Australian fiction 2018

The Butcherbird Stories
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The Fragments
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Addition and Nine Days, a superbly crafted and captivating literary mystery about a lost book and a secret love.
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Hope Shines: Prize-winning and shortlisted stories from the Hope Prize
Prize-winning and highly commended stories from the Brotherhood of St Laurence Hope Prize.
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The Children’s Bach
A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia's most respected authors.
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Monkey Grip
An elegant hardback edition of the novel that launched Helen Garner's career.
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Bridge of Clay
The magnificent, highly anticipated new novel from the author of the international bestseller, The Book Thief.
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Nine Perfect Strangers
Could ten days at a health resort really change you forever?
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The Children’s House
Alice Nelson skilfully weaves together these shared stories of displacement and trauma into a beautifully told, hope-filled, outstanding novel.
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Arcadia
From Australia's favourite storyteller, a breathtaking Tasmanian tale of ancient forests; of art and science; of love and, above all, of friendship.
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The Bus on Thursday
Bridget Jones meets The Exorcist in a devilishly funny new novel from the acclaimed filmmaker, screenwriter and author of Rush Oh!
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The Year of the Farmer
A darkly satirical novel of a small country town battling the elements and one another, from the bestselling author of The Dressmaker.
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The Valley
A murder in the remote bush in 1916 sparks a chain of events that will haunt a family for generations.
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Jungle Without Water
This debut short story collection from an Australian author delves into the shifting boundaries and human displacement of our era.
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Matryoshka
Matryoshka is a haunting and beautifully written story about the power of maternal love, and the danger of secrets passed down through generations.
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Earworm
Drenched in rhythm and the vividness of pop lyrics, Earworm explores the complexities of filial and romantic love, connecting us to our universal communion with music.
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Songwoman
Set in Iron-Age Wales during the turmoil of Roman invasion, Songwoman explores one woman's quest to defend her culture.
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The Girl On The Page
Two women, two great betrayals, one path to redemption. A punchy, powerful and page-turning novel about the redemptive power of great literature, from industry insider, John Purcell.
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An Open Book
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The Good Son
A charming and uplifting novel about love, belonging and facing mortality, from one of Australia's most loved and acclaimed comedians.
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Man Out of Time
From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of The Other Side of the World comes a brilliant and provocative new novel about inheritance and self-destruction.
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The Killing of Louisa
Finally, convicted murderess Louisa Collins can tell her own story. But will she confess?
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The Last Summer of Ada Bloom
A beautiful and affecting story about the fragility of family relationships and about the pervading effects of secrets we keep
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Wintering
From 2018 Stella Prize-shortlistee Krissy Kneen, an evocative and mysterious novel about inexplicable disappearances and thylacines set in the remote south of Tasmania
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Dinner with the Dissidents
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The Word
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Sisters and Brothers
A poignant novel of heartbreak, adoption and family secrets by beloved bestselling Australian author, Fiona Palmer.
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Blakwork
Alison Whittaker's Blakwork is an original and unapologetic collection from which two things emerge; an incomprehensible loss, and the poet's fearless examination of the present.
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2028
Move over Shaun Micallef ... a work of comic genius that takes the mickey out of anything and everything to do with Australian politics.
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Beneath the Mother Tree
A spine-chilling mystery and contemporary love story, Beneath the Mother Tree plays out in a unique and wild Australian setting, interweaving Indigenous history and Irish mythology.
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The Peacock Summer
An utterly compelling story of secrets, betrayals and the consequences of a long-ago summer from the internationally bestselling author of Secrets of the Tides and The Shadow Year.
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The Biographer’s Lover
The Biographer's Lover is a novel about Australia's complex relationship with memory, and the role gender plays in the ways we represent not only national myths but our private versus our public selves
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The True Colour of the Sea
The long-awaited new collection of short stories from Australia's master of the short-story genre.
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The Hunter and Other Stories of Men
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A Superior Spectre
A Superior Spectre is a highly accomplished debut novel about our capacity for curiosity, and our dangerous entitlement to it, and reminds us the scariest ghosts aren't those that go bump in the night, but those that are born and...
