Summer Reading Guide

This season’s best books selected by your favourite independent bookseller 2 Australian Fiction

ACT OF GRACE THE BEE AND SPECIAL THE BEST KIND SPECIAL PRICE Anna Krien PRICE THE ORANGE TREE OF BEAUTIFUL Following three very different but Melissa Ashley Frances Whiting interconnected stories – that of an Iraqi The lives of three women in 17th-century Florence is a young woman who doesn’t pianist who flees her home country during Paris are rocked by a brutal murder in this quite fit in. She’s close with her family, Saddam Hussein’s rule, an Australian boy richly imagined and meticulously researched especially her younger sister (and slightly living with a violent parent, and a woman historical novel. Marie Catherine D’Aulnoy, unwanted housemate) Isolde, but generally watching her father’s decline into early- famed writer and – long before the Brothers speaking, she isn’t a people person. Albert onset dementia – Anna Krien’s debut novel Grimm – inventor of fairy tales, battles a is quite the opposite – he’s an extrovert Act of Grace moves through different times crippling case of writer’s block. When her who thrives in social settings. The two work and spaces, eventually weaving these three friend Nicola Tiquet is accused of murdering together on ‘The Green Team’, spending their Black Inc PB narrative threads together. Krien’s subject her abusive husband, Marie Catherine and workdays planting trees and flowers. What $32.99 matter is confronting, but her prose retains a her daughter Angelina chase rumours, others think about them is often at odds with sense of clarity as she shifts the perspective allies and secrets across the city, searching who they truly are. The Best Kind of Beautiful Macmillan PB of the story from one character to another. Affirm HB for freedom within Louis XIV’s repressive WAS $32.99 is a novel of horticulture, swing dancing, This is a thought-provoking novel of great WAS $35 regime. As with her acclaimed debut, The NOW $29.99 oddballs, complementary personalities literary quality. NOW $29.99 Birdman’s Wife, Ashley elevates a forgotten and the ever-entertaining dynamics of big woman of history and casts a keen feminist families. More than anything, it is a warm, eye on the past in this dazzling dive into the funny and wry observation of the way THE BREEDING SEASON world of literary salons, allegorical tales and humans relate to one another. the subversive power of writing. Amanda Niehaus SPECIAL After delivering a stillborn child, Elise returns SPECIAL PRICE DAMASCUS to her Brisbane home with her partner, PRICE BRUNY Dan. In visceral, darkly poetic prose, this Christos Tsiolkas intensely atmospheric novel tracks the Heather Rose The author of The Slap and Barracuda emotional aftermath of their loss. Elise, a A novel of our times, Bruny is at once returns with his most ambitious novel to biologist, becomes convinced that her only gripping thriller and incisive social and date: a historical epic set in the decades solace is to be found through research and political commentary. Rose brings all the immediately following the death of Jesus isolation, while Dan throws himself into his acuteness she displayed in the award- Christ. Damascus centres on the life of the own work ghost-writing an autobiography winning The Museum of Modern Love (Allen apostle Paul, and recounts the establishment and growing influence of early Christianity Allen & Unwin PB for his reclusive artist uncle. As they both & Unwin PB $19.99) to this plot-driven $29.99 spiral in different directions, their grief builds novel set in a very near future where across the ancient world. The narrative to a devastating reckoning. Australian writer Chinese–Australian ties are ever closer. draws deeply on the gospels of the Bible, Amanda Niehaus has drawn plaudits from Astrid Coleman has escaped overseas from reimagining them as both indelibly familiar acclaimed authors such as Alice Sebold, a Tasmanian political dynasty, but is called and entirely foreign. Tsiolkas brings his Allen & Unwin characteristic grit and raw humanity to Krissy Kneen and Lidia Yuknavitch, and Allen & Unwin back from her work at the UN when a bomb WAS $32.99 brings down a half-constructed bridge PB Paul’s story, following him as he traverses deservedly so, as her fiction debut sits easily PB WAS $32.99 NOW $29.99 alongside these other writers’ works. The NOW $29.99 linking Bruny Island with the Tasmanian an ancient world that is as brutal as it is Breeding Season is an