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72 <strong>Magazine</strong> | Read<br />
Book club<br />
Great new reads to please even the pickiest of bookworms.<br />
WINNING REVIEW<br />
YOU'VE BEEN<br />
READING<br />
THE FURY<br />
Alex Michaelides | Penguin, $37<br />
Reclusive ex-movie star Lana Farrar invites a small group of<br />
her closest friends for a weekend away on her small private<br />
island, just off the coast of Mykonos. Beneath the surface, old<br />
friendships conceal violent passions and resentments. And<br />
in 48 hours, one of them will be dead. But that’s just the<br />
beginning… A gripping new psychological thriller from the<br />
author behind the record-breaking, multimillion-copy bestseller,<br />
The Silent Patient.<br />
MY BRILLIANT SISTER<br />
Amy Brown | Simon & Schuster, $38<br />
While renowned Australian writer Stella Miles Franklin took on<br />
the world after her autobiographical novel My Brilliant Career led<br />
her to becoming one of the most famous names in Australian<br />
letters, her beloved sister Linda led a short, domestic life as<br />
a wife, mother and sister. In this hilarious, moving and genrebending<br />
debut novel, Melbourne-based Kiwi writer Amy Brown<br />
reimagines these two lives – and her own.<br />
BLACK CAKE<br />
Charmaine Wilkerson<br />
Penguin, $26<br />
A well-written novel that unfolds<br />
the extraordinary life of Eleanor<br />
Bennett that takes the reader<br />
across the Caribbean to Britain<br />
and on to the United States via<br />
a headstrong woman who needs<br />
to break with her past, a past<br />
her children do not know about<br />
till after her death. This novel<br />
contains twists and turns as we<br />
travel through an extraordinary<br />
journey through the eyes of<br />
the key characters who show<br />
strengths and weaknesses we<br />
can all identify with. A hard to<br />
put down page-turner taking the<br />
reader on a journey through the<br />
choices of a strong swimming and<br />
surfing matriarch.<br />
– David Adamson<br />
ALIBI<br />
Lynda La Plante | Allen & Unwin, $37<br />
Identical and brutal assaults on three women. One woman<br />
survives to give a detailed description of her attacker. The police<br />
arrest a suspect, Damon Morton, confident he’s their man. But<br />
three of his employees admit to the crimes, and Damon’s wife<br />
and girlfriend each provide him with an alibi, all declaring him<br />
innocent. An “unputdownable” legal thriller from the queen of<br />
crime drama and author of more than 40 bestsellers.<br />
A SHINING<br />
Jon Fosse | Fitzcarraldo, $25<br />
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. Finally<br />
he finds himself stuck at the end of a forest road. Soon it<br />
gets dark and starts to snow, but instead of going back to get<br />
help, he ventures into the dark forest. Lost, cold and tired, he<br />
encounters a glowing being amid the obscurity. Strange, haunting<br />
and dreamlike, A Shining is the latest work of fiction by Jon Fosse,<br />
who along with winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023<br />
is the recipient of countless prestigious prizes, both in his native<br />
Norway and abroad.
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