September Gleaner 2022

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Celebrating Stories, Cultures and Languages 7 September

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Issue 6 Volume 29 Sept 2022

From David’s Desk Another month, another farewell.

This time we say a fond goodbye to James Ross. James was with us for eight years, first in a general capacity, then as Events Manager, and, finally as Operations Manager (a euphemism for doing and supervising EVERYTHING and EVERYBODY in all aspects of the business). I can’t thank him enough for his efforts over his time with us. His commitment, enthusiasm, dedication, and intelligent leadership have been invaluable. As was his guidance and sense of purpose through the seemingly endless difficulties associated with keeping Gleebooks afloat (and open!) through COVID. Thank you James, and best wishes with your “Screen” related future.

And now, onto some exciting new titles to look forward to.

Kamilla Shamsie’s Best of Friends is her first fiction since the excellent Home Fires and it shares that novel’s preoccupation with morality, duty to love and society. It’s the engrossing story of the Karachi born girls, their close ties through a Pakastani childhood (which climaxes in a gripping episode in a car which as chilling as it is frightening), and their relationship thirty years later in contemporary London, where their shared lives are dramatically impacted in painful ways.

Kate Atkinson’s Shrines of Gaiety (October) defies easy categorisation. On one level, an entertainment, on another, historical fiction, set in London’s Roaring 20s, with a Dickensian flair for characterisation and (melo)dramatic plot. I found it enormously enjoyable.

Diana Reid has followed up her successful debut Love and Virtue with the very contemporary (post-lockdown COVID Sydney) Seeing Other People (October). It’s witty, incisive and insightful, a sharply observed comic drama with serious intent around friendship, family bonds and morality.

Fiona McFarlane’s The Sun Walks Down more than surpasses the wonderful promise that her first novel The Night Guest showed.

It’s beautifully written, absorbing and touching historical fiction. Set in the Flinders Ranges in the 1860s, the story turns on an extended, multi-layered fable of the (white) child lost in the Australian bush. It’s a riveting tale, and McFarlane can pack the relationship between the strange and unsettling landscape (including the enigma posed by the title) and the environment with a rich array of characters. I loved it.

And some titles I’m waiting on, with great anticipation: Don Watson’s The Passion of Private White (November), Cormac McCarthy’s blockbuster double Stella Maris and Passenger (November), Garry Disher’s Day’s End from his Hirsch series (November), Gail Jones’ Salonika (November), Jane Harper’s Exiles (October) and Orhan Pamuk’s Nights of Plague (October).

Index Australian Literature International Literature Biography & Memoir Thrillers & Crime Fiction Essays & Criticism Australian & Aboriginal Studies History & Politics Science & Environment Food, Health & Gardening Events Self-Help & Psychology Philosophy & Culture Studies

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Kids

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Teen Fiction & YA

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Travel Writing

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Art & Photography

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Performing Arts & Poetry

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Specials

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Until next time, David

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Highly Recommended Australian Literature

Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls

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Anne Casey-Hardy

Simon & Schuster $30.00

Teenagers sneak out to the creek for a wild New Year’s Eve party. A sleep-deprived woman who imagines she is pregnant to a Viking faces her scathing sixteen-year-old self. A woman in love wakes up in a van Gogh painting. These gem-like stories are about the desire to rush out and meet life; about getting in over your head; about danger, and damage, and what it means to survive – and not always survive – the risk of being young.

Psalms For The End of The World

Marshmallow Victoria Hannan

Hachette $30.00

Cole Haddon

Headline $33.00

It’s 1962 and physics student Grace Pulansky believes she has met the man of her dreams, Robert Jones. But then the FBI shows up, and accuses him of being a bomb-planting mass-murderer. Finding herself on the run with Jones across America’s Southwest, the discoveries awaiting Gracie will undermine everything she knows about the universe. Spanning continents, centuries, and dimensions, this exquisitely crafted and madly inventive novel is a profound yet propulsive enquiry into the nature of reality.

A year ago the house had been full of life, of noise, of love. Now there were long stretches of silence that settled between them like a fog so dense it made it hard to see a way out, made it hard for them to see each other. For five friends, what should have been a birthday to remember will instead cleave a line between before and after. And the question all of them will be forced to ask is: can they ever find a way to live without what was lost?

The Proxy Bride Zoe Boccabella

HarperCollins $33.00

When Sofie comes to stay with her grandmother in Stanthorpe, she knows little of Nonna Gia’s past. In the heat of that 1984 summer, the two clash over Gia’s strict Italian ways and the evasive silence surrounding Sofie’s father. Then Sofie learns Gia had an arranged marriage. How she came to Australia on a ‘bride ship’, among many proxy brides, knowing little about the husbands they had married from afar. From there, the past begins to reveal why no-one will talk of her father.

Wildflowers Peggy Frew

Allen&Unwin $33.00

Meg and Nina have been outshone by their younger sister Amber since childhood. But Amber’s life had not turned out as expected, so the three of them decide to hit the road to a remote holiday rental, where Meg and Nina plan on helping Amber overcome her addiction. As good intentions gradually become terrifying reality, these sisters will test the limits of love and the line between care and control.

All That’s Left Unsaid Tracey Lien

HarperCollins $33.00

Ky Tran will never forget the night her brother Denny was brutally murdered inside a busy restaurant. Ky learns that the police are stumped by her brother’s case as each bystander claims to have seen nothing. Determined to uncover the truth, Ky tracks down and questions the witnesses herself. But what she learns goes beyond what happened that fateful night.

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International Literature Highly Recommended

The Unfolding

A.M. Homes

American Fever Dur e Aziz Amna

Hachette, $33.00 On a year-long exchange programme in rural Oregon, sixteen-year-old Hira must swap Kashmiri chai for volleyball practice and understand why everyone around her seems to dislike Obama. Along the way Hira starts to feel increasingly unwell until she begins coughing up blood, and receives a diagnosis of tuberculosis, pushing her into quarantine and turning her newly-established world upside down. An unforgettable story.

Granta $33.00

Bad Fruit

Ella King

Before Your Memory Fades Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Picador, $20.00 In northern Japan, overlooking the spectacular view Hakodate Port has to offer, Cafe Donna Donna has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. Here we meet four customers, each of whom is hoping to take advantage of the cafe’s time-travelling offer.

HarperCollins $33.00

Ian McEwan

Emma Donoghue

Picador, $33.00

Penguin $30.00 GB ial ec Sp rice P

Best of Friends

While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War young Roland Baines’s life is turned upside down. Twentyfive years later, as the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster spreads across Europe, Roland’s wife mysteriously vanishes. From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Covid pandemic and climate change, Roland sometimes rides with the tide of history but more often struggles against it. His journey raises important questions. How do global events beyond our control shape us and our memories? And what can we learn from the traumas of the past?

Children of Paradise

Kamila Shamsie

Camilla Grudova

Bloomsbury, $30.00 In 1988 Karachi, two fourteen-year-old girls are a decade into their friendship. Elated by the change in Pakistan’s dictatorship, they make a snap decision at a party.

That night, everything goes wrong, and the two girls are powerless to change the outcome. In present-day London, two influential women remain bound together by loyalties, disloyalties, and the memory of that night, which echoes through the present in unexpected ways. Their friendship has always felt unbreakable; but can it be undone by one decision?

Lily is a good daughter. Every evening she pours Mama a glass of perfectly spoilt orange juice. She arranges the teddy bears on Mama’s quilt. Anything to help put out the fire of mama’s rage. But Mama is becoming unpredictable, dangerous. And as she starts to unravel, so do the memories that Lily has kept locked away for so long. As home truths creep out of the shadows, Lily must recast everything: what if her house isn’t a home – but a prison? What if Mama isn’t a protector – but a monster?

Lessons

Haven Three men vow to leave the world behind them. They set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island, inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. In such a place, what will survival mean? A gripping and moving novel set in 600 AD Ireland.

The Big Guy loves his family, money and democracy. Undone by the results of the 2008 Presidential election, he taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of America. As they build a scheme to disturb and disrupt, the Big Guy also faces turbulence within his family and must take responsibility for his past actions. Dark, funny and prescient, this novel explores the implosion of the dream and how we arrived in today’s divided world.

Atlantic $28.00

When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city’s oldest cinemas, squashed into the ground floor of a block of flats - she thinks it will be like any other shift work. Dreadful, lonely weeks pass while she longs for her colleagues’ approval, a silent voyeur. So when she finally gains their trust, a cryptic band of oddballs, Holly transforms from silent drudge to rebellious insider and gradually she too becomes part of the Paradise - unearthing its secrets, learning its history and haunting its corridors after hours with the other ushers.

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The Marriage Portrait

Maggie O’Farrell

Hachette $30.00 GB ial ec Sp rice P

Lucrezia, third daughter of Cosimo de’ Medici, is free to wander the palazzo at will.

