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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 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
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 it is a very readable novel – and unfortunately too topical, still. Lindy
Katharine Pollock (Her Fidelity) introduces us to career wallflower Addilyn Acker, who is hiding a rich inner life: she's obsessed with cult feminist sci-fi film, Scarlett Fever, and runs a fan site dedicated to its handsome director Josh 'Jolly' Courtney. When she's invited to interview him live on stage at New York City's Cosmic Con, it seems almost too good to be true...
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
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Margot and Tess were inseparable for a brief period of time in their twenties, so when Margot gets an email from Tess offering an airfare to London, it's totally unexpected – and not just because Tess died twenty years ago!
Margot was meant to join Tess for travel and adventure, but she met Johnny and fell in love, partnership and work with him. But lately she's felt restless, exhausted and unappreciated, so she takes the plunge and travels to London where she is expected to undertake a series of requests in the company of Tess' stepbrother Leo. Each task reveals something different about Tess, who Margot hero-worshipped, and Margot discovers that Tess wasn't the woman she had built up in her mind. At the same time, she learns a lot about herself...
A tender and witty novel about friendship, taking chances and admitting to your mistakes – then fixing them. Lindy
Joanna Miller's debut novel, The Eights, follows the unlikely friendship of four of the first ever women to study at Oxford University. But Oxford's dreaming spires cast dark shadows – misogyny is still rife, influenza is still a threat, and the ghosts of the Great War are still very real indeed.
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.
A poignant, life-affirming love story from Jess Kitching about Angus and Layla, two people who are looking for more from life but find their lives are turned upside down when they enter an experiment that predicts when they will die.
Zeynab Gamieldien takes us into the world of Zaid Saban, who is on the cusp of a big career as a barrister when a traumatic event of his past resurfaces.
In his final year of school, Hass, his best friend, was arrested for murder. Now Hass's sister Amira has presented his diary to Zaid, which raises the question, was Hass innocent?
Suzanne Do takes us to a coastal community that's not always close-knit, where two tragedies collide.
Lilli Berry's ideal seaside life is upended by the death of her twin sister. Pete, a cultivated man who seems to live on the streets, has his own tragedy to bear: the disappearance of his little boy fifteen years ago.
When Lili learns Pete was the one who found her sister's body, the two of them plunge head-first into a web of secrets and lies, before emerging to confront the shocking truth.
Natalia Figueroa Barroso's debut novel is multilayered and often sharply funny. It tells the story of three indomitable women from one working-class family.
As the novel moves across time and place, from Western Sydney to Uruguay and back again, we realise that buried secrets and family trauma will always resurface, but it's also possible for broken connections to mend.
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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