accomplished and mainland. Bruny raises questions about the beautiful. This is a powerful, wide-ranging evocative exploration of art and science, sex fragility and importance of democracy, and novel that explores masculinity, faith, and and death. the very real dangers of the current political the flaws and strengths of humanity. and environmental situation. But it’s also about such deeply personal matters as family THE DEATH OF JESUS ties, loyalty and compromise. FROM HERE ON, MONSTERS DECEMBER JM Coetzee RELEASE Elizabeth Bryer With The Death of Jesus, Nobel Prize– THE DROVER’S WIFE When antiquarian bookseller Cameron winner JM Coetzee concludes the surreal, Raybould is commissioned to appraise an fable-like trilogy he began with The Leah Purcell unusual rare book, she’s besieged by a series Childhood of Jesus and continued in The As a play, The Drover’s Wife was beloved of strange and troubling incidents. Something Schooldays of Jesus. This disconcerting and by audiences. Now, Leah Purcell has frightening seems to be taking place, or beguiling final instalment again transplants returned to the story, giving it a new life perhaps it already has. Author Elizabeth Bryer the refugee experience to a mythic, liminal in novel form. This novel (like the play) is is an award-winning translator of several setting. Ten-year-old David has endured a reimagining of Henry Lawson’s short books from Spanish to English and her displacement, migration and trauma, and story of the same name, telling the story of fiction debut is testament to her fascination $29.99 Picador PB Text HB has made a new life in an unknown city a lone woman living in the bush with her $29.99 with language: this is a story about words with his adoptive parents. Now he faces a small children. In the original, the woman and the power they contain. Throughout new challenge in the form of an inexplicable is confronted by a snake. 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Literary Award Winners

AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE CELESTIAL BODIES THE ERRATICS Tayari Jones Trent Dalton Jokha Al-Harthi Vicki Laveau-Harvie Penguin PB $19.99 4th Estate PB $19.99 Allen & Unwin PB $24.99 4th Estate PB $22.99 This elegantly written and Dalton’s extraordinarily This story of three Omani The 2019 Stella Prize was deeply affecting story of impressive debut novel was sisters set against the awarded to this powerful, family, love and injustice awarded the 2019 Book of backdrop of a society and darkly funny memoir of an won the 2019 Women’s the Year accolade at both country in transition won estranged daughter’s journey Prize for Fiction. the Australian Book Industry Al-Harthi the 2019 back into the emotional Awards and the Indie Book International . minefield and physical Awards. dangers of her family home.

GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER NORMAL PEOPLE THE OVERSTORY TOO MUCH LIP Sally Rooney Richard Powers Melissa Lucashenko Hamish Hamilton HB $35 Faber PB $19.99 Vintage PB $19.99 UQP PB $29.95 Joint winner of the 2019 Often described as the first Powers’ masterful novel Australia’s premier literary Booker Prize (with Margaret great millennial novelist, Irish about nine strangers brought prize, the Miles Franklin Atwood’s ), writer Sally Rooney won the together by an unfolding Award, went to Lucashenko’s Evaristo’s dynamic novel is a 2019 Book of the Year at the natural catastrophe was gritty, darkly comic novel love story to Black Britain told British Book Awards for this, awarded the 2019 Pulitzer about a multi-generational through the stories of 12 very her second novel. Prize for Fiction. Indigenous family tackling different women. the legacy of trauma and dispossession. Australian Fiction 3

HERE UNTIL AUGUST SPECIAL MAYBE THE HORSE THE OLD LIE Josephine Rowe PRICE WILL TALK Claire G Coleman A masterclass in the short form, these 10 Elliot Perlman Earth is under invasion by the ruthless forces stories traverse vastly different settings – Desperate to pay his mortgage and appease of the enormous alien Conglomeration. from the Snowy Mountains to the Catskills his increasingly distant wife, father-of-two Their weapons are unthinkably powerful, to a freezing Montreal winter. Josephine Stephen Maserov unexpectedly winds up attacking not just humans but our home Rowe’s writing orbits around these stark working as a corporate lawyer. Miserably planet itself. As in her acclaimed debut Terra natural environments, exploring the embedded within a deeply corrupt law Nullius, Noongar writer Claire G Coleman’s relationships of humans to one another firm, Stephen finds himself implicated by second novel is unique in the way it takes and to the world around them. 