Force of Nature by Jane Harper

Signed copies available for pre-order at $27.99 ()

Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk returns in another addictive crime thriller from bestselling author Jane Harper. Five women reluctantly head out on a hike together at a corporate retreat. Only four return. The disappearance is of particular importance to Falk. The missing bushwalker – Alice Russell – is the whistleblower in his latest case and she was full of secrets. As he attempts to unravel the mystery, he soon realises that the dangers ran far deeper than even he suspected.

Available 26 September

The Life to Come by Michelle De Kretser

$27.99 ()

Pippa is a writer who longs for success. Celeste tries to convince herself that her feelings for her married lover are reciprocated. Ash makes strategic use of his childhood in Sri Lanka but blots out the memory of a tragedy from that time. Set in Sydney, Paris and Sri Lanka, The Life to Come is a dazzling meditation on intimacy, loneliness and our flawed perception of other people.

Available 27 September

Ali by Jonathan Eig

$39.99 ()

Jonathan Eig’s groundbreaking biography presents a stunning portrait of one of the most significant personalities of the second half of the twentieth century. We are not only taken inside the ring for some of the most famous bouts in boxing history, we also learn about his personal life, his finances, his faith and the moments when the first signs of his physical decline began to show. Ali was a symbol of freedom and courage, a hero to many, but this is also a very personal story of a warrior who vanquished every opponent but was finally brought down by his own stubborn refusal to quit.

Available 1 October

First Person by Richard Flanagan

Signed copies available for pre-order at $29.99 ()

Kif Kehlmann, a young penniless writer, is rung in the middle of the night by the notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of $700 million, Heidl offers Kehlmann the job of ghostwriting his memoir. He has six weeks to write the book, for which he’ll be paid $10,000. But as the writing gets under way, Kehlmann begins to fear that he is being corrupted by Heidl.

We have a limited number of exclusive leather bookmarks to give away with each purchase of First Person, in-store and online. Only while stocks last.

Available 2 October

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

$27.99 ()

Mesmerising, hauntingly beautiful, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller and a wealth of detail about organized crime, the merchant marine and the clash of classes in New York, Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan’s first historical novel is a masterpiece. Manhattan Beach is a deft, startling, intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women and men, America and the world.

Available 3 October

The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur

$24.99

The Sun and Her Flowers is Rupi Kaur’s long-awaited second collection of poetry. This is a vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing, ancestry and honouring one’s roots, expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself. Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming.

Available 3 October

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

$19.99 ()

A new John Green novel is always an excitement. This one all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. It’s a story about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. At the novel’s heart is Aza Holmes – a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.

Available 10 October

La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust Book 1) by Philip Pullman

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La Belle Sauvage is the first book of The Book of Dust trilogy in which Philip Pullman returns to the world of His Dark Materials. Young Malcolm Polstead and his daemon, Asta, live with his parents at the Trout Inn near Oxford. Across the River Thames is the Godstow Priory where the nuns live and with them, a baby by the name of Lyra Belacqua…

Please note, you can also buy the hardback edition of this novel at the special price of $32.99 ().

Available 19 October

The Passage of Love by Alex Miller

$29.99 ()

Sitting in a New York park, an old man holds a book and tries to accept that his contribution to the future is over. Instead, he remembers a youthful yearning for open horizons, for Australia, a yearning he now knows inspired his life as a writer. Instinctively he picks up his pen and starts at the beginning. In a rich blend of thoughtful and beautifully observed writing, the lives of a husband and wife are laid bare in their passionate struggle to engage with their individual creativity.

Available 25 October

Stories and True Stories by Helen Garner

Pick up both books for the special price of $49.99 ()

Text Publishing are releasing two handsome hardback books to celebrate Helen Garner’s 75th birthday, and her 50-year writing career. Stories brings together a collection of Garner’s short fiction, and True Stories brings together a collection of Garner’s short non-fiction.

We’re pleased to offer both books in a single pack at a special price.

Available 30 October

A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey

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A Long Way from Home is a celebration and interrogation of the Australia of Peter Carey’s childhood. He takes us on a wild ride around the country in 1954 by way of the famous Redex car trial, during which our protagonist, Willy Bachhuber, learns the poignant truth of his troubled past. It’s a tender and wonderfully wry, portrait of Australia in the 1950s.

Available 30 October

Tracker by Alexis Wright

$34.99 ()

Tracker is the new book by Miles Franklin-winning author Alexis Wright – a memoir of the charismatic Indigenous leader Tracker Tilmouth and an epic portrait of a important period in the political life of Australia. The book was composed by Wright from interviews with Tracker before he died, as well as with his family, friends and colleagues, weaving his and their stories together into a book that is as much a tribute to the role played by storytelling in contemporary Aboriginal life as it is to the legacy of a remarkable man.

Available 1 November

Saga Land by Richard Fidler & Kári Gíslason

$34.99 ()

Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author Kári Gíslason are good friends. They also share a deep attachment to the sagas of Iceland – the true stories of the first Viking families who settled on that remote island in the Middle Ages. In Saga Land, the two friends travel across Iceland, to the places where the sagas unfolded all those years ago. They cross fields, streams and fjords to immerse themselves in the folklore of this fiercely beautiful island. And there is another mission: to resolve a longstanding family mystery…

Available 1 November

Atlantic Black by A.S. Patrić

Signed copies available for $29.99

Katerina Klova and her mother are crossing the Atlantic by ocean liner. When Anne suffers a psychotic breakdown, Katerina is left alone on a ship full of strangers who span classes and stations, all of whom carry their ambitions, fears and obsessions with them. This story takes place over one day and night, New Year’s Eve, 1939. The RMS Aquitania steams across the Atlantic ocean. On the horizon the world is about to explode.

Available 1 November

Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

$39.99 ()

Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history – The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa – but in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and engineering. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology and weaponry. Now Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life, showing why we have much to learn from him.

Available 1 November

Mythos by Stephen Fry

$27.99 ()

The Greek myths are the greatest stories ever told, embedded deeply in the traditions, tales and cultural DNA of the West. In Stephen Fry’s hands the stories of the titans and gods become a brilliantly entertaining account of ribaldry and revelry, warfare and worship, debauchery, love affairs and life lessons, slayings and suicides, triumphs and tragedies.

Available 2 November

The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher Book 22) by Lee Child

$27.99 ()

Jack Reacher is taking an aimless stroll past a pawn shop in a small Midwestern town when he sees a West Point class ring from 2005 sitting in a window. He realises that it’s a woman cadet’s graduation present to herself but why would she give it up? Reacher’s a West Pointer too, and he knows what she went through to get it. Reacher tracks the ring back to its owner, step by step, down a criminal trail leading west. All he wants is to find the woman. If she’s OK, he’ll walk away. If she’s not – he’ll stop at nothing.

Available 7 November