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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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    Host City
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    Host City

    Darlinghurst, Sydney: these are the days of strange rumours. Talk you can catch the gay plague from kissing, or from a mosquito bite. Talk of the government building a wall around 'Darlo' to keep the plague contained. Talk of old quarantine...
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    All the Rivers Run South
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    All the Rivers Run South

    This is supposedly the fictional biography of a street storyteller by the name of Ah Sin active during the gold-digging days of the 1850s and 1860s in Victoria, Australia, told by Zhang Baohui, a mainland Chinese student working on a PhD thesis in...
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    The Interpretation of Cakes
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    The Interpretation of Cakes

    The Interpretation of Cakes is like no other novel you have ever read and is one novel that you will never forget. It's 1916 and Isaak Brodsky has inherited his family's patisserie in the Jewish quarter of Budapest. Here, in the midst of shelves...
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    Only Sound Remains
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    Only Sound Remains

    **Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024**Saeed has not returned to Iran after publishing his novel The Imaginary Narrative of a Real Murder for fear of political persecution. He is surprised when Ismael, his father who has never left Iran,...
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    The Carnal Fugues
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    The Carnal Fugues

    A wayward, wanton selection of stories grounded in displacement, desire, and the wish coursing through us to accede to the state of love. There is torment and illness, crude reality and distant fragrant places, peopled by characters that reside close to...
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    The Strong Dress
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    The Strong Dress

    It is 1977 and Kate is a seventeen-year-old HSC student from Sydney's North Shore. She has dreams of becoming the next Ita Buttrose and editing Cleo. Yet while the 1970's was the time of free love and peace this movement has not yet hit Kate's suburban...
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    Panthers and the Museum of Fire
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    Panthers and the Museum of Fire

    A woman sets out from a quiet corner of Glebe in Sydney towards the bustle of Broadway and Surry Hills, carrying with her the manuscript of a childhood friend who has recently died. Her thoughts surge between past and present as she strives to...
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    Grimmish
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    Grimmish

    Pain was Joe Grim's self-expression, his livelihood and reason for being. In 1908-09 the Italian-American boxer toured Australia, losing fights but amazing crowds with his showmanship and extraordinary physical resilience.On the east coast Grim...
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    The Man Who Took to His Bed
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    The Man Who Took to His Bed

    A man wakes up one morning to find an unknown womanin bed beside him. A failed writer devises an ingenious method of plagiarizingthe work of others. Whole properties in a suburban neighbourhood beginvanishing overnight. An ancient grand piano is...
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    Squeezing Desire Through a Sieve

    Ever been arrested for drinking more than three sips of beer while standing up? Is there justice for sausages? How boring is heaven? Would you still rescue a drowning man if you knew the amount of trouble you could get into by saving his life? Intrigued?...
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    No One Knows Their Destiny
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    No One Knows Their Destiny

    Popular culture has mythologised the Dunera Boys but who were the real men who sailed on the infamous ship, and how did the voyage transform their lives?Art historian Tonia Eckfeld draws on a deeply personal history to tell the story of her father and...
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    Verge 2024
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    Verge 2024

    A still moment captured by a camera's shutter. The rapid fire of the mouse in a tight League of Legends match. The protracted sound of a door closing with finality.In the eighteenth edition of this creative anthology, twenty-six writers explore...
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    Living Twice
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    Living Twice

    All lives have two things in common: they begin and they end.But within each life, there are thousands of little openings and little closings, all happening at once. The day you make the decision to move abroad; the moment a relationship comes to a...
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    The Broad Arrow
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    The Broad Arrow

    Caroline Leakey, writing as Olin Keese, published her first and only novel, The Broad Arrow, in 1859. It tells the story of Maida Gwynnham, a young middleclass woman lured into committing a forgery by her deceitful lover, Captain Norwell, and then...
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    The Workingman's Paradise
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    The Workingman's Paradise

    The Workingman's Paradise is set in the context of the defeat of the shearer's and maritime strikes of the early 1890's. The novel is essential reading for an appreciation of the context of the rise of the union movement in Australia. William Lane was...
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    Over the Sliprails

    After some time in Western Australia and New Zealand Lawson returned to Sydney in 1898 and published with Angus and Robertson in 1900 the works On the Tracks and Over the Sliprails. Over the...
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    The Poison of Polygamy
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    The Poison of Polygamy

