Australian fiction 2017

Rural Liberties
Moralla, a fading seaside town on the 'beautifully uncivilised' Sapphire Coast of New South Wales, has won Australia's Tidy Towns award for two years running. Now Rebecca Moore-the most beautiful, talented girl in town-is dead and...
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Stone Circle
Is the ability to read minds a blessing or a curse?
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The Ballad of Banjo Crossing
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Balga Boy Jackson
Balga Boy Jackson is the long awaited new novel of Mudrooroo. He returns to his roots to give us a vivid life story of an Australian Black Boy - naturally with a pun, Balga is the Australian grass tree called in Western Australia,...
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Incredible Floridas
As Hitler's war looms, famous Australian artist Roland Griffin returns home with his family to live a simple life of shared plums and low-cut lawns in the suburbs. In the yard: a daughter, and a son, Hal, growing up with a...
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After the Blues
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Last Long Drop
A rollicking novel of surf and celebrity, The Last Long Drop is a wild ride through the volatile world of killer waves and tabloid sensations, where any mess-up may be your last.
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The Map That Leads To You
Everyone remembers the summer after college, a time in life when everything is a possibility and heartbreak is never too near. Heather has graduated from college and is traveling around Europe with her two best friends. She's left...
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Border Districts
A new work by a master of contemporary Australian fiction, highly regarded overseas, but little-known here. Giramondo's publication of Border Districts, and the retrospective volume Collected Short Fiction (early next year) is a...
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Plane Tree Drive
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Atlantic Black
The new novel from Miles Franklin award-winning author A.S. Patrić.
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Stories: The Collected Short Fiction
This new edition of Helen Garner's collected short fiction celebrates the seventy-fifth birthday of one of Australia's most loved authors.
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Griffith Review 58: Storied Lives - The Novella Project V
The fifth edition of the annual Griffith Review Novella Project writing competition - showcasing Griffith Review's ongoing commitment to unearthing the most exciting work from both emerging and established Australian and New...
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First Person
What is the truth? In this blistering story of a ghostwriter haunted by his demonic subject, the Man Booker Prize winner turns to lies, crime and literature with devastating effect
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The Life to Come
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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Two Steps Forward
Two Steps Forward is the feelgood novel of the year from Graeme Simsion, author of the Rosie books and his wife, Anne Buist.
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Suburbia
A coming-of-age drama that superbly evokes the sights, smells and sounds of suburban life in the 80s and the angst of teenagers trapped in the lives of their parents.
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Drawing Sybylla
Drawing Sybylla is a novel about the challenges women writers have faced in pursuing the writing life.
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Sixty Seconds
Sixty Seconds is a haunting, redemptive story about forgiveness and hope.
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Nineteen Letters
What would you do if the love of your life had no memory of you? A man tries to win back the love of his life after an accident has her in a coma in this emotional, romantic drama from #1 ebook phenomenon J. L. Perry writing as...
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Bird Country
The sparkling debut from an exciting new voice in Australian fiction, Claire Aman Bird Country is a collection of spare and affecting portraits of ordinary people in rural Australia
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The Book Of Dirt
An extraordinary and absorbing novelisation of one family's tale of Holocaust survival and a grandson's unrelenting dedication to ensuring his ancestor's stories will never be forgotten.
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The Last Days of Jeanne d'Arc
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The Girl from Munich
Germany, 1943. The choices she makes will change her life forever.
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Just Another Week in Suburbia
The Slap meets Liane Moriarty.
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Parting Words
A much-awaited second novel that asks: how well do we really know our parents?
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Burning Down
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The Way Back
All she wanted was to escape. But why does she still feel trapped. A gripping psychological drama by the author of Mothers and Daughters and Into My Arms.
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Her
Beautifully and powerfully written, this is a look at the darker side of Australia's past - and particularly the status of girls and women in our society - that will stay with you long after you finish reading.
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Taboo
From the two-times winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, comes a work charged with ambition and poetry, brutality and mystery about a young woman cast into a drama that has been playing for over two hundred years ...
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Common People
From the 2016 Victorian Premier's Literary Award-winning author of Ghost River.
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Whipbird
No holds are barred as the Cleary family attempts to put long-held tensions behind them to celebrate a milestone. What could possibly go wrong?
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On The Java Ridge
A literary novel about politics and seeking asylum, with the pace and tension of a political thriller. Plus some of the most compelling writing about the sea since Patrick O'Brian.
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Pulse Points: Stories
Pulse Points is the collected stories by Jennifer Down, author of Our Magic Hour and one of Australia's newest and most promising literary talents.
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Siren
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Bridget Crack
Van Diemen's Land, 1826. A desperate convict flees into the wilderness. But the land that hides her will show her no mercy. A brilliant literary debut from a writer of rare talent.
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The Lone Child
A gripping, atmospheric novel from the acclaimed author of What Came Before that asks: how much should you do to help a stranger's child?
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Half Wild
A stunningly original debut novel inspired by the life of Eugenia Falleni.
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Hinterland
'We have this idea we can live anywhere, that we make a choice, but it's not true. There are places that are for you and places that aren't. You can tell which is which if you're prepared to listen.'
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Wimmera
In the long, hot summer of 1989, Ben and Fab are best friends. Growing up in a small country town, they spend their days playing cricket, yabbying in local dams, wanting a pair of.....
