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From the author of The River Mouth and Vertigo, comes a mustread medical thriller.From the author of The River Mouth and Vertigo, comes a must-read medical thriller.Did anyone know Dr Gabriel Beaufort better than Ruby Rose Gillespie? They were friends at high school. They are secret lovers now. And because he is also the lung-transplant surgeon who saved her life, Ruby will forever be in his debt.But then the body of Dr Beaufort is found in the wetlands next to the hospital, on the same day Ruby is readmitted with a sudden fever.As the crime scene investigation begins beneath her hospital window, Ruby starts to gather her own clues about her lover's last movements. But with each new discovery, she is haunted by the question of whether she really knew Gabriel Beaufort at all.

A powerful and poignant rural family story told by the acclaimed Fleur McDonald, bestselling author of Broad River Station and Into the Night.

A haunting novel about the ghosts we can't outrun, from the bestselling author of The Imitator.

A beautiful novel of self-discovery and new beginnings set against the backdrop of Paris and the isolated French coast, from the multi million-copy bestselling author of The Little Paris BookshopClaire Cousteau is one of France's most esteemed biologists, with a seemingly perfect family life, but she has become increasingly frustrated by her marriage and her husband's affairs.As the Cousteaus prepare for a summer in Brittany, Claire's son Nico asks if his new girlfriend, Julie, can join them? Julie has conundrums of her own - she is an ambitious woman, and unsure if Nico really is her match. But what the family don't realise is that Julie and Claire have met before, in a Parisian hotel during a night that Claire thought was her secret.Beneath the Breton sun, could their surprising bond alter the course of their lives for all time?

The brilliant and explosive novel from the author of the award-winning The Museum of Modern Love.

They say it takes 28 Questions to fall in love. Then what? 'Funny, clever, sad without self-pity, and with an uplift that is the writing itself' Jeanette Winterson 'If it's an addictive read you're after, consider this your next stop.' Stylist 'An intensely beautiful cleverly layered story of young queer love. An intense but entertaining read. Highly recommend.’ Juno Roche 'An intense, utterly believable queer coming-of-age novel - lyrical, sexy and beautifully written." Kate Davies, author of Polari-Prize winning In At The Deep End‘Reader, imagine yielding to someone with a power so strong she has the ability to slice time. Before. Her. After.’ When first-year music student Amalia stumbles into her Oxford college bar, she has no idea that everything is about to change. Seated across from her is Alex, a velvety-voiced fellow Australian with eyes the colour of her native sky. They strike up a friendship that is immediate - its intensity both thrilling and terrifying. As the days and weeks go by, they spend more and more time together: philosophising, hypothesising, questioning everything. There is nothing they cannot talk about, except the one thing that matters most. Dare they risk a romantic entanglement if it threatens this most perfect of friendships? Set across four years and five cities, and suffused with music, literature, art, dance, sex, and the exquisite pain and pleasure of first love, 28 Questions is a passionate and unforgettable first novel about love in all its guises, growing up, and figuring out who you are along the way.

From legendary Australian feminist writer Barbara Hanrahan, Annie Magdalene is a quietly moving, funny and perfectly formed novel of a beautifully ordinary life. With a new introduction from Farrin Foster. Born at the turn of the century, Annie Magdalene grows up in a suburban cottage in Adelaide. She is devoted to her family but makes up her mind when she is sixteen that she doesn’t want a husband or children, instead prioritising friendship, work, independence and a sense of self. In a style that is both simple and full of wonder, legendary Australian feminist artist and author Barbara Hanrahan creates a full portrait of life – its small pleasures, its beautiful flaws, and its inevitable intersections with death. First published in 1985, Annie Magdalene still feels entirely fresh, capturing sleepy war-era Australia as well as many universally enduring truths. With a new introduction from Farrin Foster, this is a moving, funny and perfectly formed novel of a beautifully ordinary life. ‘Quietly and gleefully challenging.’ – Farrin Foster ‘Hanrahan’s tour de force.’ – The Canberra Times ‘A small treasure.’ – Los Angeles Times

Holding On To ChaosNew York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lucy Score brings to life the "nosiest small town in upstate New York," Blue Moon Bend, in a small town romantic comedy featuring a klutzy romance novelist running from her past and the sexy sheriff who's like a human lie detector. Can he save Eva from her past and the town from itself?From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Things We Never Got Over"I want to be upfront with you. No surprises, no secrets. I want you, Eva. And I think you might be it for me."Romance novelist Eva Merrill is a hot mess running from her past. She doesn't mind telling a fib or two to protect her secrets and her family. It's too bad that she moved to the nosiest small town in the world with Sheriff Sexy-the tall, built, human lie detector. He's showing way too much interest in her and treating every conversation like it's an interrogation. Maybe that's because she accidentally showed him her boobs in the middle of downtown Blue Moon. Or maybe it's because he thinks she's about to commit a crime. It's definitely not that he's attracted to her. That only happens in her novels.Donovan Cardona loves his nice, quiet hometown, and he's got some pretty strong feelings when it comes to a certain klutzy redhead too. But his gut says she's hiding something. Just when he starts to peel back those layers to get to the naked truth, the entire town loses its collective mind-and inhibitions.Can he save the girl from her past and the town from itself?

Fall Into Temptation, a sexy romantic comedy by Lucy Score, takes place in the nosiest small town in upstate New York, Blue Moon Bend. It follows the story of Gianna, a hot mess yoga instructor, and her irresistible landlord, Beckett Pierce.Beckett, the most eligible bachelor in town, is not looking for romance after a fiery incident with his ex-girlfriend. Gianna, on the other hand, is juggling her two kids, a useless ex, and a new yoga studio, with no time for a demanding man.When their paths cross, the attraction is undeniable, but both know getting involved would be a disaster. However, a few stolen kisses lead to more trouble than they bargained for, especially when their families and the meddling townspeople of Blue Moon get involved.As tensions rise and chaos ensues, Gianna and Beckett must navigate their feelings and figure out if their relationship is worth the risk. Fall Into Temptation is a humorous and steamy read that will keep you entertained from start to finish.

