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Rockets and Blue LightsWinsome Pinnock
A retelling of British history through the prism of slave trade — who owns Britain's past, and who has the right to tell its stories? Winner of the 2018 Alfred Fagon Award. $23.99
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Packer and SonsTommy Murphy
This is the origin story of the Packer prince told over three generations of tycoons who each battle to inherit their gargantuan birthright and drag it into a new era. Packer & Sons is about the family who told Australia how to think, how to relax, how to be—and the knowledge that was passed from father to son—wisdom, acumen, politics. But also, how to forge your body-armour. $25.99
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Motor-Mouth Loves Suck-FaceAnthony Crowley
Welcome to the party to end all parties—where Blasko Tupper, teenage master of the dark arts has just kidnapped her entire school—including Motor-mouth and Suck-face, two geeks in lust and love who have until midnight to lose their virginity, escape through a cosmic wormhole and save the planet—in the other dimension. Everything goes according to plan, that is, until Blasko’s parents escape their cage and start transforming hysterical teenagers into mindless… $25.99
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The Last King of ScotlandGiles Foden Adapted by Steve Waters
Idi Amin is the self-declared President of Uganda. When Scottish medic Nicholas Garrigan becomes his personal physician, he is catapulted into Amin's inner circle. A useful asset for the British Secret Service, is Garrigan the man on the inside, or does he have blood on his hands too? $23.99
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A Ghost in My SuitcaseVanessa Bates, Gabrielle Wang
Twelve-year-old Celeste - 'half French, half Chinese and all Australian' - travels to China to scatter her mother's ashes. There she meets her grandmother, Por Por, a ghost-hunter. When Celeste learns she may have inherited her grandmother's talent, she must decide whether to acknowledge her gifts and use them to save her family and friends, and if she has the strength needed for the job. $25.99
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AmsterdamMaya Arad Yasur Translated by Eran Edry
An Israeli violinist. Living in her trendy canal-side Amsterdam apartment. Nine months pregnant. One day a mysterious unpaid gas bill from 1944 arrives. It awakens unsettling feelings of collective identity, foreignness and alienation. Stories of a devastating past are compellingly reconstructed to try and make sense of the present. $27.99
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The Reds–once the powerless, now the powerful. The Whites–once the absolute rulers, now the powerless. The Romanov girls perform Chekhov to pass the time under house arrest. But what happens in this last house of existential chaos, youth versus age, hope versus paranoia, and love versus fear? $25.99
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Danny FisherMatthew Ryan
Danny Fisher is coming of age at a time when Australia faces the threat of invasion. When his beloved brother Frank is killed in the bombing of Darwin, Danny's family is ripped apart. Ignored by grieving parents, the awkward Danny is left to fend for himself, and to try to fill the shoes left behind. Thrust headlong into the threat of war and the hope of love, Danny, like his city, is growing up fast. $25.99
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Dexter and Winter's Detective AgencyNathan Bryon
When Dexter's mum is sent to jail for getting mixed up in a jewellery robbery, it's up to Dexter and his best friend Winter to get her out. On their journey to uncover the truth and free Mum, their detective work leads them to some surprising discoveries. $25.99
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The Changing RoomChris Bush
Set in and around a swimming pool, Chris Bush's play The Changing Room follows a group of teenagers full of excitement, impatience and uncertainty. They know change is coming, but not what it'll look like. $25.99
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