AUSTRALIAN FICTION
AUSTRALIAN FICTION
SEED Bri Lee
PB $ 34.99
Each year biologist Mitchell lives with his colleague Frances in Antarctica. They are concluding the Anarctos Project: a seed vault in an isolated location. It is a biodiversity insurance policy against humanity’ s effects on the rapidly warming planet. But when their helicopter doesn’ t pick them up, and strange things begin to happen, their faith in science is not enough. As the days get shorter, they begin finding fault lines in their perfect social experiment. Thrilling, original and almost unbearably suspenseful, Seed offers an uneasy glimpse into isolation, love and our worst fears.
A GREAT ACT OF LOVE
Heather Rose
PB $ 34.99
Caroline Douglas arrives in Hobart in 1839 determined to start a new life in this insular colony of exiles and opportunists. But Caroline is carrying a secret of such magnitude it has led her to cross the world, and it will take all she is made of to bring it into the light. A Great Act of Love is a spellbinding novel about a family with champagne in their blood, and a fearless daughter determined to rewrite fate. From the award-winning author of The Museum of Modern Love and Bruny comes an enthralling tale of legacy, love and the making of champagne.
PICTURES OF YOU
Tony Birch
HB $ 45.00
This is a collection of the best of Tony Birch’ s short fiction from the past two decades. These stories showcase his ability to find the extraordinary in ordinary lives, and the connections and kindnesses between strangers. His work is by turns poignant, sad, profound and funny – and always powerful. Throughout this stellar collection, Birch’ s preoccupation with the humanity of those who are often marginalised or overlooked, and the search for justice for people and the natural environment shines bright.
CHOSEN FAMILY
Madeleine Gray
PB $ 34.99
A sexy, romantic, queer, epic literary novel for all readers by the award-winning author of Green Dot. Set in Sydney, Chosen Family follows traumatised friends, Nell and Eve, as they grow into themselves, and as they both love and destroy each other. From school, to university, to careers, to motherhood, theirs is a relationship that is both a life raft and a poison apple. Together, Nell and Eve are a double helix. Love, guilt, shame, joy – these emotions twist and turn between them. Can the wounds of adolescent betrayal ever really heal? Can we ever really understand what is going on in someone else’ s head? And what’ s love got to do, got to do with it?
THE HIDING PLACE
Kate Mildenhall
PB $ 34.99
Lou, her sister and their friends go in on the idyllic property buried in the bush – a weekend retreat. But things start to go wrong before they even arrive for their first camping trip. Soon none of that will matter because by the end of the first night someone will be dead. It seems that hiding a body is easier than keeping other secrets, but what’ s buried has a way of coming to the surface, even in the bush. The White Lotus meets The Slap in a razor-sharp literary thriller about deception and self-deception, and how far people will go to protect what they feel they ought to have.
DO WE DESERVE THIS?
Eleanor Elliott Thomas
PB $ 34.99
Three siblings decide how to divide a multimillion dollar lottery windfall, in this witty family drama for fans of The White Lotus. Bean Halloway always says she doesn’ t care about money – but will that still be the case when she finds herself in possession of a lottery ticket worth millions? Bean bought the ticket for her mother Nina but before Bean can hand it over, an accident leaves Nina in a coma. Bean and her sibling initially agree to hold on to the ticket until Nina wakes up. Then they start having other ideas...
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