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A spellbinding literary debut set in Malaysia exploring family relationships, love and warMary is a difficult grandmother for Durga to love. Sharp-tongued and ferocious, Durga hopes simply to endure her...

Cicchetti in Venice Explore Venice and its distinctive cicchetti via this collection of recipes, stories and photographs. Cinnamon and Salt is a collection of recipes, stories and photographs that invites...

A compelling, relatable and powerfully moving memoir of people-pleasing, family and what it means to love and be loved, from radio presenter and podcaster Linda Marigliano. Linda Marigliano has built...

Direct from the traditional home kitchens of Bali, Paon is a cookbook of true Balinese food and recipes.Sharing more than 80 dishes alongside essays and beautiful photography capturing the life,...

A stirring coming-of-age novel about guilt, loss, love and memory. Others Were Emeralds explores the inherent danger of allowing our misconceptions to shape our reality. This is the part in...

Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan – a dazzling queer historical fantasy of war and destiny set in an epic alternate China, and sequel to Sunday Times bestselling She...

Memoir-essays from an award-winning writer, exploring race, sex, familial expectations, and identity. Raised by strict, religious, Malaysian Chinese parents in Brisbane's southern suburbs, Yen-Rong Wong internalised an idealised image of...

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...

Disability, Humanity, and the NDIS What ails the NDIS? Caring or careless? In this powerful and moving essay, Micheline Lee tells the story of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, a...

A profound guide to existing on your own terms, the first trade book from renowned intersectional feminist scholar Sara Ahmed We have to keep saying it because they keep doing...

Shanghai Dancing is the most highly regarded and popular novel by multi-award winning Australian author, Brian Castro. In it, his fictional persona Antonío Castro faces dispossession in Australia after the...

Follow Sam Kerr’s incredible journey from playing Aussie Rules as a kid to becoming one of the world’s greatest athletes, after the Matildas achieved their best-ever result at a World...

Recipes from a Lao Kitchen Sam Sempill was born in Australia and raised in a traditional Lao family. The recipes in this book follow the trail of Sam's grandmother's cooking...

A beautiful illustrated memoir from beloved Australian musician Kate Ceberano, featuring her inspirational song lyrics, stories, paintings and embroidery, and celebrating four decades of songwriting and recording on the release...

Use your voice, change the world Power to the People addresses growing voter apathy and disenchantment worldwide - that familiar sense that governments have become decoupled from their constituencies, that votes no longer...

A debut poetry collection by the acclaimed writer Suneeta Peres da Costa, author of the Prime Minister's Literary Award-shortlisted novel Saudade. In the title poem of Suneeta Peres da Costa's debut...

One of Australia’s most important novelists writes about the experience of old age. Abraham Quin is in his mid-seventies, a migrant, thrice-divorced, a one-time postman and professor, a writer now...

Recipes and Stories from Australia’s Regional Chinese Restaurants Chopsticks or Fork? is a collection of stories and recipes from Chinese restaurants in regional Australia, based on the six-part ABC series created...

It's Black Friday - and the apocalypse is on sale! Ever since the world filled with portals to hell and bloodthirsty demons started popping out on the reg, Jasper's life...

Siang Lu's searing debut is a black comedy about the whitewashing of the Asian film industry, told in the form of an oral documentary It sounded like a good idea...

Irresistible Asian Street Eats at Home Bring the big flavors of Asian street food to your next meal with 60 new recipes from MasterChef Australia alum and restauranteur Brendan Pang....

 — We listen to the disorganisation of organisation, where form becomes force. It was through this music that I came to the Hindu music of my maternal line. One collective chant...

The Director and the Daemon follows the director of a big budget Australian sci-fi TV show grappling with the dilemma of corporate sponsorship, and their infatuation with their beautiful but selfish...

'Poetry is / can / be anything … everything,' says When I die slingshot my ashes onto the surface of the moon. She is sleepy, but they cannot sleep. It is...

