Good Things Come And Go
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Good Things Come And Go The stunning second novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
The Transformations The Transformations
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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 Found 2 Lost And Found 2
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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 Song The Last Love Song
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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 Collection
Dear Village The Taylor Jenkins Reid Collection $79.99
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
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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
Trial By Fire Trial By Fire
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Trial By Fire Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world’s most popular authors, with a billion copies of her novels sold to date. Her international bestsellers include Worthy Opponents, The Wedding Planner, and Palazzo. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina’s life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her work with the homeless; and the children’s books Pretty Minnie in Paris and Pretty Minnie in Hollywood. Danielle divides her time between Paris and her home in northern California.
The Portrait The Portrait
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The PortraitDanielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world’s most popular authors, with a billion copies of her novels sold to date. Her international bestsellers include Joy, Resurrection and Only the Brave. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina’s life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her work with the homeless; and the children’s books Pretty Minnie in Paris and Pretty Minnie in Hollywood. Danielle divides her time between Paris and her home in northern California.
Songs Of No Provenance
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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
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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
The Land Of Sweet Forever
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The Land Of Sweet ForeverFrom one of America's most beloved authors, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces, offering a fresh perspective on the remarkable literary mind of Harper Lee.From the beloved bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a posthumous collection of newly discovered writing, offering a fresh perspective on the remarkable literary mind behind To Kill a Mockingbird.Featuring an introduction by Casey Cep, Harper Lee's appointed biographer.Harper Lee remains a landmark figure in the American canon - thanks to Scout, Jem, Atticus, and the other indelible characters in her Pulitzer-winning debut, To Kill a Mockingbird; as well as for the darker, late-'50s version of small-town Alabama that emerged in Go Set a Watchman, her only other novel, published in 2015 after its rediscovery.The Land of Sweet Forever combines Lee's never-before-seen short stories and published nonfiction in a volume offering an unprecedented look at the development of her inimitable voice. Covering territory from the Alabama schoolyards of Lee's youth to the luncheonettes and movie houses of midcentury Manhattan, The Land of Sweet Forever invites still-vital conversations about politics, equality, travel, love, fiction, art, the American South, and what it means to lead an engaged and creative life.This collection comes with an introduction by Casey Cep, Harper Lee's appointed biographer, which provides illuminating background for our reading of these stories and connects them both to Lee's life and to her two novels.Combining Lee's early short fiction and later nonfiction, The Land of Sweet Forever offers an unprecedented look at the development of her inimitable voice.
Last One Out
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Last One OutJane Harper is the author of the international bestsellers The Dry, Force of Nature, The Lost Man, The Survivors and Exiles. Her books are published in forty territories worldwide, and The Dry and Force of Nature have been adapted into major motion pictures starring Eric Bana. The Survivors has been adapted into a Netflix TV series. Jane has won numerous top awards including the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year, the Australian Indie Awards Book of the Year, the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel, and the British Book Awards Crime and Thriller Book of the Year. Jane worked as a print journalist for thirteen years both in Australia and the UK, and now lives in Melbourne with her husband, two children, and two cats.
Heart The Lover
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Heart The LoverFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers comes a magnificent and intimate new novel of desire, friendship, loss, and the lasting impact of first love.
Thirst Trap
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Thirst Trap Gráinne O’Hare is a writer from Belfast based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She received a Northern Debut Award for Fiction from New Writing North in 2022, and was awarded funding by the Arts Council in 2023 for the development and completion of her first novel. She has also been shortlisted for the Francis MacManus Short Story Competition and the Bridport Prize, and came in the top three of the Benedict Kiely Short Story Competition in 2021 and 2022. She is Media Sub-Editor of Criticks reviews for the British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, and is currently completing a PhD on eighteenth-century women's life-writing at Newcastle University. Thirst Trap is her first novel.
A Long Winter
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A Long WinterColm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of several novels, including The Master, Brooklyn and The Magician, and two collections of stories. He has been three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Tóibín was appointed the Laureate for Irish Fiction 2022-2024.