But when her older sister dies on the eve of marriage to Alfonso d’Este, ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father to accept on her behalf. Having barely left girlhood, Lucrezia must now make her way in a troubled court whose customs are opaque and where her arrival is not universally welcomed.

The Fortunes of Jaded Women

Carolyn Huynh

Everyone in Orange County’s Little Saigon knew that the Duong sisters were cursed.

Their ancestor Oanh dared to leave her marriage for true love – and was cursed for it: her descendants are doomed never to find love or happiness, and to give birth only to daughters, never sons. Desperate for Simon & Schuster guidance Oanh’s current descendant Mai $33.00 Nguyen consults her trusted psychic whose prediction will reunite her estranged family, for better or for worse.

The Furrows

Namwali Serpell

Random House $33.00

Cassandra Williams is twelve; her little brother Wayne is seven. One day, when they are alone together, there is an accident, and Wayne is lost forever. As C grows older, she relives and retells her story, and she sees her brother everywhere- in coffee shops, subway cars, cities on both sides of America. And then one day, there is another accident, and C meets a man both mysterious and familiar, a man who is also searching for someone, as well as his own place in the world.

Utopia

Heidi Sopinka

Scribe Pub $30.00

When Romy, a gifted young artist in the male-dominated art scene of 1970s California, dies in suspicious circumstances, it is not long before her art-star husband Billy finds a replacement, Paz. Paz is haunted by Romy, who is everywhere- in the photos and notebooks and art strewn around the house, and in the eyes of the baby she left behind.

As Paz becomes increasingly obsessed with the woman she has replaced, a disturbing picture begins to emerge, driving her deep into the desert - the site of Romy’s final artwork - to uncover the truth.

Biography & Memoir

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Freeing My Family

Sadam Abdusalam and Michael Bradley

Allen & Unwin $33.00

In a remote area of deserts and mountains where the Silk Road once ran, China has built the world’s largest prison. The Uyghur population of Xinjiang is being systematically rounded up, with as many as a million citizens being held in detention. In Australia, Sadam was desperate to keep his wife Nadila and their baby son out of detention, but the clock was ticking. This is the epic story of Sadam’s efforts to reunite his family.

gleebooks favourites Hiding In Plain Sight Pieter Van Os

Scribe Pub $35.00

The Elephants of Thula Thula Francoise Malby-Anthony

PanMacmillan $35.00

Françoise is the owner of a game reserve in South Africa with a remarkable family of elephants whose adventures have touched hearts around the world. But will Thula Thula survive the pandemic, an invasion from poachers and the threat from a mining company wanting access to its land? A powerful, gripping story about an extraordinary herd of elephants, and the woman dedicated to keeping them safe.

Desi Girl

Agatha Christie Lucy Worsley

Hachette $35.00

Sarah Malik

U.Q.P $33.00

As a Pakistani-Australian teenager growing up in western Sydney, Sarah Malik came of age in the shadow of September 11. At the age of twenty, she moved out of home to begin her life as a university student, Muslim feminist and journalist. This energetic and timely book explores the power of writing from the margins and how to find- and take - your place in the world.

Faber $30.00 HC

In 2018 poet and author Michael Pedersen lost a cherished friend, Scott Hutchison, soon after their collective voyage into the landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Just weeks later, Michael began to write to him.

What starts as a love letter to one magical, coruscating human soon becomes a paean to all the gorgeous male friendships that have transformed his life.

Miranda Seymour

HarperCollins $57.00 HC

Various Authors

Adam Kay

Faber $33.00

An obsessive and troubled genius, Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling and unnerving writers of the twentieth century.

Many details of Rhys’s life emerge from her memoir and the stories she wrote throughout her long and challenging career. But it’s a shock to discover that no biographer – until now – has researched the crucial seventeen years that Rhys spent living on the remote Caribbean island of Dominica; the island which haunted Rhys’s mind and her work for the rest of her life.

This unforgettable biography brings Jean Rhys to life as never before.

Nothing To Hide

Undoctored In his most honest and incisive book yet, he reflects on what’s happened since hanging up his scrubs and examines a life inextricably bound up with medicine. Battered and bruised from his time on the NHS frontline, Kay looks back, moves forwards and opens up some old wounds. Adam Kay returns and will have you in stitches in his painfully funny and startlingly powerful memoir.

She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. So why - despite all the evidence to the contrary - did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure? Lucy Worsley’s biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realise what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was - truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.

I Used To Live Here Once

Boy Friends

Michael Pedersen

Polish Catholics believed she was one of them. A devoted Nazi family took her in as if she was their own daughter. She fell in love with a German engineer who built aeroplanes for the Luftwaffe. By using her charm, intelligence, blonde hair, and blue eyes to assume different identities, she was the only member of her family to survive the Second World War. This is an extraordinary Holocaust survival story.

Allen & Unwin $35.00

While there has been unprecedented trans visibility in Australia in the last decade, this visibility has not always been positive, shadowed at every step by transphobic misinformation and extremist rhetoric.

This collection features the work of thirty trans and gender-diverse people across the spectrum of age, race, geography and circumstance. The writers give voice to their communities and tell their own stories, on their own terms.

On D’ Hill I’m pleased to advise that Morgan Smith, the erstwhile Manager of Gleebooks Dulwich Hill, was spotted in the wild last week looking fabulous, happy and relaxed. As regulars will know, Morgan retired last month and, by all accounts, has taken to it like a duck to water. I owe a debt of gratitude to Morgan for passing the Dulwich Hill baton to me. I have been a regular customer of the store since it opened and know first-hand how special it is. Morgan, through her passion for books, her humour, and her hard work, has left a remarkable legacy. More than that, Morgan is beloved by the local community and has contributed enormously to the verve and spirit of the Dulwich Hill village.

Finally, we are thrilled to be stocking Parliament House of Cards merchandise. Bags, mugs, playing cards and tea towels wonderfully illustrated by Alex Godwin. Look out for ‘Albo: Compassion is Back in Fashion’ mugs, ‘Penny Wong: The Future is Female’ bags, and - hot off the press ‘Sarah Ferguson: Forgive me for interrupting’ merchandise.

Shortly we will unveil the – wait for it – Laura Tingle Christmas tea towel, “Tingle all the way!”. Magic.

Morgan and I bonded over, you guessed it, books. Fast-forward to 2022 and a serendipitous Sunday chat turned into what would be, for me, a giddy return to the world of books (following a longish career in the public service). There’s no other way to say it: this is a dream job. It’s just as wonderful as people imagine.

I look forward to carrying on Morgan’s legacy and bringing our customers – our friends – books to ignite, move and delight. I’m joined in this happy endeavour by a brilliant team of readers and thinkers: Dasha, Soren, Kelly and Ava.

Letitia and the Dulwich Hill team

We look forward to seeing you in the store – please come by and introduce yourself. Happy reading.

Now let’s talk books. I thoroughly enjoyed The Stranger (A Feminist Western) by Australian author Kathryn Hore. Without giving too much away, a town has closed itself off from the outside world following a deadly virus. Years later, the town is slowly dying and a tyrant rules the community with brutal force. Enter stage left a fierce, striking woman on a horse. She has history with the town and its hideous leaders, and heads begin to roll - in spectacular fashion.

I’ve also read some wonderful novels coming out next month: The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane, The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li, and Seeing Other People by Diana Reid. More on these in the October Gleaner.

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Darryl Jones, author of Feeding the Birds at Your Table, reveals the not-so-secret lives of the most common birds that share our towns and cities.

Meanwhile, Dasha is itching to read two September releases, but which one first? Stephen King’s Fairly Tale or the new Strike novel, The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith. Dasha recently read Stephen King’s crime thriller Billy Summers and a new collection of Leonard Cohen’s writings, A Ballet of Lepers (an October release), and highly recommends both.

Despite the noise, heat, dust and fumes, the ceaseless movement, light and toxins, many birds successfully live their lives among us. And not just furtively in the shadows. Ibis steal our lunch, brush-turkeys rearrange gardens and magpies chase us from near their nest.

From blackbirds and sparrows in his childhood country town to brush-turkeys in the suburbs, Darryl Jones shares a fascinating story of curiosity, discovery, adventure and conflict, played out in the streets and backyards of Australia. He also provides rare insights into the intimate lives of some of our most beloved and feared, despised and admired neighbours. Magpies, curlews, ibis, lorikeets and cockatoos will never seem the same again.

Acclaimed urban ecologist Darryl Jones unveils the not-so-secret lives of the birds that share our cities.

‘Anyone who loves birds, nature and superb storytelling will love this book!’

JENNIFER ACKERMAN

‘Darryl Jones confirms what many people suspect, that ecologists lead fun lives.’

