Melbourne Writers Festival 2020
A Burning
For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise - to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies - and find their lives...
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See What You Made Me Do
Combining exhaustive research with riveting storytelling, See What You Made Me Do dismantles the flawed logic of victim-blaming and challenges everything you thought you knew about domestic and family violence.
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The Animals in That Country
Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks.
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The Weekend
The brilliant new novel from Charlotte Wood, acclaimed author of The Natural Way of Things .
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention-and our personal information-that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see...
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Throat
Throat is the explosive second poetry collection from award-winning Mununjali Yugambeh writer Ellen van Neerven.
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The End of October
In this riveting medical thriller - from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author - Dr. Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the...
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The Storm Before the Calm
In a US election year, the master geopolitical forecaster combines an erudite analysis of American history with a clear-sighted view of the future, predicting a new era of US prosperity and power.
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Top End Girl
From Kakadu to Cannes - an entertaining and thought-provoking memoir from actor, activist and Australia's sweetheart, Miranda Tapsell.
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2040: A Handbook for the Regeneration
Based on Damon Gameau's 2019 documentary, 2040, 2040: A Handbook for the Regeneration is a practical manual that provides you and your family with the tools and inspiration to live a more sustainable life - NOW.
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2019. A gripping story forensically reported, Say Nothing explores the extremes people will go to for an ideal, and the way societies mend - or don't - after long and...
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A Bigger Picture
Malcolm Turnbull, Australia's 29th Prime Minister, tells the remarkable story of his life in this lively political page-turner.
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Finding the Heart of the Nation
An important and unique book that takes us into the lives of Indigenous people today, and offers constructive ideas about how we can live together, moving beyond the injustices of the past.
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A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing
A finalist for the 2020 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, this is a dazzling and original debut from a young writer with a fierce, intelligent and audacious voice.
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There Was Still Love
The profoundly moving new novel from the critically acclaimed and Miles Franklin shortlisted author of Past the Shallows and When the Night Comes. A tender and masterfully told story of memory, family and love.
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Actress
From the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O'Dell, as told...
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Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia
Fire Country is a cry from the heart asking for change in how Australia cares for country.
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Red, White & Royal Blue
What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales?
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My Tidda, My Sister
My Tidda, My Sister shares the experiences of many Indigenous women and girls, brought together by author and host of the Tiddas 4 Tiddas podcast, Marlee Silva. The voices of First Nations' women that Marlee weaves through the...
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Glimpses of Utopia
A fascinating deep dive into the ideas, communities and leaders who are working to solve the world's biggest problems. Optimism isn't naive!
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Stone Sky Gold Mountain: The multi-award-winning Australian historical novel
Family circumstances force siblings Ying and Lai Yue to flee their home in China to seek their fortunes in Australia. Life on the gold fields is hard, and they soon abandon the diggings and head to nearby Maytown.
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We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know
Dispatches from an age of impunity by the ABCTV award-winning investigative reporter and former foreign correspondent For more than 15 years, award-winning journalist Sophie McNeill has reported on some of the most...
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Smart Ovens for Lonely People
Conspiracies, memes, and therapies of various efficacy underpin this beguiling short-story collection from Elizabeth Tan.
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Finding Our Heart
A young reader's edition that follows Thomas Mayor's bestselling book Finding the Heart of the Nation.
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Close to Home: Selected Writings
This delightful collection brings together Alice Pung's most loved writing, on migration, family, identity, art and more. Warm, funny, moving and unfailingly honest, this is Alice Pung at her best - an irresistible delight for...
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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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Cherry Beach
Beautifully written and intimate, Cherry Beach is a revelatory story of friendship and desire.
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The Adversary
A story about sexuality, the ache of friendship and love, and sticky summers at the pool, this exhilarating debut novel captures the heartbeat of one transformative summer where alliances are made and broken.
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Real Pigeons Fight Crime (Real Pigeons, Book 1)
In Real Pigeons Fight Crime, Rock and his mystery-solving friends will tackle their first caseload: Why have all the breadcrumbs disappeared? Who on earth is kidnapping bats? And can the pigeons avert a dinner disaster??
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Hodgepodge (How to Make a Pet Monster, Book 1)
I'm Artie. I'm eleven years old. I do not believe in ghosts, or monsters. I do believe in science.
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The Big Book of Billie: Volume 1
Meet Billie B Brown...
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None Shall Sleep
Eighteen-year-olds Emma Lewis and Travis Bell, recruited by the FBI to interview juvenile serial killers, must turn to a notorious teenage sociopath to help track down a new murderer.
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In the Time of Foxes
With an exhilarating span of people and places, In the Time of Foxes shows the short story collection at its most entertaining and rewarding, and introduces Jo Lennan as an irresistible new storyteller.
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Rebel Gods (Monuments, Book 2)
With the Monuments gone, there's nothing stopping the rebel gods from reducing the world to ruin.
