Lovesick offers a snapshot of modern Australian youth: the bonds we form, the messes we make and how we try to grow through them.

A sardonic painter works through portraits of her exes, using art as a lens to examine her own blind spots in love and life.

Marie NDiaye transplants the witch out of fairy tale and into the pressure cooker of suburban family life.

This unsettling speculative novel resists neat allegory while making anthropology a problem for the novel form itself.

A story of separation, loss, agency and control that details the dissolution of a marriage between Amina and Amin.

Helena Pantsis’ second short story collection births a litter of 21 squealing stories, each of which pays homage to motherhood.

Antoun Issa powerfully captures his mother's true experiences of love, heartbreak and hope during the violence of civil war.

A memoir that delivers a feast of memory, longing and the meals that hold us together.

A Millennial couple living in a gentrified Berlin carefully curate their lives and tastes – but is the novels’s satire successful or belated?

Five childhood friends come of age in a small desert town. Over the course of 24 hours, a series of catastrophes across time and space, lead to a phone booth in the middle of nowhere, ringing…

A surreal detective story where ennui wears a trench coat, a sheep might be God and your feelings get herded off a cliff.

During a rapidly fading summer on Long Island, The Guest follows grifter Alex as she tries to survive the week before Labour Day.

Talty’s powerful short story collection traces a Penobscot man’s search for belonging amid love, loss, tragedy and the haunting of colonisation.

Nour’s memoir is a moving read about finding oneself amidst the chaos of a loving yet intrusive family.

More than a simple thriller, Butter masters something more critical and sinister as Yuzuki brings to light the issue of unrealistic beauty standards for women in Japan.

A bold and unflinching novel that doesn’t shy away from examining racism in contemporary Australia.

The liberating and stifling invisibility of middle age is at the heart of this darkly humorous novel.

Over three decades, two lives unfold in parallel, dealing with the big questions of desire, queerness, conformity and love.

Where crime fiction meets colonial legacy in Fiji's diabetes crisis.

This blistering anthology reckons with the violence and corruption endemic to contemporary policing.