december book of the month
THE HEIR APPARENT Rebecca Armitage
$ 34.99 $ 29.99 available nov 25
Lexi Villiers is a 29-year-old Englishwoman doing her medical residency in Hobart. She is also Princess Alexandrina, third in line to the British throne. Following a terrible accident, Lexi is now the heir apparent. Called back to do her duty, she arrives in London. Now she must choose what bonds she will keep... and what she is willing to leave behind. We hope you love this book just as much as we do. fiction
GRAVITY LET ME GO
Trent Dalton
$ 34.99
Noah has just published a true-crime book about a killer who slipped an unfolding murder mystery into his mailbox. Now he is hurtling headfirst into a storm of secrets. Gravity Let Me Go is about the stories we want to tell the world, and how the stories we keep locked away are so often the stories that come to define us.
THE UNDERWORLD
Sofie Laguna
$ 34.99
Martha Mullins is fascinated by the underworld, a place she learns about in Roman mythology classes at school. To her, the underworld and its divine inhabitants provide a place of refuge, escape, imagination and desire. But Martha also finds joy in friendship. Connection. Intimacy. Until things go wrong. Funny, brave, insightful and clever, Martha will break your heart – then mend it – many times over.
THE ROAD TRIP Tricia Stringer
$ 34.99 $ 29.99
Sharyn wanted a holiday somewhere glamorous for her 60th birthday. So when her husband Barry surprises her with a caravan trip from Adelaide to Broome, she is furious. Even worse, Barry’ s annoying friend Ray and Ray’ s reclusive frumpy sister Kathleen are coming along. Two caravans, four adults and a journey through Australia’ s heart. The trip of a lifetime, right? Wrong.
THE FUNERAL CRASHERS
Joanna Nell
$ 32.99
When Martin and Grace meet and bond at an All Souls service, they unwittingly set off a chain of events with far-reaching consequences. They become funeral crashers. But who could have predicted that crashing funerals might have such life-changing and life-affirming outcomes? From the bestselling author of Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year.
THE WORST THING I’ VE EVER DONE
Clare Stephens
$ 32.99
It ' s an ordinary Tuesday morning when Ruby Williams ' name starts trending online. She ' s uploaded an interview that has outraged journalist Felicity Cartwright and is now at the centre of a brutal public shaming. Ruby can only watch on in horror as her reputation is torn apart. With skilful empathy, Clare Stephens holds a mirror to online personas versus actual lives, exploring what is truly important in a noise-ridden world competing for our attention.
THE LAST LOVE SONG
Lucinda Riley, Harry Whittaker
$ 34.99
The Last Love Song is a compelling story of love and devastating loss set on the rural west coast of Ireland and in glamourous 1960s London, from the author of the bestselling The Seven Sisters series. Lucinda Riley wrote The Last Love Song as Lucinda Edmonds, now reworked and revived by Harry Whittaker, Lucinda’ s son and co-author of Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt.
SEED Bri Lee
$ 34.99
Mitchell is a brilliant biologist, committed to the environment. He and his colleague Frances are concluding the Anarctos Project: a seed vault in an isolated, secret location. But when their helicopter doesn’ t pick them up, and strange things begin to happen, their faith in science is suddenly not enough. Seed offers an uneasy glimpse into isolation, love, and our worst fears.
THE LONELINESS OF SONIA AND SUNNY
Kiran Desai
$ 34.99
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is the sweeping tale of two young people navigating the many forces that shape their lives – country, class, race, history, and the complicated bonds that link one generation to the next. A love story, a family saga, and a rich novel of ideas, it is the most ambitious and accomplished work yet by one of our greatest novelists.
HEAP EARTH UPON IT
Chloe Michelle Howarth
$ 32.99
January 1965. The orphaned O’ Leary siblings Tom, Jack, Anna and Peggy arrive in the village of Ballycrea. After being met with suspicion from most of the locals, the family are thrilled when they’ re taken under the wing of their well-respected neighbours. But for one of the O’ Learys, this new friendship sparks an intense attachment. It’ s difficult to bury secrets, but almost impossible to bury feelings...
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