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    *Shortlisted for the TAG Hungerford Manuscript Award 2018**Shortlisted for the International Chaffinch Press Manuscript Award (Ireland)*Chilling to read, cut with powerful energy and strong feeling.T or Timothy lives on the economic margins, both using...
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    Never Look Desperate
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    Never Look Desperate

    Never Look Desperate is Sedaris meets Fleabag, a tragi-comedy romance set in Melbourne 2023. It features cremation bling, pineapple underwear, grief and vaccinated cruise ships. The central characters Bernard, Goldie and Minh are everything TED Talks...
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    The Crying Room
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    The Crying Room

    The Crying Room movingly explores family boundaries and stories, finding original ways to express the contradictory experience of belonging to a family, and being an individual at the same time.When Bernie Rodgers and her husband move to the coastal town...
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    Serengotti
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    Serengotti

    In the one tumultuous day, Ch'anzu loses hir job and finds wife Scarlet in bed with a stranger. As life unexpectedly spirals out of control, Ch'anzu turns to hir charismatic Aunt Ma for comfort and wisdom, and makes the bold move to work on a project in...
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    The Terrible Event
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    The Terrible Event

    From the winner of the Russell Prize for Humour Writing. David Cohen's most wryly humorous and disturbing work of fiction yet.A public memorial's name is changed to avoid any mention of the tragedy it has been set up to commemorate. Two...
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    Call Me Marlowe
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    Call Me Marlowe

    Set in both Prague and Melbourne, Call Me Marlowe captures a man's search for his motherland in the hope of making sense of his life.With a delicate touch, the novel embodies the nature of trauma - both personal and political - in people's lives. Harold...
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    An Ungrateful Instrument
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    An Ungrateful Instrument

    'I want to tell a story. A long but simple story. A tale of long recovery. A tale of love. A tale of lost and found.'In his remarkable new novel, award-winning Australian author Michael Meehan sensitively explores the links between generational conflict,...
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    Kangaroo Stew
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    Kangaroo Stew

    'You gonna sell your soul for a fist full of diamonds?'David's family think he's come home for the anniversary of his Dad's death. But he's got another reason to return home he's working to broker a deal with a mining company to dig up his own sacred...
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    A Most Peculiar Act
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    A Most Peculiar Act

    '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 of resistance.' - Kerryn...
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    FIFO - Fit In or F**k Off!
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    FIFO - Fit In or F**k Off!

    JONO: 'Sometimes it feels like...' [Pause]. 'I don't fit in at home! I'm tryin' to juggle two worlds here and if you don't tell me things, it gets easier and easier to keep my life at camp separate to my life at home.'FIFO Fit In or F**k Off! explores...
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    Tell
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    Tell

    'I can talk for as long as you like, no problem. You'll just have to tell me when to stop. How far back do you want to take it?'Tell is a probing and compelling examination of the ways in which we make stories of our own lives and of other people's...
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    Paradise Estate
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    Paradise Estate

    The new novel from the author of The Magpie Wing, longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award.It's 2022 and Helen is starting again. Newly single, adrift in a hostile rental market, she finds a four-bedroom house flanked by apartment blocks that...
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    Happy Stories, Mostly
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    Happy Stories, Mostly

    *Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize**Shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2022*Happy Stories, Mostly is a playful, charged and tender collection of twelve stories a blend of speculative fiction and dark absurdism, often...
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    Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life
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    Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

    From the discomfort of my own home I buy dresses, look up recipes, do online surveys.In Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life, an unnamed young woman in her late twenties navigates unemployment, boredom, chronic illness and online dating. Her activities are banal...
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    The Magpie Wing
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    The Magpie Wing

    Helen, Walt and Duncan are looking for ways to entertain themselves in the sprawl of Sydney's western suburbs. Walt, scrappy and idealistic, wants to prove a point, and turns to petty vandalism. His friend Duncan sticks to his fledgling football career,...
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    A Body of Water
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    A Body of Water

    *Winner of the Australian Book Design Award 2021: Best Designed Literary Fiction Cover*A new edition of Beverley Farmer's out-of-print classic A Body of Water, which in its mixing of genres - essay, memoir, fiction, folk tale - opened up new...
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    Napoleon's Beekeeper
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    Napoleon's Beekeeper

    Winner ofthe prestigious 'Premio Novela Breve Juan March Cencillo'May 1814. On the island of Elba, the beekeeper Andrea Pasolini awaitsthe arrival of the defeated, exiled emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte. Pasolini is a self-taughtdisciple of the...
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    The House of Youssef
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    The House of Youssef

    Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards UTS Glenda Adas Award for New WritingLonglisted for the Stella Prize 2020Shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: FictionThe House of Youssef is a...
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    Dry Milk
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    Dry Milk

    John Lee is a lonely and increasingly misanthropic Chinese migrant whohas lived in Auckland for thirty years, running a second-hand junk shop whilemaintaining a relationship of disdain with his disabled wife. When hebecomes infatuated with a...
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    Imminence
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    Imminence

    *Joint Winner of the NSW Translation Prize 2021*We're alone together, for the first time. I have to touch him now. I try stroking a foot, then a shoulder. But no current lifts in me, nothing pulls at my chest they way they said it would.A new...
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    Coach Fitz
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    Coach Fitz

    Tom Lee is one of Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelists 2019One of the strangestand most appealing novels you will read this year!Tom Lee's first novel is about a young jogger who is in a relationshipwith an older woman. She is both his...
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    Melodrome
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    Melodrome

