The Age's recommended books of 2017
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
'How to tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody. No. By slowly becoming everything.'In a city graveyard, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet between two graves. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby appears...
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Lincoln in the Bardo
The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War.
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Common People
From the 2016 Victorian Premier's Literary Award-winning author of Ghost River.
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
An intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle, Sing, Unburied, Sing examines the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power - and limitations - of family bonds.
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As the Lonely Fly
As the Lonely Fly is an epic story of persecution, migration and dispersal during tumultuous events in the 20th Century, which shines a light on the intertwined fates of Jews and Palestinians - a scenario with deep contemporary...
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The Catch: The Story of Fishing in Australia
In every coastal town in Australia, there's a bait shop and a boat ramp, and, in garages around the country, fishing rods are strung up waiting for their next outing. Many of us have a special fishing spot, and families pass on...
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No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson
Vocalist. Actor. Athlete. Agitator. Icon. Martyr.
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Breaking the Mould
An extraordinary transformation is taking place in Australian sport; from suburban footy fields to stadium cage fights, sportswomen are breaking through the...
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The Collected Poems of Fay Zwicky
This volume collects all of Fay Zwicky's poetry, including previously uncollected and unpublished poems. It reveals an erudite, passionate, and highly inventive poet, whose consummate control of her craft places her at the summit...
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Based on interviews author Heather Morris conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov, The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a heart-wrenching, illuminating, and unforgettable tale of hope and...
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Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
A breathtaking, enchanting new series by debut Australian author Jessica Townsend, about a cursed girl who escapes death and finds herself in a magical world - but is then tested beyond her wildest imagination.
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Rallying
Rallying was written alongside Quinn Eades's first book, all the beginnings: a queer autobiography of the body, and before he began transitioning from female to male. A collection very much concerned with the body, and the ways in...
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The Student
A high-paced, hardboiled regional noir: fresh, gritty, unnerving, with a stark and lonely beauty.
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The Last Garden
From the author of the award-winning Dog Boy, a powerful literary work about frailty, redemption, and the healing power of animals.
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I Hate the Internet: A novel
In New York in the middle of the twentieth century, comic book companies figured out how to make millions from comics without paying their creators anything. In San Francisco at the start of the twenty-first century, tech...
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Australia Day
An important and illuminating debut fiction collection about Australian life and identity.
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Jean Harley was Here
Jean Harley Was Here is a touching and original exploration of love, relationships, and the ways in which we need each other.
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Down The Hume
A confronting and powerful novel from an exciting new voice - for lovers of Christos Tsiolkas (Loaded) and Luke Davies (Candy).
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Music Our Bodies Can’t Hold
Each of these poems is a portrait of someone with or reputed to have had Marfan Syndrome. Many of the poems emerge out of personal interviews, while others are portraits of public figures: Abraham Lincoln, Akhenaten, Mary Queen of...
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The Animators
From age eighteen on, I had a partner, a kindred spirit. I had a friend. Someone bound and determined to keep me from the worst in myself.
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This Water: Five Tales
This is likely to be the last work by Beverley Farmer, one of Australia's great prose stylists, and a pioneer of women's writing, in her exploration of feminine concerns, and her use of different literary forms - novel, short...
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Reading for a Quiet Morning
Petra White's poetry is distinctive for its sharp and unusual imagery, its authoritative expressions of the inner life and its existential preparedness and irony. Mythic imagination and narrative are at the heart of this book, her...
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Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker
An unconventional biography of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker by one of France's most acclaimed literary talents
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Bird Country
The sparkling debut from an exciting new voice in Australian fiction, Claire Aman Bird Country is a collection of spare and affecting portraits of ordinary people in rural Australia
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The Ninth Hour
From the National Book Award-winning author comes a luminous, deeply humane novel about three generations of an Irish immigrant family in 1940s and 1950s Brooklyn - for fans of Anne Tyler, Anne Enright and Colm...
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And Fire Came Down
Winner of the Davitt Award (Adult Novels) 2018Deaf since early childhood, Caleb Zelic used to meet life head-on. Now he's struggling just to get through the day. His best mate is dead, his ex-wife,...
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Winter Traffic
Sutton doesn't like the 3am phone calls. He should change his number - that way Rawson wouldn't have it.Sutton's best mate is a hero cop, but strife flows through him like a highway. He was supposed to die young. Maybe...
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To Become a Whale
The story of a young boy who has recently lost his mother, trying to make sense of the world of men and then embarking on a breathtaking adventure of his own - a stunning literary debut in the tradition of Favel Parrett's Past the...
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