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FEBRUARY Book of the Month

The Lamb

By Lucy Rose
 
This absurd yet touching novel about a mother-daughter cannibal duo/relationship is, fittingly, as tender as the flesh they cook into stews.
 
Set in a rural English countryside, this fairytale-esque story follows Margot’s troubles with adolescence along with her and her mother’s insatiable appetites. As they trick meals (people) into their cottage home, Margot becomes increasingly distressed with their diets, and her mothers new lover promises to bring even more problems for Margot (and her flesh.)
 
Beneath the layers of absurdity, the novel touched me with its striking reflections on complicated parental relationships, social difference and loneliness. You will be unable to look away from this story filled with so much love and such terrible heartbreak. Think Butter, but with layered emotional relationships and a gut-wrenching plot.

– ANGUS –

 

$34.99
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FEBRUARY ILF Book of the Month

A Piece of Red Cloth

By Leonie Norrington, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Djawa Burarrwanga, Djawundil Maymuru
 
Leonie Norrington, in collaboration with cultural custodians Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Djawundil Maymuru and Djawa Burarrwang, created this lyrical, immersive novel at the request of Leonie’s late adoptive mother, Yolŋu woman Clare Bush.
 
Set in 1600s pre-colonial Arnhem Land, the story, told from the Yolŋu point of view, transports the reader into the lives of the Yolŋu people and their (mostly peaceful) trade with the Macassans of Indonesia. The authors vividly evoke the day-to-day life of the Yolŋu, their traditions and etiquette, food, hunting and craft, the landscape that surrounds them and the connections (both spiritual and familial) they have with Country and each other. Tension mounts when an unscrupulous Macassan introduces unwelcome vices to his hosts and threatens a young woman’s honour.
 
The Yolŋu’s strength (particularly that of the extraordinary women) in the face of troubling times comes to the fore in this transporting narrative of times past.

– SYLVIA –

 

$34.99
 
ABN Robert
 
FEBRUARY Book of the Month
 
All Better Now
 
By Neal Shusterman
 

We’re almost a decade into the future and a new Pandemic is slowly taking hold. For those that contract it, 4% will die. For those who survive, there will be a life changing side-effect, happiness and complete contentment and that could be dangerous because if everyone in the world is content, who’s got everything to lose?

Meet Mariel, she's living in her car with her mother Gena, who’s in a constant state of denial, or they would if the car wasn’t impounded; Tiburon (Ron), son of billionaire Bas Escbedo, who just wants to have the chance to live his own life; and Morgan, brilliantly minded and hungry to take what she wants from the world. How will the pandemic deal with them?

Shusterman is one of my all time favourite YA writer’s. He always delivers incredible storylines, creating worlds, events and situations that blow your mind. All Better Now delivers on every single page.                             13+

– ROBERT –

$22.99 

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