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Come along to the SMSA to hear Shankari Chandran talk about her new novel, SAFE HAVEN, a story of displacement and seeking refuge — but ultimately of finding home — and the lengths you’ll go to find safety and love.
Shankari was raised in Canberra and spent a decade in London, working as a lawyer in the social justice field. She eventually returned home to Australia, where she now lives with her husband and four children. She is the author of Song of the Sun God, The Barrier and Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, which won the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Abbey's will be there too for you to meet Shankari, buy your copy and get it personally signed.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Ballarat in 1975, and Alice has everything she wants – until her husband has a car accident with their two children, and their daughter dies. On the same day Ellery, a mild-mannered teacher, is attacked by someone from his past, and he defends himself – although he doesn't remember exactly what happened when the police turn up...
As the days go past from that fateful day, Alice discovers a terrible truth about her husband, and Ellery is charged for murder. Alice and Ellery will find their lives entwined, when Alice has to cover his case for the newspaper she works for and comes to believe him innocent. An involving read, with believable characters who are thrown into their darkest nightmares and find the strength to keep going towards hope and resolution. Lindy
Victoria Purman brings us a charming, funny and pointed look at the golden years of radio broadcasting in post-war Australia, celebrating the extraordinary unseen women who wrote the radio plays that held a nation captive.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Rose has dementia, and while she loses words and memories, she doesn't understand how she has mislaid her friend. She isn't in her room at their nursing home. Rose knows she saw her on the ground outside her window looking up at the sky, so why is there a strange man in the room instead of her friend?
As she roams about the home, alternating between crafty and confused, small pieces of truth are being revealed – can she put them altogether to work out what is happening? And can she make sense of aspects of her own past that her recall tries and fails to catch?
With a cast of well-drawn characters seen through the filter of Rose's idiosyncratic mosaic of memory, this is an insight into the workings of a deteriorating brain, which cannot disguise the vital woman Rose once was and still is... Lindy
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Taking place over the course of the last year of WWII, this follows the fates of different people: Lotte, a nurse stationed in Aitape, New Guinea; Virgil, her first love, fighting in the jungles of New Guinea; Hiroko who runs the family ryokan on the sacred island of Miyajima and worries about her husband fighting for the Emperor 'somewhere hot'; and various scientists developing the 'gadget' at Los Alamos, including Robert Oppenheimer, his disaffected wife Kitty, and a young woman physicist, Mim Carver. Although it sounds like a lot of viewpoints in different places, McKinnon braids the stories together with a deft touch and distinctive voices, so it is easy to follow the strands. Each person is doing what is necessary to survive this episode of history, each has to put aside scruples or ingrained expectations, each yearns for something more...
A rich and moving novel about people caught up in something so much larger than them, but who are determined to keep something fine and true amongst the uncertainty and chaos, and to make connections that will sustain. Lindy
In Paul Lynch's Booker Prize winning novel Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and Eilish Stack can only watch helplessly as the world she knew disappears. When first her husband and then her eldest son vanish, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a collapsing society. How far will she go to save her family? And what – or who – is she willing to leave behind?
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- It's the summer of 2020, and Lara and her three adult daughters, who have returned home during the pandemic, are picking cherries on the family farm in Michigan. To pass the time, the girls beg Lara to tell a story they have always known – that when she was younger, she was an actress and for one season worked in a summer theatre with a man who went on to become a very famous actor. Each of the girls have a romantic and differing vision of this time, but as Lara retells the old story, she corrects their assumptions – but is she telling the whole story even now?
This is a beautiful novel about love and family, of how children never see their parents as anything else but parents, and certainly not as people with complicated pasts and desires. It is warm and wise and wholly engrossing, and because it's Patchett, full of gorgeous imagery and quietly impressive turns of phrase and characters you believe in. Every new Patchett book that comes out, I think is better than the last, but this one – this is her best. Lindy
Cameron Stewart's Why Do Horses Run? depicts the darkest aspects of life with frankness, humour and lyrical brilliance.