TIM LOW

Soren is devouring The Sandman graphic novel series by Neil Gaiman - “I can’t put them down!”. Soren recommends starting with the Preludes and Nocturnes and reading the prequel, Overture, last. Clear as mud? But if Soren says they’re brilliant, they’re brilliant.

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‘Darryl Jones shows how backyard birds have the capacity to enrich and bring wonder to our lives.’

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WILDLIFE / BIRDS AND BIRDWATCHING / MEMOIR

Ava is slowwwly reading Moby Dick, but is tearing through Bodies of Light, the 2022 Miles Franklin Award wining novel by Jennifer Down. (Ava Barry also happens to be an accomplished novelist – look out for her thrillers, Windhall and Double Exposure, later this year).

The Japanese air raids on Darwin on 19 February 1942 are well known to most Australians, but what happened afterwards?

For almost two years the airspace over north-west Australia was routinely infiltrated by Japanese air raids, tallying about 70 in total. The 1942–43 air raids on Darwin constituted the only sustained and intensive direct assault on Australian territory in the whole of World War II. Telling the story of the RAAF’s No. 1 Fighter Wing – composed of both Australian and British Spitfire pilots – Darwin Spitfires explores the little-known 1943 season of air combat over the Top End, recovering important aspects of Australian history. It brings the heroic exploits of the skilled pilots who did so much to protect Australia to the world’s attention.

It has been 80 years since the bombing of Darwin.

Uncover its fascinating history in this special anniversary edition.

In this anniversary edition, Anthony Cooper offers a detailed and fascinating history of this unparalleled attack.

‘It is a real pleasure to read Cooper’s careful dissection of each dogfight, a display of unselfconscious expertise.’ PETER STANLEY ‘Darwin Spitfires is detailed, forensic and expert.’

BRIAN WESTON, AIR VICE MARSHAL (RET’D) FRAES, RAAF

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A UNSW COMPANY

ANTHONY SPITFIRES COOPER

Kelly joined the team last month and has a leaning tower of books to read - many about cats. Top on the list is ABC of Cats

by Lesléa Newman. Kelly decrees that this beautiful board book will capture the hearts and minds of cat enthusiasts of all ages.

Alternatively, Kelly recommends the cheeky graphic novel, Cat Massage Therapy by Haru Hisakawa. Yep, you read that right.

‘This fascinating book reclaims an important, littleknown aspect of our war history.’ BRISBANE NEWS

DARWIN

A UNSW COMPANY

‘Absorbing and compelling’ Peter FitzSimons

Anniversary Edition

DARWIN SPITFIRES THE REAL BAT TLE FOR AUSTRALIA AN T H O N Y C O O P ER

Thrillers & Crime Fiction

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No Country For Girls

Paper Cage

Charlie and Nao are strangers from different sides of the tracks. They should never have met, but one devastating incident binds them together forever. A man is dead and now they are unwilling accomplices in his murder there’s only one thing to do: hit the road in the victim’s twin cab ute, with a bag of stolen gold stashed under the passenger seat. They’ll do whatever it takes to evade capture and escape with their lives.

A child goes missing in a small town. Then another. And suddenly everyone’s holding their own kids a little tighter. Lorraine doesn’t have kids, but she has a dearly loved nephew. And she knows the police don’t have any idea about this case. Until the arrival of the new detective, Hayes reveals that Lo is the only person there with answers to any of his questions. Which is just as well-because the clock is running down for the children of the town.

Emma Styles

Little Brown $33.00

Tom Baragwanath

Penguin $33.00

The Binding Room

The Cast Aways of Harewood Hall

Nadine Matheson

HarperCollins $30.00

DI Henley arrives at a crime scene to investigate the death of a local pastor. She discovers a hidden door that conceals a room set up for torture – and bound to the bed in the middle of the room is the body of a man. When another body is found, also tied down, Henley realises there’s someone out there torturing innocent people and leaving them for dead. Someone has targeted the victims, and it’s up to Henley and the SCU to stop them before they find another binding room.

Karen Herbert

Fremantle Press $33.00

The Stranger

Daisy Darker

Kathryn Hore

Alice Feeney

PanMacmillan $35.00

Daisy Darker is arriving at her grandmother’s house for her eightieth birthday. It is Halloween, and Seaglass – the crumbling Cornish house sits perched upon its own tiny private island. The Darker family haven’t all been in the same place for over a decade, and when the tide comes in they’ll be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours.

When the tide goes back out, nothing will ever be the same again, because one of them is a killer.

Josh is a university student working parttime in aged care. When he steals two research mice from a campus laboratory, he decides to hide them in the retirement village basement. But will he be able to find the lab mice another home before they cause the outbreak of a deadly disease?

As the clock ticks, and disaster looms, the combined efforts of the residents of Harewood Hall will save the day.

Allen & Unwin $33.00

In Darkwater, being female doesn’t amount to much. But Chelsea’s luckier than most.

She’s secure and safe and can almost believe she’s happy. But when a stranger rides into town, gun on one hip, whip on the other, Chelsea can’t look away. Especially when it turns out this stranger is a woman. As the rumours fly about Darkwater’s bloodied past and the murder of a woman twenty years earlier, Chelsea finds herself being drawn into someone else’s terrifying quest for justice.

Thrilling Reads The Bullet That Missed Richard Osman

Fairy Tale Stephen King

Penguin, $30.00

Hodder & Stoughton, $33.00

Trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club is concerned.

A decade-old cold case leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers.

Then, a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. As the cold case turns white hot, Elizabeth wrestles with her conscience (and a gun), while Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim chase down clues with help from old friends and new.

Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, but he carries a heavy load. His mum was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink.

Charlie learned how to take care of himself - and his dad. When Charlie turns seventeen, he inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher - for their world or ours.

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Sibyl Recommends

The Colony

Audrey Magee, $30.00 The clarity of Colm Toibin’s prose is blended with the emotional truth of Anne Enright in this stand-out novel of belonging and loss.

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022

Against Disappearance Liminal

Bloomsbury, $33.00 From the intricacies of trans becoming, to violences inflicted on stateless peoples, to complex inheritances and the intertwining of tradition, politics and place, this prescient collection of new essays from the Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize longlist, challenges singular narratives about the past, offering testimony and prophecy alike.

Everybody Olivia Laing

Picador, $25.00

Now in B-Format

At a moment in which basic rights are once again imperilled, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to chart a daring course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, from gay rights and sexual liberation to feminism and the civil rights movement.

Quarterly Essay 87: Uncivil Wars

Waleed Aly & Scott Stephens

Penguin, $25.00 Why is public debate increasingly polarised - and what can we do about it? Is our democracy corroding? In this original, eloquent essay, Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens explore the ethics and politics of public debate - and the threat it now faces. Arguing that democracy cannot survive contempt, they draw on philosophy, literature and history to make an urgent case about the present.

The Sky Is For Everyone Edited by Virginia Trimble and David A. Weintraub

Princeton Uni Press, $40.00

After decades of difficult struggles, women are closer to equality in astronomy than ever before. Taking readers from 1960 to today, this triumphant anthology serves as an inspiration to current and future generations of women scientists while giving voice to the history of a transformative era in astronomy.

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Australian & Aboriginal Studies The Wonder of Little Things

Unmaking Angas Downs

Vince Copley was born into poverty on a government mission in 1936. By the time he was fifteen, five of his family had died. But at a home for Aboriginal boys, he befriended future leaders Charles Perkins, John Moriarty and Gordon Briscoe. They were friendships that would last a lifetime. Vince’s love of life will make you smile, his heartache will make you cry, and his determination to enjoy life in the face of adversity will inspire you to find the wonder in little things every day.

A new work of history that seeks to unmake mythologies of pioneers, pastoralism and possession in the Northern Territory. This book traces a history of colonisation in Central Australia by tracking the rise and demise of a rural enterprise across half a century, as well as the complex and creative practices that transformed a cattle station into Country. Angas Downs emerges as a place of dynamic interaction and social life — not only lived in, but also made by Anangu.

Shannyn Palmer

Vince Copley and Lea McInerney

HarperCollins $40.00

Random House $40.00

Chasing Wrongs & Rights

My People’s Songs

Elaine Pearson

Simon & Schuster $35.00

The Australia Director at Human Rights Watch shares her experiences defending human rights – from human trafficking in Nepal, the ‘drug war’ in the Philippines to treatment of detainees in Papua New Guinea and in Australia – offering an extremely involving personal account of how far we’ve come, and how far we’ve got to go. Deeply informative and inspiring, Elaine Pearson’s story will leave you understanding how much needs to change, and how individuals can make a difference.

