theme parks. Girlie takes the job. She notices that there might be something much darker built into the very code of the company, and that William, technically her new boss, might just be that long-forgotten thing... Girlie’ s type.
SECRETS Judi Morison
$ 34.99
Ruth, the widowed matriarch of a grown family, has only months to live, and a secret she’ s kept for 60 years. Now she must put things right before she dies. But as she has learned, the longer something is kept hidden, the harder it is to bring out of the shadows. A testament to the power of truth-telling and the possibility of healing.
THE FARM Jessica Mansour- Nahra
$ 32.99
When 37-year-old Leila suffers a health tragedy, her partner, James, suggests a year away from the city – they’ ll stay on his family farm. But soon Leila is disturbed by strange noises and fleeting visions. Leila suspects that she isn’ t the first woman James has relocated to the farm. Is what she’ s experiencing real? Or is it all in her head?
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HEART THE LOVER
Lily King
$ 32.99
Our narrator understands good love stories – their secrets, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the rules. She was in her senior year of college when star students Sam and Yash swept her into an intoxicating world of academic fervour, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. Their lives became quickly intertwined – with friendship but also with unpredictable passions and the intimations of first love. Decades later, the past crashes into the present, forcing her to confront the decisions and deceptions of her youth. This is King at her very best.
THE REST OF OUR LIVES
Ben Markovits
$ 34.99
When Tom Layward’ s wife had an affair he resolved to leave her as soon as his youngest daughter turned 18. 12 years later, while driving her to Pittsburgh to start university, he remembers his pact. So, after dropping Miriam off, he keeps driving, with the vague plan of visiting various people from his past – en route, maybe, to his father’ s grave in California.
BUCKEYE Patrick Ryan
$ 32.99
May, 1945. As news of the Allied victory in Europe reaches the small town of Bonhomie, Ohio, a woman named Margaret Salt walks into a hardware store and asks the man behind the counter, Cal Jenkins, for a radio. What happens next will change both of their lives forever. Full of compassion, humour and charm, Buckeye is a dazzling portrait of the human spirit.
SUPER-FROG SAVES TOKYO
Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin( trans.)
$ 34.99
Katagiri found a giant frog waiting for him in his apartment. It stood over six feet tall on its hind legs. Katagiri was overwhelmed by the frog’ s imposing bulk. Fully illustrated this special edition of Murakami’ s celebrated short story sees the bewildered Katagiri find meaning in his humdrum life through joining forces with Frog to try to save Tokyo from an existential threat.
A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF
Megha Majumdar
$ 29.99
A Guardian and a Thief tells two stories: the story of Ma’ s frantic search for the thief while keeping hunger at bay during a worsening food shortage; and the story of Boomba, the thief, whose desperation to care for his family drives him to commit a series of escalating crimes. Each are operating from a place of ferocious love and undefeated hope.
THE TRANSFOR- MATIONS
Andrew Pippos
$ 34.99
In the fading glow of Australia’ s print journalism era, The National is more than a newspaper: it’ s the only place that George Desoulis feels at home. A world-weary subeditor with a bookish sensibility and a painful past, George is one of nature’ s loners. But a late-night encounter with an unorthodox and self-assured reporter, Cassandra Gwan, begins to unravel both of their carefully managed worlds.
THE LAND IN WINTER
Andrew Miller
$ 24.99
Local doctor Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, funny, troubled Rita Simmons is also asleep, her head full of images of a past life her husband prefers to ignore. But when the ordinary cold of an English December gives way to violent blizzards, the two couples find their lives beginning to unravel.
FRANKIE J. M. Gutsch, Maxim Leo
$ 34.99
Meet Frankie the cat. He’ s a stray who belongs to no one, and that’ s just how he likes it. Until he crosses paths with Richard. Richard is grieving the loss of his wife. He’ s ready to end it all. But his plans are halted when Frankie the cat is injured on his doorstep. They might be exactly what the other needed...
THE ONE REMAINING
Paula McLean
$ 34.99
Hilary Mason is 13 when her sister Elaine disappears. She fears someone close to the family is involved but represses her suspicions. As an adult, Hilary becomes a successful novelist. In her 50s, she comes upon a stack of her old diaries, which document the trauma she’ s endured. She decides she is ready to face the hidden backstory of her life.
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