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BERTA ISLA EVENING IN PARADISE FRIDAY BLACK Javier Marías WELCOME HOME Nana Kwame The latest novel by celebrated Spanish Lucia Berlin Adjei-Brenyah novelist Javier Marías will command This debut short story collection explores Clearly a woman before her time, Lucia your attention and refuse to let it go. The imbalances of power, the impact of Berlin started to write her six collections of sinuous sentences snake around your mind contemporary racism and the unbridled short stories in the early 1960s, but didn’t and lodge there; the story is captivating. consumerism of modern society. Nana see them published until the early ’80s. Berta Isla’s childhood sweetheart and then Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s 12 urgent and Her work only achieved broad success husband Tomàs Nevison is recruited into unique stories have attracted praise when A Manual for Cleaning Women was the secret service while he’s at Oxford and from the likes of Roxane Gay and George published in 2015, 11 years after her Berta is left alone in Madrid during his long Saunders for their sharp satirical edge and death. Now there’s a further selection of absences. Through this stark scenario, brilliantly original concepts. By veering into Hamish Hamilton her short fiction, published as Evening Riverrun HB $32.99 Marías explores so much: loyalty, marriage, $26.99 unreality, Adjei-Brenyah holds up a mirror PB in Paradise, while Welcome Home is politics and – perhaps most of all – how to the real world that is all the more bracing a collection of previously unpublished individuals can shape or be shaped by the and its revelations more devastating. No autobiographical writing she was working universe. Berta Isla is a spy novel without Picador HB target is spared as Adjei-Brenyah identifies $34.99 EACH on at the time of her death, but which she a typical spy plot and wears its literary and dissects the nightmare of present-day had begun 70 years earlier. references (especially to TS Eliot) lightly. capitalism, revealing the corrupt dystopia lurking beneath its shiny surface.

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REAL PIGEONS FIGHT CRIME THE RESTLESS GIRLS REAL PIGEONS EAT DANGER Jessie Burton & CATCHING TELLER CROW Angela Barrett Ambelin Kwaymullina Andrew McDonald & Ezekiel Kwaymullina & Ben Wood This rewriting of the Brothers Grimm’s $19.99 Twelve Dancing Princesses as a feminist Allen & Unwin PB Crime-fighting pigeons? Absurd! Well, yes. fairy tale is a triumph. Jessie Burton turns A cross between a ghost But hilarious, too. There are now two books story, crime story and thriller, around the story of the trapped princesses in the ‘Real Pigeons’ series, which features a who nonetheless ruin their shoes every told half in prose and half gang of street-smart birds with various skills in verse, from two exciting night, leading their father to promise his – disguise, strength and brains. 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TALES FROM OUTER SPECIAL TALES FROM SPECIAL SUBURBIA: BOOK AND PRICE A TALL FOREST PRICE JIGSAW PUZZLE SET Shaun Micallef Highly Recommended Shaun Tan & Jonathan Bentley MY FIRST POP-UP Using his extraordinary imagination and This mash-up of fairy tales from comedian DINOSAURS unparalleled artistic talent, Shaun Tan Shaun Micallef is genuinely laugh-out-loud Owen Davey reveals some of the mysteries of everyday funny. Riffing on such well-known children’s Walker HB $19.99 life in outer suburbia: homemade pets, classics as Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel Fifteen amazing pop-ups dangerous weddings, stranded sea and Gretel, the Pied Piper of Hamelin and of dinosaurs, including mammals, tiny exchange students, the Jack and the Beanstalk, Micallef displays his everything from the familiar unexpected edge of the world, and secret trademark cleverness and appreciation of Tyrannosaurus to the bizarre rooms filled with darkness and delight. the absurd. 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