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Over To You
Georgie Tunny
Australian Author
Paperback
$ 34.99
Best friends Carter, Naya and Greta all want the same thing – to become Australia’ s most successful TV presenter – but they couldn’ t be more different. As each woman juggles workplace pressures, romantic entanglements and family dramas, they soon learn that climbing the greasy pole of television news demands more than talent – it expects sacrifice. But how much of themselves, and each other, are they willing to betray for the top job? The Devil Wears Prada meets Big Little Lies and throw in the high-stakes drama of The Morning Show.
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The Sisters Of Serendib
Ayesha Inoon
Australian Author
Paperback
$ 32.99
Three sisters are separated as children. Decades later, can they find their way back to each other? In 1990, a boat of asylum seekers leaves war-torn Sri Lanka, bound for Australia. When a mother dies on the journey, her three young daughters are separated and scattered across the country. Years later, the eldest, Janu, still remembers the home she left and the sisters she’ s lost. As Janu discovers clues to her sisters’ identities and begins the quest to bring them together, they all face the question: Can something broken for so long ever be made whole again? Beautiful and heartbreaking, this is the story of women who rise from loss to reclaim their stories and rebuild their lives.
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How To Love The World
Ilka Tampke
Australian Author
Paperback
$ 34.99
When her children are born, Nellika vows she will be the perfect mother. Motherhood is sacred, mythic: it will remake everything that is broken in her. But as her children grow, something buried is awakened, and the myth begins to crack. One morning, she is struck by a falling manna gum branch. Shockingly injured and unable to move, darkness falls on what might be her last day, and Nellika must reckon with herself and the place where she lies. As death draws close, the forest asks her: why should you live? And in the dark heart of her memories, she discovers that there is an answer. A powerful meditation on nature and healing, How to Love the World finds hope where none seems possible.
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Hard Place
Gab Torr
Paperback
$ 29.99
For years, Billy’ s decisions have been made for her by long-term girlfriend Rose, leaving her free not to think for – or about – herself. But when they break up, she’ s forced to take up an unappealing but affordable SpareRoom ad. Her new flatmates are Sid and Rhoda. Meals are communal by force, polyamory is assumed, and whatever the problem, capitalism’ s usually to blame. Yes, Rhoda’ s parents own the flat, but that doesn’ t matter: they’ re unapologetically political and loudly queer, and slowly Billy becomes enmeshed in their radical, vulnerable world. But as Billy’ s past starts to catch up, each of them must reckon with what they truly stand for.
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The Children
Melissa Albert
Paperback
$ 34.99
Their childhood was yours. They want it back... Guinevere’ s late mother, Edith Sharpe, needs little introduction. Bestselling author of the unendingly successful Ninth City series, her books brought so much joy and inspired the imagination of countless children the world over. Guin’ s childhood with her mother, brother Ennis, and her actor father was a blissful, bohemian affair. At least, this is the story Guin presents as she prepares for the press tour for her upcoming memoir about life in the Sharpe family. Told in alternating narratives between 1990s Vermont and present-day New York, The Children is a twisting narrative of family secrets and long-held resentments, which asks whether we can ever really exorcise the ghosts of a childhood forsaken in favour of a parent’ s artistic vision. Heather Fawcett, bestselling author of the Emily Wilde series, writes The Children is‘ Twisty and strange in all the best ways’.
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Yesteryear
Caro Claire Burke
Paperback
$ 34.99
Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle – and her followers are sick with envy. Her charming farmhouse on her working ranch is artfully cluttered, her husband is a handsome cowboy, her homemade sourdough boules are each more beautiful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers and industrial-grade ovens behind the scenes? What her followers don’ t know won’ t hurt them. Then, one morning, Natalie wakes up in a strange, horrible version of reality. Her home, her husband, her children – they’ re all familiar, but something’ s off. Is this a hoax? A reality show? A test from God? Natalie knows just two things for sure: this isn’ t her perfect life, and she must escape, by any means possible. As darkly funny as it is shocking and gripping, Yesteryear is an electrifying examination of tradition, fame, faith and the grand performance of womanhood. Now being adapted into a major film starring Anne Hathaway.
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The Secret Garden Club
Wendy Lynn Newton
Australian Author
Paperback
$ 34.99
Can a broken heart bloom again? When Hilary finds her husband of 30 years dead, it is the end of the world as she knows it. In a fit of grief, she destroys every inch of the beautiful garden to which George devoted his life. In the hazy days after the funeral, a group of strangers knock at the door. Announcing themselves as The Secret Garden Club, they tell Hilary that George was a member and one of their dearest friends. So why has Hilary never heard of them? Could they be connected to the mysterious mourner who had George’ s favourite pale blue orchid pinned to her chest? While the club vows to restore the garden, Hilary makes a promise of her own: to uncover the truth. Will George’ s secret break her heart all over again, or show her the seeds of a new life filled with hope and friendship? As moving as it is hilarious, The Secret Garden Club is an unforgettable story of the green shoots that grow out of grief.
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A Compass On The Navigable Sea
Daniel Simon( ed.)
Paperback
$ 39.99
Curated from the archives of World Literature Today, this landmark anthology celebrates a century of exploration through pen and ink, and reimagines what international readership can be. From Nobel laureates to dissident authors, iconic mainstays to extraordinary newcomers, this global chorus of fiction, essays, poetry, and critique is a testament to the ways in which stories cross borders, bridge histories, and shape futures. With contributions by Octavio Paz, Elie Wiesel, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’ o, Toni Morrison, Dubravka Ugrešić, and many others, A Compass On the Navigable Sea spans genre, time, and location; re-imagining what international writing can be, to ask: What can literature do in a time of crisis?
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