{"id":163985,"date":"2022-04-07T10:31:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T23:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/?p=163985"},"modified":"2022-04-11T14:05:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T03:05:23","slug":"7-new-debut-novels-to-savour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2022\/04\/07\/7-new-debut-novels-to-savour\/","title":{"rendered":"7 new debut novels to savour!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Need some reading inspo? Here are 7 debut novels to savour this autumn, selected by our resident fiction lover, Ben Hunter. Read on!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Losing Face<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

by George Haddad<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The lockdowns of 2021 drew a dividing line between two Sydneys, and as a reader I\u2019ve been hungry for new fiction coming out of the vibrant western suburbs. Initiatives like Westwords<\/a><\/strong> and Sweatshop<\/a><\/strong> have me very excited. I\u2019m also very keen to read Losing Face<\/em>, a thought-provoking look at contemporary Australia that has won the admiration of the incredibly discerning Tony Birch. This is one to watch out for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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Son of Sin<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

by Omar Sakr<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Staying on theme with Western Sydney writers, Omar Sakr is one who has made big waves with his prize-winning poetry collection, The Lost Arabs<\/em>. His debut novel, Son of Sin<\/em>, is incredible and I am seeing it being moved into front windows of bookshops all over Sydney right now. It\u2019s a raw work of self-reflection, grief and the complexities of class, faith and family. Comparisons to Christos Tsiolkas are warranted but I also feel this book is moving contemporary Australian writing to a whole new level. Expect to see this one on prize lists left, right and centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

by Isobel Beech<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another debut that tackles grief, but a very different kind of novel. After a great loss, a woman flies to Italy and takes residence in the birthing room of an old villa where generations of women have had their babies. Past and present converge for her and over the weeks that follow, she undergoes a kind of restoration and evolution. Sunbathing<\/em> comes from Melbourne journalist and culture writer, Isobel Beech. Her prose is spare and fresh – it captured me from the first page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

by Mandy Beaumont<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, I have raved about this before and I\u2019ll do it again! The Furies<\/em> is uncomfortable, lyrical and beautiful all at once. Set against a drought-stricken outback Queensland, and told in rhythmic and vivid language, it tells the story of a woman named Cynthia who suffers the unspeakable and dares to overcome it. This book screams against complacency, I dare you to read it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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The Signal Line<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

by Brendan Colley<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You had me at ‘ghost train’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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No Hard Feelings<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

by Genevieve Novak<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meg Mason\u2019s Sorrow and Bliss<\/em> seems to have sparked a cover craze of well-dressed women literally collapsing under the weight of twenty-first century malaise. I weirdly love it. Genevieve Novak\u2019s debut is acerbic and refreshing to read. It sets a torch to good intentions and success culture or late capitalism or whatever name you want to give to that horrible thing that makes you feel bad and then want to buy stuff while knowing you\u2019ll feel worse for doing so. Perfect for fans of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Dolly Alderton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

by Rhett Davis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This debut was a winner of the highly coveted Victorian Premier\u2019s Unpublished Manuscript Award, which has uncovered some of the best new writers to hit the scene over the last decade. Playful and poignant, this book tips expectations upside down and questions our notions of permanence and ownership of the spaces we inhabit. Rhett Davis is a shapeshifter in his prose, he\u2019ll set your mind ablaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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Books by Omar Sakr, Genevieve Novak, Isobel Beech and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":163993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[8535,14668,9445,1974,14659,14673,14666,14670,14672,14455,14660,14658,12260,14667,14213,14671,14454,14669],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/AnticipatedDebutFiction-Social.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163985"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164236,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163985\/revisions\/164236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}