Australian fiction 2019

Red Can Origami
Ava has just landed a job as a reporter in Gubinge, a tiny tropical town in Australia's north. From the rodeos and fishing holes of northern Australia, to the dazzling streets of night-time Tokyo, Ava is swept in pursuit of the...
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Hide
Like a dark unsettling road movie, Hide takes us on a chilling ride from 80s urban Britain to the menace of the Australian outback.
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Field of Poppies
Atmospheric and beguiling Field of Poppies is a novel the seduces the reader with mysteries and beauties but also speaks of something much larger.
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Damascus
In Damascus, Tsiolkas has written a masterpiece of imagination and transformation: an historical novel of immense power and an unflinching dissection of doubt and faith, tyranny and revolution, and cruelty and...
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The Weekend
The brilliant new novel from Charlotte Wood, acclaimed author of The Natural Way of Things .
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The Death of Jesus
An extraordinary new novel from one of the world's greatest living writers, two-time Booker Prize winner and Nobel Laureate J.M Coetzee, that can be read as a stand-alone or a follow up novel to The Childhood of Jesus and The...
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Cilka’s Journey
Her beauty saved her life - and condemned her.
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The Sea & Us
From the Stella shortlisted author of Poum and Alexandre, this is a heartwarming novel about longing, absence and the people we unexpectedly come to love.
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Maybe the Horse Will Talk
Warm, dramatic, and at times laugh-out-loud funny, with the narrative pull of a thriller, Maybe the Horse Will Talk is a love story, a reflection on contemporary marriage, and on friendship.
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Act of Grace
The exhilarating debut novel from the award-winning author of Night Games.
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Bruny
The brilliant and explosive new novel from the author of the award-winning The Museum of Modern Love.
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The Last Paradise
In the ashes of her marriage, she finds the truth about his past and the courage to start again in... The Last Paradise.
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The Orange Grove
An eighteenth-century tale of politics and intrigue, love and betrayal, among the French Aristocracy Blois, 1705
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Paris Savages
A story of love, bravery, culture, and the fight against injustice, Paris Savages brings a little-known part of history to blazing life, from award-winning novelist Katherine Johnson.
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There Was Still Love
The profoundly moving new novel from the critically acclaimed and Miles Franklin shortlisted author of Past the Shallows and When the Night Comes. A tender and masterfully told story of memory, family and love.
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Khaki Town
Khaki Town, Judy Nunn's exciting new novel, is inspired by a true wartime story that has remained a well-kept secret for over seventy years.
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The House of Youssef
The House of Youssef is a collection of short stories set in Western Sydney. The stories explore the lives of Lebanese migrants who have settled in the area, circling around themes of isolation, family and community, and nostalgia...
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Being Black ‘n Chicken, and Chips
When his mum is suddenly diagnosed with advanced breast and brain cancer, Mike knows it's a long shot, but if he manages to achieve his dreams, maybe it'll give his mum enough strength to beat an incurable disease. ...
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Turn Left at Venus
Inez Baranay's emotionally resonant portrait of the solitary and artistic life, lived adventurously across space and time, triumphantly celebrates the singularity of being, of age, of imagination, and of the 'getting ready' for...
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Wearing Paper Dresses
A tremendously polished, heartbreaking debut perfect for fans of Rosalie Ham's The Dressmaker, Joy Rhoades' The Woolgrower's Companion, Madeleine St John's The Women in Black or Colleen McCullough's Thornbirds.
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The Old Lie
A thrilling and ambitious new novel from the author of the bestselling and prize-winning Terra Nullius
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The Burnt Country
The stunning new novel from the author of The Woolgrower's Companion, whom the Australian Women's Weekly described as ‘a wonderful new voice in literary rural fiction'.
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The Breeding Season
A breathtaking debut that explores love, science, loss and the so-called feminine ideal.
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Here Until August: Stories
A masterful collection of horizons and departures, heartbreak and seduction, from an internationally acclaimed Australian author.
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Wolfe Island
The stunning new novel from the award-winning author of Salt Creek is Barkskins or The Son meets The Road...
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Lucky Ticket
A debut collection of stories announcing an intelligent, vibrant and highly original Australian-Vietnamese voice in contemporary literature.
