Mother's Day Gift Guide 2017

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FANTASTIC FICTION FOR MUM CLOSING DOWN

INTO THE WATER

NEW BOY

Abbott Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Paula Hawkins Paperback RRP $ 32.99

Tracy Chevalier Paperback RRP $ 29.99

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The inaugural winner of The Richell Prize for Emerging Writers. Conjuring a dark future for Australia, Closing Down gives us a glimpse into a world fractured by a financial crisis and global climate change. What would you do if all you held to be familiar was lost? More importantly, where do you belong?

With the same propulsive writing and acute understanding of human instincts that captivated millions of readers around the world in her explosive debut thriller, The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins delivers an urgent, satisfying read that hinges on the stories we tell about our pasts and their power to destroy the lives we live now.

One of our most successful historical novelists transplants the tragedy of Othello to a playground in 1970s Washington D.C.: when a young black boy arrives at an all-white school, he finds himself at the centre of a web of jealousy, bullying and revenge.

THE ORIGINAL GINNY MOON

SEE WHAT I HAVE DONE

Nina George Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Benjamin Ludwig Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Sarah Schmidt Paperback RRP $ 32.99

For the first time in her life, Ginny Moon has found her “forever home” — a place where she’ll be safe and protected, with a family that will love and nurture her. So why is this 14-year-old so desperate to get kidnapped by her abusive, drug-addict birth mother, and return to a grim existence?

A deeply atmospheric novel by a startling new Aussie talent; an incredibly unique look inside the mind of Lizzie Borden, famously accused of murdering her father and stepmother in 1892. Lizzie Borden took an axe…

Or did she?

THE MIDSUMMER GARDEN

A HUNDRED SMALL LESSONS

MISS LILY’S LOVELY LADIES

Kirsty Manning Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Ashley Hay Paperback RRP $ 32.99

Jackie French Paperback RRP $ 29.99

Between lush gardens in France, windswept coastlines of Tasmania, to Tuscan hillsides and beyond, experience an unforgettable culinary and botanical journey. When a gift of several dusty, beautiful old copper pots arrives in Pip’s kitchen, two amazing stories come together. From medieval France to contemporary Tasmania, two remarkable women discover their strengths, passions and loves.

Luminous and deeply affecting, A Hundred Small Lessons is about the many small decisions – the invisible moments – that come to make a life. The intertwined lives of two women from different generations tell a rich and intimate story of how we feel, what it is to be human, and how place can transform who we are.

THE STARS ARE FIRE Anita Shreve Paperback RRP $ 29.99 The stunning new novel from the author of The Pilot’s Wife. 1947. After a summer-long drought, fires are racing along the coast of Maine.

Grace is thrust into a new world in which she must make a life on her own, as her bravery is tested as never before.

BEYOND THE ROCK

THE LITTLE BRETON BISTRO

A heart-warming story of romance and adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop. Marianne has a choice: step back into the known, her loveless marriage to an uncaring husband, or take a huge jump into an exciting and unpredictable future in Brittany?

TOP PICKS FOR MUM

At the mysterious Miss Lily’s secret ‘school’, young women selected from Europe’s royalty and highest families learn how to captivate a man - as a husband, or at a dinner party, in a salon or at a grouse shoot. For in 1914, persuading men is the only true power a woman has. Inspired by true events, this is the story of how society’s ‘lovely ladies’ won a war.

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Janelle McCulloch Hardback RRP $ 35.00 In the winter of 1966, at sixty-nine years of age, Lady Joan Lindsay sat down and wrote a short novel about a group of upper-class schoolgirls from a prestigious ladies’ college who disappear while on a country picnic in the summer of 1900.

The result was Picnic at Hanging Rock, a literary mystery that has endured for half a century. This is the story of one of Australia’s most famous novels, and the author who kept its secrets until she died.

THE PLEASURES OF LEISURE Robert Dessaix Hardback RRP $ 29.99 Robert Dessaix shows, in this thoughtful and witty book, how taking leisure seriously gives us back our freedom – to enjoy life, and to deepen our sense of who we are as human beings. The result is a terrifically lively and engaging conversation that reminds us that at leisure we are at our most intensely and pleasurably human.

True life stories CHINA BABY LOVE

Jane Hutcheon Paperback RRP $ 32.99 Every orphan comes with a story. Every journalist has a story that stays with them.

