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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Richard Flanagan
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction…
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Alexis Wright
Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned.
Samantha Harvey
Life on our planet as you've never seen it before
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Percival Everett
From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees
Jason De Leon
Winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction
Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labour all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders…
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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Something About Living explores Palestinian life through the lens of American language, revealing a legacy of obfuscation and erasure. What happens when language only permits ongoing disasters to be packaged…
Yáng Shuāng-zi, Lin King (trans.)
A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power
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Rachel Cusk
A path-breaking novel of art, womanhood and violence, from the author of the Outline trilogy.
Sara M Saleh
A stunning coming-of-age tale played out across generations and continents, from Palestine to Australia.
Lucy Treloar
Joint winner of the 2024 Barbara Jefferis Award
For all her life, Till, now twenty-three, has lived in the shadow of the abduction of a childhood friend, and her tormented…
Emma Darragh
The first fiction title from JOAN, consisting of interwoven stories about three generations of women in one family as they navigate girlhood, motherhood and selfhood, perfect for fans of Jennifer…
Melissa Lucashenko
The bestselling and multi-award-winning novel by the author of Too Much Lip
Han Kang, Deborah Smith (trans.) & Emily Yae Won (trans)
A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian
Andre Dao
Anam is a novel about memory and inheritance, colonialism and belonging, home and exile.
Daniel Browning
Chronicling his career since 2007, Close to the Subject presents a selection of pieces from Daniel Browning’s stellar career as a journalist, radio broadcaster, critic and interviewer.
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Ryan Cropp
The fascinating biography of a brilliant man who captured the nation's imagination and boldly showed Australians who we were and how we could change
Amy Crutchfield
Powerful debut which interrogates the nature of love in its various forms
Lamisse Hamouda
The Shape of Dust is a haunting appraisal of the way Australia treats its citizens, both at home and abroad.
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Kristina Ross
For readers of Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler and Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors, First Year is a deeply intelligent and insightful exploration of…
Anna Funder
A blazing, genre-bending masterpeice from one of the most inventive writers of our time.
V. V. Ganeshananthan
A searing, gripping novel about a young Tamil woman living through the Sri Lankan civil war
Tony Birch
A powerful, personal novel about women, children and justice, from one of this country's most loved and clear-eyed writers.
Hisham Matar
An intensely moving novel about three friends living in political exile and the emotional homeland that deep friendships can provide - from the Booker-shortlisted, Pulitzer prize-winning author
Matthew Longo
An extraordinarily dramatic reconstruction of the greatest border breach in Cold War history
Isabella Hammad
A woman reeling from a disastrous love affair finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine
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Jayne Anne Phillips
From one of our most accomplished novelists, a mesmerizing story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in a mental asylum in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War.
Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann (trans.)
From an internationally acclaimed, multi award-winning author: this is a story of love and betrayal set in Berlin during the years before and after the fall of the Wall.
Naomi Klein
A wild ride into the uncanny mirror world of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine
Caleb Azumah Nelson
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azumah Nelson, the no.1 bestselling, award-winning author of Open Water
James Lee Burke
A novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana, as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters-enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers-are caught in…
James Islington
At the elite Catenan Academy, a young fugitive uncovers layered mysteries and world-changing secrets in this new fantasy series by the internationally bestselling author of The Licanius Trilogy, James Islington.
Ross McMullin
Life So Full of Promise, his second multi-biography about Australia’s lost generation of World War I, features a collection of interwoven stories set in that defining era.
Antony Loewenstein
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israel's occupation-enforcing technologies.
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.
David Marr
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars
Nathan Thrall
A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision
Ilyon Woo
The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled white man and William posing as…
Jonathan Eig
A major new biography of Martin Luther King by Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life
Cristina Rivera Garza
An astonishing work of creative non-fiction from one one of Mexico’s greatest contemporary writers, that reignites the brilliant spark of a young woman erased and illuminates an epidemic of femicide…
Grace Yee
Chinese Fish is a family saga in miniature, spanning three generations.
Justin Torres
An intimate, emotionally rich novel, in which two men - young and old - reckon with queer histories and their place within them, from the critically acclaimed author of We…
Kim Kelly
Two young women, brought up to expect conventional lives, are thrown together in unexpected circumstances. Each has suffered a devastating loss that challenges their belief in life and themselves.
Rebecca Burton
Stories of family dysfunction often expose us to relentless failure. And while Ravenous Girls is about the tensions and growing distance between two sisters it is distinguished by its lithe…
Benjamin Myers
The triumphant new novel from the Walter Scott Prize-winning author of The Gallows Pole and The Offing
Georgi Gospodinov, Angela Roder (trans.)
A brilliant, satirical skewering of our obsession with nostalgia and the past, written by a master of European literature.
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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Gail Jones
Four historical figures cross paths amidst the chaos of war in this immersive and beautifully written novel by award-winning Australian author Gail Jones, now available in paperback
Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (trans.)
The celebrated Norwegian novelist’s magnum opus, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, published in one volume for the first time.
