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FICTION
THE SHEPHERD’S HUT
Tim Winton
RRP $39.99
WARLIGHT
The Shepherd’s Hut is a searing look at what it takes
to keep love and hope alive in a parched and brutal
world. It is a crisp, fast, shocking story,
Our Price
an urgent masterpiece about solitude,
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unlikely friendship, and the raw
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business of survival.
Michael Ondaatje
RRP $29.99
DUE 14TH MAY
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It is 1945 London and 14-year-old Nathaniel and his
sister, Rachel, are abandoned by their parents, left in the
care of an enigmatic figure named The Moth. Years later
Nathaniel begins to uncover all he didn’t know at that
time, and it is this journey - through reality, recollection,
and imagination - that is told in this magnificent novel.
WATERMARK
Joanna Atherfold Finn
RRP $32.99
MISS BURMA
Watermark cracks open the coastal idyll of an Australian
seaside landscape to reveal fractured relationships and
innocence lost against a backdrop that is constantly
changing. In a world of uncertainty and disorder, the
characters in Watermark cross boundaries in situations
that are darkly comical or chaotic but, ultimately,
transformative.
Charmaine Craig
RRP $29.99
Set against the vibrant backdrop of Burma from the
1940s to the 1960s, Miss Burma is a powerful and
epic novel that follows one prominent Burmese family
struggling to overcome war and political repression while
trying to build a meaningful life.
THE DEATH OF NOAH GLASS
Gail Jones
RRP $29.99
FLAMES
Robbie Arnott
RRP $29.99
The art historian Noah Glass, having just returned from a
trip to Sicily, is discovered floating face down in the pool
at his Sydney apartment block. His adult children must
come to terms with the shock of their father’s death. But
a sculpture has gone missing from a museum in Palermo,
and Noah is a suspect. The police are investigating.
Flames sings out with joy and sadness. Utterly original in
conception, spellbinding in its descriptions of nature and
its celebration of the power of language, it announces the
arrival of a thrilling new voice in contemporary fiction.
WHAT THE LIGHT REVEALS
DUE 30TH APRIL
Mick McCoy
RRP $29.99
A SHOUT IN THE RUINS
Kevin Power
RRP $29.99
DUE 15TH MAY
Conrad is falsely accused of passing military secrets
to the Russians. His life and that of his family is turned
upside down by discrimination and fear…Told with
suspense and rich in characterisation and surprising plot
twists, this is a novel of both heart and intellect, a book
about the need to belong, what a family is, and why we
all need one.
Following his celebrated debut novel, The Yellow Birds,
Kevin Powers returns to the battlefield and its aftermath,
this time in Virginia, before and during the Civil War and
ninety years later. A Shout in the Ruins pinpoints with
emotional depth the nature of violence, the necessity of
love and compassion, and the fragility of life.
THE LIBRARIAN
IN THE GARDEN OF THE FUGITIVES
Salley Vickers
RRP $32.99
Ceridwen Dovey
RRP $32.99
Sylvia Blackwell moves to a market town in England
to start a new job as a children’s librarian. But the
apparently pleasant town is not all it seems. Then Sylvia’s
connection to two young people changes her life and puts
them, the library and her job under threat.
From the author of Only the Animals comes a gripping
novel of obsession, guilt, and the power of the past to
possess the present. Profoundly addictive and unsettling,
In the Garden of the Fugitives is a masterpiece of
duplicity and counter play, as brilliantly illuminating as it
is surprising.
THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS
THE BOOKSHOP OF THE BROKEN HEARTED
Arundhati Roy
RRP $19.99
Robert Hillman
RRP $29.99
When Tom Hope’s wife leaves and takes little Peter with
her, the farmer’s heart is broken. Enter Hannah Babel,
quixotic small town bookseller - and the most vivid
person - Tom has ever met. He dares to believe they could
make each other happy. But is he taking on a battle with
heartbreak he can barely even begin to imagine?
DUE 30TH APRIL
Here is a cast of unforgettable charac ters caught up in
the tide of history. Told with a whisper, with a shout, tears
and laughter, it is a love story and a provocation. Its
heroes, present and departed, human and animal, have
been broken by the world we live in and then mended by
love - and for this reason, they will never surrender.