kluge
By Pip Adam
Part workplace satire, part fever dream, kluge imagines the final days of a tech company through the unexpected lens of a stand-up comedy set. Pip Adam blends sharp humour with unsettling questions about artificial intelligence and corporate power. Bold, inventive, and unlike anything else on the shelf.
Country People
By Daniel Mason
When Miles Krzelewski follows his wife to a prestigious college in rural Vermont, he hopes it will finally be the fresh start he needs. Instead, he finds himself swept up in an eccentric community of academics, strange locals, and increasingly mysterious folklore. Warm, witty, and profound, this novel blends family life, myth, and mid-life uncertainty into an utterly charming story about finding your place in the world.
The Great Wherever
By Shannon Sanders
A year after her father’s death, Aubrey inherits a share of a Tennessee farm and travels south to meet the family she barely knows. Watching over the land are four generations of ancestors, including her great-grandfather, one of the first black landowners in the community. As the family’s history and legacy unfolds, this unforgettable multigenerational novel explores the ties that bind us.
Ordinary People Like Us
By Kelly Ana Morey
Spanning five generations of Māori women, this sweeping novel follows one family’s journey from the gumfields of the Far North to Auckland, London, and beyond. Through love, loss, sacrifice, and the stories handed down across generations, it explores the acts of courage that shape ordinary lives. Rich, immersive, and deeply moving.
Life of M
By Rachel Cusk
When a writer sets out to pen the autobiography of M, one of the world’s most recognisable actresses, she becomes increasingly absorbed by the strange reality of a life shaped by extraordinary fame. As the relationship between the writer and subject deepens, questions of identity, beauty, truth, and performance begin to surface.
Hello Baby
By Kim Eui-Kyung
This thought-provoking novel is set at a fertility clinic in Seoul where six women undergoing IVF form an unlikely friendship, supporting one another through the emotional highs and lows of trying to conceive. But questions emerge, when one woman disappears from their group chat, only to reappear a year later announcing the birth of a baby no one knew she was expecting.
Words: Mandy Myles of Bookety Book Books
Imagery: Supplied
