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‘I was consumed by the mystery at the heart of the story – the question of where we go and what happens to us under the narcotic oblivion of anaesthesia. Charged with menace and paranoia, this is a masterfully plotted psychological thriller.’ J.P. Pomare

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Oblivion

Patrick Holland

‘Holland is, quite simply, one of the best prose stylists working in Australia today.’ Matthew Condon

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Mural

Stephen Downes

‘Mural takes us inside the mind of a deranged criminal. We don’t know what ‘D’ has done. But the insight into his thinking and psychopathy, thanks to Downes’s elegant, taut and compelling storytelling ensures that this novel will shadow its readers long after the final page.’ Paul Daley

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Beam of Light

John Kinsella

‘From Ireland to Greece to the Australian countryside – threatened by catastrophic heat, land clearing, housing estates and strip malls – Kinsella’s characters, so often on the edge, sear the consciousness.

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A Cold Season

Matthew Hooper

‘This is dramatic, lyrical writing at its best; deeply felt and deeply moving. A work of art that is also a page-turner. An instant classic.’ Antoni Jach

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My Name is Gucci

Sun Jung

‘A comic and moving Homeric odyssey about Gucci the dog, who must deal with, and outwit, the most problematic species of all – humans.’ Louis Nowra

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The Rewilding

by Donna M Cameron

‘A breathless chase thriller with a warm ecological heart.’
—Inga Simpson, author of The Last Woman in the World

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The White Cockatoo Flowers

by Ouyang Yu

Funny, tender and personal. Deftly peels back the layers on what it means to be a writer, a spouse, a parent and a stranger on foreign and familiar ground.

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The Changing Room

by Belinda Cranston

‘A haunting story about travel as it once was, yet still can be, both profound and life changing.’ —Peter Bishop

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The Queen's Apprenticeship

by Tracy Ryan

'An enthralling novel of passion, literature and power.' Dominique Wilson

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The Crying Room

by Gretchen Shirm

‘Deeply rewarding. Shirm dances with a light step across the delicate territory between laughing and weeping.’ Helen Garner

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Serengotti

by Eugen Bacon

‘A novel that dances with a haunted grace, with characters who will sear themselves into your memory.’ David Carlin

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Never Look Desperate

by Rachel Matthews

‘Matthews understands the pleasures of tragi-comedy and knows exactly how to deliver them – the giggle that turns into a sob, the delight that morphs into insight, the black humour that assuages grief.’ Sian Prior

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Late

by Michael Fitzgerald

‘Fitzgerald’s affection and respect for his subject, whom we all know and don’t know at all, results in a voice that rings true: warm, tender, passionate, smart, self-aware and very, very witty.' C.J. Johnson

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An Ungrateful Instrument

by Michael Meehan

A novel that soars in language and wisdom, that both embodies and transcends it period setting.

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The Bell of the World

by Gregory Day

‘Regionalist and universal, historical and timeless … an urgent call for us not to speak but listen.’ Maria Takolander

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Cellnight

by John Kinsella

‘Moving, incandescent, quietly devastating.’ Declan Fry

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Call Me Marlowe

by Catherine de Saint Phalle

‘From Melbourne to Prague, the story delicately embodies the nature of trauma, both personal and political’

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Sweeney and the Bicycles

by Philip Salom

‘He writes with such warmth; indeed, there is much affection on the pages, between the author and his characters, between the characters themselves, and between the author and his readers.’  The Canberra Times

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