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MONTHLY HIGHLIGHTS AUGUST
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THE TWENTIETH MAN Tony Jones Paperback RRP $ 32.99 Tony Jones, one of Australia’s most admired journalists, has written a brilliantly compelling thriller where terrorism, politics and betrayals collide. Taking us from the savage mountains of Yugoslavia to Canberra’s brutal yet covert power struggles in a novel that’s intelligent, informed and utterly suspenseful.
TIN MAN
COLOMBIANO
Sarah Winman Paperback RRP $ 29.99
Rusty Young Paperback RRP $ 32.99
It begins with a painting won in a raffle: fifteen sunflowers, hung on the wall by a woman who believes that men and boys are capable of beautiful things. Sarah Winman follows the acclaimed success of When God Was a Rabbit and A Year of Marvellous Ways with an unforgettable and achingly tender new novel.
Blending fact and fiction, the bestselling author of Marching Powder takes us on a heart-thumping journey into the violent and unpredictable world of post-Escobar Colombia. Superbly told and by turns gripping, poignant and darkly comic, Colombiano is the story of a boy whose moral descent becomes a metaphor for the corruption of an entire nation.
NON-FICTION EVERY LIE I’VE EVER TOLD
BALCONY OVER JERUSALEM
DRAGON AND KANGAROO
Rosie Waterland Paperback RRP $ 29.99
John Lyons Paperback RRP $ 34.99
Robert Macklin Paperback RRP $ 32.99
It was all going so well for Rosie Waterland, author of the best-selling The Anti-Cool Girl. Until, shockingly, something awful happened and Rosie went into agonising free fall. A raw, beautiful, sad, shocking - and very, very funny - memoir of all the lies we tell others and the lies we tell ourselves.
Leading Australian journalist John Lyons takes readers on a fascinating personal journey of the Middle East. From the sheer excitement of arriving in Jerusalem with his family, to the fall of dictators and his gripping account of being abducted, blindfolded and interrogated, this is a memoir of the Middle East like no other.
The fascinating story of the Chinese presence in and influence on this country - our intertwined history from colonial times to today. This is an absorbing account of a vastly underestimated part of Australia’s story: this is our shared history, from an immensely important and entirely new angle.
CHILDREN’S & YA IN MY ROOM
RUBEN
Jo Witek Hardback RRP $ 21.99
Bruce Whatley Hardback RRP $ 29.99
From the authorillustrator team of In My Heart, comes a picture book that celebrates creativity and imaginative play – she can become a doctor, teacher or sail the seven seas, the sky’s the limit. And when the day is over, she can become a little girl again, safe in her room. Age: 3+
Ruben lives in a safe place in a city that takes everything and gives nothing back. When he meets Koji, who too has been hiding from the dangers of the industrial city and its excesses, they must combine their knowledge of how the city works so they can find a way to escape… together. Age: 5+
BOOK OF THE MONTH TABOO Kim Scott Paperback RRP $ 32.99
We thought to tell a story with such momentum. There must be at least one brave and resilient character at its centre, Tilly Coolman (one of us), and the story will speak of magic in an empirical age; of how our dead will return, transformed, to support us again and from within. From Kim Scott, two-times winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, comes a work charged with ambition and poetry, in equal parts brutal, mysterious and idealistic.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kim Scott is a multi-award winning novelist. Benang (1999) was the first novel by an Indigenous writer to win the Miles Franklin Award and That Deadman Dance (2010) also won Australia’s premier literary prize, among many others. Proud to be one among those who call themselves Noongar, Kim is founder and chair of the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Story Project, which has published a number of bilingual picture books. Kim is currently Professor of Writing at Curtin University.
KIDS PICK THE 91-STOREY TREEHOUSE
THE SHOP AT HOOPERS BEND Emily Rodda Paperback RRP $16.99 When Quil Medway gets on the train, she thinks she knows where and how her journey will end. At camp. Alone. But when she decides to get off early at a train stop called Hoopers Bend, everything will change. Quil doesn’t know anything about the shop yet. Or the magic. But it won’t be long now. Age: 9+
Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton Paperback RRP $14.99 8 August release, advance orders welcome
Join Andy and Terry in their ridiculous 91-storey treehouse! Go for a spin in the world’s most powerful whirlpool, take a ride in a submarine sandwich, get marooned on a desert island, hang out in a giant spider web, visit the fortune teller’s tent to get your fortune told by Madame Know-it-all and decide whether or not to push the mysterious big red button. Well, what are you waiting for? Come on up! Age: 9+