Gleaner Feb/March 2023

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Issue 1 Volume 30 Feb/Mar 2023

From David’s Desk So, if anyone asks what moving a bookshop is like, we have an answer, HORRIBLE. It is the summer break you have when you’re not having a summer break. Over the three weeks after Christmas, starting on Boxing Day, we undertook the task of boxing (in alphabetical and section order) all of our books. Our second-hand collection wasn’t going to fit, so they were trucked up for a year-long holiday to a barn in the Kanimbla Valley.

They will return, refreshed, when 49 Glebe Pt Rd re-opens. Meanwhile, every book, greeting card, magazine, invoice, pen and paper clip was boxed, trucked, unpacked and shelved by our valiant and committed team. And 1098 cartons later, it was done. In between that, 120 bookcases, plus counters, office cupboards etc., made their way up the hill to our temporary new home that would accommodate all of this.

Inevitably, when you move, you come across documents, photos and memorabilia that evoke your history. Certainly, we have. One day we’ll try to collect and collate the many photos of events and bits and pieces in our possession. But in the meantime, we’ve taken the opportunity, in this Gleaner, to share a little bit of history and offer a few fun trivia quiz questions (with a prize, of course!) to welcome you to your first Gleaner for the year.

And, if you are wondering what’s become of our events program, fear not, we have one. It’s scaled back from our usual packed program, as we’ve no dedicated space at the current location to do curated events. But we will have launches there and are booking lovely spaces at the old Glebe Town Hall and The Tramsheds, where we can match author and space availability. We’re working on it.

It has been exhausting, but there are two splendid upsides. One is that we’ll be moving back into a sparkling and “brand-new” bookshop at the end of this year (fingers crossed on timing, who knows with construction). The other is that our “pop-up” home (in the old Glebe Post Office at the corner of Glebe Pt and St Johns Rds) is quite lovely. It is a late 19th century building, honouring the glory days of post, and we’re proudly showing it to advantage. It’s lovely to be back in the heart of Glebe, very close to where gleebooks began almost 50 years ago, at 191 Glebe Pt Rd. And I think only the iconic Galluzzo family fruiterers have traded for longer in Glebe Pt Rd, so here’s to the past and the future.

I’ll wait until next month to look at some enticing new releases and to look at who’s coming to May’s Sydney Writers’ Festival.

Still, I’m honour-bound to mention Don Watson’s masterful, tender and oh-soinsightful The Passion of Private White. Please read it.

See you around the shop, David

Interview With A Bookseller A quick chat with David Gaunt as he recollects some memorable events from his 45 years of bookselling with gleebooks.

What is your favourite section in the shop?

That’s like asking me to choose between my children! I can’t pick just one favourite. (But it probably will always be literature.)

If you weren’t running gleebooks, what would you be doing?

What is the craziest situation you’ve ever had to deal with at gleebooks?

We were hosting a huge event at the Old Teacher’s Federation Theatre with Peter Carey, when out of nowhere a loud noise from behind the walls, startled all of us bringing the event to a halt. I rushed to the back of the stage behind the curtains, mortified by this sudden distruption and placed my hands on the wall in desperate hopes that it would somehow stop.

And it did. Everybody thought it (or rather, should I say, I) was divine intervention.

Think you know gleebooks inside out? Answer the questions below (make sure you read the gleaner carefully) to enter the competition and win yourself a $100 gift voucher! Email your submissions to competitions@gleebooks.com.au or mail it to us at PO Box 486, Glebe, NSW 2037. Entries are accepted until the 5th of April 2023 and the winner will be notified by the 10th of April 2023.

How Well Do You Know Your Bookstore?

I’d be sitting on a verandah reading a book. Prefrebly somewhere in the Kanimbla Valley. ( I do wish I had learnt the piano though.)

Don't miss your chance to win a $100 gift voucher!

1. How many times has gleebooks won the Bookseller of The Year Award?

6

4

5

2. When did gleebooks first become the official booksellers of the Sydney Writer's Festival?

2005 What’s your vision for books and bookshops in the age of technology?

Well, books will last forever, but I do hope that bookshops stay bookshops, and not just showrooms. No further explanations necessary.

2003

2007

3. How many books do we have in store?

47504

48002

49103

4. Which charity organisation are we proudly associated with and features in the gleaner every year?

WIRES

ILF

Australian Red Cross

5. How many boxes did it take to pack and move our store to the new location?

1113 Name Phone Email

1057

1098

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Index

THE JOURNEY SO FAR

Australian Literature International Literature

1975

Biography & Memoir

Ray Jelfs and Tony Gallagher open Gleebooks as a Second Hand Bookshop at 191 Glebe Point Road

Thrillers & Crime Fiction Essays & Criticism Australian & Aboriginal Studies History & Politics

1978

Science & Technology

Roger Mackell and David Gaunt take over after Tony's death

1985

Gleebooks expands to double its original size, during Glebe's halcyon days

1992

The old Lamings Dealatorium and Boxing Gym at 49 Glebe Point Rd becomes Gleebooks main site, while kids' and second hand stay open in the old location for another 25 years.

2023

After thirty wonderful years of service, thousands of literary events, it's time for the shop to close for muchneeded R&R (repair and renovation).

Come visit us at our gorgeous new place on 181A Glebe Point Rd!

Food, Health & Gardening Philosophy & Culture Studies

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Kids

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Teen Fiction & YA

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Performing Arts & Poetry

p. 22

Art & Photography

p. 23

Self-help & Psychology

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Specials

p. 25

What We’re Reading

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Return to Valetto

Australian Literature

Dominic Smith

Allen & Unwin $33.00

Valetto was once a thriving village and a refuge during World War II. Centuries of earthquakes, landslides and the lure of a better life have left it neglected. Only ten residents remain, including the widows Serafino - three eccentric sisters and their steely centenarian mother - who live quietly in their medieval villa. Then their nephew and grandson, Hugh, a historian, returns.

But someone else has arrived before him, laying claim to the cottage where Hugh spent his childhood summers. Like so many threads of history, this revelation unravels a secret - a betrayal, a disappearance and an unspeakable act of violence.

p. 5 The Death of John Lacey

Ben Hobson

Allen & Unwin $33.00

Shirley

Ronnie Scott

Penguin $33.00

It’s been twenty years since her mother was photographed, blood-soaked, outside the family home. Since that time, the girl has grown up, and she’s finally found happiness. But strange things are in the air.

Among conspiracies, dubious loyalties, and mercenary impulses, how do we work out who is worthy of our devotion and who is just a fan? Shirley charts a search for meaning in a world where the fracturing of ambitions work and purpose, real estate and home, family and love - has left us uncertain how to recognise ourselves.

John Lacey’s lust for power and gold brings him riches and influence beyond his wildest dreams. Only he knows the terrible crime he committed to attain that wealth. Years later, as Lacey ruthlessly presides over the town he has built and named after himself, no one has the courage to question his power or how he wields it. Brothers Ernst and Joe Montague are on the run from the law and they land in Lacey’s town committing desperate crimes to avoid capture. Lacey vows to hunt them down, but not everyone is blind to his evil, and a reckoning is approaching.

Dark Mode

Ashley Kalagian Blunt

Ultimo Press $35.00

BOOKS THAT MAKE YOU THINK.

For years, Reagan Carsen has kept her life offline. No socials. No internet presence.

No photos. Safe. Until the day she stumbles on a shocking murder in a Sydney laneway. The victim looks just like her. As more murders shake the city and she’s increasingly drawn out from hiding, Reagan is forced to confront her greatest fear, being found.

Funny Ethnics Shirley Le

‘For years there has been no shrewder or sharper commentator on Canberra politics than Chris Wallace.’

DON WATSON

Affirm Press $30.00

Welcome to Sylvia Nguyen’s world. Only child of Vietnamese refugee parents, unexceptional student, exceptional selfdoubter. It’s a place where migrants from across the world converge, and identity is a slippery, ever-shifting beast.

Jumping through snapshots of Sylvia’s life - from childhood to something resembling adulthood - this novel is about square pegs and round holes, those who belong and those on the fringes.

The Bell of the World Gregory Day ‘The world of fungi is our world even if we don’t know it and can’t see most of it — strange, dazzling, spooky, unpredictable, friendly, deadly, sly. And Alison is the perfect guide.’

PAUL KELLY

Discover more great non-fiction at unsw.press

Transit Lounge $33.00

Gregory Day’s new novel embodies a cultural reckoning in a breathtakingly beautiful and lyrical way. The Bell of the World is both a song to the natural wonders that are not yet gone and a luminous prehistory of contemporary climate change and its connection to colonialism.

It is a book immersed in the early to midtwentieth century but written very much for the hearts of the future.

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International Literature Highly Recommended

Hungry Ghosts

Kevin Jared Hosein

One Small Voice Santanu Bhattacharya

Penguin, $33.00 Ten-year-old Shubhankar witnesses a terrible act of mob violence- one to which his family turns a blind eye. As he approaches adulthood, Shabby focuses on the only path he believes will buy him an escape - good education and a good job. But when he arrives in Mumbai, he begins to question whether there might be other roads he could choose. As the rising tide of nationalism sweeps across India, this new life suddenly seems fragile. And before Shabby can chart his way forward, he must reckon with the ghosts of his past.

