fiction LONELY MOUTH
Jacqueline Maley
$ 34.99
Matilda and Lara are half-sisters who share an unreliable mother and a chaotic past. In every other way, though, they are very different from each other. Lara, 10 years younger than Matilda, is a model, living and working in Paris – for her, life is expansive, carefree, beautiful. Matilda’ s life, in contrast, is solitary, contained, ordered. But when Lara’ s father, the long-absent, erratic Angus Dante, comes back into the sisters’ lives, Matilda’ s compartmentalised life goes seriously awry. As everything blows apart, Matilda is forced to come to a reckoning with who she is, and how to satisfy the hunger she wants to deny. From bestselling author Jacqueline Maley, Lonely Mouth is a tender, vivid and fiercely relatable novel about the conflicted way women think about their
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bodies, their appetites, and themselves in the world, about the loneliness of girls and women, and the way we believe ourselves to be worthy – or not – of love.
THE RE- MARKABLE TRUTHS OF ALFIE BAINS
Sarah Clutton
$ 34.99
Alfie’ s mum, Emilia, has been lying to him forever. It’ s only been the two of them in Ireland, but when Emilia’ s appendix explodes, she drops a bombshell: they have a family back in Australia, and she and Alfie are going to meet them. When Penny Bains opens the door of her Tasmanian farmhouse to a boy with an Irish accent claiming to be the son of her missing daughter, Emilia, her life is turned upside down. As Alfie starts to uncover secrets his family would prefer to keep buried, he discovers that no one is willing to tell him the truth. Unforgettable, funny, life affirming and deeply moving, The Remarkable Truths of Alfie Bains is an absolute joy.
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I WANT EVERYTHING
Dominic Amerena
$ 34.99
The legendary career of reclusive cult author Brenda Shales remains one of Australia’ s last unsolved literary mysteries. Her books took the world by storm before she disappeared from the public eye after a mysterious plagiarism case. But when an ambitious young writer stumbles across Brenda at a Melbourne pool, he realises the scoop of a lifetime is floating in front of him. The only problem? He must pretend to be someone he’ s not to trick the story out of her. It starts with a lie. But one lie leads to another. To write the book that will make his name, he must balance his ethics and ambition and decide what he’ s willing to sacrifice to become the next great Australian writer. This debut, full of delicious twists and wicked insights, is a dazzling novel of desire and deception, authorship and authenticity, and the costs of creative ambition.
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THE NAMES Florence Knapp
$ 32.99
available may 13
It is 1987, and Cora sets out with her nine-year-old daughter to register the birth of her son. Her husband intends for her to follow a long-standing family tradition and call the baby after him. Going against his wishes is a risk that will have consequences, but is it right for her child to inherit his name from generations of domineering men? The choice she makes will shape the course of their lives. Seven years later, her son is Bear, a name chosen by his sister, and one that will prove as cataclysmic as the storm from which it emerged. Or he is Julian, the name his mother chose, believing it will enable him to become his own person. Or he is Gordon, named after his father – but is there still a chance to break the mould? This is the story of three names, three versions of a life, and the infinite possibilities that a single decision can spark. It is the story of one family, and love’ s capacity to endure.
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