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Her writing is sharp, fast-paced to write ‘about place and memory with is a darkly funny response to our current and action-packed – but filled with heart a potency that pitches beauty against its moment and to the tensions underscored by and convincing characterisation. wreckage’ – these sublime, devastating the #MeToo movement. stories tread that line with delicacy and a heightened emotional intelligence. 1. Who was influenced by THERE WAS STILL LOVE Q Carla Bruni and Casablanca? Favel Parrett THE RICH MAN’S HOUSE Oscillating between multiple eras and Andrew McGahan settings – from the 1930s to the 1980s, WEARING PAPER DRESSES Set in the waters somewhere between from Prague to Melbourne – Favel Parrett’s Anne Brinsden Australia and Antarctica, The Rich Man’s third book traces the fortunes and struggles This evocative debut follows the rise and House is a mysterious novel from one of of a Czech family faced with forced fall of Elsie, a performer and artist, mother Australia’s most acclaimed writers. At the geographic and political separation across to Ruby and Marjorie, and partner to a foot of an otherworldly mountain springing generations. Yet despite the displacement wheat farmer who only wants the best for from lies the Observatory, a house and pain wrought by war, prejudice and his family. Told through the eyes of Elsie’s constructed by a reclusive billionaire. When intergenerational trauma, the bonds of daughters, the narrative centres on Elsie as Rita Gausse is invited to visit the mansion Hachette PB family remain unbroken. As in her two $29.99 her nerves fry in the Mallee heat and her under suspicious circumstances, she previous novels, Past the Shallows and creative self is destroyed by the winds and Allen & Unwin PB reluctantly accepts, only to find herself and a When the Night Comes, Parrett is particularly the relentless red dust. Brinsden’s prose has $32.99 handful of other guests soon cut off from the adept at inhabiting the insightful worldview Macmillan PB the pace of a freight train, outlining a disaster outside world. This is the 11th novel from of child characters without attributing false $32.99 waiting to happen and lives to be destroyed Miles Franklin winner Andrew McGahan, wisdom to them. There Was Still Love is and redeemed. Somewhere amongst it all is who sadly died from cancer earlier this a subtle, poignant tribute to the indelible a love story grounded in acceptance, and a year. Mixing historical fiction with a touch of strength of family, the power of matriarchs portrait of a country and people who give so surrealism, it's a bittersweet culmination to and sisterhood, and the special bond others can take. This is a wonderful read that his career. between grandparents and grandchildren. will appeal to lovers of Thea Astley, Rosalie Ham and Elizabeth Jolley. THE WEEKEND THE WHITE GIRL WOLFE ISLAND Charlotte Wood Tony Birch This new novel from Stella Prize–winning In this heartfelt and important novel, Tony Lucy Treloar author Charlotte Wood is a moving story Birch writes of Australia in the 1960s, and The writing of Melbourne-based author about the complexities of friendship and the of the immeasurable pain caused by the Lucy Treloar explores heartbreak brought realities of ageing. When Sylvie dies, her policies that created the stolen generation. by change and diminishing power. Here, three closest friends – retired restaurateur Matriarch Odette Brown must keep her fair- she looks at these themes through the Jude, academic Wendy and actress Adele skinned granddaughter Sissy hidden from eyes of Kitty, an independent artist who – are brought together to clean out Sylvie’s the authorities who are systematically and has been living alone on Wolfe Island beach house before it is sold. It should be brutally removing Aboriginal children from with her dog and memories until the a straightforward task, but the delicate their homes and the families who love them. arrival of her granddaughter. 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Like Treloar’s sharp and compassionate in her depiction of that charts the strength of familial love first novel, Salt Creek, this is excellent, the events that unfold. between generations. empathetic and powerful storytelling.

