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Discover our latest new release fiction and nonfiction books.
Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot (trans.)
The fifth book in the spectacular 'Before the Coffee Gets Cold' series, with a fresh bunch of customers in a special Tokyo cafe hoping to go back in time
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Nardi Simpson
From the award-winning author of Song of the Crocodile comes a lyrical and masterfully woven novel about women, creation, belonging and the precious fragility of a life.
Rick Stein
Accompanying a major new BBC primetime series, Rick Stein celebrates the best of British food with over 100 diverse, exciting and easy new recipes.
Jamie Oliver
Simply Jamie is about celebrating the joy of cooking, and making it easy for us to fit cooking into our busy lives
Candice Fox
Candice Fox's breathtaking new thriller is quite literally the bomb! A high-octane race through outback Australia.
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Jamie Tahsin, Matt Shea
The behind-the-scenes story of a four-year investigation into Andrew Tate, exploring how a failed reality TV star turned accused organised criminal managed to become one of the most famous influencers…
M. L. Rio
The bestselling author of international BookTok sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story of a group of misfits who meet in the local cemetery each night to unearth…
K-Ming Chang
A visceral, bite-size novella from a rising Asian American literary star with a striking, surreal, irreverent voice - one of the '5 under 35' National Book Award honorees
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Yasmin Newman
Yasmin Newman takes us on a tour across the five boroughs to celebrate the most iconic dishes in NYC.
Catherine Fletcher
Brimming with life and drama, this is the first book to explore two thousand years of European history through one of the most important imperial networks ever built
Amber Creswell Bell
From the Australian Book Industry-Award winning author of Australian Abstract.
Kiyoshi Shigematsu, Jesse Kirkwood (trans.)
Is three days with a cat enough to change your life?
John Silvester
From madmen to matriarchs, stooges to heroes, eye-watering bungles to sweet justice - strap yourself in for a masterclass in storytelling from Australia's most formidable crime reporter.
Duncan Welgemoed
Cooking with Fire is a celebration of the great Australian outdoors and a love letter to the beauty of barbecue. Join Africola's Head Chef, Duncan Welgemoed, as he shares incredible…
Jo Nesbo
From the Sunday Times number one bestselling author Jo Nesbo comes an explosive stand-alone thriller about family, loyalty, and the lengths people will go to cling on to power.
Michel Houellebecq, Shaun Whiteside (trans.)
It is 2027. France is in a state of economic decline and moral decay.
Colin Golvan
Discover how copyright law is empowering Indigenous creatives
Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor
From two of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and products
Anthony Sharwood
Heroes are hard to come by - but there's one man whose legend has stood the test of two centuries, and whose name sits on Australia's highest peak. Tadeusz Kosciuszko…
Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (trans.)
The witty new novel from this internationally acclaimed Polish author blends horror, folklore and feminist parable.
Sonia Purnell
An electrifying re-examination of one of the twentieth century's greatest unsung power players, from the bestselling author of A Woman of No Importance
Paul Bangay, Simon Griffiths (photog.)
A garden that cannot be seen in one glance entices people to step outside with a sense of wonder. Landscape designer Paul Bangay has an extraordinary ability to envisage scale…
Amanda Laugesen
Captivating and quirky, Australia in 100 Words takes readers chronologically through Australian history to tell a unique story through language
Hanna Pylvaeinen
Shortlisted for the National Book Award
A story of forbidden love and fugitive faith in the nineteenth century Arctic Circle
'Transports readers deep into an unfamiliar world, yet with familiar…
Pedro Almodovar, Frank Wynne (trans.)
A wildly inventive story collection from legendary film director Pedro Almodovar
Hillary Rodham Clinton
What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and…
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Richard Osman
Combining the heart and humour of The Thursday Murder Club with a puzzling international mystery, welcome to the blockbusting new series from the biggest new fiction author of the decade…
Mindy Woods
Experience the incredible wealth of First Nations foods in everyday recipes for home cooks and families.
Kate Conger, Ryan Mac
Rising star New York Times investigative tech reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time the full and shocking inside story of Elon Musk's unprecedented hostile takeover…
Weston Bate, Richard Broome, Nicole Davis, Andrew J. May, Helen Stitt
A history of Melbourne's lanes over 180 years from their creation in the 1840s until 2024.
Natsuko Imamura, Lucy North (trans.)
The startling first collection of dark, surreal, and unsettling stories from the international prize-winning author of The Woman in the Purple Skirt.
Akwaeke Emezi
Akwaeke Emezi's exhilarating new novel follows five people over the course of a weekend which will brutally upend all of their lives.
Puk Qvortrup, Hazel Evans (trans.)
A young woman grapples with grief and single parenthood after the sudden tragic death of her husband - beautifully wise and intimate autofiction
Austin Duffy
A masterful tale of betrayal and violence in a tight-knit community in Northern Ireland during the 1990s ceasefire of the Troubles, from the Irish Times-bestselling author of The Night Interns…
Samah Sabawi
The story of a family over the past 100 years, starting in Palestine under British rule and ending in Redland Bay in Queensland.
Ben Macintyre
Britain's best-selling historian writes the first definitive account of the famous televised SAS storming of the Iranian embassy in London in 1980
Rumaan Alam
Keenly observed and compulsively disturbing, Entitlement is an engrossing and resonant tale of money, morality and madness, affirming Rumaan Alam as a major literary talent of our time.
Elizabeth Strout
A hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker Prize shortlisted author…
Gillian Anderson
What do you want, when no one is watching? What do you want, when the lights are off? What do you want, when you are anonymous?
When we talk about…
Markus Zusak
What happens when the Zusaks open their family home to three big, wild, pound-hardened dogs? The answer can only be chaos
Yuval Noah Harari
From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world
Don Watson
Don Watson offers a report from the United States that catches the madness and theatre of an election like no other.
Oliver Burkeman
From Oliver Burkeman, author of the New York Times bestseller Four Thousand Weeks, a four-week journey to embracing your limitations, thriving in an age of bewilderment, and finally making…
Darren Rix, Craig Cormick
For the first time, the First Nations story of Cook’s arrival, and what blackfellas want everyone to know about the coming of Europeans.
Satoshi Yagisawa, Eric Ozawa (trans.)
In Tokyo, there is a neighbourhood with the highest number of bookstores in the world. It is called Jinbocho where book lovers can browse to their heart's delight and where…
Roddy Doyle
Booker-Prize winner Roddy Doyle’s spectacular return to his iconic character, Paula Spencer, whom he originated in the groundbreaking The Woman Who Walked into Doors and its follow-up, Paula Spencer
Sebastian Smee
The Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic's gripping account of how political turmoil in Paris from 1870-1871 gave rise to Impressionism.
Jay Rayner
A memoir-in-recipes inspired by Jay Rayner's quarter of a century at the table, recreating dishes he has loved from high-end restaurants, high street grills, and everything in between
