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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Natasha Soobramanien,Luke Williams
A collaborative fiction about grief, friendship, and how to tell stories that are not yours to tell.
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Jessica Au
Winner of the inaugural Novel Prize, an elegant and subtle exploration of the mysteries of our relationships to others.
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Shehan Karunatilaka
An epic, searing satire by Sri Lanka’s coolest author.
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Ruth Ozeki
If you let it-if you listen-a book could change your life.
Tom Keneally
Corporal Hitler's Pistol speaks to the never-ending war that began with 'the war to end all wars'.
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Bernadette Brennan
Leaping into Waterfalls explores the rich, tumultuous life of Gillian Mears, one of Australia’s most significant writers of the last forty years.
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Miles Allinson
In present-day Melbourne, a man attempts to piece together the mystery of his father’s apparent suicide, as his young family slowly implodes.
Patricia Lockwood
Irreverent and sincere, poignant and delightfully profane, No One Is Talking About This is at once a love letter to the infinite scroll and a meditation on love, language and…
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Jennifer Down
Jennifer Down cements her status as a leading light of Australian literary fiction in this heart-rending and intimate saga of one woman’s turbulent life
Joshua Cohen
Mixing fiction with non-fiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics that finds Joshua Cohen at the height…
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Geetanjali Shree, Daisy Rockwell (trans.)
An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life and travels back to Pakistan with her…
P. Djeli Clark
Set in an alternate Cairo in the early 20th century, this fun, fresh and exciting fantasy novel combines all the tricky twists you want from a police procedural with djinn…
Safdar Ahmed
An intensely personal indictment of Australia’s refugee detention policies and procedures.
Evelyn Araluen
This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconography of an unreconciled nation with biting satire and lyrical fury.
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Maria Takolander
From award-winning and highly acclaimed author and poet Maria Takolander comes her most impressive and personal poetry collection yet.
Melissa Manning
A man watches a boy in a playground and pictures him in the grey wooden shed he’s turned into a home. A woman’s adopted mother dies, reawakening childhood memories and…
Veronica Gorrie
The story of an Aboriginal woman who worked as a police officer and fought for justice both within and beyond the Australian police force.
