Favourite reads in new editions

Shuggie Bain
A heart-wrenchingly moving first novel set in Glasgow during the Thatcher years, Shuggie Bain tells the story of a boy's doomed attempt to save his proud, alcoholic mother from her addiction.
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The Topeka School
From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station comes a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century: a tale of adolescence, transgression, and the conditions that...
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Tiberius with a Telephone
William McMahon was a significant, if widely derided and disliked, figure in Australian politics in the second half of the 20th century. This biography tells the story of his life, his career, and his doomed attempts to recast...
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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 sacrifice. ...
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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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The Dictionary of Lost Words
In 1901, the word 'Bondmaid' was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it.
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A Body of Water
A new edition of Beverley Farmer's out-of-print classic A Body of Water, which in its mixing of genres - essay, memoir, fiction, folk tale - opened up new frontiers for Australian literature
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In the Dream House
In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing experience with a charismatic but volatile woman, this is a bold dissection of...
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The Eighth Life (For Brilka)
At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian Empire, a family prospers. It owes its success to a delicious chocolate recipe, passed down the generations with great solemnity and caution. A caution which is...
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Too Much Lip: Winner of the Miles Franklin Award
Too much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get to swallow her opinions. The avalanche of bullshit in the world would drown her if she let it; the least she could do was raise her...
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The Testaments
In this electrifying sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood answers the question that has tantalised readers for decades: What happened to Offred?
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The Dutch House
Told with Ann Patchett's inimitable blend of wit and heartbreak, The Dutch House is a story of family, betrayal, love, responsibility and sacrifice; of the powerful bonds of place and time that magnetize and repel us for our whole...
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On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Brilliant, heartbreaking and highly original, Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling.
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The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
This book is a powerful and evocative literary novel set in Iran in the period immediately after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Using the lyrical magic realism style of classical Persian storytelling, Azar draws the reader into...
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The White Girl
In The White Girl, Tony Birch has created memorable characters whose capacity for love and courage are a timely reminder of the endurance of the human spirit.
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Agent Running in the Field
A 26-year-old solitary figure, desperate to resist the political turbulence swirling around him, makes connections that will take him down a dangerous path.
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This Is Happiness
A profound and enchanting new novel from Booker Prize-longlisted author Niall Williams about the loves of our lives and the joys of reminiscing.
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
From the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old Ways.
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The Old Drift
On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. In 1904, in a smoky room at the hotel across the river, an Old Drifter named Percy M....
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The Starless Sea
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Night Circus comes a timeless love story set in a secret underground world - a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea. ...
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Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music
A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen child, musical and lyrical genius, and leader.
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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
What happens to our behaviour when we live most of our lives online? What does it mean to 'always be optimising'? And what is it about scams and the millennial generation?
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Fleishman Is in Trouble
Finally free from his nightmare marriage, Toby Fleishman is ready for a life of online dating and weekend-only parental duties. But as he optimistically looks to a future that is wildly different from the one he imagined, his life...
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The Glad Shout
The Glad Shout is an extraordinary novel of rare depth and texture. Told in a starkly visual and compelling narrative, this is a deeply moving homage to motherhood and the struggles faced by women in difficult times. ...
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The Mothers
The Mothers is a dazzling debut about young love, a big secret in a small community and the moments that haunt us most.
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Six Minutes
How can a child disappear from under the care of four playgroup mums?
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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World
'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now completely deprived of oxygen. But...
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Disappearing Earth
Disappearing Earth is a beautiful evocation of a place and people as they search for two lost girls - heralding the arrival of a stunning new literary novelist.
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Rules for Visiting
May is at a crossroads. Although her career as a gardener for the university is flourishing, the rest of her life has narrowed to a parched routine. Her father is elderly, her brother estranged, and she keeps her neighbours at...
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Dolores
On a hot day in late June, a young girl kneels outside a convent, then falls on her face. When the nuns take her in, they name her Dolores.
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The Nickel Boys
Based on the history of a real reform school in Florida that operated for one hundred and eleven years and warped and destroyed the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative by a great...
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City of Girls
A unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s, in which an older woman looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure).
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The Signature of All Things
A captivating story of botany, exploration and desire, by the multimillion bestselling author of Eat Pray Love.
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The Giver of Stars
England, late 1930s, and Alice Wright - restless, stifled - makes an impulsive decision to marry wealthy American Bennett Van Cleve and leave her home and family behind. But stuffy, disapproving Baileyville, Kentucky, where...
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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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Flames
The highly praised debut from Tasmanian author Robbie Arnott, now in a beautiful B-format edition. Released ahead of Arnott's second novel, coming mid-2020.
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Queenie
A darkly comic and unflinchingly raw depiction of a young woman trying to navigate her way in the world, QUEENIE is about identity, independence and carving your own path. For fans of Dolly Alderton, Bryony Gordon and Dawn...
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The Wife and the Widow
Brilliant and beguiling, The Wife and the Widow takes you to a cliff edge and asks the question: how well do we really know the people we love?
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Exploded View
A fearless and masterful novel from the Stella Prize-winning author Carrie Tiffany, now in a new paperback edition
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Miscast in the media for nearly 130 years, the victims of Jack the Ripper finally get their full stories told in this eye-opening and chilling reminder that life for middle-class women in Victorian London could be full of social...