The Ultimate Marketing Playbook to Grow Your Online Business Are you ready to supercharge your sales? When it comes to growing a business, it's no longer about what you sell,...

Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-year-old Nessie. Their playdates are little oases of wildness, joy, and...

From the winner of the 2023 Penguin Literary Prize. Lei Ling Wen is lonely. Bored of her demanding after-school schedule of tuition, study and violin lessons, she struggles to see...

My experience of racism in Australia and how I found hope through community This is a book for anyone who believes that racism has no place in Australia’s future and...

A wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner of the ABIA for Literary Fiction Book of the Year. 'Tu is original,...

Debunk the Myths and Discover What Goes into Your Beauty Routine Accessible, illustrated beauty and skincare expertise from Instagram's cosmetic chemist Dr Michelle Wong a.k.a Lab Muffin Beauty ScienceWill eating...

Perfect for fans of Haruki Murakami, Ghost Cities is a profound and highly imaginative novel that cleverly draws on Chinese history to explore the absurdity of modern life and work.Ghost Cities - inspired...

An interrogation of ecotourism, a celebration of animals and an impassioned call for the need to protect our natural world Thirty years ago, two trips to iconic destinations, Africa and...

The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was a beautiful evening. The wind gathered speed, lifting the frangipanis from the grove...

‘He looked down at his watch and saw that the long hand was overlapping the short, pointing towards twelve. The old year had passed and the new year had begun....

How much time and energy does it take to fall in love? Or rinse mottled wings? Does Alexandra Kollontai represent a spectre of utopian promises, or merely a blank space...

A coming-of-age tale of love and cultural reconnection set in modern-day Kuala Lumpur KATIE CHEN, 16, lives in the unremarkable suburb of Narre Warren in Australia with her somewhat reclusive...

She needs to write the ending ... before she meets hers. Theo has one dream—to become a bestselling author. Determined to make her mark in the literary world, she heads...

When twin sisters Amber and Jeanie are accepted into an exclusive boarding school, their future looks bright. But the school's halls harbour a terrible secret: students have been known to...

Sparks fly in this glittering romantic comedy about love, marriage and mistaking your own identity. Matchmaking is easy. Falling in love on the other hand . . . Saima knows...

A suicide. A shooting. And a reckoning, decades in the making. The must-read new Detective Kate Miles novel from 'a born storyteller' (Michael Robotham). Weeks from Christmas in the sweltering...

In the powerful follow up to her critically acclaimed debut collection, poet and activist Fariha Róisín is writing, praying, clawing, and scratching her way out of the grips of generational...

Read this book if you want to tell a better story, win more customers, earn more loyalty and make more money. Being good at marketing might seem like a dark...

AN OBSTETRICIAN'S GUIDE TO PREPARING FOR CHILDBIRTH: WARM, INFORMATIVE AND FUNNY. For most mums-to-be, the birth suite is a black box. An alarming number venture in with little clue of...

This Working Life is the book you need to navigate your career with courage, openness and a good dose of laughter in these chaotic and uncertain times. Springing off the...

A glorious new edition of the multi-award-winning historical novel about outsiders on the Queensland gold fields It is 1877 and trouble is brewing on the Queensland gold fields. Siblings Ying...

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...

Long-term population directions, in terms of both size and age composition, drive the destiny of all nations. While for decades we have worried about global overpopulation, it is far more...

Discover the food of the Philippines’ 7000 tropical islands.Colourful and vibrant, Filipino food is the culmination of naturally salty, sour and sweet ingredients from the land, along with the heart-warming...

Exploring the blurry frontier of fertility and its very human fallout.An astonishing real-life whodunnit and investigative exposé, Brave New Humans reveals the uncomfortable realities of assisted reproduction and its very...

A work of defiance, Ouyang Yu's most recent bilingual collection gathers much of his experimental work, with some of the poems collected in this book dating as far back as...