Easter Long Weekend The Lace Weaver | Lauren Chater | $29.99 | Simon & Schuster 1941, Estonia. Fiercely partisan, Katarina battles to protect her grandmother’s precious legacy – the weaving of gossamer lace shawls stitched with intricate patterns that tell the stories passed down through generations.
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The House of Impossible Beauties | Joseph Cassara | $27.99 | Allen & Unwin Set in NYC in the late 70s early 90s against the backdrop of the impending AIDS crisis, The House of Impossible Beauties follows a cast of gay and transgender kids navigating the Harlem ball scene, banding together as they flee their traumatic pasts.
The Shepherd’s Hut | Tim Winton $39.99 | Penguin John says: Winton is so ‘earthy’ he seems made of the iron-red sands and salt-lake crystals of the Western Australia he so lovingly depicts. In Jaxie Clackton, the irreverent and broken youth who narrates this gripping yarn, he has created another unforgettable character, stripped and raw and hungry. Reeling from a family disaster and yearning for a forbidden love, he sets out into the mulga scrub with a rifle and a need to survive. Don’t Skip Out On Me | Willy Vlautin | $29.99 | Allen & Unwin Meet Horace Hopper, a 21-year-old farm hand in Nevada. Half-white, half-Paiute Indian; he dreams of bigger things. Leaving behind the farm and its fragile stability, he heads South to re-invent himself as the Mexican boxer Hector Hidalgo. Slowly, the possibility emerges that his dreams might not just be the delusions of a lost soul.
Little Gods | Jenny Ackland | $29.99 | Allen & Unwin Little Gods is a novel about the mess of family, about vengeance and innocence lost. It explores resilience and girlhood and questions how families live with all of their complexities and contradictions. Resonating with echoes of great Australian novels like Cloudstreet, and Jasper Jones, Little Gods is told with similar idiosyncrasy, insight and style.
Those Other Women | Nicola Moriarty | $29.99 | Harper Collins Rivalries and resentments between mums and non-mums spiral wildly out of control in the compelling new book by the bestselling author of The Fifth Letter. An online rivalry spills dangerously into the real world. Cafes become battlegrounds, playgrounds become warzones and offices have never been so divided.
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart | Holly Ringland $32.99 | Harper Collins Dean says: An accomplished debut from a natural storyteller, Ringland’s prose blooms from the page as the natives do leading into each chapter. Full of whimsy and heart which will capture fans of Holly Throsby’s Goodwood then it shifts up a gear to tackle the impact of violence on young women’s lives. Spanning 20 years a shocked child stops talking when she loses her violent parents to a fire then moves to her unknown Grandmother’s native flower farm. Here she learns to speak to flowers and finds her own strength hidden within each native’s meaning. Holly Ringland is a genuine storyteller and this debut is written from her heart!
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