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Bri Lee
The intersections between art, life, power and privilege are explored in this first work of fiction from the bestselling author of Eggshell Skull.
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Grace Yee
Chinese Fish is a family saga in miniature, spanning three generations.
Sinead Gleeson
'Intelligent, probing' MAGGIE O'FARRELL
'Wild, singular... gripped me from the start' DOUGLAS STUART
'Passionate, wild, hugely atmospheric' DAVID NICHOLLS
'A gorgeous, mysterious read' AISLING BEA
'Wild, elemental... I adored it'…
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Louise Milligan
A gripping, propulsive and brilliantly original debut by award-winning investigative journalist and writer Louise Milligan.
Lauren Groff
Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love and destined for greatness. A decade later, their…
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Siang Lu
Perfect for fans of Haruki Murakami, Ghost Cities is a profound and highly imaginative novel that cleverly draws on Chinese history to explore the absurdity of modern life and work.
Andrew O'Hagan
From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace.
Laura Jean McKay
The brilliant new short story collection from the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of The Animals in That Country.
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Myfanwy Jones
A breathtaking story brimming with insight and emotional power by Miles Franklin-shortlisted author Myfanwy Jones.
Nadine J. Cohen
A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister.
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Katherine Brabon
From the acclaimed author of The Memory Artist and The Shut Ins comes a new novel about the relationship between body and self, and how we must dive beneath the…
Christos Tsiolkas
The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap and Damascus.
Shankari Chandran
The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens.
Melissa Lucashenko
In this epic novel set in Brisbane when First Nations people still outnumber the colonists, award-winning Goorie author Melissa Lucashenko tells two extraordinary stories set five generations apart.
Liam Pieper
A wild romp through Australian celebrity culture that's as bold and scathing as it is hilarious.
Alexis Wright
Winner of the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards: The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award
Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language…
Mykaela Saunders
From the 2022 David Unaipon winner comes an outstanding and timely collection of speculative fiction imagining futures where Indigenous sovereignty is fully reasserted.
Sara M Saleh
A stunning collection from Sydney poet, human rights activist, community organiser, and refugee campaigner Sara M Saleh
A stunning coming-of-age tale played out across generations and continents, from Palestine to Australia.
Tony Birch
A powerful, personal novel about women and justice, from one of this country's most loved and clear-eyed storytellers.
Jeanine Leane
A stunning work of poetry from an award-winning First Nations writer, seamlessly weaving the personal and the political.
Meg Mason
Spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark and tender, full of pathos, fury and wit, Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason is a dazzling, distinctive novel from a boldly talented writer - now…
Ann Patchett
In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter…
Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot (trans.)
A beautiful, moving story about a small Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time, to find an answer to the question: what would you…
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Bryan Washington
From the bestselling, Dylan Thomas Prize-winning author of Memorial and Lot, a novel about two young men who grew up together, fell away from each other, and then collide…
Nam Le
Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry
Charlotte Wood
A meditative and deeply moving novel from the Stella Prize-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend.
Set in the 1600s, beginning with a voyage across the Atlantic, this is Lauren Groff's inventive novel The Vaster Wilds.
Paul Murray
From the author of Skippy Dies comes a dazzlingly intricate and poignant tragicomedy about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good man at the end of the world
Michael Cunningham
A searing, exquisitely crafted meditation on love and loss, and the struggles and limitations of family life – how to live together and apart, and maybe even escape the marriage…
