Australian fiction debuts of 2020
Lucky’s
An exuberant, magical Australian saga of family, love and second chances.
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Song of the Crocodile
A captivating Australian saga from the winner of the 2018 black&write! fellowship.
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Rural Dreams
Funny, heartbreaking and true; the characters in Rural Dreams are the people we know and grew up with. Some of them might even be us.
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Where The Fruit Falls
An ancient ocean roars under the red dirt. Hush. Be still for just a moment. Hear its thunder-ing waves crashing on unseen shores.
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Life, Bound
Free agents or captives of our past? In Life, Bound, characters find themselves caught in situations not of their own making, or trapped by ingrained habits, walking in grooves carved out by past events.
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Everything in its Right Place
Everything in its Right Place tackles themes of class, love and sexuality with humour, truth and grit. It is a story of the legacies and dilemmas that families bring, of how we all must find our own way, astonishingly told. ...
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State Highway One
A stunning debut novel about what it means to come home, from the winner of the 2017 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers.
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The Morbids
Caitlin is convinced she's going to die...
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Poly
A searing and utterly engrossing debut, Poly is a raw, hilarious, and moving portrait of contemporary relationships in all their diversity, and an intimate exploration of the fragility of love and identity.
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Broken Rules and Other Stories
These awards-listed, interlinked stories vividly capture the small, rarely spoken moments of our lives that reverberate with meaning, with darkness and with light
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Man in Armour
How much money is enough? How powerful do you want to be? And what price will it extract from you?
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Flyaway
A captivating debut novel that transforms the familiar Australian landscape into a place of monsters and magic, cruelty and fear.
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Kokomo
Winner of the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. Both tender and fierce, heartbreaking and funny, Kokomo is a story about how secrets and love have the power to bring us together and tear us...
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A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing
A finalist for the 2020 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, this is a dazzling and original debut from a young writer with a fierce, intelligent and audacious voice.
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The Fogging
A compelling tale of the slow disintegration of a relationship and the unravelling of a man.
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The Things She Owned
Beautiful and mysterious, The Things She Owned explores the complexity of lives lived between cultures, the weight of crossgenerational trauma, and a mother and daughter on a tortuous path to forgiveness.
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The Safe Place
Superbly tense and oozing with atmosphere, The Safe Place combines the modern suspense of The Girl on the Train with the gothic mind-games of Rebecca.
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The Spill
In 1982, a car overturns on a remote West Australian road. Nobody is hurt, but the impact is felt for decades.
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In the Time of Foxes
With an exhilarating span of people and places, In the Time of Foxes shows the short story collection at its most entertaining and rewarding, and introduces Jo Lennan as an irresistible new storyteller.
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Night Lessons in Little Jerusalem
A powerful debut novel based on a true story for those who loved The Tattoist of Auschwitz and All the Light We Cannot See
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A Treacherous Country
Winner of the 2020 The Australian/Vogel’s Literary AwardSet in the 1800s, Gabriel Fox is newly arrived to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) from England. Drawn by the promise of his...
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The Octopus and I
A stunning debut novel set on the Tasmanian coast that lays bare the wild, beating heart at the intersection of human and animal, love and loss, and fear and hope.
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The Adversary
A story about sexuality, the ache of friendship and love, and sticky summers at the pool, this exhilarating debut novel captures the heartbeat of one transformative summer where alliances are made and broken.
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The Loudness of Unsaid Things
If you loved Boy Swallows Universe and Lost and Found, you will love this debut novel. A stunning story about family, loneliness and isolation that will make you laugh, cry and be a bit kinder to those who are lost.
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No Small Shame
From the harshness of a pit village in Scotland to the upheaval of wartime Australia, No Small Shame tells the moving story of love and duty, loyalty and betrayal, and confronting the past before you can seek a future.
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The Salt Madonna
The Crucible meets The Natural Way of Things in this stunning novel from debut author Catherine Noske.
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The Inland Sea
Written with down-to-earth lucidity and ethereal breeziness, this is an unforgettable debut about coming of age in a world that seems increasingly hostile
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Melting Moments
Sometimes events occur as one might wish but sometimes they do not.
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Sticks and Stones
It's winter in Melbourne and Detective Emmett Corban is starting to regret his promotion to head of the Missing Persons Unit, as the routine reports pile up on his desk. So when Natale Gibson goes missing, he's convinced this is...
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The Coconut Children
Growing up can feel like a death sentence
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Where the Truth Lies
She was slipping away. The further she fell, the closer the clouds seemed to come. Wispy transparent slipstreams of white. Cirrus. Pain smashed her head. Floating ...
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A Couple of Things Before the End: Stories
This brilliant collection mixes the storytelling originality of George Saunders and Lydia Davis with a sensibility all its own, taking the reader on an extraordinary tour of old and new Australia - and into a very frightening...
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Wild, Fearless Chests
Brutal. Uncompromising. Magnificent. Complex. Unforgettable. A timely debut short story collection that breaks open the idea of women from a powerful new Australian literary voice.
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Shirl
A lonely yowie emerges from the bush to attend the Desperate and Dateless Ball. Mysterious creatures descend from the sky to place a ban on footy. A shark named Bruce turns up in the local swimming pool. A fisherman enjoying a...
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Cherry Beach
Beautifully written and intimate, Cherry Beach is a revelatory story of friendship and desire.
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The Origin of Me
A beguilingly original and satirical debut novel of friendships, imagination, and the bodies we live in
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The Light After the War
Inspired by the true story of one woman's extraordinary journey to forge a new life after escaping a train bound for Auschwitz
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Jane in Love
Jane Austen time-travels to the future and falls in love. But will she choose happiness in the present, or her career as a writer in the past?
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Maggie’s Going Nowhere
Maggie's Going Nowhere is a fierce and funny debut introducing a thoroughly relatable and offbeat heroine. If you enjoy Fleabag, you'll adore Maggie!
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