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From Penguin Classics comes an absolutely stunning collection of 20 Vintage Collector's Classics.
Finished beautifully with sprayed edges, silk bookmark ribbons, foiled covers, marbled endpapers and colours that really pop
~ these editions are perfect as gifts or to adorn your own bookshelf.
To enter the draw to win the prize pack, buy any book from the collection at Abbey's by 31 January 2026.
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David Szalay has won the Booker Prize 2025 for his sixth work of fiction, Flesh, becoming the first Hungarian-British author to win the award.
Written in spare prose, and spanning decades – from a Hungarian housing estate to the mansions of London’s rich elite – Flesh is a propulsive novel centred on an emotionally detached man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp...
Journalist, writer, podcaster and now author, Clare Stephens delves into fiction and creates a tale involving an internet pile on ...
It's an ordinary Tuesday morning when Ruby Williams' name starts trending online. She's uploaded an interview that has outraged journalist Felicity Cartwright, a social media personality. Suddenly Ruby is at the centre of a brutal public shaming, watching on in horror as her reputation is torn apart. At first Ruby thinks she can get on top of it if she can just explain herself better. But she soon realises she'll never be able to placate the tsunami of strangers baying for her blood ...
When Martin and Grace meet and bond at an All Souls service, they unwittingly set off a chain of events with far-reaching consequences. They become funeral crashers. But who could have predicted that crashing funerals might have such life-changing and life-affirming outcomes?
Joanna Nell (Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year) brings us a delightfully heartwarming story of four or more funerals and at least one wedding.
Paris, fashion … two words that never fail to marry, producing dreams of sophistication and style.
Sophie Beaumont’s novel takes you to Paris across several decades, with a story of women making their way in the fashion industry and their impact on what we wear and how we live.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Em and Nell meet in Year 8 at high school. Different in personality and backgrounds, they are both outsiders with unlovely parents, and form a deep bond that gets them through the indignities of the girls’ school they attend. But Em is also deeply attracted to Nell, who retreats from forms of attachment and affection, and withdraws from their friendship. So starts a sequence of events over 18 years, as the two come together, separate, betray and yearn.
Madeleine Gray's second novel is sometimes heartbreaking, but always with a depth of feeling and compassion, and a dash of sly wit. Lindy
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- In Judi Morison's family saga, spread over 60 years, 79-year-old Ruth is given a terminal diagnosis and feels the need to make amends for past actions. As a small-town 17-year-old, she had a baby to her Aboriginal boyfriend and was forced to adopt her out, but her subsequent husband and daughters never knew this. Dawn ran away from home when she was a young teen to escape abuse from her adoptive father, and though she finds a sense of belonging with local mob, life is difficult. How Ruth and Dawn find each other, and how healing and connection come about, is core to this heartfelt story. Lindy
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
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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