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LESSONS
Ian McEwan RRP $ 32.99
Lessons is the mesmerising new novel from the author of Atonement . The world is forever changing . But for so many of us , old wounds run deep . This is an intimate yet universal story of love , regret and a search for answers .
PRETTIER IF SHE SMILED MORE
Toni Jordan RRP $ 32.99
Could it be that Kylie ’ s carefully curated life is not so perfect after all ? Prettier if She Smiled More will make you laugh and cry with empathy and recognition and asks the question : When is it too late to start over ?
THE ANNIVERSARY
Stephanie Bishop
RRP $ 32.99
There were things that I wanted to say . Things I knew I couldn ’ t say but needed to tell someone . And then the things I knew I should say . What they wanted to hear … From Stephanie Bishop comes a dark and compulsive novel about writing and desire .
DUE MAY 9
AUGUST BLUE Deborah Levy RRP $ 35.00
A vivid portrait of a long-held identity coming apart , August Blue expands our understanding of the ways in which we seek to find ourselves in others and create ourselves anew .
RESISTANCE Jacinta Halloran RRP $ 32.99
Resistance is an elegant , hypnotic novel of stories within stories . Examining the unfathomable mysteries within our families , it also questions how we retell our history , both personal and collective .
Mama EXHORTED HER CHILDREN AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO ‘ JUMP AT DE SUN .’ WE MIGHT NOT LAND ON THE SUN , BUT AT LEAST WE WOULD GET OFF THE GROUND .
— Zora Neale Hurston , Dust on the Tracks
DUE MAY 1
CALL ME MARLOWE
Catherine de Saint Phalle
RRP $ 32.99
Set in both Prague and Melbourne , Call Me Marlowe captures a man ’ s search for his motherland in the hope of making sense of his life .
DR . NO Percival Everett RRP $ 32.99
Dr . No is a wildly mischievous novel from one of America ' s most inventive , provocative and productive writers . That it is about nothing isn ' t to say that it ' s not about anything . In fact , it ' s about villains .
OLD GOD ’ S TIME Sebastian Barry RRP $ 32.99
A retired policeman is revisited by his past in this beautiful , haunting novel , in which nothing is quite what it seems . Old God ' s Time is about what we live through , what we live with , and what will survive of us .
DUE APRIL 26
AFTER THE RAIN Aisling Smith RRP $ 32.99
After the Rain is a moving , exquisitely observed novel about marriage and family , dislocation , culture and belonging , from an exciting new voice in Australian literature .
PRAISEWORTHY Alexis Wright RRP $ 39.95
Praiseworthy is told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned . It ' s a cry of outrage against oppression and disadvantage , and a fable for the end of days .
THE THERAPIST Hugh Mackay RRP $ 32.99
Maverick psychotherapist Martha Elliott doesn ’ t always play by the rules . This is a powerful and poignant story of deception , ambiguity , lust and love – and the challenge of living with the consequences of our actions .
A COUNTRY OF ETERNAL LIGHT
Paul Dalgarno RRP $ 32.99
A Country of Eternal Light is a poignant , utterly original and bitingly funny novel about complicated grief and how we remain wanted by our loved ones , dead or alive .
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