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Jean, a hard-drinking grandmother who works as a guide at an outback wildlife park, is caught up in a pandemic that lets people understand what animals are saying, and sets off south after her son, who has taken her granddaughter.
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Venomous Lumpsucker
In a near future where companies buy extinction credits to wipe out the species that get in their way, Karin Resaint, a scientist who studies animal intelligence, and Mark Halyard, a mining company's fixer, go looking for the last venomous lumpsucker, a fish that may be clever enough to matter.
Oryx and Crake
In a ruined world, Snowman, who may be the last human, remembers his friend Crake, a brilliant geneticist who built a new species, and the woman they both loved, in the first book of the MaddAddam trilogy.
Here Goes Nothing
A murdered man watches from a chaotic afterlife as his killer moves in with his pregnant widow, while a pandemic sweeps the world he left behind.
The Memoirs of a Survivor
In a British city falling apart after an unnamed collapse, a middle-aged woman is left in charge of a teenage girl, Emily, and discovers another world behind the wall of her flat.
Annihilation
A biologist enters a mysterious quarantined zone where nature has gone terrifyingly wrong, and realises the expedition before hers was not what it seemed.
The Testament of Jessie Lamb
A virus released by terrorists means every pregnant woman in the world now dies, and Jessie Lamb, sixteen, writes her account from the room where her father has locked her up to stop what she has decided to do.
Bliss
Harry Joy, an advertising man in an Australian city, is dead for nine minutes after a heart attack, and when he comes back he decides he is in Hell.
Hell of a Book
A Black author on a book tour and a boy fleeing violence alternate chapters in a novel about race, storytelling, and whose pain gets to be seen.
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
In 2016, Finn, a suspended history teacher visiting his dying brother in a New York hospice, ends up on a strange road trip through the South with his ex-girlfriend Lily, who has recently died.
The Sea and Summer
In the Melbourne of the mid twenty-first century, with the seas rising and most people unemployed and crammed into the tower blocks of the Swill, two brothers try to keep a hold on the life above it. Centuries later, historians study what they left.
Terra Nullius
Jacky, a young Native man who has escaped from a mission, runs across a colonised land with Settlers and Troopers on his trail.
Elizabeth Costello
Elizabeth Costello, an ageing Australian novelist, travels to give lectures and receive prizes, and in each place argues about animals, evil and the life of the mind.