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  Chloé

  Katrina Kell

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  Taking the reader from Victoria's wild shipwreck coast to the artists' studios of revolutionary Paris and the bloody battlefields of Flanders, this sweeping novel reimagines the volatile history of the beautiful and enigmatic young woman immortalised in one of Australia's most iconic paintings. Created in Paris in 1875, Chloé, Jules Lefebvre's depiction of a naked water nymph, was brought to Melbourne's Young & Jackson Hotel in 1909, where it has hung ever since. In this passionate, luminous retelling, Katrina Kell seeks to unlock the riddle behind the girl on the canvas, known to history only as Marie. In doing so, she weaves the compelling story of an incandescent spirit - a woman with the strength to defy the boundaries of class and convention in order to survive, and an enduring power to influence the lives of others across time and distance.

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  Fifteen Wild Decembers

  Karen Powell

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  SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023 
   
   
   
  A SUNDAY TIMES' BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF 2023  
   
   
   
  Isolated from society, Emily Brontë and her siblings spend their days inventing elaborate fictional realms or roaming the wild moors above their family home in Yorkshire. When the time comes for them to venture out into the world to earn a living, each of them struggles to adapt, but for Emily the change is catastrophic. Torn from the landscape to which she has become so passionately bound, she is simply unable to function. 
   
    
    
  To the outside world, Emily Brontë appears taciturn and unexceptional, but beneath the surface her mind is in a creative ferment. A violent phenomenon is about to burst forth that will fuse her imaginary world with the landscape of her beloved Yorkshire and change the literary world forever. 
   
   
   
  Fifteen Wild Decembers is the dazzling second novel from a writer who has been compared to Shirley Hazzard and Graham Greene, and whose first novel was described as "utterly stunning," "mesmerizing," and hailed as "a masterpiece."

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  Three Women of Liverpool

  Helen Forrester

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  Timeless family drama from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s hard-hitting and gripping fiction, set in Liverpool during the Blitz, continues to move readers. 
  Three brave women, their lives closely entwined, deal with the destruction brought on by the Blitz in the Second World War. 
  Whilst Gwen attempts to keep up with the constant demands of family life amidst the horrors of war, her sister-in-law Emmie is consumed by fear for the safety of her fiancé. 
  Meanwhile next-door, Ellen’s house is destroyed by bombs, leaving her family homeless with the threat of poverty looming. 
  Faced with devastating challenges, can ordinary people fight to carry on with life in a city torn apart by war? 
  This historical narrative, penned by top author Helen Forrester, further delves into the lives of the three women, revealing their resilience and strength in the face of adversity. Their stories, deeply rooted in the historical context of Liverpool during the Blitz, continue to resonate with readers across the globe. 
  For fans of Katie Flynn (First Love, Last Love), Maureen Lee (Flora and Grace), Rosie Goodwin (The Winter Promise), Sheila Newberry (The Canal Boat Girl), and Shirley Dickson (Our Last Goodbye). 
  HarperCollins 2022

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  War and Peace Book 3

  Leo Tolstoy

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  In Book 3 of War and Peace, the Napoleonic Wars intensify as Russia retreats after the disastrous Battle of Austerlitz. Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, wounded and disillusioned, finds solace in Natasha Rostova’s youthful vitality and falls deeply in love. Their relationship blossoms despite societal obstacles. Pierre Bezukhov, meanwhile, struggles with his inheritance and marriage to the manipulative Helene Kuragin, seeking meaning through philosophy and Freemasonry. The Rostov family faces financial hardships, yet their spirit remains unshaken. Tolstoy weaves personal narratives with historical events, exploring themes of love, destiny, and the search for purpose amid chaos and war.

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  The Supreme Illusion - Story...

  Arnold Bennett

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  Arnold Bennett was born in 1867 in Hanley one of the six towns that formed the Potteries that later joined together to become Stoke on Trent; the area in which most of his works are located. For a short time he worked for his solicitor father before realising that to advance his life he would need to become his own man. Moving to London at twenty-one he obtained work as a solicitor’s clerk and gradually moved into a career of journalism. At the turn of the century he turned full time to writing and shortly thereafter in 1903 he moved to Paris and in 1908 published to great acclaim The Old Wives Tale. With this his reputation was set. Clayhanger and The Old Wives Tale are perhaps his greatest and most lauded novels.

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  If Blood Should Stain the Wattle...

  Jackie French

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  It's 1972 in Gibber's Creek, and across the nation, the catchcry is, 'It's time'. 
    
  As political ideals drift from disaster to the dismissal, it's also time for Jed Kelly to choose between past love, Nicholas, the local Labor member, and Sam from the Halfway to Eternity commune. It's time too for Matilda Thompson to face her ghosts and the life that took a young girl from the slums of Grinder's Alley to being the formidable matriarch of Gibber's Creek. 
  During this period of extraordinary social change and idealism, modern Australia would be born. And although the nation would dream of a better world, it would continue to struggle with opposing ideas of exactly what that better world might be. 
  Jackie French, author of the bestselling To Love a Sunburnt Country, has woven her own experience of that time into an unforgettable story of a small rural community and a nation swept into the social and political tumult of the early 1970s. A time that would bear witness to some of the most controversial events in Australian history; and for Matilda, a time that would see her vision made real, without blood spilled upon the wattle. 
  PRAISE FOR TO LOVE A SUNBURNT COUNTRY 
  'a book about love of country that is heartwarming and heartbreaking, and hard to put down' 
  --The Advertiser, 4 stars

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