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Life Kills
Miles Vertigan

$24.95 – Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing

“It was just one of those girly little fights we have my precious little sparkles my little fudgy wudgy bunnikins so drop the gun my little sparkles dear cos i know it isn’t loaded and i hate to break it to ya honey chil... Buy or find out more 


What The Family Needed
Steven Amsterdam

$24.95 – Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing

Read our Q&A with Steven Amsterdam about What the Family Needed.

"Okay, tell me which do you want: to be able to fly or to be invisible?"

And so begins the tale of one particularly gifted family as it finds itself. ... Buy or find out more 



August
Bernard Beckett

$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

Trapped in a car wreck, upside down, bleeding, broken and in pain, Tristan and Grace are staring at death.As they await their fate, with only a glimmer of hope they might be seen and rescued, we discover the stories of t... Buy or find out more 


Amerika
Franz Kafka

$19.95 – Paperback book / Schocken Books

Kafka began writing what he had entitled Der Verschollene (The Missing Person) in 1912 and wrote the last completed chapter in 1914. But it wasn’t until 1927, three years after his death, that Max Brod, Kafka’s friend an... Buy or find out more 



We, the Drowned
Carsten Jensen

$19.95 – Paperback book / Random House

An epic drama of adventure, courage, ruthlessness and passion by one of Scandinavia’s most acclaimed storytellers.

In 1848 a motley crew of Danish sailors sets sail from the small island town of Marstal to fight the Ge... Buy or find out more 


A Love Letter From A Stray Moon
Jay Griffiths

$19.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

I am Frida, and I am not Frida. I am the moon, hollowed out by remorse. I am many women, I answer to many names. My prayer is from the forests of Mexico, from the molten heart of the earth. Fly closer, fly nearer to me. ... Buy or find out more 



Foal's Bread
Gillian Mears

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin

Read our Q&A with Gillian Mears about Foal's Bread.

The sound of horses' hooves turns hollow on the farms west of Wirri. If a man can still ride, if he hasn't totally lost the use of his legs, if he hasn't died to t... Buy or find out more 


Melbourne
Sophie Cunningham

$29.95 – Hardcover book / New South Books

Read our Q&A with Sophie Cunningham about Melbourne.

Sophie Cunningham writes a year in the city’s life, a year that takes us from the heatwave that culminated on Black Saturday when temperatures soared to 47 degree... Buy or find out more 



The Bear: A History Of A Fallen King
Michel Pastoureau

$39.95 – Hardcover book / Harvard Univ Pr

The oldest discovered statue, fashioned some fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, is of a bear. The lion was not always king. From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear’s centrality in cults and mythologies left traces... Buy or find out more 


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