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Eye of a rook [Paperback]

Eye of a rook [Paperback]
TaylorJosephine
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In 1860s London, Arthur sees his wife, Emily, suddenly struck down by a pain for which she can find no words, forced to endure harmful treatments and reliant on him for guidance. Meanwhile, in contemporary Perth, Alice, a writer, and her older husband, Duncan, find their marriage threatened a...

 

 

O [Paperback]

O [Paperback]
CarrollSteven, 1949-
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Occupied France, 1943. France's most shameful hour. In these dark times, Dominique starts an illicit affair with a distinguished publisher, a married man. He introduces her to the Resistance, and she comes to have a taste for the clandestine life - she has never felt more alive. Shortly after the...

 

The beach caves

The beach caves
ShearstonTrevor, 1946-
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'Please. I'm in hell!' The truth of that was in his face. The rims of his eyes were red-raw, his hair was matted, he hadn't shaved since knocking at her door, when he'd been clean-shaven - one of the few details she remembered of that blurred encounter. 'I know why you're avoiding me. 

 

Born into this [Paperback]

Born into this [Paperback]
ThompsonAdam
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Engaging, thought-provoking stories from a young Tasmanian Aboriginal author who addresses universal themes - identity, racism, heritage destruction - from a wholly original perspective. The stories in BornIntoThis throw light on a world of unique cultural practice and perspective, from I...

 

 

The speechwriter [Paperback]

The speechwriter [Paperback]
McKenzie-MurrayMartin
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In his fiction debut, erstwhile speechwriter and Saturday Paper journalist Martin McKenzie-Murray takes us on a frantic, funny, and surreal journey through the corridors of power. Toby, former speechwriter to the PM, has reached a new low- locked behind bars in a high-security priso...

 

 

Sargasso [Paperback]

Sargasso [Paperback]
GeorgeKathy
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An empty house, a lonely shore, an enigmatic, brooding man-child waiting for her return ... a trip to the dark lands of Australian Gothic, for readers of Kate Morton and Hannah Richell. Last night I dreamt I went to Sargasso again... As a child, Hannah lived at Sargasso, the isolated beachsid...

 

Low expectations

Low expectations
Everly-WilsonStuart
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I begin to record the history of it all, because if I don't I will explode, leaving nothing to tell of me but a pile of ash. In this history I will try to leave nothing out, but I will also be careful not to incorporate any extraneous unnecessary shit. Like objectivity. Objectivity is for those w...

 

 

From where I fell [Paperback]

From where I fell [Paperback]
JohnsonSusan, 1956-
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An anguished email from Pamela Robinson in Australia to her ex-husband in Paris accidentally ends up in the inbox of New York State teacher Chrisanthi Woods. Chrisanthi is sympathetic to Pamela's struggles and the women begin to tell each other the stories and secrets of their lives. Pamela, re...

 

 

Friends & dark shapes [Paperback]

Friends & dark shapes [Paperback]
BedfordKavita
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A group of friends moves into a share house in Redfern. They are all on the cusp of thirty and big life changes, navigating insecure employment and housing, second-generation identity, online dating and social alienation - and one of them, our narrator, has just lost her father.

 

 

Tipping

Tipping
GeorgeAnna
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Liv Winsome, working mother of three sons, wife to decent if distracted Duncan, is overwhelmed. And losing her hair. Her doctor has told her she needs to slow down, do less. Focus on what's important. After Jai, one of her fourteen-year-old twins, is involved in a sexting scandal, Liv realises th...

 

 

The family doctor [Paperback]

The family doctor [Paperback]
OswaldDebra
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Paula is a dedicated suburban GP who is devastated by the murder of a friend and her children by their estranged husband and father. Stacey and the children had been staying with her after fleeing his control, and Paula is haunted by the thought that she couldn't protect them when they most...

 

New animal [Paperback]

New animal [Paperback]
BaxterElla
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... most nights I find myself trying to combine with someone else to become this two-headed thing with flailing limbs, chomping teeth, and tangled hair. This newanimal. I am medicated by another body. Drunk on warm skin. Dumbly high on the damp friction between them and me. It's not easy get...

 

Chasing the McCubbin [Paperback]

Chasing the McCubbin [Paperback]
ScaunichSandi
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The Pines, an outer Melbourne suburb down on its luck. A country in the grip of recession. Experienced collector Ron senses new possibilities: swift evictions provide hard-rubbish to scour and garage-sales have doubled. There's only one problem: since losing his wife, Ron has struggled to nav...

 

Ash Mountain [Paperback]

Ash Mountain [Paperback]
FitzGeraldHelen, 1966-
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Fran thought she'd never return to AshMountain but her dad has become ill, her relationship is over, and she hates her dead-end job in the city anyway. In a blistering summer, childhood memories prick at her fragile self-esteem as old friendships and rivalries are renewed and new ones forged...

 

The last bookshop

The last bookshop
YoungEmma
 
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Cait is a bookshop owner and book nerd whose social life revolves around her mobile bookselling service hand-picking titles for elderly clients, particularly the grandmotherly June. After a tough decade for retail, Book Fiend is the last bookshop in the CBD, and the last independe...
 
 

 

 
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