Books Released in July 2023

An intriguing new rural romance from the best-selling author of The River Gum Cottage.

Charming and heartfelt, this is Australian historical fiction at its best, with a cast of characters worth writing home about. For fans of Victoria Purman, Joy Rhoades and anyone who loved The Guernsey Literary Potato Pie

A blazing, genre-bending masterpeice from one of the most inventive writers of our time.

One simple sacrifice is all they need. Cast a stone. Aim true. Let her sink.

Where everybody knows everyone, how can somebody just disappear?A missing girl. Decades of silence. A secret too big to bury.

From the author of The Good Wife of Bath comes this brilliant recreation of the vibrant, optimistic but politically treacherous world of London’s Restoration theatre, where we are introduced to the remarkable playwright Aphra Behn, now a feminist icon but then an anomaly, who gravitated to the stage – a place where artifice and disguise are second nature and accommodates those who do not fit in.

The Collected Regrets of Clover is the burst of hopefulness we need right now. A sparkling debut novel from Australian Mikki Brammer, which reminds us all to live our best life with fewer regrets.

Mistakes and Other Lovers heralds a bold new voice in Australian fiction. With a sharply-observed exploration of the anxieties and freedoms that come when seeking both selfhood and adulthood, Amy Lovat is one to watch.’ HANNAH KENT

From the winner of the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize. Told from five different points of view, each one revealing a little more of the story.

An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville’s complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood.