FICTION

Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist 2022 Shortlisted for the Indie Award for Best Fiction Shortlisted for the ABIA for Literary Fiction Longlisted for the BookPeople Book of the Year for Fiction  Â ’Diana Reid has such a way with language.’ â€• Mamamia​ Â ‘This! Was! So! Good! ... Diana Reid you are in a total league of your own.’ - Zara McDonald, Shameless Podcast Â ‘Seeing Other People will be the book of the summer.’ - PedestrianTV ‘An extraordinary new voice in Aussie lit.’ ― Zoë Foster Blake Â ‘a captivating read that feels made for racing through while lying on the beach.’ ― Vogue Australia Which comes first—those you love, or those you want? Charlie’s skin was stinging. Not with heat or sweat, but with that intense, body-defining self-consciousness—that sense of being watched. She lowered her eyes from Eleanor’s loving gaze. Her throat taut with tears, she swallowed. ‘You’re a good sister, Eleanor.’ ‘Don’t say that.’ Â After two years of lockdowns, there’s change in the air. Eleanor has just broken up with her boyfriend, Charlie’s career as an actress is starting up again. They’re finally ready to pursue their dreams—relationships, career, family—if only they can work out what it is they really want. Â When principles and desires clash, Eleanor and Charlie are forced to ask: where is the line between self-love and selfishness? In all their confusion, mistakes will be made and lies will be told as they reckon with the limits of their own self-awareness. PRAISE FOR SEEING OTHER PEOPLE: Â ‘a great summer read.’ - The Guardian Â ‘The prose sparkles on the page, as effervescent and drinkable as a glass of prosecco on a warm summer's evening.’ - The Australian Â ‘We absolutely adored this hotly-anticipated novel’ - The Shameless Bookclub Â ‘If you tore through Love & Virtue last year, you'll want to add Diana Reid's second novel to the top of your reading bucket list.’ - Marie Claire Â ‘I enjoyed this funny, charming and enormously readable novel a great deal, in large part due to the wit and authenticity with which Reid represents her characters and their world.’ - The West Australian Â ‘Reid hasn’t lost her skewering wit.’ - Sydney Morning Herald Â 'a compulsive read’ - Primer Â 'funny and engaging’ - ArtsHub Â ‘Reid's witty and insightful social observation is something to relish’ - ABC Radio National, The Bookshelf Â ‘There is a genuine warmth as well as capacious intelligence and sly humour to Reid’s writing, and a dynamic energy to the novel that’s always compelling’ - The Guardian Â ‘This charming, insightful and clever follow-up to Love & Virtue is an immensely readable novel that explores the bonds of family, friendship and principle.’ - Books + Publishing Â ‘a story bathed in sisterhood and the oft complicated relationship sisters are forced to navigate.’ - Russh Â ‘if you’re heading to the beach and need a light, funny read, this book will deliver that for you.’ - The Canberra Times Â ‘written in superb prose, this is the ultimate contemporary dramedy’ - InStyle Â ‘I love Diana Reid’s writing and Seeing Other People hit the mark once again.’ - Women's Agenda 

Can she forgive when she can’t forget?<p>After the death of her best and childhood friend, Millie is in pieces. Then she receives a 'grateful jar' in the post - from Fliss - filled with messages and happy memories. With each memory, there is an instruction to go to the named place and ‘be grateful’ for the good times they shared.</p><p>The jar is a beautiful distraction and takes her mind off her grief and the other grim things in her life, such as her stale job, her toxic relationship and her on-off arguments with Jay – a man she used to love, but who Fliss loved too.</p><p>As the memories dwindle, and Millie bumps into Jay at more and more locations, they begin to patch up the scars of their past. But some wounds are too deep to heal - and Fliss was hiding secrets as well as happy memories. Will Millie have the strength to forgive when all is revealed?</p><p>A spellbinding and emotional novel of friendship, second chances and secrets, for fans of PS I Love You, The Memory of Us and The Last Letter from Your Lover.</p>

Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist 2022 Winner of the ABIA Book of the Year Award Winner of the ABIA Award for Literary Fiction of the Year Winner ABA Booksellers Choice Award for Fiction Winner of the MUD Literary Prize Shortlisted for The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year for Fiction Shortlisted Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction Shortlisted ABIA Matt Richell Award New Writer of the Year ‘set to be one of the year’s most talked about books’ – Vogue Australia Â ‘a great read that will become an Australian classic’ – Sydney Morning Herald ‘an absolute cracker, Love & Virtue lobs right into the current moment with a clarifying light. I hope EVERYONE reads this book.’ – Helen Garner, bestselling and award winning author of The First Stone and The Spare Room ‘one of the best novels I have read this year ... it’s clever, pacy and wonderfully thoughtful. Read it!’ – Zara McDonald, Shameless Podcast Are you a good person, or do you just look like one? Whenever I say I was at university with Eve, people ask me what she was like, sceptical perhaps that she could have always been as whole and self-assured as she now appears. To which I say something like: ‘People are infinitely complex.’ But I say it in such a way—so pregnant with misanthropy—that it’s obvious I hate her. Â Michaela and Eve are two bright, bold women who befriend each other their first year at a residential college at university, where they live in adjacent rooms. They could not be more different; one assured and popular – the other uncertain and eager-to-please. But something happens one night in O-week – a drunken encounter, a foggy memory that will force them to confront the realities of consent and wrestle with the dynamics of power. Praise for Love & Virtue ‘Diana Reid will be called the new Sally Rooney – you’re certain of it by the end of page one. By the end of this real, raw and startling novel, you know Reid is the talent to whom every smart young novelist who follows her will be compared – or hope to be.’ – Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss Â ‘Love & Virtue captures the near-erotic thrill of being a young woman, alone and adrift, who finds, in another young woman, an intellectual equal ... Like Elena and Lila in Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend, a touchstone for Reid, their spark feels charged, given to exploding.’ – Sydney Morning Herald Â ‘Love & Virtue is an accomplished novel – by turns funny and furious, and full of the plangent longing and confusion of early adulthood.’ - The Saturday Paper Â ‘It is not enough to say Love & Virtue heralds the arrival of a new literary talent: Reid is intensely incisive and brilliant.’ – Sarah Schmidt, author of See What I Have Done Â ‘Reid’s prose interrogates everything we think we know about love. Heartfelt and unputdownable, this is a remarkably self-assured debut.’ – Victoria Hannan, author of Kokomo<p> ‘A fierce new voice at just the right moment, shining a light on consent and class with clarity and grace.’ – Inga Simpson, author of Where the Trees Were and Understory</p>

In November 2018 Eloise and Lewis rent a car in Las Vegas and take off on a two-week road trip across the American southwest. While wildfires rage, the married couple make their way through Nevada, California, Arizona, and Utah, tracing the course of the Colorado River, the aquatic artery on which the Southwest depends for survival. Lewis, an artist working for a prominent land art foundation, is grieving the recent death of his mother, while Eloise is an academic researching the past and future of the Colorado River as it threatens to run dry.  Â Over the course of their trip, Eloise, beginning to suspect she might be pregnant, helplessly witnesses Lewis’s descent as he struggles to find a place for himself in the desert where he never quite felt at home.  Elegy, Southwest is a novel which entwines a tragic love story with an intelligent and profound consideration of the way we now live alongside environmental breakdown; an elegy for lost love and for the landscape that makes us. Â PRAISE FOR ELEGY, SOUTHWEST<p> ‘enormously impressive’ – Guardian Â ‘A big rangy classic novel that knows wisdom is intimate – it’s cut with pointillist detail, leaves stopovers for apocalypses, and it’s told with a voice that just aches. In this grim, wise and yearning book, Madeleine Watts takes us on a road trip for the end times.’ – Ronnie Scott, author of Shirley  </p><p> ‘This book is a fever dream, a mood, a spell, an entire climate filled with a particular kind of desert winter light – harsh, unsparing, and beautiful. Honestly, I feel that part of me is still actually living in the book. Tremendously moving.’ – Leslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering</p><p> ‘Watts’ sensitive and beautifully wrought observations on the environment, love, and loss are perfectly and painfully attuned to our shifting world. This is an astounding, heartbreaking, and important book. You’ll be different after reading it.’ – Elvia Wilk, author of Death by Landscape Â ‘An elegant and urgent love letter to art, writing and our dying natural world. Elegy, Southwest is a stunning and tragic story about love, death and everything in between.’ – Victoria Hannan, author of Kokomo Â ‘Madeleine Watts is a methodical, soulful alarmist, spooling out perceptive, trance-like sentences. Her strikingly brilliant novel is a measured fever dream of loneliness – private, political, razor-smart, and utterly engulfing.’ – Heidi Julavits, author of The Vanishers</p>

The latest from the writer of Apple Tree Yard, and Number One Sunday Times Bestseller Louise Doughty

