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EDENGLASSIE
Melissa Lucashenko $ 32.99
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart . In this brilliant epic , Melissa Lucashenko torches Queensland ' s colonial myths , while reimagining an Australian future .
THE OPPOSITE OF SUCCESS
Eleanor Elliott Thomas $ 32.99
All Lorrie wants is to get promoted , accept her body and end global warming . By Friday . Is that really too much to ask ? Wickedly sharp and absurdly funny , The Opposite of Success introduces a sensational new voice to remind us that failure is always an option .
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NIGHT SIDE OF THE RIVER : GHOST STORIES
Jeanette Winterson $ 32.99
Our lives are digital , exposed and always on . We have changed , but our ghosts have not . These are the stories of the dead . Some are fiction . But some may not be . This is a genre-bending and masterful new collection of ghost stories .
GUNFLOWER
Laura Jean McKay $ 29.99
The brilliant new short story collection , the stories in Gunflower explode and bloom in mesmerising ways , showing the world both as it is and as it could be .
THE PARIS COOKING SCHOOL
Sophie Beaumont $ 34.99
There ’ s nothing quite like Paris in the spring ; and when you add in the chance to learn the French way of food , who can resist ? Not Gabi Picabea or Kate Evans who have come from Australia to Sylvie Morel ’ s Paris Cooking School .
WELCOME TO THE HYUNAM-DONG BOOKSHOP
Hwang Bo-reum $ 32.99
Yeongju did everything she was supposed to : go to university , marry a decent man , get a respectable job . Then it all fell apart . She abandons her old life and opens a bookshop and learns how to truly live .
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SO LATE IN THE DAY
Claire Keegan $ 19.99
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office , Cathal ’ s mind agitates over a woman named Sabine he could have spent his life with , had he acted differently . An exquisite new short story collection from the bestselling author of Small Things Like These .
A STROKE OF THE PEN : THE LOST STORIES
Terry Pratchett $ 32.99
Twenty early short stories , these are rediscovered tales that Pratchett wrote under a pseudonym for newspapers during the 1970s and 1980s , containing all of his trademark wit , satirical wisdom and fantastic imagination .
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PRIMA FACIE
Suzie Miller $ 34.99
Tessa is a thoroughbred . A young , brilliant barrister from a working-class background now at the top of her game : defending , cross-examining and lighting up the shadows of doubt in any case . The law is a game and she is its most talented player . One sickening night , though , Tessa finds herself in a position countless women – one in three – have been in before her . And she ' s faced with a gutwrenching , life-changing decision . Will she take the stand to testify about her rape , with the full awareness that the system has not been built to protect her ? Drawn from the internationally acclaimed play , Prima Facie is a propulsive , raw look at the price victims pay for speaking out and the system that sets them up to fail . With breakneck prose and a devastating emotional intensity , this is a novel for our times , by one of Australia ' s most impressive writers .
LATE : A NOVEL
Michael Fitzgerald $ 32.99
In Late , Michael Fitzgerald superbly captures the literary spirit and sensibility of an ageing woman and icon who has escaped celebrity . It is a haunting and lyrical novel about art , friendship , and confronting our fears .
BACK ON TRACK
Tricia Stringer $ 32.99
Bestselling author Tricia Stringer tackles troubled relationships , ageism , and love old and new in this warm , funny , uplifting story of colleagues and unlikely travel companions thrown together on an astonishing ( and revealing ) train trip across Australia .
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