Australian Fiction 2015

My Relations: By Robin Ann Eakin, Aged 8, 1929
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The Fire Sermon
Cass is born a few minutes after her brother, Zach. Both infants are perfect, but only one is a blessing; only one is an Alpha. The other child must be cast out. But with no discernible difference, other than their genders, their...
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Unmarry Me
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The Secrets of Midwives
In a family of midwives, some secrets are too big to keep hidden.
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The Strays
On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant - garde painter Evan Trentham. He and his wife are trying to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia by inviting other like -...
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The Eye of the Sheep
Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2015.
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The Best Australian Stories 2015
In The Best Australian Stories 2015, Amanda Lohrey, winner of the Patrick White Award and author of the acclaimed novel A Short History of Richard Kline, curates twenty pieces of exceptional short fiction.
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The Women’s Pages
After her mother's death, Dove decides to write a whole new story for herself, for her mother and for their literary heroines. In undertaking this labour of love, Dove unwittingly taps into the universal story of choice, grief and...
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The Secret Chord: The Australian Bestseller
A rich and utterly absorbing novel about the life of King David, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of People of the Book and March.
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Hope Farm
'They were inescapable, the tensions of the adult world - the fraught and febrile aura that surrounded Ishtar and those in her orbit, that whined and creaked like a wire pulled too tight.'
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Blood Kin
A chef, a portraitist and a barber are taken hostage in a coup to overthrow their boss, the President. They are held captive in a palatial retreat high above the capital city. The chef's daughter, the portraitist's wife and the...
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Ghost River
The river is a place of history and secrets. For Ren and Sonny, two unlikely friends, it's a place of freedom and adventure. For a group of storytelling vagrants, it's a refuge. And for the isolated daughter of a cult reverend,...
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To The Islands
Set in the desolate outback landscape of Australia's north-west, the novel tracks the last days of a worn-out Anglican missionary. Fleeing his mission after an agonising confrontation, he immerses himself in the wilderness,...
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Rush Oh!
When the eldest daughter of a whaling family in Eden, New South Wales, sets out to chronicle the particularly difficult season of 1908, the story she tells is poignant and hilarious, filled with drama and misadventure.
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Where There’s Smoke: Outstanding Short Stories by Australian Men
Where There's Smoke presents outstanding short fiction by Australia's finest male writers. These are tales of love, secrets, doubt and torment, the everyday and the extraordinary.
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Fever of Animals
With the inheritance he received upon his father's death, Miles has come to Europe on the trail of the Romanian surrealist, who disappeared into a forest in 1967. But in trying to unravel the mystery of Bafdescu's secret life,...
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The Promise Seed
A poignant, mesmerising debut novel about an unlikely friendship An elderly man, living alone in the suburbs, thinks back on his life - the missed opportunities, the shocking betrayals, the rare moments of joy. When his ten - year...
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The Secret Son
I know that two men are coming up the mountain, at this moment, including the boy from far away. I wonder what my grandson's face will look like.This is a boy in the skin of a man.I know the boy is innocent, that it's his family...
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The End of Seeing
Determined to discover the truth about the disappearance of her partner, Nick, Ana sets out to re-trace the route he took as a photojournalist on the other side of the world - a journey that saw him presumed dead, on a ship...
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Formaldehyde
Lives turned upside down by a bureaucratic error in this Kafkaesque work of neo-absurdism.
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Welcome to Orphancorp (Orphancorp Trilogy, Book 1)
A sharp-edged semi-futuristic riff about a rebellious teenager's last week at an industrial orphanage.
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The Waiting Room
The Waiting Room captures the sights, sounds, accents and animosities of a country overflowing with stories. Dina is a family doctor living in the melting-pot city of Haifa, Israel. Born in Australia in a Jewish enclave of...
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Locust Girl: A Lovesong
Most everything has dried up: water, the womb, even the love among lovers. Hunger is rife, except across the border. One night, a village is bombed after its men attempt to cross the border. Nine-year old Amedea is buried...
