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HE WOULD NEVER
Holly Wainwright
$ 34.99 $ 29.99
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Green River. Five families on an annual camping trip, a mothers’ group of 14 years, children starting to look like adults, a father with his own mysterious agenda... He Would Never is a searing pageturner about the bonds we forge in the furnace of early motherhood, the trust we place in other adults, and the chaos that erupts when one man refuses to play by the rules. He Would Never is Holly Wainwright’ s fifth novel. Liane Moriarty called it‘ a compelling, suspenseful tale imbued with warmth, humour and heart’.
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PAINTING PORTRAITS OF EVERYONE I’ VE EVER DATED
Joseph Earp
$ 34.99
All Ellie Robertson has wanted to be since childhood is a painter: after all, that’ s the easiest way to speak without actually having to say anything. But now she’ s turning 30 and is realising that she might have let some minor things slide. Like working out how to love another human being. Ellie decides to paint a portrait of each of her exes, from the childhood crush to the woman she may or may not still be madly in love with. The only problem is that she now needs to get in touch with everyone she’ s dated, and not everyone is exactly happy to talk to her. Hilarious and bittersweet, Painting Portraits of Everyone I’ ve Ever Dated is a story of a young woman who decides to finally try and see other people – even if she runs the risk of( god forbid) finally seeing herself.
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THE BEARCAT
Georgia Rose Phillips
$ 34.99
1987. Family is everything to Anne. Our Messiah. And Anne demands everything from The Family: their loyalty, their money, even their children. In return, she promises existential comfort to lost and weary women. 1921. A child is born on a sticky summer evening. Our Anne. Her mother, Florence, is trapped at home with an indifferent husband and a relentlessly demanding newborn. For both women, the past is for escaping, and love is impossible to trust. All they can hope is that their family will save them. The Bearcat is an intimate psychological portrait inspired by the true story of a notorious cult leader.
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THE OPPOSITE OF LONELY
Hilde Hinton
$ 32.99
Rose knows that she should be happy. She has a thoughtful son, a kind boss and a dream box full of savings for a rainy day. But sometimes the brick in her chest gets so heavy. Things change when a stranger arrives. Rose can’ t believe that someone like Ellie would want to be her friend. With Ellie by her side, things feel possible again, and Rose starts to remember who she is. Soon, she can’ t imagine how it was without Ellie there. Sometimes, all you need is one friend to change your life. Because the best things in life are free. Aren’ t they?
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PARADISE LOGIC
Sophie Kemp
$ 29.99
When 23-yearold Reality Kahn attends a party at a punk venue known as‘ Paradise’, Reality meets Ariel, her fated boyfriend. Determined to win his affection, she joins a cuttingedge clinical trial created by Dr Zweig Altmann to help her become a perfect girlfriend. At turns laughout-loud funny, tragic and jarring, Reality’ s quest grows ever more complicated as the men in her life: Ariel, her agent Jethro, and Dr Altmann himself, prove treacherous. Paradise Logic is a thrilling breakdown of our obsession with authentic true love and announces Sophie Kemp as a brilliant and wholly original new voice in fiction.
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THE LADIES ROAD GUIDE TO UTTER RUIN: ILL-MAN- NERED LADIES # 2
Alison Goodman
$ 34.99
In Regency England, eccentric sisters Lady August Colebrook, or Gus, and twin sister, Julia, are amateur detectives who use their wits and invisibility as‘ old maids’ to fight injustice in this delightful and fiercely feminist novel of mystery and adventure. When Lord Evan – a charming, escaped convict who has won Gus’ heart – needs to hide his sister and her lover from their vindictive brother, Gus and Julia take the two women into their home. But Lord Evan’ s complicated past puts them all in danger. Will the truth be found in time, or will the dangerous secrets from the past destroy family bonds and rip new love and lives apart?
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short stories TABLE FOR TWO
Amor Towles
$ 22.99
Amor Towles shares six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages.‘ Eve in Hollywood’ follows Evelyn Ross from Rules of Civility, describes how Eve crafts a new future for herself – and others – in a noirish tale. Written with his signature wit, humour, and sophistication, Table for Two is another glittering addition to Towles’ canon of stylish and transporting fiction. Now in a smaller edition.
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MY NAME IS EMILIA DEL VALLE
Isabel Allende
$ 32.99
San Francisco, 1866. Molly Walsh is an Irish nun, seduced and abandoned by a Chilean aristocrat before her daughter, Emilia del Valle Walsh is born. Raised by her mother and stepfather in the heart of a humble Mexican neighbourhood, Emilia grows up challenging social norms in the pursuit of writing. Santiago, 1891. Emilia finds herself in a nation on the brink of an abyss. While covering news of the civil war unfolding in Chile, she goes in search of another story of the del Valle family whose legacy is her birthright, and what became of the father who abandoned them.
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THE MIDNIGHT CAROUSEL
Fiza Saeed McLynn
$ 34.99
available may 6
Paris, 1900. Carousel-maker Gilbert works tirelessly to finish his masterpiece in time for the city’ s Exposition Universelle. But Gilbert is struggling in the wake of his wife and son’ s tragic deaths, and as he finalises his creation, a dangerous idea forms in his mind... Chicago, 1920. Having come to America for a new life, when Maisie unearths a neglected carousel, she seizes the chance for a new destiny. But 20 years ago, the
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carousel was linked to a number of people inexplicably disappearing – and now history has begun to repeat itself...
THE BUTTERFLY WOMEN
Madeleine Cleary
$ 34.99
It’ s 1863, and Melbourne is transitioning from a fledgling colony to a thriving, gold-fuelled metropolis. But behind its shiny new façade, the real Melbourne can be found in the notorious redlight district of Little Lon. The most glamorous among them is Papillon. For poor Irishwoman Johanna Callaghan, a job at Papillon could be her ticket to success, but in a time when women’ s lives are cheap, it also brings great danger. Meanwhile, for respectable women like journalist Harriett Gardiner, Papillon is strictly off-limits, but when a murderer begins stalking the streets of Little Lon, she becomes determined to visit it and find the truth.
THE PRETENDER
Jo Harkin
$ 32.99
The year is 1480 and England is in peril. The much-despised Richard III is not long for the throne, and the man who will become Henry VII stands poised to snatch the crown for himself. But for 12-year-old John Collan, living in a remote village with his widowed father, these matters seem far away. But history has other plans for John. Stolen from his family, he finds himself groomed for power; not as John Collan, but as Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick and rightful heir to the throne. The Pretender is the captivating true story of a young man tossed into the chaos of history as it happens.
NIGHTIN- GALE
Laura Elvery
$ 32.99
Mayfair, 1910. At the age of 90, Florence Nightingale is frail and no longer of sound mind. After a storied career as a nurse, writer and statistician, she now leads a reclusive existence. One summer evening she is astonished to receive a visitor – a young man named Silas Bradley, who claims to have met her during the Crimean War 55 years ago. But how can this be? And how does the elusive Jean Frawley connect their two lives? Part historical fiction, part ghost story, and utterly original- Nightingale is a luminous tale of faith and love, bravery and care, and the vitality of women’ s work.
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