FICTION

Lucky ThingA page-turning literary mystery set in a small community, where family and class tensions threaten to erupt after a brutal attack on a young student.Tom Baragwanath is an excellent writer... Once again, he has produced a powerful, action-packed tale...' Times"The nights aren't too cold yet, lucky thing. Otherwise we'd be having a different conversation."Jessica Mowbrie, beaten and dumped in the bush like a sack of garbage and lying comatose in a hospital bed- lucky to be alive.Lorraine Henry doesn't think Jess is so lucky. She thinks whoever hurt her needs to be hunted down. But the Masterton police are isolated and underresourced, and to be honest, even though Lorraine works for them, she thinks they're a bit hopeless.So it might be up to Lorraine to do the hunting. She's not getting any younger, of course. But she has all the police records at her fingertips-and as much information about who hates who as anyone in Masterton. Plus, she's used to being underestimated. And you should never underestimate a middle-aged woman with justice in her sights.In this follow-up to his award-winning debut novel Paper Cage, Tom Baragwanath delivers another bone-deep exploration of life in the margins of small-town New Zealand. Lucky Thing is a gripping new instalment in the Lorraine Henry series.

The TransformationsAndrew Pippos is a Sydney writer who lectures in creative writing at the University of Technology Sydney. His writing has appeared in Meanjin, The Sydney Review of Books, Catapult and Electric Literature. His novel, Lucky's, won The Readings Prize for Australian Fiction, and was shortlisted for the 2021 Miles Franklin award, and the Prime Minister's Literary award.

Lost And FoundDr Liz Byrski A.M. is a novelist, non-fiction writer, former journalist and ABC broadcaster, with more than fifty years' experience in the British and Australian media. She is the author of eleven bestselling novels, including Gang of Four and A Month of Sundays, as well as more than a dozen non-fiction books. Liz lives in Melbourne, Australia. She has two sons and twin grandsons.

The Last Love SongLucinda Riley was born in 1965 in Ireland and, after an early career as an actress in film, theatre and television, wrote her first novel aged twenty-four. Her books have been translated into forty languages and continue to strike an emotional chord with cultures all around the world.The Seven Sisters series specifically has become a global phenomenon, creating its own genre, and there are plans to create a multi-season TV series. In collaboration with her son Harry Whittaker, she also devised and wrote the Guardian Angels series of books for children.Lucinda was diagnosed with cancer in 2017 and died on 11 June 2021, surrounded by her family.

The Taylor Jenkins Reid CollectionNew York Times bestselling author Taylor Jenkins Reid’s acclaimed novels Forever, Interrupted, After I Do, Maybe in Another Life and One True Loves are now available together in this special boxed set!From an author who ‘writes with wit and true emotion that you can feel’ (Sarah Jio, New York Times bestselling author), this collection features four of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s most beloved and moving love stories.Forever, Interrupted, soon to be a Netflix limited series, proves that there’s more than one way to live happily ever after when a widow meets her mother-in-law for the first time and, together, the two women face grief and healing.After I Do follows a couple struggling with their marriage when they decide to take a year apart to fall back in love. The only catch – they can’t contact each other. Will they find their way back to one another or is this experiment doomed to fail?Maybe in Another Life explores the power of choice as a woman decides whether to go home after a night out on the town with her friend… or her old high school boyfriend, told in riveting, concurrent storylines.One True Loves, now a major motion picture starring Phillipa Soo, follows a woman who finds herself madly in love once again years after her husband’s plane goes missing. But what happens when her husband returns—having spent all those years trying to find his way back to her?

