Fiction 2015

Pacific

Tom Drury

In a triumphant return to the characters that launched his career two decades ago, Tom Drury travels back to Grouse County, the setting of his landmark debut, The End of…

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In the Dark

Mai Jia

Hidden deep in the mountains, the recruits at ‘Unit 701’, China’s secret services, operate in a dark, shadowy world. There is the ‘wind-listener’, a blind surveillance officer who can hear…

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Sweetness #9: A Novel

Stephan Eirik Clark

Fast Food Nation meets The Corrections in the brilliant literary debut T.C. Boyle calls ‘funny and moving.

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Unmarry Me

Nicki Reed

Ruby tells Mark she wants a divorce. It’ll be a fake separation, a protest against marriage inequality. As soon as her sister Peta can marry her girlfriend, BJ, they’ll get…

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Beautiful You

Chuck Palahniuk

Penny Harrigan is a low level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great…

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Ugly Girls

Lindsay Hunter

A powerful, voice-driven novel with the breakneck pace that people have come to expect from Lindsay Hunter.

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The Eye of the Sheep

Sofie Laguna

Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2015.

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List of the Lost

Morrissey

Shows the reality of what is true battling against what is permitted to be true.

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Ghost: 100 Stories to Read with the Lights On

100 scary stories to read with the light on selected and introduced by award-winning author Louise Welsh.

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The Women’s Pages

Debra Adelaide

After her mother’s death, Dove decides to write a whole new story for herself, for her mother and for their literary heroines. In undertaking this labour of love, Dove unwittingly…

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Fifteen Dogs

Andre Alexis

An utterly convincing and moving look at the beauty and perils of consciousness.

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The Art of Crash Landing: A Novel

Melissa DeCarlo

A poignant, darkly funny debut novel about a young woman who travels-penniless, pregnant, and homeless-to her deceased mother’s small southern hometown, and becomes embroiled in a local mystery: what forced…

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Bream Gives Me Hiccups: And Other Stories

Jesse Eisenberg

The fiction debut of Academy Award-nominated actor, playwright and New Yorker contributor Jesse Eisenberg.

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The Hollow of the Hand

- PJ Harvey,Seamus Murphy

The debut book by artist and writer PJ Harvey, in collaboration with film-maker and photographer Seamus Murphy, emerges as a one-of-a-kind collection of poetry and images.

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After Alice

Gregory Maguire

What happened to those left behind when Alice went to Wonderland?

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The Travellers and Other Stories

Carys Davies

Carys Davies’ short story collections Some New Ambush and The Redemption of Galen Pike (winner of the 2015 Frank O'Connor Award), now published in a single volume.

In a remote…

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The Burning Elephant

Christopher Raja

The Burning Elephant is set in Kolkata before and after the assassination of Indira Gandhi, which led to widespread violence against India’s Sikh population. The novel is told from the…

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Golden Age

Jane Smiley

The final novel in Jane Smiley’s masterpiece - the Last Hundred Years trilogy.

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Mosquitoland: ‘Sparkling, startling, laugh-out-loud’ Wall Street Journal

David Arnold

A debut novel of astounding power and heart, MOSQUITOLAND is perfect for fans of Rainbow Rowell, John Green and David Levithan.

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Hope Farm

Peggy Frew

‘They were inescapable, the tensions of the adult world - the fraught and febrile aura that surrounded Ishtar and those in her orbit, that whined and creaked like a wire…

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Blood Kin

Ceridwen Dovey

A chef, a portraitist and a barber are taken hostage in a coup to overthrow their boss, the President. They are held captive in a palatial retreat high above the…

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Ghost River

Tony Birch

The river is a place of history and secrets. For Ren and Sonny, two unlikely friends, it’s a place of freedom and adventure. For a group of storytelling vagrants, it’s…

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Only Ever Yours

Louise O'Neill

The Handmaid’s Tale meets Mean Girls in the award-winning, critically acclaimed debut.

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The Dog

Jack Livings

A wealthy factory owner - once a rural peasant - refuses to help the victims of an earthquake until his daughter starts a relief effort of her own; a powerful…

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Bellweather Rhapsody

Kate Racculia

A genre-bending page-turner, full of knowing nods to pop culture classics from The Shining to Agatha Christie to Glee, Bellweather Rhapsody is a wholly winning new novel from a writer…

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To The Islands

Randolph Stow

Set in the desolate outback landscape of Australia’s north-west, the novel tracks the last days of a worn-out Anglican missionary. Fleeing his mission after an agonising confrontation, he immerses himself…

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Ideal

Ayn Rand

Beautiful but tormented actress Kay Gonda, accused of murder is on the run, and she turns for help to six fans who have written letters to her, each telling her…

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Where There’s Smoke: Outstanding Short Stories by Australian Men

Black Inc.

Where There’s Smoke presents outstanding short fiction by Australia’s finest male writers. These are tales of love, secrets, doubt and torment, the everyday and the extraordinary.

