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Colson Whitehead
From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.
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Sarah Winman
From the author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a big-hearted story of the families we forge and the friendships that make us.
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Jonathan Franzen
'His best novel yet ... A Middlemarch-like triumph' Telegraph
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Kay Dick
Introduced by Carmen Maria Machado, the radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years: in a nightmarish through-a-glass-darkly Britain, they are coming closer…
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Mohsin Hamid
Traditonal Chinese version of Exit West, a novel about migration and mutation, full of wormholes and rips in reality, begins as it mostly doesn’t go on.
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Victoria Hannan
The winner of the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript.
Evie Wyld
Three women, hundreds of years apart, slip into each other’s lives in a novel of darkness, violence and madness.
Alexis Wright
One of the classics of Australian literature, Alexis Wright’s Miles Franklin award-winning novel is rereleased in a new edition designed by Jenny Grigg.
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Alice Pung
From one of Australia’s most celebrated authors comes a mother-daughter drama exploring the faultlines between love and control.
Susanna Clarke
From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality.
Anna North
A feminist Western about a world in which women’s worth and right to live are determined by the vagaries of fertility.
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Sigrid Nunez
From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of The Friend, comes this mesmerising story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and…
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. For fans…
Nardi Simpson
A captivating Australian saga from the winner of the 2018 black&write! fellowship.
Andrew Pippos
An exuberant, magical Australian saga of family, love and second chances.
Leila Mottley
Nightcrawling is an unforgettable novel about young people navigating the darkest corners of an adult world, told with a humanity that is at once agonising and utterly mesmerising.
Melissa Lucashenko
Too much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get to swallow her opinions. The avalanche of bullshit in the…
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Tony Birch
In The White Girl, Tony Birch has created memorable characters whose capacity for love and courage are a timely reminder of the endurance of the human spirit.
Andrea Lawlor
Transposing Virginia Woolf’s Orlando to 90s San Francisco, this novel of transgender metamorphosis is a wild, sexy, funny and moving story of living on the edge.
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Pat Barker
The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War –
Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge might be described by some as a battle axe or as brilliantly pushy, by others as the kindest person they had ever met. Olive herself has always been…
Amor Towles
21 June 1922 Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin…
Michael Ondaatje
An elegiac novel set in post-WW2 London about memory, family secrets and lies, from the internationally acclaimed author of The English Patient It is 1945, and London is still reeling…
Charlotte Wood
An explosively provocative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control by one of Australia’s most acclaimed writers.
Jennifer Down
Pulse Points is the collected stories by Jennifer Down, author of Our Magic Hour and one of Australia’s newest and most promising literary talents.
Kent Haruf
From the Folio Prize-shortlisted author of Plainsong, Eventide and Benediction, a stunning novel about finding happiness.
Rachel Cusk
The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions - personal, moral, artistic, practical - as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her…
Hannah Kent
In the year 1825, in a remote valley lying between the mountains of south-west Ireland, near the Flesk river of Killarney, three women are brought together by strange and troubling…
Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a…
Ann Patchett
For use in schools and libraries only. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how a chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved.
Sayaka Murata
The surprise smash hit - Japan’s answer to Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.
Ian McEwan
Epic, mesmerising and deeply humane, Lessons is a chronicle for our times - a powerful meditation on history and humanity through the prism of one ordinary man
Trent Dalton
An utterly wonderful novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age from one of Australia’s most exciting new writers.
Richard Powers
A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe.
Originally published in 2014, Alexis Wright's classic novel The Swan Book is being rereleased in a new edition designed by Jenny Grigg.