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The Lake House
Kate Morton
RRP $32.99
Rain Music
Sadie stumbles upon an abandoned
house and learns the story of a baby
boy who disappeared without a trace. Meanwhile,
the formidable Alice Edevane, now an old lady,
leads a life as neatly plotted as the bestselling
detective novels she writes. Until a young police
detective starts asking questions
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about her family’s past...
Di Morrissey
RRP $35.00
Rain Music is inspired by Di’s
adventures in far north Queensland
– its characters, its forgotten history, its modern
dilemmas. A brother and sister, Ned and Bella
Chisholm, are struggling with a family tragedy that
has set them on opposite paths. Ned
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disappears and when Bella goes in
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search of her brother, she ends up in
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remote Cooktown.
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The Japanese Lover
Isabel Allende
RRP $39.99
The Life and Death
of Sophie Stark
From internationally bestselling author Isabel
Allende comes an exquisitely crafted love story and
multigenerational epic that sweeps from presentday San Francisco to Poland and
the United States during WWII.
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Anna North
RRP $29.99
This is a story of an enigmatic film director, told
by the six people who loved her most. Brilliant,
infuriating, all-seeing and unknowable, Sophie
Stark makes films said to be ‘more like life than life
itself’. But her genius comes at a terrible cost: to her
husband, to the brother she left behind, and to the
actress she can’t forget.
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The Women’s Pages
Debra Adelaide
RRP $29.99
Hester and Harriet
Hilary Spiers
RRP $29.99
After her mother’s death, Dove decides to write a
whole new story for herself, for her mother and for
their literary heroines. In undertaking this labour
of love, Dove unwittingly taps into the universal
story of choice, grief and compromise that women
everywhere experience.
Widowed sisters, Hester and Harriet, live in a
comfortable cottage in a pretty English village. On
Christmas day they come across a waif-life girl,
Darla, hiding with her baby and bring them home.
But when the deeper mysteries in Daria’s story
surface Hester and Harriet find their lives turned
upside down.
the Magic Strings
of Frankie Presto
Chance Developments
Mitch Albom
RRP $35.00
Alexander McCall Smith
RRP $22.99
In this beguiling book, Alexander
McCall Smith casts his eye over five
chanced-upon photographs and imagines the
stories behind them. Who were those people,
what were their stories? Some will find joy and
fulfilment, others would prefer happier endings.
Each of them, though, will find love, and that is
ultimately what matters.
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the Violinist of Venice
Alyssa Palombo
RRP $29.99
Alyssa Palombo’s The Violinist of Venice is a story
of music, ambition, and finding the strength to
both fall in love and to carry on when it ends. It is
a sweeping historical novel about composer and
priest Antonio Vivaldi, a secret wealthy mistress,
and their passion for music and each other.
Due 10th november
Frankie Presto is sent to America. His only
possession is an old guitar and six precious strings.
But Frankie’s talent is unique, and he becomes a
pop star. He finds that through his music, he can
actually affect people’s futures. With one string
turning blue whenever a life is altered.
Rush Oh!
Shirley Barrett
RRP $32.99
This is a story about a whaling family in Eden,
New South Wales, who form a unique allegiance
with a pod of killer whales, told from the point of
view of eldest daughter Mary Davidson. Rush Oh!
is poignant and hilarious, filled with drama and
misadventure.