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The House of Youssef
The House of Youssef is a collection of short stories set in Western Sydney. The stories explore the lives of Lebanese migrants who have settled in the area, circling around themes of isolation, family and community, and nostalgia...
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Windfall: Unlocking a fossil free future
We've had a decade of distraction and inaction on climate change, but what made things go so very wrong in Australia? And what can the rest of the world learn from our mistakes - and opportunities?
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Our Shadows
A sweeping intergenerational novel from 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Award winner Gail Jones.
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How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference
A self-help book for the climate era, for readers of Ross Garnaut, Tim Flannery, Hugh Mackay
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The Wild Laughter
An exhilarating, anarchic look at contemporary Ireland, from one of the country's most exciting new voices
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The Octopus and I
A stunning debut novel set on the Tasmanian coast that lays bare the wild, beating heart at the intersection of human and animal, love and loss, and fear and hope.
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Kokomo
Winner of the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. Both tender and fierce, heartbreaking and funny, Kokomo is a story about how secrets and love have the power to bring us together and tear us...
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A Room Made of Leaves
A Room Made of Leaves is the internationally acclaimed author Kate Grenville's first novel in almost a decade. It is historical fiction turned inside out, a stunning sleight of hand that gives the past the piercing immediacy of...
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Women and Leadership
An inspirational and practical book for women looking to take charge of their careers and lives, sharing the stories, advice and words of some of our most extraordinary women leaders.
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Ghost Bird
An intriguing and gripping young adult novel by the winner of the David Unaipon award.
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The Lost Soul Atlas
A powerful story of hope and friendship, from the author of The Bone Sparrow.
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How it Feels to Float
A stunning, profound, deeply hopeful portrayal of living with mental illness and grief, from an exceptional new voice in YA.
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Mammoth: The bestselling comic novel narrated by a prehistoric mammoth
The original, unforgettable and thought-provoking new novel by award-winning author Chris Flynn that will change how readers understand the world
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New Australian Fiction 2019
A new collection of short stories featuring some of Australia's best-loved writers alongside exciting new voices
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My Culture and Me
Feel the rhythm of the music, from your heart down to your feet.Enjoy the movements of melodies, as clapsticks keep a strong beat. This is my culture. This is me. Beautifully written and illustrated, My Culture and Me is a...
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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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On Robyn Davidson: Writers on Writers
In the Writers on Writers series, leading authors reflect on an Australian writer who has inspired and fascinated them. Provocative and crisp, these books start a fresh conversation between past and present, shed new light on the...
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How to Save the Whole Stinkin' Planet
How to Save the Whole Stinkin' Planet will take you on a garbological adventure like no other. From diving into the rubbish bin and delving into landfill, to rummaging through the recycling and digging about in compost.
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Greenwood
Structured like the rings of a tree, this remarkable novel moves from the future to the present to the past, and back again, to tell the story of one family and their enduring connection to the place that brought them together.
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The Fire Starters
Dr Jonathan Murray fears his new-born daughter is not as harmless as she seems.
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Quarterly Essay 78: The Coal Curse - Resources, Climate and Australia’s Future
In this nuanced and insightful essay, Judith Brett looks at the consequences of Australia's coal addiction, from stalled climate-change policy to tensions between farmers and miners. She assesses where to next for a fractious...
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Ghost Species
An exquisitely beautiful and deeply affecting exploration of connection and loss in an age of planetary trauma.
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The Details: On Love, Death and Reading
A long and intimate relationship with reading has taught acclaimed writer Tegan Bennett Daylight that - in life as in books - the delight is in the details.
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Frida A to Z
This intricately illustrated and fastidiously-researched book unpacks the life of Frida Kahlo, who herself was larger-than-life. From growing up in Coyocoan, Mexico City, in her family home, where she embraced sports - including...
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No Adults Allowed: Super Sidekicks (Book 1)
Get ready for superheroes, supervillains and super-hilarious adventures in this brand new series about four young sidekicks, from a New York Times bestselling Australian author!
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The Rain Heron
From a 2019 Sydney Morning Herald Young Novelist of the Year and the author of the highly praised novel Flames comes another beguiling, transformative work of fiction confirming Robbie Arnott as one of Australia's most exciting...
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The F Team
Meet Tariq Nader, leader of ‘The Wolf Pack' at Punchbowl High, who has been commanded by the new principal to join a football competition with his mates in order to rehabilitate the public image of their school. When the...
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Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power Today
Curated and introduced by Alison Whittaker, Fire Front is a ground-breaking anthology of First Nations poetry showcasing some of the brightest new stars, as well as leading Aboriginal writers and poets including Bruce Pascoe, Ali...
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After Australia
Climate catastrophe, police brutality, white genocide, totalitarian rule and the erasure of black history provide the backdrop for stories of love, courage and hope. In this unflinching new anthology, eleven of Australia's most...
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The 99 Percent Economy
The social, economic, and political challenges we face have reached the point of crisis: economic irrationality contributes to workplace disempowerment, social disintegration, political alienation, and environmental degradation....
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