Australian fiction 2016

Big Dreams
Two friends in '65 having fun. Seeing bands and wearing the fashion. Trouble starts when Jo falls in love with Tom and he falls in love with Lily! Loyalty is tested and one girl has no-where to turn but an unmarried mothers Home!...
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The Best Australian Stories 2016
'The paint itself is part of the painting's meaning; the words do not merely tell, but are the story...' -Charlotte Wood
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The Waterfowl Are Drunk!
A series of funny and heart-warming short stories set in the author's hometown, Pambula, on the far south coast of New South Wales.
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The Permanent Resident
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On the Blue Train
From the winner of the Dobbie Literary Award, the Barbara Ramsden Award and the Andrew Eiseman Award. Yes, she said, finally. Breaks are important. There are times when it's wiser to...
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Wild Island
My name is Harriet Adair, and forty years ago on that ship I was Jane Eyre's companion. That voyage also brought me friendship with another intrepid Jane: Lady Franklin. Her husband, Sir John, the Arctic Lion, was...
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Family Skeleton
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The Easy Way Out
A brand new novel everyone will be talking about from the award-winning author of Things We Didn't See Coming and What the Family Needed.
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Letter to Pessoa
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The Love of a Bad Man
The Love of a Bad Man is a collection of short stories that imagine the lives of thirteen women, all of whom were the lovers, mistresses, or wives of various 'bad' men in history. Beautifully observed, fascinating, and at times...
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We. Are. Family.
Three brothers are forced to confront the quiet, pervasive violence of their family's past and the distances to which they have all carried their father's pain into their ..
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5 Ways to be Famous Now
A glamorous ocean liner, inspired by the original ghostly Queen Mary, sets sail on its maiden voyage from Hobart to Antarctica. The personal plaything of the super-rich Kirstin McKinley, those on board include the novel's unnamed...
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The Schooldays of Jesus
The Schooldays of Jesus, the startling sequel to J. M. Coetzee's widely praised The Childhood of Jesus, will beguile its readers. With the mysterious simplicity of a fable, it tells a story that raises the most direct questions...
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The Bonobo’s Dream
Atmospheric and poetic, The Bonobo's Dream is speculative fiction at its finest, probing the limits of what it means to be human in a world spun from myths and castles in the air.
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Populate and Perish
Winner of the 2016 Seizure Viva La Novella Prize. With a razor-sharp wit, incisive social critiques and intensity of feeling, Populate and Perish announces George Haddad as a vital new voice in Australian fiction.
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After the Carnage
A collection of prodigious depth and variety, After the Carnage marks the remarkable evolution of one of our finest young writers.
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Skylarking
'A brave, beautiful and richly textured book that delicately explores the fault lines in love and friendship.' --Lucy Treloar A spellbinding tale of friendship and desire, memory and truth, which questions what it is to remember...
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The Windy Season
An energetically wonderfully Australian story: set in Geraldton, WA, there are sharks, fishermen and accidents with evocative, memorable descriptions of the sea, fishing and the emptiness of loss.
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Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers
Absurd, original and highly addictive ... In Their Brilliant Careers, Ryan O'Neill has written a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers. Meet Rachel Deverall, who discovered the...
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Troppo
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Inexperience: And Other Stories
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The Salamanders: A Novel
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Landscape with Landscape
The titles of this collection of six loosely connected stories, Landscape with Freckled Woman, Sipping the Essence, The Battle of Acosta Nu, A Quieter Place than Clun, Charlie Alcock's Cock, and Landscape with Artist suggest the...
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Ruins
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.
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Fine
A brilliant debut of originality, depth and beauty.
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The Sound
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Where the Light Falls
An expat photographer returns to Australia to make sense of his traumatic childhood and the disappearance of his former girlfriend.
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The Paper House
Anna Spargo-Ryan's astonishing debut: the stylistically brilliant, fearless and heartbreaking story of a woman grieving the death of her child.
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The Healing Party
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Wood Green
Michael, an aspiring writer who has recently finished his PhD, takes a job as the secretary to his literary hero, Lucian Clarke, a reclusive novelist with a mysterious cosmopolitan past, who lives in a cottage in a...
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Watershed
Savage and apocalyptic, this is the new world. Devoid of rain, the earth has shrunk to dust and salt, hemmed by a swollen sea. Survivors gather to re-establish order but it's nothing like...
