FICTION
ROMANTIC COMEDY
Curtis Sittenfeld RRP $ 32.99
Skewering all our certainties about why we fall in love , Romantic Comedy is a witty and probing tale of how the heart will follow itself . It is Curtis Sittenfeld at her most sharp , daring and compassionate best .
THE FANCIES Kim Lock RRP $ 32.99
Abigail Fancy returns to the tiny town that the Fancies have ruled for decades , fresh from her second stint in prison and utterly out of time ... A bold , punchy and wry novel from the author of The Other Side of Beautiful .
DUE MAY 2
ANAM André Dao RRP $ 32.99
Moving from 1930s Hanoi through a series of wars and displacements to Saigon , Paris , Melbourne and Cambridge , Anam is a novel about memory and inheritance , colonialism and belonging , home and exile .
DUE APRIL 28
THE HEART IS A STAR
Megan Rogers RRP $ 32.99
The Heart is a Star is an engrossing novel about the complicated messiness of midlife ; about the ways in which we navigate the world ; and about how we can uncover our true selves when we are forced to face the myths that make us .
DUE APRIL 26
THE ALBATROSS Nina Wan RRP $ 34.99
The Albatross is a bighearted , beautifully written , utterly engaging novel about love , fear , second chances and the hardest shot in golf , from a sparkling new Australian voice .
DUE APRIL 12
GIRL IN A PINK DRESS
Kylie Needham RRP $ 27.99
Told across two time periods , Frances ’ s story wrestles with themes of power and privilege , womanhood and motherhood , artistic doubt , the male gaze upon the female body , and the commodification of art .
DUE MAY 2
LIFE AFTER TED R . D . Feneley RRP $ 32.99
Threaded with wry humour , Life after Ted is an examination of family conflict . The backdrop of Bondi Beach is a presence as fascinating as any of the complex characters navigating their way through grief , towards hope .
DUE MAY 2
SEARCH HISTORY Amy Taylor RRP $ 32.99
Search History is a sharply funny debut novel about identity , obsession and desire in the internet age from one of the most perceptive and original new voices in Australian fiction .
FUNNY ETHNICS Shirley Le RRP $ 29.99
Funny Ethnics catapults readers into the sprawling citywithin-a-city that is Western Sydney and the world of Sylvia Nguyen . Shirley Le uses a coming-of-age tale to reveal a side of Australia so ordinary that it ’ s entirely bizarre .
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TITLES
THE BELL OF THE WORLD
Gregory Day RRP $ 32.99
BIRNAM WOOD Eleanor Catton RRP $ 32.99
A psychological ecothriller from the Booker-Prize-winning author of The Luminaries , Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its wit , drama and immersion in character .
The Bell of the World is both a song to the natural wonders that are not yet gone and a luminous prehistory of contemporary climate change and its connection to colonialism . It is a book set in the past , written for the hearts of the future .
RETURN TO VALETTO
Dominic Smith RRP $ 32.99
Dominic Smith ’ s Return to Valetto is a riveting journey into one family ' s long-buried story – a page-turning excavation of the ruins of history and our commitment to justice in a fragile world .
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