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The Mother Fault
Kate Mildenhall, $32.99 Mim’s husband is missing. No one knows where Ben is, but everyone wants to find him. The government has fitted the population with a tracking chip to keep them ‘safe’. Mim is made to surrender her passport and threatened with her two children being taken into care at the notorious Bestlife. Cornered, she risks it all to go on the run to find her husband. From the back roads of the Australian outback to a terrifying sea voyage, she needs to save her family, no matter what.
LIONHEARTS
Nathan Makaryk, $32.99
All will be well when King Richard returns, but he has been captured. To raise the money for his ransom, every lord in England is raising taxes, the French are eyeing the empty throne and the man they called ‘Robin Hood’, the man that the sheriff claims is dead, is everywhere and nowhere all at once. A hero to some, a monster to others and an idea that can’t simply be killed. But who’s really underneath the hood? A breathtaking historical epic about vengeance, redemption and war in medieval England.
A BURNING
Megha Majumdar, $29.99 Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of a terrorist aack on a train because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir, her former gym teacher, joins a political party and finds his ascent becomes linked to Jivan’s fall. Lovely, an irresistible outcast who fills the novel with warmth and hope, has the alibi that can set Jivan free. But at what cost? Riveting from its opening lines,
A Burning is a book you could read in one siing.
THE SECRET LIFE OF THE SAVOY
Olivia Williams, $32.99
In 1889, Victorian impresario Richard D’oyly Carte opened The Savoy, Britain’s first luxury hotel. Allowing the rich to live like royalty, it aracted glamour, scandal and a cast of eccentric characters, with the D’oyly Carte family elevated to a unique vantage point on high society. The story is told through three generations: Richard (a showman who made his fortune from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas), Rupert (who expanded the D’oyly Carte empire through two world wars and the roaring twenties) and Bridget (the reluctant heiress and last of the family line).