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The Silence of Water is the stunning debut of Perth author Sharron Booth. Tracing a family’s history across three generations, the novel is based on true events and grounded in …

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In this collection of bite-sized short stories, award-winning WA writer Christopher Konrad explores the human condition with tenderness and creativity. As the book’s title suggests, Konrad peers into the lives …

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Tara Button’s mother, Tabitha, is dying. And she wants Tara to tow the family’s rusting yellow caravan across the state to the hospice in which she is residing. Reluctantly, Tara …

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Alf Taylor’s poetry and fiction voiced in Nyoongar English are a collection of his best. Nyoongar histories pay necessary attention to a way of life forced by colonisation. Taylor has …

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In The Ozone Café, Helen Hagemann delivers a vision of 1960s and ’70s life in a small NSW Central Coast town, her lens a waterfront café. The novel is an …

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Marriage counsellor Evie Shine spends her days fixing other people’s relationships, but when her own marriage unexpectedly crumbles, she grapples to come to terms with the irony. ‘So Many Beats of …

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Poetic Licence is a meticulously crafted literary thriller by Perth author Kevin Price. Set primarily in the port city of Fremantle, the book follows Art Lazaar – a professor of …

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David Whish-Wilson’s latest novel The Sawdust House is a highly engaging, deeply immersive account of a life story that seems too incredible to have been largely overlooked until now. James …

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Writers, filmmakers and game creators have long explored the idea of a world-changing pandemic (wait no longer!). Amanda Bridgeman’s fast-paced novel Pandemic: Patient Zero is a tie-in to the popular …

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