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HUGO AWARDWINNER FOR FOR BEST NOVEL 2022 THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER An absorbing historical fantasy, She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan reimagines the rise to power...

WINNER 2022 NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD INDIGENOUS WRITER'S PRIZE2022 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS HIGHLY COMMENDEDGundagai, 1852. The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in its wake....

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure.Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home is nestled in the quiet suburb of Westgrove, Sydney – populated...

*Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021*An ancient ocean roars under the red dirt. Hush. Be still for just a moment. Hear its thunder-ing waves crashing on unseen shores.Spanning...

A grandson tries to learn the family story. But what kind of story is it? Is it a prison memoir, about the grandfather imprisoned without charge or trial by a...

*Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction* *Longlisted for the Voss Literary Prize 2020*'Vital, brutal and tender, The Palace of the Angels is written...

From the winner of the SMH/Age Best Young Novelist of the Year and the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year.Growing up can feel like a death sentenceLife...

'The narrative voice is yarning, chatty and sardonic, but under all the jokes and stories there's a sharp critique of bureaucrats and institutions, and an appreciation of the heroic nature...

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart.When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking...

Now in B format, the superb novel from leading Indigenous storyteller Tony Birch exploring the lengths we will go to in order to save the people we love.'Odette, be sensible....

Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award (2000)Harley, a man of Nyoongar ancestry, finds himself at a difficult point in the history of his country, family and self.As the apparently...

A new edition of this award-winning title, Every Secret Thing is filled with humour, joy and despair. It is an unflinching insight into the legacy of Australia’s mission era.Every Secret...

From the award-winning author of Stone Sky Gold Mountain, this stunning story collection includes two prize-winning novellas along with an impressive range of historical and contemporary stories exploring the inner...

This story came to me and entered my soul. It did not need a key or an invite, for it already belonged. It walked in, shook my foundation and set...

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...

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 the...

He Who Drowned the World is the sequel to the Sunday Times bestseller She Who Became the Sun. What would you give to win the world? Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant...

A powerful, personal novel about women and justice, from one of this country's most loved and clear-eyed storytellers.It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his...

For perhaps the first time in novel form, Benevolence presents an important era in Australia's history from an Aboriginal perspective. Benevolence is told from the perspective of Darug woman, Muraging...

‘You can’t enslave us all, Captain!’ I yelled into his face. ‘We will resist, and you will die a beaten man. Our Blackfellows will rise...’ From the acclaimed author of...

Born into the grinding poverty of peasant life in the Chinese village of Lung Sun, Ah Pah had little expectation of ever venturing far from the village. But, orphaned at...

*Shortlisted for the Small Press Network 2021 Book of the Year Award* The Tiniest House of Time is more than a family saga, ranging across continents and decades seamlessly, from...

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

A deeply moving novel about tradition, love, war and the sorrow & hope exile will bring.'The women arrive first, on an afternoon like any other, when Henna is safely enclosed...

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...

25th anniversary editionIn this brilliant, wide-ranging novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and making the timeless heart and soul of this...

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,...

A stunning novel detailing the real relationship between Vincent van Gogh and his mistress, model and muse, Sien Hoornik.The Hague, 1882, a howling winter's night. Sien and her daughter are...

1941, West Java. Love and revolution are in the air. And war is on its way.Shortly before the Japanese invade, the van Hoorn family throws their famous Sinterklaas party at...

ONE OF COSMOPOLITAN'S BEST BOOKS TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2023'A girl is a burden. A girl is a curse.'Madurai, 1992. A young mother in a poor family, Janani is...

A hauntingly beautiful love story about the ties that bind from award-winning author, Simone Lazaroo.Elspeth is full of inexpressible longings — to leave behind her beginnings in a small wheatbelt...

A charming debut historical mystery set in 1914 Fiji.1914, Fiji: Akal Singh, 25, would rather be anywhere but this tropical paradise — or, as he calls it, 'this godforsaken island'....