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Upstream: Selected Essays

Mary Oliver

A collection of essays from the beloved Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author encourages readers to keep moving, to lose themselves in the awe of the unknown…

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Violets

Kyung-Sook Shin, Anton Hur (trans.)

A story of thwarted desire, misogyny and erasure, Violets reveals the high stakes involved in one woman's desperate search for both autonomy and attachment in an unforgiving society.

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Long Island

Colm Toibin

A novel of enormous wit and profound emotional resonance from one of the world's finest writers.

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Ghost Cities

Siang Lu

Perfect for fans of Haruki Murakami, Ghost Cities is a profound and highly imaginative novel that cleverly draws on Chinese history to explore the absurdity of modern life and work.

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The Spoiled Heart

Sunjeev Sahota

From the twice Booker-nominated author of The Year of the Runaways and China Room, The Spoiled Heart is a magnificent novel of love, community and politics, set at the…

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Elsewhere

Yan Ge

The highly anticipated English-language debut from a literary star - nine iridescent, beguiling, witty and wonderous stories of dispossession and longing.

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The Master Bedroom

Tessa Hadley

Kate Flynn has always been a clever girl, brought up to believe in herself as something special. Now Kate’s forty-three and has given up her university career in London to…

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Murdle

G. T. Karber

One hundred murder mystery puzzles to solve for armchair detectives and game lovers

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It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over

Anne de Marcken

It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over asks how much of yourself can you lose before you are lost…and then what happens?

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How to Be Somebody Else

Miranda Pountney

An uncoming-of-age in New York City

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The Only Way to Make Bread

Cristina Quintero, Sarah Gonzales (illus.)

A delicious exploration of all kinds of breads, from sourdough to bannock to bao, that will tickle your taste buds and warm your heart.

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Your Blood, My Bones

Kelly Andrew

A seductively twisted romance about loyalty, fate, the lengths we go to hide the darkest parts of ourselves . . . and the people who love those parts most of…

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Convoys

Roger Knight

The first account of Britain's convoys during the Napoleonic Wars-showing how the protection of trade played a decisive role in victory

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Night Lunch

Eric Fan, Dena Seiferling (illus.)

A delectable picture book about midnight snacks, nocturnal creatures and unexpected generosity, inspired by lunch carts that were the predecessors of today's food trucks and diners.

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James

Percival Everett

From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees

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No Country for Idealists

Boris Frankel

This book is a dramatic account of the making of a family of 'subversives' in Australia and the USSR during the Cold War

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Where the Dark Stands Still

A.B. Poranek

A sweeping gothic fairytale romance for fans of Adalyn Grace, Brigid Kemmerer and V.E Schwab.

'Where the Dark Stands Still is a triumph; a deeply romantic debut with spiralling, atmospheric…

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

This is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love.

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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

V. E. Schwab

A Sunday Times-bestselling, award-nominated genre-defying tour-de-force of Faustian bargains, for fans of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Life After Life, and The Sudden Appearance of Hope.

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Kick the Latch

Kathryn Scanlan

Based on transcribed interviews with a former racehorse trainer from Iowa, Kick the Latch is a stunning work of fiction that investigates form, authenticity and idiosyncratic speech. This is an…

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River’s Edge

Kyoko Okazaki

Six high school friends' tangled relationship becomes increasingly tighter when they discover an unknown corpse near the river.

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We All Lived in Bondi Then

Georgia Blain

From the author of the multi-award-winning bestseller Between a Wolf and a Dog, a powerful collection of previously unpublished stories.

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Dear Son: Letters and Reflections from First Nations Fathers and Sons

Thomas Mayo

Dear Son shares heartfelt letters written by First Nations men about life, masculinity, love, culture and racism.

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The Reformatory

Tananarive Due

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephen Jones as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he…

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Garlic and the Vampire

Bree Paulsen

An enchanting, farm-fresh debut graphic novel starring an unusual heroine who is braver than she realizes.

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Our Wives Under The Sea

Julia Armfield

A haunting and moving debut novel about love, loss and grief - about what life there is the deep ocean and what happens when we go looking for it.

