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new books from
some of our
favourites
A Room made
of Leaves
Kate Grenville
RRP $39.99
Booker Prize
Girl, woman,
other
Bernardine
Evaristo
RRP $19.99
WINNER
COVER feature
Due
sept
29
At the centre of A Room Made of Leaves is one
of the most toxic issues of our own age – the
seductive appeal of false stories. This book
may be set in the past, but it’s just as much
about the present, where secrets and lies have
the dangerous power to shape reality.
Due
sept
1
The Burning
Island
Jock Serong
RRP $32.99
When Joshua Grayling is offered the
chance for a reckoning with his nemesis,
his daughter Eliza is horrified. It involves
a sea voyage with an uncertain, probably
violent, outcome. She must go with
him. With unforgettable characters and
epic storytelling this will be another
unforgettable novel from Jock Serong.
Due
sept
1
Bluebird
Malcolm Knox
RRP $32.99
Twelve very different people, years of
change, and one sweeping, vibrant portrait
of contemporary Britain. Bernardine Evaristo
presents a gloriously new kind of history
for this old country – ever-dynamic, everexpanding
and utterly irresistible.
WINNER
2020 Stella Prize
SEE what you
made me do
Jess Hill
RRP $32.99
See What You Made Me Do is a deep dive into
the abuse so many women and children
experience. Critically, it shows that we can
drastically reduce domestic violence - not in
generations to come, but today.
All Our shimmering Skies
Trent Dalton | RRP $32.99
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 darkness and
light, of bones and blue skies. The author
of Boy Swallows Universe, returns with an
amazing novel. Order your copy now.
Trent Dalton is a staff writer for the
Weekend Australian Magazine and a former
assistant editor of The Courier Mail. He has
won several awards for journalism and
his debut novel, Boy Swallows Universe,
broke records to become the fastest selling
Australian debut novel ever. It has won
many major Australian literary awards
and is being published globally across
34 English language and translation
territories. Boy Swallows Universe is
currently being adapted for stage by
Queensland Theatre Company and for
screen, with Joel Edgerton.
Change is coming to Bluebird and the lies
they’ve been telling can’t save them now.
Savage and funny Bluebird exposes the
hollowness of the stories told to glorify a
dying culture and shows how those who
seek to preserve these myths end up being
crushed by them.
2020 Miles Franklin
Literary Award: The Yield
by Tara June Winch
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