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Monica Tan
What happens when a 32-year-old first-generation Australian woman decides to chuck in a dream job, pack a sleeping bag and tent, and hit the long, dusty road for six months…
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Suneeta Peres da Costa
A coming-of-age story set in Angola in the period leading up to the colony’s independence, Saudade focuses on a Goan immigrant family caught between complicity in Portuguese rule, and their…
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Michelle Cahill
“Line by line, Cahill’s writing is musical, assured: cumulatively, her seriousness is evident, her ambition impressive.” - Hilary Mantel
Letter to Pessoa is the first collection of short stories by…
Chi Vu
Anguli Ma is the central figure in a traditional Buddist folktale, a deranged killer who wears his victims’ fingers in a garland around his neck. In this novella, Chi Vu…
Michelle de Kretser
Set in present-day Australia and mid-20th century India, The Lost Dog is a haunting, beautifully written work that brilliantly counterpoints new cityscapes and their inhabitants with the wild, ancient continent…
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Michelle de Kretser’s fifth novel is both a delicious satire on the way we live now and a deeply moving examination of the true nature of friendship.
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Michelle Law
The Golden Phoenix, a restaurant on the Sunshine Coast. The last customers have left for the night, and Pearl can unwind. She’s the quintessential matriarch balancing family, business, and her…
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Rajith Savanadasa
In the bustling streets, overcrowded hospitals and glittering nightclubs of Colombo, five family members find their bonds stretched to breaking point in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war.
Shastra Deo
Winner of the 2016 Thomas Shapcott Prize for Poetry.
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M.J. Tjia
A unique who-done-it that puts a modern spin on a classic style of mystery writing.
For lovers of flamboyant heroines, mouthy servants and bloody murders, from a Stella Prize shortlisted author.
Mirandi Riwoe
Winner of the 2017 Seizure Viva La Novella Prize
Sparked by the description of a ‘Malay trollope’ in W. Somerset Maugham’s story, The Four Dutchmen, Mirandi Riwoe’s novella, The…
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Alice Pung
Offers a vivid and ironic sense of two worlds. Combines the story of Pung’s life growing up in suburban Footscray, with the inherited stories of the women in her family.
This delightful collection brings together Alice Pung’s most loved writing, on migration, family, identity, art and more. Warm, funny, moving and unfailingly honest, this is Alice Pung at her best…
In this fascinating book, Alice Pung writes about one of her deep influences - the much-loved and hugely successful John Marsden.
Eunice Andrada
Powerful first collection by acclaimed Filipina Australian performance poet
Bella Li
This innovative first full-length collection from Australian poet Bella Li draws inspiration from the surrealist collage novels of Max Ernst, is an arresting and utterly unique assemblage of poetry, collage…
Zoya Patel
‘I was born in a hospital in Suva, Fiji. I can’t recall ever seeing the building on my trips back to the city, first as a child or later as…
Melanie Cheng
Awarded the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, Melanie Cheng’s Australia Day paints a vivid and absorbing panorama of contemporary Australia
Tom Cho
This is a collection of stories about transformation, with the storyteller and his family shifting through identities drawn from comics, video games, daytime TV, porn flicks and movies, in fantasies…
Asian-Australians are known to each other and the outside world by many labels: quiet achiever, FOB, gangster chigger, mainlander, banana. But are these labels based on some degree of truth…
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Julie Koh
In Portable Curiosities, Julie Koh re-imagines our world with a dark, satirical twist. These twelve stories combine absurd humour with searing critiques on contemporary society - the rampant consumerism, the…
Benjamin Law
Meet the Law family - eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide: Benjamin, the third of five children and a born humorist. Join him as he tries to answer…
Benjamin Law considers himself pretty lucky to live in Australia: he can hold his boyfriend’s hand in public and lobby his politicians to recognise same-sex marriage. As the child of…