Bloomsbury $33.00

Old Babes in the Wood

Margaret Atwood

Maame

Jessica George

Hodder & Stoughton, $33.00 Meet Maddie Wright. All her life, she’s been told who she is. To her Ghanaian parents, she’s Maame: the one who takes care of the family. The one who keeps the peace - and the secrets. When she finally gets the chance to leave home, Maddie is determined to become the kind of woman she wants to be. Someone who doesn’t have to google all her life choices. But when tragedy strikes, Maddie is forced to face the risks - and rewards - of putting her heart on the line.

Random House $40.00 HC

This new collection from Atwood explores the full warp and weft of experience, from two best friends disagreeing about their shared past, to the right way to stop someone from choking; from a daughter determining if her mother really is a witch, to what to do with inherited relics such as World War II parade swords. The glorious range of Atwood’s creativity and humanity is on full beam in these tales, which by turns delight, illuminate and quietly devastate.

Doma Mahmoud

Kira McPherson

Hardie Grant, $35.00

Unnamed Press $33.00

Sherif ‘Sheero’ Abdallah is an NYU student revelling in independence, free from the judgemental gaze of his conservative family in Egypt to indulge in all sorts of pleasures.

When the FBI comes knocking on his door, he’s convinced it’s a case of mistaken identity — until they show him a picture of his cousin Amir. Amir has perpetrated a horrific attack and Sheero is suddenly forced to return to Cairo and confront the events that led to their wildly different circumstances.

Weasles in the Attic

Hiroko Oyamada

Victory City Salman Rushdie

Random House, $33.00 In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nineyear-old girl has a divine encounter with the goddess Parvati who tells her that she will be instrumental in the rise of a great city called Bisnaga. As years pass, rulers come and go, the very fabric of Bisnaga becomes an ever more complex tapestry - with Pampa Kampana at its center.

GB ial ec Sp rice P

Cairo Circles

Higher Education

Sam is struggling to find her place at university. That changes when a lecturer introduces Sam to Julia, his charming wife and a corporate lawyer who agrees to mentor Sam through law school. With time, this unspools into a dynamic of mutual preoccupation and boundary crossing, as they navigate their feelings for one another, the appropriateness of their relationship, and where it might be heading.

Dalton and Marlee Changoor live in luxury at the Changoor farm, unrecognisable to those who reside in the farm’s shadow.

Down below is the barrack, a ramshackle building divided into rooms occupied by whole families. Among these families are the Saroops, who live hard lives of backbreaking work and grinding poverty. When Dalton goes missing, farmhand Hans Saroop is lured by the promise of a handsome stipend as a watchman. But as the mystery of Dalton’s disappearance unfolds their lives become hellishly entwined, and their small community is altered forever.

Granta $25.00

Two friends meet across three dinners. In the back room of a pet shop, they snack on dried shrimps and discuss fish-breeding. In a remote new home in the mountains, they look for a solution to a weasel infestation.

During a dinner party in a blizzard, a mounting claustrophobia makes way for uneasy dreams. Their conversations often take them in surprising directions, but when one of the men becomes a father, more and more is left unsaid. With emotional acuity and a wry humour, Weasels in the Attic is an uncanny and striking reflection on fertility, masculinity, and marriage in contemporary Japan.

Birnam Wood

International Literature Literature

Eleanor Catton

Allen & Unwin $33.00

Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood.

An undeclared, unregulated, sometimescriminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends. This activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice. For years, the group has struggled to break even.

Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a way to finally set the group up for the long term: a landslide has closed the Korowai Pass, cutting off the town of Thorndike. But Mira is not the only one interested in Thorndike.

Robert Lemoine, the enigmatic American billionaire, is intrigued by Mira and Birnam Wood. But can they trust him enough to work together?

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Fire Rush

Jacqueline Crooks

Random House $33.00

Hello Beautiful

Ann Napolitano

Penguin $33.00

Best friends and sisters, the four Padvano girls are thought of as inseparable by everyone in their close-knit Chicago neighbourhood.

From childhood, the four sisters complete each other. But when the eldest falls in love with William Walters, their lives change.

Spanning decades and generations, this novel captures what it means to be a family - the joy and tragedy, the deep trust and devastating betrayals.

Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends in the industrial town on the outskirts of London where she was born and raised. But everything changes when she meets Moose, the man she falls deeply in love with, and who offers her the chance of freedom and escape. When their relationship is brutally cut short, Yamaye goes on a dramatic journey of transformation that takes her first to Bristol and then to Jamaica, where past and present collide with explosive consequences.

Blue Hunger

Viola di Grado & Jamie Richards

Scribe Pub $28.00

A bold novel about the complexity of impending motherhood

When Xu bites Ruben, when she has her in her teeth, everything is good. In their skyscraper apartment, overlooking Shanghai’s bluetinged, pulsating nightlife, they swallow the little yellow pills that will make all things dangerous feel safe. Xu pushes Ruben to extremes of pleasure and pain that she has never experienced before, to a place where language breaks down and passion becomes consumption. An electrifying descent from loneliness and grief into obsessive, allconsuming love.

The Silence Project

Carole Hailey

‘A triumph.’

HANNAH KENT

‘Feels like listening to your own heartbeat.’

Atlantic $33.00

A M A N DA L O H R E Y

Old God’s Time

‘Magical.’

Sebastian Barry

E L L E N A S AVAG E

‘Masterly.’

RONNIE SCOT T

Faber $33.00 textpublishing.com.au

On Emilia Morris’s thirteenth birthday, her mother Rachel moves into a tent at the bottom of their garden. From that day on, she never says another word. Inspired by her vow of silence, other women join her and together they build the Community. Eight years later, Rachel and her followers burn themselves to death. As a result, the whole world has an opinion about Rachel - whether they see her as a callous monster or a heroic martyr - but Emilia has never voiced hers publicly. Until now.

Retired policeman Tom Kettle is enjoying the quiet of his new home. For months he has barely seen a soul, but his peace is interrupted when two former colleagues turn up at his door to ask questions about a decades-old case. His peace is further disturbed by a young mother and family who move in next door, a woman on the run from her own troubles.

Biography & Memoir

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The Queen’s Wife

Highly Recommended

Joanne Drayton

Penguin $35.00

In 1989, two married women met by chance. They instantly hit it off, but little did they know that their new relationship would turn their lives upside-down. Against the odds, the couple’s new life together became rich in laughter, travel, unusual encounters, investigations into Viking raids, the Kingitanga movement, the death of a New Zealand artist, chicken claws, ghosts, eccentrics and much more. A fascinating read on so many levels.

My Life In France

A Little Give

Marina Benjamin

Scribe $30.00

Julia Child

Duckworth Books $30.00

When Julia Child arrived in Paris in 1948, ‘a six-foot-two-inch, thirty-six-year-old, rather loud and unserious Californian’, she barely spoke a word of French and didn’t know the first thing about cooking. As she fell in love with French culture - buying food at local markets, sampling the local bistros, and taking classes at the Cordon Bleu - her life began to change forever. Bursting with Child’s adventurous and humorous spirit, this memoir captures post-war Paris with wonderful vividness and charm.

Driven

A Stone is Most Precious Where It Belongs Gulchehra Hoja

Little Brown $35.00

Bill Sutcliffe

Allen & Unwin $35.00

Bill Sutcliffe is an ordinary man with an extraordinary story to tell. Coming from a childhood of poverty and abuse, Bill is a remarkable example of how seemingly insurmountable obstacles can be overcome with faith and a belief that anything is possible and achievable. Today, Bill has helped literally thousands of underprivileged Australians find hope with the simple belief that when you realise someone else thinks you have potential, you’ll start believing in yourself. A compelling memoir about the exceptional power of love, forgiveness and encouragement.

Time of Our Lives

Monash Uni Pub $35.00

A powerful and urgent memoir by Uyghur activist Gulchehra Hoja - a remarkable woman who went from being a beloved star on Chinese children’s TV to a journalist whose reporting on the oppression of her people led to her entire extended family being imprisoned. Gulchehra Hoja is a woman who was willing to give up everything for her people. Her memoir takes us far beyond what the Chinese state wants the world to see, to reveal the beauty of East Turkistan and the ancient culture of its people.

A Joyful Life

Rosemary Kariuki & Summer Land

Hardie Grant $35.00

Maggie Kirkman

Presenting the extraordinary lives of ordinary women challenging the stereotype of the helpless old woman who is nothing more than a burden. The first collection of its kind in Australia, it demonstrates the rich lives led by 20 women of diverse backgrounds, all born before 1946 and all of whom have achieved great things in older age. As the generation of Australian women who waved the flag for feminism enter retirement, let’s change the conversation around what it means to be ‘old’. It also gives insights into how to ensure our own lifelong learning and live to the fullest.

