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Hannah Bird has just arrived in Thailand. Disoriented and out of her depth, she meets Deven, a fierce and gutsy Australian expat who sweeps her into thrilling adventures rescuing elephants. As they head deeper and deeper into the fraught world of elephant tourism, their lives become tangled in ways Hannah never imagined. But how far will they go to save a life?
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- When Paula's dearest friend Stacey and her children are violently killed by the man who professed to love them deeply, Paula is deeply traumatised. Afterall, she is a GP and should have been able to protect her friend. So when a patient comes into her surgery with injuries she says are accidental, and the patient's son exhibits behaviours Paula recognises, she agonises over the right way to help. And who should she help? The woman and her son, or the husband who becomes a patient?
Driven by the need to do the right thing, Paula takes a step into a moral quagmire from which she will struggle to escape. Or is it a moral dilemma, when she can help the helpless? A clever novel of philosophical quandaries, of love and punishment, driven by strong characterisation and a gripping plot. Lindy
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Grace is a professional cookbook writer with a thriving social media presence. She also has two children, a largely-absent husband and the increasingly sinking feeling that something has to give. Her best friend Petra is a victim of domestic violence and a husband who has gambled away their savings and business. Shelley is struggling financially, stuck with a difficult toddler far from her English home. Christine is a gifted economist whose husband has taken a sabbatical from their marriage and left her in the lurch.
When these disparate (and desperate) women get together to form a commune, to share the workload of child rearing and costs of living, it all sounds like a wonderful idea... Set in Sydney's Northern Beaches, this is full of colour and humourous critiques of contemporary practices.Lindy
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- I read this is one sitting, because I was transfixed by the story, the writing and the originality of narration. It is set over the course of the performance of a Beckett play (never named, but "Happy Days") in Melbourne at the height of bushfire season.
Margot is a successful academic on the verge of forced retirement and a husband who is sinking into dementia and violence. Ivy is a philanthropic donor to the theatre company and a former student of Margot's. Summer works as an usher in the theatre. They all are nursing griefs and anxieties, heightened by the summer heat and impending threat of the fires on the city's outskirts.
As the play progresses, each woman muses, worries, frets and remembers the past, as they take in the startling spectacle unfolding on the stage.
At the centre of the book, in the interval, the novel turns into a playscript - a device that works extraordinarily well! Very finely written, and very highly recommended! Lindy Jones
The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison
Paperback
$32.99
Forthcoming
You can preorder this
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
Perfect for fans of uplifting book...
Paperback
$32.99
In Stock 😊
Following on from SIX MINUTES (a child-snatching!), Petronella McGovern returns with another captivating novel that continues her focus on stories full of mystery and tension, and that centre around home and family. This one is an intriguing tale of our times about kindness and betrayal, and the danger of good deeds...
2020 has been a year that, for many people, has sorely tested their resilience. So it is perfect that Ewa Ramsay's novel deals with existential challenge in this story of friendship, love and what it means to truly live when, sometimes, it may seem easier not to. Beautiful, funny, and universally relatable this story of hidden loneliness and the power of compassion and companionship reminds us that life is an adventure truly worth living.
In Farleigh Field
A Novel of World War II
Paperback
$29.95
Not in-store but you can order this
Mademoiselle Perle and Other Stories (riverrun editions)...
a new selection of the sharp, sensitive...
Paperback
$22.99
In Stock 😊
Collisions - Fictions of the Future
An Anthology of Australian Writers...
Paperback
$29.99
In Stock 😊
Good Citizens Need Not Fear
'Bright, funny, satirical and relevant'...
Paperback
$29.99
In Stock 😊
The Fire of Joy
Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart...
Hardback
$44.99
Not in-store but you can order this
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