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.

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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.

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A ‘chic sad girl’ novel that dives into female suffering and objectification, with a protagonist who cannot feel pain.

Belcourt’s latest work explores the boundaries of his Cree identity from a community perspective.

Inspired by real-life art heists, this intricate and compelling novel explores imperialism, diaspora and identity.

A darkly funny debut on growing up in Western Sydney, family and belonging.

Statovci explores the wars within and without in this dark, haunting novel of an illicit love affair.

A wickedly original debut about a woman on the edge: mysterious, compelling and with lashings of dark humour.