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The Booker Prize judges praised The Promise as "a spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh", comparing it to the work of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf. "It is a strong, unambiguous commentary on the history of South Africa and of humanity itself that can best be summed up in the question: does true justice exist in this world? We felt this book really is a tour de force. It combines an extraordinary story with rich themes the history of the last 40 years in South Africa in an incredibly well-wrought package."
PLUM is both amusing and deeply moving and is the second novel from award-winning writer, actor and director for television, theatre and film, Brendan Cowell.
Peter 'The Plum' Lum is a 49-year-old ex-star NRL player, living with his son and girlfriend in Cronulla. He's living a pretty cruisey life until one day he suffers an epileptic fit and discovers he has a brain disorder as a result of the thousand-odd head knocks he took on the footy field in his 20-year-career. According to his neurologist, Plum has to make some changes - right now - or it's dementia... or even death.
A powerfully moving, authentic, big-hearted, angry and joyous novel of men, their inarticulate pain and what it takes for them to save themselves - from themselves. It's got a roaring energy, a raucous humour, a heart of gold and a poetic soul.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK - Diana Reid's debut novel centres on the friendship between two first-year university students, Eve and Michaela, as they navigate life on campus at a prestigious university in Sydney. This Australian take on the campus-novel explores themes of privilege, entitlement, wealth, toxic masculinity and class through Eve and Michaela's encounters with other uni students. Reid also tackles topics of feminism and power dynamics in relationships, as well as consent in a powerful and thought-provoking way.
The discussions about morality and virtue raised in Eve and Michaela's philosophy classes become pertinent to their personal lives and relationships, and through these discussions Reid asks us readers to likewise examine our definitions of what makes someone morally good or virtuous. I found Reid's characters strikingly real and intriguing and loved reading about local Sydney places! If you like Sally Rooney you will love this book, as Reid has a similar writing style and voice. Hannah
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK - It's been a few years since the brilliant All the Light We Cannot See but this great big hefty novel is well worth the wait. As with Light there are multiple characters' storylines weaving in and out, but as Doerr prefigures the chapters with the location and year, it is very easy to keep all the strands separate. There is Konstance, on board a spaceship travelling towards a planet she will never set foot upon. There is Anna, in Constantinople in 1439 to 1452, and Omeir in the Rhodope Mountains of Bulgaria in the same years. And there is Seymour in the early years of the 21st century, and Zeno whose quietly uneventful life stretches from the depression years mostly spent in Ohio, but with emphasis on the 20th of February 2020 when he is helping a group of primary school kids rehearse for a play they are performing the next night in their local library.
What links all these characters in their different eras, is a story from the ancient Greek - Diogenes' Cloud Cuckoo Land, which tells of the misadventures and travels of Aethon, a simple shepherd searching for a better life. Extracts of this fabled story introduce each part of the narratives, and it is a testament to Doerr's skills as a writer, that all these elements come together in a satisfying, and ultimately redemptive way. At times the stories are truly heartbreaking, and take place in very dark times, but the power of words and how story-telling (and the guardians of this knowledge - librarians) link people through the ages is the centre of this beautiful novel. I cannot recommend it highly enough - and as the prologue says: "Stranger, whoever you are, open this to learn what will amaze you." Lindy Jones
Love in the Time of Bertie
#15 Scotland St
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$34.99
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All Our Shimmering Skies
the next bestselling novel from...
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Mammoth
The bestselling comic novel narrated...
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The Mirror and the Light
#3 Thomas Cromwell
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$22.99
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The Mirror and the Light
#3 Thomas Cromwell
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$22.99
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Mademoiselle Perle and Other Stories (riverrun editions)...
a new selection of the sharp, sensitive...
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$22.99
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These Violent Delights
#1 These Violent Delights
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$19.99
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Collisions - Fictions of the Future
An Anthology of Australian Writers...
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$29.99
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Good Citizens Need Not Fear
'Bright, funny, satirical and relevant'...
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$29.99
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Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead
Faber Stories
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$7.99
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The Fire of Joy
Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart...
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$44.99
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Aflame
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$19.99
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