LITERARY FICTION: art memoir, part biography, part imagination, Little Bit is a story with a third side. Told in the alternating perspectives of Debbie and Stella, Heather writes the story of her mother's and grandmother's lives, where addiction is rife and regret is a constant, and where survival for a woman in a man's world is anything but straightforward.
LITERARY FICTION: In this striking debut, based on a true story, Valeria Usala bears witness to an age-old story of violence against women and takes us into the heart of rural Sardinia, where superstitions and cruelty coexist with the joys and companionship of a tight-knit community.
LITERARY FICTION: But the Girl is a wry and razor-sharp coming-of-age novel about belonging, alienation, and the exquisite pleasure and pain of girlhood.
LITERARY FICTION: While Stella Miles Franklin took on the world, her beloved sister Linda led a short, domestic life as a wife, mother and sister. In a remarkable, genre-bending debut novel Amy Brown thrillingly reimagines those two lives – and her own – to explore and explode the contradictions embedded in brilliant careers and a woman’s place in the world.
LITERARY FICTION: In the small seaside town of Queenscliff, two boys from opposite sides of the world forge a friendship over a summer of sun, adventure and brotherhood. Until a catastrophic event shatters their idyllic childhoods.
LITERARY FICTION: A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister.
LITERARY FICTION: Taut and compelling, The Hitchhiker is the story of a man who goes to great lengths to save what he has already lost.
LITERARY FICTION: The award-winning author of Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel returns with a novel of time travel that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.
LITERARY FICTION: The acclaimed and bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and Heaven returns with a blistering, shocking and poetic story set in contemporary Tokyo.
LITERARY FICTION: Compelling, compassionate and profoundly moving, this new novel by the acclaimed author of The Everlasting Sunday confirms Robert Lukins as one of our finest writers.
LITERARY FICTION: A stand-out new family novel from the critically acclaimed, Booker-prize shortlisted author of A Spool of Blue Thread.
LITERARY FICTION: From acclaimed Argentine author Pedro Mairal and Man Booker International-winning translator Jennifer Croft, the unforgettable story of two would-be lovers over the course of a single day.
LITERARY FICTION: A hauntingly beautiful debut for fans of Isabel Allende and Kazuo Ishiguro.
LITERARY FICTION: A magnificent literary debut about the myriad loves that make up a life.
LITERARY FICTION: Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.
A nameless protagonist returns to work after a workplace accident, detached and alienated from everyone. When he finds a woman asleep in his driveway one night, he offers her a lift home which turns into a road trip where all is not as it seems.
A civil servant with an ordinary life takes a job in the South of France, setting off on an adventure that will change her life forever.