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Sunbathing: A Novel
A powerful debut that explores life, death and the restorative power of friendship under the warm summer sun of Umbria.
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Fever
A multi-award winning Italian debut, from a bold new voice in contemporary queer literature.
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Four Treasures of the Sky
A powerful, sweeping debut about a smuggled Chinese girl fighting to find her place in the 1880s American West
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Shit Cassandra Saw
In this collection, virgins escape from being sacrificed, witches refuse to be burned, whores aren't ashamed, and every woman gets a chance to be a radioactive cockroach warrior who snaps back at catcallers --
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Cleopatra and Frankenstein
For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage.
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Losing Face: A Novel
A stunning, thought-provoking novel about facing up to your family and your future
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Ruth & Pen
The brilliant debut novel from Emilie Pine, author of the international bestseller Notes to Self
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Abomination
A compelling and compassionate debut about friendship, faith, family and identity.
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Hush
A gripping, beautifully written and taboo-busting debut novel about motherhood and female identity, for readers of Anna Hope's EXPECTATION and Sheila Heti's MOTHERHOOD.
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No Hard Feelings
Hungover, underpaid and overwhelmed, this isn't where Penny expected to be as she reached her late twenties. A sharp, smart and witty look at adulting - Fleabag meets Sorrow and Bliss.
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Six Days in Rome
A young artist travels to Rome to heal a broken heart in this visceral, decadent and deeply evocative debut novel.
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Portrait of a Thief
A cinematic, entertaining and fast-paced debut novel that is part-Ocean's Eleven, part-The Social Network and part-Crazy Rich Asians, Portrait of a Thief is an addictive mix of heist and unlikely friendships by way of the politics...
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Woman, Eating
A stunning, literary twist on the vampire novel that covers race, social isolation, unrequited love and the struggle to care for ageing parents
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Memphis
A spellbinding ode to Memphis, as well as a celebration of the strength and defiance of three generations of a Southern black family who live there
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Vladimir
A provocative, razor-sharp, and timely debut novel about a beloved English professor facing a slew of accusations against her professor husband by former students - a situation that becomes more complicated when she herself...
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Peach Blossom Spring
An epic, powerful and intensely personal debut about war, migration, family, and the search for a place to call home. For fans of Pachinko, Wild Swans and All the Light We Cannot See
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An electrifying collection of stories from the febrile imagination of a young writer who traverses culture, genre and form.
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Happy Stories, Mostly
A blend of science fiction, absurdism and alternative-historical realism, Happy Stories, Mostly is a collection of twelve stories that queer the norm. A powerful puff of fresh air, the stories talk to each other as pieces of a...
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Hovering
From the winner of the 2020 Victorian Premier's Award for an Unpublished Manuscript comes a genre bending tour-de-force debut
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Son of Sin
Poet Omar Sakr's debut novel is a fierce and fantastic force that illuminates the bonds that bind families together as well as what can break them.
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Aue
Here is a novel that is both raw and sublime, a compelling new voice in New Zealand fiction. Haere mai, Becky Manawatu.
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When We Were Birds
A gorgeously immersive, mesmerising and life-affirming literary debut - a love story and a ghost story set in modern day Trinidad
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The School for Good Mothers
Frida Liu is a struggling mother. She remembers taking Harriet from her cot and changing her nappy. She remembers giving her a morning bottle. Can this mistake cost her everything? THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS is an explosive...
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Wahala
Fabulous debut novel: a multi-cultural 'Sex and the City' with a killer edge: for fans of Expectaction, Queenie and My Sister the Serial Killer
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Brown Girls
A fiercely poetic coming-of-age novel following a group of young women of colour in Queens, New York
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Olga Dies Dreaming
A dazzling debut about a status-driven wedding planner for New York's elite grappling with her absent mother and her Puerto Rican roots in the wake of Hurricane Maria
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How High We Go in the Dark
From funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead, How High We Go in the Dark follows a cast of intricately linked characters spanning hundreds of years as humanity endeavours to restore the delicate balance of the world.
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Beasts of a Little Land
An expansive epic spanning the turbulent decades of Korea's fight for independence, perfect for fans of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko
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Daughter of the Moon Goddess
A captivating debut fantasy inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon goddess. A young woman's quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm, setting her on a dangerous path...
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