Summer Reading Guide: Australian Fiction

Song of the Crocodile
A captivating Australian saga from the winner of the 2018 black&write! fellowship.
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All Our Shimmering Skies
The highly anticipated second book by the author of Boy Swallows Universe Trent Dalton.
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Death in Daylesford
Surrounded by secrets, great and small, the formidable Miss Phryne Fisher returns to vanquish injustice.
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The Dressmaker’s Secret
Rosalie Ham's dressmaker returns in the sequel to the beloved #1 bestseller and the box office sensation, The Dressmaker.
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Sorrow and Bliss
Spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark and tender, full of pathos, fury and wit, Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason is a dazzling, distinctive novel from a boldly talented writer. For fans of Sally Rooney, Taffy Brodesser-Akner and...
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Honeybee
The highly anticipated new novel by the bestselling author of Jasper Jones.
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Lucky’s
An exuberant, magical Australian saga of family, love and second chances.
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Doom Creek
Sergeant Nick Chester has dodged the Geordie gangsters he once feared, is out of hiding and looking forward to a quiet life. But gold fever is creating ill-feeling between prospectors, and a new threat lurks in the form of...
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Factory 19
They tell us that human happiness lies only in the future. But what if it really lies in the past?
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Consolation
Australia's favourite country cop, Hirsch, is back in Consolation, the follow-up to Peace and Bitter Wash Road.
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The Fifth Season
In The Fifth Season Philip Salom brings his virtuoso gifts for storytelling, humour and character to a haunting and unforgettable novel about the tenuousness of life and what it means to be both lost and...
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Everything in its Right Place
Everything in its Right Place tackles themes of class, love and sexuality with humour, truth and grit. It is a story of the legacies and dilemmas that families bring, of how we all must find our own way, astonishingly told. ...
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Our Shadows
A sweeping intergenerational novel from 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Award winner Gail Jones.
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Infinite Splendours
Lawrence Loman is a bright, caring, curious boy with a gift for painting. He lives at home with his mother and younger brother, and the future is laid out before him, full of promise. But when he is ten, an experience of betrayal...
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It’s Been A Pleasure, Noni Blake
Claire Christian's sparkling adult debut is the millennial rom-com you've been waiting for: feminist, queer, sex-positive and shamelessly feel-good.
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The Survivors
The compelling new novel from Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dry.
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Life After Truth
At their fifteen-year reunion, a group of Harvard graduates - labouring with early middle age, marriage and children, unrealised aspirations and a depressing political climate - rekindle old loves and old resentments. ...
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The Tolstoy Estate
Powerful, densely rich and deeply affecting, The Tolstoy Estate shows Steven Conte to be one of our finest writers.
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The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving - and astonishing - best.
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Trust
The stunning new novel from the No.1 international bestselling author of Scrublands and 'master of Australian noir' Chris Hammer.
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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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Poly
A searing and utterly engrossing debut, Poly is a raw, hilarious, and moving portrait of contemporary relationships in all their diversity, and an intimate exploration of the fragility of love and identity.
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The Night Whistler
A cracking rural crime debut that will have you on the edge of your seat until the final page.
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The Mother Fault
Mim's husband is missing. No one knows where Ben is, but everyone wants to find him - especially The Department. And they should know, the all-seeing government body has fitted the entire population with a universal tracking chip...
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The Morbids
Caitlin is convinced she's going to die...
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The Burning Island
Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern-too old, now-for marriage, she lives by herself, looking in on her reclusive father in case...
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Bluebird
A house perched impossibly on a cliff overlooking the stunning, iconic Bluebird Beach. Prime real estate, yet somehow not real estate at all, The Lodge is, like those who live in it, falling apart.
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The Yield
The 2020 winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, Tara June Winch's The Yield is the story of a people and a culture dispossessed. But it is as much a celebration of what was and what endures, and a powerful...
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The Wife and the Widow
Brilliant and beguiling, The Wife and the Widow takes you to a cliff edge and asks the question: how well do we really know the people we love?
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Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, Book 1)
The first in an exciting new series featuring forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven, from world-renowned author Michael Robotham.
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The Dictionary of Lost Words
In 1901, the word 'Bondmaid' was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it.
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