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The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane: C.M. Millen & Andrea Wisnewski
This beautiful picture book, illustrated from paper-cut prints and watercolours, is a celebration of Medieval Celtic illumination.
A young monk, Theophane, is sometimes restless during the long days bent over his work, and loves above all to be out walking…
Mirror: Jeannie Baker
A new Jeannie Baker is cause for excitement, and her stunning latest picture book shows an artist and storyteller at her masterful best.
You open up the book to find two volumes that tell two contrasting stories, but ultimately the…
Adland: Searching for the Meaning of Life on a Branded Planet: James P. Othmer
James P. Othmer worked in advertising for twenty years, working his way from copywriter to creative director at agency giant Young & Rubicam, before leaving, burnt-out, to become a novelist. But he was soon drawn back to research this engrossing…
Impractical Jokes: Charlie Pickering
It was the summer of 1986 when, at what appeared to be a normal barbeque, Richard Opie pushed Ronald Pickering fully clothed into a swimming pool. What happened next would change their lives forever. Fasten your seatbelts and shove your…
The Invisible Bridge: Julie Orringer
The Invisible Bridge is Julie Orringer’s first novel – and it is brilliant. Her short-story collection, How to Breathe Underwater, was celebrated for being ‘fiercely beautiful’ (The New York Times). The Invisible Bridge is also beautifully written…
Anthropology of an American Girl: Hilary Thayer Hamann
Originally self-published, this ‘coming of age’ novel has been picked up by mainstream publishers and promises to become a cult classic.
Narrator Eveline Auerbach is in her final year of high school in East Hampton, New York in 1979. Eveline…
Equator: Wayne Ashton
Reading Equator is like immersing yourself in a performance of a butterfly dance while being mesmerised by history. The characters, Colonel David, Keep Left, Ellie-Isabela, the Mendozas and the Glass-Darlingtons, begin their traversing of time and place in 1947 Spain…
Errol, Fidel and the Cuban Rebel Girls: Boyd Anderson
It’s 1958. Hollywood star Errol Flynn is past his prime, living out life in Jamaica propped up by vodka, morphine and his underage companion, Beverley Aadland. A young Fidel Castro is on the verge of taking power in nearby Cuba…
This Is Shyness: Leanne Hall
Wildgirl is looking to forget, so when she meets Wolfboy she asks him to take her to a place where the sun never rises: Shyness. The suburb of Shyness isn’t a nice place to be after dark (not that you…
Treats: Sleigh Bells
Signed to M.I.A.’s N.E.E.T. Recordings – and careening musically down a similar vocal path, but via noise pop rowdiness instead – the Sleigh Bells are a band that startle on first listen, then quickly become addictive and entertaining. Treats is…
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