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Above the Waterfall

Ron Rash

From the bestselling author of Serena, a haunting tale set against the backdrop of contemporary Appalachia about lives shaped by violence, passion, and a powerful connection to the land.

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The Promise Seed

Cass Moriarty

A poignant, mesmerising debut novel about an unlikely friendship An elderly man, living alone in the suburbs, thinks back on his life - the missed opportunities, the shocking betrayals, the…

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Welcome to Orphancorp (Orphancorp Trilogy, Book 1)

Marlee Jane Ward

A sharp-edged semi-futuristic riff about a rebellious teenager’s last week at an industrial orphanage.

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Formaldehyde

Jane Rawson

Lives turned upside down by a bureaucratic error in this Kafkaesque work of neo-absurdism.

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The End of Seeing

Christy Collins

Determined to discover the truth about the disappearance of her partner, Nick, Ana sets out to re-trace the route he took as a photojournalist on the other side of the…

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Whispers Through a Megaphone

Rachel Elliott

Sometimes the world can seem too much for just one person

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The Secret Son

Jenny Ackland

I know that two men are coming up the mountain, at this moment, including the boy from far away. I wonder what my grandson’s face will look like.This is a…

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The Waiting Room

Leah Kaminsky

The Waiting Room captures the sights, sounds, accents and animosities of a country overflowing with stories. Dina is a family doctor living in the melting-pot city of Haifa, Israel. Born…

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Fever of Animals

Miles Allinson

With the inheritance he received upon his father’s death, Miles has come to Europe on the trail of the Romanian surrealist, who disappeared into a forest in 1967. But in…

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Little Jewel

Patrick Modiano

A mesmerizing novel by Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano, now superbly translated for English-language readers

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R&R

Mark Dapin

John ‘Nashville’ Grant is an American military policeman in the R&R town of Vung Tau, tucked safely behind the front lines of the Vietnam War. Nashville knows how everything works…

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Surveillance

Bernard Keane

They are watching you. Every move you make. Gripping fiction with an edge of terrifying truth - a brilliant and timely debut novel.

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An Astronaut’s Life

Sonja Dechian

It’s a good father-daughter moment for them. When they finally spot Venus through the telescope, they share a similar sense of looking at something larger than their lives. It’s a…

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The Girl With the Dogs: Penguin Special

Anna Funder

The Girl with the Dogs is a poignantly beautiful novella about what’s really precious in life, from Miles Franklin Award-winning Anna Funder, author of All Th

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Himmler’s Cook

Franz-Olivier Giesbert

The international bestseller, Himmler’s Cook is an utterly charming and beguiling tale of a woman who witnessed the very worst of the 20th century but never lost her passion for…

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Radiance of Tomorrow

Ishmael Beah

Now Beah, whom Dave Eggers has called arguably the most read African writer in contemporary literature, has returned with his first novel, an affecting, tender parable about post-war life in…

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S.N.U.F.F.

Victor Pelevin

S.N.U.F.F. is a hard-hitting and timely satirical story about war, revolution and their relationship with the media.

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Let Me Die In His Footsteps

Lori Roy

First paperback printing, June 2016. Previously published as a Dutton hardcover, 2015.

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A Cure For Suicide

Jesse Ball

From the acclaimed author of Silence Once Begun comes a beguiling new novel about a man starting over at the most basic level, and the strange woman who insinuates herself…

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Prince’s Gambit (Captive Prince Trilogy, Book 2)

C.S. Pacat

Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos, but when his half-brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity…

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Fiction 2015

Pacific

In the Dark

Sweetness #9: A Novel

Unmarry Me

Beautiful You

Ugly Girls

The Eye of the Sheep

List of the Lost

Ghost: 100 Stories to Read with the Lights On

The Women’s Pages

Fifteen Dogs

The Art of Crash Landing: A Novel

Bream Gives Me Hiccups: And Other Stories

The Hollow of the Hand

After Alice

The Travellers and Other Stories

The Burning Elephant

Golden Age

Mosquitoland: ‘Sparkling, startling, laugh-out-loud’ Wall Street Journal

Hope Farm

Blood Kin

Ghost River

Only Ever Yours

The Dog

Bellweather Rhapsody

To The Islands

Ideal

Where There’s Smoke: Outstanding Short Stories by Australian Men

Above the Waterfall

The Promise Seed

Welcome to Orphancorp (Orphancorp Trilogy, Book 1)

Formaldehyde

The End of Seeing

Whispers Through a Megaphone

The Secret Son

The Waiting Room

Fever of Animals

Little Jewel

R&R

Surveillance

An Astronaut’s Life

The Girl With the Dogs: Penguin Special

Himmler’s Cook

Radiance of Tomorrow

S.N.U.F.F.

Let Me Die In His Footsteps

A Cure For Suicide

Prince’s Gambit (Captive Prince Trilogy, Book 2)