Chosen Family'Madeleine Gray writes so acutely about the mess of desire and the human condition.' Nigella LawsonA sexy, romantic, queer, epic literary novel for all readers by the award-winning author of the internationally acclaimed bestseller Green Dot.Books about friendship are not often described as love stories, but this is one.Nell Argall and Eve Bowman are both brilliant, odd and friendless. Traumatised in their first year of high school, their lives are changed forever when they meet.Set in Sydney over eighteen years, Chosen Family follows Nell and Eve as they grow into themselves, as they both love and destroy each other. From school, to university, to careers, to motherhood, Nell’s and Eve’s is a relationship that is a life-raft that is also a poison apple that is also a Medusan stare, frozen in time.Together, Nell and Eve are a double helix. Love, guilt, shame, joy – these emotions twist and turn between them. Can the wounds of adolescent betrayal ever really heal? Can we ever really understand what is going on in someone else’s head? And what’s love got to do, got to do with it?'Warning: Clear your schedule for the all-consuming read.' Books+Publishing‘I inhaled this book, holding my breath at passages that felt ripped straight from my high school diary in 2007.’ LUCINDA PRICE (@Froomes), author of All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot‘Hilarious and devastating ... This book is everything to me.’ SIANG LU, Miles Franklin-winning author of Ghost Cities

The much awaited new novel from the Miles Franklin Award-winning author, Sofie Laguna.The Underworld is for every reader you know; thinkers, laughers, empaths, quirky folk, queer folk, nostalgists, the young and those getting on. Readers seeking a happy ending and anyone ready to feel. Anyone who has ever been fourteen.Martha Mullins is a misfit. Her mother is glamorous, aloof and judgemental. Her father, mostly absent. Academic and shy, Martha finds herself fascinated by the underworld, a place she learns about in Roman mythology classes at school. To Martha, the underworld and its divine inhabitants provide a place of refuge, escape, imagination and desire. But Martha also finds joy in friendship. Connection. Intimacy. It's Martha's band of friends who show her the value in spontaneity, fun, laughter. Until things go wrong. How will Martha find her way in the world where she cannot be herself? Will she ever find a home for the love she feels? The Underworld is a wondrous novel from an author who wields her considerable powers with assuredness and grace. Funny, brave, insightful and clever, Martha will break your heart - then mend it - many times over.

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The Funeral Crashers A delightfully heartwarming story of four or more funerals and at least one wedding, from the bestselling author of Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year'There are a lot of lonely people in the world, Martin. Especially when you get to our age. This is the one place you can come where nobody judges. Besides, you don't need to have known somebody personally to celebrate their life.'Retired academic Martin Pottinger's romantic aspirations for the delectable head of his former university's archaeology department, Professor Mary Blake, seem about to be realised. If only he could devise a plan to manage the demands of his eccentric elderly mother, Edwina.Recently bereaved Grace Cavendish spends her days helping out at All Souls Church, making it her mission to drown out the Reverend Rod's tone-deaf hymn-singing and give each funeral recipient a hearty send-off. Yet the peace she craves remains elusive despite the comforts offered by psychic medium Rhondda and her eight-year-old son, Hudson.When Martin and Grace meet and bond at an All Souls service, they unwittingly set off a chain of events with far-reaching consequences. They become funeral crashers. But who could have predicted that crashing funerals might have such life-changing and life-affirming outcomes?'A warm, witty and uplifting tale of love in later life . . . I giggled, I was moved, and I now want to join Martin and Grace's choir. This is a story about life in all its mess and glory' CASSIE HAMER'Delightful and wise, heartfelt, heartbreaking and hilarious . . . a superb reminder that it is never too late in life to rediscover love, joy, redemption and friendship' SARAH CLUTTONPraise for the beloved novels of Joanna Nell including The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village:'Takes readers on a sweet journey' AUSTRALIAN'Tender and funny' WOMAN'S WEEKLY'Her best yet . . . a wonderful read about growing older and grabbing hold of life' WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN'A delight. Warm characters and observations and great pace' AMANDA HAMPSON'This heartwarming story about growing old gracefully - and disgracefully . . . is a funny, witty and thoroughly enjoyable read for all ages' DAILY TELEGRAPH