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New Australian Fiction 2019
A new collection of short stories featuring some of Australia's best-loved writers alongside exciting new voices
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The Rich Man’s House
An unputdownable final novel from the Miles Franklin Award-winning author of The White Earth.
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Meet Me at Lennon’s
Olivia Wells is struggling with her university studies, her relationship with her father and her love life. Throwing herself into her thesis research, she stumbles across details of a young woman found murdered on the banks of the...
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Wild
An absolute romp, lead by Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Wild, through the criminal underbelly of thriving 17th century London.
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White Horses
White Horses is a novel full of authentic Australian heart and soul, warmth and humour, as big and as generous as those wide-open skies in Western Australia. Offering a vision of a vibrant and thriving rural...
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The Collaborator
Is he a hero or a traitor? Based on astonishing true events set in the darkest days of World War II in Budapest, this is an enthralling story of heroism, vengeance, passion, and betrayal. It is also the story of three women linked...
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The Near and the Far Volume II
In the outer suburbs of Perth, Australia, a seven-year-old discovers ballroom dancing. In Jakarta, Indonesia, a poet tries to move on with his life after splitting up with his boyfriend. In the Philippines' Quezon City, a nurse...
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Taking Tom Murray Home
The winner of the inaugural Banjo Prize, Taking Tom Murray Home is a funny, moving, bittersweet Australian story of fires, families and the restorative power of community.
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The Trespassers
The Trespassers is a beguiling novel that explores the consequences of greed, the experience of exile, and the unlikely ways strangers can become the people we hold dear.
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Out of Time
From the author of The Valley comes this immensely readable love story, and family story, that explores the difficult ethical and emotional terrain of dementia, and each person's right to decide when it is their time to die.
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Mother of Pearl
A luminous and courageous story from Angela Savage about the hopes and dreams we all have for our lives and relationships, and the often fraught and unexpected ways they may be realised.
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The Heart of the Ritz
Four women join forces to survive the invasion of Paris with conviction, courage -- and style.
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Undara
Within the treacherous caves of Undara, a betrayal will test the bonds of friendship and family. A page-turning new eco-adventure for readers who love Di Morrissey.
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The Returns
From Miles Franklin finalist Philip Salom comes this new story about the eccentricities, failings and small triumphs that humans are capable of. The Returns is a novel that pokes fun at literary and...
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The Blue Rose
Moving between Imperial China and France during the ‘Terror' of the French Revolution and inspired by the true story of the quest for a blood-red rose.
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Dolores
'A glowing, beating heart of a book' Megan Hunter, author of The End We Start From
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From Here On, Monsters
A Naomi Alderman, Paul Auster or Emily St John Mandel for Australian letters - Elizabeth Bryer is a powerful new voice: an imagination like no other.
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Minotaur
A gritty and clever thriller from long-time Penguin author Peter Goldsworthy.
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The Pillars
A thrilling new novel from the author of critically acclaimed DOWN THE HUME.
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The Ex
She wants him back. She wants you gone. Luke is The One. After everything she's been through, Georgia knows she deserves someone like him, to make her feel loved. Safe.
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A Constant Hum
A young and exciting new literary voice, emerging from one of Australia's worst natural disasters
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Blood in the Dust: Winner of a Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing prize
For readers of Wilbur Smith, Jeffrey Archer and Bryce Courtenay, as fast-paced adventure story and the winner of the best unpublished manuscript category of the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. 1853, Victoria, Australia.
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Fortune
A gripping, globe-spanning historical epic from the author of Infamy
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Shepherd
Compulsive and terrifying adult fiction from renowned Australian author Catherine Jinks
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Fabulous Lives
Fabulous Lives is a collection of short stories spanning Australia and other continents. It embraces people with all their frailties and strengths, failures and hopes, as they reach critical junctures in their...
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Lyre
Lyre is a sonic, sculptural cornucopia of new and startling forms. Stuart Cooke proposes that all kinds of life - animal, plant and otherwise - have their own modes of expression, each of which can each be translated into a...
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The Warming
Hauntingly beautiful, The Warming depicts a nomadic existence, where love and hope are the only means of enduring a world that has turned against humanity.
