Australian fiction 2016
While the Moon Burns: The Frontier Series 11
Read Peter Watt's latest instalment of the Frontier series, ahead of the epic conclusion From the Stars Above (November 2017).
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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 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 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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The Island Will Sink
With this gripping postmodern novel in the vein of Michel Houellebecq and Phillip K. Dick, Briohny Doyle gives us a glimpse of a grave new world we all might soon face, and in so doing announces herself as a serious literary...
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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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Landscape with Landscape
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Fine
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The Toymaker
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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 Healing Party
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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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Take Me To Paris, Johnny
First published in Australia in 1993. An unforgettable memoir of love, loss and humanity.
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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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What The Light Hides
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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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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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Seeing The Elephant: A Novel
A poignant story of a remarkable relationship between Frank Stevens, an Australian soldier sent to the Vietnamese Highlands to recruit and train the local hill tribes during the Vietnam War, and his Vietnamese translator, Minh....
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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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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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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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