    Lerena Dost is adominant and successful woman until she and her psychoanalyst Suano Botilecue crossan ethical boundary and are disgraced, after their sexual relationship is madeknown. Both lose everything.Then, a chance encounter with a mysteriouswoman...
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    Gerald Murnane: Collected Short Fiction
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    Gerald Murnane: Collected Short Fiction

    Definitive collection of the short fiction of an Australian master-storyteller who is in a league of his own.Released simultaneously with Farrar Straus Giroux's editions of Border Districts and Collected Short Fiction in New York, an event which...
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    Letter to Pessoa
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    Letter to Pessoa

    "Line by line, Cahill's writing is musical, assured: cumulatively, her seriousness is evident, her ambition impressive." - Hilary MantelLetter to Pessoa is the first collection of short stories by award-winning Goan-Australian poet Michelle...
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    Landscape with Landscape
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    Landscape with Landscape

    Landscape with Landscape is Gerald Murnane's fourth book, after The Plains, and his first collection of short fiction. When it was first published, thirty years ago, it was cruelly reviewed. 'I feel sorry for my fourth-eldest,...
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    The Town
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    The Town

    A new edition of Shaun Prescott's internationally acclaimed debut novel, first published in 2017.Accompanies Prescott's follow-up, Bon and Lesley, released by Giramondo in September 2022.It is a town of dwindling fortunes: of petrol stations and...
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    Septology
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    Septology

    The celebrated Norwegian novelist's magnum opus, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, published in one volume for the first time.What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an ageing painter and widower who...
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    Praiseworthy
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    Praiseworthy

    **Winner, Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024****Winner, Stella Prize 2024****Winner, Queensland Literary Awards, Fiction Book Award****Winner, The James Tait Black Prize, Fiction 2024****Winner, ALS Gold Medal 2024****Shortlisted, The Dublin Literary...
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    Mortal Divide

    Giramondo is proud to republish George Alexander's award-winning novel Mortal Divide, one of the great works of fiction on the relationship between migration and identity in Australian literature.Should be read with Evelyn Juers' recent Giramondo...
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    Bon and Lesley
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    Bon and Lesley

    When a spreading fire in the mountains stops his train just outside an almost abandoned town, Bon looks out the window and does what he's always imagined he might he steps out of his life without looking back. There, he falls into the company of two...
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    An Ordinary Ecstasy
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    An Ordinary Ecstasy

    A new collection of stories by the award-winning author of An Elegant Young Man and Intimate Antipathies.The seven stories that make up An Ordinary Ecstasy explore the lives of people whose days are awash with enigma, wonder, and epiphany: a musician who...
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    Death Fugue
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    Death Fugue

    Published for the first time in English byGiramondo, Death Fugue is the boldattempt by a prominent Chinese novelist to confront the legacy of protest and suppressionwhich haunts her generation.Sheng Keyi was born in Hunan province in 1973 andlives in...
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    A Million Windows
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    A Million Windows

    This new work of fiction by one ofAustralia's most highly regarded authors focuses on the importance of trust, andthe possibility of betrayal, in storytelling as in life. It tests the relationshipestablished between author and reader, and on occasions of...
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    Bapo
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    Bapo

    Nicholas Jose was Cultural Counsellor at the Australian Embassy in Beijing from 1987 to 1990, at a vital moment in China's history, and has played an important role in artistic relations between the two countries since then. The title of his new...
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    An Elegant Young Man
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    An Elegant Young Man

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 ALS GOLD MEDALFora long time Western Sydney has been the political flash-point of the nation,but it has been absent from Australian literature. Luke Carman's first book offiction changeS all that: a collection of monologues and...
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    Garden Book

    Brian Castro's novel is set in the Dandenong Ranges in the years between the Depression and the Second World War.The story revolves around Swan Hay, born Shuang He, daughter of a country schoolteacher, her marriage to the passionate and brutal Darcy...
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    Shanghai Dancing
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    Shanghai Dancing

    Shanghai Dancing is the most highly regarded and popular novel by multi-award winning Australian author, Brian Castro. In it, his fictional persona Antono Castro faces dispossession in Australia after the death of his parents. In an attempt to recover...
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    A Workingman's Cemetery
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    A Workingman's Cemetery

    A Workingman's Cemetery unearths the contents of a small bone orchard in 41 short, fictional biographies. The histories of the interred, from a Hunter coalmining village now gone, are connected by the spectacularly unkempt life of Ronald Borthwick, the...
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    The Mother Must Die
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    The Mother Must Die

    The fashion industry is killing the planet but I really need that new designer handbag...Her daughter is divorcing and she's going to die because of it... The mother must be medicated... I just want to be in Cyprus, why would I want to be in Australia.....
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    Twitchers
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    Twitchers

    When Richard's campaign for dog food is trolled with hostile memes, he wants to celebrate. For three months, the London adman's been pushing increasingly risky themes in an effort to get sacked without losing his career-minded...
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    Surviving Hal
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    Surviving Hal

    Mothers-in-law are famous for beingdifficult but when Nell marries Andy it's her father-in-law, Hal, who is theproblem. A corrosive force in his own family, Hal is a truly ugly Australianwho spreads his corruption whenever he gets the chance. Surviving...
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    Everyone on Mars
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    Everyone on Mars

    This collection of short fiction is an imagining of the impact - personal, interpersonal, psychological and existential - of our forthcoming colonisation of Mars. It interweaves threads of the isolation, loss and alienation of living on inhospitable...
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    The Director and the Daemon
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    The Director and the Daemon

    The Director and the Daemon follows the director of a big budget Australian sci-fi TV show grappling with the dilemma of corporate sponsorship, and their infatuation with their beautiful but selfish lead star, Kit; and an unnamed young radical struggling...
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