Australian fiction
Dusk by Robbie Arnott
Robbie Arnott, author of Limberlost, winner of The Age Fiction Book of the Year 2023, returns with another stunning novel, Dusk, which deserves as much hype as all his other shortlisted and award-winning books.
Set in 19th century…
Juice by Tim Winton
Somewhere in Western Australia, a man and a young child in his care arrive at an old mine site. They have been travelling through a landscape devastated by climate change: searing temperatures make it impossible to travel by day. This…
Cherrywood by Jock Serong
Take two love stories, one good, old-fashioned Fitzroy pub, some magical realism, and mix it all up with Melbourne’s booming years of the 1910s, and you have one of the most compelling and wonderfully bonkers novels of the year. Jock…
Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
Liane Moriarty is bewitchingly clever. And entertaining. Her latest novel will grab you from the first page and not release you until you finish the entire novel. Along the way, you will meet characters that feel like friends, you will…
Diving, Falling by Kylie Mirmohamadi
Starting over again is a little like standing at the edge of a cliff. You have no idea what is waiting at the bottom and if you do jump, you are leaving everything you know behind. It’s the feeling of…
The Wedding Forecast by Nina Kenwood
When I heard that award-winning YA author Nina Kenwood was releasing her first book for adult readers, I could barely contain my glee. Kenwood’s first two books – It Sounded Better in My Head and Unnecessary Drama – were two…
In the Margins by Gail Holmes
Literature has a way of transcending distance and generations, an ability to connect us to those with whom we have little else in common. Reading In the Margins, I was connected to Frances Wolfrenston, a rector’s wife and book…
Translations by Jumaana Abdu
The seemingly effortless flow of Jumaana Abdu’s Translations is wonderfully deceptive; beneath their beautiful arrangements, her words are muscular and precise. From the beginning, Abdu sweeps the reader into the story, seats them inside the car with Aliyah and her…
The Temperature by Katerina Gibson
Katerina Gibson was named one of 2023’s Sydney Morning Herald Young Australian Novelists of the Year, and it’s worth noting that her first full-length novel had yet to be released at the time: her lauded short-story collection Women I Know…
The Echoes by Evie Wyld
‘The Echoes’ refers to many things in this book: the name of a rural Australian town from the main character’s past; the ghost of her dead boyfriend in her apartment; the way her family seems to constantly perpetuate cycles of…
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