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INVENTED LIVES LUCKY TICKET MEET ME AT LENNON’S PARIS SAVAGES Andrea Goldsmith Joey Bui Melanie Myers Katherine Johnson Scribe PB $32.99 Text PB $29.99 UQP PB $29.95 Ventura PB $32.99 Set in mid-1980s Melbourne, A collection of stories A modern-day academic Based on a true story, this Goldsmith’s latest novel is based on interviews with researcher uncovers the novel recounts the tragic about exile and love, realised Vietnamese refugees facts behind a young journey of three Badtjala through the story of recent around the world by a woman’s murder in wartime people – Bonny, Jurano immigrant Galina and the talented young Vietnamese- Brisbane in this novel by a and Dorondera – to impact that her arrival has on Australian writer. Queensland-based writer. Europe in the 1880s. the lives of a local family.

A SEASON ON EARTH SNAKE ISLAND THIS TASTE FOR SILENCE THE YIELD Gerald Murnane Ben Hobson Amanda O’Callaghan Tara June Winch Text HB $39.99 Allen & Unwin PB $29.99 UQP PB $22.95 Hamish Hamilton PB $32.99 Unpublished for four A literary thriller about A collection of short The new novel by the author decades, this comic tale of family loyalty and violent stories about subjects as of Swallow the Air is the a lustful teenager in 1950s crime, and what happens diverse as the balance of story of Wiradjuri woman Melbourne was written when the two collide in power in a marriage and August Gondiwindi’s fight after the publication of small-town Australia. the troubling legacy of an to save her grandfather’s Murnane’s much-admired inherited painting. land from repossession by a semi-autobiographical mining company. debut novel, Tamarisk Row. 4 International Fiction

AKIN BEYOND THE SEA DUCKS, NEWBURYPORT Emma Donoghue Paul Lynch In this intensely moving novel, the author of In this tightly wrought novella, two South At a whopping 1000 pages, Ducks, Room again brings a keen eye to characters American fishermen find themselves cast Newburyport is no casual summer reading and relationships. Returning to his native adrift in the Pacific Ocean by a violent storm. commitment. But don’t be intimidated, France for the first time since childhood Days pass yet no sign of rescue appears, because Lucy Ellmann’s Booker Prize– to celebrate his 80th birthday, Noah finds and the two men are forced to reckon with shortlisted eighth novel is a witty, furiously himself taking along his 11-year-old great both physical threats and their own inner intelligent stream-of-consciousness nephew Michael, who has no one else to demons. Part thrilling survival tale and part examination of the modern human look after him. The two are worlds apart existential quest, this dread-laden narrative condition. It’s also remarkable for its formal – Noah a cultured scientist and didact; is a compulsive and heart-stopping read. In ambition and stylistic dexterity – the entire Michael a screen-addicted, manner-less Oneworld PB brusquely lyrical prose, it reckons with what $34.99 novel consists of just eight sentences, Picador PB $29.99 Text PB $29.99 child whose mother is in jail. But as Noah it means to be a person in the world, and unspooling via the inner monologue of an searches for the truth about his own interrogates questions of morality. The fourth American mother of four as she muses mother’s role during the war, they find some work of fiction from award-winning Irish on politics, motherhood, the environment, commonality and even the beginnings of author Paul Lynch (Grace) Beyond the Sea the minutiae of modern life, and so much affection. Against all odds, Donoghue avoids further enhances his reputation as one of more besides. We agree with the Guardian’s stereotypes and sentimentality as she our most daring contemporary writers. assessment: ‘a novel that rewards explores family ties, history and inheritance. perseverance, is truly unique, and feels like an absence in your life when you finish it’.

