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Jo Case
An endearing story of a modern family and the hurdles they come across.
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Anna Goldsworthy
When Anna Goldsworthy, pianist and perfectionist, falls pregnant with her first child, her excitement is tempered by the daunting journey ahead. In Welcome to Your New Life, she shares…
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Kristina Olsson
A powerful family memoir from the award-winning author of The China Garden Kristina Olsson’s mother lost her infant son, Peter, when he was snatched from her arms as she boarded…
Dorothy Porter
The Best 100 Poems of Dorothy Porter draws from her life’s work to present the many facets of Porter the poet, from stretching the fabric of ancient mythology to delving…
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Vanessa Berry
In the 1990s, when music was recorded on cassettes and movies on VHS, Vanessa Berry was reacting to the loneliness of life in the suburbs by constructing imaginary worlds and…
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Fiona Wood
Boarding for a term in the wilderness, sixteen-year-old Sibylla expects the gruesome outdoor education program - but friendship complications, and love that goes wrong? They’re extra-curricula.
Simmone Howell
It’s summer in St Kilda. Fifteen-year-old Sky is looking forward to great records and nefarious activities with Nancy, her older, wilder friend. Her brother - Super Agent Gully - is…
Cory Taylor
Arthur Wheeler is haunted by his infatuation with a Japanese youth he encountered in the enemy alien camp where he worked as a guard during WW2. Abandoning his wife and…
Georgia Blain
In these haunting stories, Georgia Blain explores human nature in all its richness: our motivations, our desires and our shortcomings. The men in these tales frequently linger at the edges…
Kirsten Krauth
Layla is only 14. As she sits in bed with a laptop, her mother Margot sleeps in the next room. But what separates them is more than just a wall. …
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Laura Jean McKay
Beyond the killing fields and the temples of Angkor Wat is Cambodia: a country with a genocidal past and a wide, open smile. A frontier land where anything is possible…
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Fiona Capp
Shy and idealistic, Esther Chatwin is Australia’s reluctant First Lady. She longs to return to the anonymity of her old life. But her husband’s sudden political success has turned the…
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Anne Summers
In 2012, Anne Summers gave two landmark speeches about women in Australia, attracting more than 120,000 visits to her website. Within weeks of their delivery Prime Minister Julia Gillards own…
Lucy Neave
Melbourne, 1938. Annabel’s dream is to be a scientist. Falling in love is not part of her plan. But when she meets Bill Whitten she knows instantly that they are…
Elizabeth Harrower
Devastating debut novel from the author of The Watch Tower, hailed by The Washington Post as ‘a brilliant achievement’.
Marion May Campbell,Marion May Campbell
By turns funny and moving, konkretion stages a dialogue around the romance of the Baader-Meinhof gang’s revolutionary aspirations. Ex-commo Monique Piquet (aka Monica Picket) meets up in Paris with her…
Monica Dux
Pregnancy is natural, healthy and fun, right? Sure it is, if youre lucky. For others, its an adventure in physical discomfort, unachievable ideals, kooky classes and meddling experts. When Monica…
Andrea Goldsmith
A novel about memory, music, friendship, family rifts and reconciliation, this is an intelligent, compelling read set in Melbourne.
Jan Caro (Editor)
A fabulously provocative collection by women ready to destroy the joint.
Kathryn Heyman
Funny, moving and utterly compelling, Floodline tells of the unexpected salvation that can be found on the edge of disaster.
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Jill Stark
In re-examining her habits, Jill also explores Australia’s love affair with alcohol, meeting alcopop-swigging teens who drink to fit in, beer-swilling blokes in a sporting culture backed by booze, and…
Melissa Lucashenko
A darkly funny novel of romantic love and cultural warfare from one of Australia’s most admired Indigenous voices. When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property…
Gabrielle Carey
Two literary lives defined by storytelling and secrets As her mother Joan lies dying, Gabrielle Carey writes a letter to Joan’s childhood friend, the reclusive novelist Randolph Stow. This letter…
Maria Takolander
Each of the stories in The Double is unnerving, and unforgettable. Ranging from rural Australia to Northern Europe and beyond, from the dark past of the Soviet era to a…
Krissy Kneen
I force myself to take the phone away from my ear and search for the last incoming call. I store the number under one word, ‘sister’. I know I should…