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The Roadhouse
When aspiring actress Charlie Carver learns that her cousin Annabelle has died, she immediately leaves Melbourne to fly home to the remote family roadhouse east of Alice Springs.
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Love And Other Battles: A heartbreaking, redemptive family story for ourtime
Three generations of women. Three heartbreaking choices. One unforgettable story.
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While You Were Reading
Words are messy. Love is messier. A hilarious, insightful new novel from the creators of Books on the Rail
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The Desert Midwife
What if the love of your life forgot who you were?
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The Best Kind of Beautiful
A warm-hearted novel from the author of Walking on Trampolines about music, grief, relationships, gardens, love, laughter and family.
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A Lifetime of Impossible Days
Tabitha Bird's stunning debut is a magical, life-affirming novel about heartbreak, healing and learning to forgive yourself.
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The Subjects
A literary, and terrifyingly credible, novel about our juvenile justice system written by a lawyer working in the field.
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Little Stones
Hannah lives in Zimbabwe during the reign of Robert Mugabe: it's a country of petrol queues and power cuts, food shortages and government corruption. Yet Hannah is lucky. She can afford to go to school, has never had to skip a...
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Daughter of Bad Times
A suspenseful, truthful and compelling novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Roving Party.
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Hitch
Winner of the inaugural Penguin Literary Prize.
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The Electric Hotel
From the award-winning author of the acclaimed bestseller The Last Painting of Sara de Vos comes a luminous new novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent film director and his muse.
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This Taste for Silence
Subtle, compelling and unsettling, Amanda O'Callaghan's stories work at the edges of the sayable, through secrets, erasures and glimpsed moments of disclosure. They shimmer with unspoken histories and characters who have a...
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Room for a Stranger
A moving portrait of an improbable friendship and multicultural Australia more broadly, from the winner of the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction.
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A Lovely and Terrible Thing
Bestselling and award-winning author Chris Womersley's first short fiction collection, twenty macabre and deliciously enjoyable tales linked by the trickle of water that runs through them all...
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Bodies of Men
A beautifully evocative tale of two men whose lives are brought together in tragedy - for lovers of books by Kevin Powers and Sebastian Barry.
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Simpson Returns
A satirical and surreal twist on the Anzac legend of Simpson and his donkey
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Losing the Plot
Funny, charming and captivating, with a plot within a plot, and a girl who is looking for love in all the wrong places.
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Gravity Is The Thing
The new adult novel from award-winning young adult author Jaclyn Moriarty-a frequently hilarious, brilliantly observed story in the spirit of Maria Semple, Rainbow Rowell, and Gail Honeyman-that follows a single mother's heartfelt...
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The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone
A compulsive, note-perfect debut for fans of Sharp Objects, The Virgin Suicides and Picnic at Hanging Rock
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The Sparkle Pages
A wonderfully original and heartfelt comic novel about one woman's mission to reignite the passion in her marriage - and rediscover herself.
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After She Left
When young Irish artist Deirdre O'Mara emigrates from the remote Blasket Islands to Sydney's The Rocks in the 1920s, she makes an indelible mark on conservative society with her surrealist art and bohemian ways. Just after the...
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The Place on Dalhousie
From the bestselling author of Looking for Alibrandi comes this perfectly crafted novel about families, relationships and the true nature of belonging.
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Invented Lives
Knowing what you want is hard. Accepting what is possible is harder still.
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The Chocolate Maker’s Wife
Australian author Karen Brooks rewrites women back into history with this breathtaking, scrupulously researched tale set in 17th century London.
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The Artist’s Portrait
Murderer, narcissist, sexual deviant or artistic genius and a woman before her time: Who really is Muriel Kemp?
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Stone Country
From nineteenth-century Adelaide and the red dirt of mid-north South Australia, to the cattle stations and buffalo plains of the far north Ross Grant's journey is one of desire, adventure and determination, to the heart of stone...
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Typhoon Kingdom
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Hare’s Fur
A jewel of a novel about an ageing potter who, out collecting rock for glazes, finds three kids living in a cave
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A Universe of Sufficient Size
An historical novel for readers of Heather Morris, Anna Funder and Anthony Doerr, based on the true story of five Jewish mathematicians on the eve of the Second World War.
