{"id":136783,"date":"2021-02-12T11:21:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T00:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/?p=136783"},"modified":"2021-02-22T11:08:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T00:08:19","slug":"10-exciting-australian-novels-coming-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2021\/02\/12\/10-exciting-australian-novels-coming-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"10 exciting Australian novels coming in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What do you think about when you consider the concept of Australian fiction?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of us conjure up iconic Tim Winton descriptions of surfing or the exuberant Dickensian story-telling of Bryce Courtenay’s The Potato Factory<\/em>. Maybe you think of stories you loved as a child, or books that got adapted into blockbuster films?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I think of Australian fiction today, I revel in a great gamut of voices and ever-changing styles. Many of them have become my favourite books – books that have helped me interpret and celebrate this massive, vibrant and often contradictory country, and all who call it home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, I bloody love Australian fiction and I think you should too. Below are just ten of the new Aussie novels to be released in the months to come. I’ve read and been blown away by early copies of a few of these. All of them are hotly anticipated and should be on your radar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s get to it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Performance<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

by Claire Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As bushfires rage outside the city, three women watch a performance of a Beckett play. As the performance unfolds, so does each woman’s story. By the time the curtain falls, they will all have a new understanding of the world beyond the stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy it now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Love Objects<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

by Emily Maguire<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nic is a forty-five-year-old trivia buff, amateur nail artist and fairy godmother to the neighbourhood’s stray cats. Nic’s closest relationship is with her niece Lena. The two of them meet for lunch every Sunday to gossip about the rest of the family and bitch about work. One Sunday, Nic fails to turn up to lunch …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy it now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Truth About Her<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

by Jacqueline Maley<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Journalist and single mother Suzy Hamilton gets a phone call one summer morning, and finds out that the subject of one of her investigative exposes, 25-year-old wellness blogger Tracey Doran, has killed herself overnight. Suzy is horrified by this news but copes in the only way she knows how – through work, mothering, and carrying on with her ill-advised, tandem affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy it now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Ripping Tree<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

by Nikki Gemmell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Early 1800s. Thomasina Trelora is on her way to the colonies. As the Australian coastline comes into view a storm wrecks the ship and leaves her lying on the rocks, near death. She’s saved by an Aboriginal man who carries her to the door of a grand European house, Willowbrae. As she’s drawn deeper into the intriguing life of this grand estate, she discovers that things aren’t quite as they seem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy it now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Echolalia<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

by Briohny Doyle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Set in a fictional regional city beset by drought, Echolalia <\/em>follows a family in the advent and aftermath of unspeakable tragedy, the narrative moving fluidly between the ‘Before’ and ‘After’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy it now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One Hundred Days<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

by Alice Pung<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a heady whirlwind of independence, lust and defiance, sixteen-year-old Karuna falls pregnant. Incensed, Karuna’s mother, already over-protective, confines her to their fourteenth-storey housing-commission flat, to keep her safe from the outside world. As the due date draws ever closer, the question of who will get to raise the baby festers between them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy it now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After Story<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

by Larissa Behrendt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England’s most revered literary sites, Jasmine hopes it will bring them closer together and help them reconcile the past. Twenty-five years earlier the disappearance of Jasmine’s older sister devastated their tight-knit community. This tragedy returns to haunt Jasmine and Della when another child mysteriously goes missing on Hampstead Heath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy it now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gunk Baby<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

by Jamie Marina Lau<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Throughout a childhood spent moving between different countries, one thing was constant for Leen. The local shopping centre. So, when it feels like the same day for far too long, Leen decides to open a healing studio – ear-cleaning, massage and cupping – for her, the Par Mars Topic Heights shopping complex is the perfect location to build a business. Here, Leen thinks she is making connections. But what if you trust the wrong person?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy it now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once There Were Wolves<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

by Charlotte McConaghy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen grey wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but Aggie, too, unmade by the terrible secrets that drove the sisters out of Alaska.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy it now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apples Never Fall<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

by Liane Moriarty<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From the outside, the Delaneys appear to be an enviably contented family. Even after all these years, former tennis coaches Joy and Stan are still winning tournaments, and now they’ve sold the family business they have all the time in the world to learn how to relax. Their four adult children are busy living their own lives. But now Joy Delaney has disappeared …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy it now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Find more Australian stories in our collection<\/a>!<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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