Easter Long Weekend Sorry to Disrupt the Peace | Patty Yumi Cottrell | $29.99 | Text Publishing Helen Moran - thirty-two, single and childless - returns to her childhood home after the death of her adoptive brother and faces her estranged family. A bleakly comic debut that is by turns poignant, uproariously funny, and unsettling.
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BETTER READ THAN DEAD’S Guide to the Exit West | Mohsin Hamid | $32.99 | Penguin Random House From the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, an astonishingly timely love story that brilliantly imagines the forces that transform ordinary people into refugees as they’re driven from their homes to the uncertain embrace of new lands.
The Animators | Kayla Rae Whitaker | $32.99 | Scribe Dean says: Two women meet in art school and develop a friendship and creative partnership. Both from difficult family backgrounds, they seek solace in their friendship and begin drawing out biographical animations which quickly rise to cult status. Completely engaging and moreish, this novel explores passion and creativity perfectly!
The Roanoke Girls | Amy Engel | $29.99 | Hachette Lane Roanoke is fifteen when she comes to live with her grandparents and fireball cousin at the Roanoke family’s rural estate following the suicide of her mother. Darkly sensual and deeply atmospheric, this is a novel about the twisted secrets families keep - perfect for fans of Emma Cline’s The Girls.
Storyland | Catherine McKinnon | $27.99 | Harper Collins Set on the banks of Lake Illawarra and spanning four centuries, Storyland is a unique and compelling novel of people and place - told in an unfurling narrative of interlinking stories. McKinnon’s characters are all connected; not only through the land and water they inhabit over the decades, but also by tendrils of blood, history, memory and property.
Record of a Night Too Brief | Hiromi Kawakami | $19.99 | Murdoch Books Three prize-winning stories from one of the most highly regarded and provocative contemporary Japanese writers. Filled with fantastically multicoloured images and unexplained collapses in time and place, contained are highly surreal, meticulously worked short stories of longing and disappearance, love and loathing.
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley | Hannah Tinti | $29.99 | Hachette Dean says: An original coming-of-age novel that visually plays out like a Tarantino film. It is cool and rugged, violent yet full of heart. Loo lives with her father Hawley. She is used to packing up and moving states in an instant. She likes it this way, and hangs a shrine to her dead mother in every new hotel they stop to live in. Suddenly they settle in Olympia near her estranged grandmother where Loo starts displaying violent tendencies just like her father. Hawley wears his past on his body in the form of twelve bullet holes. Each wound carries a story revealing a past he is hiding from Loo, a past that is slowly creeping upon them.
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