    Serialised in 1909-1910, The Poison of Polygamy is a rare gem of Australian literature. The first novel of the Chinese-Australian experience, it follows the fortunes of a young man who leaves his wife behind in southern China to seek his fortunes in the...
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    The Flight of Birds
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    The Flight of Birds

    The Flight of Birds is a novel in twelve stories, each of them compelled by an encounter between the human and animal worlds. The birds in these stories inhabit the same space as humans, but they are also apart, gliding above us. The Flight of Birds...
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    Earth Cries
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    Earth Cries

    Climate change is here, and how we react in the present will alter the course of the future; we can no longer deny that this is a key challenge for our times. Over the past two years, Australia has seen its worst bushfire season in recorded history,...
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    The Impersonators
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    The Impersonators

    The Impersonators portrays the breakdown of family relationships and the endurance of love in a materialistic age sensitively, perceptively and humorously. When Sylvia Foley returns to Australia after twenty years, she finds her father, Jack...
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    Matia
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    Matia

    A woman in my village gave me four prophecies...they have all come true, so far.Sia is a young Greek woman who has emigrated from Greece to Perth, Western Australia in 1945 for a better life. She carries with her four prophecies and four pieces of...
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    Typhoon Kingdom
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    Typhoon Kingdom

    Based on the seventeenth-century journal of a shipwrecked Dutch sailor, and testimonies of surviving Korean 'Comfort Women,' Typhoon Kingdom is a story of war, romance, and survival that brings to life the devastating history of Korea at crucial...
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    CUSP
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    CUSP

    Lena knew that the most tenuous of threads held everything together. At home she was known as the girl who lost things. Books, pens, wallets, her mother's jewellery - the more precious the thing, the more likely she would lose it. She rifled through the...
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    Stardust and Golden
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    Stardust and Golden

    We'll play this silly game, but we're not going into the army. We're not going to support this war. We'll do anything we can to stop it.Mark David visits a nursing home in search of a place for his elderly mother. There, he encounters the formidable...
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    The Earth Does Not Get Fat
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    The Earth Does Not Get Fat

    Longlisted in the 2019 Indie Book Awards for Debut Fiction'A tale of dark family secrets, yet also a tale imbued with awe and wonder at life's mysteries. Prendergast vests her traumatised characters with dignity, and writes them with deep affection and...
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    Leaving Elvis
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    Leaving Elvis

    We're travelling light, without excess, into our future. Gran had been rough as she uncurled my hands from their position, gripped around the open car doorframe, and shoved me into the passenger seat.A man returns from World...
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    Riding a Crocodile
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    Riding a Crocodile

    Abraham Nevski is a dedicated and eccentric professor of medicine at the Royal Prince John Hospital. He prides himself on his diagnostic skills and powers of reasoning. On returning to work after a break he becomes aware of disturbing changes taking...
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    Capital, Volume 1

    Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book, Southeast Asia and South Pacific Region, Anthony Macris' highly-acclaimed debut novel Capital, Volume One takes the reader on an unforgettable journey through the...
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    Konkretion
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    Konkretion

    By turns funny and moving, konkretion stages a dialogue around the romance of the Baader-Meinhof gang's revolutionary aspirations. Ex-commo Monique Piquet (aka Monica Picket) meets up in Paris with her former student, Angel Beigesang, who has just...
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    Long Surrender
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    Long Surrender

    Damien Hunter is a veteran born in the unforgiving cauldron of combat operations. An Air Force special forces operator turned contractor; Damien is employed by the shadowy Taipan Organisation. In company with Warwick ‘Wuz’ Davis and Paul ‘Stayer’...
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    Café Puccini
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    Café Puccini

    'You’ll fall in love with every single character' — Hayley MillsWhat happens when a quirky Australian town faces the imminent arrival of a huge fiery comet? Do the residents embrace all possibilities or run like hell?WARNING, WARNING, WARNINGCactus...
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    Perversion of Justice
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    Perversion of Justice

    In the darkest shadows, the pursuit of truth is the only light.‘Brilliant … a captivating new voice in Australian crime fiction’In the scorching summer of 2004, a working-class Sydney suburb erupts in turmoil when Percy Fullwood, a respected local, is...
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