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FICTION CITY OF GIRLS Elizabeth Gilbert Paperback RRP $ 32.99
ALLEGRA IN THREE PARTS
BIG SKY Kate Atkinson Paperback RRP $ 32.99
Suzanne Daniels Paperback RRP $ 29.99
3 June release, advance orders welcome
Summer 1940: nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris arrives in New York with her suitcase and sewing machine and soon becomes the self-appointed seamstress at her eccentric aunt’s theatre. A moving and incredibly honest story about women who have lived as they truly are, out of step with a century that could never quite keep up with them.
Eleven-year-old Allegra shuttles between her grandmothers who live next door to one another but couldn’t be more different, wishing they loved her a little less and liked each other a lot more. Until one day the unspoken tragedy that’s created this division explodes within the person they all cherish most.
18 June release, advance orders welcome
Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, but there’s something darker lurking behind the scenes. A chance encounter with a desperate man on a crumbling cliff leads him into a sinister network—and back across the path of someone from his past as old secrets and new lies intersect in this breathtaking literary crime novel.
NON-FICTION CHANEL’S RIVIERA
THE COURAGE TO BE HAPPY
Anne de Courcy Paperback RRP $ 32.99
Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga Hardback RRP $ 24.99
11 June release, advance orders welcome
Set amongst the golden glamour of the French Riviera and featuring a sparkling cast of artists, writers and historical figures with the enigmatic Coco Chanel at its heart, Chanel’s Riviera is a captivating account of a period that saw some of the deepest extremes of luxury and terror in the whole of the twentieth century.
3 June release, advance orders welcome
The Courage to be Happy presents profound insights into living life courageously and finding happiness along the way. It has already sold more than a million copies in Japan and is a sequel to The Courage to be Disliked, which has changed lives across the globe as an international bestselling sensation.
THE TALKING CURE Professor Gillian Straker & Dr. Jacqui Winship Paperback RRP $ 32.99 Whether you have experienced therapy or are just intrigued by the possibilities of a little-understood but transformative process, this wise and compassionate book will deepen your sense of what it is to be open to connection. A beautifully written account by two psychotherapists of how therapy can change your life.
CHILDREN’S & YA MY BOOK (NOT YOURS): LENTO & FOX, BOOK 1 Ben Sanders Hardback RRP $ 24.99 When a lovable sloth’s book is hijacked by a fox with STYLE and PIZZAZZ, sloth has to learn how to find his voice and take back control! The first book in a ridiculously fun series about a bewildered sloth who just wants to express himself and a sly old fox who keeps stealing the limelight. Age: 0+
Dominic Smith Paperback RRP $32.99 3 June release, advance orders welcome
From the award-winning author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos comes a luminous new novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent film director and his muse. The Electric Hotel winds through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey--America’s first movie town--and on the battlefields of Belgium during World War I. A sweeping work of historical fiction, it shimmers between past and present as it tells the story of the rise and fall of a prodigious film studio and one man’s doomed obsession with all that passes in front of the viewfinder.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dominic Smith grew up in Sydney and now lives in Seattle. He is the author of five novels, including The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, an acclaimed bestseller in Australia, winning both the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year and the Indie Book of the Year (Fiction) in 2017. In the US, the novel was also a New York Times bestseller and named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.
THE WHITE GIRL Tony Birch
MOVIE TIME!: HOTDOG, BOOK 6
YOUNG DARK EMU: A TRUER HISTORY
Anh Do Paperback RRP $12.99
Bruce Pascoe Hardback RRP $ 24.99
Hotdog, Lizzie and Kev want to be MOVIE STARS! But first they’ll have to try-out with all the other actors to find the perfect roles. Do Hotdog and his friends have what it takes to get the parts? Age: 5+
THE ELECTRIC HOTEL
Young Dark Emu — A Truer History is the highly-anticipated junior version of Bruce Pascoe’s award-winning book which asks young readers to consider a different version of Australia’s pre-colonial history. Using the accounts of early Europeans, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer label for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. Age: 10+
Paperback RRP $29.95 4 June release, advance orders welcome
Miles-Franklin-shortlisted author Tony Birch shines a spotlight on the 1960s and the devastating government policy of taking Indigenous children from their families. Odette Brown has lived her whole life on the fringes of a small country town. After her daughter disappeared and left her with her granddaughter Sissy to raise on her own, Odette has managed to stay under the radar of the welfare authorities who are removing fair-skinned Aboriginal children from their families. When a new policeman arrives in town, she must risk everything to save Sissy and protect everything she loves.
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An unforgettable tale of love and redemption ‘A magnificent, intricate machine of a book that is a sheer delight to read. With vivid characters and a brilliant premise, it is a puzzle, a love story and an adventure. Wildly imaginative and quite unlike anything I have ever read before.’
CHRIS WOMERSLEY
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE GOLDEN CHILD AND THE MISTAKE
THE ACCUSATION
AUTHOR OF THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A F CK
EVERY THING IS F CKED A BOOK ABOUT HOPE MARK MANSON
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