AUDITION Katie Kitamura
$ 39.99
Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’ s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’ s attractive, troubling, young – young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day.
LOST AND FOUND
Liz Byrski
$ 34.99
In a leap of faith, Rose is flying home to England for the first time in decades to search for her first love. But what she finds there is far from what she expected. When Rose turns up at her door, Dora is not sure she’ s willing to rake over the coals of the past. But an unlikely friendship might show them a way forward.
THE LUCKY SISTERS
Rachael Johns
$ 34.99
Adopted twins Nora and Stevie Lucky have always been close, despite being total opposites. When their mother dies, Nora convinces Stevie to search for their biological parents, only to come face-to-face with a life-changing revelation that sends them spiralling in opposite directions. With their careers, love lives and even their sisterly bond at risk, they’ re going to need more than luck to survive.
THE BITTER WATER OF THE LAKE
Giulia Caminito, Hope Campbell Gustafson( trans.)
$ 27.99
In the 1990s, Gaia’ s family moves from the neglected peripheries of Rome to an idyllic lakeside town in search of a new life. Gaia befriends two local girls, but tragedy soon strikes. As more friends slip away and her family fractures, Gaia vows to make the world pay for all the things it has denied her.
FLESH David Szalay
$ 34.99
15-year-old Istvan lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour – a married woman close to his mother’ s age – as his only companion. These encounters shift into a clandestine relationship that Istvan himself can barely understand, and his life soon spirals out of control.
ONE STORY Pip Finkemeyer
$ 34.99
In the sun-drenched chaos of 2010s Silicon Valley, a tech company’ s meteoric rise culminates in a devastating fall. Dot Van Jensen, the trailblazing CEO-turned-fugitive, narrates her story from a hidden corner of Indonesia. A scandal has painted her as the villain. But is the truth as cut and dry as the headlines seem to imply?
THE LONG SHOE Bob Mortimer
$ 34.99
Matt had been happily drifting through life – but recently, he lost his job as a bathroom salesman and the tenancy on his home is about to expire. To top it all off, his partner Harriet has left him. With the help of a Yorkshire gangster, a luxury bathtub, his cat Goodmonsun and a yoga guru, maybe he’ ll find what he wants from his life.
BEST OFFER WINS
Marisa Kashino
$ 34.99
available dec 2
After a year and a half, and more failed bids than she cares to count, Margo Miyake is officially losing it. Then she gets a tip about the perfect house, off-market, that Margo just knows will save her and Ian’ s marriage, and get her life, career and plan to have a baby back on track. A little stalking? Harmless! A bit of trespassing? Necessary! Nothing is off limits.
QUEEN ESTHER John Irving
$ 36.99
available nov 11
After 40 years, John Irving returns to the world of The Cider House Rules, revisiting the orphanage in St. Cloud’ s, Maine, where Dr Wilbur Larch takes in Esther – a Vienneseborn Jew whose life is shaped by anti- Semitism. Queen Esther is not just a story of survival but a profound exploration of identity, belonging, and the enduring impact of history on our personal lives.
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THE ELEVENTH HOUR
Salman Rushdie
$ 34.99
available nov 4
These five dazzling works of fiction move between the three countries that Salman Rushdie has called home – India, England and America – and explore what it means to approach the eleventh hour of life. They are the reckoning with mortality that we all must one day make, and speak deeply to what the author has come from and through.
THE LAND OF SWEET FOREVER
Harper Lee
$ 49.99
From one of America’ s most beloved authors, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces, offering a fresh perspective on the remarkable literary mind of Harper Lee.
PICTURES OF YOU
Tony Birch
$ 45.00
This is a collection of the best of Tony Birch’ s short fiction from the past two decades. These stories showcase his ability to find the extraordinary in ordinary lives, and the connections and kindnesses between strangers. Birch’ s preoccupation with the humanity of those who are often
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