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Pamela Ann Sun
Two friends in ‘65 having fun. Seeing bands and wearing the fashion. Trouble starts when Jo falls in love with Tom and he falls in love with Lily! Loyalty is…
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Kate Liston-Mills
A series of funny and heart-warming short stories set in the author’s hometown, Pambula, on the far south coast of New South Wales.
Charlotte Wood
‘The paint itself is part of the painting’s meaning; the words do not merely tell, but are the story…’ -Charlotte Wood
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Peter Watt
Read Peter Watt’s latest instalment of the Frontier series, ahead of the epic conclusion From the Stars Above (November 2017).
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Michelle Cahill
“Line by line, Cahill’s writing is musical, assured: cumulatively, her seriousness is evident, her ambition impressive.” - Hilary Mantel
Letter to Pessoa is the first collection of short stories by…
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Madelaine Dickie
Troppo‘s a story about black magic, big waves and mad Aussie expats. Set in Sumatra, it’s told from the perspective of Penny, a young surfer who’s landed a job…
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Jennifer Livett
My name is Harriet Adair, and forty years ago on that ship I was Jane Eyre’s companion. That voyage also brought me friendship with another intrepid Jane: Lady Franklin. Her…
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Carmel Bird
From inside her Toorak mansion, Margaret, matriarch, widow of Edmund Rice O'Day of O'Day Funerals, secretly surveys her family in the garden. Everyone, including Margaret herself, is oblivious to the…
Laura Elizabeth Woollett
The Love of a Bad Man is a collection of short stories that imagine the lives of thirteen women, all of whom were the lovers, mistresses, or wives of various…
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Paul Mitchell
Three brothers are forced to confront the quiet, pervasive violence of their family’s past and the distances to which they have all carried their father’s pain into their ..
George Haddad
Winner of the 2016 Seizure Viva La Novella Prize. With a razor-sharp wit, incisive social critiques and intensity of feeling, Populate and Perish announces George Haddad as a vital new…
Rose Mulready
Atmospheric and poetic, The Bonobo’s Dream is speculative fiction at its finest, probing the limits of what it means to be human in a world spun from myths and castles…
Ryan O'Neill
Absurd, original and highly addictive … In Their Brilliant Careers, Ryan O'Neill has written a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers. Meet Rachel Deverall…
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Tara June Winch
A collection of prodigious depth and variety, After the Carnage marks the remarkable evolution of one of our finest young writers.
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Sam Carmody
An energetically wonderfully Australian story: set in Geraldton, WA, there are sharks, fishermen and accidents with evocative, memorable descriptions of the sea, fishing and the emptiness of loss.
Kate Mildenhall
‘A brave, beautiful and richly textured book that delicately explores the fault lines in love and friendship.’ –Lucy Treloar A spellbinding tale of friendship and desire, memory and truth, which…
Anthony Macris
Can a relationship survive a long-anticipated but disappointing world trip? Will a small-shopkeeper cope when pitted against an emerging mega-mall? How do we keep our sanity in the face of…
William Lane
At its heart, The Salamanders is a love story. Arthur lives in a hut by the Hawkesbury River, the detritus of suburban life gradually encroaching. When Rosie, the adopted daughter…
Gerald Murnane
The titles of this collection of six loosely connected stories, Landscape with Freckled Woman, Sipping the Essence, The Battle of Acosta Nu, A Quieter Place than Clun, Charlie Alcock’s Cock…
Rajith Savanadasa
In the bustling streets, overcrowded hospitals and glittering nightclubs of Colombo, five family members find their bonds stretched to breaking point in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war.
Michelle Wright
A brilliant debut of originality, depth and beauty.
Sarah Drummond
The Sound is a historical fiction about the men of many nations who made their way across the southern waters of Australia from Tasmania to WA, plundering seal colonies, and…
Gretchen Shirm
An expat photographer returns to Australia to make sense of his traumatic childhood and the disappearance of his former girlfriend.