No More Secrets #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lucy Score brings to life the "nosiest small town in upstate New York," Blue Moon Bend, in a charming and compelling, sexy romantic comedy with an intriguing loner on the slow path to healing and an ambitious out-of-towner who just keeps slipping past his defences.From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Things We Never Got Over"Are you calling dibs?" "She's a woman, not the last piece of f**king pie. And yes, I'm calling dibs if it keeps your hands off her."Carter Pierce wants to spend his days tending the family farm he inherited, and that's about it. After a tour of duty and a few bullet holes, he's looking forward to some peace and quiet in his hometown. Unfortunately, Blue Moon doesn't believe in peace and quiet. And his nosy neighbors sure as hell don't know how to mind their own business.As it turns out, neither does the big city journalist who arrives to interview him for a magazine article. Summer Lentz is out of place with her designer wardrobe and workaholic schedule. She asks too many questions and gets under his skin with her smart mouth and those denim-blue eyes. She's also typing his family's story a mile a minute at his kitchen table and sleeping in the bedroom across the hall. Carter's only chance for peace is to scare her away from farm life so he can go back to his comfortable, solitary existence.But Summer's got a stubborn streak and secrets of her own. And once Carter starts pulling at those threads, he's not so eager to send her packing. Will a nudge from the matchmaking Beautification Committee result in a happily ever after or a homegrown disaster?

Arborescence Rhett Davis is from the Wadawurrung Country of Geelong and its nearby coastal towns. His debut novel, Hovering, won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2020, and was shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction and the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction. Rhett lives in Geelong with his partner and two talkative cats.

In a small town in New Zealand, lifelong friends, Rachel, Julia and Chicky, are celebrating the end of school, enjoying the liminal space of the summer holidays before their lives will be transformed by university, careers and adulthood.The arrival of Miranda, an exotically beautiful and charismatic woman, will have a profound effect on the ostensibly concrete bond between the girls, revealing long-ignored cracks in their friendships.In The New Girl, Emily Perkins employs her sharp wit and incisive eye to demonstrate the profoundly destructive effects of resentment, mistrust and lies.

A captivating coming-of-age novel about love, sisterhood, secrets and betrayal'A subtle, clever, evocative book' Joanna Quinn, Guardian Book of the Day'Gorgeous and sad and gripping and moving' Marian Keyes'Slender, perfect and sparkling ... I'm stricken with love for this book' Meg Mason'Details the profound and complex nature of love and family ... Spare, moving and beautifully written' Jojo Moyes'Freud brings us directly inside the beating hearts of her characters. I loved this' Miranda Cowley Heller'Both delicate and profound about how relationships bind us together and pull us apart' Tracy Chevalier____________________________________________________From the author of Hideous Kinky comes a captivating novel about sisterhood, secrets, betrayal and love.For as long as Lucy can remember, she's been caught between loyalty to her rootless, idealistic mother and devotion to her fierce and exacting sister, Bea. From her unsettled childhood to her turbulent teenage years, she's been forced to make a choice.But as the sisters come of age and embark on their own experiments in love, drugs, work, motherhood they find their lives, and their relationships, increasingly in turmoil.Can the love they have for each other transcend the damage of the past? Or is the past too dangerous to examine?

Set in a dystopian near-future in which surveillance and isolation dominate daily life.One summer's day in 2056 in the mountains of southern France, a warning siren goes off- inside the belly of the receding glacier above the spa-centre village, a large pocket of water is about to give way-just as it did 150 years earlier. Hundreds of people died in the floods that followed.My Sister is a novel about the ancestral fear of environmental disaster, and the narrator Lucie's fear for her twin sister Clemence, who has returned to the village after a thirty-year absence.The two women shelter together beneath the glacier, waiting for the worst, surviving on dwindling supplies. Day by day, Clemence becomes more controlling of Lucie, as the ultimate catastrophe looms over them.My Sister is a spine-chilling story of sibling rivalry. Emmanuelle Salasc offers us a profound examination of the future of our relationship with nature-and of those close to us.

The heartfelt and hilarious new novel from the bestselling author of The Angry Women's Choir.Callie March is fascinated by human absurdity, including the habits of the upper class. So when she pushes her screen-addicted teenage son to join a local rowing club, she is thrilled to discover a whole new world of odd behaviours, irrational obsessions and riverside rooting.Thrust into a support crew and a very silly uniform, Callie has inadvertently volunteered for a season of pre-dawn parenting, endless fundraising, and pandering to insufferable dickheads. But she also finds friendship, intrigue and lust, while her son might just find love.Callie is torn between enchantment and repulsion, until a trail of corruption and scandal leads to deep suspicion. There's something fishy in the rowing shed, and Callie is determined to find out what lurks behind the closed doors of this sports club. In doing so, she will rock the boat - or better still, capsize it altogether.This novel is set in northern Tasmania. It contains profundity, profanity, heart-ache, bum chafe, terrible winners and very good losers.'A wickedly entertaining romp that's hilarious and heart-breaking all at once.' Amanda Hampson'Spit-out-your-tea, wet-your-pants funny!' Tess Woods 'Sharply observed social satire with a slice of whodunit. Set aside a weekend because you'll want to read it in one go.' Maggie Mackellar 'Funny, incisive, clever, but sadly a marriage wrecker... my husband moved out to sleep in another room while I was reading THE GOOD LOSERS, because my snorting was keeping him awake.' Kylie Ladd