In Marina Benjamin’s new set of interlinked essays, she turns her astute eye to the tasks once termed ‘women’s work’. From cooking and cleaning to caring for an ageing relative, this collection depicts domestic life anew- as a site of paradox and conflict, but also of solace and profound meaning. Ultimately, she shows that a woman’s true work may lie at the heart of her humanity, in the pursuit both of transformation and of deep acceptance.

As a child, she survived the first of many predators in her home. As a teen, she survived the first of three infant losses.

In her twenties, she survived years of domestic violence. In her thirties, she survived political unrest and tribal clashes that brought a hammer crashing down on her head. But what makes Rosemary’s journey so remarkable is not just how she survived, but also how she came to find joy.

Taking Sides Sherine Tadros

Scribe $33.00

As a broadcast journalist for Sky News and Al Jazeera, Sherine Tadros was trained to tell only the facts, as dispassionately as possible. But how can you remain neutral when reporting from war zones, or witnessing brutal state repression? With the compassion and verve of a clear-sighted campaigner and a natural storyteller, Tadros shares her remarkable journey from witnessing injustice to fighting it head on in the corridors of power.

The Wilder Aisles Peter May has long been one of my favourite crime writers. I especially enjoyed The Lewis Trilogy and The Enzo Papers. His new book, A Winter Grave, is what is called a stand-alone title. He has written others, not in a series, and I have read some of them, Coffin Road, in particular, stands out.

In this story, we meet Detective Inspector Cameron Brodie. Based in Glasgow, not the sort of cop that I usually meet in the crime novels I read. He is big, rough around the edges, and sometimes quite brutal. As the book opens, Brodie is in court. He has been courtbashing a suspect and is in trouble.

On top of that, he has just had tests for medical problems concerning him. After Brodie is called into the boss’s office, he is told he will not be charged with the offence but will be sent to the north to investigate the death of an investigative journalist. Brodie says he can’t go as he hasn’t received the results of his tests. However, after an event in which he is implicated, Brodie changes his mind about going. Another reason he was reluctant to take the job is because his estranged daughter, Addie, works in a weather station near where the body was found.

In fact, it was Addie who found the body. Addie refused anything to do with Brodie after her mother’s death, which she blames him for. The story of Brodie, Addie and Mel runs through the book, which is sombre. Brodie arrives in the north with a daughter who won’t speak to him, a corpse that has been frozen in an ice shelf, and little does he know, more deaths to come. This is an ecological thriller set in 2051, where warnings of a climate change catastrophe have long been ignored. Don’t let the climate change storyline put you off. It is a great crime story, with a twist at the end which I didn’t see coming, but then again, I usually don’t. If you like this, I suggest The Lewis Trilogy, especially if you long to go to those wonderful islands, which, unfortunately, I will only find on tv and, of course, in books.

Apart from crime, I have just finished reading all the books by Elizabeth Strout, probably best known for her Lucy Barton books. I came across Strout some time ago.

I read Amy and Isabelle, Abide With Me and The Burgess Boys, and then I read Olive Kitteridge, and that was when I discovered how incredibly talented this writer is.

Olive Kitteridge is a wonderful book. I really loved it, and sad to say, I kind of identified with Olive, who really wasn’t a very nice person. I think my favourite Lucy Barton title is Lucy by the Sea, where Lucy is taken by her ex-husband to Maine to escape from the pandemic. During their time away, Lucy discovers that these long quiet days inspire contemplation of the past and looking at the possibilities of the future.

Another title, Anything is Possible, looks at Lucy’s life as a child in Amgash, Illinois. How Lucy survives her terrible home life, her unloving mother, and the lack of any kind of stimulation to become a successful New York Writer is a story of resilience and courage. This book is like a series of short stories, telling of the happenings in the small town in nine chapters. One of the things I like about Strout’s novels is that all her characters have a guest appearance in the books.

There is mention of Olive Kitteridge, who hasn’t changed much, if at all, and Lucy becomes friendly with one of the Burgess boys when staying in Maine. These books have been called small masterpieces, and I couldn’t agree more.

I love smart and consider her books to be treasured, kept, and reread on the day when something special is required.

Strout won the Pulitzer Prize for Olive Kitteridge, which was turned into an award-winning mini-series, and the book topped the New York Times best-seller.

Talk soon, Janice

Crime & True Crime

p. p.10 5 Home

Untamed Shore

Someone has broken into Zoe’s flat. A man she thought she’d never see again.They call him the Hand of God. She thought she’d left him far behind, along with the cult of the Children and their isolated compound Home but now he’s found her, and Zoe realises she must go back with him if she’s to rescue the sister who helped her escape originally. But going back will make her question everything she believed about her past and could also risk her hard-won freedom.

Virdiana spends her days dreaming of romance, travel and of a future beyond the drab town she lives in. So when an opportunity arrives to be the assistant of an American writer, she jumps at the offer, entangling herself in the glamorous foreigners’ lives. It’s not long before Viridiana has some of her own questions about the identities of her new acquaintances. Sharks may be dangerous, but there are worse predators nearby.

Cailean Steed

Bloomsbury $33.00

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Quercus $33.00

The Dead of Winter

How To Kill A Client

Stuart Macbride

Joanna Jenkins

Allen & Unwin $33.00

Gavin Jones is dead at thirty-nine. As an in-house lawyer who controlled millions of dollars in fees per year, he was legal firm Howard Greene’s biggest client and wielded that power with manipulative contempt. But no one liked Gavin. The list of those who suffered from his cruelty was long enough to include pretty much everyone who had contact with him. So who actually killed him?

Random House $33.00

Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder

The Running Club Ali Lowe

Kerryn Mayne

Random House $33.00

Lenny Marks is good at not remembering.

She has spent the last 20 years not thinking about when her mother left. Now thirtyseven, Lenny prefers contentment and order over the unreliability of happiness and the messiness of relationships. Then, out of the blue, a letter arrives from the Adult Parole Board. And when her desperate attempts to ignore it fail, Lenny starts to unravel. Worse, she starts to remember.

It was supposed to be a simple delivery job for DI Victoria Montgomery. Pick up a prisoner from HMP Grampian and take them to their new state-funded home - but life’s never that straightforward. But when the approaching blizzards shut everything down, and an ex-cop-turned-gangster is discovered skinned alive in his bungalow, someone needs to take charge. Something nasty has come to Glenfarach, and Victoria is standing right in its way.

Hodder & Stoughton $33.00

The wealthy community of Esperance is picture-perfect. Big houses, stunning views, beautiful people. A brand new running track for the local club to jog around in the evenings. From the outside, it looks like paradise. But the women of the town know the truth: you can hide anything - from wrinkles to secrets from your past - if you have enough money. You could even hide a murder.

True Crime The Snakehead

The Hard Sell

Patrick Radden Keefe

Evan Hughes

Picador, $37.00

Picador, $37.00

Patrick Radden Keefe investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middleaged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York’s Chinatown managed a multi-million dollar business smuggling people.

He paints a stunning portrait of Sister Ping’s complex empire and a generation of illegal immigrants and the intricate underground economy that sustains and exploits them.

In the early 2000s, John Kapoor had already amassed a small fortune in pharmaceuticals when he founded Insys Therapeutics. A boom time for painkillers, he had developed a novel formulation of fentanyl, the most potent opioid on the market. What follows is the inside story of a band of entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling painkillers - until their scheme unravelled, placing them at the centre of a landmark criminal trial.

Essays & Criticism p. 11 Maus Now

Art Spiegelman & Hilary Chute

Penguin, $50.00 (HC) Maus has shaped the fields of literature, history, and art, and enlivened our collective sense of what these practices can accomplish. Collecting responses to the work that confirm its unique and terrain-shifting status, this collection sees various writers approaching the complexity of Maus from a wide range of viewpoints and traditions.

On Animals Susan Orlean

Atlantic, $23.00

'One of the best Australian legal thrillers in years.'

Aoife Clifford PUBLISHING MARCH

Since the age of six, Susan Orlean has been drawn to stories about how we live with animals, and how they abide by us. Now, in this collection of stories she examines animal-human relationships through the compelling tales she has written over the course of her celebrated career. Equal parts delightful, profound, and enriched by Orlean’s stylish prose and precise research.

Map Reading

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Bloomsbury, $23.00

Stories you won’t be able to put down . . .

‘Writing’ is the lecture of the Nobel Laureate in Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah. Collected here with three further essays, it explores his coming-of-age, his early experiences in 1960s Britain, his lifelong love affair with reading, and the power of writing to subvert the stories that have been handed to us. Generous, funny and wise, this collection is the perfect introduction to the storyteller described as ‘one of Africa’s most important living writers’.

On Women Susan Sontag

Bloomsbury, $30.00 (HC)

The Mother Wound Amani Haydar

Dirt Town Hayley Scrivenor

'A magnificent and devastating work of art.'

Bri Lee

'Masterful. Australian crime has a new star.'

Chris Hammer

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A brilliant new collection of essays on the oppression of women and the tools necessary for liberation from highlyacclaimed author Susan Sontag. First written in the 1970s during the height of second-wave feminism, this collection of lost essays examines the ‘biological division of labour’, the double standard for ageing and the struggle for real power, topics which are strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations.

