Fiction
Hag-Seed
Margaret Atwood
Days Without End
Sebastian Barry
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
PB $29.99
Felix is at the top of his game as
Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg
Theatre Festival. He’s staging a
Tempest like no other. But after an act
of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living
in exile in a backwoods hovel,
haunted by memories of his beloved
lost daughter, Miranda. After twelve
years, revenge arrives in the shape of
a theatre course at a nearby prison.
Here, Felix and his inmate actors will
put on his Tempest and snare the
traitors who destroyed him.
PB $32.99
Having signed up for the US army in
the 1850s, aged barely seventeen,
Thomas McNulty and his brother-inarms, John Cole, go on to fight in the
Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil
War. Orphans of terrible hardships
themselves, they find these days to be
vivid and alive, despite the horrors
they both see and are complicit in.
Moving from the plains of the West to
Tennessee, Sebastian Barry's latest
work is a masterpiece of atmosphere
and language.
PB $32.99
Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very
different destinies. One sold into
slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The
consequences of their fate reverberate
through the generations that follow.
Taking us from the Gold Coast of
Africa to the cotton-picking
plantations of Mississippi; from the
missionary schools of Ghana to the
bars of Harlem, spanning three
continents and seven generations, Yaa
Gyasi has written an intimate, gripping
story with a vivid cast of characters.
Swing Time
Zadie Smith
Commonwealth
Ann Patchett
Moonglow
Michael Chabon
PB $32.99
Two brown girls dream of being
dancers—but only one has talent. The
other has ideas: about rhythm and
time, about black bodies and black
music, what constitutes a tribe, or
makes a person truly free. It's a close
but complicated childhood friendship
that ends abruptly in their early
twenties. Dazzlingly energetic and
deeply human, Swing Time is a story
about friendship and music and true
identity, how they shape us and how
we can survive them.
PB $29.99
A powerful story of two families
brought together by beauty and torn
apart by tragedy, the new novel by the
author of Bel Canto is her most
astonishing yet. Told with equal
measures of humour and heartbreak,
Commonwealth is a powerful and
tender tale of family, betrayal and the
far-reaching bonds of love and
responsibility. A meditation on
inspiration, interpretation and the
ownership of stories, it is Ann Patchett's
most moving work to date.
HB $39.99
Moonglow begins with the deathbed
confession of a man the narrator
refers to only as "my grandfather".
Chabon has written a gripping,
scrupulously researched and wholly
imaginary transcript of a life that
spanned the twentieth century.
Collapsing an era into a single life and
a lifetime into a single week,
Moonglow is a lie that tells the truth, a
work of fictional non-fiction, an
autobiography wrapped in a novel
disguised as a memoir.