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Seventeen-year-old Georgia has a secret – one that is isolating her from everyone she loves. She’s desperate to tell her best friend, but Sophia is ignoring her and she doesn’t know why. Before she can find out, Sophia is left fighting for her life after a hit and run, with Georgia a...

A wonderfully tender and moving novel by award-winning author Robert Hillman. Tom Hope doesn’t think he’s much of a farmer, but he’s doing his best. He can’t have been much of a husband to Trudy, either, judging by her sudden departure. It’s only when she returns, pregnant to someone...

Sam is a young boy recovering from an operation that has left him mute. He lives with his mother and sister, Katie – all dutifully cared for by Aunt Dettie. As he struggles with his inability to speak, his mother begins to date again, and Dettie reacts very badly. After an unexpected phone...

Two years ago Freya had no boyfriend, no bank balance and was barely employed as a bad waitress. Then she got BBest, a lifestyle app that knows you better than you know yourself. It calculates your likes and dislikes, gives you best options and streamlines your life. Now Freya has the perfect...

Perth, 1954: Thirteen-year-old Frank, a refugee from wartime Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio. At The Golden Age Children’s Convalescent Home he meets Elsa and the two patients form a forbidden, passionate bond. The Golden Age becomes the little world that reflects...

During a hot Melbourne summer, Jovan’s cleaning work at a bayside hospital is disrupted by acts of graffiti and violence. For Jovan, the mysterious words that must be cleaned away dislodge memories of the past… Intensely human, yet majestic in its moral vision, Black Rock White City is an...

In 1838, Englishwoman Elizabeth Gould – wife of celebrated ornithologist, John Gould – made a trailblazing tour of Australia to collect and illustrate our curious birdlife. Inspired by real-life letters and weaving the discovery of some of the country’s unique species’ with her own...

Abandoned by her mother as a toddler, only occasionally visited by her volatile father and raised solely by her tormented Pop, Justine finds sanctuary in The Choke, a place where the banks of the Murray River are so narrow they can almost touch. Although Justine doesn't know it, her father is a...

If you killed anyone. I'd know. A small town has been devastated by a bushfire, and Primary School principal Phoebe Warton can't sleep. She's the single mother of eighteen-year-old Caleb who is accused of starting the fire – on purpose. Twelve people are dead, students from her school among...

Poignant and uplifting, political and personal loyalties are tested in nineteenth-century Sydney. Colonial Sydney in the final weeks of 1899: a city striving for union and nationhood but dogged by divisions so deep they threaten to derail, not just the Federation, but the colony itself. There...

She didn’t know, because I knew she didn’t feel the same way and I was scared she would try to, so I hid it and encouraged myself to deny it, like a sickly feeling in your gut that you try to pretend isn’t the beginning of food poisoning. Hetty and Ness have been best friends since...

Daniel is a sixteen-year-old drug dealer and he’s going to jail. Then, suddenly, he’s not. A courtroom intervention. A long car ride to a big country house. Other 'gifted delinquents.’ The elusive, devastating Rachel, and Alex, so tightly wound he seems about to shatter. So where are they?...

Words are messy. Love is messier. Meet Beatrix Babbage – 29-year-old dog-earer of books and accidental destroyer of weddings. After ruining her best friend's nuptials, Bea relocates to the other side of the country in search of a fresh start, including meeting new people, living life to the...

By the winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction. Since her sister died, Meg has been on her own. She doesn’t mind, not really — not with Atticus, her African grey parrot, to keep her company — but after her house is broken into by a knife-wielding intruder, she...

Rin Braden is almost ready to give up on life after the heartbreaking death of her lover Yamaan and the everyday dread of working for her mother's corrupt private prison company. But through a miracle Yamaan has survived. Yamaan turns up in an immigration detention facility in Australia, trading...

From the bestselling author of Hope Farm. Helen and John are too preoccupied with making a mess of their marriage to notice the quiet ways in which their daughters are suffering. Junie grows up brittle and defensive, Anna difficult and rebellious. When fifteen-year-old Anna fails to come home...

London, 1942. When art school graduate, Eleanor Roy, is recruited by the War Artists Advisory Committee, she comes one step closer to realising her dream of becoming one of the few female war artists. But breaking into the art establishment proves difficult until Eleanor meets painter, Jack...

On a beach not far from the isolated settlement of Sydney in 1797, a fishing boat picks up three shipwreck survivors, distressed and terribly injured. They have walked hundreds of miles across a landscape whose feature – and inhabitants – they have no way of comprehending. They have lost...

Frankie Rose is desperate for love. Or a relationship. Or just a date with a semi-normal person will do. It’s not that she hasn’t tried, her string of crazy dates are well-documented on her blog. So, inspired by her job at The Little Brunswick Street Bookshop, Frankie decides to take fate...

Sarah and Hannah are on a cruise from San Diego, California to Sydney, Australia. Sarah, Hannah's grandmother, is returning to the country of her birth, a place she hasn't seen since boarding the USS Mariposa in 1945. Then she, along with countless other war brides, sailed across the Pacific to...