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THE SHEPHERD’S HUT Tim Winton Hardback RRP $ 39.99
Australian Jaxie dreads Independent Bookseller going home. His
mum’s dead. The old man bashes him without mercy, and he wishes he was an orphan. But no one’s ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for. The Shepherd’s Hut is a searing look at what it takes to keep love and hope alive in a parched and brutal world.
BRIDGE BURNING AND OTHER HOBBIES Kitty Flanagan Paperback RRP $ 29.99 One of Australia’s favourite and most multi-talented entertainers, Kitty Flanagan, provides advice you didn’t even know you needed. Useful tips on how not to get murdered while hitch-hiking, why it’s important to keep your top on while waitressing, and why women between the ages of thirty-seven and forty-two should be banned from internet dating.
THE LOST FLOWERS OF ALICE HART Holly Ringland Paperback RRP $ 32.99 A romantic and deeply moving story of a young girl, daughter of an abusive father, who has to learn the hard way as she grows up that she can break the patterns of the past, live on her own terms and find her own strength.
FINDING MY PLACE Anne Aly Paperback RRP $ 32.99 In 2016, Anne Aly was the first Australian Muslim woman, the first Egyptian-born woman and the first counter-terrorism expert to be elected to federal parliament. She was also probably the first parliamentarian to have seen Zoolander 23 times. This is her story, an irresistible tale by an irrepressible woman.
A CERTAIN LIGHT
BONO
Cynthia Banham Paperback RRP $ 32.99
Helen Brown Paperback RRP $ 29.99
With great courage and empathy, Cynthia Banham asks the difficult questions about family, about survival, and fearlessly tells the stories that are never told. From a remarkable writer, and told with unflinching honesty and compassion, A Certain Light speaks to the heart of what really matters in life.
In the tradition of Helen Brown’s international bestseller Cleo and based on her enormously popular Huffington Post blog, Bono is a funny, tender and insightful true story about life, love and recovery – and a rockstar rescue cat with a feisty attitude and a big heart.
THE JADE LILY Kirsty Manning Paperback RRP $ 29.99 A gorgeously told tale of female friendship, the price of love, and the power of hardship and courage to shape us all, from the popular author of The Midsummer Garden.
THE WHOLESOME COOK: RECIPES FOR LIFE’S SEASONS Martyna Angell Hardback RRP $ 49.99 Like the calendar year, the body has its seasons and no one understands this better than Martyna Angell, leading food blogger and bestselling author. Recipes for Life’s Seasons is not just a cookbook, it’s a guide to a creative approach to food and offers you the healthy balanced nourishment and real enjoyment that sharing delicious food brings.
THE ITALIAN GARDEN Cecilia Hewlett Hardback RRP $ 49.99 The Italian Garden is part restoration story, part vicarious travel and a completely fascinating insight into this undiscovered corner of Tuscany. Learn how Paul Bangay was inspired by the Renaissance origins of the walled garden - by grottoes, water features and planting symmetry to create a modern-day pleasure garden.
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BOO K OF COL OUR S
Roby n Ca dwallader Paperback RRP $ 32.99
From the author of the inte rnationally acclaimed novel The Anc horess comes a novel set in medieval London, where three very different people are drawn together to create a magnificent illuminated manuscript, a Book of Hours. Even though the commission seems to answer the aspirations of each one of them, their own desires and am bitions threaten its completion. This is a stor y about creativity and connection, and our instinctive need to understand our world thro ugh the pages of a book.
THE WASP AND THE ORCHID Danielle Clode Hardback RRP $ 39.99
In 1922, a 48-year-old housewife from Blackburn delivered her first paper, on native Australian orchids, to the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. Over the next thirty years, Edith Coleman would write over 300 articles on Australian nature and would solve the mystery of orchid pollination that had bewildered even Darwin. Zoologist and award-winning writer Danielle Clode sets out to uncover Edith’s story, sharing along the way Edith’s lyrical and incisive writing and her uncompromising passion for Australian nature and landscape.