Joel Stephen Birnie

Monash Uni Pub $35.00

Harold Holt

The Shield and the Spear

Ross Walker

Penguin $35.00

Harold Holt was a pivotal prime minister in Australian history. Ambitious, modern and telegenic, he helped bring his party and nation into the late twentieth century, following the Menzies years. In this evocative, intimate and deeply researched biography, Ross Walker captures the worlds in which Holt moved and the people who were close to him. A strikingly original portrait of Australia’s seventeenth prime minister.

Highly Recommended Australia’s Secret Army Michael Veitch

Hacette, $33.00 Hidden deep in the jungles and high in the mountains of the Southwest Pacific during World War II, Australia’s secret army - the Coastwatchers - reported every move of the Japanese invaders to Allied intelligence. From acclaimed author Michael Veitch comes this compelling and vivid history of unsung heroes who risked their lives in service of their country and formed one of history’s most successful spy rings.

Tarenootairer (c.1806–58) was still a child when a band of white sealers bound her and forced her onto a boat.

From there unfolded a life of immense cruelty inflicted by her colonial captors.

This account is both a constellation of the damage wrought by colonisation and a testament to the power of family.

Revelatory, intimate and illuminating, it does more than assert these women’s place in our nation’s story – it restores to them a voice and a cultural context.

Joe Fox

NewSouth $60.00

In April 1978 leaders from Aboriginal Communities across the Kimberley met in the river bed at Old Halls Creek. It closed with a request to the Noonkanbah Mob to invite all the Aboriginal Communities in the Kimberley to a Cultural Festival and meeting in May 1978, at which a new organisation – The Kimberley Land Council (KLC) – would be officially formed and launched. This book is mostly told through firsthand contributions from the people who were there.

Emperors in Lilliput Jim Davidson

Random House, $60.00 Clem Christesen and Stephen MurraySmith were giants of the world of Australian books and writing from the 1940s to 1980s. In this dual biography is the world of literary magazines in Australia between those years. The book ranges from before the Menzies era and the Cold War, through the Whitlam period and beyond to the challenges of the 1980s. It shows how the editors constantly aimed for a culture more liberal, diverse and developed than the one then prevailing.

Highly Recommended The Story of Russia

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Orlando Figes

Bloomsbury $33.00

In this glorious work of history that begins in the first millennium, when Russia’s lands were first settled by the Slavs, and ends with Putin in the third, Orlando Figes argues that the maxim is truer for Russia than for any other country in the world. How the Russians came to tell their story and to reinvent it as they went along is not only a vital aspect of their history, but is also the best means we have of understanding the country today.

Sweeping, suspenseful, masterful.

Broadcasting Britain Robert Seatter

Penguin $50.00

Created 100 years ago, on 18 October 1922, the BBC transformed people’s lives at the turn of a dial, bringing voices out of the ether and conjuring the magic community of radio. Now our lives are inextricably linked to broadcasting. It is how we remember where we come from and who we are — from the Moon Landing to the 9/11 attacks, from Monty Python to EastEnders. Head of BBC History Robert Seatter charts the story of a broadcaster and a nation, reflecting the story of all our lives across ten tumultuous decades.

All The Knowledge In The World Simon Garfield

Orion $33.00

The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, a good set conveyed a sense of absolute wisdom on its reader.

But now these huge books gather dust, and sell for almost nothing on eBay, and we derive our information from our phones and computers, apparently for free. What have we lost in this transition? Simon Garfield tackles the broadest of subjects in an illuminating and highly entertaining way.

The Death Railway Charles Kappe

They had faced the indignity of surrender and the squalor of Changi prison, so the spirits of the British and Australian troops lifted when they were told that they would be transferred to another healthier location where conditions would be more benign Simon & Schuster and food far more abundant. From the outset, the prisoners, a total of 7000 realized $30.00 that none of the promises the Japanese had made would be fulfilled. The utterly true and horrifying personal account of Lt. Colonel Kappe on the Thai-Burma Railroad.

Doping April Henning and Paul Dimeo

Reaktion Books, $35.00 Why is doping a perennial problem for sports? Is this solely a contemporary phenomenon? And should doping always be regarded as cheating, or do today’s anti-doping measures go too far? This is a gripping, provocative account that ultimately proposes a new approach: one for the inclusion and protection of athletes themselves.

Lockdown Chip Le Grand

Monash Uni Pub, $33.00 How does a city go from being the world’s most liveable to its most locked down? For 262 days, Melbourne was cocooned by stay-at-home orders.

Through successive COVID winters, the state of Victoria was isolated from the rest of the federation and Melbourne from the rest of the state. Lockdown is the story of Melbourne’s singular pandemic experience, an examination of the decisions taken in pursuit of COVID-zero, and the consequences of those decisions.

Rise of the Extreme Right Lydia Khalil

Penguin, $13.00 ASIO says right-wing extremism now makes up half its case load, and that it anticipates a terrorist attack on Australian soil within the year. Why is it a problem and how does it threaten democracy?

This detailed examination will answer these questions while situating Australia within the global threat landscape.

Bad Gays Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller

Bloomsbury, $30.00 Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and/or dastardly deeds have been overlooked. We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie?

What about those ‘bad gays’ whose unexemplary lives reveals more than we might expect? Amusing, disturbing and fascinating, Bad Gays centre stages the queer villains and evil twins in history.

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Science & Environment gleebooks favourites

How to Sell a Poison Elena Conis

Evergreen Tim Entwisle

Thames & Hudson $40.00

In this wildly rich memoir, a director at some of the world’s finest botanic gardens - Sydney, Kew and Melbourne - suggests such places are a cure for the world’s ills.

Tim Entwisle believes these sanctuaries can address the key threats of our time, such as climate change and plant extinction, while simultaneously serving up gorgeous landscapes and offering a balm to the weary human spirit. This is an ode to the powerful mix of nature, science and culture.

Little Brown $43.00

The Mind of a Bee

The Digital Mindset

Lars Chittka

Paul Leonardi & Tsedal Neeley The digital revolution is here, changing how work gets done, how industries are structured, and how people from all walks of life work, behave, and relate to each other. To thrive in a world driven by data and powered by algorithms, we must learn to Harvard Business see, think, and act in new ways. We need to develop a digital mindset. Award-winning Review researchers and professors Paul Leonardi $45.00 and Tsedal Neeley will show you how to develop one here.

The chemical compound DDT first earned fame during World War II by wiping out insects that caused disease and boosting Allied forces to victory. Americans granted it a hero’s homecoming, spraying it on everything from crops and livestock to cupboards and curtains. Then, in 1972, it was banned in the US. But decades after that, a cry arose to demand its return. This is the sweeping narrative of generations of Americans who struggled to make sense of the notorious chemical’s risks and benefits.

Princeton Uni Press $40.00

Most of us are aware of the hive mind—the power of bees as an amazing collective.

But do we know how uniquely intelligent bees are as individuals? Lars Chittka draws from decades of research and takes readers deep into the sensory world of bees, illustrating how bee brains are unparalleled in the animal kingdom in terms of how much sophisticated material is packed into their tiny nervous systems. A rich and surprising exploration.

On The Scent

Paola Totaro and Robert Wainwright This is the story of a quest for answers, from the theories of ancient philosophers to the cutting-edge laboratories of 21st-century neuroscience. It looks at the extraordinary experiences of patients and scientists alike, offering a unique glimpse into the world of Simon & Schuster those born without smell as well as those who lose it; exploring how smell can be a $30.00 key indicator of declining physical health; and offering up the latest research that can offer hope to the millions of people worldwide who have suffered sensory loss.

‘Sarah’s story shows us the power of a teacher’s heart and a teacher’s love. These are the stories we need to hear and share.’

Gabbie Stroud, author of Teacher

A Brief History of Black Holes Dr Becky Smethurst

PanMacmillan $35.00

The Moon goes around the Earth, the Earth goes around the Sun, the Sun goes around the centre of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole. Black holes are not just a curiosity; they are some of the most important objects for understanding how our universe works and how it came to be. And yet they are incredibly misunderstood; take everything you think you know about black holes and get rid of it. This book will be a book about black holes like no other.

‘A full tide of story, charged with anguish and glistening with brilliant detail.’

Helen Garner

Salamati

Hamed Allahyari

Murdoch $45.00

Farm

Nicola Harvey

Scribe Pub $33.00

Food, Health & Gardening

Hamed Allahyari cooks to connect - for that joyful moment you can say salamati (Persian for ‘health’ and ‘cheers’) around the table. A restaurateur in Iran, it was natural for Hamed to gravitate to food after a long and perilous journey to settlement in Melbourne. This book is a gateway to Persian culinary culture, with recipes that are simple, celebratory and appealing, flexible and full of flavour. Wherever you live and whatever your background, you are invited to join the feast.

