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2 February 2024

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Yee wins 2024 Victorian Prize for Literature at VPLAs

Bestsellers

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Dalton in first and third place

Books in the media

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Books in the media this weekend, 3–4 February

Unlocked reviews: New-release fiction

The Beacon
P A Thomas, Echo, February 2024, reviewed by Annie Waters

Living in the Byron region, doctor-turned-author P A Thomas is well placed to helm this debut crime novel featuring colourful characters and rollicking action set in this lively location. Jack... Read more

The Concierge
Abby Corson, Ultimo, February 2024, reviewed by Kate Frawley

Abby Corson’s debut crime thriller, The Concierge, offers readers a locked-room murder mystery in a lavish English country hotel, where the guests are pointing fingers, and the person who knows... Read more

Everything Is Perfect
Maxine Fawcett, Michael Joseph, February 2024, reviewed by Joanne Shiells

The protagonists of what was once deemed ‘chick lit’ have grown older and now face the trials of middle age. In Maxine Fawcett’s debut novel, Everything Is Perfect, Cassandra is no... Read more

Go Lightly
Brydie Lee-Kennedy, Bloomsbury, February 2024, reviewed by Erin Coyle

Brydie Lee-Kennedy’s debut, Go Lightly, is an honest, hilarious and often painful exploration of taking risks in life and love. Full of wry humour, it dives into the complexities of... Read more

Gone
Glenna Thomson, Bantam, February 2024, reviewed by Ilona Urquhart

On the final day of school in 1984, Rebecca Bundy is last seen by her sister, Eliza, waiting for the bus after an argument with their mother. With the disappearance... Read more

Greater City Shadows
Laurie Steed, UWAP, February 2024, reviewed by Sonia Nair

Laurie Steed’s third book and debut short story collection, Greater City Shadows, collates tales of grief, loss, loneliness, unrequited love, fractured relationships and—ultimately—hope. Suburban Perth is the setting for many an... Read more

The Great Undoing
Sharlene Allsopp, Ultimo, February 2024, reviewed by Stefen Brazulaitis

Imagine a completely digital future, with people connected via nanotechnology, attaining ultimate convenience at the price of absolute surveillance—good for people who like where they are, bad for those who... Read more

My Brilliant Sister
Amy Brown, Scribner, February 2024, reviewed by Fay Helfenbaum

My Brilliant Sister is a layered and involving story about womanhood, motherhood and art. It follows three very different women who all want to create art and are at a... Read more

We All Lived in Bondi Then
Georgia Blain, Scribe, February 2024, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg

We All Lived in Bondi Then is the last publication of new work by Georgia Blain. This collection comprises nine previously unpublished stories written between 2012 and 2015, before Blain’s... Read more

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