Digital Spring-Reading-Guide-2020-FA-WEB Spring Reading Guide 2020 | Seite 6

FICTION
Sex and Vanity
Kevin Kwan
RRP $32.99
Moving between
summer
playgrounds of
privilege, peppered
with decadent food
and extravagant
fashion, Sex and
Vanity is a modern
love story, a
homage to A Room with a View, and a comedy
of manners set between two cultures.
Due
SEPT
1
Revenge
S.L. Lim
RRP $29.99
After her mother’s
death, Yannie seeks
to undermine
her psychopathic
brother’s new life from within …S. L. Lim
brings to vivid life the frustrations of a talented
daughter and vengeful sister in a riveting novel
that ends in the most unexpected way.
Feathertide
Beth Cartwright
RRP $32.99
To find answers,
Marea goes in search
of the father she has
never met. The hunt
leads her to the City
of Murmurs, a place
of mermaids and
mystery, where jars
of swirling mist are
carried through the
streets by the broken-hearted.
Loner
Georgina Young
RRP $24.99
When Lona meets
a bass-playing,
charming-as-allhell
suitor, she
is bewildered by
the idea of finding
herself in a romantic
relationship with
another human
being. Lona doesn’t know what she wants,
but she knows what she doesn’t want –
well, some of the time…
A Lonely Girl
is a Dangerous
Thing
Jessie Tu
RRP $29.99
A Lonely Girl is a
Dangerous Thing
is about the pain
of being human
in an increasingly
dislocated world
- and how, in spite
this, we still try to become the person we want
to be. This is an original debut from a writer
with an intelligent and audacious voice.
KoKomo
Victoria Hannan
RRP $32.99
OUR PRICE $27 99
Both tender
and fierce,
heartbreaking and
funny, Kokomo is
a story about how
secrets and love
have the power to
bring us together
and tear us apart.
Due
SEPT
1
The Morbids
Ewa Ramsey
RRP $29.99
Caitlin is
convinced she’s
going to die but
when she meets
a doctor named
Tom, she must overcome her fear of death
and learn to start living again. Beautiful,
funny, and ultimately uplifting, this is a story
about the power of a little kindness.
Due
AUG
5
The Book
of Hidden
Wonders
Polly Crosby
RRP $32.99
In her increasingly
isolated world,
Romilly turns to the secrets her father has
hidden in his illustrated books, realising
that there is something far darker and more
devastating locked within the pages…
The truth.
feature TITLES
Due
SEPT
2
The Mother
Fault
Kate Mildenhall
RRP $32.99
When her husband mysteriously disappears
and can’t be traced, Mim is forced to shuck
off who she was - mother, daughter, wife,
sister - and become the woman she needs to
be to save her family and herself.
Due
SEPT
15
Just Like You
Nick Hornby
RRP $32.99
OUR PRICE $27 99
Hornby’s brilliantly observed, tender but
also brutally funny new novel gets to the
heart of what it means to fall surprisingly
and headlong in love with the best
possible person - someone who is not
just like you at all.
Due
SEPT
1
The Lying Life
of Adults
Elena Ferrante
RRP $32.99
Into which mirror
must Giovanna look
to find herself and
save herself? She is searching for a new face
in two kindred cities that fear and detest one
another. The Lying Life of Adults is a powerful
new novel set in a divided Naples by the
author of My Brilliant Friend.
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