House of Sky and Breath
Sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller!
Sarah J. Maas’s sexy, groundbreaking CRESCENT CITY series continues with the second instalment.
Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to get back to normal―they may have saved Crescent City, but with so much upheaval in their lives lately, they mostly want a chance to relax. Slow down. Figure out what the future holds.
The Asteri have kept their word so far, leaving Bryce and Hunt alone. But with the rebels chipping away at the Asteri’s power, the threat the rulers pose is growing. As Bryce, Hunt, and their friends get pulled into the rebels’ plans, the choice becomes clear: stay silent while others are oppressed or fight for what’s right. And they’ve never been very good at staying silent.
In this sexy, action-packed sequel to the #1 bestseller House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas weaves a captivating story of a world about to explode―and the people who will do anything to save it.
Sexual Revolution – Laurie Penny
An urgent, hopeful, and an unapologetically radical new book about consent, democracy, desire, and the future of sexual politics from award-winning writer Laurie Penny.
“I can’t really think of another writer who so consistently and bravely keeps thinking and talking and learning and trying to make the world better.” -Caitlin Moran
We are in the middle of a sexual revolution. In our era of crisis, collapse, and reactionary tyrants, we are also witnessing a productive transformation: profound and permanent changes in how we define gender, sex, consent, and whose bodies matter. It’s a time of creative disobedience, of reimagining ways of organizing care, reproduction, and the work of building and sustaining the human species. These changes threaten the social and economic certainties that form our world; they threaten existing power structures, and they undermine the authority of institutions from the waged workplace to the nuclear family. No wonder the far right is fighting so hard. A shakeup in sexual and gender relations is a shakeup in political, economic, and social life as well. The stakes could not be higher.
Based on Laurie Penny’s celebrated, Ellie-award nominated Longreads series about rape culture, Sexual Revolution is the culmination of years of journalistic research, written for a broad audience, drawing on the work of Shulamith Firestone, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Silvia Federici, Wilhelm Reich and Michel Foucault. This is a hand grenade of a book, a manifesto of social change, and a story of how feminism can save the world.
The Woman and The Girls – Laura Bloom
The Age of Aquarius meets the Dawning of Divorce in an evocative novel of the 1970s. ‘There’s plenty of depth to Bloom’s characters, who are smart, funny and relatable in today’s modern world.’ The Courier-Mail It’s 1977, and bohemian Libby – stay-at-home mother, genius entertainer and gifted cook – is lonely. When she meets Carol, who recently emigrated from London with her controlling husband, and Anna, who loves her career but not her marriage, the three women form an unexpected bond. Their husbands aren’t happy about it, and neither are their daughters. Set against a backdrop of inner-city grunge and 70s glamour, far-out parties and ABBA songs, The Women and the Girls is a funny, questioning and moving novel about love, friendship, work, family, and freedom. ‘The sustenance we gain from equal relationships is the heart and soul of this work.’ – Living Arts Canberra ‘Majestic… Overwhelmingly poignant, simply wonderful – this book should be on your reading pile.’ – South Australian Book Review ‘This is a different world to the present if one that still seems within reach…But the ’70s, as now, were transitional times. As we adjust to a pandemic-riddled world where some rules we thought were fixed are now negotiable, we are all facing similar challenges.’ Newtown Review of Books.
Missing – Tom Patterson
‘This compelling, moving tale is unlike anything I have ever read. Intimate and vivid, Tom Patterson has found beauty and meaning amid the sorrow.’ – Malcolm Knox
‘An inside look into an outsider’s world tenderly and beautifully told.’ – Greg Bearup.
Hey mate, Pete and Steve have been talking to some people who live around the national park where Mark lives . . . nobody has seen him for months . . . We’re about to head into the gorge . . . I’ll let you know what we find . . .
In 1972 Mark May is eighteen. He is bright, and beautiful and has a scholarship to study law. Ten years later, he descends alone into a remote gorge country in north-western New South Wales. He lives in rough camps and stays for thirty-five years. Then, on a feeling, his brothers go looking for him.
Missing is a true story of immense emotional force. It tells of a broken life and a ruptured family but is also a spare and eloquent story of survival that carries a deep humanity. It announces a significant new talent in Australian writing.
Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age – Ed Coper
Would your younger self believe the news of today? An entire city block blown up by a suicide bomber on Christmas Day because he believed phone towers spread disease. A Representative elected to the US Congress on a platform that Democrats are secretly harvesting an anti-aging chemical from the blood of abused children. Angry rioters in furs and horns overrun the Capitol in a bloody carnage of insurrection. The Prime Minister of Australia employing the wife of his friend who fronts a group the FBI has declared terrorists. A global pandemic which, even as they lie dying from it, people refuse to believe exists.
Many who sat in shocked disbelief as these events beamed around the world asked the same question: ‘How did we get here?’ For those rioters, it was the culmination of a journey of online radicalisation that began with the weaponisation of disinformation by their political leaders and outrageously biased ‘news’ commentators.
Facts and Other Lies puts fake news in its historical context and explains how disinformation has fractured society, even threatening democracy itself. It explains why disinformation is so potent and so hard to stop and what we can do to help prevent its proliferation. It outlines how anyone can defuse disinformation in the home, office or pub, or wherever the deluded gather to spread their nonsense. Be prepared!