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Australian & Aboriginal Studies The Secret Code-Breakers of Central Bureau

The One Thing We’ve Never Spoken About

David Dufty

Elfy Scott

Bloomsbury $33.00

Journalist Elfy Scott grew up in a household where her mother’s schizophrenia was rarely, if ever, spoken about. Part memoir, part deep-dive investigation, this book is filled with rage at how our nation’s public discourse, emergency services and healthcare systems continue to fail so many people. It is also a work of care, telling the little-heard stories of people who live with these conditions and work at the front lines of mental health.

Scribe Pub $38.00

Smashing Serendipity

Cloud Land

Penny Van Oosterzee

Allen & Unwin $35.00

Wreathed in morning mist, the rainforest is a place where evolution and legend rule.

After bitterly fought battles against logging, much of Australia’s remaining wet tropical rainforest is now World Heritage-listed and is once again being managed by Traditional Owners. Will the unique capacity of these rainforests to counteract climate change be their salvation, or will they continue to be vulnerable to exploitation for short-term gain? A delightful and urgent read.

Gigorou

Sasha Kutabah Sarago

Pantera Press $35.00

Gigorou (jig-goo-roo) means ‘beauty’ or ‘beautiful’ in Jirrbal, the language of Sasha Kutabah Sarago’s grandmother. Growing up, Sasha didn’t feel gigorou. At a young age, she was told, ‘You’re too pretty to be Aboriginal’. In this intimately fierce, funny and reflective book, Sasha retraces her footsteps as a beauty assistant, model and magazine editor to find the answers she’s searching for.

O’Leary of the Underworld

Louise K. Hansen

Life is tough for the Connell family, growing up in a small town where racist attitudes, discrimination and violence against Aboriginal people are commonplace.

Lavinia is lucky that her parents ensure her family stays together while other cousins and friends are removed from the state. In Fremantle Press time, Lavinia will find herself a homeless $33.00 young widow, stripped of hope when her own four children are taken away. But she has a way of righting herself, using education and determination to bring her small family back together, and finding love when she least expects it.

Tanya Plibersek: On Her Own Terms Margaret Simons

Black Inc. $35.00

Kate Auty

La Trobe Uni Press $35.00

In June 1926, a posse of police officers and white civilians murdered at least twenty Oombulgurri people. After the massacre, a conspiracy of silence descended. One of the massacre’s perpetrators was Bernard O’Leary, a former soldier whose land holding was known as ‘the underworld’.

In this electric prose, Auty depicts O’Leary as a merciless killer, while the apparatus that concealed his crimes is portrayed with great realism and clarity. The book exposes the injustices embedded in Australian settlement history, and the culture of denial that has prevented truth-telling in this country.

Central Bureau - Australia’s own large and sophisticated intelligence network, built from scratch. A groundbreaking work of military history, this publication gives these talented and dedicated individuals their due at last. It is a rich account of the shadowy side of military strength and of the men and women whose work was, in the words of the US navy, of ‘immeasurable importance in the successful prosecution’ of the Pacific War.

Elected to federal parliament aged just twenty-eight, Tanya Plibersek has lived almost half her life in the public eye - and is the longest-serving woman in Australia’s House of Representatives. But how much do we know about what drives her, what she values, and what we can expect from her next? Margaret Simons draws on exclusive interviews with Plibersek, her political contemporaries, family and close friends to trace the personal and political strands of this modern Australian story.

Australian Foreign Affairs 17: Grit By China Jonathan Pearlman

Penguin $25.00

The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the growing rivalry and increasing tension in the Pacific as it becomes a stage for a great-power contest to gain influence and a strategic position in the region. It looks at the challenges for Canberra as it seeks to strengthen ties with Pacific island countries and to counter moves by China to extend its reach into the waters off northern Australia.

Defeating the Dictators Charles Dunst

Hodder & Stoughton $35.00

The world is currently experiencing the lowest levels of democracy we have seen in over thirty years. Autocracy is on the rise, and while the cost of autocracy seems evident, it nevertheless remains an attractive option to many. Charles Dunst’s excellent book tells us how we can defeat the dictators, strengthen democracies, and build a better future for generations to come. People everywhere who care about freedom should read this book and implement what the author recommends.

The Private Life of Spies Alexander McCall Smith

Little Brown $35.00

During WW2 there was a rumour that German spies were landing by parachute in Britain, dressed as nuns. Conradin Muller was an unusual spy. He was recruited in Hamburg much against his will, and sent on his first, and only, mission that year.

He failed to send a single report back to Germany, and when the War came to an end in May 1945, he fell to his knees and wept with relief. From a highly reluctant German spy who is drawn to an East Anglian nunnery as his only means of escape, to the Cambridge spy ring’s adventures with a Russian dwarf, these are Alexander McCall Smith’s intriguing and typically inventive stories from the world of espionage.

No Choice

Becca Andrews

Orion $33.00

On Friday 24 June 2022, women’s rights suffered an extraordinary and unprecedented blow. Five US Supreme Court justices made a decision that will impact millions of lives for years to come. In this gripping blend of reportage and history, journalist Becca Andrews tells the story how we have arrived at this devastating turning point. The book also profiles the people who are doing ground-breaking, inspiring work to ensure safe, legal access to this fundamental part of healthcare.

Empress of the Nile Lynne Olson

Scribe Pub $37.00

In the 1960s, the world’s attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time to save a dozen ancient Egyptian temples from drowning in the floodwaters of the gigantic new Aswan High Dam. However, without Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, a feisty French archaeologist, the task would’ve been impossible. Refusing to be cowed by anyone or anything, she helped preserve a crucial part of its cultural heritage, and, just as importantly, made sure it remained in its homeland. This is her story.

History & Politics p. 13 Women in White Coats Olivia Campbell

Swift Press, $35.00 In the early 1800s, women were dying in large numbers from treatable diseases because they avoided receiving medical care. Examinations performed by male doctors were often demeaning and even painful. Motivated by personal loss and frustration over inadequate medical care, Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Sophia Jex-Blake fought for a woman’s place in the maledominated medical field. Together these women built women-run hospitals and teaching colleges - creating for the first time medical care for women by women.

Red Memory Tania Branigan

Faber, $33.00 More than fifty years on, the Cultural Revolution’s scar runs through the heart of Chinese society, and through the souls of its citizens. Tania Branigan came to realise that this brutal and turbulent decade continues to propel and shape China to this day. Yet official suppression and personal trauma have conspired in national amnesia: it exists, for the most part, as an absence. This book explores the stories of those who are driven to confront the era, fearing or yearning its return. What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over?

Nuclear Folly Serhii Plokhy

Penguin, $33.00 For more than four weeks in the autumn of 1962 the world teetered. The consequences of a misplaced step during the Cuban Missile Crisis could not have been more grave. Ash and cinder, famine and fallout; nuclear war between the two most-powerful nations on Earth. Now, Serhii Plokhy tells the riveting story of those weeks, tracing the tortuous decisionmaking and calculated brinkmanship of John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, and of their advisors and commanders on the ground. Authoritative, fast-paced and unforgettable, this is the definitive new account of the Cold War’s most perilous moment.

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Science & Technology Nuts and Bolts

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Hodder & Stoughton, $35.00

Shield Maiden

Roma Agrawal

Modern technology seems mindbogglingly complex. But beneath the surface, it can be beautifully simple. In her work, Roma Agrawal deconstructs our most complex feats of engineering into seven fundamental inventions.

Together, they have enabled humanity to see the invisible, build the spectacular, communicate across vast distances, and even escape our planet. The nuts and bolts that make up our world may be tiny, and are often hidden, but they’ve changed our lives in dramatic ways.

Sharon Emmerichs

Bloomsbury $33.00

Frya has grown up hearing tales of her uncle, King Beowulf, and his spectacular defeat of the monstrous Grendel. Her one desire is to become a shield maiden in her own right, but a terrible accident during her childhood has thwarted this dream. However, when something threatens the safety of Frya’s entire clan and her own life, Frya resolves to fight for her people no matter the cost. As a queen should. As a shield maiden would.

And as the perilous situation worsens, Frya’s powers seem only to grow stronger.

Anaximander

No Gods, No Monsters

Penguin, $30.00

One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother has been shot and killed

by Boston cops. But what looks like a case of police brutality soon reveals something much stranger. Monsters are real. And they want everyone to know it. As creatures from myth and legend come out of the shadows, seeking safety through visibility, their emergence sets off a chain of seemingly unrelated events. At the centre is a mystery no one thinks to ask: Why now? What has frightened the monsters out of the dark?

The world will find out soon.

Cadwell Turnbull

Carlo Rovelli

Over two millennia ago, a Greek philosopher had a number of wondrous insights that paved a new way of seeing the world. Anaximander’s legacy includes the revolutionary idea that the earth floats in a void, and that universal laws govern all phenomena. In this elegant work, acclaimed physicist Carlo Rovelli brings to light the importance of Anaximander’s overlooked legacy to modern science. This book celebrates the radical lack of certainty that defines the scientific quest for knowledge.