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The Idealist

Nicholas Jose

New work by celebrated novelist and essayist Nicholas Jose, set against the turmoil of the independence movement in East Timor

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Check & Mate

Ali Hazelwood

Life's moving pieces bring rival chess players together in a match for the heart.

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Legends & Lattes

Travis Baldree

Orc barbarian Viv is ready to hang up her sword and pursue a more peaceful passion: opening a coffee shop. But her past isn't ready to leave her behind -…

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The Devil Takes You Home

Gabino Iglesias

This genre-defying, Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker award-winning thriller follows a father desperate to salvage what's left of his family--even if it means a descent into violence.

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Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones

Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton's life told through the clothes that made her who she is today. A covetable companion to Dolly's bestselling coffee-table book Songteller (2020).

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Question 7

Richard Flanagan

Beginning at a love hotel by Japan’s Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction…

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Impossible Creatures

Katherine Rundell

It was a very fine day, until something tried to eat him.

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Ultrawild

Steve Mushin

Join maverick inventor Steve Mushin as he tackles climate change with an avalanche of mind-bending, scientifically plausible inventions to rewild cities and save the planet.

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Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver

Inspired by the unflinching truth-telling of David Copperfield, Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story.

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The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

Katherine Rundell, Talya Baldwin (illus.)

And each of them may soon disappear from the earth. A lavishly illustrated compendium of the staggering lives of some of the world’s most endangered animals, The Golden Mole is…

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Absolutely and Forever

Rose Tremain

How do you find the courage to make your own life? An electrifying novel about first love set in 1960s London and Paris from multiple bestseller, Rose Tremain

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Murtagh

Christopher Paolini

An epic new fantasy from the internationally bestselling author of Eragon

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The Woman in Me

Britney Spears

The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.

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Mr Chicken Goes to Mars

Leigh Hobbs

Mr Chicken's most ambitious journey yet will take him to the outer reaches of the known universe! From picture book maestro and former Australian Children's Laureate Leigh Hobbs.

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I Can Open That!

Shinsuke Yoshitake

A humorous new book from the acclaimed author-illustrator Shinsuke Yoshitake.

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August Blue

Deborah Levy

The mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home

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Gorilla City (The Lost Diary of Charlie Small, Volume 1)

Nick Ward

Charlie Small is twelve years old when he falls through a gap in space and time and ends up in a series of adventures which he records in a diary…

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Edenglassie

Melissa Lucashenko

In this epic novel set in Brisbane when First Nations people still outnumber the colonists, award-winning Goorie author Melissa Lucashenko tells two extraordinary stories set five generations apart.

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The Monsters We Defy

Leslye Penelope

A timely and dazzling historical fantasy that weaves together African American folk magic, history, and romance.

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Woo Hoo! You’re Doing Great!

Sandra Boynton

Bestselling, beloved author Sandra Boynton--and a very exuberant chicken!--have an important message to share in this inspiring and highly giftable all-ages picture book for every life milestone!

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Fed to Red Birds

Rijn Collins

Prepare to be bewitched by Iceland and the book that has enchanted readers for decades – and imprisoned one of them.

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The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson

The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of the power of fear.

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What we're reading

Upstream: Selected Essays

Violets

Long Island

Ghost Cities

The Spoiled Heart

Elsewhere

The Master Bedroom

Murdle

It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over

How to Be Somebody Else

The Only Way to Make Bread

Your Blood, My Bones

Convoys

Night Lunch

James

No Country for Idealists

Where the Dark Stands Still

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Kick the Latch

River’s Edge

We All Lived in Bondi Then

Dear Son: Letters and Reflections from First Nations Fathers and Sons

The Reformatory

Garlic and the Vampire

Our Wives Under The Sea

The Idealist

Check & Mate

Legends & Lattes

The Devil Takes You Home

Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones

Question 7

Impossible Creatures

Ultrawild

Demon Copperhead

The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

Absolutely and Forever

Murtagh

The Woman in Me

Mr Chicken Goes to Mars

I Can Open That!

August Blue

Gorilla City (The Lost Diary of Charlie Small, Volume 1)

Edenglassie

The Monsters We Defy

Woo Hoo! You’re Doing Great!

Fed to Red Birds

The Haunting of Hill House