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Tales of a City by the SeaSamah Sabawi
Tales of a City by the Sea uses poetry, tenderness and humour to explore the love between those who have choices, and those who do not. Language fails us when it comes to displacement and grief; yet Samah Sabawi’s language cracks grief open and remains present, like the sea. $25.99
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Russian DollsKate Lock
Hilda is blind, lives alone, and is visited by a carer once a week. Camelia is a young offender looking for her next mark. A surprising and curious relationship sparks into life between the two very different women, both of them searching for connection and purpose. $23.99
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Yanagai! Yanagai!Andrea James
Munarra is a black woman, thrown from the skies into the Dreaming so that she may heal her land, the mighty river Dhungula and her people. In the present day, the Yorta Yorta people are in court, fighting for a right to their land. Yanagai! Yanagai! is a war cry, the first recorded Yorta Yorta words spoken to the white men who went onto their land uninvited. $25.99
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The Great FireKit Brookman
In the 1970s, pursuing a good life and future, Judith and Patrick built a house in the Adelaide Hills. As time wore on, the family drifted from the house. Now all three generations have gathered once more. Can the life they once pursued come good? $25.99
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The Blind Giant Is DancingStephen Sewell
The Blind Giant is Dancing is an angry and tender depiction of an idealist, Allen Fitzgerald, who becomes so embroiled in a party power struggle that he loses sight of what’s at stake. A classic Australian play. $25.99
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Ladies DayAlana Valentine
It’s Ladies Day at the Broome races and the divinely beautiful Mike is the toast of the track. But amongst the froth and festivity, a brutal act of violence reminds us that life is not just all swishy hemlines, debonair gents and fascinators galore. $23.99
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Nell GwynnJessica Swale
Nell Gwynn charts the rise of an unlikely heroine, from her roots in Coal Yard Alley to her success as Britain's most celebrated actress, and her hard-won place in the heart of the King. But at a time when women are second-class citizens, can her charm and spirit protect her from the dangers of the Court? $24.99
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The James PlaysRona Munro
Rona Munro's vividly imagined historical cycle brings to life three generations of Stewart kings who ruled Scotland in the tumultuous fifteenth century: James I, James II, and James III. $42.99
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The Massive Tragedy of Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert Adapted by John Nicholson, Javier Marzan
Laugh and cry in equal measure as Emma Bovary chooses the wrong husband. Lose yourself in mesmeric love scenes featuring a procession of devastatingly attractive men. Rail at the fate of women in a patriarchal society, if you will. Prepare yourself for vermin, moustaches, wild animals, lots of French people and a nun. $23.99
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YenAnna Jordan
Anna Jordan's Bruntwood Prize-winning play Yen explores a childhood lived without boundaries and the consequences of being forced to grow up on your own. $27.99
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