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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Laura McPhee-Browne
Bold, dark and sensuous, Little Plum is the stunning follow-up to the award-winning debut Cherry Beach.
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Jess Ho
Fierce, funny and razor-sharp, Raised by Wolves is a potent coming of age story from a savage new voice.
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Claire G. Coleman
From the critically acclaimed author of Terra Nullius comes a novel in the tradition of Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman that explores a future of surveillance, disruption and segregation that…
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Carmel Bird
Carmel Bird seizes on an enforced isolation to re-read a rich dispensary of books from her past
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James McKenzie Watson
A rural thriller from the winner of the 2021 Penguin Literary Prize.
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Georgina Young
A queer time-travel adventure from the award-winning author of Loner
Katerina Gibson
Unpicking the stitches of gender and genre, the stories in this searing, funny, haunting debut explore how our ideas of womanhood shape us, and what they cost us.
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Chris Womersley
Shot through with grief and dark comedy, The Diplomat is a powerful story of love and recovery - and a stark evocation of the fine line between self-destruction and redemption.
Rhett Davis
From the winner of the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript comes a genre bending tour-de-force debut
Fernanda Melchor
Author of the acclaimed novel Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor leads us into a different kind of hell: paradise
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Karen Joy Fowler
A major new novel from million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.
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Yumna Kassab
One small town, a multitude of stories.
Jessica Au
Winner of the inaugural Novel Prize, an elegant and subtle exploration of the mysteries of our relationships to others.
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Natalie Kon-Yu
Drawing on personal narratives, history, social research and interviews with a range of Australian and international experts, The Cost of Labour recognises the difficulties and hurdles parents encounter in Australia…
Marie Rutkoski
A thrilling crime novel set in the Lovely Lady strip club in 1990s Illinois, that asks what it means to be a woman in a dangerous world
Toni Morrison
A stunning, relevant short story (the only one Toni Morrison wrote), with a new substantial introduction from Zadie Smith
Anna Clark
A bold and expansive history that traces the changing and contested project of Australia’s national story. You will think about this country differently after reading this book.
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Tessa Hadley
From Tessa Hadley, bestselling author of Late in the Day and The Past, comes a compulsive new novel about one woman’s sexual and intellectual awakening in 1960s London
Claudia Durastanti
A bold, contemporary and urgent novel from a renowned Italian writer that examines silence in different forms, immigration, family and social class.
Hanya Yanagihara
The eagerly anticipated novel from Hanya Yanagihara, a brilliant exploration of inclusion and exclusion, race and empire, sexuality and disease, love and family.
Xochitl Gonzalez
A dazzling debut about a status-driven wedding planner for New York’s elite grappling with her absent mother and her Puerto Rican roots in the wake of Hurricane Maria
A gorgeous collection of stories inspired by romantic tropes, edited by and including a story from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author Marissa Meyer.
Johann Hari
Why have we lost our ability to focus? What are the causes? And, most importantly, how do we get it back?
