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Vigdis Hjorth, Charlotte Barslund (trans.)
A groundbreaking, potent novel about the destructive force of romantic love from award-winning writer Vigdis Hjorth
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Kirsty Capes
Girls is as devastating as it is hilarious, as tender and moving as it is shocking - this is a book that will stay with you long after you have…
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Zoë Foster Blake
Welcome to the hectic world of beauty and business in this highly relatable novel following a talented hair stylist turned entrepreneur juggling family dramas, workplace near-catastrophes and relationship crises. Things…
Juhea Kim
A thrilling novel set in the cutthroat world of Russian ballet, as a once-famous dancer faces a heartbreaking choice
Bronwyn Fischer
An addictively gripping coming-of-age story about an all-consuming, insidious love affair between a college freshman and a mysterious older woman, from an unforgettable new voice in fiction.
Ursula Parrott
A sensational bestseller in 1929, yet utterly timeless, Ex-Wife plunges us into the ‘era of the one-night stand’.
Yasmin Zaher
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unravelling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags…
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Genevieve Novak
I exist on validation from emotionally unavailable men, biscuits, and cheap wine, and it’s easier to get off with Max than a Tiny Teddy.
Penny can’t help but compare herself…
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Jessie Tu
Growing up is always hard, but especially when so many think you're a washed-up has-been at twenty-two.
Pip Finkemeyer
A young woman tries to figure out if she’s the best (a creative genius) or if she’s maybe just the worst (completely delusional).
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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.
Adriane Howell
Hydra is a novel of dark suspense and mental disquiet, struck through with black humour., Adriane Howell beguilingly explores notions of moral culpability, revenge, memory, and narrative - all through…
Baek Sehee, Anton Hur (trans.)
Recording her conversations with her psychiatrist over 12 weeks, Baek Sehee begins to disentangle the feedback loops, knee-jerk reactions and harmful behaviours that keep her locked in a cycle of…
Steven Carroll
From one of our finest writers - winner of the Miles Franklin, the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award - comes a wistful and emotional story that…
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Celine Saintclare
From the high-rises of Canary Wharf to the turquoise pools of Miami, introducing SUGAR, BABY: the most darkly funny, shocking, intoxicating read of the summer . . . Perfect for…
Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle
An unnamed young woman in her late twenties navigates unemployment, boredom, chronic illness and online dating
Ottessa Moshfegh
It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?
Paige Clark
You do not know of Paige Clark, but you soon will.
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Victoria Hannan
A raw, powerful novel from the prize-winning author of Kokomo that exposes the ripple effect of grief.
what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a savagely funny novel of a woman looking out from the abyss. Meet ten of literature’s most…
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Alice Nelson
A passionate love story and an honest depiction of the self-deceptions we pursue seeking family and attachment.
Dana Spiotta
A ‘furious and addictive new novel’ (The New York Times) about one woman’s midlife reckoning as she flees suburbia.
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Chloe Ashby
Searingly incisive, darkly funny and achingly poignant, Wet Paint is a novel about attempting to navigate the world as a twenty-something woman, exploring the highs and lows of friendship, love…
Winner of the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. Both tender and fierce, heartbreaking and funny, Kokomo is a story about how secrets and love have the…
Eve Thomson
A novel about reputation, defamation, the exercise and abuse of power - and the pursuit of a fragile truth.
Kimberley Allsopp
A witty, warm-hearted and appealing novel about how stepping out of our comfort zones can sometimes be the best - and worst - thing that can ever happen to us.
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