The 2024 Age Book of the Year shortlists

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The Anniversary

Stephanie Bishop

From award-winning Stephanie Bishop comes a dark and compulsive novel about writing and desire

$22.99

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One Day We’re All Going to Die

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…

$32.99

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The Idealist

Nicholas Jose

New work by celebrated novelist and essayist Nicholas Jose, set against the turmoil of the independence movement in East Timor

$32.95

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Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

A meditative and deeply moving novel from the Stella Prize-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend.

$32.99

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But the Girl

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…

$32.99

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Bennelong and Phillip

Kate Fullagar

The first dual biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history - the colonised and coloniser - and a bold and innovative new portrait of…

$55.00 $19.99

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Home Work

Helen Hayward

When Helen Hayward had her two children in London, 25 years ago, she found looking after them easy. Loving and looking after her kids was straightforward. However loving and looking…

$29.95

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Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths

Matthew Lamb

A cultural history of the times that shaped Frank Moorhouse and which Moorhouse himself helped to shape.

$45.00

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Life So Full of Promise

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.

$49.99

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A Brilliant Life

Rachelle Unreich

A story of love, loss, wonder and the deepest kind of faith

$34.99

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Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity

Ellen van Neerven

Ellen van Neerven's first work of nonfiction, Personal Score, is a ground-breaking look at sport on this continent from a First Nations and queer perspective.

$34.99

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Women & Children

Tony Birch

A powerful, personal novel about women, children and justice, from one of this country's most loved and clear-eyed writers.

$24.99

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