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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Discover our latest new release fiction and nonfiction books.
Various authors, Dame Quentin Bryce (foreword)
Prize-winning and highly commended stories from the 2024 Hope Prize, with judges including Dame Quentin Bryce, Dr Tony Birch and Julia Gillard.
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Helen Garner
Garner's first new work in a decade is a tender portrayal of the relationship between grandmother and grandson, and of that moment on the cusp of adulthood when a boy…
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…
Stan Grant
Stan Grant is talking to his country in a new way. In his most poetic and inspiring work yet, the Wiradjuri writer offers us a means of moving beyond the…
Lili Anolik
An outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work on the complicated relationship between Joan Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz.
Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel (trans.)
The breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from the internationally bestselling author of 1Q84.
Gu Byeong-mo, Chi-young Kim (trans.)
From the award-winning author of The Old Woman with the Knife comes the thought-provoking story of community and the cultural expectations of motherhood, through four women whose lives intersect in…
Dave Witty (ed.)
This unique collection of Australia's best new nature writing gathers together some of our most widely known and most original voices to reflect on our relationship with nature.
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Iain Ryan
In a city gripped by recession and shattered by violent bank robberies, three lives collide in a web of corruption, ambition, and revenge.
Melanie Cheng
In her unforgettable new novel, Victorian Premier's Literary Award-winner Melanie Cheng has created this year's literary masterpiece.
Peter Ames Carlin
An electrifying cultural biography of the greatest American rock band of the millennium, whose music ignited a generation-and reasserted the power of rock and roll - by the New York…
Vigdis Hjorth, Charlotte Barslund (trans.)
A groundbreaking, potent novel about the destructive force of romantic love from award-winning writer Vigdis Hjorth
Sylvia Plath
The complete edition of Sylvia Plath's prose including much unpublished and previously uncollected material
Tomihiko Morimi, Emily Balistrieri (trans,)
In the boiling heat of summer, a broken remote control for an air conditioner threatens life as we know it in this reality-bending, time-slipping sequel to The Tatami Galaxy.
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Claude Béata, David Watson (trans.)
A trail-blazing guide to feline mental health from a leading veterinary psychiatrist
Jenny Hval, Marjam Idriss (trans.)
This debut novel from critically acclaimed artist and musician Jenny Hval presents a heady and hyper-sensual portrayal of sexual awakening and queer desire.
Robbie Arnott
In the distant highlands, a puma named Dusk is killing shepherds. Down in the lowlands, twins Iris and Floyd are out of work, money and friends. When they hear that…
Matthew Gabriele, David M. Perry
The authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones—the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against…
Shastra Deo (ed.), Kate Lilley (ed.)
Best of Australian Poems is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot and barometer of the year that was. Capturing the richness and…
Juhea Kim
A thrilling novel set in the cutthroat world of Russian ballet, as a once-famous dancer faces a heartbreaking choice
Josh Brolin
From Josh Brolin, a unique and decidedly un-celebrity memoir, by turns affecting, funny, uncanny, and unforgettable. A remarkable and an unforgettable read.
Alia Trabucco Zeran, Sophie Hughes (trans.)
The shockingly compulsive new literary thriller from the International Booker-shortlisted author of The Remainder.
Anna Bogutskaya
A captivating look at what draws us to the shocks and thrills of horror, by film critic and broadcaster Bogutskaya.
Chris Cincotta
Chris Cincotta has returned with volume 2 of his bestselling book Humans in Melbourne. In this book Chris has photographed more people and captured more stories to get at…
Anna Go-Go
A gloriously feminist, tongue-in-cheek celebration of the greatest cat ladies of all time and their feline familiars, by burlesque performer and media darling, Anna Go-Go.
Robert Manne
The recollections of Australia's leading public intellectual
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
An exhilarating, lyrical 'cosmic biography' of the iconic poet, essayist and activist Audre Lorde
Cher
Part one of a two-part memoir from the iconic artist and actor
Heinz Insu Fenkl, Bella Myong-wol Dalton-Fenkl
A fascinating introduction to the world of Korean myth and legend.
Orhan Pamuk
The journals of the Nobel Prize-winning author, beautifully illustrated with his own paintings
Richard Ayoade
Richard Ayoade's fictional quest to rescue Harauld Hughes - the almost mythical mid-century playwright - from obscurity.
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Stephen Zagala
A captivating account of Australian documentary photography at its height including the photographs of Max Dupain, Carol Jerrems, William Yang, Rennie Ellis, David Moore, Mervyn Bishop, Sue Ford and others.
Gerald Durrell
A final posthumous work of autobiography from the beloved conservationist and naturalist Gerald Durrell, to celebrate the centenary of his birth
A final posthumous work from the beloved conservationist and…
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Wendy Parkins
A remarkable novel based on a true story of gaslighting, coercion and one woman's fight for control of her own life in the 19th century
Teena Crawford, Lisa Ellis
Plantology is an invaluable guide to enable gardeners everywhere to create truly unique and successful gardens. Prepared by two professional plantswomen who share more than sixty years experience as garden…
Ali Smith
The first of two new interconnected novels from bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author Ali Smith
Felicity Lewis
Does handwriting still matter? What are rogue waves? What do our teeth reveal about us? A compelling compendium of astonishing facts and occasional weirdness for curious minds.
Peter Kirkpatrick
How Australian poetry has evolved throughout time
George Megalogenis
What does the new political landscape look like in Australia?
John Murphy
Exploring over 75 years of Australian welfare policy
Ali Gripper
Life-affirming true stories about the power of the ocean for transformation and healing and why it's so important for us to protect it.
Angela Merkel
The much-anticipated political memoirs of Angela Merkel, the former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 2005 to 2021.
Hanno Sauer, Jo Heinrich (trans.)
A grand, sweeping history of the evolution of morality across the entire existence of humankind
James Rebanks
A story of friendship, history and redemption on a remote Norwegian island
Joe Boyd
The definitive study of global music that does for the genre what Alex Ross' The Rest is Noise did for 20th century classical music.
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Alex Pavesi
The problem with telling tales is that you might get caught out by the twist: the most original literary thriller of 2024, from the author of the sensational Eight Detectives
President Bill Clinton
A powerful, candid, and richly detailed memoir from an American icon, revealing what life looks like after the presidency: triumphs, tribulations, and all.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, an inspiring vision of how to reorient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity and community
