WHAT TO READ NOW
Take a break with a selection of new books to read this month.
As part of their 70th Anniversary year celebration, iconic Finnish Design House Marimekko are releasing their first art coffee table book in May which will be published by Thames & Hudson . Blending archival photographs and advertisements with modern campaign imagery as well as newly commissioned photography, Marimekko: The Art
of Printmaking tells the story of the house’s most iconic designs. Four distinct sections guide the reader through the Marimekko philosophy and lifestyle, via its factory in Herttoniemi, where fabrics have been created from the very beginning, on to a rich sourcebook of pattern and finally to the brand’s sustainable, super-creative future.
Jacqueline 'Rock' Bublitz is a writer, feminist, and arachnophobe, who lives in Melbourne. Her debut novel Before You Knew My Name was written after a summer spent in New York, where she hung around morgues and the dark corners of city parks (and the human psyche) far too often. She is now working on her second novel, where she continues to explore the grand themes of love, loss and connection.
Bestselling author of Bottlebrush Creek, Maya Linnell grew up in a small country town climbing towering gum trees, before finding her feet in journalism. Maya worked at a rural newspaper, segueing into public relations and now into fiction writing and blogging for Romance Writers Australia. Magpie’s Bend is a pitch-perfect rural romance of community, family, and rallying together to save the general store.
Kathryn Heyman is an acclaimed novelist, essayist and scriptwriter. At the age of twenty, following a traumatic sexual assault trial, Kathryn ran away from her life and became a deckhand on a fishing trawler in the Timor Sea.
Fury is her memoir, a redemptive roadmap of recovery and transformation, and the story of becoming heroic in a culture which doesn’t see heroism in the shape of a girl.
Hugh Mackay is a social psychologist, and the author of twenty-two books, including eight novels. He has had a sixty-year career in social research and was a newspaper columnist for twenty-five years. Absorbing, wise and inspiring, The
Kindness Revolution is a distillation of Hugh Mackay’s life’s work, showing how crises and catastrophes often turn out to be the making of us.
So much can change in half a lifetime. Set between 'then' and 'now', we follow the story of George, Theo and Leah. Through friendship, fostering troubled teens and an alpaca or two, Someone I Used
to Know is the heart-melting new romance novel by one of the world's most beloved authors, Paige Toon.
What could drive a mother to do the unthinkable? Before: Emma Cormac married into a perfect life but now she's barely coping and beyond their gleaming windows, a lake vista is evaporating. After: The summers have grown even fiercer and the Cormac name doesn't mean what it used to. What happened to baby Robbie? Find out in Echolalia by Briohny Doyle.
Justine Cullen is an award-winning fashion magazine editor, and former editor-in-chief of ELLE magazine Australia which, under Justine’s direction, became known for its championing of women, diversity of talent, and globally celebrated cover executions. Semi-Gloss is neither a self-help book nor memoir, nor Australia’s The Devil Wears Prada— but a collection of autobiographical essays by one of Australia’s most respected female voices