Life Hacks For A Little Alien'Wise and playful and tender and beautiful' Bobby Palmer'So brilliant, so original and lovely and funny, that it reminds you of the point of reading' Rebecca WaitPerfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and Remarkably Bright Creatures, this is a charming, witty and moving novel about what it feels like to grow up neurodivergent.'Climb up here, Little Alien. Sit next to me. I will tell you about life on this planet. I will tell you how it goes'From her first words to her first day at school, Little Alien can't help but get things wrong. She doesn't understand the world the way others seem to, and the world doesn't seem to understand her either. Her anxious mum and meticulous dad, while well-intentioned, are of little help.But when Little Alien sees a documentary about the Voynich Manuscript - a mediaeval codex written in an unknown language and script - she begins to suspect that there are other people who feel just like her. Convinced that translating this manuscript will offer the answers she needs, she sets out on a journey that will show her a delicious taste of freedom.So begins this charming, witty, and profoundly moving novel about the power of language, the wonder of libraries - and how to find a path that fits, when you yourself do not.'Unique and thoroughly engaging. It is insightful and funny and gently poignant. By telling the story of one little alien, Alice Franklin has told the story of many' Pip Williams, author of The Dictionary of Lost Words'Totally addictive and brilliant . . . Life Hacks for A Little Alien is sure to find its place as one of the best loved works of fiction' Aimee Walsh, author of Exile'Immersive, moving, and fizzing with humour, I couldn't put this book down and I still can't let the character go' Paula Lichtarowicz, author of The Snow Hare'A rare energy lights this wonderful book: a unique recipe of humour, heart, frankness, and an unstoppable fascination with language' Han Smith, author of Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking'Witty, bold, heart-warming and entirely delicious. I devoured it' Jyoti Patel, author of The Things that we Lost

The new novel from the first Arabic-language winner of the Booker International Prize. In their small, mountainside village, Ghazaala and Asiya love each other like sisters, until tragedy strikes, and Asiya is forced into exile. Ghazaala is haunted by Asiya’s absence; a wound that never quite heals. When Ghazaala falls in love with a handsome violinist, everything changes. In Muscat, she tries desperately to balance university and the demands of a new wife. Then she meets Harir, whose life, unbeknownst to Ghaazala, has also been changed by Asiya and the mystery of her fate. Silken Gazelles is a tribute to the power of friendship and the strength of women, intertwining love and loss with deft, beautiful prose. 'A “remarkable” writer who has “constructed her own novelistic form”' The New Yorker

The Wedding People 'UTTERLY CHARMING' PANDORA SYKES'WICKEDLY FUNNY' JENNY JACKSON'A PERFECT NOVEL' CATHERINE NEWMANIt's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at a grand beachside hotel wearing her best dress and least comfortable shoes. Immediately she is mistaken for one of the wedding people - but she's actually the only guest at the Cornwall Inn who isn't here for the big event.Phoebe has dreamed of coming here for years. She hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband but now she is divorced and depressed, and not sure how to go on. She's not been sure how to do anything, lately, except climb into bed and drink gin and tonics and listen to the sound of the refrigerator making ice.When the bride discovers her elaborate destination wedding could be ruined by this sad stranger, she is furious. She has spent months accounting for every detail and every possible disaster - except for, well, Phoebe . . . Soon, both women find their best-laid plans derailed and an unlikely confidante in one another.Uproariously funny and devastatingly tender, The Wedding People is an irresistible novel about love, friendship, dysfunctional families, and the unexpected paths that lead to happiness.

Gregory David Roberts is now a full-time writer, film producer, and international public speaker. In Bombay he has established a charitable trust to care for the poorest of the poor slum-dwellers. He divides his time between Geneva and Bombay.

A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel, spanning three generations of a Palestinian family through love and loss, war and oppressionOVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION 'A powerful and passionate insight into what many Palestinians have had to endure' Michael Palin 'Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior' Alice Walker _____________________________________Palestine, 1948. A mother clutches her baby son as Israeli soldiers march through the village of Ein Hod. In a split second, he is snatched from her arms and the fate of the Abulheja family is changed forever.Mornings in Jenin is a devastating novel of love and loss, war and oppression, heartbreak and hope, spanning five countries and four generations of one of the most intractable conflicts of our lifetime._____________________________________Readers love Mornings in Jenin'The most heartbreaking novel I have ever, so far, come to read' Goodreads review, 5 stars'Within the sadness of its pages glimmers hope for reconciliation and peace' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'The perfect example of how fiction has the power to change and inform us' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'Tragic, powerful, haunting, enlightening, absorbing and devastating' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'It made me weep every few pages, laugh out loud on others - A truly great read' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

A stunning new edition of Claire Keegan's multi-award-winning, bestselling novel Small Things Like These.

An engrossing and provocative exploration of privilege, hypocrisy and justice by the bestselling author of The Cane.

A brilliant, slyly humorous dissection of wealth, power and the tragedies even money can't fix for fans of The Secret History, The Corrections and Succession.