Eros A sexy modern take on ancient Greek myths.She keeps her eyes on me while she lights the end of my cigarette. I stare back at her. Something in the pills and in her eyes is opening up my muscles like hands parting from prayer, like trees breathing.Eros is a stunning collection of short stories, grounded in truth and coloured with dazzling imagination and alluring, unpredictable mystery. Revealing how queerness, nature and myth have been intertwined for eternity, these are stories of gods and goddesses. Of Zeus, of Eurydice, of Hermaphroditus, of Icarus before he flew into the sun. Stories of queer life, lust, revenge, wrath, passion and sex. Of yearning, love, loss. Some transformations span across a life, and others, an evening. Perspectives will shift. Houses will burn. Lovers will learn their fate.Zoe Terakes has skilfully blended myth and modernity to illuminate the complex and enduring truth of trans lives, resisting a history of erasure and delivering a sexy, soul-touching book to read to your lover . . . or yourself.'Goddamn, these stories set my queer heart alight. In finally making queer and trans undertones of ancient Greek myth explicit, Zoe Terakes has forged something both classic and eternal, timely and timeless.' BENJAMIN LAW'Fresh and timely . . . Immersive . . . Recommended for readers of Madeline Miller and Andrea Lawlor, this collection will not be easily forgotten.' BOOKS+PUBLISHING

Best Wishes From The Full Moon Coffee Shop <h4>THE #1 INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING SERIES</h4> <h2>Welcome back to the Full Moon Coffee Shop. What do you really want this Christmas?</h2> <h4>HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD AND TRANSLATED INTO 20 LANGUAGES</h4> At the Full Moon Coffee Shop, we don't take your order. Instead, we bring you desserts and drinks - selected just for you. In Japanese legend, cats are symbols of good luck. If you are kind to them, they'll return the favour one day. And if you are kind to the right cat, you might find yourself invited to a celestial cafe. The Full Moon Coffee Shop magically materialises with every full moon - plus one festive night a year. This Christmas, the sagacious cats open their doors once more to all lost souls in need of a guiding light. The season's first customer, Satomi, catches wind of her boyfriend's plan to propose on Christmas Eve, and feels torn between love and success. Her disaffected intern, Koyuki, has her own reasons for dreading the day, while Junko is visiting home for the first time after decades away. In this festive follow-up to the cosy classic, the customers of the Full Moon Coffee Shop stand at a wintry crossroads in their lives. With the help of some feline divinations, they will find the courage to follow their stars into the new year. 'Lose yourself in a world of talking cats with this cult bestseller' GLAMOUR 'Perfect for readers of feel-good fiction' BOOKLIST

Songs Of No Provenance Songs Of No ProvenanceBold, electrifying debut about a troubled indie folksinger for fans of Torrey Peters and Melissa Broder, set in a seductive music underworld reminiscent of Patti Smith or Viv Albertine.A suspenseful, wildly engaging novel following a musician spiraling in self-doubt and self-searching after a night - and a relationship - gone wrong.'A raw, emphatic novel of exceptional power.' - Carmen Maria Machado 'Takes your breath away.' - Katie KitamuraSongs of No Provenance tells the story of Joan Vole, an indie folk singer forever teetering on the edge of fame, who flees New York after committing a shocking sexual act onstage. With the threat of an internet storm looming over her, Joan seeks refuge at a writing camp for teenagers in rural Virginia, where she's forced to question her own toxic relationship to artmaking - and her complicated history with a friend and mentee - while finding new hope in her students and a deepening intimacy with a nonbinary artist and fellow camp staff member.Lydi Conklin boldly explores kink, shame, queer appropriation, fame hunger, cancel culture, trans nonbinary identity and how to make art without ego, all the while asking how Joan might forge a new future for herself.Suffused with flashbacks to a musical underworld as seductive as it is seedy, Songs of No Provenance is a visceral, gutsy and profound debut novel about love, self-acceptance and clawing oneself to safety.

The Lucky Sisters The Australian blockbuster of the year - read it before someone spoils the ending! A moving and heartfelt story about life, death and the miracles in between by the award-winning author of The Patterson Girls. What would you do if you thought each day on earth might just be your last?Lucky by name. Not so lucky by nature.Adopted twins Nora and Stevie Lucky have always been close, despite being total opposites. When their mother dies, Nora convinces Stevie to search for their biological parents, only to come face-to-face with a life-changing revelation that sends them spiralling in opposite directions.With their careers, love lives and even their sisterly bond at risk, they're going to need more than luck to survive.'Rachael Johns delivers one of her most heartfelt and emotionally layered novels yet ... a good choice for anyone who enjoyed Liane Moriarty's Here One Moment' Bookseller+Publisher