Fiction books 2016

Mister Monkey

Francine Prose

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an…

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Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo

Boris Fishman

When her adopted eight-year-old son Max suddenly turns feral, Maya Shulman convinces her husband Alex to embark on a cross-country trip to Montana to track down Max’s birth parents, which…

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The Historian’s Daughter

Rashida Murphy

In an old house with ‘too many windows and women’, high in the Indian hills, young Hannah lives with her older sister Gloria; her two older brothers; her mother -…

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Captivity

Gyorgy Spiro

A literary sensation in Hungary, Gyorgy Spiro’s Captivity is set in the tumultuous first century A.D., between the year of Christ’s death and the outbreak of the Jewish War. It…

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The Waterfowl Are Drunk!

Kate Liston-Mills

A series of funny and heart-warming short stories set in the author’s hometown, Pambula, on the far south coast of New South Wales.

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The Fifth Avenue Artists Society

Joy Callaway

A charming debut about a family of four artistic sisters on the outskirts of Gilded Age New York high society and centered on the oldest–an aspiring writer caught between the…

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The Transmigration of Bodies and Signs Preceding the End of the World

Yuri Herrera

Two astonishing novellas, by ‘Mexico’s greatest novelist’, in one volume.

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A Collapse of Horses

Brian Evenson

With minimalist literary horror, Brian Evenson’s stories work a nightmare axis of doubt, paranoia, and every day life.

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Silent Music

Jane Hawking

A coming-of-age novel about the unpredictable nature of human behaviour and about taking control of one’s destiny, Silent Music is a timeless portrait of post-war Britain, as well as a…

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The Young Bride

Alessandro Baricco

Erotically charged adult fable from bestselling Italian novelist.

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The Ice-Cream Makers

Ernest van der Kwast

A dazzling novel about an Italian ice-cream dynasty, tradition, ambition, and the sensation of lemon sorbet melting on your tongue.

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My Dad Wrote a Porno: The fully annotated edition of Rocky Flintstone’s Belinda Blinked

Jamie Morton,James Cooper,Alice Levine,Rocky Flintstone

From the hilarious, massively successful My Dad Wrote A Porno podcast: the ultimate, annotated edition of Belinda Blinked

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E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962

E. E. Cummings

With a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn, this redesigned and fully reset edition of Complete Poems collects and presents all the poems published or designated for publication…

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A Christmas Carol: Original Manuscript Edition

Charles Dickens

A first-ever trade edition of the original manuscript of the beloved Christmas classic.

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The Explosion Chronicles

Yan Lianke

With the Yi River on one side and the Balou Mountains on the other, the village of Explosion was founded a thousand years ago by refugees fleeing a volcanic eruption…

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The Street Kids

Pier Paolo Pasolini

The Street Kids is the most important novel by Italy’s preeminent late-20th Century author and intellectual, Pier Paolo Pasolini. A powerful, groundbreaking contemporary classic, The Street Kids is now available…

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Ways To Disappear

Idra Novey

When celebrated Brazilian writer Beatriz Yagoda vanishes, her American translator Emma flies immediately to Brazil. There, in the sticky, sugary heat of Rio, Emma and Beatriz’s children conspire to solve…

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Family Skeleton

Carmel Bird

From inside her Toorak mansion, Margaret, matriarch, widow of Edmund Rice O'Day of O'Day Funerals, secretly surveys her family in the garden. Everyone, including Margaret herself, is oblivious to the…

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The Love of a Bad Man

Laura Elizabeth Woollett

The Love of a Bad Man is a collection of short stories that imagine the lives of thirteen women, all of whom were the lovers, mistresses, or wives of various…

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The Lesser Bohemians

Eimear McBride

One night in London an eighteen year old girl, recently arrived from Ireland to study drama, meets an older actor and a tumultuous relationship ensues. Set across the bedsits and…

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Dear Mr M

Herman Koch

A hair-raising new tour de force from Herman Koch, New York Times bestselling author of The Dinner and Summer House with Swimming Pool.

Once a celebrated writer, M’s greatest success…

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We. Are. Family.

Paul Mitchell

Three brothers are forced to confront the quiet, pervasive violence of their family’s past and the distances to which they have all carried their father’s pain into their ..

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Let Me Explain You: A Novel

Annie Liontas

A big, rollicking, tender novel with a truly original comic voice at its center (George Saunders), Let Me Explain You is about a Greek American family and its patriarch– part…

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War of the Encyclopaedists

Christopher Robinson,Gavin Kovite

On Fifteenth Avenue, in Capitol Hill, Mickey Montauk and Halifax Corderoy were hosting their sixth event as The Encyclopaedists … Meet Mickey Montauk and Halifax Corderoy. On their own, they…

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The Summer that Melted Everything

Tiffany McDaniel

Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984: the year a heatwave scorched the small town of Breathed, Ohio. The year he became friends with the devil.

