, model and muse, Sien Hoornik.
Cho Nam-Joo & Jamie Chang (trans.)
From the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982. Eight women. Eight stories. One reality.
Deborah Rodriguez
Set against the terrifying fall of Kabul in 2021, Deborah Rodriguez concludes her bestselling Little Coffee Shop trilogy with a heart-stopping story of resilience, courage and, most importantly, hope.
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…