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From Victoria Purman,
author of The Land Girls, comes a beautifully
realised novel that speaks to the true
history and real experiences of post-war
Australian women.
In the fourth title in the
Miss Lily series, Jackie
French explores one of
the most controversial
events in history that
saw the unthinkable
happen when a king
chose love over duty.
In a climate of poverty
and violence, Mary,
midwife and herbalist,
is caught in a crossfire
of suspicion and
fear. It is up to her to
navigate a passage to
safety for herself and
her daughter, and the
vulnerable women in
her care.
THE YELLOW
BIRD SINGS
Jennifer Rosner
RRP $29.99
Poland 1941. A mother.
A child. An impossible
choice… The Yellow Bird
Sings is a gripping and
moving novel about
the unbreakable bond
between parent and child and the triumph
of humanity and hope in even the darkest
circumstances.
THE RIVER HOME
Jackie French
RRP $29.99
Lauren Chater
RRP $32.99
Spanning two
centuries, Nicole
Alexander’s compelling
new novel is a story of
love and faith, destiny
and betrayal, in a land
as richly diverse as the
secrets it keeps.
Beautiful and mysterious,
The Things She Owned explores the complexity
of lives lived between cultures, the weight of
cross-generational trauma, and a mother and
daughter on a tortuous path to forgiveness.
LILIES, LIES
AND LOVE
GULLIVER’S WIFE
Nicole Alexander
RRP $32.99
Katherine Tamiko
Arguile
RRP $29.99
Victoria Purman
RRP $32.99
‘What a mess, she thought now . . . what a
bloody, unholy mess the whole family has got
itself into.’ In Mum & Dad, Joanna Trollope
explores the issues at the heart of a modern
family with her trademark wit and warmth.
THE CEDAR TREE
THE THINGS
SHE OWNED
THE WOMEN’S
PAGES
Joanna Trollope
RRP $32.99
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Hannah Richell
RRP $29.99
The river can take you
home. But the river can
also drag you under…
The River Home is a
new novel from author
Hannah Richell. A
wise and emotionally
powerful story of a
broken family and the courage it takes to heal.
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HOW MUCH OF
THESE HILLS IS
GOLD
THE CAKE
MAKER’S WISH
Josephine Moon
RRP $32.99
C Pam Zhang
RRP $32.99
How Much of These
Hills is Gold is a
sweeping adventure tale, an unforgettable
sibling story and a remarkable novel about a
family, bound and divided by its memories.
THE PARIS SECRET
Natasha Lester
RRP $32.99
A wardrobe of Dior
gowns, a secret kept
for sixty-five years,
and the three women
bound forever by war...
The Paris Secret is an
unforgettable story
about the lengths
people go to protect one another, and a love
that, despite everything, lasts a lifetime.
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Cake maker Olivia
has all but given
up on romance, until life dishes up some
delicious new options. The Cake Maker’s Wish
is an uplifting story about the moments that
change your life forever, human kindness and
being true to yourself.
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SWIMMING
LESSONS
Lili Reinhart
RRP $24.99
Accompanied by
striking and evocative
illustrations, the
poems in Swimming Lessons reveal the depths
of female experience, and are the work of a
storyteller who is coming into her own.
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