THE DUTCH HOUSE SPECIAL THE EIGHTH LIFE Ann Patchett PRICE (FOR BRILKA) SPECIAL Master storyteller Ann Patchett (Bel Canto, Nino Haratischvili PRICE GRAND UNION Commonwealth) returns with her eighth The English translation of this multi-award- Zadie Smith novel, a deeply affecting story of sibling winning German novel is one of the literary The stories of Grand Union offer insights devotion, obsession and surrender. Despite events of 2019. Opening with a dangerously into many different worlds – future, past abandonment by their mother, Danny Conroy delicious chocolate recipe, The Eighth Life is and alternate versions of our own. The and his older sister Maeve grow up happily a sweeping family saga that contains echoes protagonists range widely – migrant in the extravagant Dutch House, mostly in of such literary giants as Dostoyevsky and mothers, privileged teenagers, ‘cancelled’ the care of their two loyal housekeepers. Tolstoy and will appeal to fans of Min Jin socialites and many more appear in these But when their father remarries, his new Lee’s similarly hyped 2017 novel, Pachinko. pages. Smith has a wonderful knack for Bloomsbury PB wife acts with the chilling precision of an Georgian writer Nino Haratischvili handles highlighting tension in a situation with style $29.99 archetypal stepmother. Cast out from the her sprawling cast of characters with and nuance, and she absolutely applies this house and their privileged existence, Danny Scribe PB admirable skill, movingly depicting their skill here. From writing about a drag queen and Maeve find success in exile, but they WAS $35 triumphs and heartbreaks amid the political grappling with ideas of her city changing, to can’t free themselves from their past, or Hamish Hamilton NOW $29.99 turmoil of Georgia and Russia throughout the WAS $32.99 a drunken dinner conversation between two each other. Patchett has written an epic PB 20th century. The magical realism element NOW $29.99 vain and ageing old friends, Smith weaves masterpiece that moves seamlessly forward of the novel is cleverly and subtly employed so many different perspectives through this and backward in time, treading a fine line to emphasise the work’s emotional impact. book, taking her reader along for the ride. between naturalism and dark fairytale. Written with her trademark clean, witty prose, this is perfect summer reading. Q 2. What are pica pica? IN LOVE WITH GEORGE ELIOT SPECIAL PRICE GRANDMOTHERS Kathy O’Shaughnessy THE MAN WHO Writer and literary editor Kathy SAW EVERYTHING Salley Vickers O’Shaughnessy cleaves closely to fact Blanche, Minna and Nan are all extremely in this historical fiction, basing her Deborah Levy different women. But they do have one reimagining of George Eliot’s life on In London in 1989, Saul is crossing thing in common: they are grandmothers. diaries and letters. Reading this novel Abbey Road while his girlfriend Jennifer Nan spends her time looking after grandson will take you deep into Eliot’s world, both photographs him, and is hit by a car. Soon Billy, Blanche has been banned from seeing her milieu and her psychology. She was after the accident, they split up, and Saul her granddaughter Kitty and Minna is Scribe PB $32.99 an extraordinary woman – one of the travels to the German Democratic Republic. acting as a surrogate grandmother to her best novelists ever – but O’Shaughnessy In the GDR, strange things happen, and he neighbour Rose. It’s via these children that captures her imperfections and falls in love. But it quickly becomes apparent the stories of these three women gradually contradictions as well as her genius. that Saul’s reality is on uncertain footing. come together, eventually meeting in Kew Indeed, in the framing story set today, the Hamish Hamilton This novel masterfully poses questions Viking PB Gardens. In a world of literature that often narrator, an academic, is organising an HB $32.99 about memory, consciousness, dreams WAS $32.99 treats the elderly with a two-dimensional Eliot conference called ‘Saint or hypocrite’. and waking. In less capable hands, this NOW $29.99 gaze, Grandmothers is a funny, well- So who’s in love with George Eliot? Not ambitious plot might suffer, but Deborah observed breath of fresh air that will just the men in her life, or the obsessively Levy pulls it off to perfection. Saul is self- appeal to readers looking for a novel that admiring women, but her readers of every absorbed and thoughtless, beautiful but vain occasionally takes the path less trodden. era, including O’Shaughnessy. – a wonderfully infuriating protagonist.

