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  Banjawarn

  Josh Kemp

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  Winner of The 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript 
  Garreth Hoyle is a true crime writer whose destructive love affair with hallucinogenic drugs has sent him searching for ghosts in the unforgiving mallee desert of Western Australia. Heading north through Kalgoorlie, he attempts to score off old friends from his shearing days on Banjawarn Station. His journey takes an unexpected detour when he discovers an abandoned ten-year-old girl and decides to return her to her estranged father in Leonora, instead of alerting authorities. Together they begin the road trip from hell through the scorched heart of the state’s northern goldfields. 
   
   
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  Love, friendship and hope are often found in the strangest places, but forgiveness is never simple, and the past lies buried just beneath the blood red topsoil. The only question is whether Hoyle should uncover it, or run as fast as his legs can take him. 
   
  Banjawarn is an unsettling debut from Josh Kemp. Echoing Cormac McCarthy’s haunting border trilogy and narrative vernacular that recalls the sparse lyricism of Randolph Stow and Tim Winton, this is a darkly funny novel that earns its place amongst the stable of Australian gothic literature. 
   
   
   
  The conflation of violence and justice here is very like a western, as the boundaries between good and evil shimmer and dissolve. 
   
  Kemp writes with a compelling voice, the kind you want to follow into dark places, no matter how gruesome things get. 
   
  - Jennifer Mills, Australian Book Review

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  Lost Sci-Fi Books 186 thru 190 -...

  E. M. Forster, Isaac Asimov,...

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  Lost Sci-Fi Books 186 thru 190 - Four Lost Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s and one from 1909The Machine Stops by E. M. ForsterBreakfast at Twilight by Philip K. DickThe Magnificent Possession by Isaac AsimovFlowering Evil by Margaret St. ClairNo Shield From the Dead by Gordon R. Dickson

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  Games People Play - The start of...

  Owen Mullen

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  A completely engrossing crime drama from TOP 20 BESTSELLER Owen Mullen 
  When a baby is stolen from a Scottish beach, private investigator Charlie Cameron reluctantly agrees to take the case. 
  While her parents are just yards away, thirteen-month-old Lily Hamilton is abducted from Ayr beach in Scotland. Three days later, her distraught father turns up at private investigator Charlie Cameron's office. Mark Hamilton believes he knows who has taken his daughter. And why. 
  Against his better judgment, Charlie takes the case—and when bodies are discovered, he suspects this may not be an isolated crime. Is there a serial killer whose work has gone undetected for decades? Is baby Lily his latest victim? Charlie won’t be able to give up on this case. Memories and guilt from his childhood won’t let him… 
  Owen Mullen is a best-selling author of psychological and gangland thrillers. His fast-paced, twist-aplenty stories are perfect for all fans of Robert Galbraith, Ian Rankin and Ann Cleeves. 
  Praise for Owen Mullen: 
  'A superb rollercoaster of a read. Gripping to the very last page!' J.A. Baker 
  ‘A gripping story with a totally unexpected ending. Loved it.’ Valerie Keogh 
  ‘A gripping tale packed full of action, twists and a dash of the unexpected all perfectly paced to keep you hooked page after page' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review 
  'One of the very best thriller writers I have ever read' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review 
  'An absolute first class book. Yet again this talented author delivers a gripping rollercoaster of a read' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review

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  Choke Back the Tears : A...

  Mark Richards

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  “Brilliant. Brady is fast becoming the Yorkshire Rebus.” 
   
  Billy and Sandra were childhood sweethearts. 
  Writing their names on a lovelock. Fastening it to the end of Whitby pier. Throwing the key into the sea. 
  A lifetime together. A happy retirement in a peaceful hamlet on the North Yorkshire Moors. 
  Until the day they were brutally murdered. 
  “Whoever did this – he didn’t do it quickly. And he enjoyed it…” 
   
  Billy was a fisherman, making a living in the cold, cruel North Sea. One night his boat went down. Two crewmen drowned. Billy survived. 
  Are the families looking for revenge? It’s the obvious conclusion. 
  But why have they waited so long? 
  Why have they killed Billy and Sandra? 
  And why kill them in such a barbaric way? “This isn’t a murder, Mike. It’s an execution. A medieval execution.” 
   
  Choke Back the Tears is the fourth audiobook in the Michael Brady series.

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  A Stolen Suit

  Angela Casella

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  I hate him...but I also want to touch his abs. Is that normal? 
  Grace 
  My boss, the famous romance novelist, always said she’d open doors for me when I finished writing my first book. Only I have...and she hasn’t. Worse, I just met her new brand manager, and I know him. 
  Enoch “the Suit” Laskin made my life miserable in business school, right up until he seduced me. Then he took an internship with Parker Brand Management, working for my father, the other man I hate. 
  Enoch is a traitor. He’s a jerk. It’s torture to be around him. 
  Lucky for me, the Fairy Godmother Agency, a husband and wife P.I. team who help women in dire straits, have offered to make me their next client. 
  The Suit won’t know what hit him. 
  Enoch 
  I sold my soul to John Parker, and I still haven’t gotten it back. 
  Grace thinks I betrayed her. She’s not wrong, but she doesn’t know the full story. 
  Through a few twists of fate, I’ve become the caretaker of my grumpy father and teenage nephew. I’m determined to prove myself to Grace, and to them, but everything keeps going disastrously wrong. 
  If I were a more superstitious man, I’d think someone was out to get me.

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  An Iraqi in Paris

  Samuel Shimon

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  A fully revised third edition in translation of this best-selling 'gem of autobiographical writing' in the Arab world, by an author who has been called 'a relentless raconteur', 'a modern Odysseus', 'the Iraqi Don Quixote'. Providentially leaving Iraq just before Saddam Hussein installs himself as President, the Assyrian narrator of An Iraqi in Paris dreams of becoming a Hollywood film-maker after his hero John Ford, but after arrest and torture in Syria - accused of being a Jewish spy on account of his name, similar treatment in Jordan, and escaping execution in Lebanon by armed militia, he eventually lands up on the streets of Paris, where he meets up with Jean Valjean and tries to escape his fate as a homeless refugee with wit, humour and amorous adventures, all the while writing the story of his childhood, his deaf-mute father Kika, and film buff Kiryakos. After all his experiences, Samuel Shimon, 'the runaway from museums', writes an urgently needed and timely 'manifesto of tolerance'. Translated from the Arabic by Christina Phillips and Piers Amodia with the author.

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