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From a #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a powerful novel about family, the weight of secrets, the choices we make and the repercussions of the decisions made for us. When Bunny Linden abandons her three children with her older sister, Jayne, in 1972, she knows Jayne will be the perfe...

Lançada em 1974, OREO, de Fran Ross, é uma obra absolutamente inovadora. Não por menos, as discussões aqui propostas, sempre com sarcasmo e bom humor, cabem perfeitamente em nosso tempo. Identidade racial e cultural, racismo, feminismo, antissemitismo: todas essas questões aparecem neste livro qu...

"It was in Innsmouth where I met the greatest Scout I've ever known, a boy named Aubrey Marsh, and he's the reason I'm still here and the reason I still believe it's worth being human, even though he's not quite either of those things anymore." In the summer of 1963, Bud Castillo moved with his ...

For the first time, the First Nations story of Cook’s arrival, and what blackfellas want everyone to know about the coming of Europeans. Winner, First Nations History award, Canberra Critics’ Circle Awards 2024 Both 250 years late and extremely timely, this is an account of what First Nations p...

Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl (which is so tiny, it doesn’t have a name other than Shtetl). The angel and the demon have been studying together for centuries, but pogroms and the search for a new life have drawn all the...

Teen fantasy adventure set in a world of flying ships and sky cities, where chosen ones have the ability to bring paper to life and work as Crafters - people who hunt wild paper spirits called shikigami. Inspired by Asian culture and exploring themes of empire, slavery and freedom. Kurara has ne...

With an introduction by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James ‘A rollicking little masterpiece . . . one of the most delightful, hilarious, intelligent novels I’ve stumbled across in recent years’ Paul Auster Oreo has been raised by her maternal ...

In her remarkable second novel following her Governor General’s Award-winning debut, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, Jen Ferguson writes about the hurt of a life stuck in past tense, the hum of connections that cannot be severed, and one week in a small, snowy town that changes everything.  Over...

Run from your past. Hide from your future. Protect your present. The Water Wars have scrambled the world. Flood refugees are on the run. Disrupters and the nostalgia militia roam the roads wreaking havoc. Invisible Darknet Lords troll the internet, solidifying their power, while Cinnamon, her t...

ORKNEY ISLANDS, 1797 – Agnes Tulloch feels a little cheated. This windswept place is not the island paradise her husband promised it to be when they wed. Now with four young children, she struggles to provide for her family while her husband grows increasingly distant. When a stranger comes asho...