Go Lightly by Brydie Lee-Kennedy
A charming debut that captures the messiness of being in your twenties, and the importance of familial and platonic love.
Politica by Yumna Kassab
Kassab beautifully carves out space for humanity, tenderness and promises amidst a world veering between idealism and armed struggle.
Bellies by Nicola Dinan
An effervescent debut about queer love, being seen and how we see others.
Appreciation by Liam Pieper
This witty novel exposes the underbelly of the art world and a complex portrait of queer identity.
Supper Club by Lara Williams
A novel of appetites, where a ravenous club of women come together to indulge their hunger, satisfy their desires and take up space.
Piglet by Lottie Hazell
A scintillating debut novel about one woman’s obsession with appearances – and what happens when it all comes crashing down.
The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
Inspired by the author’s family history, this historical novel transports us to Malaya during World War II, where ordinary lives are swept up in espionage, betrayal and the quest for survival.
Others Were Emeralds by Lang Leav
This perceptive coming-of-age novel illuminates the impacts of war, racism and interpersonal conflict.
The Scope of Permissibility by Zeynab Gamieldien
A coming-of-age story that traverses faith, desire and double standards through the perspectives of three Australian Muslim university students.
Naming the Beasts by Elizabeth Morton
In this beautiful and brutal poetry collection, the boundaries between animal and human, subject and object, hunter and hunted, are not as we think.
City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita
All the residents of this isolated Alaskan city live in one high rise apartment building. When a gruesome murder takes place, everyone becomes a suspect.
Can’t I Go Instead by Lee Geum-yi
This epic historical novel explores the stories of two women, their lives entwined through the tumultuous events of World War II and the Korean War.
Tissue by Madison Griffiths
Madison Griffith’s nonfiction debut is an ode to complexity, in a searing analysis of abortion and everything it intertwines with.
The Exclusion Zone by Shastra Deo
In this engaging, experimental collection, Deo interrogates the effect that ecological collapse has on the self, language and civilisation.
A Dangerous Land by Marisa Jones
Jones’ debut historical novel is gripping and harrowing story of love and war in New Guinea.
Alternative Hollywood Ending by Heather Taylor-Johnson
Taylor-Johnson’s sixth collection explores climate change and the environment, the domestic sphere, the political injustices of the Trump era, chronic illness and the body.
Emma of 83rd Street by Emily Harding and Audrey Bellezza
A modern retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma sees our titular heroine experiencing life, love and dating in Manhattan.
I Am Homeless If This is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore’s fourth novel is an ornate, interwoven meditation on mortality, where death is “kind of a spectrum.”
Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser
An experimental personal essay which riffs on Moser’s biography, quantum mechanics and Joan Didion.
Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan
A fierce, heartbreaking novel about a devastating toxic relationship and the dangers of obsessive love.