And everyone has the power to make a difference. From rural Queensland to rural g China, China Baby Love is the story of movin time. a at l shove one mountains,

DEAR QUENTIN

AFTER

Quentin Bryce

Nikki Gemmell

Hardback RRP $ 45.00

Hardback RRP $ 29.99

As Australia’s first female Governor-General, Quentin Bryce handwrote more than fifty letters each week. She wrote to those she had met and connected with as her role took her from palaces to outback schools, from war zones to memorials, from intimate audiences to lavish ceremonies. Dear Quentin is a rich collection of the letters exchanged during her six-year term.

A WIFE’S HEART: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BERTHA AND HENRY LAWSON Kerrie Davies Paperback RRP $ 29.95

A WRITING LIFE: HELEN GARNER AND HER WORK Bernadette Brennan Paperback RRP $ 32.99 Who is the ‘I’ in Helen Garner’s work? Dr Bernadette Brennan provides a lively and rigorous reading of the books, journals and correspondence of one of Australia’s most beloved women of letters.

A Writing Life is the first full-length study of Garner’s work, a literary portrait that maps Garner’s

writing against the different stages of her life.

BETW EEN THEM

Richard Ford Hardback RRP $18.99 From the Pulit zer Prize winner comes a deeply personal account of his parents’ lives. In this stunning book, Richard Ford evokes a vivid panorama of mid-twentieth century lasting impact of loss the on ects refl America and igence and and devotion. Written with the intell , Between wned reno is Ford h humanity for whic love. of act t grea son’s a is Them

In A Wife’s Heart, Kerrie Davies provides a rare account of Henry and Bertha Lawson’s tumultuous relationship.

Reproducing the Lawsons’ letters alongside personal reflections, A Wife’s Heart offers an intimate portrait of the Lawsons’ marriage, examined through a modern lens. It is an innovative, imaginative work of biography that reflects on the politics of relationships and the enduring complexities of love.

Australia’s bravest and most honest writer explores the devastating aftermath of her elderly mother’s decision to end her own life. As anguished as it is truthful, as powerful as it is profound, After is about life, death, elderly parents, mothers and daughters, hurt and healing, and about how little, sometimes, we know the ones we love the most.

NO PLACE TO LAY ONE’S HEAD Francoise Frenkel Paperback RRP $ 34.99 In 1921 Françoise Frenkel set up the first Frenchlanguage bookshop in Berlin, but life in Berlin for a Jewish woman soon became untenable. Frenkel was forced to flee as she attempted to survive in a world disintegrating around her. This is an extraordinary true story, recently rediscovered in France and translated to English for the first time.

WORK STRIFE BALANCE

MISS MURIEL MATTERS

Mia Freedman

Robert Wainwright

Paperback RRP $ 34.99

Paperback RRP $ 32.99

For every woman who’s been told success is as simple as Lean In, Say Yes, and #soblessed comes Mia Freedman’s fearless, hilarious, inspiring collection of modern misadventures.

It’s for guilty friends, bad mums, crap wives, imperfect feminists, and any girl with a big mouth and at least one foot in it.

ONE ITALIAN SUMMER Pip Williams Paperback RRP $ 29.99 After years of trying and failing to live the ‘good life’, Pip and Shannon quit their jobs, pull their kids out of school and go searching for la dolce vita in Italy. A warm, funny and disarmingly honest tale for anyone who’s ever dreamed of escaping the rat race.

The incredible story of the Australian actress who became one of London’s most famous suffragists.

In Miss Muriel Matters, bestselling writer Robert Wainwright discovers an extraordinary woman full of intelligence, passion and bravery who fought for women’s rights in a world far from equal.

WHERE HUMMINGBIRDS DANCE Susi Prescott Paperback RRP $ 24.99 Susi Prescott had it all.

A large busy family, a job she loved, but with the sudden demise of her thirty year marriage, her world crumbles. Susi makes a momentous decision, packs up her former life and moves to Peru. Susie learns valuable lessons and may even learn how to fall in love again.

Cook up a feast ANNIE’S FARMHOUSE KITCHEN

I’M JUST HERE FOR DESSERT

IT’S ALWAYS ABOUT THE FOOD

Annie Smithers

Caroline Khoo

Hardback RRP $ 40.00

Paperback RRP $ 39.99

Monday Morning Cooking Club

Annie’s Farmhouse Kitchen is a window on the bucolic world of acclaimed Victorian chef Annie Smithers. It includes a best-of selection of three and four-course menus collected by Annie over the three years of her restaurant, du Fermier. This charming farmhousestyle eatery in central Victoria is the sort of place intrepid food lovers might equally stumble across in rural France or Dorset or California.