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BEFORE THE CITY OF GIRLS THE CONFESSION FALL OR, DODGE IN HELL COFFEE GETS COLD Elizabeth Gilbert Jessie Burton Neal Stephenson $32.99 $32.99 Toshikazu Kawaguchi Bloomsbury PB Picador PB $29.99 HarperCollins PB Picador PB $18.99 This joyous romp of a novel Set in 1980s London The premise of this novel by A moving story exploring about feisty, independent and Los Angeles and in acclaimed sci-fi writer Neal the age-old question: what showgirls in 1940s New York modern-day London, the Stephenson is intriguing: would you change if you could was written by the author latest novel from the author What happens to the brain travel back in time? And more of Eat, Pray, Love and The of The Miniaturist is about of gaming billionaire Richard importantly, who would you Signature of Things. secrets and storytelling, ‘Dodge’ Forthrast when his want to meet, maybe for one motherhood and friendship. body is given to a cryonics last time? company after his death? 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International Fiction 5 THE OFFING OLIVE, AGAIN THE SECRETS WE KEPT Benjamin Myers Elizabeth Strout Lara Prescott Soon after the end of the Second World War, Those who haven’t yet discovered the joy In her debut novel, Lara Prescott tells a 16-year-old Robert leaves his home village of reading an Elizabeth Strout novel are in remarkable tale of espionage, revolution in Durham. He doesn’t want to end up living for a treat – Olive, Again will bring hours and literary history. The Secrets We Kept the same life as his father, a coal miner, and of pleasure. Each of Strout’s bestselling intertwines fact and fiction: set in the so he travels to the east coast of England novels is its own entity, but for ultimate darkest hours of the , it tells the looking for a different path. There he meets gratification we suggest you read Olive story of two CIA typists, women stuck at the Dulcie, a much older woman who takes Kitteridge (PB $19.99) first. 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SPECIAL PRICE UNSHELTERED SPECIAL THE WORLD THE WATER DANCER PRICE Barbara Kingsolver THAT WE KNEW The most recent novel by the author of The Ta-Nehisi Coates Alice Hoffman Poisonwood Bible and Flight Behaviour is a The debut novel of American writer Ta- Told with the flair of a fairy tale, this book masterfully constructed dual narrative that Nehisi Coates does not disappoint. Set in the is set in Nazi-occupied France during WW2. focuses on two families – one in the 19th pre–Civil War South, the story follows Hiram, Lea, a young Jewish girl, has been sent century and the other in the present day a young slave whose life is set spinning in a away by her mother, who is afraid of what – who live in the same house in Vineland, new direction following a dramatic accident. will happen to her child under the Nazi New Jersey. Established as a utopian Coates’ subtle use of magical realism is regime. 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ALICE’S ADVENTURES ALL OF THE FACTORS OF ANIMALS IN WONDERLAND WHY I LOVE TRACTORS Chihiro Takeuchi Lewis Carroll Davina Bell & Jenny Løvlie Acclaimed Japanese paper-cut artist Chihiro The story of Alice’s journey to the fantastical Here, award-winning writer Davina Bell Takeuchi is known for her bold and intricate word of Wonderland has withstood the test (All the Ways to Be Smart) has crafted designs. Her newest offering is this stylish of time and deserves its often-bestowed a story that will appeal to both vehicle- and cleverly constructed board book, which description as ‘a true classic’. In this obsessed children and their long-suffering has peep-through pages inviting children to stunningly illustrated new edition, British Hardie Grant parents. 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