These Women | Ivy Pochoda | $19.99 | Allen and Unwin
Long Live the Post Horn! | Vigdis Hjorth | $29.99 | Bloomsbury An average and directionless office worker, involuntarily thrust into the centre of a mystery at the post office. Classically Scandinavian, the novel relishes in the awkward, bizarre, and oddly mundane nature of being forced to rediscover yourself whilst caught up in an increasingly peculiar investigation. - Luca
Plain Bad Heroines | Emily M. Danforth | $32.99 | Harper Collins A contemporary blend of gothic horror and Hollywood satire. In 1902, at Brookhaunts School for Girls, two students fall in love and a fog of wasps curses the place forever. 100yrs later, a crew from Hollywood filming a high-profile movie about the Brookhaunt curse find themselves grimly entangled in the past.
A serial killer story like you’ve never seen before— a literary thriller of female empowerment and social change. A kaleidoscope of loss, power, and hope featuring five very different women whose lives are steeped in danger and anguish. They’re connected by one man and his deadly obsession, though not all of them know that yet.
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To Be a Man | Nicole Krauss | $27.99 | Bloomsbury A dazzling collection of short stories which explore what it is to be a man and what it is to be a woman, and the arising tensions in being a couple in these turbulent and unpredictable times. Profound, poignant, and brilliant, Krauss’s stories are at once startling and deeply moving, but always revealing of all-too-human weakness and strength.
NEW IN THE NOOK Just Us | Claudia Rankine| $49.99 | Penguin
My People and Father Sky and Mother Earth | Oodgeroo Noonuccal | $24.95 each | Wiley
What I love about Rankine’s approach to writing about race and politics is that she doesn’t tell you what to think or do. Instead, she turns her cleareyed gaze onto the everyday, examining the assumptions that underlie words and actions. Using photographs, poems, essays, conversations and encounters she encourages us to engage with difficult truths. It is urgent and important work.
New editions from one of Australia’s most influential indigenous writers. My People a bewitching collection of poetry is celebrating 50 years. Father Sky and Mother Earth was released 40 years ago yet this illustrated story of climate change and human’s impact on the environment is even more relevant today.
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The Decameron Project | New York Times Magazine | $35.00 | Harper Collins When reality is surreal, only fiction can make sense of it. A stunning collection of new short stories commissioned as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Colm Toibin, Kamilia Shamsie, David Mitchell and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio’s The Decameron.
For Now | Eileen Myles| $39.99 | Wiley In this raucous meditation, Eileen Myles offers an intimate glimpse into their creative and writing process. With erudition and wit, Myles recounts their early years as an awakening writer; existential struggles with landlords; storied moments with neighbours, friends and lovers; and the textures and identities of cities and the country that reveal the nature of writing as presence in time.
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