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Tara Calaby
A compulsively readable historical romance, House of Longing combines an effortless instinct for narrative with impeccable research, lightly worn. The debut of a major talent.
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Karen Joy Fowler
A major new novel from million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.
Evie Wyld
Three women, hundreds of years apart, slip into each other’s lives in a novel of darkness, violence and madness.
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Nardi Simpson
A captivating Australian saga from the winner of the 2018 black&write! fellowship.
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Ann Patchett
Told with Ann Patchett’s inimitable blend of wit and heartbreak, The Dutch House is a story of family, betrayal, love, responsibility and sacrifice; of the powerful bonds of place and…
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Maggie O'Farrell
Two extraordinary people. A love that draws them together. A loss that threatens to tear them apart.
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Eleanor Catton
The astonishing and epic novel that won the 2013 Man Booker Prize
Tiffany McDaniel
A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl discovers stark truths that will haunt her for the rest of her life.
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Clare Chambers
A novel of unexpected second chances set in 1950s England.
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Robert Jones Jr.
Love, in all its permutations, is the discovery at the heart of Robert Jones Jr’s breathtaking debut, The Prophets.
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Pip Williams
In 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it.
Sarah Waters
Fingersmith moves between the criminal underworld and gloomy gothic mansions of 1860s London in a story of fraud, insanity and secret passion. Set in a den of thieves, it focuses…
Maaza Mengiste
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020, this is an utterly captivating novel about female strength. Set during Mussolini’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King casts a light on the…
Markus Zusak
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and he will become busier still. From the highly-acclaimed author of The Messenger and…
Isabel Allende
A masterful work of historical fiction about hope, exile and belonging, A Long Petal of the Sea is Isabel Allende at the height of her powers.
Rebecca Starford
A powerfully insightful and luminous portrait of courage and loyalty, and the sacrifices made in their name.
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.
Elizabeth Gilbert
A captivating story of botany, exploration and desire, by the multimillion bestselling author of Eat Pray Love.
Colson Whitehead
A devastating, driven narrative by a great American novelist whose work is essential to understanding the current reality of the United States.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Barcelona 1945: young Daniel Sempere is taken to a fabulous secret library called the Cemetery of Forgotten Books where he is told he must ‘adopt’ a single book, promising to…
Toni Morrison
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is…
Anthony Doerr
A blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
Ian McEwan
A story that begins with three young people in the garden of a country house on the hottest day of 1935, and ends with three profoundly changed lives. A depiction…
Lucy Treloar
A stunning debut novel from the winner of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Pacific Region) and the 2013 Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award.
George Saunders
The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn…
A magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
Nguyen Phan Que Mai
A powerful, captivating tale of family secrets and hidden heartache from an internationally acclaimed author
Kate Grenville
A universal and timeless story of love, identity and belonging
Anita Diamant
An international publishing phenomena, this beautiful and thought provoking novel tells the story, lost to history by the chronicles of men, of Dinah, Jacob’s only daughter in the Book of…
Jennifer Egan
The long-awaited novel from the bestselling author of Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit From the Goon Squad.
Geraldine Brooks
Brooks’s luminous second novel, after 2001’s acclaimed Year of Wonders , imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr March. An idealistic abolitionist, March has gone to serve the Union cause…