My Brilliant Career
Miles Franklin
(An Aussie version of What Katy Did)
Avoiding Mr Right
Anita Heiss
(Aboriginal chick-lit)
The Paperbark Shoe
Goldie Goldbloom
(The story of Italian POWs in rural WA and the effect they have on a dysfunctional family)
The Age of Miracles
Karen Thompson Walker
(First love at the end of the world)
On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan
(Wedding night nerves delicately portrayed)
A Spot of Bother
Mark Haddon
(Hypochondria, wedding jitters, family chaos)
With your Crooked Heart
Helen Dunmore
(Dark story of repercussions from crime on family life)
A Cat, A Hat and a Piece of String
Joanne Harris
(Collection of short stories, funny, imaginative, disturbing..)
Dear Life
Alice Munro
(Short stories, love, family, chance encounters..)
February
22 Britannia Road
Amanda Hodgkinson
(Fraught family reunion after the second world war)
The Little White Car
Dunuta De Rhodes
(Parisian repercussions)
True Confessions of Adrian Mole
Sue Townsend
(Adrian Mole grows up)
March
Dirt Music
Tim Winton
(Love, tragedy and fishing)
The Last Letter from your Lover
Jojo Moyes
(Long lost love letters)
Jasper Jones
Craig Silvey
(Small town prejudices, first love)
The Island
Victoria Hislop
(The story of three generations of Cretans)
Peter Duck
Arthur Ransome
(Swallows and Amazons in the Caribbean)
All That I Am
Anna Funder
(German Resistance in the 1930s)
April
Beyond the Break
Sandra Hall
Nine Parts Water
Emma Hardman
Alice Bliss
Laura Harrington
May
In the Winter Dark
Tim Winton
Stasiland
Anna Funder
The Cat Sanctuary
Patrick Gale
Coastliners
Joanne Harris
On Green Dolphin Street
Sebastian Faulks
The Winter Ghosts
Kate Mosse
June
The Nature of Ice
Robyn Mundy
The Friday Night Knitting Club
Kate Jacobs
Five Bells
Gail Jones
The Language of Others
Clare Morrall
The Midnight Zoo
Sonya Hartnett
The Twelve
Justin Cronin
Peaches for Monsier Le Cure
Joanne Harris
The Last Girls
Lee Smith
The Camomile Lawn
Mary Wesley
The Forgotten World
Mark O'Flynn
August
Frankie and Stankie
Barbara Trapido
Thornwood House
Anna Romer
The Railwayman's Wife
Ashley Hay
Valentine Grey
Sandi Toksvig
The Long Earth
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
The Long War
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
September
Sunflower
Colin McLaren
The Vale Girl
Nelika McDonald
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
Blow on a Dead Man's Embers
Mari Strachan
October
Wool
Hugh Howey
Shift
Hugh Howey
Dust
Hugh Howey
The Lieutenant
Kate Grenville
Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy
Helen Fielding
Lucky Break
Esther Freud
The Light Between Oceans
M.L.Steadman
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