A profoundly smart, satiric and thrilling novel from two-time Miles Franklin Award winner.

This food memoir is a beautiful ode to culture, exploration, growth and personal acceptance.

This poetic and nimble collection of personal essays was the winner of the Small Press Network’s Book of the Year Award in 2021.

The mystical and the dystopian converge in these speculative short stories that explore family, womanhood, migration and tradition.

Winner of the 2021 Viva La Novella Prize, Meany’s debut is a quirky, intelligent and entertaining tale not to be missed.

Fuad’s debut poetry collection won the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and crackles with brilliance and originality.

A wrap of exciting and inspiring new poetry that caught our eye in 2022.

In ten quietly assertive stories, Saba Sams’ debut allows its reader a glimpse into the messiness and painful contradictions of girlhood. 

A superb and hotly anticipated set of new reads for 2022.

A campus novel that disects consent, privilege, sexism and morality - and, ultimately, who gets to tell a story and how.

This soaring, heartfelt and scorching historical novel follows the history of the Tran family during the Vietnam War.

This raw and gritty debut novella packs a punch.

Featuring some of the best poetry books that may have flown under your radar this year.

A wildly erotic, bitingly witty and outlandish novel of many appetites.

Our reviewers Elaine and Fruzsi pick out some overlooked gems of 2021.

This experimental poetry collection brings labour, in all its iterations, to the forefront.

Take a tour through the state of womanhood in this powerful and compelling poetry collection by Irish author Anne Casey.

A fiesty and feral debut from an exciting new literary voice.

From contemporary Melbourne to 1970s India, Allinson’s long-awaited second novel explores fatherhood, masculinity and mortality.

A vivid and engaging collection of new writing from the next generation of Australian writers.