Titan Books $22.00

Queer Little Nightmares

The Earth Transformed

David Ly & Daniel Zomparelli

Peter Frankopen

Bloomsbury, $40.00 Historian Peter Frankopan shows that engagement with the natural world and with climatic change and their effects on us are not new. Understanding how past shifts in natural patterns have shaped history, and how our own species have shaped terrestrial, marine and atmospheric conditions is not just important but essential at a time of growing awareness of the severity of the climate crisis.

Arsenal Pulp Press $30.00

If This Book Exists, You’re in the Wrong Universe

One Medicine

David Wong

Dr Matt Morgan

Simon & Schuster, $35.00 Animal science has so much to teach us about human medicine. Better shared understanding of how our species coexists with millions of others can lead to untold medical advances, help both humans and animals and improve the world for all creatures from single-celled bacteria to a 30,000 kg whale. Who knows, maybe a kiss from a frog will save your life?

In this collection creatures of myth and folklore seek belonging and intimate connection, cryptids challenge their outcast status, and classic movie monsters explore the experience of coming into queerness.

The characters in these stories and poems relish their new sparkle in the spotlight.

Pushing against tropes that have historically been used to demonize, the queer creators of this collection instead ask: What does it mean to be (and to love) a monster?

Titan Pub $23.00

If the broken neon signs, shuttered storefronts, and sub-standard housing didn’t tip you off, you’ve just wandered into the city of ‘Undisclosed’. You don’t want to be caught dead here, because odds are you just might find yourself rising from the grave.

That’s where Dave, John, and Amy come in.

They face supernatural threats so the rest of us don’t have to. But soon, our trio realises that this apocalypse is way above their pay grade.

gleebooks favourites

Food, Health & Gardening

Bowlful

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Norman Musa

HarperCollins $45.00 HC

Born in Penang, chef and author Norman Musa has spent much of his life exploring the cultures and cuisines of South East Asia, picking up recipes and inspiration along the way. Bowlful is the distillation of many years of travel and a celebration of the economical, vibrant and deliciously simple bowl food from these regions. From crisp and zingy salads to fresh and comforting rice bowls and tangles of tasty noodles, as well as plant-based bowls and stir fries, Bowlful will satisfy all your cravings.

In Belinda’s Kitchen Belinda Jeffery

There are several things you can be sure of when cooking with Belinda Jeffery. Her food will be mouth-wateringly good, her flavours simple and fresh, and her recipes never fail. These are the essential dishes Belinda makes time and again – recipes that tell stories of family and friendship and hold Simon & Schuster a special place in her heart. With Belinda’s $50.00 wise and warm encouragement, this book is HC just like having her by your side in your own kitchen.

Tekebash and Saba

Unprocessed

Kimberley Wilson We all know that as a nation our mental health is in crisis. But what most don’t know is that a critical ingredient in this debate, and a crucial part of the solution - what we eat - is being ignored. In this eye-opening and impassioned book, psychologist Kimberley Wilson draws on startling new Random House research - as well as her own work in prisons, $35.00 schools and hospitals around the country to reveal the role of food and nutrients in brain development and mental health.

12 Weeks to a Sharper You Dr Sanjay Gupta

Headline $33.00

Saba Alemayoh

Murdoch $45.00 HC

A celebration of the food of Ethiopia’s northernmost state Tigray, interweaved with the compelling story of author Saba Alemayoh and her mother Tekebash Gebre, who came to Australia as refugees and have nurtured a connection to their beloved homeland through shared recipes and rituals. It’s their story, and it’s Saba’s tribute. But it will also resonate with anyone who knows the unceasing pull of a distant homeland and the comfort of its food.

28 Days to Gut Health

Clemence Cleave & Giovanna Torrico

Smith Street Books $30.00

Our physical and mental well-being are closely connected to our digestive system.

Whether you’d like to learn about the science behind your digestive system, understand which foods do wonders for your digestion, or want to make healthier choices for your body, this book can help you take a deep dive into the secrets of your gut and learn how food and lifestyle can keep it happy!

More than 90 easy recipes, including drinks, snacks and basics. Important nutritional advice to help your gut’s microbiome flourish. Comprehensive shopping lists for each week, for 28 full days of recipes.

Chief CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta helped countless readers keep their brains sharp and effortlessly productive sing his 12-week program. It will help you feel less anxious, sleep better, improve energy, think more clearly, and become more resilient to daily stress. Full of tips, quotations, and prompts, this is the only guide you’ll need to keep your brain young and healthy at any age.

Terrain

Melissa Lowrie

Workman $60.00 HC

Terrain’s plant experts travel the world in search of the most unusual and interesting houseplants. In this inspiring and practical guide, they share their favourite specimens.

Along the way, Terrain introduces their favourite independent growers – passionate plant lovers who are creating new hybrids and bringing back old-school specimens to the market. A fresh approach for fans of houseplants.

Venetian Gardens

Monty Don & Derry Moore Few world cities hold the romance and historical sweep of Venice. Thousands visit every year - and a mixture of crowds and climate leave it vulnerable, so much so it is often said to be in danger of sinking - but away from the usual tourist haunts around St. Mark’s square are exceptional hidden Random House treasures, some 500 gardens, many of them $85.00 with fascinating stories. Join Monty Don, HC on his historic journey through the most stunning gardens of Venice and the Veneto.

The Dully Dispatch It’s all sunshine and rainbows in Dulwich Hill as we proudly celebrate World Pride, Mardi Gras and our fabulous community of readers. Queer literature, graphic novels, history, politics, art, fashion, games – we’ve got your rainbow needs covered at Dully. February and March are also wonderful months for new-release books. So, what are we reading?

Soren just read Different for Boys by Patrick Ness, a gorgeous coming-of-age novella. “It sits alongside The Rest of Us Just Live Here in terms of being a very meta, tongue-in-cheek critique of young adult book conventions. Clever combinations of text, images and omitted text - not like anything I’ve seen for teen readers.” Soren also read Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention by Johann Hari. “This bestseller hardly needs my recommendation, but as someone who rarely reads non-fiction, I read this in three days straight and would recommend it to everyone.”

Zara devoured The Things We Do To Our Friends by Heather Derwent. “This is a dazzling story about friendship and power. When Clare starts at Edinburgh University, she finds herself drawn to a glamorous group of students - but what is the cost of winning them over, and what secrets of her own is she keeping?”

She also enjoyed The Heroines by Laura Shepperson, “a timely feminist retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra about rape in ancient Athens.” Zara is currently reading The Witches of Vardo by Anya Bergman, which follows the 17thcentury witch trials in Norway and Denmark through several fictional women. “This book is a gorgeously immersive read, full of icy tundras, northern lights and magic!”

Morgan recommends Still Pictures: on Photography and Memory by Janet Malcolm. “This is a brief but beautiful posthumous memoir. Using family photos and other images as her starting point, Malcolm takes the reader through her childhood in Prague and New York and on to her life as one of the most admired non-fiction writers of the 20th century (her most famous book being The Journalist and the Murderer). As with all of Malcolm’s writing, every word counts. A delight for Malcolm fans.”

Letitia stayed up far too late ripping through Deepti Kapoor’s novel, Age of Vice. “This is a big, extraordinary tale of power and corruption in modern India. Kapoor’s writing is masterful and gripping - I ached for some characters, railed against others and was held in this book’s grip from start to finish. A must-read.”

Letitia also recommends Return to Valetto by Australian author Dominic Smith. “Dominic’s research on abandoned villages of Italy pays off in this wonderful novel. Almost operatic in feel, generational secrets and stories are revealed when villagers return to an Italian village for a birthday celebration Evocative and original - salute!”

For primary-aged readers, Letitia recommends new Australian novel, Queenie in Seven Moves by Zanni Louise.

“Queenie is a wonderful character facing tricky situations and learning about herself along the way. This book has all the feelings - highly recommended.”

If you’re looking for escapist horror (not too scary and with some laughs), Dasha recommends Grady Hendrix and his books, How to Sell a Haunted House, Horrorstör (a haunted IKEA store!) and - wait for it - My Best Friend’s Exorcism (come for the frights, stay for the 1980s music and film references).

Meanwhile, Kelly is reading Robert Jordan’s fantasy classic Eye of the World (Book One in the Wheel of Time series). She says Jordan’s descriptions of the characters’ costumes are just as impressive as his magic systems and world-building. 5 stars!

And finally, fans of Irish literature will be delighted to hear that Sebastian Barry has a new novel out in March, Old God’s Time. Retired police officer Tom Kettle is living a very quiet (isolated) life when officers from his old command come knocking. What can we say? You’ll be hanging on to every stunning word...

See you in the shop soon, friends.

The Dully Team

The Big Con

Culture Studies & Philosophy

Mariana Mazzucato & Rosie Collington

Penguin $35.00

There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and hollowed-out, risk-averse governments and shareholder value-maximizing firms. Mazzucato and Collington show that our economies’ reliance on consulting companies stunts innovation, obfuscates corporate and political accountability and impedes our collective mission of halting climate breakdown. With a wealth of original research, they argue brilliantly for investment and collective intelligence within all organisations and communities, and for a new system in which public and private sectors work radically for the common good.