Missing in every sense of the word, a man walks into the landscape and doesn't stop. For three years he doesn't know why he keeps going, or whether he is walking towards something or away from it, until he comes to a remote tropical valley harbouring secrets and misfits. There a recently widowed woman, Hilda, allows Ingvar to live in a shed on her property. He hasn't spoken for three years and Hilda chats frequently with her dead husband, but somehow they tolerate each other as they both struggle with the haunting impact of their pasts and grief that won't let them go.
Julie Bennett brings us a stirring tale of mystery and romance, inspired by the life of 1920s Australian film icon and ‘million-dollar mermaid’ Annette Kellerman.
BLUE MOUNTAINS, 2024: Working on a documentary at the historic Carrington Hotel, videographer Emma Quinn discovers a box of handwritten letters belonging to Rose Carey, water dancer and golden girl of the silent film era.
SYDNEY, 1923: Rose Carey has faced enough scandal to last a lifetime. After an accident and near-death experience, the threat of bankruptcy, and rumours of her romantic entanglements, Rose decides to take matters into her own hands and propose to her business manager, Walter ...
Jonathan Seidler offers a story of love and loss, 'soundtracked' with a playlist.
Elly and Enzo love each other. Elly and Enzo are breaking up. Now, everything must go.
When Enzo suddenly walks out on Elly after ten years together, she finds herself marooned in an expensive East London flat, surrounded by all their belongings. She is shell-shocked. Inconsolable. She can't bear to look at the objects that she and Enzo collected together. Now she's listing it all on Marketplace: the table they found in Italy. The bike he bought for her birthday. Elly thinks that selling these items to total strangers will help her move on from Enzo and heal. But she's about to get a lot more than she bargained for.
Lisa Medved presents mystery in the art world.
Spanish Netherlands, 1620s: raised by her father Lucas to know her mind, Antonia Vorsterman sees everything that goes on in her world – all the rivalries and jealousies that course through the artists' studios and workshops of Antwerp.
Belgium, present day: haunted by the recent loss of her mother, art historian Charlotte Hubert moves to Antwerp to research her hero, the Baroque master Rubens, and to seek answers about the father she's never met.
Centuries apart, Charlotte's and Antonia's lives intertwine ...
Kyra Geddes deftly weaves literature, history and the possibility of truth to give the Drover's Wife a name.
Her family's story made Henry Lawson famous. But was it his story to tell? Fact and fiction meld into one in this stirring family saga set against shifting landscapes and pivotal moments in Australian history.
Lauren Chater takes us into the world of the 17th century restoration court of King Charles II. It is a world in which women, as a necessity, must use
their beauty to advance their cause.
The Beauties is a seductive story of rivalry, artistic passion and a woman bold enough to wield her beauty as a weapon.
Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion have created an enlightening story revolving around psychiatry registrar, Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic history, who thought she had seen it all in the emergency room. But that was nothing compared to the psychiatric ward at Menzies Hospital. Hannah must learn on the job in a strained medical system, as she and her fellow trainees deal with the common and the bizarre, the hilarious and the tragic, the treatable and the confronting.
Diane Armstrong creates a gripping novel based on a true story of espionage, passion and sacrifice set in the Middle East during World War I.
During a train journey across Turkey's Anatolian Plain in 1915, Shoshana Adelstein witnesses the slaughter of the Armenians and knows she has just come face to face with her destiny ...
Ernest Price brings a tale for the age: this one has all the elements … a wellness guru family matriarch, a pyramid scheme in play, a transgender son estranged from the family and a major family crisis ...
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.
The Pyramid of Needs
A darkly funny story about transphobia...
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For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain
Winner of the Scottish National...
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$22.99
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The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye
An epic historical novel of love,...
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$34.99
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The Maiden
Longlisted for the Women's Prize...
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$22.99
Forthcoming
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Wolves of Winter
The epic sequel to Essex Dogs from...
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$22.99
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An Idle Woman
gaslighting in the nineteenth century...
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$38.95
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