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Spring
Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives, a hundred years of empire-making. The dawn breaks cold and still but, deep in the earth, things are growing.
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Patsy
From award-winning novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn comes this beautifully layered portrait of motherhood, immigration and sacrifice
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Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl
Transposing Virginia Woolf's Orlando to 90s San Francisco, this novel of transgender metamorphosis is a wild, sexy, funny and moving story of living on the edge.
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City of Trees: Essays on Life, Death and the Need for a Forest
A rich and insightful collection of personal essays about life, death and our connection to the environment from bestselling Australian author Sophie Cunningham now in a new format edition
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Allegra in Three Parts
A tender, coming-of-age novel from Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction-winning author Suzanne Daniel.
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Gods of Jade and Shadow
The Mayan God of Death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore. A vivid, wildly imaginative historical fantasy for fans of Katherine Arden and Naomi...
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Machines Like Me
In a world not quite like this one, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing has achieved an astonishing breakthrough in artificial intelligence.
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The Priory of the Orange Tree
A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens.
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Late in the Day
The lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this Sunday Times bestselling novel.
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Three Women
Three Women is a record of unmet needs, unspoken thoughts, disappointments, hopes and unrelenting obsessions.
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Invisible Women
From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, urban planning and the media, Invisible Women reveals the biased data that excludes women.
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The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of...
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Extinctions
Humorous, poignant and galvanising by turns, Extinctions is a novel about all kinds of extinction - natural, racial, national and personal - and what we can do to prevent them.
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Daisy Jones and The Six
They were the new icons of rock and roll, fated to burn bright and not fade away. But on 12 July 1979, it all came crashing down.
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Girl, Woman, Other
From one of Britain's most celebrated writers of color, a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity among an interconnected group of Black British women
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The Flatshare
A quirky love story from a fresh new talent.
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The Small Backs of Children
A fiercely provocative novel, exploring the treacherous borders between war and sex, love and art, from the author of The Book of Joan and The Chronology of Water.
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The Secrets We Kept
Sold in twenty-five countries and poised to become a global literary sensation, Lara Prescott's dazzling first novel about the women in the CIA's typing pool and the fate of Boris Pasternak's banned masterpiece is a sweeping page...
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Dark Star Trilogy Book 1)
Drawing from vivid African history and mythology, Marlon James weaves a saga of breathtaking adventure and powerful intrigue - a mesmerizing, unique meditation on the nature of truth and power.
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I Feel Bad About My Neck
Now with an introduction from Dolly Alderton, author of Everything I Know About Love, revealing how a new generation of women can take inspiration from Nora's sharp wit and wisdom about life.
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Mouthful of Birds
A spellbinding collection of short stories from the Argentinian sensation Samanta Schweblin
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Pachinko
A victorian epic transplanted to Japan, following a Korean family of immigrants through eight decades and four generations.
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Lanny
Not far from London, there is a village. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. To families dead for generations, and to those who have only recently moved here. But...
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Two Girls Down: An Alice Vega Novel
The addictive, cinematic and binge-worthy thriller, now available in a smaller and competitively priced format.
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Street
This gripping novel from 1946 is prescient and powerful; it is as relevant today as it was when first published.
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Lost Children Archive
A moving, powerful and urgent novel about a family - and a country - in crisis.
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The First Stone (25th Anniversary Edition)
The First Stone has been reviled and revered. At the time of publication, its author was both vilified and lionised by readers. Now, when Garner has achieved the status of one of our most respected literary icons, this story is no...
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Adele
Written in prose of elegant - but never bloodless - neutrality, Leila Slimani's second novel published in English explores not so much promiscuity as the modern-day pressures that drive Adele into this perilous loss of self. ...
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Where the Crawdads Sing
Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver and Celeste Ng, Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder.
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No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
Written in secrecy on a contraband mobile phone from Manus detention centre by journalist Behrouz Boochani, No Friend but the Mountains became the bestselling, award-winning book of 2018.
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Star-Crossed
In this sparkling romantic comedy, a young journalist tampers with her magazine's horoscopes to win her friend's heart - and sets in motion an unpredictable and often hilarious ripple effect ...
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The Natural Way of Things
An explosively provocative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control by one of Australia's most acclaimed writers.
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Sea People
A masterful mix of history, geography, anthropology, and the science of navigation, Sea People is a vivid tour of one of the most captivating regions in the world.
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Metropolis (Bernie Gunther Book 14)
Berlin detective Bernie Gunther bows out at last in the 14th and final instalment of this internationally bestselling and award-winning series featuring 'one of the greatest anti-heroes ever written'
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Any Ordinary Day
As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories - and a terrifying brush with her own mortality -...
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The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire
A powerful real-life thriller written with Hooper's trademark lyric detail and nuance, The Arsonist is a reminder that in an age of fire, all of us are gatekeepers.
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Shell
A beautifully crafted, spellbinding story of love, loss and identity, set in the shadow of the Vietnam War.
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Killing Commendatore
But then he discovers a strange painting in the attic and unintentionally begins a strange journey of self-discovery that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt and a...
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The Night Tiger
A captivating and magical story set in 1930s Malaysia about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy who are brought together by a series of unexplained deaths and an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers. ...
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Call Me Evie
An incredible literary thriller for readers of bestsellers such as Gone Girl, Before I Go To Sleep and Girl on the Train from an exciting new Australian voice.
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Everything I Know About Love
When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all.
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