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I Say Tomato: Katie Wall
Sunny Triggs is an Australian soap actress, newly arrived in LA and already anxious and lonely. She’s fleeing heartbreak, throwing herself headlong into the search for that elusive ‘big break’. Along the way, she encounters a cast of colourful characters…
Leaving Suzie Pye: John Dale
Joe Morgan is 47 years old and his first waking thought is of the sex he hopes to have with single-mother-to-two-teenage-kids, Suzie Dye. She is a highly educated university lecturer and he has a dead-end job loaning technical gear to…
Popeye Never Told You: Childhood Memories Of The War: Rodney Hall
Rodney Hall, the much-awarded Australian writer (twice winner of the Miles Franklin) who was born in England, has written a memoir that brims with insight and overflows with passion.
Written in first person from the point of view of his…
Hotel Iris: Yoko Ogawa
Innocent teenager Mari unwillingly helps her strict mother out at the desk of the family’s Hotel Iris, rundown and unloved on the coast of Japan. When an older man and the prostitute he has taken there get into a fight…
Trust: Kate Veitch
Susanna Greenfield was surprised when a handsome, intelligent and accomplished young architect picked her. Susanna had never felt that she was either attractive or interesting and she was surprised and flattered by Gerry’s interest. She almost unquestioningly accepted his proposal…
Lips Touch: Three Times: Laini Taylor
Lips Touch: Three Times is one of those books that turns people who don’t like short stories into believers. This gorgeous book contains three short stories complete with goblins, a curse and lifelong secrets, and all revolving around a kiss…
Daywards: The Darklands Trilogy Book Three: Anthony Eaton
Daywards is the final installation in Anthony Eaton’s acclaimed Darklands trilogy. Dara, her brother Jaran and cousin Eyna live with the rest of their Clan in the caves and forests of a formidable Australian landscape one thousand years from now…
The Queen Must Die: K.A.S. Quinn
Despite being aimed at perhaps a slightly younger audience, fans of Mary Hoffman’s Stravaganti series will enjoy this debut novel.
The Queen Must Die is a fantastic (in both senses of the word) historical time-travel thriller. Katie Berger-Jones-Burg, only daughter…
The Lonely Polygamist: Brady Udall
What a title, huh? Makes you think to yourself, “A lonely polygamist? I call shenanigans!” But here we have it: forty-five year old Golden Richards, husband to four wives and twenty-eight children, alone with his emotions amongst his enormous, distracted…
Popeye Never Told You: Childhood Memories Of The War: Rodney Hall
Rodney Hall, the much-awarded Australian writer (twice winner of the Miles Franklin) who was born in England, has written a memoir that brims with insight and overflows with passion. Written in first person from the point of view of his…
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