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Madelaine Dickie
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…
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Frances Whiting
A warm-hearted novel from the author of Walking on Trampolines about music, grief, relationships, gardens, love, laughter and family.
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Kate Murdoch
An eighteenth-century tale of politics and intrigue, love and betrayal, among the French Aristocracy Blois, 1705
S.J. Morgan
Like a dark unsettling road movie, Hide takes us on a chilling ride from 80s urban Britain to the menace of the Australian outback.
Catherine de Saint Phalle
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.
Heather Morris
Her beauty saved her life - and condemned her.
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Anna Krien
The exhilarating debut novel from the award-winning author of Night Games.
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Katherine Johnson
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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Matt Okine
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…
Anne Brinsden
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.
Favel Parrett
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…
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Joy Rhoades
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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Melanie Myers
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…
Nathan Besser
An absolute romp, lead by Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Wild, through the criminal underbelly of thriving 17th century London.
Claire G. Coleman
A thrilling and ambitious new novel from the author of the bestselling and prize-winning Terra Nullius
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Amanda Niehaus
A breathtaking debut that explores love, science, loss and the so-called feminine ideal.
Josephine Rowe
A masterful collection of horizons and departures, heartbreak and seduction, from an internationally acclaimed Australian author.
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Lucy Treloar
The stunning new novel from the award-winning author of Salt Creek is Barkskins or The Son meets The Road…
Joey Bui
A debut collection of stories announcing an intelligent, vibrant and highly original Australian-Vietnamese voice in contemporary literature.
Steve Hawke
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…
Tim Slee
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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Meg Mundell
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.
Annie Seaton
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.
Philip Salom
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…
Fiona McArthur
What if the love of your life forgot who you were?
Kate Forsyth
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.
Peter Polites
A thrilling new novel from the author of critically acclaimed DOWN THE HUME.
Ali Berg,Michelle Kalus
Words are messy. Love is messier. A hilarious, insightful new novel from the creators of Books on the Rail
Peter Goldsworthy
A gritty and clever thriller from long-time Penguin author Peter Goldsworthy.
Kerry McGinnis
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.
Alice Bishop
A young and exciting new literary voice, emerging from one of Australia’s worst natural disasters
Bill Swiggs
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…
Lenny Bartulin
A gripping, globe-spanning historical epic from the author of Infamy
Catherine Jinks
Compulsive and terrifying adult fiction from renowned Australian author Catherine Jinks
Stuart Cooke
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…
Rohan Wilson
A suspenseful, truthful and compelling novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Roving Party.
Tess Woods
Three generations of women. Three heartbreaking choices. One unforgettable story.
Sarah Hopkins
A literary, and terrifyingly credible, novel about our juvenile justice system written by a lawyer working in the field.
Elizabeth Kuiper
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…
Kathryn Hind
Winner of the inaugural Penguin Literary Prize.
Amanda O'Callaghan
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…
Elizabeth Coleman
Funny, charming and captivating, with a plot within a plot, and a girl who is looking for love in all the wrong places.
Nigel Featherstone
A beautifully evocative tale of two men whose lives are brought together in tragedy - for lovers of books by Kevin Powers and Sebastian Barry.
Jaclyn Moriarty
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…
Matthew Hooton
Based on the seventeenth-century journal of a shipwrecked Dutch sailor, and testimonies of surviving Korean ‘Comfort Women,’ Typhoon Kingdom is a story of war, romance, and survival that brings to…
Elizabeth Stead
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…
Wayne Macauley
A satirical and surreal twist on the Anzac legend of Simpson and his donkey
Andrea Goldsmith
Knowing what you want is hard. Accepting what is possible is harder still.