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WINNER OF THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD BEST YOUNG NOVELISTS AWARD 2025 WINNER OF THE KATHLEEN MITCHELL AWARD 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MULTICULTURAL NSW AWARD 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE UTS GLENDA ADAMS AWARD FOR NEW WRITING 2025 'Islanders must...

From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of March and People of the Book comes a vivid and unique new novel for lovers of sweeping historical fiction and books about iconic racehorses like Seabiscuit and Secretariat. WINNER OF THE FICTION INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2023 WINNER OF THE ABIA LITERARY FICTION...

ABIA AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 - HIGHLY COMMENDED LONGLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS CHRISTINA STEAD PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 A SYDNEY MORNING HERALD 'MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2021' 'In this novel, the project of living is...

From the #1 Australian bestselling author of Still comes a compelling and cinematic crime thriller that takes us from Sydney to New York in the heady 1980s. The cloth that was over his head and tied tightly around his neck smelled like the army disposal store he'd been to with his father. Lying...

'A classic Aussie crime novel arrives, like a full-throttle ute through a fence. I gobbled it up like a Pine Lime Splice on a hot day.' KAZ COOKE 'It's amazing to see what Ronni Salt can do when she's freed of a 280-character word limit.' SHAUN MICALLEF It's 1974 in the Riverina The weather is...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, YEAR OF WONDERS and MARCH comes a unique and vivid novel that retells the story of King David's extraordinary rise to power and fall from grace. 1000 BC. The Second Iron Age. The time of King David. Anointed as the chosen one when...

A sexy modern take on ancient Greek myths. She keeps her eyes on me while she lights the end of my cigarette. I stare back at her. Something in the pills and in her eyes is opening up my muscles like hands parting from prayer, like trees breathing. Eros is a stunning collection of short stories...

Cambridge, 1963. Charlotte is struggling. With motherhood, with the changes marriage and parenthood bring, with losing the time and the energy to paint. Her husband, Henry, wants things to be as they were and can't face the thought of another English winter. A brochure slipped through the...

Four perfect strangers. Three days. Can one weekend away change your life? The unputdownable new drama by one of Australia's most beloved storytellers Coming together for a writing workshop with bestselling author Jan Goldstein, four strangers converge upon a luxury forest retreat. But along...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION MEET THE EDWARDS FAMILY Tom Edwards is dying, and cranky. He's made his peace with the dying part. But he'd bet his property - the whole ten thousand acres of it - that there'd be no wailing at his funeral. His kids wouldn't be able to...

The hero of this book was not a saint, nor even a tzadik - the nearest Jewish equivalent - but he was a hero. Someone who risked his own life to make a difference to the life of another. Were his motives selfless? No. He was after all flesh and blood. A man. And a very young one. But life is not...

From the award-winning author of Song of the Crocodile comes a lyrical and masterfully woven novel about women, creation, belonging and the precious fragility of a life. 'Mothers are experts at overflow . . . You may forget the words or kisses or gifts they give but that doesn't mean they didn't...

'A stirring, magical, and emotional novel about family, belonging, marriage, race, and culture ... The best novels are never long enough, and you won't want After the Rain to end' The Australian 'A staggering soulful achievement' The Australian Women's Weekly Malti Fortune is uneasy. She has...

Isa Alaki is not from here. At ten years old, Isa's life in the Congolese city of Bukavu changed forever. The streets were burning. The town was mostly silent, like a ghost town, until the yelling started. At school, Isa knows he has to get home. The soldiers would be looking for his father. The...

'beautiful and lyrical' The Conversation Cynthia was just about to turn sixteen when the unthinkable happened. Her mother was taken away by the police, and her father left without a word three months later. After that night, Cynthia began to walk in slow circles outside the family home looking...

Throughout a childhood spent moving between different countries, one thing was constant for Leen. The local shopping centre. Within those complexes the familiar landscape of logos, the bright lights, the climate controlled environment and the interactions between workers and customers never...