In this engaging, experimental collection, Deo interrogates the effect that ecological collapse has on the self, language and civilisation.

Jones’ debut historical novel is gripping and harrowing story of love and war in New Guinea.

The third novel from Aussie literary fave Kate Mildenhall takes us on an epic journey across time through the lives of four different women.

Alongside fresh new literary voices, and epic tales from old favourites, there’s still a lot to look forward to in 2023.

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.

A modern retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma sees our titular heroine experiencing life, love and dating in Manhattan.

This ‘memoir in essays’ explores how we create our identities and how we can transcend them.

Lorrie Moore’s fourth novel is an ornate, interwoven meditation on mortality, where death is “kind of a spectrum.”

Compulsion is a story about love, yearning and trying to come right in a world that makes it too easy to self-destruct.

The masterful Han Kang continues to captivate readers with her profound exploration of language, connection and loss.

Grief, infatuation, lust and pain coalesce in this voracious novel of appetites by Italian author Viola Di Grado.

This poignant and multilayered narrative explores themes of war, trauma and the quest for closure.

This beguiling world of magicians, dolls and sleight of hand mirror tensions in modern-day Hong Kong.

The tragicomic narratives in this short story collection border on fable-like, where much is left unsaid and readers are left to consider their own moral takeaways.

An experimental personal essay which riffs on Moser’s biography, quantum mechanics and Joan Didion.

Check out Elaine’s hot picks of books from authors in attendance across the Sydney and Melbourne Writers’ Festivals.

Winner of the 2023 Stella Prize, this powerful and heartbreaking poetry collection explores Holland-Batt’s grief over losing her father to Parkinson’s.

Good mothers are selfless. Artists are selfish. So what does this mean for a mother with artistic ambitions?

A fierce, heartbreaking novel about a devastating toxic relationship and the dangers of obsessive love.

Take a ride through Melbourne’s underbelly with Johnny Lock: a self-proclaimed paranoid narrator on his journey to becoming a street poet.