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ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Caroline is the daughter of an exiled French aristocrat, who is living in London and practising as an apothecary with no mention of his once promising and extremely wealthy background. When he is found guilty of murder and eventually transported, her future is drastically altered.
Assuming the role of a wealthy widow and relocating to Hobart via America, she takes an abandoned cottage adjoining an overgrown vineyard, and settles into a new life, nurturing her secret ambitions to make champagne whilst holding the curiosity of the convict settlement at bay...
Told in different voices – hers, her father’s and a few minor characters – this is a confident and enthralling novel, richly detailed and satisfying, and quite different from anything else Heather Rose has written before! Lindy
Verity Borthwick has a psychological thriller about the effects of working remotely and alone.
In the tin fields of Far North Queensland, Sarah, a fly-in-fly-out geologist, is working alone at a remote mine site. She spends her time in a sort of limbo, never quite fitting into her life at site or back home in Sydney with her fiancé.
Strange things keep happening at the mine site, and Sarah can try to explain them away as the ramblings of a lonely mind, but there are dead bodies from a mining accident a century ago at the old Dulcie Ada mine, still buried beneath more than a hundred metres of rock …
'Did I still love him? No, probably not. Just the memory of him. Except it wasn’t even that. It was probably that I was in love with the memory of the me who’d loved him before.’
Erin Hortle (The Octopus and I) brings us a story of a young woman surfer who is coming of age in Tasmania, where the natural world helps her find herself and navigate grief and trauma.
Author, visual artist and poet, Omar Musa, (Here Come the Dogs; Killernova) brings us a complex story about Roz and Harun, who, after many years abroad, return to Malaysian Borneo for the funeral of their father Yusuf. A renowned palm-oil baron during Malaysia's economic rise, Yusuf built the family's immense wealth by destroying huge tracts of rainforest. They want to return something their father stole from the forests of their homeland. In their quest, they are haunted – by the ghosts of colonialism, the ghosts of family, the ghosts of language, and the ghosts of the forest itself.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Natalia Figueroa Barroso's novel was a pleasure to turn to because it has a lot of heart and a very realistic family dynamic, moving between three generations of an Uruguayan/Australian family, with the focus being very much on the women – mothers, daughters, aunts. Moving from modern-day Australia in Part One - with Grachu raising three daughters and struggling to make ends meet in Western Sydney – to Part Two where we are taken to Uruguay in the 70s in the aftermath of a military coup. With Part Three, we return to modern-day with a trip back to Uruguay for Grachu and taking her eldest daughter Rita along. Lots of baggage and not all of it physical! Craig
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Andie looks back on her suburban Brisbane '70s childhood, trying to see the threads that led to adulthood. In her last year at primary school, she is the victim of a prank that leaves her friendless, and her beloved father leaves without warning. Her mother is alternately loving and angry, blaming Andie for things Andie barely understands. The one activity that united the family was greyhound racing and Andie plans to be a trainer like her father. As she grapples with her parents moving on to new partners – hatching plans to find her Dad and fix the marriage problems – she can't see that she is helpless and things will happen beyond her control and wishes...
This is a thoughtful, quiet and powerful novel. The writing is simply beautiful, Andie is a child whose wisdom is hard-bought, the adults are caught in their own inadequacies but are not evil people. My grandad was a backyard greyhound trainer, and I went to school in Brisbane in the '70s, and Toni Jordan has captured both the desperate gambling-and-winning dreams, and the atmosphere of school and childhood with an aching and compassionate realism. A stunning novel; I'd call it her best. Lindy
What happens when overnight the Next Big Thing becomes a nobody?
In Eleanor Kirk's debut novel, twenty-six-year-old Evelyn is well on her way to becoming an international opera star. . . until one night, mid-performance, when she inexplicably loses her voice. With no cure in sight, she's forced to put her dreams on pause, flying back to her hometown to wait out her recovery.
Sophie Green has a story about Laura, 57, Anna, 42, Evie, 33, and Josie, 19. Four women. Four loves. Four life-changing stories.
At a little salon by the sea in 1980s Australia, these very different women with intertwined lives will find themselves through love, heartbreak and learning to love again.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Valerie has reached middle age, and she's comfortable with it. Once a journalist, she has a flexi-job editing clients' documents for a big Perth consultancy firm, mostly keeping to herself and not getting involved with other staff. But then she learns that a young woman she hired has been sacked, ostensibly due to budgetary constraints, but in truth because she rejected the advances of one of the partners and had the gall to complain to HR...
In the meantime, Valerie has struck up a friendship with a young lawyer, Grace, who catches the same bus, in part because Valerie intervened when Grace was the target of creepy attention from a stranger. These instances of unwanted sexual behaviour throw into relief events from Valerie's past, when she wasn't as proactive or aware as these young women, and a high-profile case overseas causes her to pursue belated justice for herself.
Occasionally the writing veers into exposition, but Marcia van Zeller has delivered a very readable novel – and unfortunately too topical, still. Lindy
Aspiring playwright Emmy Darling has a secret. She has a few. But Emmy's biggest secret is that her name is actually Emiko Tanaka. She and her Japanese-Australian family were arrested, brutally split up and held in internment camps by the Australian government after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour. And it's this secret that Virginia van Belle, charismatic theatre impresario and leading lady, wants to bring to the masses.
Alli Parker's story about Emmy takes us from barbed-wire fences to the lush velvet seats of the Belleview Theatre
Witty and moving, Jessica Seaborn's novel is about friendships that come and go.
Charlie, a prime-time radio producer in her early thirties, has always had a big group of friends – until she left her husband, and they all sided with him. Now she finds herself floundering in a sea of awkward run-ins and silent group chats. When her best friend Genevieve starts moving on with her life, too, Charlie realises how few significant people she has around her.
UQP - winners of the ABIA 2023 Small Publisher of the Year award for the third year running - have released their First Nations Classics series.
The first instalment features eight award-winning titles by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers dating back to 1988. They feature new introductions from contemporary writers and the series covers a range of genres including memoirs, novels, short stories and poetry.
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