Bestsellers

Silence is complicity, but how do we confront the cost of speaking up?Sydney, May 2021. Ashraf is an academic whose career and personal life are in freefall. Hannah is a...

A furious and beautiful book from an internationally bestselling author of formidable standing — on sex and power, persecution and resistance Winner of the Palestine Book Award Nahr has been...

Translated by Elisabeth Jaquette From a young Palestinian writer comes this compelling look at the Israel/Palestine conflict, from both the perspective of an Israeli soldier in 1949 as well as...

A woman reeling from a disastrous love affair finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine'Magnificent' OBSERVER'Different to anything else being written right now in English' SUNDAY TIMES'A pretty flawless writer' THE TIMESAfter...

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its...

Translated by Polly Barton The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A city seethes with murderous intentions, family betrayals and morbid desires in this masterpiece of contemporary Gothic. Welcome to Buenos Aires, a place of...

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...

A beautiful, unsettling novel in three acts, about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul. Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. WINNER...

The final ground-breaking novel from renowned, bestselling author Octavia E. Butler. A young girl wakes up in the woods, gravely injured and alone, with no memory of what happened or...

A victorian epic transplanted to Japan, following a Korean family of immigrants through eight decades and four generations. 'This is a captivating book ... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE 2018 Jacky was running. There was no thought in his head, only an intense drive to run. There was no sense he was getting anywhere,...

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025 Longlisted for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction Singapore, 1951 When Josephina is a girl,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2020FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD 2020 ** The Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller ** Brilliant, heartbreaking and highly original, Ocean Vuong's...

Some passions just can't be tamed ... Brynn thought she'd be chasing her dreams, not chasing dogs, when she set off on the adventure of a lifetime. When Bigambul woman...

A stunning, shattering debut novel about two Black British artists falling in and out of love Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black...

'This book has it all . . . a fireworks display from two very talented storytellers' Madeline Miller, internationally bestselling author of Circe and Song of Achilles Co-written by two...

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the...

An electrifying debut from a young Indian-Australian writer, The Degenerates brims with vitality and humour. Following the interwoven lives of four characters across India, Australia and the United States, the...

With an introduction from UQP's First Nations Classics series editor Yasmin Smith, Swallow the Air is the much-loved debut of Miles Franklin Award-winner Tara June Winch.When May's mother dies suddenly, she and...

In her unforgettable new novel, Victorian Premier's Literary Award-winner Melanie Cheng has created this year's literary masterpiece. 'How rare, this delicacy-this calm, sweet, desolated wisdom.' Helen Garner 'Stupendously good' Christos...

A sumptuous historical novel, set against the backdrop of World War I, from 'an enormous talent' (Zadie Smith) **WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARD 2020**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE...

A gem-like parable about Palestine, timely and prismaticNabila Yasmeen is in her eighties. She lives alone with over a hundred plants that she keeps in pots because she can't bear...

The one and only Akwaeke Emezi is back with a breathtaking, sexy and out-of-this world page-turner that will blow away their fans. Son of the Morning weaves together Southern folklore and magic...

The globe-spanning epic of power and family secrets from the Miles Franklin listed author.'An impressive, urgent novel by a talented and courageous writer.' - Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit WestAfter many...

Welcome to a world where, livestreamed to millions, prisoners fight like gladiators for the ultimate prize- their freedom.FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. FIGHT FOR LOVE. WELCOME TO THE KILLING GROUND.'America's new Hunger Games' Sunday Times'So...

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori Mind-blowing, dark and wild, the new novel from Sayaka Murata — author of bestseller Convenience Store Woman — asks: how far would you go just...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024 From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Trees comes a heartbreaking and powerful retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Huck’s friend, the...

NO LAW, NO GUN, NO GOD COULD STOP ME NOW. ONLY HIM. THE KOREAN CULT CLASSIC PHENOMENON A ONCE-IN-A-GENERATION HIT WITH OVER A QUARTER OF A MILLION COPIES SOLD 'A...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller, a vibrant and heartbreaking story of unexpected friendship and how far people go to find a second chance One late summer evening in the town of East...

The new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, internationally bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World There Are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping...

The powerful and poignant new novel from the author of the much-loved A Woman is No Man. Raised in a conservative Palestinian family in Brooklyn, Yara thought she would finally...

A riveting, poetic and unrelentingly powerful work from the author of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize-winning novel The Vegetarian. Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed...

Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Samuel Wagan Watson, Dancing Home is part road-movie, part 'Koori-noir' from an original and darkly funny new voice.'When he was...

A deliciously dark satire on modern privilege from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen (and enfant terrible of American fiction) Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold...

"Normality is the creepiest madness there is..."From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex...

Translated by Polly Barton LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE An extraordinary, thrilling novel about sex, disability and powerBorn with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka Isawa has severe spine curvature...

A New York Times 'Notable Book of 2020' One of Elena Ferrante's 'Top 40 Books by Female Authors' 'A sharply observed and heartbreaking portrait of what it means to be...

The Women’s Prize shortlisted novel about two star-crossed lovers in war-torn Cyprus Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both...

A novel of extraordinary intelligence and heart, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark and haunting examination of the tyranny of experience and memory. When four graduates from a...

In this gripping debut, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence...

Jumaana Abdu is extraordinary and I will read everything she writes.HANNAH KENTAmid a series of personal disasters, Aliyah and her daughter, Sakina, retreat to rural New South Wales to make...

From the bestselling author of Homegoing comes an epic novel from the heart of contemporary America. As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their...

Winner of the 2013 David Unaipon Award Ellen van Neerven's award-winning collection of stories was inspired by the elements, and is exceptionally imaginative and varied. In this award-winning work of...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING 'GOOD FOR HER' NOVEL My Sister, the Serial Killer meets Boy Parts, this literary feminist howl-of-a-debut is going to crawl right under your skin... Ji-won's life is in...

Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction by Melissa Lucashenko, Bitin' Back is a rollicking comic novel that nimbly blends the realities of small town prejudice...

WINNER OF THE JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE MITOQ BEST FIRST BOOK OF FICTIONWINNER OF THE NGAIO MARSH AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL auē1. (verb) to cry,...

Translated by Jamie Chang The multi-million copy selling, international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is the South Korean sensation that has got the whole world talking. The life story of...

Translated by E. Yaewon, Paige Aniyah Morris Like a long winter's dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us on a journey...

Razor sharp. provocatively page-turning and surprisingly tender, Luster is a painfully funny coming-of-age story told by a fresh new voice. WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 LONGLISTED FOR...