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From internationally bestselling author John Boyne, a contemplative story about one man trying to move forward from the trauma of his youth to become a better father to his son.

The Emperor of Gladness

The instant Sunday Times bestseller, a vibrant and heartbreaking story of unexpected friendship and how far people go to find a second chance

Chloe Elisabeth Wilson

I support women’s rights, but more importantly I support women’s wrongs.

New contemporary fiction

It Should Have Been You

The Correspondent

Great Big Beautiful Life

Emma Pignatiello

The Homemade God

The Sex Lives of Married Women

Contemporary fiction collections

Introducing your next travel companion

Winter Crime Month 2024

What would you do?

Blooming beautiful

Families in the foreground

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A Delicate Truth

This House is Haunted

The Nightingale Sisters

Karl Ove Knausgaard

A Working Theory of Love

The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

Governor Bligh & the Short Man: Penguin Special

Norwegian by Night

Derek B. Miller

Promise: Monash University Undergraduate Prize Shortlist

Emerging Writers Festival

Henry and Clara

The Woman of Porto Pim

Antonio Tabucchi

Eric Jerome Dickey

The Humanity Project

The Symptoms of My Insanity

My Criminal World

Cara McKenna

Larry Gets Lost in Boston

Michael Mullin, John Skewes

Larry Loves Seattle!

Breakfast at Tiffany's & Other Voices, Other Rooms

Journey to the Centre of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Round the World in Eighty Days

The White Feather

Like This, For Ever

Wrapped in White

Alex Cross, Run

James Patterson

Ian D Montfort Is Unbelievable Series 1

A Nearly Perfect Copy

The Interestings

The Night I Got My Tuckie

Stephanie Johnson

The Barrytown Trilogy

Heading Out to Wonderful

Robert Goolrick

The Mouseproof Kitchen

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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs

May Swenson: Collected Poems (LOA #239)

A Different Sun

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Joelle Charbonneau

Curse of the PTA

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