The best smart summer reads of 2019
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Transposing Virginia Woolf's Orlando to 90s San Francisco, this novel of transgender metamorphosis is a wild, sexy, funny and moving story of living on the edge.
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The Night Tiger
A captivating and magical story set in 1930s Malaysia about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy who are brought together by a series of unexplained deaths and an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers.
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Gingerbread
Helen Oyeyemi, the prize-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What is Not Yours is Not Yours returns with a bewitching and inventive novel about motherhood, family legacy and... gingerbread.
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Fleishman Is in Trouble
A blistering satirical novel about marriage, divorce and modern relationships, by one of the most exciting new voices in American fiction
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Bruny
The brilliant and explosive new novel from the author of the award-winning The Museum of Modern Love.
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Olive, Again
An extraordinary new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton.
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The Dutch House
A masterpiece from the Orange Prize-winning, New York Times number one bestselling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto: a story of love, family, sacrifice, and the power of place
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Room for a Stranger
A moving portrait of an improbable friendship and multicultural Australia more broadly, from the winner of the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction.
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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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The Godmother
With a gallery of traffickers, dealers, police officers and politicians who are more real than life itself, a sharp and amusing gaze on everyday survival in contemporary France, and an unforgettable woman at its centre, Hannelore...
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The Place on Dalhousie
From the bestselling author of Looking for Alibrandi comes this perfectly crafted novel about families, relationships and the true nature of belonging.
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Nothing to See Here
A heartwarming and blisteringly funny tale of family, friendship and fire, from award-winning American writer Kevin Wilson.
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The Topeka School
A radical new take on the American family saga from a bona fide American literary genius, the acclaimed author of Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04.
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The Old Lie
A thrilling and ambitious new novel from the author of the bestselling and prize-winning Terra Nullius
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Lie With Me
A gorgeous coming-of-age love story about two teenage boys in 1980s France.
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Dolores
'A glowing, beating heart of a book' Megan Hunter, author of The End We Start From
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The Secrets We Kept
Sold in twenty-five countries and poised to become a global literary sensation, Lara Prescott's dazzling first novel about the women in the CIA's typing pool and the fate of Boris Pasternak's banned masterpiece is a sweeping page...
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The Golden State
A breakout debut novel featured in the US by Buzzfeed, Elle, Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, about a young woman navigating the worlds of the private and the political in a fractured America.
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Bone China
A Daphne Du Maurier-esque chiller set on the mysterious Cornish coast from the author of The Silent Companions and The Corset
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Beyond the Sea
A powerful new novel from the author of Grace, winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year
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Inland
THE NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF THE TIGER'S WIFE A man searching for a home he can't find. A woman bound to a home she can't leave.
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The Need
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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Rules for Visiting
From the acclaimed author of The Report, a smart, funny novel about friendship, trees, and the art of being a good house-guest
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Lucky Ticket
A debut collection of stories announcing an intelligent, vibrant and highly original Australian-Vietnamese voice in contemporary literature.
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Expectation
A fierce emotional contemporary novel about what it takes to lead a meaningful life. Most of all, it explores that liminal space between expectation and reality, the place - full of terrible pain and wondrous joy - in which we all...
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Adele
From the bestselling author of Lullaby, the prizewinning debut novel about all our attempts to discover who we are - deep down - and what we actually want.
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Mouthful of Birds
A spellbinding collection of short stories from the Argentinian sensation Samanta Schweblin
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The Nancys
A schoolgirl and her uncle and his boyfriend have two weeks to solve a murder in a small town style forgot...
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The Other Americans
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Moor's Account, a timely and powerful novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery and a love...
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Eight Lives
A smart, sophisticated thriller that explores power, class and prejudice, Eight Lives will keep you engrossed until the last page.
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Queenie
A darkly comic and unflinchingly raw depiction of a young woman trying to navigate her way in the world, QUEENIE is about identity, independence and carving your own path. For fans of Dolly Alderton, Bryony Gordon and Dawn...
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The Tenth Muse
A brilliant and gripping novel about a young woman's gift for mathematics, and the secret of her past bound up in World War II.
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Dark Star Trilogy Book 1)
A spectacular, genre-redefining literary fantasy novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings.
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