Gen F’d?

Alison Pennington

Hardie Grant $25.00

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gleebooks favourites Ghosts of the Orphanage

Christine Kenneally

Hachette $35.00

Economist Alison Pennington shows how the most educated generation in Australia’s history stands to be the first generation worse off than their parents, and gives young people the tools to create the change we need. Against the backdrop of global warming and pandemic, young people have inherited a dysfunctional economy that consumes their futures. Gen F’d? plots a path forward for Australians to reactivate our democracy and create a new economy that provides hope and opportunity for all.

Pegasus

Laurent Richard & Sandrine Rigaud

This Won’t Hurt Dr Marieke Bigg

Hodder & Stoughton $35.00

The vast majority of medicines and treatments that we use today were designed for, and by, men and the myth that medicine is genderneutral has had terrible repercussions for women. Dr Marieke Bigg takes a deep dive into all the ways medicine is not gender neutral, using stories and experiences to demonstrate how these flawed mindsets have paved the way for sub-par treatment, and how prevailing attitudes in a patriarchal world can have unexpected effects far downstream.

PanMacmillan $37.00

Dina Nayeri

John Potts

Uni of Toronto Press $60.00

Pegasus is almost certainly the most powerful piece of spyware ever developed. Installed by as little as a missed WhatsApp call, once on your phone it can record your calls, copy your messages, steal your photos and secretly film you. Those that control it can find out your daily movements: exactly where you’ve been, and who you’ve met. The personal data of the victims is captured by their own governments, foreign governments and even by private criminal enterprises. This book investigates how people’s lives and privacy are being threatened as cyber-surveillance occurs with exponentially increasing frequency across the world, at a sweep and scale that astounds – and horrifies.

Who Gets Believed?

The Near-Death of the Author In the modern world of networked digital media, authors must navigate many challenges. Most pressingly, the illegal downloading and streaming of copyright material on the internet deprives authors of royalties, and in some cases it has discouraged creativity or terminated careers.

Exploring technology’s impact on the status and idea of authorship in today’s world, Potts’ worrk reveals the many obstacles facing contemporary authors ultimately concluding that network culture has provoked the neardeath, but not the death, of the author.

A shocking expose of the dark, secret history of Catholic orphanages - the violence, abuse, and even murder that took place within their walls - and a call to hold the powerful to account. Centering on St. Joseph’s, a Catholic orphanage in Vermont, Kenneally investigates and shares the stories of survivors. She has fought to expose the truth and hold the powerful - many of them Catholic priests and nuns - to account. And it is working. It is not only a gripping story but a reckoning. It is proof that real evil lurks at the edges of our society, and that, if we have the courage, we can bring it into the light and defeat it.

Random House $35.00

Dina Nayeri’s wide-ranging, groundbreaking new book, combines deep reportage with her own life experience to examine what constitutes believability. Intent on exploring ideas of persuasion and performance, Nayeri takes us behind the scenes in emergency rooms, corporate boardrooms, asylum interviews and into her own family, to ask - where lies the difference between being believed and being dismissed? What does this mean for our culture? An essential read, this book investigates the unspoken social codes that determine how we relate to one another.

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Kids Ratbags: Naughty for Good

Goldfish-Finger

Let’s face it - rats are mischief.

Rats are rule-breakers. Rats are ratbags. They’re all the same. All, that is, except Jigsaw. Will his newfound pizza obsession make Jigsaw the naughtiest Ratbag yet?

Or will Jigsaw figure out how to be naughty - for good?!

Tim Harris & Shiloh Gordon (ill)

Abrams, $15.00

James Foley

Scholastic, $16.00

Max is a mole on a mission.

With Helen Hippo and June Bug by his side, Max must stop the evil Goldfish-Finger from stealing a priceless, solid gold fishfinger. This dangerous and top-secret mission will involve explosions, a naked mole rat, and being flushed down a giant toilet.

The Wolves of Greycoat Hall Lucinda Gifford

Walker, $17.00

Out in March!

Early Readers

Boris is attending the Institute of International Excellence, a fancy Swiss boarding school.

Although worried about being the only wolf, and having to navigate around the rude vice principal, he quickly makes friends, learns how to “log in” and heli-board, and has plentiful supply of cake, Boris can’t shake the idea that something funny is going on.

The Isabelle Stories

The Big Mess

Lothian, $15.00

Hardie Grant, $10.00

Six-year-old Isabelle doesn’t have any brothers or sisters. But she does have her dad, her cat Steve, her friend Harry B, and her baby cousin, Bibi, who she’s very good at looking after. And then along comes Isobel, a new girl at school.

They have the same name, but will they be friends?

Jack is a friendly, everyday kid who loves playing soccer and always tries to be brave. He’s filming a cooking show with his best friend Billie. But what will happen if he messes everything up?

Follow Jack on a fun new adventure that kids will love and relate to.

Jane Godwin & Robin Cowcher (ill)

Ki d s’ N on-Fic

Sally Rippin & Stephanie Spartels (ill)

Calling all of our bookworms to share their favourite reads! We want to feature more of our wonderful book clubbers in our Gleaner magazine, so if you’ve got a book you’d love to review or if you want to write about an author visit, send us an email on rachel@gleebooks.com.au! We have exciting giveaways waiting for you!

India, Incredible India

Jasbinder Bilan & Nina Charkrabarti (ill)

Walker, $33.00 A joyful celebration of India and its incredible people, places and wildlife.

Watch elephants bathing from a houseboat in Kerala, marvel at ancient cave paintings in Bhimbetka, wander through Delhi’s bustling streets, and ride a train through the snow-capped peaks of the Himalaya. Journey through India and explore its incredible diversity!

Pollination

Christopher Cheng & Danny Snell (ill)

CSIRO, $25.00 A child’s day in the garden with their Gran and Pa leads to a wonderful exploration of pollination. Join them in discovering how pollination happens in our gardens and the importance it has for our environment. Meet the animals involved in pollination and the plants that depend on pollination to produce our fruit, vegetables and even our clothes!

Picture Books Ages 2 - 5

Children’s Fiction Ages 8 - 12

Timeless

Friday Barnes: Last Chance

Fremantle Press, $25.00

Penguin, $17.00

Kelly Canby

Emit is surrounded by busyness.

Everyone around him is always busy.

Emit tries everything he can think of to get more time, he tries to catch it, wait for it, but it’s not until Emit tries to buy some time that he learns the secret which is, if you want time, you have to make it.

Pocket Treasure

Wenda Shurety & Juliana Oakley (ill)

Affirm, $20.00

Allira ‘s favourite dress has pockets that are perfect for holding all her little treasures. But when Allira needs to decorate her teacher’s birthday surprise, she finds her pockets are empty! Allira might have given all her treasures away, but she has good friends who can come to the rescue.

The Cockatoo Wars

Helen Milroy

Magabala Books, $25.00

In this fourth book in the Tales from the Bush Mob series, you will meet the cockatoo clans who are too busy fighting to notice when a huge fire breaks out. Luckily two mother cockatoos and their sons seek help from the Bush Mob Council.

Everyone works together to save the ancient forest and finally there is peace among the cockatoos.

Lost

Mariajo Ilustrajo

Quarto, $25.00

The story of a polar bear who finds himself lost, in a big concrete city. He politely asks the city folk for help but everyone is much too busy. He finds himself travelling on the subway only to be noticed, finally by a little girl who takes him under her innocent wing. A story about the power friendship has to help you feel found, and even to transport you home.

Hope Is The Thing

Johanna Bell & Erica Wagner

A&U Children, $25.00

Sparked by the Emily Dickinson poem ‘Hope is the thing with feathers’, this is a highly original, beautiful and deeply meaningful picture book that sees the marvellous and inspiring world of birds through the eyes of a child and celebrates birds’ adaptability and ingenuity.

R.A. Spratt

Crime is afoot in the city of love!

Someone stole the Mona Lisa. Okay, it was over a hundred years ago, but a recently uncovered letter reveals that the thief forged a copy. That means that the painting in the Louvre now is a fake. Now it’s upto Friday Barnes to uncover the truth - and the real painting! As she watches the comings and goings of France’s most famous art gallery, she sees some very strange things. Friday soon discovers that the Paris art scene is a hotbed of crime.

Odder Katherine Applegate & Charles Santoso (ill)

Welbeck, $15.00 Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practising her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she’s known.

She’s a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-toface with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself - and about the humans who hope to save her.

The Glow

Sofie Laguna & Marc McBride (ill)

A&U, $17.00 A strange glow from phone screens leaves everyone in town immobilised - except for besties Megan & Li. They are initially frightened and alarmed, but when they realise they are somehow immune, they set out to seek help.

Soon a battle unfolds, a thrilling battle that pits all of their creative energies against the terrible monster that has ensnared everyone else around them.

Queenie in Seven Moves Zannie Louise

Walker, $17.00 To Queenie, home is Peachy, the little house where she’s lived forever. But when she and her mum have to leave Peachy, Queenie discovers that home isn’t a place at all. It’s making new friends and reconnecting with old ones, letting yourself be uncomfortable, and finding the courage to share your song with the world. A sensitive, timely story addressing loss and belonging.