For years we’ve been told that the food system is destroying the planet. But we’ve also been told that food can help save us from the worst of global warming. How can it be both destroyer and saviour? Nicola Harvey takes readers into the heart of the industrialised global food system to share what life on the land is like when you’re a new farmer just trying to survive - and change the status quo.

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Penguin $50.00

The Yoga Manifesto Nadia Gilani

The Italian Home Cook Silvia Colloca

Plum Pub $45.00

‘Italians are taught from a young age to cherish the ingredients we cook with, whether home grown or store bought.’ Silvia Colloca, shares the 100 recipes that will show you how to cook like a true Italian, using the most humble of ingredients. These are the dishes made lovingly in homes around Italy every day, and they are often brought to life with only a handful of ingredients and the simplest equipment.

Bluebird $35.00

Charles Dowding

Colleen Graham, Ruby Taylor

HarperCollins $20.00

Penguin $60.00

Michael J. Hathaway

Rukmini Iyer

Random House $45.00

Transform a weedy plot into a thriving vegetable garden by following simple steps achieved in a few hours and with plants in the ground from day one. The crucial factor is understanding that not only is there no need to dig over the soil, but by minimising intervention you are actively boosting soil productivity. This is the essence of the No Dig system that Charles Dowding has perfected over a lifetime growing vegetables.

What A Mushroom Lives For

India Express Rukmini Iyer, bestselling author of the Roasting Tin series has created a collection of South Indian and Bengali-inspired recipes that’ll have you mastering the cuisine.

From everyday snacks, dinners to desserts, keeping with her ethos of ‘minimum effort, maximum flavour’, these dishes are vibrant, achievable and moreish.

Nadia Gilani has been practising yoga as a participant and teacher for over twentyfive years. However, over her years in the wellness industry, Nadia has noticed not only yoga’s rising popularity, but also how its modern incarnation no longer serves people of colour, working class people, or many other groups who originally pioneered its creation. Nadia thus creates a love letter to yoga and a passionate critique of the billion-dollar industry whose cost and inaccessibility has shut out many of those it should be helping.

No Dig

Vodka Made Me Do It

Vodka is the perfect spirit that can turn almost any combination of mixer, juice and garnish into a bold and boozy beverage.

From the punchy Moscow Mule and the pink-hued Cosmopolitan, to the sweetsmooth Espresso Martini and the Bloody Mary pick-me-up, this beautifully illustrated book shows off the best of vodka cocktails that are fun and easy to make.

Yotam Ottolenghi and his superteam are back, with flexible, flavour-packed dishes that all lend a little something to the next meal. Extra Good Things is rounded off with a chapter on the ‘one basics’ of desserts for you to perfect and then adapt with your favourite flavour combinations, such as ‘one basic mousse’ transformed into coffee mousse with tahini fudge. This cookbook will help you Ottolenghify every meal.

Princeton Uni Press $40.00

For centuries, Western science has promoted a human- and animal-centric framework of what counts as action, and behaviour. But, as Michael Hathaway shows, the worldmaking capacities of mushrooms radically challenge this orthodoxy by revealing the lively dynamism of all forms of life. The book tells the fascinating story of one particularly prized species, the matsutake, and the astonishing ways it is silently yet powerfully shaping worlds.

Join leading Australian and international authors, thinkers, and speakers in an

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engaging discussion of their work. All events take place upstairs at 49 Glebe Point Road.

Book launches are free and open to the public. Our Literary Events are $12 & $9 concession (pensioner/student) and free to gleeclub members – though bookings are still required, as popular events do sell out. Weekday events generally commence at 6pm for 6.30pm, and weekend events at 2.30pm for 3pm. Places are unreserved, so arrive a little early if you require a particular seat.

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Sisters in Crime: with Rae Cairns & Jane Caro

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5 Sept

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Queer Literature Book Club

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13 Sept

Farm: The Making of a Climate Activist 6 for 6:30 with Nicola Harvey

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7 Sept

Daryl Jones launches Curlews on Vulture Street: Cities, Birds, People and Me

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8 Sept Wilderness Society launches

14 Sep

Provocateur: 6 for 6:30 with Clive Hamilton

15 Sept

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21 Sep

Growing in to Autism: 6 for 6:30 with Sandra ThomJones

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28 Sept

August in Kabul: 6 for 6:30 with Andrew Quilty

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Against Disappearance: Essays on Memory

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29 Sept

Events

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10 Sept

Through Her Eyes: 6 for 6:30 with Melissa Roberts & Trevor Watson

4 Sept

Bronwyn Birdsall launches Time and Tide in Sarajevo

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16 Sept Crown-Playing in the Shadows: 6 for 6:30 with Tom Ravlic

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Lyn Drummond launches Painters, Philosophers and Poets Sustain a Seven Year Cycle

David Walker launches Happy Together: Bridging the Australia China Divide

Upcoming In October 6/10 Al Clark launches Time Flies Too 7/10

25 Sept

Peter Quarry launches If I Were You

14/10 6 for 6:30 with Andrew Urban - Gladys and Boxing Butterfly Amber Petty launches This Is Not A Love 16/10 Song

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Self-Help & Psychology Reasons Not to Worry Brigid Delaney

Allen & Unwin $25.00

We’re all searching for answers to the biggest questions: How can we be good?

Find calm? Work out what truly matters?

The ancient philosophy of Stoicism shows us that we are already in possession of the very tools we need to excavate this much-needed wisdom for ourselves. By living and learning the teachings of three ancient guides, Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, Brigid Delaney draws lessons from the past to show us how we can apply their lessons to our modern lives in a way that allows us to regain a sense of agency and tranquillity.

Platonic

Marisa Franco

Bluebird $35.00

When was the last time you made a new friend? For many adults, the answer is too long ago. Loneliness is an increasing problem across the world, with swathes of people unsure how to go about establishing new connections outside the fertile school, college, or university years.

Dr Marisa Franco’s deeply researched and heartfelt book guides adults to master the art of making and keeping friends and appreciating the true value of friendship.

Different, Not Less Chlo Hayden

Murdoch $33.00

Growing up, Chlo Hayden felt like she’d crash-landed on an alien planet where nothing made sense. Moving between schools, struggling to become a person society would accept, she was eventually was diagnosed with autism and ADHD. When a life-changing group of allies show her that different doesn’t mean less, she celebrated her true voice and found her happily ever after. An empowering guide that inspires you to create a more inclusive world where everyone feels like they belong.

Brainwashed Daniel Pick

Profile Books $40.00

In 1953, at the end of the Korean War, twenty-two British and American prisoners of war were released - and chose to stay in China. The decision sparked panic in the West: Why didn’t they want to come home? Were the brainwashed? Daniel Pick delves into the mysterious world of mind control in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from The Manchurian Candidate to ISIS. This is a stimulating journey into the bizarre and fascinating world of thought control.

Reid All About It

Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm.

Illustrated by Kay Nielsen. The Folio Society, London. UK. 2016.

A limited numbered edition of 980 copies. This is No. 444.

First published in 1925 with Nielsen’s illustrations. Bound in full white buckram, blocked in gold foil and screen printed in turquoise to the front panel and spine. Top edge gilt. Typeset in Caslon on Caxton Wove Paper, with twelve colour illustrations printed on Arctic coated paper tipped onto text pages. The Endpapers are patterned with a design by Kay Neilsen in gold and orange. 30x24 cm. (8), 312 pp. Colour and black/white plates.

Enclosed in an original turquoise cloth solander box. It also contains a commentary booklet by Marina Warner - Dreams of Enchantment. Kay Nielsen’s Illustrations to Hansel and Gretel. 16 pp. The booklet is in a pocket inside the box—a fine copy.

The solander box is Near Fine with slight wear to the base. $900.00 This volume contains the stories: Hansel and Gretel; The Six Swans; Little Brother and Little Sister; The Fisherman and His Wife; The Drummer; Rosebud; The Spindle, the Shuttle and the Needle; Snowdrop; Jorinde and Joringel; The Goose Girl; Clever Alice; Cherry, or The Frog Bridge; The Three Little Men in the Wood; The Valiant Little Tailor; Roland; The Juniper Tree; Rapunzel; The Three Magic Gifts; Catskin; The Golden Goose; Rumpelstiltskin; The Two Brothers.

“The illustrator Kay Neilsen (1886-1957) - “the last great master of the Golden Age of Illustration” - came to prominence at the end of a period of great illustrators (including Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac). Though his work shows traces of their influence, there is a sharper, more disturbing edge. Nielsen also drew on the more disturbingly distinctive visions of the fin de siècle illustrator Aubrey Beardsley and elements of Art Nouveau, Art Deco and influences from further afield, from Japanese woodcuts and Persian and Mughal art.

The result is a heady, beguiling blend of styles, at once exalted and tender, consciously stylised yet consistently engaging.