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The Book of Ordinary People
Six strangers bound by fate.
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Beautiful Revolutionary
The thrilling new novel, inspired by Jim Jones's Peoples Temple, from the author of The Love of a Bad Man.
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Coach Fitz
One of the strangest and most appealing novels you will read this year!
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Too Much Lip
Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2019. A dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of Mullumbimby.
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The Apology
A gripping psychological drama about family, betrayal and the limits of forgiveness
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Hey Brother
A genuine and compellingly portrayed family drama of a tough kid from rural Australia.
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Inappropriation
A search for belonging in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs turns into a riotous satire of identity politics in this wildly irreverent coming-of-age story.
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Under Your Wings (The Majesties)
A powerful and evocative literary thriller from a stunning new Australian voice, for fans of Donna Tartt and Alice Sebold.
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When Elephants Fight
A haunting coming-of-age novel from one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Novelists of the Year (2013), author of the acclaimed Beneath the Darkening Sky
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The Coves
San Francisco, 1849. The hills are swarming with desperate men from all over the world, come to seek their fortune in the grip of yellow fever.
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The Far-Back Country
A superbly written and compelling novel about the bonds of family and home set against the outback landscape.
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Antidote to a Curse
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The Wounded Sinner
In this unforgettable debut, The Wounded Sinner shines a light on growing old, fidelity and identity which run through this unique and gritty novel, in which all are asking the ultimate questions about life, death and the purpose...
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Saint Antony in His Desert
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Reading the Landscape: A Celebration of Australian Writing
UQP celebrates 70 years of publishing the best Australian writing with a unique anthology that showcases the diversity of the Australian literary landscape.
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The Book Ninja
Sometimes love means having to broaden your literary horizons
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The Second Cure
Control the brain and you control the world. In a fractured nation, two women are left with a choice - risk all to bring humanity together or let it fall apart.
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Stone Circle
Is the ability to read minds a blessing or a curse?
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The Fireflies of Autumn: And Other Tales of San Ginese
Tuscany as you have never seen it before . . .
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We See the Stars
A haunting and deeply moving novel with a brilliant voice in the tradition of The Eye of the Sheep and Jasper Jones.
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Prize Fighter
A Congolese refugee getting by in the Australian suburbs, Isa has a background that seems unimaginable in his new country - a childhood as a boy soldier. Now, Isa's a brilliant boxer, but his most difficult opponent isn't in the...
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The Geography of Friendship
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The Love That I Have
For fans of The Book Thief, a powerful and heartbreaking story set during WW2 that stays with you long after the final page is read.
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Bluebottle
With sea-salt authenticity, Belinda Castles sets the Bright family in the sprawling paradise of Bilgola Beach. But darkness is found both in the iconic setting as well as in the disturbing behaviour of one of the family.
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Ironbark
Shortlisted for the 2016 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award.
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A Month of Sundays
From 'the doyenne of women's fiction': four women from an online book club spend a month in the Blue Mountains reading and talking about books.
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The Bridge
Drawing on true events of Australia's worst industrial accident - a tragedy that still scars the city - The Bridge is a profoundly moving novel that examines class, guilt, and moral culpability. Yet it shows that even...
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The Madonna of the Mountains
Maria faces a stony path, but one she will surely climb to the summit. In this sumptuous and elegant novel you will taste the bigoli co l'arna, touch the mulberry leaves cut finer than organdie, and feel the strain of one woman...
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The Making of Martin Sparrow
A devastating flood on the Hawkesbury almost wipes out the young colony, bringing to the surface many secrets and desires in this masterpiece of historical fiction
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Nagaland
Nagaland is the story of Augustine and of the Naga people, set in India's far north-east. With sensitively poetic prose, former foreign correspondent Ben Doherty draws the reader into worlds of parallel realities. A love story,...
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A Sand Archive
A sweeping and humane novel of Sebaldian scope and power - the story of a man's life, the obsession which consumed him, all reconstructed from the prodigious archive he left behind...
