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What happens to a family when a child goes missing? In a busy street market, Abbie lets go of six-year-old Sarah’s hand. She isn’t a bad mother, just exhausted. When she turns around, her daughter isn’t there. Six years later, Abbie is in love and getting married. But her fragile peace is...

Four generations of women, four ideas about how to live… and dance! It's 1982. The Knighton women, all living under one roof are about to be struck with dance marathon fever... Greaty, 75, matriarch of the Knighton family. Turning down marriage proposals since 1927, backbone of her Clare...

A storm is coming.? What’s lost will be found. And the sins of the past uncovered.? Jessie Else disappeared the summer the Lambs came to Magpie Beach. Not that the two events were connected at all, in reality; only in my own head, in my own world. They marked for me the end of a certain quiet...

Truth is like a lens we apply to everything we see, it is malleable and transformative, we can bend it, mould it, shape it, vanish it. We do this to present the versions of ourselves we want the world to see, and to hide the versions we can't bear to reveal. Newly returned to Western Australia...

WINNER OF THE ABIA AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD. Winner of the QLA Glendower Emerging Writer Award Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award A Booktopia Best Book of the Year Multi-cast narration and enhanced audio features. Siang Lu's searing debut is a black comedy about the whitewashing...

Nala and Rajan, a young couple, begin their married life in 1946, on the eve of Ceylon’s independence from Britain. Arranged in marriage, they learn to love each other and protect their growing family, against the backdrop of increasing ethnic tension. As the country descends into a bloody...

A compelling novel from the bestselling author of Goodwood and Cedar Valley. On a hot morning in 1991 in the regional town of Clarke, Barney Clarke (no relation) is woken by the unexpected arrival of many policemen: they are going to search his backyard for the body of a missing woman. Next door...

1971—Hal is seventeen, with dreams of escaping from Moorabool to a life in the city. But right now he’s on a good behaviour bond and stuck in a job he hates, paying off the car he ‘borrowed’ and crashed. Hal’s packing-room job makes him a target for workplace bullies and the friendship...

A young constable faces prejudice in a small country town, but the search for a missing child changes everything. A breathtaking novel of rural suspense from the bestselling Voice of the Outback. Mia, a newly graduated constable, on her first post is assigned to Broad River, a small country town...

It's a Shame About Ray is an extraordinary and powerful memoir about family, love and the power of music. A young man coming to terms with bipolar disorder suddenly loses his father to suicide. This seismic event prompts an exploration of his family's suppressed history of ill mental health...

From the author of Love & Virtue, Seeing Other People is the darkly funny story of two very different sisters, and the summer that stretches their relationship almost to breaking point. Charlie’s skin was stinging. Not with heat or sweat, but with that intense, body-defining...

Sometimes you need to delve into the past, to make sense of the present. Alice had not expected to spend most of the twenty-first century writing about Leonard Woolf. When she stood on Morell Bridge watching fireworks explode from the rooftops of Melbourne at the start of a new millennium, she...

Cut is a thrilling, provocative novel set against the backdrop of a major Melbourne hospital's surgical team in the time before #metoo blew the lid off institutionalised misogyny and sexism Carla is a young doctor striving to become the first female surgeon at a prestigious Melbourne hospital...

Original, unflinching, gritty and visionary, The Stranger is a stunning feminist Western for our times. In Darkwater, being female doesn't amount to much. But Chelsea's luckier than most. She's the young lover of the town's feared leader, which she keeps telling herself is a good thing, what...

The third novel by the award-winning author of Flames and The Rain Heron, Limberlost is an extraordinary chronicle of life and land: of carnage and kindness, blood ties and love. Ned West dreams of sailing across the river on a boat of his very own. To Ned, a boat means freedom – the fresh...

The summer of 1966–7. Hal and his little brother have just come to live in Moorabool. They’re exploring the creek near their new home when they find the body of a dog. Not just dead, but killed. Not just killed, but horribly maimed. Constable Mick Goodenough, recently demoted from his...

A contemporary family drama following two mothers at the centre of a tragedy, One Punch is for fans of Jodi Picoult and Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere. Yasmin Weston is on holiday when she learns that her son Daniel has been assaulted at home in Australia, leaving him with a debilitating...

Sometimes in hospital people die - but not all of them should. A moving, addictive debut novel for readers of Going Under and Emotional Female. 'Emma, you'll be totally fine ... If there's ever a doctor who's going to thrive in surgical training, I'm sure it's you.' Dedicated and ambitious, Emma...

A heart-warming rural romance from the best-selling author of The Wattle Seed Inn. Sometimes, home isn't a place: it's a feeling. Lucie Tamberlani had it all: a business manager with a passion for naturopathy, she was set to take over the bookwork at the family strawberry farm in South Australia...

A darkly funny and poignant coming of age story by an extraordinary new voice Meet Dorcas, a spirited 12-year-old struggling to contain her irrepressible humour and naughty streak in a family of Christadelphians in 1960s Adelaide. She is her mother’s least favourite child and always at the...