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Tim Winton Hardback RRP $ 39.99
‘I grew up on the world’s largest island.’ This apparently simple fact is the starting point for Tim Winton’s beautiful, evocative and sometimes provocative memoir of how this unique landscape has shaped him and his writing.
THE MOUNTAIN SHADOW
THE NATURAL WAY OF THINGS
Gregory David Roberts Hardback RRP $ 46.99
Charlotte Wood Paperback RRP $ 29.99
Gregory David Roberts’ epic novel, Shantaram, introduced a cast of unforgettable characters through Lin, an Australian fugitive in Bombay. In The Mountain Shadow, Lin must find his way in a Bombay run by a different generation of mafia dons, playing by a different set of rules.
THE ROAD TO LITTLE DRIBBLING
THE JAPANESE LOVER
Bill Bryson Hardback RRP $ 39.99
Isabel Allende Hardback RRP $ 39.99
To mark the twentieth anniversary of Notes from a Small Island, Bryson makes a journey round Britain, following a route he dubs the Bryson Line. Bryson sets out to rediscover the wondrously beautiful country that he thought he knew but doesn’t altogether recognize any more.
FROMELLES & POZIÈRES Peter FitzSimons Hardback RRP $ 49.99 Nearly a century on from the battles of Fromelles and Pozières, Australians know only a fraction of what occurred. This book brings the battles back to life and puts the reader in the moment, illustrating both the heroism displayed and the insanity of the British plan.
An exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic sweeping from present-day San Francisco to Poland and the United States during WWII. Throughout their lifetimes, Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, but theirs is a love they are forever forced to hide from the world.
Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in this story of two friends, sisterly love and courage - a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be hunted.
THE SECRET CHORD Geraldine Brooks Hardback RRP $ 39.99 A unique and vivid novel that retells the story of King David’s extraordinary rise to power and fall from grace, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of People of the Book, Year of Wonders and March, Geraldine Brooks.
A MOTHER’S STORY
CAREER OF EVIL
Rosie Batty & Bryce Corbett Paperback RRP $ 32.99
Robert Galbraith Paperback RRP $ 32.99
A heartfelt and inspiring story, Rosie Batty’s one is of pain no one should have to suffer. After years of family violence, in 2014 her son was killed by his father, shocking the nation. Courageously rising above her tragedy, her story has forced unprecedented focus on such violence.
The latest in the Cormoran Strike series by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. A fiendishly clever mystery with unexpected twists around every corner, Career of Evil is also a gripping story of a man and a woman at a crossroads in their personal and professional lives.
BIG BLUE SKY
PHILLIP HUGHES
THE LAKE HOUSE
Peter Garrett Hardback RRP $ 49.99
Malcolm Knox & Peter Lalor Hardback RRP $ 45.00
Kate Morton Paperback RRP $ 32.99
The provocative, entertaining, impassioned and inspiring memoir of Midnight Oil frontman, environmental activist and politician - a truly remarkable Australian. Peter Garrett’s life has been fully and passionately lived. A man of boundless energy, compassion, intelligence and creativity, he has already achieved enough to fill several lives.
Phillip Hughes: The Official Biography is the incredible story of the boy from Macksville who became Australian Test cricketer 408. Drawing on almost 100 interviews and featuring more than 200 photographs, this is a stirring biography about the life of Phillip Hughes: son, brother, friend, farmer, cricketer, inspiration.
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The morning after the Edevane’s exclusive Midsummer Eve party in 1933, their youngest child is missing. After months of searching, the family pack up and leave their beautiful country home, never to return. Until, in 2003, a young female police officer stumbles upon the abandoned house and determines to find out what happened.
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