Books Released in August 2023

Bryan Brown has been telling stories with his distinctive Australian voice on TV and in film for a long time, but this time he’s writing crime in his first book.

‘I chose the jagged rocks, the broken bones, the spattered brains. I chose beauty. I’d choose it again.’

With Eva Scott’s trademark warmth and wit comes a rural rom-com about friendship, family, failure and finding the place you truly belong.

A dark comedy about how to live your best life, even when you’re dead.

An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread and their determination to shape their own stories, from the acclaimed author of The Mother Fault.

A stunning new novel from the author of Down the Hume and The Pillars, God Forgets About the Poor is a love story to a migrant mother, whose story is as important as any ever told.

Sometimes there may be more to things than meets the eye.

A new romantic comedy from the author of Five Bush Weddings

Adella is facing the dawn of a new year and the end of her twenties – and she’s in a psychiatric unit recovering from a mental breakdown.

Burn is an affecting, powerful novel about prejudice and growing up on the margins from exciting new Australian voice Melanie Saward.

The most exciting debut in 2023, The Visitors is an audacious, earthy, funny, gritty, and powerful re-imaging of a crucial moment in Australia’s history – an unputdownable work of fiction.

Sorrow and Bliss meets Normal People in this utterly compelling, darkly humorous millennial coming-of-age novel about a 27-year-old single Jewish woman in Melbourne who must learn to reconcile family expectations, cultural constraints and inter-generational trauma with her own desires. A coruscating new voice.

Iris doesn’t remember the first time she met Nina. But she remembers the first time she paid attention to her. It was when he did.

A compelling exploration of the waxing and waning of friendships; how precious they are, and the heartbreak that happens when it all comes undone.

Gemma Guillory has lived in Rainier her entire life. She knows the tiny town’s ins and outs like the back of her hand, the people like they are her family, their quirks as if they were her own.