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Carrying the World
A haunting visit to the International Museum of Slavery, in Liverpool England. A feisty young black girl pushing back against authority. The joy and despair of single parenthood. A love-hate relationship with words.
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Our Tiny, Useless Hearts
A romantic comedy about sex, marriage and the benefits and drawbacks of being a grownup.
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Burnt Umber
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The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
An utterly gripping story set between 17th century Holland, 1950s Manhattan and 2000s Sydney, following a trail of art, forgery and deception.
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Take Me To Paris, Johnny
First published in Australia in 1993. An unforgettable memoir of love, loss and humanity.
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Dodge Rose
Eliza travels to Sydney to deal with the estate of her Aunt Dodge, and finds Maxine, a hitherto unknown cousin, occupying Dodge's apartment. When legal complications derail plans to live it up on their inheritance, the women's...
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Between a Wolf and a Dog
Ester is a family therapist with an appointment book that catalogues the woes of the middle class. She spends her days helping others find happiness, but her own family relationships are tense and frayed. Estranged from both her...
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Dying in the First Person: A Novel
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What The Light Hides
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False Nostalgia
False Nostalgia is rare among poetry collections, a work which is both lyrical and philosophical. It explores the way memory works, and the role memory plays in our sense of identity, and what we take to be the significant moments...
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Oliver of the Levant
It's 1969 and the world is alight with revolution. Oliver Lawrence, a Bondi Beach kid, is transported to one of the world's most bewitching cities: Beirut in the Levant.
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Emperor of the Eight Islands: Books 1 and 2 in The Tale of Shikanoko series
In this magnificent new epic, destined to become a classic, bestselling Australian author Lian Hearn transports us to a mythical Japanese world set 300 years before Tales of the Otori.
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A Loving, Faithful Animal
It is New Year's Eve, 1990, and Ru's father has disappeared again. Haunted by the horrors of the Vietnam War, Jack has been an erratic - and at times violent - presence in his family's life. Meanwhile, Ru's sister, Lani, is...
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One
From the award-winning author of The Mary Smokes Boys, One is a novel of minimalist lyrical beauty that traverses the intersections between violence and love. It asks what right one man has to impose his will on another, and...
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The High Places
These wide-ranging stories resonate in the way of only the finest writing and the most pleasurable reading. There are storylines that seem straightforward on the surface but have a dozen things circling underneath, others that sit...
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Comfort Zone
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Fear Is The Rider
A nail-biting chase into the outback, towards the devil lurking at its center. Adrenaline-fuelled reading.
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Asylum
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A Few Days in the Country: And Other Stories
Essential reading for Harrower fans, these collected stories range from caustic satires to gentler explorations of friendship.
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Our Magic Hour
Katy's unexpected suicide forever changes life for her best friend Audrey, and their group of close friends in their twenties.
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Wildlight
'You spend your whole time on an island looking out to sea. It's a kind of meditation. Perhaps what you're really facing is yourself.'
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Kings Rising (Captive Prince Trilogy, Book 3)
Book 3 of the Captive Prince trilogy
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Napoleon’s Roads
A writer questions the architecture of words, struggling to capture his ideas before they are lost; a husband excavating beneath his house becomes mesmerised by silence and disappears in search of solitude; a lighthouse keeper...
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Hotel du Barry
London's luxurious Hotel Du Barry has been left unscathed by WW1 and the party has just begun: tainted love, murderous desires and gin. It's THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL with a dash of Gatsby. When a laughing baby is found amongst...
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The River House
THE BOOK CLUB PICK OF 2016! The River House is a spellbinding debut novel, resonant of childhoods past and the beauty of the Australian countryside. It is the late 1940s, and the Broody River runs through a maze of sandbanks into...
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That Devil’s Madness
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Mercy Street
A tender, sweet and funny novel from bestselling novelist Tess Evans. A delightful, sweet and funny novel from bestselling novelist Tess Evans, MERCY STREET tells the heartwarming story of curmudgeonly pensioner George, who, since...
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The Mouthless Murderer
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Leaving Elvis: And Other Stories
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WATTLE CREEK
Damien McAllister is a man on the brink. Spending long, hard days on a farm he has no affection for, and his nights ignoring the criticisms of his mother, Damien can no longer remember what he's living for. But in a small town...
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