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2 August 2024

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Wright awarded 2024 Miles Franklin for 'Praiseworthy', becomes two-time winner

Alexis Wright has won the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, for her novel Praiseworthy (Giramondo). Wright previously won the award in 2007 for her novel Carpentaria (Giramondo), and now... Read more
 
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Bestsellers

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Cole debuts at number three x

Top 10 bestsellers It Ends with Us (Colleen Hoover, S&S)* Storm Child (Michael Robotham, Hachette) A Thousand Broken Pieces (Tillie Cole, Michael Joseph) Reckless (Lauren Roberts, S&S) RecipeTin Eats: Dinner... Read more
 
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Books in the media

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Books in the media this weekend, 3–4 August x

A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. This week’s round-up will be updated as information becomes available. National The Saturday Paper Bird (Courtney... Read more
 

Unlocked reviews: New-release fiction

 

Art Hour at the Duchess Hotel
Sophie Green, Hachette, August 2024, reviewed by Nadia Heisler x

Art Hour at the Duchess Hotel introduces four women who find themselves at the glamorous Duchess Hotel on the picturesque Mornington Peninsula in Victoria in 1999. We first meet Joan,... Read more

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Between Husbands and Wives
Susannah Glenn, Pantera, August 2024, reviewed by Ilona Urquhart x

Jennifer’s life is changed after her vehicle crashes into a car carrying a woman in labour, killing the mother and her unborn child. Escaping jail time but wracked with guilt... Read more

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Bird
Courtney Collins, Hachette, August 2024, reviewed by Lisa Schuurman x

Following the success of her first novel, The Burial, Courtney Collins’s new dual-narrative novel, Bird, centres on the titular 14-year-old girl. The story is told in alternating chapters differentiated by... Read more

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Catherine Wheel
Liz Evans, Ultimo, August 2024, reviewed by Annie Waters x

Kate is starting over in the small town of Bridgewell after a bad break-up with Max. She works as a yoga instructor and volunteers at the local library, living in... Read more

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Dirrayawadha
Anita Heiss, S&S, August 2024, reviewed by Melissa Mantle x

Dirrayawadha is a work of searing historical fiction set during the Wiradyuri wars in 1820s Bathurst and centring on a love story between a young Wiradyuri woman and an Irish... Read more

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Girl Falling
Hayley Scrivenor, Macmillan, August 2024, reviewed by Kate Frawley x

Girl Falling is the second novel by award-winning crime writer Hayley Scrivenor. Three women—Daphne, Magdu and Finn—head out for a day of rock climbing in the Blue Mountains, but only... Read more

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Liars
James O’Loghlin, Echo, August 2024, reviewed by Katy Briggs  x

In James O’Loghlin’s murder mystery Liars, every character has secrets to hide. The novel is set in the fictitious Bullford Point, a coastal town on NSW’s Northern Beaches, untouched by... Read more

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Love Unleashed
Melanie Saward, Michael Joseph, August 2024, reviewed by Shivani Prabhu x

Melanie Saward’s Love Unleashed is a bingeable, warm and soulful romantic comedy. Saward (whose debut novel, Burn, was released in 2023) draws on her own experience in New York to... Read more

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Translations
Jumaana Abdu, Vintage, August 2024, reviewed by Marina Sano x

Translations is a powerful, character-driven debut novel by Jumaana Abdu. It follows young mother Aliyah and her daughter, Sakina, who leave Sydney for a property in the Northern Rivers region... Read more

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Winter of the Wolf
Amanda Willimott, Viking, August 2024, reviewed by Abe Theobald x

Winter of the Wolf is Amanda Willimott’s debut novel, inspired by the real-life trial of Gilles Garnier, who was convicted of being a werewolf in 1573. When Sidonie Montot travels... Read more

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Woo Woo
Ella Baxter, A&U, August 2024, reviewed by Mel Fulton x

In Woo Woo, Ella Baxter’s raucous second novel after New Animal, art is terrible, a living spell, a parasite, a trick, and all there is. ‘Art is life,’ writes protagonist... Read more

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The Youngest Son
John Byrnes, Macmillan, August 2024, reviewed by Megan Koch x

John Byrnes’s The Youngest Son follows the fortunes of three siblings from a working-class Sydney family in the 1930s and 40s. Bob, the titular youngest, naturally gets the largest share... Read more

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