Teen Fiction & YA

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Promise Boys

Graphic Novels

Nick Brooks

Pan Macmillan $23.00

The Urban Promise Prep School vows to turn boys into men. As students, J.B., Ramón, and Trey are forced to follow the prestigious “program’s” strict rules.

Extreme discipline, they’ve been told, is what it takes to be college bound, to avoid the fates of many men in their neighborhoods. This, the Principal Moore Method, supposedly saves lives.

But when Moore ends up murdered and the cops come sniffing around, the trio emerges as the case’s prime suspects. With all three maintaining their innocence, they must band together to track down the real killer before they are arrested. But is the true culprit hiding among them? This exquisitely taut thriller shines a glaring light on how the system too often condemns Black and Latinx teen boys to failure before they’ve even had a chance at success. (12+)

Catfish Rolling Clara Kumagai

Bloomsbury $18.00

Sora hates the catfish whose rolling caused an earthquake so powerful it cracked time itself. It destroyed her home and took her mother. Now Sora and her scientist father live close to the zones the wild and abandoned places where time runs faster or slower than normal.

Sora is sensitive to these shifts, and her father recruits her help in exploring these liminal spaces. But it’s dangerous there and as she strays further inside in search of her mother, she finds that time distorts, memories fracture and shadows, a glimmer of things not entirely human, linger. After Sora’s father goes missing, she has no choice but to venture into uncharted spaces within the time zones to find him, her mother and perhaps even the catfish itself. (12+)

Two Can Play That Game Leanne Yong

Allen & Unwin $20.00

Sam Khoo has one goal in life: create cool indie games. All she needs to make it happen is a super-rare ticket to a game design workshop and she can kickstart her career. So when Jay Chua, aka Jerky McJerkface, sneakily grabs the last ticket, it’s war. Sam issues him an ultimatum: put the ticket on the line in a 1v1 competition of classic video games, or she’ll broadcast his duplicity to everyone. Sam and Jay connect despite themselevs, but when her dream is under threat, will she discover that there is more than one way to win? (12+)

Besties Work it Out

Kayla Miller, Jeffrey Canino & Kristina Luu (ill)

Walker $18.00

Meet Beth and Chanda, two stylish best friends on their way to building their fashion empire! An unexpected business opportunity presents itself when the girls are asked to dogsit at Ms Langford’s luxurious house while she’s away, but it quickly turns into a disaster after an accident leaves one of Ms Langford’s prized possessions in pieces! Now Beth and Chanda have to take on as many odd jobs as they can in order to afford a replacement. Car washing, book sales, interior decorating – you name it, Beth and Chanda are there! Will they be able to patch up their mistake in time? (Ages 8-12)

Reid All About It Mensun Bound – The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance. Pb. $37.00.

On 21 November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, trapped in Antarctic pack ice for nine months, finally sank to the bottom of the Weddell Sea. On 5 March 2022, Endurance was rediscovered at a depth of 3,000 metres.

She had waited some 38,328 days. The three-masted, wooden vessel was intact, upright on the seabed in an astonishingly well-preserved state. The author, a marine archaeologist and expedition director, gives an exciting and informative account. It was complemented by Frank Hurley’s original 1914-15 photographs from the wreck.

Earl Swift - Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings. HC. $53.00.

Just over 50 years ago - on 12 December 1972 - the Apollo 17 Lunar Rover – driven by astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt, came to a halt at Nansen - Apollo Crater [Moon Coordinates 20.11°N 30.53°E]. As they gathered soil samples - at 7.6km from their Lunar Module - our species reached its outermost limits of human travel. The final three Apollo moon missions [15,16, and 17] have long been overshadowed by the glory of Apollo 11 and the rescue and return of Apollo 13. These space pioneers now have the vivid and fascinating narrative that their extraordinary achievements deserve. They represent the pinnacle of human space exploration until we land on Mars.

Simon Morrison – Mirror in the Sky: The Life and Music of Stevie Nicks. HC. $40.95.

The death of singer Christine McVie in November 2022 brings the [for me] melancholy realisation that – after 45 years - this may spell the end of the British – US band Fleetwood Mac. Although with this protean musical outfit, one is never entirely sure. That said, this study of the life and musical legacy of McVie’s “soul sister”, Stevie Nicks - by a Princeton Professor of Music, no less - and author of earlier works on Russian Ballet and the composer Prokofiev – arrives at a very opportune time.

Sebastian Payne - The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Full Story. Pb. $37.00.

“Hasta la Vista, Baby!” In July 2022, this final sign-off concluded Boris Johnson’s turbulent three-year, 44-day [2019-2022] British Prime Ministership. A celebrity politician who had planned a 10-year dynasty in power was brought undone by numerous scandals, most notably the COVID lockdown breach dubbed “Partygate”, which saw him fined by the police. Other sins were a chaotic method of governing, “blagging his way through”, lack of attention to detail, miscommunication and no real support.

Despite Johnson’s electoral success and his “getting Brexit done” mantra, once divisions within the government spread to the Cabinet, he was doomed. A lively and detailed account of a Prime Ministership that was always destined – the author suggests - to come to a sticky end.

Niki Savva – Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise. Pb. $29.99.

Contrary to revenge traditionally being a dish served cold, Niki Savva’s merciless dissection of Scott Morrison - the Prime Minister, his personality, his decaying government, its electoral demise and the advent of Anthony Albanese is served up piping hot. She despises Morrison - “a deeply flawed personality, a duplicitous, damaged leader with limited horizons and appalling judgment” - as well as the current right-wing populist complexion of the Liberal Party. Morrison’s political decline is contrasted with a professional Labor Party campaign that learnt from the mistakes of 2019 and was united with a single-minded pursuit of power.

Her unrivalled access to Canberra insiders and gossip makes this a detailed, compelling narrative.

Until next time, Stephen

Performing Arts & Poetry

p. p.22 5

The Dialectic of Creativity

Colours of Film

Quarto $45.00

Charles Bramesco

Various Authors

The use of colour is an essential part of film. It has the power to evoke powerful emotions, provide subtle psychological symbolism and act as a narrative device. In this book, Charles Bramesco introduces an element of cinema that is often overlooked, yet has been used in extraordinary ways.

Using infographic colour palettes, and stills from the movies, this is a lively and fresh approach to film for cinema-goers and colour lovers.

Why are we creative? Why are we not?

Hermann Vaske explores these questions in conversations with the most influential creatives of our time, identifying the stimuli as well as the beta blockers, the killers of creativity. Often it is those very blockages, the threats to creativity that allow it to thrive.

A dialectical synthesis of opposites. Today, as we are facing an existential threat to our planet, it is time to come up with new ideas, more creative than ever.

Hatje Cantz Verlag $55.00

Frank

Astonish Me!

Jordie Albiston has combined daily snapshots from Australian photographic pioneer Frank Hurley’s Antarctic diaries into a moving poetry collage. This volume, comprising about 120 poems, offers a portrait of Hurley as photographer and as man, at the end of the heroic era of exploration. Albiston explores the idea that historical narratives can yield a strange and unexpected power when subjected to the pressures of poetic form, and in this way she brings Hurley’s thoughts and actions to life in a manner never seen before.

Dominic Dromgoole has created a radical and fresh canon. He begins in New York in 1963, as Lorraine Hansberry remakes American theatre And then, as the lights go up, we find ourselves in Renaissance Florence, watching Michelangelo’s David being hauled into the Piazza della Signoria.

It tells of times when ‘the air between people seems to alter’ as art achieves profound change. An adrenaline-charged rollercoaster through history’s seismic first nights, exploring how individual artists can change and shape the story of culture.

Jordie Albiston

National Library of Australia $30.00

Dominic Dromgoole

Profile Books $40.00

Princesse de Clèves

On Sun Swallowing

It might be that Madame de Lafayette’s novel of passion is one of the greatest in the genre. It has generated in John Watson a response in iambics, which seem in English the only way this expressive grandeur can be attempted. Watson has in the past been drawn similarly to the ancient texts of Daphnis and Chloe and Tristan, where passion is also the currency. The Princesse de Cleves may well be his most sustained success.

A sweet and bloody collection of poetry, dancing in the spaces between skinned knees and red wine, satin and switchblades, rosaries and Dionysian ecstasy. Warren’s writings are haunted by the ghosts of girlhood, god/s, lovers and the landscape of childhood, but Warren is unflinching - she haunts her ghosts in return, with sharp lyricism and cutthroat vulnerability.

It explores shadowy emotion, at times in a whisper, at times in a scream.

John Watson

Puncher & Wattman $25.00

Dakota Warren

Pure Nowhere $24.00

Highly Recommended NANGAMAY dream MANA gather DJURALI grow

The Book of Falling David McCooey

Alison Whittaker & Steven Lindsay Ross

Blackbooks $23.00

A ground-breaking collection of First Nations Australia LGBTQIA+ poets, writers and storytellers published to commemorate Sydney WorldPride being held on the unceded lands of the Gadigal, Cammeraygal, Bidigal, Dharawal and Dharug Nations. Edited by Alison Whitaker, Gomeroi poet and academic, and Steven Lindsay Ross, Wamba Wamba writer, curator and producer.