The watercolours and drawings Nielsen produced for Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories are as accomplished as his celebrated illustrations for the collection of Norse stories, East of the Sun and West of the Moon (1914).

The Grimm volume displays the full range of Nielsen’s technique both in the rich palette of the twelve colour illustrations, featuring his characteristically lean and longlimbed heroes (see the King in The Six Swans and the hunter in The Two Brothers ), and in the arrestingly detailed black-andwhite images, including the raffish, Beardsleyesque knight of The Spindle, the Shuttle and the Needle, the ferociously malevolent witch of Rapunzel and the desperate figure of Clever Alice, running haplessly through the world, which also provides the book’s cover.

Kay Nielsen later worked for Walt Disney studios, contributing to ‘Fantasia’ (1940).

Sadly, his relationship with the studios soured. In a grimly ironic twist, he suffered the cruel destiny of some of the characters he had depicted with such tenderness, scraping a living and eventually dying in poverty. Yet his powerful legacy as one of the great book illustrators remains undiminished.”

- From The Folio Society.

This is the most beautiful book I have ever seen in over three decades of bookselling.

- Stephen Reid

Survival of The Richest Douglas Rushkoff

Scribe Pub, $30.00 Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive The Apocalypse. Rushkoff came to understand that these men were under the influence of The Mindset, a Silicon Valley-style certainty that they can break the laws of physics, economics, and morality to escape a disaster of their own making - as long as they have enough money and the right technology. A mind-blowing work of social analysis that helps us rediscover humanity.

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Must-read new books From Text Publishing

The Chaos Machine Max Fisher

Hachette, $35.00 An essential book for our times, this is the story of how the world was driven mad by social media. From the election of populists like Trump and Bolsonaro, to the rampant spread of COVID-19 conspiracy theories as deadly as the pandemic itself; all of these are products of a breakdown in our social and political lives, a breakdown driven by the apps, companies and algorithms that compete constantly for our attention. Max Fisher shows us how we got to this uniquely perilous moment - and how we might get out of it.

The Joy of Science Jim Al-Khalili

Princeton Uni Pub, $30.00 Today’s world is unpredictable and full of contradictions, and navigating its complexities while trying to make the best decisions is far from easy. The Joy of Science presents 8 short lessons on how to unlock the clarity, empowerment, and joy of thinking and living a little more scientifically.

This brief guide to leading a more rational life, invites readers to engage with the world as scientists have been trained to do.

Puff Piece

A vitally important historical novel about Australia’s dark colonial past.

‘Unsentimental, truthful and profound.’

DON WATSON

Winner of the 2021 Michael Gifkins Prize.

A thrilling crime novel that unravels a series of mysterious child abductions in a small New Zealand town.

A meditation on faith, art, music, grief and much more—from cultural icon and bestselling author Nick Cave.

John Safran

Penguin, $23.00

Now in B-Format

The folks that bring you Marlboro - Philip Morris - are wheezing, slowly dying.

Cigarettes are out of favour with everyone, from world governments and investors to, increasingly, smokers. Philip Morris has announced they will shut down as a cigarette company, and relaunch as a health enterprise, dedicated to convincing the one billion smokers of the world to quit. The ever-curious John Safran is now determined to get a probing look into Big Tobacco and the vaping industry, and discover how words can be literally a matter of life and death.

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A wildly inventive collection of genrebending and surreal short stories from the acclaimed author of Severance.

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Kids

The Big Scream

Everyone has bad days, and it’s okay to be sad and upset sometimes. But what do you do when you want to let out a BIG SCREAM? In this loving story, little ones will learn how to pause, breathe in, and calm down.

Kristi Call & Denis Angelov (ill)

Little Simon, $15.00

Here We Are - Your Life on Earth

Oliver Jeffers

HarperCollins, $30.00

We are having a football party on Saturday 3rd of September at 2pm to celebrate the release of a new series called Football Fever written by sports journalist Kristin Darell. It’s great for sports fans and also kids who just love a good story Our year 5/6 kids are very lucky to have author Carla Fitzgerald joining us on Saturday 10th of September at 3:30pm to talk about her clever and very funny new book How To Be Prime Minister and Survive Grade 5.

Board Books

Well, hello. Welcome to this planet. We call it Earth.

We’re glad you found us.

Inspired by the exceptional, award-winning global picture book phenomenon, Here We Are, this baby record book makes the perfect gift for families to treasure forever!

For further details on all kids’ events and age recommendations, visit our website: www.gleebooks.com.au

Ages 0-2

Kids’ NonFiction

All events are free but bookings are essential. To book a spot or for more details, contact rachel@gleebooks.com.au

A History of Words for Children

Off To The Market

T&H, $30.00

Scribble Pub, $25.00

A history of the world told through the prism of language, exploring the uniquely human ability to transfer thoughts from one brain to another using words. From Shakespeare to Anne Frank, Martin Luther King to Greta Thunberg.

Sunday is market day. We are looking for pumpkin, apples, eggs, and bread. What else will we find? Where did it come from? Learn all about produce in this delightful child’s tour of a food market, full of fun facts, delicious new discoveries, and charming characters.

Mary Richards

Early Readers

Alice Oehr

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!

Games!

How To Be: The New Person Anna Branford, $16.00

When Hazel Morrison has to move to a whole new school, a project inspires her to create a how-to-guide for being “the new person.” Because everyone, sometime, will meet one, or be one!

Spotted! Around Australia Megan McKean $25.00

On any two cards there is only one item in common and they can all be spotted around Australia! Can you find it first?

Picture Books Ages 2- 5 Farmhouse

Sophie Blackall

Children’s Fiction Ages 8- 12

Which Way to Anywhere Cressida Cowell

Lothian, $25.00

Hachette, $23.00

Step inside the dollhouse-like interior of Farmhouse and relish the daily life of the family that lives there, rendered in impeccable, thrilling detail. Based on a real family and an actual farmhouse, this is a lavish and moving tribute to a beloved place.

K2 O’Hero is a seemingly ordinary boy from a truly extraordinary family.

What K2 doesn’t know is that he has a secret power to draw worlds beyond imagination. Using his power, he and his warring stepsiblings must work together to save the one thing they agree on, their baby sister.

Good Night, Little Bookstore Amy Cherrix & E. B. Goodale (ill)

Walker, $30.00 Join the Little Bookstore’s friendly staff as they draw the curtain on another busy day of browsing and matchmaking. Choose a bedtime story, say your good nights, and pet the shop’s feline mascot on your way out. Part lullaby, part love song, this is the perfect bedtime book.

The Zebra’s Great Escape Katherine Rundell & Sara Ogilvie (ill)

Bloomsbury, $30.00 Mink doesn’t believe in rules. She loves running wild and free. So, when a zebra appears in the square where she lives and she finds out that his parents have been captured by the evil Mr Spit, she knows that it’s up to her to help. An adventurous tale about bravery, friendship and the importance of taking action!

My Strange Shrinking Parents Zeno Sworder

T&H, $26.00 One boy’s parents travel from far-off lands to improve their son’s life. What does it mean when your parents are different? A heartbreaking and heart-warming story based on the author’s own migrant parents’ sacrifices creates a universal story about what it means to give to those you love.

The Very Hard Book

Amari and the Great Game B.B. Alston

Hardie Grant, $19.00 Twelve-year-old Amari is a Junior Agent at the Bureau of Supernatural Investigations, where she deals with all kinds of weird and wonderful creatures.

But that’s nothing compared to her biggest challenge: being accepted for who she is. For Amari is a magician, and magicians are the sworn enemies of the supernatural world.

Tilda

Sue Whiting & Martina Heiduczek (ill)

Walker, $18.00 Tilda Moss refuses to believe her papa has abandoned her and left her, alone and orphaned, no matter what Sister Agatha says. Papa promised he would be back for her as soon as he returns from the war. She is convinced Sister Agatha is out to get her. Something is amiss and Tilda needs to find out what before it is too late.

Football Fever Kristin Darell

Penguin, $15.00 It’s a new season for the Under 11s Merridale Fever! A new recruit all the way from England has never played in a mixed team and it’s shaking his confidence. Will advice from some very special football superstars help the team or will it end in disaster before it even begins?

Idan Ben-Barak & Philip Bunting (ill)

The Worlds We Leave Behind

A&U, $25.00

Penguin, $25.00

Can you forget this line? Dig half a hole? This book asks you to imagine and think about some things. That sounds easy, right? Anyone can think stuff. You don’t even need to be standing up. We shall see. Good luck. A very silly book that starts that ‘thinking’ journey and has a great deal of fun in the process.

A.F. Harrold & Levi Pinfold (ill)

A story about friendship, retribution, and finding the strength to face down monsters. Enraged at how unfair life is, Hex runs into an old woman in the woods who offers him an irresistable deal. But what Hex doesn’t know is that someone else has been offered the same deal. Can he find a way to put the world back to how it was?

