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Jaclyn Crupi is back with more Italian wisdom ! In Garden Like a Nonno , Jaclyn uncovers the secrets of the green-thumbed nonnos from their no-nonsense approach to life to their zero waste gardening .
Garden Like A Nonno Jaclyn Crupi RRP $ 24.99
WINNER
2021 Stella Prize
The Bass Rock
Evie Wyld RRP $ 22.99
The Bass Rock is a novel that weaves together the lives of three women . It ’ s about the legacy of male violence and the ways in which these traumas reverberate across time and place .
Booker Prize
AUTHOR
Jaclyn Crupi is a bookseller at Hill of Content Bookshop in Melbourne and a freelance book editor and project manager . She has written several children ’ s books as well as Nonna Knows Best , which celebrates the passion , generosity of spirit and wisdom of nonnas . Jaclyn has worked in publishing and bookselling since 2002 .
ILLUSTRATOR
Felicita Sala is a self taught illustrator . She was born in Rome but grew up in Perth , where she graduated in Philosophy from the University of Western Australia . Her passion is making picture books for children . She lives in Rome with her husband Gianluca and their daughter Nina . favourite
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The Dictionary of Lost Words
Pip Williams RRP $ 19.99
The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative , hidden between the lines of a history written by men . It ’ s a thoughtprovoking celebration of words , and the power of language to shape the world . WINNER OF THE ABIA GENERAL FICTION OF THE YEAR 2021
Miles Franklin
WINNER 2021 WINNER 2021
At Night All Blood is Black
David Diop , Translated by Anna Moschovakis RRP $ 19.99
Two Senegalese soldiers are fighting in the Great War . Together they climb dutifully out of their trenches to attack the enemy whenever the whistle blows … At Night All Blood is Black is a heartbreaking rendering of a mind hurtling towards madness .
The Labyrinth
Amanda Lohrey RRP $ 29.99
The Labyrinth is a story of guilt and denial , of the relationship between parents and children , that is also a meditation on how art can both be destructive and restore sanity .
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All Our shimmering Skies
Trent Dalton RRP $ 22.99
A story about gifts that fall from the sky , curses we dig from the earth and the secrets we bury inside ourselves , All Our Shimmering Skies is an odyssey of true love and grave danger , of bones and blue skies . From the author of Boy Swallows Universe .
We Were NOT Men
Campbell Mattinson RRP $ 32.99
Original , intense and deeply moving , We Were Not Men is a powerhouse novel about all the various faces that love shows us and how sometimes , distracted by life , ambition or attraction , we take it for granted until it ’ s too late – or almost too late .
The Happiest Man ON EARTH
Eddie Jaku RRP $ 32.99
Published as Eddie turns 100 , this is a powerful , heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful memoir of how happiness can be found even in the darkest of times . WINNER OF THE ABIA BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR 2021
Phosphorescence
Julia Baird RRP $ 32.99
Phosphorescence is a beautiful , intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness – the ‘ light within ’ – which will sustain us even through the darkest times . WINNER OF THE ABIA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021
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