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FICTION
DUE 20TH AUGUST
A SUPERIOR SPECTRE BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE
Angela Meyer
RRP $29.99 Trent Dalton
RRP $32.99
Jeff is dying. He runs away to remote Scotland with a
piece of experimental tech that allows him to enter the
mind of someone in the past. Instructed to only use it
three times, he ignores this advice… A Superior Spectre is
a highly accomplished debut novel about our capacity for
curiosity and our dangerous entitlement to it. Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in
jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crim
for a babysitter. It’s not as if Eli’s life isn’t complicated
enough already… Boy Swallows Universe is a wonderful
novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age, set in
Brisbane’s violent working class suburban fringe.
UNDER YOUR WINGS THE FIREFLIES OF AUTUMN
Tiffany Tsao
RRP $32.99 Moreno Giovannoni
RRP $29.99
Travelling from the world of the rich and powerful in
Jakarta to spectacular shows at Paris Fashion Week, from
the coasts of California to the melting pot of Melbourne’s
university scene, Under Your Wings is a powerful, evocative
and compelling novel about the secrets that can build a
family empire - and then bring it crashing down. San Ginese is a village in Tuscany where God lingers in
people’s minds and many dream of migrating from Italy
to Australia or America. These linked tales introduce its
curious people and their place over the course of the
twentieth century.
A LADDER TO THE SKY THE BOTANIST’S DAUGHTER
John Boyne
$32.99 Kayte Nunn
RRP $29.99
This is a tale of two female botanists, separated by more
than a century, in a race to discover a life-saving flower...
In Victorian England, Elizabeth takes up a quest for a
rare plant. In present-day Australia, Anna finds a box
containing a sketchbook of watercolours, a photograph
inscribed ‘Spring 1886’ and a small bag of seeds.
Stories will make Maurice Swift famous but they will also
make him beg, borrow and steal. They may even make
him do worse. A psychological drama of cat and mouse, 
A Ladder to the Sky shows how easy it is
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TAKE NOTHING WITH YOU
WINTERING
Patrick Gale
RRP $32.99
Krissy Kneen
RRP $29.99
DUE 3RD SEPTEMBER
When Jessica’s partner disappears into the Tasmanian
forest, there is of course the mystery of what happened
to him - the deserted car, the final image recorded on his
phone. There is also the strange circle of women, widows of
disappeared men, with their edgy fellowship and unhinged
theories…
DUE 28TH AUGUST
THE HELPLINE LADIES IN BLACK
Katherine Collette
RRP $29.99 Madeleine St John
RRP $22.99
A sharp, witty, big-hearted comedy from a hilarious new
Australian writer, Katherine Collette’s The Helpline is about
people power and brain power - and the difficulty of
getting them to work together.
DUE 3RD SEPTEMBER
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DUE 1ST SEPTEMBER
From the author of A Place Called Winter comes a new
novel of boyhood, coming of age, and the confusions of
desire and reality. Drawing in part on his own boyhood,
Patrick Gale’s new novel explores a collision between
childish hero worship and extremely messy adult love
lives.
Written by a novelist of contemporary manners, Ladies
in Black is a fairy-tale which illuminates the
extraordinariness of ordinary lives. The women in black
are run off their feet with the Christmas rush. But it’s
Sydney in the 1950s, and there’s still enough time left on
a hot day to dream and scheme.
THE WORD KATERINA
William Lane
RRP $29.99 James Frey
RRP $29.99
William Lane’s new novel, The Word, brilliantly satirises
the ways in which we use language to define our lives. It
is both an ensemble piece of unforgettable characters,
and an astute and humorous exploration of the ways
language beguiles, creates connections, but also
misleads. Twenty-one year old Jay lives an artist’s life in Paris where
he falls in love. Twenty-five years later he is a family
man living in California when he receives an anonymous
message that draws him back to the life, and possibly the
love, he abandoned years prior... A new novel from the
author of A Million Little Pieces.
DUE 11TH SEPTEMBER