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How to Move a Zoo by Kate Simpson & Owen Swan (illus.)
Whoever would have thought an elephant would walk through the Sydney streets onto a ferry and sail on it across the waters of Port Jackson to the new Taronga Zoo? In 1916, it happened! Jessie, the last inmate of the…
Mrs Gulliver by Valerie Martin
I felt such immense sorrow when I finished reading this delightful and utterly entertaining novel. It has everything I need in it: a narrator that I adored, clever and fast-witted women, a battle of the sexes, and a tropical background…
How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix
How does a relationship fall apart? And how does it fall back together? These are the questions Myriam Lacroix poses in her darkly comedic lesbian love/hate novel. Each chapter throws the two lovers, Myriam and Allison, into a different universe…
Exhibit by R.O. Kwon
Jin feels stuck. She’s at a crossroads in her career as a photographer, and lately she’s been unsatisfied with her marriage to her college sweetheart, Phillip. Phillip has begun expressing his desire for children, which Jin has never felt any…
Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin
Anna lives in an apartment in the Belleville neighbourhood of Paris. It’s 2019. In her late 30s, she’s recently suffered a painful miscarriage and has deferred returning to work as a psychotherapist. Her husband David is a lawyer currently living…
Briefly Very Beautiful by Roz Dineen
In a world past the brink of apocalypse, Cass is raising her three children in The City on her own. Her husband Nathaniel is a medic in a war in a foreign land, leaving her alone in a world where…
Parade by Rachel Cusk
Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy was so innovative and exciting that it transformed how many people think about fiction. Cusk’s new novel successfully continues her inventive style.
It starts with a famous artist who begins painting scenes that are upside down…
Liar’s Test by Ambelin Kwaymullina
The new novel by Ambelin Kwaymullina, the First Nations author of The Tribe trilogy and Catching Teller Crow, is an intricately plotted fantasy that features a gutsy, clever heroine who is an excellent liar.
Bell has been imprisoned in…
Lights Out, Little Dragon! by Debra Tidball & Rae Tan (illus.)
Award-winning Australian author Debra Tidball brings to life the tale of a very sleepy little dragon that refuses to go to bed, even though he’s tired – he’s just so desperate to stay awake and have fun.
The author invites…
Swift River by Essie Chambers
Some novels have such a powerful atmosphere that the sense of place and emotional weather stays with you forever, easily summoned to mind by the mere mention of the book’s title. Other works have characters so real they seem to…
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