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Debra Dank
A deeply personal, profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs.
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Heather Rose
A deeply personal collection filled with reflections on love, death, creativity and healing, from the award-winning author of Bruny and The Museum of Modern Love.
Yumna Kassab
The Lovers is an enchanting fable that explores the light and dark of a relationship - a love distilled down to its barest form.
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Amaryllis Gacioppo
Weaving memoir and cultural history through modern political history, examining notions of citizenship, statelessness, memory and identity and the very notion of home, Motherlands heralds the arrival of a major…
Tracey Lien
All That's Left Unsaid is both a study of the effects of inherited trauma and social discrimination, and a compulsively readable literary thriller that expertly holds the reader in its…
Emma Styles
An incredibly gripping road trip thriller about two kick-ass heroines on the run from the law with a bag full of gold. Set against the harsh, unforgiving landscape of outback…
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Inala Cooper
What does reconciliation and truth-telling look like, and how do we as a nation find justice for Indigenous people?
Victoria Hannan
A raw, powerful novel from the prize-winning author of Kokomo that exposes the ripple effect of grief.
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Yvonne Weldon
An intense and mesmerising story of first love, culture and belief.
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied
With her trademark optimism, sass, boldness and search for answers, across a collection of new and revisited essays, Yassmin Abdel-Magied explores resistance, transformation, and revolution.
Vika and Linda
With charming honesty and infectious humour, Vika and Linda recount the highs and lows, twists and turns they’ve navigated on the long road to centre stage
Julie Janson
A striking novel about family and resistance from Australian Darug Burruberongal writer and playwright Julie Janson.
Kim Mahood
To essay means to try, to endeavour, to attempt - and to risk failure. For Kim Mahood, it is both a form of writing and an approach to life.
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Toni Jordan
You can marry into them, but can you ever really be one of them? A novel about marriage, love and family.
Thuy On
‘Funny, clever and keenly observed, Decadence is a profound musing on literature and language, that deftly skewers the would-be gatekeepers of verse. With this second collection, Thuy On has cemented…
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Suzie Sheehy
The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our world.
Susan White
Cut is a thrilling, provocative novel set against the backdrop of a major Melbourne hospital’s surgical team in the time before #metoo blew the lid off institutionalised misogyny and sexism
Sulari Gentill
The Woman in the Library is an unexpectedly twisty literary adventure that examines the complicated nature of friendship - and shows that words can be the most treacherous weapons of…
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Sian Prior
A compelling, personal and fearless examination of a life lived without children of one’s own, from Melbourne writer, broadcaster and journalist Sian Prior.
Sheila Fitzpatrick
The story of an empire made and an empire undone - and what emerged from the ashes - by one of the world’s leading authorities on the USSR, the nation…
Sarah Schmidt
From the Women’s Prize longlisted author of SEE WHAT I HAVE DONE comes a masterful reworking of the road novel into a portrait of the complex relationship between mothers and…
Sarah Malik
A collection of fascinating memoir-style essays about coming of age and finding your feet as a second-generation Australian Muslim.
Sally Rippin
We love wayward children in literature. Not so much in life.
Sally Olds
With both drollness and acuity, Sally Olds takes us into worlds we may not have ever visited before.
Peggy Frew
A compassionate and surprisingly funny novel that is impossible to put down and even harder to forget, from the award-winning author of Islands.
Patti Miller
A revealing and powerful memoir about the making and unmaking of friendships
Niki Savva
Bulldozed is the unique final volume of an unputdownable and impeccably sourced political trilogy.
Nicola Harvey
Is it possible to survive as a new farmer and change the future of farming at the same time?
Neela Janakiramanan
Sometimes in hospital people die - but not all of them should. A moving, addictive debut novel for readers of Going Under and Emotional Female.
Natalie Kon-Yu
Drawing on personal narratives, history, social research and interviews with a range of Australian and international experts, The Cost of Labour recognises the difficulties and hurdles parents encounter in Australia…
Myf Warhurst
From the much-loved Myf Warhurst, comes a captivating and joyous memoir of wisdom, humour and heart that unleashes the music within us all
Mirandi Riwoe
This stunning story collection includes two prize-winning novellas along with an impressive range of historical and contemporary stories, all written by characters who yearn to belong and find acceptance.
Michelle Law
A specially curated travel guide for Asian women, by Asian women.
Michelle Johnston
Miracles are notoriously unreliable. But sometimes, just when they're needed, they turn up - although not always in the form that we expect ...
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Michelle Cahill
A meditation on art, race and class in a postcolonial world, Daisy and Woolf is a masterpiece of postmodern fiction to rival The Hours or Wide Sargasso Sea. Powerfully recentring…
Mawunyo Gbogbo
A memoir of loving hard, falling apart and fighting back, set to an unrivalled playlist.
Marion Stell
An extraordinary work of Australian history that puts women at the centre of the story.
Lucianne Tonti
Why beautiful clothes in natural fibres are the answer to fashion’s climate crisis
Louisa Lim
An award-winning journalist takes to the protest-riven streets of Hong Kong to write this startling landmark account of the island city’s complex past and precarious future.
Kylie Moore-Gilbert
The extraordinary true story of Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s fight to survive 804 days imprisoned in Iran.
Kerry Greenwood
Accustomed to both murder and dalliance, Australia’s favourite detective, the inimitable Miss Fisher, returns in a case that will test her courage and judgement to the full.
Kathryn Hore
An uncompromising and compelling feminist Western for readers of The Natural Way of Things.
Katharine Pollock
A very funny confessional novel set in one of the only Australian independent record stores still functioning, if barely. This is High Fidelity with a female gaze.
Karlie Noon, Krystal De Napoli
What do you need to know to prosper for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians.
Julia Gillard (ed.)
Ten years on from the speech that stopped us all in our tracks - Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech. Where were you then? And where are we now?
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Sophie Cunningham
Sometimes you need to delve into the past, to make sense of the present
Judy Cotton
In this stunning memoir, full of black humour and razor-sharp observations, visual artist Judy Cotton captures the intricacies of family relationships and the push-pull of home.
Joelle Gergis
A personal call to action from an Australian IPCC author.
