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Shortlisted Readings New Australian Fiction Prize 2020Growing up is always hard, but especially when so many think you're a washed-up has-been at twenty-two. Jena Lin plays the violin. She was...

Wen Zhou is determined to create a future for herself that is more satisfying than the life her parents expect her to lead. Equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful, Tiger Daughter...

When my dad dropped us off at the front gate, the first things I saw were the rose garden spreading out on either side of the main driveway and the...

Longlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award. From the winner of the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, this tender, moving portrait of an improbable friendship and multicultural...

From the winner of the inaugural Matilda Prize comes a heartwarming coming-of-age story about growing up in Australia when you're caught between two culturesLayla Karimi has been cursed by the...

Conspiracies, memes, and therapies of various efficacy underpin this beguiling short-story collection from Elizabeth Tan.In the titular story, a cat-shaped oven tells a depressed woman she doesn’t have to be...

When a mother and daughter take the overseas trip of a lifetime, they discover that the past is never quite behind them.When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother...

*FINALIST FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARDS 2019**WINNER OF THE NSW PREMIERS LITERARY AWARDS MULTICULTURAL NSW AWARD 2019*'Bani Adam thinks he's better than us!' they say over and over until...

Four people, figuring out sex, love, and how to ‘adult.’Sydney — one of those places that just consumes you. A private school boy, a tortured drug dealer, a starving writer...

I looked at the streets of Yagoona through eyes stinging with melted Maybelline liquid liner. Yagoona looked back at me, the wannabe hipster who dreamed of moving to a share...

In the cafe, I watch as a woman takes a photo of her plate an impressive, glossy lime-coloured dessert with shards of chocolate perched on top. I want to feel...

A road trip with unlikely companions, a girl with a unique way of seeing the world, a great loss and a struggle of identity; Metal Fish, Falling Snow is an...

A story about what it means to be a friend …Five women, best friends for decades, meet once a month to talk about books … and life, love and the...

Funny, touching uplit set in the Sydney restaurant scene. Bitter & Sweet will be Amal Awad's breakout bookThe lake in the middle of her father's kitchen is only the first...

'I only ever asked you for one thing,' my father said, a quiver in his voice. 'Just this one thing.' It was as though I had smashed the Ten Commandments....

Winner of the 2022 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize. A finely observed debut novel of a young Muslim woman's experience of immigration to Australia from Sri Lankan-Australian writer Ayesha Inoon.Zia secretly longs...

From the Man Booker prize-winning author of The White TigerDanny — Dhananjaya Rajaratnam — is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, denied refugee status after he has fled from his native...

Jamie wants to be the real thing. From the roots of her dyed blonde hair…There are a lot of things Jamie hates about her life: her dark hair, her dad's...

Vivian Walker is dying. This is not on her list of things to do. A darkly funny debut that proves even the most imperfect of lives is worth celebrating.Now that...

Evocative, taut and wryly funny, this stunning novel is about faith and lies, the spirit and the fleshEstranged from her family, Natasha is making a life for herself in Darwin...

After their family encounters terrible hardship in rural China, siblings Fu and Pei must draw on all their resilience and courage as they embark on a dangerous journey towards a...

A poignant and powerful novel about a fire-obsessed Indigenous boy living on the margins — from an electrifying new First Nations voice in Australian fiction, Melanie Saward.When a tragic bushfire...

Malti Fortune is uneasy. She has turned away from her birthplace of Fiji to make a new life in Melbourne. But all that she thought was certain is now in...