Losing Face is a powerful, gripping tale that explores the Lebanese-Australian immigrant experience, masculinity and intergenerational trauma.

This debut short story collection from a queer Indonesian writer explores longing, loss and missed chances.

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A brilliant and haunting collection of short fiction that exposes the darker, mythical underbelly of reality.

This gorgeous and riotous coming of age novel examines first love and last rites.

Scott-Patrick Mitchell’s debut full-length poetry collection explores the experience of addiction through to healing.

Spanning Australia, Turkey, and Lebanon, this novel charts one man’s reckoning with identity, family and religion.

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.