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The new novel by Alexis Wright, whose previous novel Carpentaria won the Miles Franklin Award and four other major prizes including the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award....

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...

Poet Omar Sakr's debut novel is a fierce and fantastic force that illuminates the bonds that bind families together as well as what can break them.An estranged father. An abused...

Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award The yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the language of the Wiradjuri yield...

A big-hearted, beautifully written, utterly engaging novel about love, fear, second chances and the hardest shot in golf, from a sparkling new Australian voice. 'The albatross is just about the...

Translated by Arunava Sinha In Melbourne a one-time research student with interests in philosophy and psychology is diagnosed with her third episode of psychosis. As she is moved from her...

Now in B format, this stunning, prize-winning novel, set alongside the Yarra River, is heartbreaking and uplifting in equal measure.’You find yourself down at the bottom of the river, for...

Irreverent and courageous, Throat is a fierce cry that fights to be heard. This is van Neerven's most powerful work yet. not in Aus, mate bad things don't happen here...

Shane Daniels and Romany Zetz have been drawn into a war that is not their own. Lives will be destroyed, families will be torn apart. Trust will be broken. When...

In late twenty-first century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside a hyper-immersive, hyper-consumerist virtual reality called Gaia. Never Let Me Go meets Black Mirror,...

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...

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...

But the Girl is a wry and razor-sharp coming-of-age novel about belonging, alienation, and the exquisite pleasure and pain of girlhood, for readers of The Idiot by Elif Batuman and...

The new novel from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning Australian author Alexis Wright. Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale...

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...

'These are troubling times. The world is a dangerous place,' the voice of the Chairman said. 'I can continue to assure you of this: within the Wall you are perfectly...

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,...

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...

A sharply humorous tale of romantic love and cultural warfare. When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected farm in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping...

A gripping tale of murder and prejudice from the Miles Franklin Award-winning author of Too Much Lip.Koori teenager Darcy Mango is young, broke and on parole. His biggest problem isn't...

A powerful story of life and death on the run, from the Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning author of Too Much Lip Roo Glover has two highly desirable talents - he...

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...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE VICTORIAN PREMIER’S AWARD FOR FICTION‘her writing is poetic and reverential. The author’s understanding...

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...

‘And then there is a scream. Ragged and terrified. A beat of silence even after it stops, until we all seem to realise that the Reading Room Rules no longer...

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...

They claim they saw nothing. She knows they’re lying. 1996 – Cabramatta, Sydney ‘Just let him go.’ Those are words Ky Tran will forever regret. The words she spoke when...

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...

A stunning debut novel of a family torn apart by tradition and brought back together again by loveTheir mother was sick. Their mother was dying. Laila wanted her to come...

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...

Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, Blood is a coming-of-age story set on the back roads of Australia, with an introduction by Larissa Behrendt.From multi-award-winning author Tony Birch comes...

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...

Written by the legendary Queensland drover Herb Wharton, this is a striking vision of outback Australia — the friendship story of three stockmen working on mulga country in the far...

The most unexpected friendships really can transform your life.Malli is unable to speak outside her own home. The highlight of her life is a weekly phone call with her younger...

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...

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

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...

'It wasn't long before my wet and sticky fascination with life beyond the walls of our home could be read all over my face like soot.' Gabrielle has inherited the...

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...

In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the...

Winner of the 2013 Miles Franklin Award A mesmerising literary novel, Questions of Travel charts two very different lives. Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works...

When the ground beneath your feet is always shifting, how can you ever know where you belong? Jamilah has always believed she knows where her home is: in a house...

A captivating literary journey that delves into the intertwined lives of a town, its people, and a region shaped by revolution and war. The war broke out and she decided...