Teen Fiction & YA

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Amelia Kahaney

A Walk In the Dark Jane Godwin

Lothian $17.00

‘It’s just a walk in the dark. What is there to worry about?’ When five teenagers head in to the forest that late afternoon, none of them is aware what the night will bring. Each will have to draw on their particular strengths to survive. Each will have to face the unknown, battling the elements, events beyond their control, and their own demons. It’s a night that will change everything. (12+)

Walker $20.00

Stone

Finbar Hawkins

As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow Zoulfa Katouh

Bloomsbury $17.00

Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. Now Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who flood through the doors. She knows that she should be thinking about leaving, but who will help the people of her beloved country if she doesn’t? Soon, Salama must learn to see the events around her for what they truly are, not a war, but a revolution and decide how she, too, will cry for Syria’s freedom. (14+)

Take a bow, Noah Mitchell Tobias Madden

Penguin $20.00

Noah is in love with his online best friend, and it’s a huge problem for various reasons. So, when Noah sees an opportunity to secretly meet his crush, he takes it. Even though it might involve lying to his bestfriend and also singing and dancing in front of people. Because love is worth the risk. And, really, what could possibly go wrong? (14+)

Unraveller

Frances Hardinge

PanMac $30.00

In a world where anyone can create a lifedestroying curse, only one person has the power to unravel them. Kellen does not fully understand his talent, but helps those transformed maliciously - including Nettle. Recovered from entrapment in bird form, she is now his constant companion, and closest ally. But Kellen has also been cursed, and unless he and Nettle can remove his curse, Kellen is in danger of unravelling everything – and everyone - around him. (12+)

Best friends Syd, Rain and Brie grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in the stifling California desert, desperately wishing for a way out. In the end, each of them will escape, but not in the way they expect. One will do it by dying, another by lying, a third by taking the fall. A deadly fire is set two weeks before the end of their senior year of high school and nothing will ever be the same. (14+)

Bloomsbury $15.00

On the day of his dad’s funeral, Sam finds a strange, black stone which he senses has supernatural power. But that is just the beginning. The stone increases Sam’s strength and speed at a single touch. Could this small, black stone really help bring back his dad? How can he cope with the turmoil in his head and all around him? An engrossing story that enchants you. (12+)

Graphic Novels Chippy Chasers Sam Cotton

Penguin, $15.00 On a sunny Sydney wharf, Stacey and Stanley watch enviously as customers feed on as many hot salty chippies as they want.

Fed up with having to scab for scraps with all the other seagulls, they seek out legendary chippy thief Steve-O to help them pull off the ultimate heist. A hilarious read. (6+)

Dirt by Sea

Michael Wagner & Tom Jellett (ill)

Penguin, $25.00

Daisy lives in inland Australia with her dad and her grandparents. When her dad realises that she’s never seen the beach and thinks the Australian anthem is about a country ‘dirt by sea’, he sets off to show her the ocean in a father-daughter trip along the Australian coast, inspired by the first holiday he took with Daisy’s mum.

Jessi’s Secret Language Ann M Martin & Chau Chan (ill)

Scholastic, $17.00

Jessi recently moved to Stoneybrook and is one of the newest members of The Babysitters Club. She learns sign language to babysit Matt, who is deaf since birth.

Jessi’s preparing for her school’s big show plus working on another secret just for Matt. Will she be able to pull it off?

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Highly Recommended Landlines

Raynor Winn

Penguin $40.00

As the fracture lines between nations grow wider, how do we relate to each other, and to the land? Are we united enough to see protection of the environment as a priority?

Chronicling her journey across Great Britain with trademark luminous prose, Raynor maps not only the physical terrain, but captures the collective consciousness of a country facing an uncertain path ahead.

Sex, Drugs and a Buddhist Monk Luke Kennedy

Simon & Schuster $33.00

A severely obese, depressed, anxious alcoholic and drug abuser, Luke Kennedy was trying to get his life together and reset his life, but he ventured over to Thailand for one last hurrah. He partied hard, overdid it, and his path collided with prostitutes, drug dealers, and violence. This story is an action-packed story of a fight to escape violence and deal with a Monk that forced him to confront his demons.

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Erika Fatland

Hachette $35.00

The Himalayas meander for more than two thousand kilometres through many different countries, where the world religions of Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism are interspersed with ancient shamanic beliefs. Modernity and tradition collide, while the great powers fight for influence. In this account Erika Fatland introduces us to the people she meets along her journey, and in particular the women, she takes us on a vivid and dizzying expedition at altitude through incredible landscapes and dramatic, unknown histories.

The Hero’s Way Tim Parks

Random House $23.00 Now in B-Format

Tim Parks follows the hair-raising journey of Garibaldi, revolutionary and future architect of a united Italy, 250-miles on foot from Rome to Ravenna across the Appenines, to look at Italy past and present. Immerse yourself in the story as Tim and his partner Eleonora follow Garibaldi and his pregnant wife Anita’s path way past the French and Austrian armies in an attempt to reach Venice.

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The Story of Art Without Men Katy Hessel

Random House $55.00

How many women artists do you know?

Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century?

Discover the glittering Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the nineteenth-century USA and the artist who really invented the Readymade. Have your sense of art history overturned, and your eyes opened to many art forms often overlooked or dismissed.

From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, this is the history of art as it’s never been told before.

In Perfect Shape Fritz Hansen

teNeues $99.00

When you step into the headquarters of Fritz Hansen in Allerød, you breathe in the spirit of a company that has made design history. The showroom, a mecca for students of design and architecture, displays pieces that have become icons, including the Series 7 chair and the Swan lounge chair.

Whether you’re leaving the world of Fritz Hansen in Allerød or closing this book, it will be with a wealth of new creative ideas and the knowledge that before sustainability became a trendy buzzword, Fritz Hansen was already practicing it in its purest sense, true to its motto of “Crafting Timeless Design”.

Orientalism Style

Assouline $195.00

The French Years Elissa Farran & Annie Maillis

Silvana Editoriale, $70.00 Françoise Gilot’s (born 1921) “French years” reveal an oeuvre that remains too little known, especially in France: after all, Gilot had dared to leave Picasso, who had instructed galleries and critics to reject her, and had told the story of her life with him in a bestselling volume, and had migrated to the US. Published for the artist’s 100th birthday, this book attempts to correct this deliberate eclipse of her accomplishment as a painter.

Francesca Woodman: Alternate Stories Chris Kraus

Margoo Marian, $99.50 Containing over forty vintage photographs by the pioneering American photographer, many of which have never before been seen. In the newly commissioned essay “Impure Alchemy,” critic and novelist Chris Kraus explores Francesca Woodman’s life via her work, drawing upon her journals and letters as primary source materials, and exploring the technical means and literary strategies that animate her works.

Mine Dal, Everybody’s Ataturk Mine Dal

Laurence Benaim

Peribo, $149

For centuries, the West has been fascinated by the mysterious allure of the Middle East and Asia, captivated by the curious customs, the exotic spices and colours of the bazaars, the romantic atmosphere of the graceful architecture and flowing garments. This book introduces Orientalism as a way of seeing, of perceiving, of sharing emotions and palettes of colours, sensations. Spotlighting some of the most iconic art movements and design styles and revealing their historical impact and continuing influence on our culture today.

In Everybody’s Atatürk, Zurich-based Turkish-Swiss photographer Mine Dal (born 1960) travels throughout Turkey--from urban centres to remote Anatolian villages and coastal towns--in search of the ubiquitous images of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the legendary founder of modern Turkey.

The Idea of Italy

Maria Antonella Pelizzari and Scott Wilcox

Yale Uni Press $82.95

Highly Recommended

A unique portrait of nineteenth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of the first generation of British photographers. This book examines the ways in which the new medium of photography influenced the British exploration, appreciation, and perception of Italy in the mid-nineteenth century.

Jamie Hayon: Elements Edited by Gestalten

Hayon Studio,, $115.00 The eagerly awaited second monograph of the visionary Spanish furniture and interior designer. “Elements” is the follow up to gestalten’s highly successful “Works”. The book compiles Jaime Hayon’s famed work for iconic brands and explores his relationship with materials, his theory of colour, his technique, his inspiration, his creative process. Jaime’s style and vision have come to be associated with the most prestigious interior design for hotels, restaurants and galleries. Blurring the lines between art, decoration and design, Hayon’s creations are full of serene playfulness and optimism

Decadence Thuy On

UWA Pub $25.00

Performing Arts & Poetry

Thuy On’s poems are always wry, epicurean and defiant, and this book underlines Thuy On’s unique place in Australian poetry.

Literate yet disarmingly unpretentious, wildly playful yet leavened with complex feeling, Decadence is a surreptitious delight.

