CHOSEN FAMILY Madeleine Gray
$ 34.99
Books about friendship are not often described as love stories, but this is one. Set in Sydney over 18 years, Chosen Family follows Nell and Eve as they grow into themselves, as they both love and destroy each other. Nell’ s and Eve’ s is a relationship that is a life-raft that is also a poison apple that is also a Medusan stare, frozen in time.
TWICE Mitch Albom
$ 34.99
A stunning and emotional new novel from the author of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven. In Twice, America’ s favourite storyteller, Mitch Albom, is at the top of his powers. A love story that is enchanting, probing, and clairvoyant in matters of the heart, Twice will make you think, weep, and overflow with love from beginning to end.
WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU
Patricia Lockwood
$ 32.99
The world might be in disarray, but for one young woman, the very weave of herself seems to have loosened. Time and memories pass straight through her body. From one of our most original, inventive and prodigiously funny writers, Will There Ever Be Another You is a phosphorescent, wild and profound investigation into what keeps us alive in unprecedented times.
THE FOUR SPENT THE DAY TOGETHER
Chris Kraus
$ 35.00
In northern Minnesota, three teenagers shot and killed a man after spending the day with him. They are arrested and imprisoned. No one knows why they did it. Catt Greene is living nearby at the time of the murder. She becomes obsessed with the case and during her investigations she finds herself travelling back through the lives of her parents in the working-class Bronx.
THE ENDLESS SKY
Di Morrissey
$ 39.99
available nov 25
Top-rating TV presenter Nicole and her savvy producer and friend Stacie suddenly find themselves under the rule of a new boss... he ' s arrogant, patronising and out to prove he ' s in charge. Their challenge? To create a hit show revealing the hidden heart of outback Australia. What begins as a career-defining adventure quickly spirals into something far more dangerous and unexpected.
IN THE PARIS FASHION
Sophie Beaumont
$ 34.99
A mysterious evening gown. A closely guarded secret. And a vintage fashion dealer hot on the trail. Heading to Paris to investigate the mystery, Isabelle Bernard finds herself on the doorstep of couture apprentice Romy Valence. Meanwhile, celebrated fashion writer Audrey Oliver is in Paris with no idea just how extraordinary her next story is going to be...
FLASHLIGHT Susan Choi
$ 34.99
10-year-old Louisa and her father take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town while her father Serk, a Korean émigré, completes an academic secondment from his American university. When Louisa wakes, she has washed up on the beach and her father is missing. The reverberations of that event will last a lifetime.
THE NATURAL WAY OF THINGS( 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION)
Charlotte Wood
$ 29.99
The Natural Way of Things is a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be hunted. Most of all, it is the story of two friends, their sisterly love and courage. The Natural Way of Things is a compulsively
readable, scarifying and deeply moving contemporary novel.
A LONG WINTER Colm Tóibín
$ 29.99
After arguing with her husband, Miquel’ s mother walks out of their home high up in the Pyrenees and does not return, leaving Miquel and his father to battle the elements and their resentment for each other. Manolo, a servant boy from the next village, arrives to help in the house, and offers Miquel the promise of new love, and another kind of life.
WRECK Catherine Newman
$ 34.99
Rocky, Nick, Willa and Jamie. A normal loving, anxious, messy, relatable, family. When a former classmate of Jamie’ s dies in a random accident, Rocky becomes obsessed. Her father is his outspoken self; her daughter Willa is prone to bouts of existential angst; her husband Nick is steady and logical... But if accidents can happen – and they do – is it safe to love anyone?
THE EX-BOYFRIEND’ S FAVOURITE RECIPE FUNERAL COMMITTEE
Saki Kawashiro, Yuka Maeno( trans.)
$ 29.99
29-year-old Momoko has been tragically dumped. Momoko gets incredibly drunk at a café and pours her heart out to Iori, the curious and impossibly handsome manager, and Hozumi, a café regular. As they cook and share their stories of heartbreak, the manager has a brilliant idea. And an unconventional therapy group, the‘ Ex-Boyfriend’ s Favourite Recipe Funeral Committee’, is born...
MODERATION Elaine Castillo
$ 34.99
Girlie, a 30-something Filipinx-American, works a day job at a socialmedia moderation centre. She’ s offered a big pay rise and an office to start moderating virtual-reality
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