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Our top picks of the month for book clubs
When Meddy Chan accidentally kills her blind date, she turns to her aunties for help. Their meddling set her up on the date so they kind of owe her. Hiding this goddamn dead body is going to be harder than they thought – especially when her family’s wedding business has THE biggest wedding of the year happening right now.…
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
Second Place by Rachel Cusk
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
The Truth About China by Bill Birtles
Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz
Turns Out I’m Fine by Judith Lucy
The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Love Objects by Emily Maguire
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
Our best-seller from the past week is Rachel Cusk’s l…
Essay collections to read in May
In twelve intensely personal, interconnected essays, Emily Bernard sets out to tell stories from her life that enable her to talk about truth, race, family and relationships, and much more.
She observes the complexities and paradoxes…
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Toxic by Richard Flanagan
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Turns Out I’m Fine by Judith Lucy
With the Falling of the Dusk by Stan Grant
Design: Building on Country by Alison Page & Professor Paul Memmott, edited by Margo Neale
The Truth About China by Bill Birtles
Emotional Female by Yumiko …
Our children’s & YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
Cut to the Chase (Bad Guys, Episode 13) by Aaron Blabey
As Fast As I Can By Penny Tangey
Don’t Forget by Jane Godwin & Anna Walker
The Gaps by Leanne Hall
The Rock from the Sky by Jon Klassen
Young Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
Mothering Heights (Dog Man, Book 10) by Dav Pilkey
Dead or Alive by Derek Landy
Lightfall: The Girl and the Galdurian by Tim Probert
The Edge of Thirteen by Nova Weetman
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Dear Reader, May 2021
Jamie Marina Lau was shortlisted for the 2018 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction for her standout debut, Pink Mountain on Locust Island. This unique novel won the author many fans, with many of our staff among its greatest champions. Lau’s follow-up is the brilliantly titled Gunk Baby. Largely set in the hermetic world of a shopping centre, this clever narrative is cut through with incisiv…
Experimental fiction that pushes the envelope
The metropole is a place where every decision, every m…
What we’re reading: Bennett, Gong & Bardugo
The Vanishing Half is one of those extraordinary novels that stays with you long after you turn the final page. This cross-generational story about two sisters whose lives are intrinsi…
Evie Wyld wins the 2021 Stella Prize
The Bass Rock is a novel that weaves together the lives of three women across four centuries. It’s about the legacy of male violence and the ways in which these traumas ripple and reverberate across time and place. Each woman’s choices are circumscribed, in ways big and small, b…
Small press & self-published highlights in April
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