It is a profound musing on literature and language, that deftly skewers the would-be gatekeepers of verse.

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Emily Jane O’Dell

Einstein’s Brain Mark O’Flynn

Puncher & Wattman $25.00

An extension of O’Flynn’s previous work Einstein’s Brain floats somewhere between the thistle and the hug. It contains great variety in terms of subject matter, form, style, and mood. There is a typical wit we have come to expect, a penchant for the quirky and the absurd, as well as a willingness to play with language. A concern with form ranges from the traditional to the freewheeling.

St. Martin’s Essentials $33.00

The Sound of Being Human

Jude Rogers

Blaise Cendrars Eric Robertson

Reaktion Books $55.00

In 1912 the young Frédéric-Louis Sauser arrived in France, carrying an experimental poem and a new identity. Blaise Cendrars was born. Over the next half-century, Cendrars wrote innovative poems, novels, essays, film scripts, and autobiographical prose. In this new account, Eric Robertson examines Cendrars’s work against a turbulent historical background and reassesses his contribution to twentieth-century literature.

Orion $33.00

T.S. Eliot & Robert McCrum

Nick Cave & Sean O’Hagan

Text Pub $45.00

Galileo Pub $75.00

Morning Light Gayelene Carbis

Puncher & Wattman $25.00

Jude Rogers explores why music plays such a deep-rooted role in our lives from before we are born to our last days. The book combines memoir and history to show how music can shape different versions of ourselves; how we rely upon music for comfort, for epiphanies, and for sexual and physical connection; how we grow with songs, and songs grow inside us. It is about music’s power to help us tell our own stories, whatever they are, and make them sing.

The Gloucester Notebook

Faith, Hope and Carnage Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Sean O’Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity. Drawing candidly on Cave’s life, from his early childhood to the present day, this book examines questions of belief, art, music, freedom, grief and love.

As one of the world’s most loved poets, Rumi’s poems are celebrated for their message of love and their beauty, but too often they are stripped of their mystical and spiritual meanings. This book offers a new reading of Rumi, contextualizing his work against the broader backdrop of Islamic mysticism and adding a richness and authenticity that is lacking in many Westernized conceptions of his work.

Gayelene Carbis’s second book of poetry, continues the scenes and preoccupations of her debut collection Anecdotal Evidence: childhood memories, lovers, therapy, Carnegie, poetry and confession—though Running Water with the difference this time that she is well Community Press into her stride, more sure of her voice, and $25.00 more able to push ideas and images beyond autobiography into that slightly surreal.

When T.S. Eliot died in 1965 he had no idea what had happened to his leather bound notebook which contained all of his work since 1909, but it had in fact been sold to the Berg Collection in the New York Public Library in 1958. But no announcement was made until 1968. This book provides an extraordinary glimpse into the mind of the young man who was to become the most admired poet of the twentieth century.

Arelhekenhe Angkentye

Akeyulerre Healing Centre

After selling out its first three print runs, a second edition of this beautiful anthology was needed. This second edition includes an additional poem by local heroines, Margaret Kemarre Turner and Maureen Jipiyiliya Nampijinpa O’Keefe, as well as a reinvigorated design by award winning book designer, Gemma Banks. It is an important contribution to the growing body of First Nations literature, particularly from remote Australia.

All About The ILF

The Indigienous Literacy Foundation is a national charity working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander remote Communities across Australia. Elizabeth (Publushing Projects Editor) and Emma (Marketing Coordinator) sat down for a chat to talk about the Indigenous Literacy Day, and the story of ILF so far.

Could you please tell us about the history of ILD? Emma: Indigenous Literacy Day was an initiative started by the ILF to celebrate Indigenous literacy in remote Communities. It has grown to be a national celebration of Stories, Languages and Cultures.

During the pandemic, the ILF incorporated a digital celebration which was a huge success. This year we will have a National Digital Event, and a Sydney Live Event. It is the first year we will hold both virtual and an invitation only in-person celebrations!

The ILF also uses this day to celebrate one of its published titles, this year bring ‘Winthali’ (available online), a traditional Bunuba story by Joe Ross and Stacey Bush. We will have a live reading of the book by the authors at our Sydney Live Event.

What is vision statement of the ILF? Emma: Our purpose is to invest in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities to provide the tools and resources they request to shape the direction of their children’s literacy future. Through investment in Community and strategic partnerships, the ILF supports sustainable and positive change in Indigenous literacy through the supply of books and a greater focus on the publication of Indigenous content.

We aim to advocate and build awareness among the wider Australian population of the strengths, knowledges and wisdoms held within remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities.

What are some of the success stories of the ILF? Emma: There are so many incredible success stories that I could share about our work over the last couple of years. Here are a few.

The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) is proud to have published three Graphic Novels in 2021 by four young and talented Indigenous authors and illustrators. Author Lauren Boyle and illustrator Alyssa Mason collaborated on the incredibly successful Storm Warning. This title has since been shortlisted for the Chief Minister’s NT Book Awards! Seraphina Newberry is from Alice Springs and wrote and illustrated Exo Dimensions. Together with Lauren & Alyssa, these three women are the first ever Indigenous female published graphic novelists. Declan Miller is the second Aboriginal male ever to be a published graphic novelist. His graphic novel, Mixed Feelings, is about the rich and diverse culture of Alice Springs. This group have formed an organisation called Stickmob, where they support each other in their graphic novel journeys.

Jarrampa and Big Fat Mummy Goanna are bilingual books in Walmajarri and English and produced in workshops with ILF Ambassador Alison Lester and author and publisher Jane Godwin. These books are from Fitzroy Crossing. Jarampa is about the challenge of hunting yabbies, written and illustrated

by Marshia Cook. Big Fat Mummy Goanna by Emma Bear is about a family on a hunting trip who learn about the importance of not hunting mummy goannas. These stories have been so well received by the Community that other Community members are looking to create their own stories. Jarrampa was shortlisted for the Speech Pathology Australia Book Awards.

The ILF also supported the Yirrkala School in Far North Arnhem Land in the translation of ‘readers’ into their First Language to encourage the next generation to learn the language ‘Readers’ are used in schools to help kids learn how to read. The Yirrkala School is bilingual and the Dhuwaya readers they had were printed in the 1980’s. They wanted to refresh their collection, and luckily a neighbouring school was able to help them in this process. A total of 106 readers were shared with Yirrkala School and the team translated them from Djambarrpuyŋu to Dhuwaya, meaning the students are able to use them to learn to read in their First Language! We were happy to support this important project.

Who do you publish? How do you organise books written by communities?

Elizabeth: The ILF works with playgroups, schools, language centres, and sometimes individuals from remote Indigenous Communities to publish books. Each project is different, and can often involve a number of different people, including Elders, families, children, translators, and linguists, among many others. We are Community-led, which means Communities approach us with their projects, and we provide the editorial and design support to publish their stories in languages of their choice.

How can people best support the ILF? Emma: Right now, people can support the ILF by engaging with our Indigenous Literacy Day event. Indigenous Literacy Day celebrates the Stories, Languages and Cultures of First Nations peoples. This year’s National Digital Event held on the 7th of September, is celebrated with Ambassadors Gregg Dreise and Jessica Mauboy!

Beyond this incredible celebration, you can fundraise for the ILF by holding a Great Book Swap or a fundraising event with your organisation, school, or community.

You can also make a tax-deductible donation. Every $10 donated represents the gifting of one book to a child in a remote Community. You can find out more on our website, ilf.org.au.

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What We’re Reading Ava Reviews East of Eden: The year isn’t over, but I can safely say that this will be my top read for 2022. East of Eden begins with two brothers and their politically corrupt father. The brothers’ paths diverge when Adam (the older brother) marries a beautiful psychopath named Cathy Ames. Cathy’s past is murky – she may or may not have killed someone – and for the next few decades she will manage to exploit and manipulate the weaknesses of everyone around her. I always love it when a book can surprise me, and with Eden, Steinback did exactly that: I expected to pick up a dusty, boring classic, and found myself absolutely riveted throughout. Steinbeck’s attitudes towards Asian Americans and women are refreshingly open minded, and this book feels quite contemporary.

Anna Reviews I Couldn’t Love You More: Three women, mothers and daughters and how the times they grew up in have shaped their life.

Changes in society have given them freedom of choice to live life on their own terms. Of love and loss and the search for answers to be able to move forward with hope and reconciliation.

Loved it.

Victoria Reviews Best of Friends: Another winner from Kamila Shamsie!

Just like Home Fire, this book deals with current issues occurring in the world - this time, racism, immigration and cyber bullying - but mostly it is about a strong, long lasting friendship between two girls, growing up in Karachi and moving to London to pursue successful careers. Beautifully written and unputdownable.

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