Olga Dies Dreaming
A dazzling debut about a status-driven wedding planner for New York's elite grappling with her absent mother and her Puerto Rican roots in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
Author : Xochitl Gonzalez
Publisher : Hachette
Auē
A devastating, beautifully written tale imbued with Maori culture and language.
Author : Becky Manawatu
Publisher : Scribe
I, Mona Lisa
An irresistible insight into the world as it looks through the eyes of the most famous painting of all time.
Author : Natasha Solomons
Publisher : Penguin Random House
The Very Last List of Vivian Walker
Vivian Walker is dying. This is not on her list of things to do. A darkly funny debut that proves even the most imperfect of lives is worth celebrating.
Author : Megan Albany
Publisher : Hachette
The Space Between the Stars
A deeply moving and uplifting exploration of the power of nature - even urban nature - to heal the deepest hurts.
Author : Indira Naidoo
Publisher : Murdoch Books
Amnion
An extraordinary debut, book-length poem from a significant young thinker on migratory histories, race and colonialism.
Author : Stephanie Sy-Quia
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Mala’s Cat
A moving Holocaust memoir about the unlikely friendship between a young Jewish girl and a stray cat and their survival against the odds.
Author : Mala Kacenberg
Publisher : Penguin Random House
