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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Claire G. Coleman
In the near future Australia is about to experience colonisation once more. What have we learned from our past? A daring debut novel from the winner of the 2016 black&write…
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Helen Phillips
Speculative fiction of the highest calibre: one woman fights to retain her sense of self amidst the chaos of work, motherhood and alternative universes.
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Naomi Alderman
The Power is speculative fiction at its most ambitious and provocative, taking us on a thrilling journey to an alternate reality while exposing our own world.
Jeff VanderMeer
The first volume of the extraordinary Southern Reach trilogy.
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Ling Ma
Maybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat, wryly funny…
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Ursula K. Le Guin
The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning masterpiece from one of the all-time greats of Science Fiction.
Octavia E. Butler
Octavia E. Butler’s masterpiece and ground-breaking exploration of power and responsibility, for fans of The Handmaid’s Tale.
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Nnedi Okorafor
An award-winning literary author enters the world of magical realism with her World Fantasy Award-winning novel of a remarkable woman in post-apocalyptic Africa. Now optioned as a TV series for…
Yangsze Choo
A haunting, evocative and highly unusual romantic debut Seventeen-year-old Li Lan lives in 1890s Malaya with her quietly-ruined father, who returns one evening with a proposition - the fabulously wealthy…
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N. K. Jemisin
This is the stunning first instalment in a fantasy trilogy set in a world of volcanoes and earthquakes, where the power to control the earth is the most dangerous of…
Jane Rawson
From the Wreck tells the remarkable story of George Hills, who survived the sinking of the steamship Admella off the South Australian coast in 1859. Haunted by his memories and…
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Carmen Maria Machado
A dark, shimmering slice into womanhood, Her Body and Other Parties is wicked and exquisite.
Alexis Wright
Shortlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Award
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England.
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Colson Whitehead
A magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
Erin Morgenstern
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. The black sign, painted in white letters that hangs upon the gates…
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Connie Willis
A HUGO AWARD-winning time travel novel from the SFWA grandmaster.
Neil Gaiman
The stunningly original and brilliant first novel from a storytelling genius