Jane Abbott
Savage and apocalyptic, this is the new world. Devoid of rain, the earth has shrunk to dust and salt, hemmed by a swollen sea. Survivors gather to re-establish order but…
Sean Rabin
Michael, an aspiring writer who has recently finished his PhD, takes a job as the secretary to his literary hero, Lucian Clarke, a reclusive novelist with a mysterious cosmopolitan past…
Paul Hetherington
In this expansive and exciting collection Hetherington moves with power and grace through an impressive range of form and content. The poems burst with tense and detailed images shot through…
Maxine Beneba Clarke
A haunting visit to the International Museum of Slavery, in Liverpool England. A feisty young black girl pushing back against authority. The joy and despair of single parenthood. A love-hate…
Aden Rolfe
False Nostalgia is rare among poetry collections, a work which is both lyrical and philosophical. It explores the way memory works, and the role memory plays in our sense of…
Jack Cox
Eliza travels to Sydney to deal with the estate of her Aunt Dodge, and finds Maxine, a hitherto unknown cousin, occupying Dodge’s apartment. When legal complications derail plans to live…
John Foster
First published in Australia in 1993. An unforgettable memoir of love, loss and humanity.
Toni Jordan
A romantic comedy about sex, marriage and the benefits and drawbacks of being a grownup.
Nick Earls
Wisdom Tree-Five Novellas by best selling author Nick Earls. Inkerman & Blunt will release one novella at a time, on the first of every month from May to September 2016…
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Debra Jopson
It’s 1969 and the world is alight with revolution. Oliver Lawrence, a Bondi Beach kid, is transported to one of the world’s most bewitching cities: Beirut in the Levant.
Georgia Blain
Ester is a family therapist with an appointment book that catalogues the woes of the middle class. She spends her days helping others find happiness, but her own family relationships…
Mette Jakobsen
Vera and David have been passionately in love since the day they met more than twenty years ago. They live in the Blue Mountains where Vera is a sculptor and…
Elizabeth Harrower
Essential reading for Harrower fans, these collected stories range from caustic satires to gentler explorations of friendship.
Lian Hearn
In this magnificent new epic, destined to become a classic, bestselling Australian author Lian Hearn transports us to a mythical Japanese world set 300 years before Tales of the Otori.
Barry Dickins
In the course of one life lived beyond belief although couched in the ordinary there once existed a gentleman named Ernid Ernst. Possessing an extraordinary name he looked for extraordinary…
Josephine Rowe
It is New Year’s Eve, 1990, and Ru’s father has disappeared again. Haunted by the horrors of the Vietnam War, Jack has been an erratic - and at times violent…
Jennifer Down
Katy’s unexpected suicide forever changes life for her best friend Audrey, and their group of close friends in their twenties.
Robyn Mundy
‘You spend your whole time on an island looking out to sea. It’s a kind of meditation. Perhaps what you’re really facing is yourself.
David Brooks
A writer questions the architecture of words, struggling to capture his ideas before they are lost; a husband excavating beneath his house becomes mesmerised by silence and disappears in search…
Lesley Truffle
London’s luxurious Hotel Du Barry has been left unscathed by WW1 and the party has just begun: tainted love, murderous desires and gin. It’s THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL with a…
C.S. Pacat
Book 3 of the Captive Prince trilogy
Janita Cunnington
THE BOOK CLUB PICK OF 2016! The River House is a spellbinding debut novel, resonant of childhoods past and the beauty of the Australian countryside. It is the late 1940s…
Lindsay Tanner
An astute novel about inner-city Australian racism - and about humanity emerging in the face of reality.
Jack van Duyn is in his comfort zone. A pot-bellied, unfit, round-shouldered cabbie…
Kenneth Cook
A nail-biting chase into the outback, towards the devil lurking at its center. Adrenaline-fuelled reading.
Fiona McFarlane
These wide-ranging stories resonate in the way of only the finest writing and the most pleasurable reading. There are storylines that seem straightforward on the surface but have a dozen…