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An Uncommon Woman
Set in rural Queensland in 1929, An Uncommon Woman is the captivating story of a very modern woman who refuses to be held down by the conventions of the past...
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Hello, Goodbye
It's 1968 and free-thinking country girl Maya Callaghan's world is turned upside down when she finds out she's pregnant to her boyfriend Sam, who is awaiting draft orders. A profoundly moving story of love during a time of great...
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Me and Mr Booker: Text Classics
The Text Classics edition of Cory Taylor's extraordinary debut novel, Me and Mr Booker, a sharply observed and darkly comic story about lust, deceit and the line between adolescence and adulthood.
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Lady of the Realm
Touched by the Lady of the Realm, Liên dreams of bones and bodies under the sea. The prescient warnings from the Lady weigh heavily on Liên, who is burdened by her inability to save everyone. But she knows that the...
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To Become a Whale
The story of a young boy who has recently lost his mother, trying to make sense of the world of men and then embarking on a breathtaking adventure of his own - a stunning literary debut in the tradition of Favel Parrett's Past the...
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The Barrier
War and disease have ravaged the world. In the fight for survival, can we save our humanity?
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The Last Garden
From the author of the award-winning Dog Boy, a powerful literary work about frailty, redemption, and the healing power of animals.
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Gravity Well
A heartrending portrait of how we rebuild when the worst has happened.
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Sad Girls
Sad Girls is the much anticipated debut novel from international best-selling author Lang Leav. A beautifully written and emotionally charged coming of age story, where young love, dark secrets, and tragedy collide.
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Jean Harley was Here
Jean Harley Was Here is a touching and original exploration of love, relationships, and the ways in which we need each other.
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Ache
The much anticipated new novel - about how a family, and a rural community, recover from a terrible bushfire - from a stunning young Australian writer, Eliza Henry Jones�..
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No More Boats
The new novel by Felicity Castagna, whose previous book, The Incredible Here and Now, won the 2015 Prime Minister's Award for Young Adult Fiction and was shortlisted for the CBCA and NSW Premier's Literary Awards.
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Closing Down
Conjuring a dark future for Australia, Closing Down gives us a glimpse into a world fractured by a financial crisis and the effects of global climate change. The inaugural winner of The Richell Prize for Emerging Writers.
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The Shape of Us
Four women meet in an online weight-loss forum in this heart-warming, heart-breaking tale of women's friendship, from a new voice in the style of a next-generation Liz Byrski.
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The Hot Guy
A funny, warm, savvy, and genuine romcom
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This Water: Five Tales
This is likely to be the last work by Beverley Farmer, one of Australia's great prose stylists, and a pioneer of women's writing, in her exploration of feminine concerns, and her use of different literary forms - novel, short...
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Some Tests
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Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria
Blindness and Rage is a novel told in 34 cantos, somewhat in the manner of Pushkin's great Russian novel in verse, Eugene Onegin. Castro's hero.....
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Storyland
An ambitious, remarkable and moving novel about who we are: our past, present and future, and our connection to this land.
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Losing It
A powerful reflection of early 80s working-class Melbourne, Losing It is set in a time of tight jeans, blue eyeshadow and Countdown - and of risky underage sex and drugs
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The Starlings
Funny, tender and savage, The Starlings is a wonderfully entertaining novel about secrets and defeat, about heroism and love, about what it might mean to lose everything.
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The Trapeze Act
A vivid and vibrant debut novel about the influence of family, the magic of storytelling and a mother-daughter relationship unlike any other.
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The Crying Place
A stunning literary debut that takes the reader into the mysteries and truths that lie at the heart of our country.
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The Woolgrower’s Companion
Set over ten tumultuous months in 1945, The Woolgrower's Companion is the gripping story of one woman's fight against all odds, and a sweeping tribute to Australia's landscape and its peoples.
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An Uncertain Grace
From one of Australia's most daring literary voices, An Uncertain Grace is a moving, insightful and imaginative exploration of gender and sexual politics.
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Gwen: A Novel
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From the Wreck
From the Wreck tells the remarkable story of George Hills, who survived the sinking of the steamship Admella off the South Australian coast in 1859. Haunted by his memories and the disappearance of a fellow survivor, George's...
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Down The Hume
A confronting and powerful novel from an exciting new voice - for lovers of Christos Tsiolkas (Loaded) and Luke Davies (Candy).
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Selling The Dream
Bestselling author Hugh Mackay expands his fiction repertoire with this blistering satire about the advertising world.
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Storm and Grace
... she is screaming, the way he wanted, the way he promised she would ... World-famous freediver Storm Hisray hits Grace Cain like a bolt from the blue. Instantly smitten, she abandons her life in the...
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Blueberry
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The Restorer
An extraordinary literary novel set in Newcastle in 1989, about the devastating fault lines that can run in families.
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See What I Have Done
'Eerie and compelling' Paula Hawkins - See What I Have Done is a haunting retelling of the infamous Lizzie Borden murders from a dazzling debut novelist
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Stars Across the Ocean
A rich and satisfying story of two women with indomitable spirits and the high costs they have to pay for being strong-minded, from the author of the bestselling Lighthouse Bay and Ember...
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Her Mother’s Secret
1918, England. Armistice Day should bring peace into Leonora's life. Rather than secretly making cosmetics in her father's chemist shop to sell to army nurses such as...
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The Hope Fault
An extended family gathers on one rainy weekend to pack up their summer house -- and dig up long-buried memories.
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