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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Pip Williams
The follow-up and companion to one of the most successful Australian novels ever, The Dictionary of Lost Words
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Paul Harding
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a profoundly moving story of an island refuge, and a community of outcasts living on borrowed time.
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Margaret Meyer
East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer and servant, has lived for more than four decades in her beloved coastal village of Cleftwater. Everyone knows Martha, but no one…
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Zadie Smith
From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story -…
Lauren Groff
Set in the 1600s, beginning with a voyage across the Atlantic, this is Lauren Groff's inventive novel The Vaster Wilds.
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Jesmyn Ward
Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching.
Gabriela Garcia
A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter’s fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born…
Kerri Maher
The captivating story of a trailblazing young woman who fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the twentieth century to the world.
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Geraldine Brooks
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March and People of the Book comes a vivid and unique new novel for lovers of sweeping historical fiction and books about iconic racehorses…
Vanessa Chan
Destined to become a modern-day classic, The Storm We Made is a dazzling saga about the power of familial love in the face of the horrors of war, for fans…
Victoria MacKenzie
An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives of women - by a major new talent
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Mirandi Riwoe
1941, West Java. Love and revolution are in the air. And war is on its way.
Ismail Kadara, John Hodgson (trans.)
A fascinating meditation on Soviet Russia, authoritarianism, power structures and a period of great writers.
Tan Twan Eng
From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Garden of Evening Mists comes an evocative, rich tale of love, betrayal and morality in 1920s Penang
Adam Thirwell
Marie Antoinette meets Gossip Girl in this supermodern novel of scandal and slander, from the two-time Granta Best Young British Novelist
Daniel Mason
The 'spellbinding' American epic.
Eleanor Shearer
A mother’s desperate search to find her stolen children and her freedom takes her across the Caribbean in a gripping, moving, redemptive and unforgettable story of survival and hope.
Emma Donoghue
Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins…
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V. V. Ganeshananthan
A searing, gripping novel about a young Tamil woman living through the Sri Lankan civil war
James McBride
The unforgettable new novel from the National Book Award-winning, Oprah Book Club-picked, Barack Obama pick, James McBride.
Fiona Kelly McGregor
Acclaimed and bestselling literary novelist Fiona Kelly McGregor dives into the criminal underground of 1930s Sydney and the life of petty criminal, prostitute and murderer Iris.
Isabel Allende
One extraordinary woman. One hundred years of history. One unforgettable story.
Juhea Kim
An epic story of love and war, set during the turbulent decades of Korea’s fight for independence
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Hilary Mantel
The first book in Hilary Mantel’s award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light.
Anita Heiss
Gundagai, 1852
The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in its wake. It is a stark reminder that while the river can give life, it can…
Maggie O'Farrell
Set at the heart of the treacherous political world of the Italian Renaissance, this is the masterful story of a young woman's battle for her very survival, written with all…
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The gripping new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Mercies, The Dance Tree is a transporting story of lust, family secrets and women under the eye of…
Rachel Heng
Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy's unique gifts and the childhood love that will complicate the fate of his community and country
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Annabel Abbs
Eliza Acton, despite having never before boiled an egg, became one of the world’s most successful cookery writers. Her story is fascinating, uplifting and inspiring. With recipes that leap to…
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Maggie Shipstead
It is Marian’s life dream and her final journey, before she disappears without a trace. Half a century later, Hadley Baxter, a scandal-ridden Hollywood actress whose own parents perished in…
James Hynes
Meet Jacob - aka Sparrow - a boy slave in a brothel in the Spanish city of New Carthage in the last years of pagan Rome, and one of the…
Sophie Mackintosh
From the Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure - an eerie historical mystery about desire, memory and madness
Jonathan Franzen
'His best novel yet ... A Middlemarch-like triumph' Telegraph
Paterson Joseph
Meet Charles Ignatius Sancho: his extraordinary story, hidden for three hundred years, is about to be told by Paterson Joseph, one of Britain’s best-loved actors
Nicole Flattery
A wildly original debut novel about two young women navigating the complex worlds of Andy Warhol's Factory, and coming of age in 1960s New York.
Katherine J. Chen
Girl. Warrior. Heretic. Saint? A stunning feminist reimagining of the life of Joan of Arc, perfect for fans of Cecily and Alison Weir.
Brinda Charry
A Dickensian-style yarn about family, friendship, and finding oneself in the seeds of a new world.
Louise Kennedy
Tender and shocking, Trespasses is an unforgettable debut of people trying to live ordinary lives in extraordinary times.
Claire Keegan
An exquisite winter tale of courage - and its cost, set in Catholic Ireland.
Hannah Kent
The powerful, moving and truly unique new novel from the international bestselling author of Burial Rites and The Good People.
Que Mai Nguyen Phan
An intimate, stirring portrait of a country at war and a family’s battle to survive
Colson Whitehead
From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.
Melissa Fu
An epic, powerful and intensely personal debut about war, migration, family, and the search for a place to call home. For fans of Pachinko, Wild Swans and All the Light…
Nino Haratischvili
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…
Rebecca Starford
A page-turning World War Two spy thriller, based on true events.
Bianca Pitzorno, Brigid Maher (trans.)
An immersive and vividly written historical novel for anyone who loved Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels or Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Tara Calaby
A compulsively readable historical romance, House of Longing combines an effortless instinct for narrative with impeccable research, lightly worn. The debut of a major talent.