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Panthers & the Museum of Fire
Panther & the Museum of Fire is a novella about walking, memory and writing. The narrator walks from Glebe to a central Sydney cafe to return a manuscript by a recently-dead writer. While she walks, the reader enters the...
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R&R
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An Astronaut’s Life
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The Girl With the Dogs: Penguin Special
The Girl with the Dogs is a poignantly beautiful novella about what's really precious in life, from Miles Franklin Award-winning Anna Funder, author of All That I Am
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Surveillance
They are watching you. Every move you make. Gripping fiction with an edge of terrifying truth - a brilliant and timely debut novel.
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Last Day in the Dynamite Factory
Knowledge has the power to break your heart - or to mend it.
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Six Bedrooms
Coming of age in the nineteen-eighties: hot afternoons on school ovals, the terrifying promise of losing your virginity. Sneaking booze from your mother's pantry, your first Mardi Gras parade, the painful sophistication and...
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Peripheral Vision
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Archipelago of Souls
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Day Boy
In a post-traumatic future the Masters - formerly human, now practically immortal - rule a world that bends to their will and a human population upon which they feed. Invincible by night, deep asleep and all but helpless by day,...
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Wave
Midori and Âu Cô are international university students tasting freedom from family for the first time. They discover Melbourne and each other. All is well until the tsunami that swamps their...
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The Last Will and Testament of Henry Hoffman
When their reclusive father, Henry, shoots himself, the lives of three brilliant and unconventional siblings are upended. His daughter Eleanor finds a will: Henry has left his entire estate to a mystery woman. Hiding this from her...
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Prince’s Gambit (Captive Prince Trilogy, Book 2)
Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos, but when his half-brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a...
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A Descant for Gossips: UQP Modern Classics
In this classic story of small-town life, two schoolteachers are drawn to each other by their concern for a lonely young girl. For as long as Vinny Lalor could remember, she had been on the fringe of things - in her family and at...
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The Trivia Man
From the author of Mr Chen's Emporium comes a quirky and heartwarming tale about finding your true place in the world, set against the backdrop of a weekly trivia competition.
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Almost Sincerely
When Zoe Norton Lodge was growing up in Annandale in the eighties and nineties, the self - proclaimed Heartland of the Inner West was a heady brew of somewhat maladjusted and genuinely unsettling residents. But Annandale was...
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Leap
A few weeks after finishing their final exams high school sweethearts have an argument at a party. Joe wants to go - Jen begs him to stay. They fight in the corridor, following their usual script, and then he walks out and leaves...
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The Mothers
A moving multi-generational story of motherhood, adoption, and the inescapable presence of the past in all our lives.
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Charlie Anderson’s General Theory of Lying
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The Profilist: The notebooks of Ethan Dibble
By his training as a profilist - a silhouette painter - Ethan Dibble has learned to take a sidelong view of life. When he arrives in early colonial South Australia he has no idea what to expect; but with his knack for observation...
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An Ordinary Epidemic
An Ordinary Epidemic is a riveting, topical novel from a new voice in Australian writing.
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Quicksand
Dazzling, hilarious, disturbing and utterly unforgettable new novel from the author of the Man Booker-shortlisted A Fraction of the Whole.
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The Adventures Of Holly White And The Incredible Sex Machine
An amazing literary sci-fi superhero sex romp from Australia's genre-bending queen of erotica.
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Guilt
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Coming Rain
Set in 1950s rural Australia, a moving and profound examination of masculinity and the complex nature of male friendship.
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The Wonder Lover
The compartments in our father's life were not the separations he needed to build to preserve his sanity. They were his sanity. When he fell in love... when he fell to the abjection he deserved, the walls began dissolving.
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Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty's latest New York Times no.1 bestseller following The Husband's Secret.
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The Life of Houses
The Life of Houses is the new novel by the acclaimed poet Lisa Gorton, whose first book of poetry, Press Release, won the Victorian Premier's Award for Poetry, and whose second collection, Hotel Hyperion, was...