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Harmony

Carolyn Parkhurst

By the author of two New York Times bestsellers, a heartwrenching and tense drama about a troubled family, who give up everything to join an experimental ‘family camp’ - with…

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Marie

Madeleine Bourdouxhe

Marie is so devoted to her husband Jean that she overlooks his casual betrayals. Yet, with surprising ease she takes a lover - a young student whom she encounters on…

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The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness

Walter Benjamin

A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker’s short stories

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Undying: A Love Story

Michel Faber

A heartbreaking chronicle of losing the love of your life by Michel Faber, the award-winning author of The Book of Strange New Things

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Harry Potter And The Cursed Child

J.K. Rowling,Jack Thorne,John Tiffany

Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a new play by Jack Thorne, is the first official…

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Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers

Ryan O'Neill

Absurd, original and highly addictive … In Their Brilliant Careers, Ryan O'Neill has written a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers. Meet Rachel Deverall…

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After the Carnage

Tara June Winch

A collection of prodigious depth and variety, After the Carnage marks the remarkable evolution of one of our finest young writers.

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Blue Dog

Louis de Bernieres

When a family tragedy means Mick is sent to the outback to live with his Granpa, it looks as if he has a lonely life ahead of him. The cattle…

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The Windy Season

Sam Carmody

An energetically wonderfully Australian story: set in Geraldton, WA, there are sharks, fishermen and accidents with evocative, memorable descriptions of the sea, fishing and the emptiness of loss.

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Skylarking

Kate Mildenhall

‘A brave, beautiful and richly textured book that delicately explores the fault lines in love and friendship.’ –Lucy Treloar A spellbinding tale of friendship and desire, memory and truth, which…

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Inexperience: And Other Stories

Anthony Macris

Can a relationship survive a long-anticipated but disappointing world trip? Will a small-shopkeeper cope when pitted against an emerging mega-mall? How do we keep our sanity in the face of…

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The Salamanders: A Novel

William Lane

At its heart, The Salamanders is a love story. Arthur lives in a hut by the Hawkesbury River, the detritus of suburban life gradually encroaching. When Rosie, the adopted daughter…

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The Dog Who Dared to Dream

Sun-mi Hwang

The Dog Who Dare to Dream is a wise tale of the relationship between dog and man, as well as a celebration of a life lived with courage. Translated into…

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Landscape with Landscape

Gerald Murnane

The titles of this collection of six loosely connected stories, Landscape with Freckled Woman, Sipping the Essence, The Battle of Acosta Nu, A Quieter Place than Clun, Charlie Alcock’s Cock…

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Conrad & Eleanor: a drama of one couple’s marriage, love and family, as they head towards crisis

Jane Rogers

An intricate and revealing portrait of a dysfunctional marriage as it unravels in midlife crisis and estrangement, and the fallout from one summer, twenty-five years ago.

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Sergio Y.

Alexandre Vidal Porto

A startling and inspirational work of transgender fiction by a leading figure in Brazil’s ‘New Urban’ fiction movement.

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My Last Continent

Midge Raymond

It is only at the end of the world-among the glacier mountains and frigid waters of Antarctica-where Deb Gardner and Keller Sullivan feel at home. For the few blissful weeks…

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Ruins

Rajith Savanadasa

In the bustling streets, overcrowded hospitals and glittering nightclubs of Colombo, five family members find their bonds stretched to breaking point in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war.

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Fine

Michelle Wright

A brilliant debut of originality, depth and beauty.

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The Sound

Sarah Drummond

The Sound is a historical fiction about the men of many nations who made their way across the southern waters of Australia from Tasmania to WA, plundering seal colonies, and…

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Where the Light Falls

Gretchen Shirm

An expat photographer returns to Australia to make sense of his traumatic childhood and the disappearance of his former girlfriend.

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When We Were Animals

Joshua Gaylord

Lumen Fowler knows she is different. While the rest of her peers are falling beneath the sway of her community’s darkest rite of passage, she resists. For Lumen has a…

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The Paper House

Anna Spargo-Ryan

Anna Spargo-Ryan’s astonishing debut: the stylistically brilliant, fearless and heartbreaking story of a woman grieving the death of her child.

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Fiction books 2016

Mister Monkey

Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo

The Historian’s Daughter

Captivity

The Waterfowl Are Drunk!

The Fifth Avenue Artists Society

The Transmigration of Bodies and Signs Preceding the End of the World

A Collapse of Horses

Silent Music

The Young Bride

The Ice-Cream Makers

My Dad Wrote a Porno: The fully annotated edition of Rocky Flintstone’s Belinda Blinked

E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962

A Christmas Carol: Original Manuscript Edition

The Explosion Chronicles

The Street Kids

Ways To Disappear

Family Skeleton

The Love of a Bad Man

The Lesser Bohemians

Dear Mr M

We. Are. Family.

Let Me Explain You: A Novel

War of the Encyclopaedists

The Summer that Melted Everything

Harmony

Marie

The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness

Undying: A Love Story

Harry Potter And The Cursed Child

Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers

After the Carnage

Blue Dog

The Windy Season

Skylarking

Inexperience: And Other Stories

The Salamanders: A Novel

The Dog Who Dared to Dream

Landscape with Landscape

Conrad & Eleanor: a drama of one couple’s marriage, love and family, as they head towards crisis

Sergio Y.

My Last Continent

Ruins

Fine

The Sound

Where the Light Falls

When We Were Animals

The Paper House