Favourite reads of 2021 so far

Born Into This
Engaging, thought-provoking stories from a young Tasmanian Aboriginal author who addresses universal themes - identity, racism, heritage destruction - from a wholly original perspective.
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One Hundred Days
From one of Australia's most celebrated authors comes a mother-daughter drama exploring the faultlines between love and control.
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A Feather on the Breath of God
From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of The Friend, comes this mesmerising story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love. ...
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Consent
A smart, mature writer's novel about sex and power in the modern world - as if Deborah Levy wrote Cat Person.
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Gunk Baby
The brand new novel from the Stella Prize shortlisted author of Pink Mountain on Locust Island
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We Run the Tides
An achingly beautiful and wickedly funny story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance, set in the changing landscape of San Francisco
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Signs and Wonders: Dispatches from a Time of Beauty and Loss
The celebrated, Walkley Award-winning author on how global warming is changing not only our climate but our culture.
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Earthlings
Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together with her cousin Yuu, Natsuki spends her summers in the wild mountains of Nagano,...
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Terminal Boredom: Stories
The first English language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural icon.
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The Woman in the Purple Skirt
Clever, bewildering and darkly comic, The Woman in the Purple Skirt is the story of two women whose lives are set to become terribly entwined.
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Coal Black Mornings
A brilliant, beautifully written memoir from Suede founder and lead singer Brett Anderson.
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Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn
The essential second volume of memoirs by Brett Anderson, which reveals the key years of the Suede story
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The Project
The next pulls-no-punches thriller from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Courtney Summers, about an aspiring young journalist determined to save her sister from a cult.
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Wild Abandon
A breathtaking new novel from the Stella Prize-winning author of The Strays.
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Crossroads
Set in a historical moment of moral crisis, Crossroads - the first instalment of the trilogy A Key to All Mythologies - is the stunning foundation of a sweeping investigation of human mythologies, as the Hildebrandt family...
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How to Make a Basket
A powerful and lyrical collection of poetry by the winner of the 2020 David Unaipon Award.
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Freedom Day: Vincent Lingiari and the Story of the Wave Hill Walk-Off
When many voices are joined together, with courage, change can happen. In 1966, more than two hundred courageous Aboriginal people walked off the Wave Hill Cattle Station in the Northern Territory. Led by Vincent Lingiari,...
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She Who Became the Sun
She Who Became the Sun reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty's founding emperor.
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The View Was Exhausting
The epic love story of the summer, for fans of Daisy Jones and the Six.
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Still Life
By the bestselling, prize-winning author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a beautiful, big-hearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood... and the ghost of E.M. Forster.
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The Last Graduate: TikTok made me read it
The exciting follow up to the Sunday Times bestselling A Deadly Education. Once you enter the Scholomance there are only two way out: you graduate or you die.
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Stone Fruit
An exhilarating and tender debut graphic novel that is an ode to the love and connection shared among three women and the child they all adore.
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Nightbitch
For readers of Jenny Offill and Curtis Sittenfeld, this is a funny, provocative, pin-sharp novel that redefines modern motherhood
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Real Estate: Living Autobiography 3
Fearless and essential - the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography'
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Exit Through the Gift Shop
Ana's on a wild roller-coaster of life and death, kindness and cruelty, ordinary and extraordinary. And she's got a few things to do before she exits...
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The Vanishing Half
From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Mothers, a powerful new novel about the parallel lives of estranged twin sisters who choose to live in two very different worlds - one black and one white.
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Perfect On Paper
A bisexual girl who gives anonymous love advice to her school friends is hired by the hot new kid to help him get his ex back. Leah on the Offbeat meets To All the Boys I've Loved Before - the new queer YA rom-com from Sophie...
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The Lincoln Highway
Two brothers venture across 1950s America to New York in the absorbing new novel by the author of the bestselling A Gentleman in Moscow.
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Dark as Last Night
A masterful new story collection from award-winning Indigenous writer Tony Birch
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The Paper Palace
A magnificent literary debut about the myriad loves that make up a life
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The Inseparables
This recently rediscovered novel from the author of The Second Sex is the compulsive story of two close friends growing up and falling apart.
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Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life
An unnamed young woman in her late twenties navigates unemployment, boredom, chronic illness and online dating
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Hold Your Fire
Dark and dangerous, brilliantly unsettling and chillingly funny, this extraordinary debut shows us what we usually deny - the uneasy truce we make with our ruthless desires and gothic fears, and how easily it can be broken....
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Switch
A brilliant and surreal novel about isolation and human connection, from award-winning author A. S. King.
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Apples Never Fall
From the outside, the Delaneys appear to be an enviably contented family. But now Joy Delaney has disappeared and her children are re-examining their parents' marriage and their family history with fresh, frightened eyes.
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Second Place
A woman invites a famed artist to visit the remote coastal region where she lives, in the belief that his vision will penetrate the mystery of her life and landscape.
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Girl, Unframed
While spending a summer with her famous mother and her criminal boyfriend, Sydney Reilly, age fifteen, finds love with Nicco but her premonition of something bad coming proves dreadfully accurate.
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All Systems Red
In a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn't a primary concern.
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