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FICTION NON-FICTION CHILDREN’S & YA BOOK OF THE MONTH OUR T P 20 Source: Nielsen BookScan 1 My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante 2 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 3 A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara 4 The Story of a New Name: Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante 5 The Family Law by Benjamin Law 6 Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay: Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante 7 Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski 8 Carol: Film Tie-in by Patricia Highsmith 9 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins 10 The Story of the Lost Child: Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante 11 The Whites by Harry Brandt (Richard Price) 12 A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James 13 Gut: the Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Under-Rated Organ by Giulia Enders 14 The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood 15 The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham 16 The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson 17 Old School: Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney 18 Island Home by Tim Winton 19 Rain Dogs: Detective Sean Duffy by Adrian McKinty 20 The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks THE NOISE OF TIME Julian Barnes Hardback RRP $32.99 In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return. So begins Julian Barnes’s first novel since his Booker-winning The Sense of an Ending. A story about the collision of Art and Power, about human compromise, human cowardice and human courage, it is the work of a true master. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Julian Barnes is the author of twelve novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He has also written numerous short stories and essays, plus two books of non- fiction. He lives in London. THE HIGH PLACES Fiona McFarlane Paperback RRP $32.99 The dazzling stories in this collection find those moments when people confront the strangeness and mystery of their lives. The revelations of old friends on holiday. An accident on a dark country road. A lottery win... The people are jolted into seeing themselves from a fresh and often disconcerting perspective. THE CALL OF THE OUTBACK Marianne van Velzen Paperback RRP $32.99 The incredible life story of the original nomadic writer, Ernestine Hill. Call of the Outback provides a vivid portrait of Ernestine, from the early brilliance she showed as a child in Brisbane to her later life. In particular it evokes her larger-than- life personality, the exotic landscapes she explored and the remarkable characters she met on her travels. ANNA AND THE SWALLOW MAN Gavriel Savit Paperback RRP $19.99 Kraków, 1939. Her father taken by Germans, seven year old Anna Lania meets the mysterious Swallow Man. Over the course of their travels together, Anna and the Swallow Man will dodge bombs, tame soldiers, and even make a friend. But in a world gone mad, everything can prove dangerous. Age: 13+ THE HIGH MOUNTAINS OF PORTUGAL Yann Martel Paperback RRP $29.99 A story of a quest for meaning, told in three intersecting narratives that touch the lives of three different people and their families, taking us on an extraordinary journey through the last century. It offers the same tender exploration of love and loss, belief and unbelief, that has marked all his brilliant, unexpected novels. THE SHOCK OF RECOGNITION Barry Jones Paperback RRP $32.99 In a long and generously lived life, Barry Jones has been on an endless quest to share the extraordinary and the beautiful, to encourage the pursuit of an abundant life of reading and listening. The Shock of Recognition is a deeply considered, richly rewarding and often very funny journey of the mind. TROUBLE AT HOME Cate Whittle & Kim Gamble (Illus) Paperback RRP $9.99 Ages and ages ago—about two weeks since next Thursday—a giant green dragon stole my baby brother, Godfrey. Well, okay, the giant green dragon actually stole the house. I saw it all happen. The only clues are potato chips and sarsaparilla drink. Can Georgia solve the mystery of the missing family home? Age: 7+ HOTEL DU BARRY Lesley Truffle Paperback RRP $27.99 When a baby is found in the Hotel du Barry, the owner adopts the little girl. Years later when Daniel du Barry dies in sinister circumstances, Cat determines to solve the mystery with the assistance of her extended hotel family. Each will play their wicked part in this novel that will charm, amuse and delight. THE ROMANOVS: 1613-1918 Simon Sebag Montefiore Hardback RRP $45.00 The gripping story of Russia’s imperial dynasty, 1613-1918. Written with dazzling literary flair, drawing on new archival research, The Romanovs is at once an enthralling story of triumph and tragedy, love and death, a universal study of power, and an essential portrait of the empire that still defines Russia today. TIMELINE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE WORLD Peter Goes Hardback RRP $34.99 A perfect introduction to history for young and old, this illustrated journey through our world’s culture and events travels from the Big Bang to the iPod and into the future. Each scene covers a period in history, showing key events and aspects of culture in all parts of the world. Age: 7+ THE INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLER'S MONTHLY HIGHLIGHTS FEBRUARY
