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*Highly Commended Fiction — Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021*'Before I go into my grave,' she says out loud, 'I will kill that man.' A brilliant new novel from the author...

Winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Prize for LiteratureThe inaugural winner of The Novel Prize, an international biennial award established by Giramondo (Australia), Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) and New Directions (USA)....

A music loving teen with OCD does everything she can to find her way back to her mother during the historic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in this...

A wry and insightful portrait of contemporary life, this is the much-anticipated follow-up to the award-winning novel Chemistry.Joan is a thirty-something ICU doctor at a busy New York City hospital....

*Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize* *Longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize*A breathtaking collection of stories about our most intimate relationships, and the secrets, misunderstandings and silences that haunt them. A...

British-Punjabi sisters Rajni, Jezmeen and Shirina Shergill have never been close. But now they've been thrown together on the strangest family holiday of all time…When their mother died, she had...

The Old Capital is one of the three works for which Yasunari Kawabata won the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature. Set in Kyoto — the old capital of Japan for...

A stunning debut young adult novel set in Malaysia, charting Aisha and her family on a road trip through the country in search of estranged sister, June. Set against the...

On the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a woman gives birth alone in a Beijing hospital. Years later, her daughter Liya travels from America to China with her mother's...

In this thought-provoking and entertaining debut novel about of a multicultural family, a dying billionaire matriarch leaks news of her death early so she can examine her legacy-a decision that...

Despite the distance, Claire cannot escape the scandals that beset her clan, especially when she discovers that she is a product of one.The Rosales House is a contemporary novel about...

TWO SISTERS. THREE CONTINENTS. FOUR DECADES. ONE DEVASTATING SECRET… Nasrin and Sabrina are two sisters, who on the face of things, live successful and enviable lives in London and New...

We are invisible: we clean your houses, we look after your children, we know your secrets.But now you know one of ours…Rules for being a maid:• No smoking• No boyfriends•...

Thirty years after leaving India for a better future in America, Tina and her family head to Delhi for her cousin's great big Indian wedding extravaganza and wonder if they...

Translated by Chi-Young KimA universal tale of family bonds and out-of-the-ordinary friendships.My Brilliant Life interweaves the past and present of a tight-knit family, finding joy and happiness in even the...

In writing her sister Annie's eulogy, Kathy reflects on the complexities that shaped their family and their identities.It’s winter in Logan, south-east Queensland, and still warm enough to sleep in...

One Uyghur man's epic battle to save his wife and son and bring them to AustraliaIn a remote area of deserts and mountains where the Silk Road once ran, China...

A sparkling K-drama inspired debut teen novel by Grace Shim, THE NOH FAMILY introduces irrepressibly charming teen Chloe Kang, who is reunited with her deceased father's estranged family via a...

Song of the Sun God is about the wisdom, mistakes and sacrifices of our past that enable us to live more freely in the future.Nala and Rajan, a young couple,...