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The Unexpected Education of Emily Dean
It's 1944 when bookish, unworldly Emily Dean is shipped off to the relatives in rural Victoria after her mother has a nervous breakdown.
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The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
A compelling and heartbreaking tale of grief and memory set in a small Victorian town in the 1960s.
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Bohemia Beach
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Spinifex & Sunflowers
For years Nick Harris has been drifting, until the day he finds himself surrounded by red dirt and razor wire, staring at brownskinned men inside a detention centre. He's no crusader, no bleeding-heart. It's just a job.
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Lovesome
An offbeat and beguiling story of finding your own happiness.
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Sign
Sometimes even the best intentions can lead you down a very dangerous road.
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The Art of Persuasion
A satisfying and romantic read about love, friendship and political engagement - and what Jane Austen might be able to teach a young woman looking for love in the 21st century.
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The Earth Does Not Get Fat
The Earth Does Not Get Fat is a powerful and gut-wrenching debut about intense suffering and love-fierce, searing love.
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Gerald Murnane: Collected Short Fiction
Definitive collection of the short fiction of an Australian master-storyteller who is in a league of his own.
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Off the Record: A Novel
A satirical novel by Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlisted author Craig Sherborne, Off the Record stylishly skewers tabloid journalism and male vanity.
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The Portrait of Molly Dean
An unsolved murder comes to light after almost seventy years...
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The Whole Bright Year
From the creator of ‘Offspring' and author of Useful, a gripping, wry and tender novel about how holding on too tightly can cost us what we love.
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The Fortress
An absorbing, confronting and moving feminist novel that asks questions about consent, power, love and fulfilment.
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Stardust and Golden
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The Lovers
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One
Why do we do such crazy things when we're in love?
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Little Gods
A rare, original and stunning novel about a remarkable girl who learns the hard way that the truth doesn't always set you free - with echoes of Jasper Jones, Seven Little Australians and Cloudstreet.
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Trick of the Light
'Radiant, accomplished and exquisitely written, this is an outstanding collection.' Ryan O'Neill
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In the Garden of the Fugitives
Originally published in 2018 by Hamish Hamiltion, an imprint of Penguin Books, Australia --Title page verso.
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The Rules of Backyard Croquet
All's fair in love and couture ... Fashion and love collide in the stylish new novel from the author of The Dangers of Truffle Hunting.
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The Lebs
A confronting new novel from award winning Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist Michael Mohammed Ahmad.
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The Shepherd’s Hut
The Shepherd's Hut is an exquisite, brutal coming of age novel. It tells the story of Jaxie, a boy on the run from his past, and explores the way love and hate combine to form a young man's beliefs.
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You Wish
Tom Lash grants people their ultimate fantasy - he creates the perfect life they wished they had... on-screen.
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Dustfall: A Novel
Dustfall is the tale of the crashing consequences of medical error, the suffering caused by asbestos mining and the power of storytelling.
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A Stolen Season
From the two-time winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award winner Rodney Hall comes a novel moving, disturbing and compelling in equal measure...
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You Belong Here: A Novel
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The Everlasting Sunday
At once both beautiful and brutal, The Everlasting Sunday is a haunting debut novel about growing up, growing wild and what it takes to survive.
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Rapture
First time parents Tim and Nicole give birth to a baby with a halo. For a couple of atheists, it's a bit of a shock. In his gripping and darkly comic debut novel, Stanford explores the fight for the ownership of God, and tries...
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Making Peace
From Australia's master storyteller comes an uplifting story of new and old friendships, letting go of the past and looking to the future.
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The Lucky Galah
A magnificently original debut novel about fate, Australia and what it means to be human... that just happens to be narrated by a galah called Lucky.
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A Week in the Life of Cassandra Aberline
A tender, thoughtful story about a woman's journey back to her home town - and the painful moment that changed her life forever.
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Based on interviews author Heather Morris conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov, The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a heart-wrenching, illuminating, and unforgettable tale of hope and...
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Stella and Margie
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