Cannon by Lee Lai

Cannon by Lee Lai**Shortlisted, Carol Shields Prize for Fiction 2026** **Shortlisted, Stella Prize 2026** **Shortlisted, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2026, Fiction** The much anticipated follow up to acclaimed graphic novelist Lee Lai's Stella shortlisted Stone Fruit, a funny, dark, emotionally turbulent slice of friendship strife. We arrive to wreckage a restaurant smashed to rubble, with tables and chairs upended riotously. Under the swampy nighttime cover of

the brain's natural rhythms - from its hunger for meaning to the impact of art and creativity on our mental well-being

This year's collection features Dean Alston

in October 1872

PRAISE FOR CHAMELEON-

These could be symptoms of illness

Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all names

˜A rattling searing soulful story ’ TRENT DALTON ˜A deeply personal study of a gloriously flawed adventurer ’ GRANTLEE KIEZA Sundowner of the Skies is the remarkable story of Oscar Garden

- more than 1000 new words and definitions such as bossware

In the sometimes acrimonious debates about outstations

The Smelly Book

'You find yourself down at the bottom of the river

Crow searches in the bush for food but he can find none