Howrey ratchets up the suspense before finally revealing what Carlisle did all those years ago.
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Her parents, professional ballet dancers, split up when she was young and she spent much of her childhood with Robert and James in New York, captivated by their cosmopolitan lifestyle. Then his partner, James, calls to tell her that Robert is dying and wants to see her. In American writer Meg Howrey’s They’re Going to Love You, Carlisle has not heard from her father, Robert, for 19 years – not since she betrayed him. A riveting psychological and political thriller with wicked social satire and great dialogue.
He convinces her to let him invest in Birnam Wood, unleashing ideological warfare within the collective. She meets an American billionaire who claims to be building a bunker in which to shelter from Doomsday, but is actually illegally mining rare minerals. Birnam Wood is a collective of guerrilla gardeners in the South Island founded by Mira, a 20-something horticulturist. Filled with pathos, humour and heartbreak, a powerful tribute to the unbreakable bonds of family love.īirnam Wood is the first novel by New Zealand writer Eleanor Catton since she became, at 28, the youngest writer to be awarded the Booker Prize, which she won in 2013 for The Luminaries. Ky is determined to find out what happened, but no one will talk. It’s 1996 and journalist Ky Tran’s brilliant 18-year-old brother Denny, the apple of his family’s eye, is beaten to death after his school formal. Tracey Lien’s debut, All That’s Left Unsaid, winner of the highly coveted 2023 Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction, casts an unflinching eye on life in Australia for Vietnamese refugees and their children. A deeply moving account of living with anxiety and motherhood. Initially ambivalent about motherhood, she starts to connect with her baby by imagining it as different pieces of fruit – a raspberry, a cherry, a plum – but worries incessantly about whether she’ll be a good parent. Coral has a difficult relationship with her mother, Topaz (gemstones feature prominently as names), and suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety. In Laura McPhee-Browne’s second novel, Little Plum, which follows her award-winning debut, Cherry Beach, 29-year-old Coral finds herself unexpectedly pregnant to Jasper, whom she’s met twice. A brilliant exploration of who has access to knowledge and the experience of women during wartime. She’s distracted, meanwhile, by her budding relationship with the war-damaged Bastiaan. Peggy dreams of going to Oxford but her working-class background stands in her way.
The lives of twin sisters Peggy and Maude, who work in the book bindery at Oxford University Press, are changed forever by the war. Pip Williams’ The Bookbinder of Jericho, the eagerly awaited follow-up to her 2020 bestseller The Dictionary of Lost Words, is set in Oxford during World War I and, like its predecessor, focuses on the forgotten histories of women in the world of books. Whether your mum likes to laugh out loud or lean back and learn, there’s something here to suit all tastes. This story is part of the May 6 Edition of Good Weekend.
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