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All it took was a lapse... a momentary lapse... to bring Clementine Jones'' world crashing down. Now she''s living like a hermit in small-town Katinga, coaching the local footy club. She''s supposed to be lying low, but here she is, with her team on the cusp of their first premiership in fifty years - and the whole bloody town counting on her, cheering her on. So why the hell would her star player quit on the eve of the finals? It''s a question she wishes she''d left alone. Others are starting to ask questions too - questions about her. Clem''s not the only one with a secret, and as tension builds, the dark violence just below the town''s surface threatens to erupt. Pretty soon there''ll be nowhere left for Clem to hide.

Daniel is a 16-year-old drug dealer, and he's going to jail. Then, suddenly, he's not. A courtroom intervention. A 'lifeline'; a 'last chance' and a long car ride to a big country house. Other 'gifted delinquents'. Where are they? It's not a school, despite the 'lessons' with the headsets and changing images. It's not a psych unit-not if the absence of medication means anything. It's not a jail, because Daniel's free to leave. Or that's what they tell him. He knows he's part of an experiment. But he doesn't know who's running it or what they're trying to prove. And he has no idea what they're doing to him.

The standalone sequel to the critically acclaimed thriller The Girl Without Skin! When journalist Matthew Cave’s half-sister disappears, leaving behind a trail of blood in an abandoned hut, he realises that they are both pawns in a game of life and death. As a young US soldier stationed in Greenland, their father took part in a secret experiment with deadly consequences. Accused of double homicide, Tom Cave fled. Now his case is reopened, and the demons of the past are unleashed. Is the father Matt’s been searching for his entire life a cold-blooded murderer? And can Matt track him down before the US military does? Tupaarnaq Siegstad, a young Inuit woman, returns to Nuuk to help her only friend save his sister’s life – and settle a few scores of her own. But as the pressure mounts, Matt starts to wonder: is Tupaarnaq really who he thinks she is? Translated by Charlotte Barslund. Danish title: 'Kold angst'.

These six short novels and stories achieve the majesty and power of the best of Patrick White''s great novels. They probe beneath the surface of events - a sexual lapse, the unaccustomed climate of a foreign country, interruptions in a cherished routine, a death, a toothache - to expose a deeper, truer reality.

Finn and Kas are surviving on the coast more than surviving: they''re enjoying the surf, the summer and being together. And now, the lights of Wentworth mean life could soon be back to normal. Finn is cautiously optimistic, but Kas knows she can never escape her status as a Siley, and that a return to slavery is a very real possibility. She''s nervous. And it turns out she''s right to be. When Kas is captured and taken inside the fences, Finn faces his greatest challenge yet. Land of Fences is the compelling third and final novel in Mark Smith''s highly acclaimed action-packed trilogy that began with The Road to Winter.

In free verse, Lauire Halse Anderson shares her life and calls women to action through deeply personal stories that she s never written about before. Searing and soul-searching, this important memoir is a denouncement of our society''s failures and a love letter to all the people with the courage to say #MeToo and #TimesUp, whether aloud, online, or only in their own hearts. Shout speaks truth to power in a loud, clear voice - and once you hear it, it is impossible to ignore.

The last time William Shakespeare and Virginia went missing Cassie found them sitting on a coiled hose behind the fire station, and Dad called her ''Cassie Andersen, Peacock Detective''. So this time she knows what to do she''ll look for clues and track them down. But the clues lead her in an unexpected direction and Cassie finds herself investigating a confusing mystery about her family.

A debut following a young woman's peaks and troughs through the adventure of motherhood in an America of wild variety and stark opposites. Kiesling is editor of "The Millions".

An exploration of the place of the infant in literature, drawing on Darrieussecq's experiences attempting to reconcile the demanding roles of 'mother' and 'writer'. Argues with ideas from Simone de Beauvoir. Translated by Penny Hueston.

A grotesque and humorous novel of the body's relationship to science and art set in the early twentieth century and also one-hundred years on, with visceral experiments looking into the places where life and love begin and end. "BOMB" describe the book as 'outrageous and insanely funny.'

40 books - from works by Tim Winton to Margaret Atwood, Homer and Chaucer to J. K. Rowling - never prescriptive, often funny, these stories celebrate the transformative power of reading.

A remarkable diary, published for the first time, a century after the war''s end.

The life story of fictional actor Alex Gray, an elderly woman who refuses to take death lying down. As 'edited' by Patrick White.

Inga Karlson died in a fire in New York in the 1930s, leaving behind three things: a phenomenally successful first novel, the scorched fragments of a second book--and a literary mystery that has captivated generations of readers. Nearly 50 years later, Brisbane bookseller Caddie Walker is jolted from her sleepy life in 1980s Brisbane, and driven to uncover the truth about this fascinating literary mystery.stery.

After the Great War, Richard Lovat Somers, a writer, and Harriet, his wife, leave disillusioned Europe for Australia. Almost immediately, Somers comes into the orbit of the charismatic ''Kangaroo'', who leads a shadowy political movement in Sydney. With its astonishing descriptions of the bush ''biding its time with a terrible ageless watchfulness'', and its free-form narrative, Kangaroo captivates and provokes. First published in 1923, D. H. Lawrence''s semi-autobiographical novel is among the most significant works in Australian literature.

Livy can''t remember her first visit to her grandmother''s house all the way across the world in Australia, though she does seem to recall a ''wrong chicken'' and something unusual about a black chess piece. She definitely doesn''t remember the strange little creature she finds in the wardrobe. His name is Bob, and he''s been waiting for her to come back for more than five years - that''s a very long time to sit in the dark. Livy and Bob piece together the mystery of who Bob is, and a beautiful friendship unfolds. Now Livy must help Bob find his way home. Bob is a tender and engaging story for young readers about loyalty and the power of imagination, set in an Australian country town.

A highly readable exploration of sexuality and associated identity as fluid across life, in a similar vein to Maggie Nelson and Rebecca Solnit.

Amal''s dreams of becoming a teacher one day are temporarily dashed when - as the eldest daughter - she must stay home from school to take care of her siblings. Amal is upset, but she doesn''t lose hope and finds ways to continue learning. Then the unimaginable happens - after an accidental run-in with the son of her village''s corrupt landlord, Amal must work as his family''s servant to pay off her own family''s debt. After inadvertently making an enemy of a girl named Nabila Amal realises she will have to find a way to work with others if they are ever to exact change in a cruel status quo.

The City of Hamburg Literature Prize-winning author emerges with a darkly humorous and philosophically rigorous exploration of the sweetness and wonder of the ordinary, as Katharina is presented with the quotidian and the jarring as the weekend begins.