A rundown of the A&U books that made BookPeople's esteemed list.
This year marks 100 years of BookPeople — the Australian Booksellers Association. How amazing is that? And even more amazing, is that a bunch of our titles made their 100 Must-Read Australian Novels list! So, here’s a rundown of the novels of ours that made the list.
Two middle-aged men meet on an internet date. Each has been scarred by a previous relationship. How can they take the risk of falling in love again. How can they not?
A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place of her childhood, holing up in a small religious community. A meditative and deeply moving novel from one of Australia's most acclaimed and best loved writers.
The story of two generations of the Nancarrow family and the high-jumping horse circuit prior to the Second World War. A love story of impossible beauty and sadness.
Fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below. At the other end of the same bridge, an old man, Vic, smokes his last cigarette. A fateful connection is made, and an unlikely friendship blooms.
Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in the middle of a desert in a story of two friends, sisterly love and courage.
Journalist Martin Scarsden gets entangled in a haunting journey towards the truth of a shocking quintuple murder that rocked a small town a year prior.
Pippa is a writer longing for success. Celeste convinces herself her married lover reciprocates her feelings. Ash blots out the memory of a tragedy from their childhood. A dazzling meditation on intimacy, loneliness and our flawed perception of other people.
On Christmas Eve 1959, a man makes a terrible discovery. Years later, journalist Jess discovers a true crime book in her grandmother’s house detailing the long-buried case. An epic story that spans generations and asks what we would do for those we love, and what it means to come home.
A mesmerising literary novel, charting two very different lives. Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works for a publisher of travel guides. While Ravi dreams of being a tourist until he is driven from Sri Lanka by devastating events.
Meet Jimmy Flick. He's not like other kids - he's both too fast and too slow. He sees too much, and too little. When Jimmy's world falls apart, he has to navigate the unfathomable world on his own, and make things right.
One spring day when William was halfway between his eighth birthday and his ninth, he saw in the sky, the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion. The White Earth is a haunting, disturbing and cautionary tale.
One night Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is startled by an urgent knock on the window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town of Corrigan. But when Jasper begs for his help, Charlie steals into the night by his side, terribly afraid but desperate to impress.
At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. The slap and its consequences force them all to question their own families and the way they live, their expectations, beliefs and desires.
When the Bruny bridge is bombed, UN troubleshooter Astrid Coleman agrees to return home to help her brother before an upcoming election. But this is no simple task Bruny is a searing, subversive novel about family, love, loyalty and the new world order.
Betrayed by her husband, Annabelle returns to her old family home in tropical North Queensland where she meets Bo Rennie, one of the Jangga tribe. Can their love grow, or even survive, with the terrible knowledge that comes into their possession at the end of their journey?
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