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Doris Brett
The Twelfth Raven is a literary journey through a series of crises, and an inspirational story of recovery after stroke. Doris Brett’s brave and unflinching memoir offers hope to the…
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Rebecca Mead
A celebration of George Eliot’s life, work and greatest novel, exploring through a mixture of literary biography, deep reading and personal memoir how Middlemarch answers fundamental questions about life and…
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Mandy Sayer
In the follow-up to her bestselling memoir, Dreamtime Alice, Mandy Sayer tells the story of the ten years she and Yusef Komunyakaa spent together, first as lovers, then as husband…
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Kate Atkinson
During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an…
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Suzanne McCourt
In the tradition of the novels of Anne Tyler and Eudora Welty,_ The Lost Child _is a beautifully written story about family and identity and growing up. Sylvie is five…
Karen Russell
In a godforsaken barn, Presidents Eisenhower, John Adams and Rutherford B Hayes are bemused to find themselves reincarnated as horses. Clyde and Magreb - he a traditional capes-and-coffins vampire, she…
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Marion Maddox
In Australia’s public schools, students are now routinely exposed to evangelism from very conservative Christian groups. Marion Maddox uncovers the surprising impact of these groups on once secular public schooling…
Elizabeth Strout
Jim, a sleek, successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a legal aid attorney who idolises Jim, has always taken it in his stride…
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Rachel Kushner
Reno mounts her motorcycle and sets a collision course for New York. In 1977 the city is alive with art, sensuality and danger. She falls in with a bohemian clique…
Julie Maroh
A tenderly told graphic novel for adults about a young woman who becomes captivated by a girl with blue hair.
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P.M. Newton
Beams Falling is the brilliantly compelling and gritty second novel by the rising star of Australian crime writing. A portrait of our recent past, it’s also a compulsive and utterly…
Kate Richards
Madness is a real world for the many thousands of people who are right now living within it. It never apologises. Sometimes it is a shadow, ever present, without regard…
Masha Gessen
The story of Pussy Riot, punk icons and Russian dissenters, and the untold story of their infamous trial and on-going global significance