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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Charlotte Wood
You bring your children up to escape sorrow. You spend your best years trying to stop them witnessing it on television, in you, in your neighbours’ faces. Then you realise…
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Justin Torres
A spellbinding debut novel; three brothers come of age in a poverty stricken town in upstate New York.
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Karen Russell
The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline and Swamplandia!, their island home in the Florida Everglades and gator-wrestling theme park, is swiftly being encroached upon by a sophisticated competitor…
Carson McCullers
Presents three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl.
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J. D. Salinger
Written in Salinger’s typically irreverent style, these two stories offer a touching snapshot of the distraught mindset of early adulthood and are full of the insightful emotional observations and witty…
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Liane Moriarty
A stunning repackaging of Liane’s first novel, the author of the New York Times no. 1 bestsellers The Husband’s Secret and Big Little Lies.
Shirley Jackson
Living in the Blackwood family home with only her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian for company, Merricat just wants to preserve their delicate way of life.
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Akhil Sharma
For eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju, life in Dehli in the late 1970s follows a comfortable, predictable routine: bathing on the roof, queuing for milk, playing cricket in…
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Marilynne Robinson
Acclaimed on publication as a contemporary classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphans growing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of…
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Dodie Smith
Cassandra Mortmain lives with her impoverished family in a crumbling castle. Her journal records her life with her bored sister Rose, her stepmother Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her…
