december book of the month
FINDING JOY IN OYSTER BAY Susan Duncan
$ 32.99 $ 27.99 available 3 dec
When former journalist turned café owner Kate Jackson abandons her six-month-old baby and disappears without a word , the quirky offshore community of Cook ’ s Basin quickly steps in to salvage a delicate and difficult situation . But even the best intentions can go horribly awry . Relationships are tested , loyalties divided and the future of the beloved Briny Café – the beating heart of Cook ' s Basin – comes under threat . It takes a group of bossy retirees to navigate the brittle twists and turns of the grim past to point the way towards a hopeful future .
THE RAINFALL MARKET You Yeong-Gwang , Slin Jung ( trans .)
$ 35.00
available 3 dec
In The Rainfall Market , you can trade misfortune for happiness . Serin , surprised to receive a mysterious ticket , is invited to a market that opens in the rain . She has one week to find the perfect life or be trapped forever , accompanied by Isha the cat , while a shadow quietly follows .
THE DESERT KNOWS HER NAME Lia Hills
$ 34.99
In this stunning , lyrical novel of nature and history , a girl walks out of the desert and shakes a community to its core . The Desert Knows Her Name is an exquisite novel that speaks to a deep longing for connection with the land , and the silences that persist in contemporary Australia .
THE THINNING Inga Simpson
$ 32.99
Fin grew up by an observatory , learning about telescopes and planets . Those days are long over . Now Fin , her mother , and a band of outliers live deep off the grid , always on amber alert and always ready to run . In the outside world , a new disaster is looming . Fin finds herself thrust into an unlikely partnership with a stranger who has appeared in their camp . The pair will need to work together to help restore the natural world . The Thinning is both an exquisitely written novel of nature and urgent psychological suspense by the bestselling and acclaimed author of Willowman .
THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel ( trans .)
$ 49.99
available 19 nov
When a young man ' s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes , he sets his heart on finding the imaginary city where her true self lives . His search will lead him to take a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own . A love story , a quest , an ode to books and to the libraries that house them , The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a parable for these strange times .
DOUBLE HAPPINESS Rochelle Siemienowicz
$ 34.99
Set in Melbourne over seven years , this lyrical contemporary love story explores the complexities of non-monogamy with humour and heart , asking what it ’ s like to love two , or more , people equally but differently . What is the effect of time on erotic love ? And what happens when your new lover wants someone else too . Told from three perspectives , Double Happiness is a story about sex , honesty and jealousy and the challenges of forging a new kind of romance .
TIME OF THE CHILD Niall Williams
$ 32.99
Doctor Troy has always been set apart from his community . His youngest daughter , Ronnie , has grown up in her father ’ s shadow . But in the advent season of 1962 , a baby is left in their care and their understanding of their family , and their role in their community is changed forever .
DUSK Robbie Arnott
$ 34.99
In the distant highlands , a puma named Dusk is killing shepherds . Down in the lowlands , twins Iris and Floyd are out of work , money and friends . When they hear that a bounty has been placed on Dusk , they reluctantly decide to join the hunt . As they journey up into this wild , haunted country , they discover there ’ s far more to the land and people of the highlands than they imagined . And as they close in on their prey , they ’ re forced to reckon with conflicts both ancient and deeply personal .
PLAYGROUND Richard Powers
$ 34.99
Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping , panoramic new novel from Pulitzer Prizewinning author , Richard Powers . Set in the world ’ s largest ocean , this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonise , and interweaves profound themes of technology and the environment and a deep exploration of our shared humanity .
THE MIGHTY RED Louise Erdrich
$ 34.99
In Argus , North Dakota , a fraught wedding is taking place . Gary Geist , a terrified young man set to inherit two farms , is desperate to marry Kismet Poe . Hugo , Kismet ’ s friend and former lover , is determined to win her back . Meanwhile , Kismet ’ s mother , Crystal , wrestles with fears for their future . The Mighty Red is about our tattered bond with the earth , and about love in all of its absurdity and splendour .
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