Desserts tell a story. Even the daintiest macaron take the person eating it on a sensory journey from first look to last bite. For Caroline Khoo this story begins when an idea for a new dessert design is sparked. I’m Just Here for Dessert is generously packed with the recipes, techniques and clever styling tips behind some of her most popular creations.

Hardback RRP $ 49.99 It’s Always About the Food is a delicious and rich, story-filled snapshot of cooking in the global Jewish diaspora, which gathers together the very best cooking and favourite recipes from the global Jewish community, reflecting their love for food and cooking, and the importance of the family table. This book is all about the food, flavours and the most delicious family recipes - not from a restaurant or a test kitchen, but from the heart of the home.

ALL DAY CAFÉ

FERMENT FOR GOOD

HAPPY KITCHEN

Stuart McKenzie

Sharon Flynn

Rachel Kelly

Hardback RRP $ 39.99

Hardback RRP $ 39.99

Paperback RRP $ 35.00

A blend of delicious food and urban lifestyle, All Day Café offers more than 100 recipes for sublime café meals you can cook at home. On the menu are easy seasonal ideas for every meal of the day: from French toast with balsamic strawberries for a fresh spring breakfast; to scallop, roasted fennel and lemon risotto for winter supper with friends. All dishes served with a touch of urban café style!

The ancient art of fermenting is finding new popularity again as modern science and trends discover the importance of gut health for overall wellbeing.

Lovingly illustrated and featuring informative photos, Ferment for Good is a beautiful, carefully curated collection to introduce you to the world of fermentation.

Your gut is responsible for producing around 90% of your serotonin, the ‘happy’ chemical which makes you feel good. Become stronger and happier using this accessible bible of good mood food, packed with recipes and meal planners devised by a nutritionist and food doctor that promote calm, boost energy and help us sleep.

MORE GREAT GIFTS LETTERS OF LOVE Alannah & Madeline Foundation Paperback RRP $19.99 The Port Arthur massacre was one of Australia’s darkest days, but the response from the community was an outpouring of love.

The Alannah & Madeline Foundation, which honours two young sisters who died alongside their mother that terrible day, captures the power of love in this gloriously affirming collection of letters from over fifty prominent Australians.

A-Z GREAT MODERN WRITERS Caroline Taggart Hardback RRP $ 24.99 A uniquely visual, fun introduction to 52 of the greatest writers of the modern age, from A (Maya Angelou, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood) to Z (Stefan Zweig) via Samuel Beckett, Gunter Grass, Marcel Proust, R.K. Narayan, Virginia Woolf and more.

THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF PIKELET

IN PRAISE OF MOTHERS

Calley Gibson

Edited by Nero Books Hardback RRP $12.99

Paperback RRP $ 29.99 All it took for a tiny, noname pup from the pound to become an internet sensation was someone to believe in him – and to save him from death row. With his signature style and good humour, Pikelet will show you that a dog’s life is the only life, after all.

FRUIT & VEG BOX DK Paperback RRP $ 45.00 The complete library for the grow-your-own gardener and cook, Fruit and Veg Box features inspiring ideas and more than 100 seasonal recipes for home-grown treats and feasts. Bursting with step-by-step photography, foolproof growing advice, plant portraits and finished recipes, Fruit and Veg Box is a beautiful gift box collection.

In this special anthology of quotations, humanity’s greatest thinkers and poets capture the unique bond between mother and child. With over 100 moving quotes from writers throughout the centuries – from Shakespeare to Salinger, Mark Twain to J.K Rowling.

PARIS IN BLOOM Georgianna Lane Hardback RRP $ 29.99 Paris—City of Love, City of Light, City of Flowers.

From elegant floral boutiques to lively flower markets to glorious blooming trees and expansive public gardens, flowers are the essential ingredient to the lush sensory bouquet that is Parisian life. With beautiful photography, Paris in Bloom transports readers on a stunning floral tour of the city.

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The Lost City of Z

Make Your Mark Margie Warrell Paperback RRP $24.95

Canterbury Classics Novel Journals

If you’ve ever wondered if there’s more to life than the one you’re living, this book is for you. In 7 simple steps Make Your Mark will show you how to reset your compass to bring your boldest dreams into reality and make your own special mark on the world.

Write between the lines of your favourite authors.

‘A riveting true story of greed, serial murder and racial injustice’ JON KRAKAUER World Cloud Classics These beautiful editions are the perfect gift for fans of literature.

‘A fiercely entertaining mystery story and a wrenching exploration of evil’ KATE ATKINSON

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