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There are laughs, there is whimsy, there is romance, there is death and a hilarious American called ‘Rick’. Pigeonhole this book at your own risk.
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Myfanwy Jones is an exciting writer, and she puts those skills on full display in ‘Leap’ – a story of loss and learning to love again.
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A sprawling story about the life of a decent man who experiences the full horrors of war and then finds himself living in an ‘afterward’ he never expected to have.
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A quiet book about grief and loss that will reel you in, page by page, until you simply can’t put it down.
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Miles Franklin Award winner, Anna Funder turns her lens on domestic life with a novella that brims with acute observations about what it means to enter into middle age
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A powerful novel that resonates with emotional authenticity in challenging some universally held ‘truths’ about how and why people hurt newborn babies
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Suitable for teens 15+, this is the coming-of-age story of Lucy Taylor – a 16 year old whose world is turned upside down when her brother drowns in a surfing accident.
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In poetic prose, Stephanie Bishop tells the story of artist, Charlotte, and her poetry-loving husband, Henry, and their search for belonging in Australia, amid the torment of nostalgia for their true ‘home’.
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More than rural romance, this is a smart piece of fiction from Pamela Cook that engages the heart and the mind.
Victorian writer, Melanie Napthine is the winner of this year’s Margaret River Press Short Story Competition for her unsettling tale, ‘Lost Boy’ – after which the anthology of shortlistees is also named. (Shameless plug – my story ‘Glory Season’ is also published in the collection!) It was a genuine thrill to read this story, which is disturbing in the best…