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Black Rock White City
Intensely human, yet majestic in its moral vision, Black Rock White City is an essential story of Australia's suburbs now, of displacement and immediate threat, and the unexpected responses of two refugees as...
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In Certain Circles
Internationally acclaimed novel by the award-winning author of The Watch Tower. Now available for the first time in paperback.
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The Bird’s Child
A novel of magic, birds, lost letters and love. Sydney, 1929: three people find themselves washed up on the steps of Miss Du Maurier's bohemian boarding house in a once grand terrace in Newtown. Ari is a young Jewish man, a ...
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Crow’s Breath
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The Floating Garden
Sydney, Milsons Point, 1926. Entire streets are being demolished for the building of the Harbour Bridge. Ellis Gilbey, landlady by day, gardening writer by night, is set to lose everything. Only the faith in the book shes writing,...
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Amnesia
It was a spring evening in Washington DC; a chilly autumn morning in Melbourne; it was exactly 22.00 Greenwich Mean Time when a worm entered the computerised control systems of hundreds of Australian prisons and released the locks...
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Goodbye Sweetheart
From the author of Valley of Grace comes a powerful novel of love, the desire for understanding, and the inevitable messiness of life.
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Dry Crossing
Dizzy Roundabout, a guitarist in an Aboriginal rock 'n' roll band, has criss-crossed the Australian continent for the past ten years scraping just enough money for the next gig. Accepting a national Music Industry Award in the...
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Anchor Point
When her mother disappears into the bush, ten - year - old Laura makes an impulsive decision that will haunt her for decades. Despite her anger and grief, she sets about running the house, taking care of her younger sister, and...
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Skin
A full-blooded, mesmerizing debut novel set in Celtic Britain, perfect for fans of Michelle Paver, from a highly original new voice in fiction.
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Only the Animals
Perhaps only the animals can tell us what it is to be human. a trench on the Western Front a cat recalls her owner Colette's theatrical antics in Paris. In Nazi Germany a dog seeks enlightenment. A Russian tortoise once owned by...
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His Other House
Does love mean always telling the truth?
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A Short History Of Richard Kline,
'I woke with a gasp. And lay in the dark, open - mouthed, holding my breath. That feeling . . . that feeling was indescribable. For a moment I had felt as if I were falling . . . falling into bliss. All his life, Richard Kline...
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Clade
Adam is in Antarctica, marking the passage of the solstice. Across the globe, his wife Ellie is waiting for the results of her IVF treatment. So begins the story of one family in a changing world, where the apocalyptic mingles...
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The Ash Burner
Growing up with his father in a small coastal town, all Ted knows about his mother is that she died when he was a boy. His father has brought them halfway across the world to start anew, but her absence defines and haunts their...
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A Small Madness
A devastating, compelling novel that will get everyone talking, from the author of Creepy and Maud.
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The Last Pulse
A blackly funny novel about an unlikely hero, and his misadventures on the flood he has created. In the drought - stricken Riverland town of Bartel in South Australia, after the suicide of his wife, Merv Rossiter steals a boat. He...
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Man Made Entirely of Bats
A Man Made Entirely of Bats is a collection of short stories and flash fiction by one of Australia's newest voices. Comedic and absurd, these stories are an entertaining exploration of the concept of super heroes and of the super...
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The Social Diary
When the young journalist Savannah Stephens returns to her hometown Sydney after a stint as a music journalist in London, she is thrown into the burgeoning world of societies parties and the excess of the 80s social...
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The Torch
The sequel to the much - loved novel, The Cartographer. Melbourne, 1960: Mrs Blayney and her twelve year old son live in South Richmond. At least, they did, until their house burnt down. The prime suspect - one Keith Aloysius...
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The Refuge
A page-turning thriller. Its central question is not who murdered the beautiful emigre from war-torn Europe, but how and why?
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