This perceptive coming-of-age novel illuminates the impacts of war, racism and interpersonal conflict.

Rain Chudori’s debut short story collection explores love, loneliness and lost women.

Through the story of Linda, Stella Miles Franklin’s forgotten sister, Brown explores the choices women face when they decide whether to pursue careers, passions and motherhood.

This masterful 2005 novel by Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah explores the personal and political legacies of colonisation through three interconnected stories.

This debut offers a fresh, insightful and subtly humorous perspective on identity, grief and transformation in rural China.

In this deeply personal and political collection, Saleh explores the experiences of three generations of her family, Arab-Australian Muslim women, moving between worlds.

This Miles Franklin-winning novel explores trauma, migration, racism and imperialism in Australia and Sri Lanka.

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A fascinating anthology of all the latest science, from the climate crisis to genetic mutations to astronomy.

A coming-of-age story that traverses faith, desire and double standards through the perspectives of three Australian Muslim university students.

This debut novel from awarded writer Claire Van Ryn follows the story of two women whose lives become intertwined in ways neither could have imagined.

In this beautiful and brutal poetry collection, the boundaries between animal and human, subject and object, hunter and hunted, are not as we think.

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.

This diverse poetry collection by established poet Esther Ottaway does not shy away from exposing society’s stereotypes. Ottaway skilfully weaves lyricism and imagery into complex issues, health conditions and experiences, so each poem forms part of a much needed story.

Scrutinising sexuality, marriage and relationships, Anna Kate Blair’s debut novel is the very portrait of our disenchanted, modern world.

Laura Jean McKay’s latest short story collection combines heart-breaking revelations and inverted realities to strip bare the undeniable truths of very real issues.

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.

Romantic Comedy is both a love letter to the genre, and a tongue-in-cheek exploration of some of the stereotypical tropes that define it.

Vidya Madabushi’s incredible debut grapples with familial separation, mental health, and navigating the unknown. It gives a voice to the experiences of international students, not shying away from exposing the hardships and challenges they face daily.

Ghosts, murder, love affairs with vampires: things to get you in the mood for spooky season.