Black Inc $25.00

To fall is to be human. We fall in love, fall asleep, and fall from grace. And in this epoch that we have called the Anthropocene, we are witnessing nothing less than the fall of nature. This extraordinary collection, covers the full tragicomic spectrum of falling- from pratfalls to tragic demises, from accidentprone parents to ruinous celebrities. It is a collection that welcomes its readers, even as it plunges them into new ways of understanding the beautiful, fallen worlds that we inhabit.

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Art & Photography

Pictures of the Floating World

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Sarah E. Thompson

Abbeville Press $90.00 HC

A new staple volume on Japanese art, in an eminently giftable format. In this attractive volume, Sarah E. Thompson provides a highly readable overview of the cultural and artistic history of ukiyo-e, showcasing 120 exceptional prints from the museum’s world-class collection, by masters including Utamaro, Hokusai, and Hiroshige. She explores each of the principal genres in turn: beauty and fashion, the kabuki theater, landscape, nature, history and literature, and fantasy.

Noguchi

Fabienne Eggelhofer

Prestel $99.00

Kungka Kunpu

Lisa Slade & Nici Cumpston

AGSA $35.00 HC

A tribute to strong women by renowned Aboriginal women artists from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands of South Australia. This book will accompany the national regional touring exhibition which features contemporary paintings, moving-image and sculptural works in tjanpi (desert grass) from the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, as part of AGSA’s acclaimed Tarnanthi exhibition program.

Nansen Photographs Geir O. Klover

teNeues $135.00 HC

Dorothy Price

Royal Academy of Arts $60.00 HC

Abandoned Eric Holubow

Schiffer Pub $125.00 HC

n the late 19th century, the Norwegian Artic explorer Fridtjof Nansen undertook a pioneering expedition: he wanted to reach the North Pole with the specially designed ship Fram. The Nansen Photographs recounts this expedition, from the launch in 1890 through to the end of Nansen’s international lecture tour in 1897, using original photographs alongside personal diary entries from Nansen and seven of his crew members.

Making Modernism Käthe Kollwitz, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin are among the exceptional artists associated with the emergence of Expressionism in Germany in the early decades of the 20th century. As women, they were expected to marry and raise a family; some chose to, some did not. As ambitious artists, they wanted to work. As they rose to these challenges, their art further undermined conventions. These dramatic modernist compositions, with their fluid brushwork and bright hues, push at the boundaries of form, colour and spiritual meaning.

Certain to become the definitive book on Noguchi’s multidisciplinary career this publication encompasses the entirety of the artist’s work in sculpture, ceramics, photography, architecture, design, as well as his playscapes, gardens and stage sets for modern dance and theatre performance.

Brimming with stunning imagery, it explores his creative process and lesser-known aspects of his practice, his engagement with a wide range of mediums and cultures, and his innovative achievements over six decades.

Photographer Eric Hubolow captures the melancholic, haunting beauty of decaying structures across the US. From coast to coast, in big cities and small towns, forsaken factories, churches, prisons, schools, theaters, and more reveal forgotten American stories. Arranged according to the functions these buildings served - living, learning, healing, praying - Abandoned is a memento mori for industries, communities, and empires.

William Morris Masterpieces of Art Michael Robinson

Flame Tree Pub $35.00 HC

A new edition highlighting the designs and patterns of William Morris which informed the visual style of the twentieth Century.

Many of us probably know him best, however, from his superb furnishings and textile designs, intricately weaving together natural motifs in a highly stylised twodimensional fashion influenced by medieval conventions. This publication offers a survey of his life and work alongside some of his finest decorative work.

Art: The Definitive Visual Guide Dorling Kindersley

Penguin $85.00 HC

Spanning 30,000 years, from cave paintings to contemporary art, this stunning chronological exploration of every major artistic movement introduces the major milestones of each period, from the tomb paintings of Ancient Egypt, Qing Dynasty Chinese art, through to 20th century Cubism and African art today. Discover all you need to know about art history in this definite guide.

Self-Help & Psychology

p. p.24 5

The Swedish Art of Ageing Well

Highly Recommended

Margareta Magnusson

Enchantment Katherine May

Faber $30.00

After years of pandemic life - parenting while working, battling anxiety about things beyond her control, feeling overwhelmed by the news-cycle and increasingly isolated - Katherine May feels bone-tired, on edge and depleted.Could there be another way to live? Blending lyricism and storytelling, sensitivity and empathy, May’s book invites each of us to open the door to human experience in all its sensual complexity, and to find the beauty waiting for us there.

Penguin $30.00

Reclaim

Dr Ahona Guha

I Don’t Need Therapy Toni Lodge

Allen & Unwin $33.00

Most of us tell little white lies all the time.

Whether it’s ‘I’m five minutes away’ or ‘It must have gone to my spam folder’, most of these fibs are harmless. But what if you realised that you weren’t just lying about the little things, but the big ‘life’ stuff too? In this hilarious warm hug of a book, Toni exposes the lies she has told herself about who she is and what she is capable of, inviting you on a riotous romp that will make you laugh, cringe and cry.

Scribe Pub $33.00

Debbie Haski-Leventhal

Dalai Lama

HarperCollins $33.00 HC

Simon & Schuster $35.00

You Are Not Alone

Bloomsbury $33.00

When she was five, Debbie’s parents found solace from a family tragedy in joining the Kabbalah Centre. To Debbie, though, it increasingly resembled a cult, and – after years of abuse at eighteen she left, devastated and isolated, searching for meaning in her life. Today, she is a professor who specialises in finding meaning in our personal and professional lives. In this book, she shares her own and other people’s stories to explore ideas of purpose, impact, values, and resilience.

Psychology at the Heart of Social Change

Cariad Lloyd

When Cariad was just fifteen, her dad died. She became the person-whosedad-had-died; a grief mess. Years later, she began trying to unravel this tightly wound grief. What effect had it all had on who she was? She started Griefcast, the podcast that talks openly, honestly and at times cheerfully about life’s most difficult moment- its end. This collection of witty insights and lessons is for anybody who has felt lost in grief, who wants to help someone struggling, or just wants to understand this life a little better.

The relationship between trauma and mental health is becoming better recognised, but survivors and professionals alike remain confused about how best to understand and treat it. In this groundbreaking book, Dr Ahona Guha explores complex traumas, how survivors can recover and heal, and the nature of those who abuse. By emphasising compassion above all, Dr Guha calls for us to become better informed about perpetrators and the needs of victims, so we might reclaim a safer, healthier society for everyone.

Make it Meaningful

Heart to Heart From His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Mutt’s cartoonist and award-winning author Patrick McDonnell comes a powerful and timely gem of a book on how to heal our relationship with the planet and each other. Told with whimsy, wisdom, and warmth, this beautiful book is deceptively simple in its approach and all the more powerful for it, as it elegantly and decisively conveys a message of joy, hope and change.

This wise, funny and practical book shows us how to prepare for and understand the ageing process, and the joys and sorrows it can bring. While Margareta still recommends downsizing and decluttering (your loved ones will thank you!), her ultimate message is that we should not live in fear of death, but rather focus on appreciating beauty, connecting with our loved ones, and enjoying our time together.

Mick Cooper

Bristol Uni Press $35.00

To create a world in which people thrive, we need to know what thriving is. Over the past century, psychotherapy - and its parent discipline, psychology - has built up a rich, vibrant, and highly practical understanding of human wellbeing and distress. This book shows why we need, and can create, a progressive politics that is profoundly informed by insights from the psychotherapeutic and psychological domain, moving us from a politics of blame to a politics of understanding.

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What We’re Reading Ange reviews Loaded: Having read and thoroughly enjoyed The Slap, Barracuda, Merciless Gods, and Damascus, I thought it was about time I read Tsiolkas’ debut. I can see now that his writing has always been as unapologetically fierce as it is melancholy and reflective. Nineteen years old, Greek, and increasingly disillusioned with white Australia, Ari’s inner monologue takes a swipe at you through the page as he tries to drown his despair in drugs and casual sex. It is rare to read from the perspective of a queer character who so wholeheartedly embraces toxic masculinity, leaving him in a near constant state of rage and lust. Despite his pessimistic and often hateful observations, my heart bled for Ari, struggling to find purpose in a world that makes him feel both unlovable and unable to love.

Andy reviews The New Life: This is an astonishingly assured debut - set in 1890s London, it is the story of two Victorian marriages forged outside of all societal expectations. Crewe’s sticky, buttoned-up London in late summer is a blazingly consummate evocation of time and place, studded with some truly erotic hand grenades thrown in for good measure. A kind-of fin de siecle Alan Hollinghurst is not too wide-of-themark.

Jack reviews The Passengers: Are you listening to this book?

Open it, hold it close and you will hear voices from the lives of others - people from round your way or down the shops, perhaps. All of them fellow passengers with a secret, a memory that may resemble your own.

Shocking, funny and absolutely fucking heartbreaking.

More, please.

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