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Hooked
Asako Yuzuki, Polly Barton( trans.)
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Available March 17
$ 34.99
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Smother
Eve Thomson
Australian Author
Paperback
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The Island Retreat
Cathy Kelly
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A Short Road To Longbrook
Bethan Roberts
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From the award-winning author of the bestselling global sensation Butter, comes an unmissable new novel of friendship and dangerous obsession. Eriko is lonely. But from the outside she appears to have the perfect life. When she stumbles across a blog written by Shōko, a housewife, and sees that she is encouraging the exact opposite of the typical Japanese housewife’ s manicured lifestyle, she knows she must track Shōko down, and when she does, to never let her go. A delicious exploration of food, loneliness and womanhood in contemporary Japan, Hooked brings together all the ingredients for which Asako Yuzuki is so adored. |
Lawyer Romola Cross is in a rut. She is questioning her devotion to her career and the effect it is having on her personal life. When she takes on a new case, she finds herself caught up in the complex and disturbing world of school sport turned toxic. Her defendant is a man called Brick Hannaford, a coach at Bruce College, a private school in Melbourne celebrated for its boys’ football program. But when its girls’ team pushes for glory, 16-year-old Grace Dooley is left with a catastrophic brain injury. The school points the finger at Brick. But who should take responsibility. Smother is a novel about love, ambition and fear. |
After five years as a successful therapist, Rose Talisman’ s career ended in one catastrophic instant. In a bid for a fresh start, Rose goes all out and opens a retreat in Corfu where she will help six guests face their deepest darkest secrets and move forwards. The catch: she only has one week and if it doesn’ t work she stands to lose everything she loves. As it turns out, secrets have a way of revealing themselves in ways no one excepted. Nobody’ s past is staying hidden for long … Will that include Rose’ s, too? The luxurious Villa Artemis and stunning sea views aren’ t enough to distract from the truth. |
It’ s a short road to Longbrook. Lillian knows all too well the local saying. Longbrook – a community institution for the mentally ill. So, when she begins to see symptoms in her daughter, Rachel, brilliant and ambitious Rachel, so like Lillian and Winnie, her mother, Lillian bites her tongue. But Rachel is heading off to university soon, and Lillian won’ t be there to support her. 40 years prior, Winnie recalled being in a similar position to Lillian. But in a family where secrets run through generations, can she bring herself to break the cycle and tell Rachel the truth about her past? From the author of the bestselling novel My Policeman. |
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This Is Where The Serpent Lives
Daniyal Mueenuddin
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Department Of The Vanishing
Johanna Bell
Australian Author
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Vigil
George Saunders
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Laws Of Love And Logic
Debra Curtis
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Daniyal Mueenuddin’ s This Is Where the Serpent Lives paints a powerful portrait of contemporary feudal Pakistan and a farm on which the destinies of a dozen unforgettable characters are linked through violence and love, resilience, and tragedy. In matters of both business and the heart, Mueenuddin’ s characters struggle to choose between the paths that are moral and the paths that will allow them to survive the systems of caste, capital, and social power that so tightly grip their country, where extreme wealth and extreme poverty exist side-by-side and one’ s fate is determined by class and social station. Intimate and epic, elegiac and profoundly moving – a tour de force destined to become a classic of contemporary literature. Quickly becoming a popular read in Australia. |
Before the Anthropocene, the air pulsed with birdsong. Now, a silence is falling. Ava spends her days at The Department, rebuilding lost species from the remaining fragments of art and scientific data. Her dying mother thinks she should quit. So does her lover, and the sex workers who loiter outside her apartment. When a ghost from her past shows up, Ava follows its broken song deep into the archives uncovering a secret that could reverse the age of silence. Set in a time of mass extinction, Department of the Vanishing blends documentary poetry, archival image, and narrative verse to explore the vital questions: Can we live in a world without birdsong and is it possible to create a new opus with the fragments left over? |
Booker Prize-winner George Saunders returns with an electrifying new novel. Jill‘ Doll’ Blaine is back on Earth again. It is her 343rd time to be exact. But unlike before, this time is different. Her latest charge is a man called K. J. Boone – a powerful oil tycoon who regrets nothing. On the contrary, he made the world a better place, didn’ t he? But as death approaches and it comes time for Jill to accompany Boone into the afterlife, a cast of worldly and otherworldly visitors begin to arrive, all clamouring for a reckoning. George Saunders confronts the biggest issues of our time with his trademark humour and warmth, spinning a tale that encompasses life and death, good and evil, and asks the inevitable question: Who else could we be but exactly who we are? |
1967, Rhode Island. Lily has two loves. There’ s the boy, in whom she finds a kindred spirit. And then there’ s Jane, her brilliant but troubled younger sister and best friend. Lily dreams of graduating, going to college, and marrying her high-school sweetheart and start a family of her own. Her future unfolds before her as a bright clear path. But the laws of love and logic are not as simple as Lily thinks. When one fateful night throws Lily’ s life on an entirely new course, she’ ll discover that nothing ever goes to plan. Because the universe has a plan of its own. What seems to be the end of one great love story might just be the beginning of another.‘ Sweeping and intimate – a gorgeous meditation on roads not taken,’ Shelby Van Pelt, author of Remarkably Bright Creatures, describes. |