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THE ATOMIC THE BEST OF ADAM SHARP THE BETTER SON WEIGHT OF LOVE Graeme Simsion Katherine Johnson Elizabeth J. Church In his latest novel, Simsion, author of the Kip and Tommy are brothers growing up This debut novel is a sweeping narrative dual smash hits The Rosie Project and The in 1950s rural Tasmania. Their violent, that explores the tension between love and Rosie Effect, again explores the humour unknowable father regularly singles out sacrifice. Set against the backdrop of the and poignancy of human relationships. On nine-year-old Kip for punishment, and views atomic bomb tests in Los Alamos and the the cusp of 50, Adam Sharp is a seemingly 11-year-old Tommy as the ‘better son’. Vietnam War protests, it follows spirited happily married IT consultant. Once a pianist The boys spend their free time exploring and ambitious ornithologist-in-training in Melbourne, now he’s content with being the surrounding bushlands, and one hot Meridian Wallace as she falls in love with the music trivia expert at quiz nights in summer, they discover an underground cave her brilliant physics professor and, following Norwich. Then an old flame walks back system, which becomes their forbidden $29.99 into his life, prompting Sharp to question refuge. Then, when a rockslide traps Tommy 4th Estate PB their marriage, finds herself placed behind a Text PB Ventura PB $29.99 white picket fence. Determined to forge her everything. This slow-burning read grapples $29.99 in the caves, Kip fears their father’s fury own path, Meridian channels her academic with complex issues such as fidelity, and lies about his disappearance. It is a lie ambitions into studying a family of crows infertility and regret with great warmth and that will haunt him for decades, one that that reside in the canyons near her home sensitivity. Music, too, is central to both will colour his relationship with his own – a project with surprising consequences. Sharp’s life and the novel, with songs littered son and with himself. The Better Son is Elizabeth J. Church’s novel will appeal to throughout (the extensive Spotify playlist an elegiac and beautifully written novel. It readers who enjoyed Elizabeth Gilbert’s The accompanying the text is a clever touch). traces the impact of inherited trauma across Signature of all Things and Tracy Chevalier’s generations, and powerfully evokes the SPECIAL stunning, bleak landscape of Tasmania. Remarkable Creatures. PRICE CONCLAVE SPECIAL SPECIAL Robert Harris PRICE PRICE THE BIRDMAN’S WIFE Who would have thought that a novel about COUSINS Melissa Ashley the election of a pope could be so gripping? 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Crime & Thrillers 5 DEAD IN THE WATER HIS BLOODY PROJECT KILL THE NEXT ONE Tania Chandler Graeme Macrae Burnet Federico Axat As a number of reviewers have jokingly Its inclusion on the shortlist for this year’s Successful businessman Ted McKay has noted, a crime writer with the name Man Booker Prize led to this highly original the perfect job, family and life – but he is Chandler has a lot to live up to. This is Tania literary thriller attaining global bestseller also terminally ill. 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ACOUSTIC RECORDINGS ANIMAL ACO40: CELEBRATING BACH CELLO SUITES: 1998–2016 FORTY YEARS VOLUME 1 Big Scary $19.95 Jack White 2-CD set $26.95 Released just in time for the holidays, Big ACO 2-CD set $24.95 Slava Grigoryan $21.95 Jack White makes easy work of the Americana Scary’s follow-up to the J Award-nominated Not This retrospective of the Australian Chamber On his latest album, ultra-talented Australian sound that Dave Rawlings et al have recently Art is fun, poppy, determined and challenging Orchestra’s phenomenal recorded output opens guitarist Slava Grigroyan performs the solo been cultivating in what must be biggest folk/ – perfect summer listening! The album has with Peter Sculthorpe’s ‘Irkanda IV’, which guitar arrangements of Bach’s cello suites. This bluegrass resurgence since the late sixties. been divided into bundles of tracks for each features director Richard Tognetti as violin is believed to be the world-premiere recording With superb new arrangements of his work with of the Four Stages of the Animal, nicely split soloist. The album demonstrates exactly why the of the Bach Cello Suites on baritone guitar, The White Stripes, The Saboteurs and others, across a double gatefold LP. Just as good as its ACO, with its unified and moving sound, remains whose lower pitch allows the suites to be White reminds us how he can shape and shift predecessor, and maybe even better. Australia’s most celebrated chamber orchestra. played in their original keys. the landscape of whatever genre he pleases. SPECIAL PRICE DECEMBER RELEASE SPECIAL PRICE
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