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ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- A writer mourns for her lost friend, another writer who was renowned and much loved and has died. Her friend suffered from deep and unshiftable depression in the last part of her life. It was a friendship that stretched back to their shared youth, their early years as mothers, and through the tribulations of the publishing and academic worlds.
This is a profoundly touching and quiet novel that hovers on the edge of memoir, as it is based on Adelaide's long friendship with Gabrielle Carey. It is a beautiful piece of writing, full of love and regrets and all the pain that comes from not being able to help a person who means so much to you. And then it is about acceptance and understanding and love, again. A gorgeous book... Lindy
Number 3 in the profound and engrossing medical drama, Menzies Mental Health, by bestsellers Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion, sees trainee psychiatrist Doctor Hannah Wright back where she worked as an intern: the general hospital.
From acclaimed writer Kathryn Heyman comes a beautiful, uplifting and personal novel ...
Roni is running out of time. As cancer claims her body, she begins a Book of Wonders, capturing the small, luminous moments she once overlooked. It's a final gift to the people she loves, and completing it means reckoning with both the flawed life she has lived and the fractured family she's about to leave behind.
Sasha Wasley brings us a story full of intrigue …
Their illicit meetings rapidly become a lifeline in a world where knowledge is power, and women are fed lies and half-truths. They start with small misdemeanours – getting their hands on banned books, stealing back historical records claimed by the men’s colleges. But over time, they become aware of a true literary injustice – and they slowly formulate a plan to put this historical wrong to right …
WINNER of the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer, Queensland Literary Awards (2024), Emily Lighezzolo's debut novel is a provocative tale about women's bodies, sex, autonomy – and the power of the image.
Lauren Keegan (All the Bees in the Hollows) once again takes us to small isolated community – this time, Scotland in 1695 – with fascinating cultural beliefs and myths.
Based on the selkies, shape-shifting women who shed their seal skins to seduce fishermen on the Orkney shores, this is the story of Malie, a young woman struggling with grief, oppression, her relationship with nature and her own inherent wildness within during Europe's 'little ice age'.
Sophie Stern's debut novel follows two sisters and their tumultuous relationship – from fracture and distance to reunion amidst their grandmother's crumbling house in Bondi.
Natasha Lester (The French Photographer) takes us to LA for a reimagining of Jane Eyre set at the infamous Chateau Marmont Hotel on Sunset Boulevard.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- A woman is visiting Switzerland after the death of her beloved father, who was born there but migrated to Australia many years ago. She had always hoped to travel with him in the land of his birth, and this trip is a journey of deep sadness and loss of what-could-have-been. But it is interleaved with her meditations on artists and writers who have lived and worked on the shores of Lac Leman (Geneva) and of mountain climbers from the past and their links to the worlds her mind inhabits. Her particular interest is of a reclusive artist who painted train station waiting rooms, but her musings move from the 18th century through to now. With a copy of the 1891 Baedeker's Guide, her interest in the literary world and artistic circles keeps her company, as she also navigates the grief of losing her father...
A quiet novel full of depth and profound beauty, one that asks you to pause over its fine sentences and the resonating connections of a reader to art, whenever or whyever it was created. Lindy
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Two Islands by Ian Kemish combines quiet suspense with a thoughtful exploration of trauma and moral responsibility.
Niko, a young man fleeing the aftermath of Balkan war crimes, is hidden on a remote Scottish island while an Australian investigator searches for him and those connected to the violence close in. Fergus and several villagers gradually become his protectors, their small acts of loyalty shaping the novel’s emotional core.
Kemish writes with restraint, showing how distance, memory, and community influence the fragile process of survival and belonging. Steve
Xavier Hennekinne offers a luminous meditation on love, memory, and the quiet devastations of time ...
A middle-aged man journeys through Japan with his wife, drifting between Kyoto's hushed temples and Tokyo's incandescent streets, while traversing the more elusive terrain of his own restless mind.
Legendary literary livewire Kathy Lette's new novel presents a tricky 'situation' that is the beginning of a wild roller-coaster ride ...
For twin sisters Isabel and Verity, the sisterhood rules were shattered when Verity had an affair with Izzy’s husband. Unforgivable, right? Devastated by her sister’s betrayal, Izzy casts Verity into social Siberia.
But when their mother goes missing, Verity and Izzy are forced to come together again to find her. And then the estranged sisters’ problems only get bigger. Their mother has a new younger lover and where there’s a will… he’d clearly like to be in it.
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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