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The Perfect Lie – Starts off with a bang, but ends a fizzer
TW: suicide He jumped to his death in front of witnesses. Now his wife is charged with murder. Five years ago, Erin Kennedy moved to New York following a family tragedy. She now lives happily with her detective husband in the scenic seaside town of Newport, Long Island. When Erin…
Object Lessons – TV-The Hidden Lives Of Ordinary Things
TV Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary ; Once upon a time, the news was only 15 minutes long and middle-class families huddled around a tiny black-and-white screen, TV dinners on their laps, awaiting weekly sitcoms that depicted an all-white…
Love In A Sunburnt Land – An anthology of Australian romance
Love In A Sunburnt Land was inspired by the poem by Dorothea MacKellar, My Country. Each author took a line (with permission) from the poem and based their story setting around that. For example, I am sweeping plains and that became the setting for my story. It was such a…
Book Blast! He Said, She S.A.I.D – What if your memoir turned into a horror story?
He Said, She It is a parent’s worst nightmare. The police bursting into your suburban home, accosting you in bed, arresting you, and hauling you off to jail. All while your 10-year-old son watches from the shadows in terror. Bruce McLaughlin lived through this nightmare in May of 1998. He…
Yearbook by Seth Rogen – Funny AF
A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist, Neighbors, and The Boys. (All of these words have been added to help this book show up in people's searchesusing the wonders of algorithmic technology. Thanks for bearing with us!) Hi! I'm…
Book Blast! and Author Q&A – Ticket for One
Ticket For One One woman’s transformative, inspirational and humorous trek through Greece, Turkey and Italy. Sometimes you have to let go of everything to find what you really want. (more…)
The Final Revival Of Opal & Nev
A fiction so perfect I thought it was a music bio! A poignant fictional oral history of a rock 'n' roll duo who shot to fame in 1970s New York, and the secret that lies at the peak of their stardom. Opal is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against…
No One Is Talking About This – A disjointed, poetic look at our addiction to the internet
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE FIRST NOVEL FROM PATRICIA LOCKWOOD 'I really admire and love this book. Patricia Lockwood is a completely singular talent and this is her best, funniest, weirdest, most affecting work yet' Sally Rooney, author of Normal People'A literary star ... Captures better than anything…
The Music Of Bees
When social pariah Alice Holtzman crashes her pick-up truck packed with 120,000 restless honeybees into a troubled, paraplegic teenager, it is the start of an unlikely friendship that will help both of them through the darkest stages of grief. Set in the gorgeous, sprawling countryside of the Pacific Northwest, Eileen…
Spooked – The Secret Rise Of Private Spies
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's revelatory look inside the sinister world of private spies. A spy story like no ; Private spies are the invisible force that shapes our modern world: they influence our elections, effect government policies and shape the fortunes of companies. More deviously, they are also peering into…