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The Aunts' House
Elizabeth Stead brings her classic subversive wit and personal insight to this nostalgic portrait of wartime Sydney. In Angel Martin, she has created a singular and irrepressible character. A true original.
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The Age of Discretion
Told with great humour and heart, the accomplished Virginia Duigan delivers a provocative and profoundly relatable story that proves living is not reserved for the young.
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The Shining Wall
The Shining Wall is at once a frightening parable of our unjust world of haves and have-nots, a richly imagined yet thrilling story of technological control and the fight for survival, and a paean to female friendship and power.
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No One
Part crime novel, part road movie, part love story, No One takes its protagonist to the very heart of a nation where non-existence is the true existence, where crimes cannot be resolved and guilt cannot be...
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The Hollow Bones
A lyrical and poignant cautionary tale, The Hollow Bones brings to life one of the Nazi regime's little-known villains through the eyes of the animals he destroyed and the wife he undermined in the name of science and cold...
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Eight Lives
A smart, sophisticated thriller that explores power, class and prejudice, Eight Lives will keep you engrossed until the last page.
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The War Artist
A timely and compelling novel about the legacy of war, the power of art and the possibility of atonement.
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The Rosie Result
The hilarious, challenging and inspiring ending to the Rosie trilogy that will have readers cheering for joy.
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The Rip
An urban crime novel that slowly and masterfully hooks you in... then shocks with the horrific crime and the dread that the characters you care about aren't going to make it out alive.
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The Greatest Gift
Mother: female parent of a child Mum: the woman who nurtures, raises and loves a child Radio host Harper Drummond lives for her career. Every day she ..
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Islands
A stunning literary novel from the author of the Stella Prize shortlisted Hope Farm.
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Small Blessings
Through the unlikeliest of friendships comes a second chance.
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The Year of the Beast
One of Australia's finest and most critically acclaimed writers returns with a powerful novel that goes back to the very beginning of the story, to bring his sweeping Glenroy series to a magnificent close.
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Heart of the Grass Tree
Heart of the Grass Tree is an exquisite, searing and hope-filled debut about mothers and daughters and family stories, about country and its living history.
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The Tom Wills Picture Show
Tom Wills is the young man with at least two, and possibly four, different versions of Australian history running through his head. No-one in his time understood him. How could they? He didn't understand himself. All he knew was...
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Driving into the Sun
For Orla, living in the suburbs in 1968 on the cusp of adolescence, her father is a great shining light, whose warm and powerful presence fills her world. But in the aftermath of his sudden death, Orla, her mother and her sister...
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Zebra: And Other Stories
Tantalising, poignant, wry, and just a little fantastical, this subversive collection of short fiction - and one singular novella - from bestselling author Debra Adelaide reminds us what twists of fate may be lurking just beneath...
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The Glad Shout
The Glad Shout is an extraordinary novel of rare depth and texture, by the acclaimed writer of Anchor Point, Alice Robinson. After a catastrophic storm destroys Melbourne, Isobel flees to higher ground with her husband and young...
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The Mother-in-Law
From the bestselling author of The Family Next Door comes a new page-turner about that trickiest of relationships and what happens when it all goes wrong.
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Exploded View
A fearless and masterful new novel from the Stella Prize-winning author of Mateship with Birds
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The Time is Now, Monica Sparrow
Four isolated people. Thrown together by family and circumstance. A humorous and heart warming story of second chances and new beginnings.
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Into the Fire
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The Flight of Birds
The Flight of Birds is a novel in twelve stories, each of them compelled by an encounter between the human and animal worlds. The birds in these stories inhabit the same space as humans, but they are also apart, gliding above us....
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Isinglass
He did this amazing wall painting, this mural...It was a city, a Paul Klee or a Max Ernst city, a city of the mind perhaps, or of antiquity. A dream city. It was a wonderful thing. It took a few days and nights to do, beautiful...
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A Season On Earth
A masterwork from Australia's greatest cult literary figure, published for the first time as the author originally intended
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