Booktopia Buzz: We review new Michael Ondaatje, Simon Winchester and more!

New award winners announced + pre-order new Kate Atkinson, Haruki Murakami, Stephanie Bishop and more [Booktopia Buzz] Dear {NAME}, It's our great pleasure to welcome an enormous collection of new and award-winning reads to our shelves. We cannot wait to share these books with the world. This month we’re featuring Booker-winner Michael Ondaatje's new novel, [Warlight]( as well as some promising new Australian talent that includes this year’s Australian/Vogel’s literary prize winner [Emily O’Grady](. The 27-year-old Queensland writer joins the ranks of Tim Winton, Kate Grenville and Gillian Mears in taking out the prestigious Australian prize. In non-fiction, we review a new book from the much-loved [Simon Winchester]( a very personal and fascinating work of memoir from [Deborah Levy]( and we showcase two very important new books from Australians [Marcia Langton]( and [Hugh McKay](. Plus, the landmark biography, [Tracker]( by Alexis Wright, the winner of the 2018 Stella Prize, is getting raced back in stock. Order yours today. Read on for these great books plus more new local and international fiction, some very exciting upcoming releases that are available for pre-order now, as well as our most popular gift books for Mother’s Day. Plus, our [Mother's Day Gift Guide]( is 30% off until Midnight tonight! As always, happy reading! Ben Hunter Booktopia Book of the Month [Warlight]( [by Michael Ondaatje]( [Warlight]( Review by Ben Hunter Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight taps into the same magic you might have experienced while reading Ondaatje’s Booker-winning The English Patient but within a wholly separate landscape. Both books work to pull you deeper and deeper into a world of displacement, longing and wonder. Warlight begins after VE Day in 1945 in a quiet London neighbourhood where 14-year-old Nathaniel and his 15-year-old sister Rachel have been, without a great deal of fuss, abandoned by their parents and left in the care of a... [Read the Full Review]( [RRP $29.99]( [$23.95]( [Save 20%]( More From Michael Ondaatje [The English Patient]( [by Michael Ondaatje]( [The English Patient]( A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The English Patient, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics. The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining patient. Rescued by... [RRP $17.99]( [$14.95]( [Save 17%]( [In the Skin of a Lion]( [by Michael Ondaatje]( [In the Skin of a Lion]( Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting. It is the 1920s, and Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. Immersed in the lives of the people who surround him – the immigrants... [RRP $19.99]( [$16.95]( [Save 15%]( [More by Michael Ondaatje]( [Browse our Mother's Day Gift Guide]( 2018 Australian/Vogel's Literary Award Winner [The Yellow House - Signed Copies Available!]( [by Emily O'Grady]( [The Yellow House]( Ten-year-old Cub lives with her parents, older brother Cassie, and twin brother Wally on a lonely property bordering an abandoned cattle farm and knackery. Their lives are shadowed by the infamous actions of her Granddad Les in his yellow weatherboard house, just over the fence. Although Les died twelve years ago, his notoriety has grown in Cub’s lifetime and the local community have ostracised the whole family. When Cub’s estranged aunt Helena and cousin Tilly move next door into the yellow house, the secrets the family want to keep buried begin to bubble to the surface. And having been kept... [RRP $29.99]( [$23.95]( [Save 20%]( New Australian Fiction [Book of Colours]( [by Robyn Cadwallader]( [Book of Colours]( London, 1321: In a small stationer's shop in Paternoster Row, three people are drawn together around the creation of a magnificent book, an illuminated manuscript of prayers, a Book of Hours. Even though the commission seems to answer the aspirations of each one of them, their own... [RRP $32.99]( [$22.95]( [Save 30%]( [The Way Things Should Be]( [by Bridie Jabour]( [The Way Things Should Be]( A warm and genuine novel about the hopes, expectations, failings and disappointments of millennials. Claudia is getting married in a week. Well, she's 85% sure she is getting married in a week. Maybe 75%... First, she must return home to spend the week with her siblings Zoe, Phinn and Poppy... [RRP $29.99]( [$23.95]( [Save 20%]( [Lovesome]( [by Sally Seltmann]( [Lovesome]( An offbeat and beguiling story of finding your own happiness. My warm breath makes a beautiful fog before me. It's times like this when I feel most alive. I feel free, and at one with the world and everything around me. It's an invigorating version of euphoria. But I don't want to arrive home to no one; I want... [RRP $29.99]( [$23.95]( [Save 20%]( [Flames]( [by Robbie Arnott]( [Flames]( Two siblings traverse the southern island to try to find their way back to each other in this tale about grief and love and the bonds of family. A young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his twenty-three-year-old sister, Charlotte - who promptly runs for her life. A water rat swims upriver... [RRP $29.99]( [$23.95]( [Save 20%]( [More in Australian Fiction]( [Visit the Booktopian for the latest news and reviews]( Lavish Book of the Month [Romance Was Born: A Love Story with Fashion]( [by Anna Plunkett, Luke Sales, Georgina Safe]( [Romance Was Born]( The fully illustrated story of one of the most successful Australian fashion houses of the last 15 years. Romance Was Born collections are lavish, larger than life, iconic and iconoclastic, and this gorgeous book is a celebration of this unique Australian vision, created by two young designers who declined an internship with Galliano at Dior to 'do their own thing'. The designs of Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales have included collaborations... [RRP $70.00]( [$48.95]( [Save 30%]( [More in Lavish Books]( More Gift Books for Mother's Day [The Flower Expert]( [by Fleur McHarg]( [The Flower Expert]( An indispensable insight into how breathtaking floral displays are created, by Fleur McHarg; the Flower Expert, and one of the most in-demand florists and floral arrangers for Australia's great and good. She brings over 25 years of experience in creating unique floral arrangements... [RRP $49.99]( [$34.95]( [Save 30%]( [Picardy]( [by Marian Somes]( [Picardy]( This rich and evocative memoir is not only an uplifting story of creating a French idyll in an Australian landscape, but a beautifully written account of how a garden changed their lives. When Bryce and Marian Somes took a whistle-stop tour of France in 1986, they couldn’t have... [RRP $49.99]( [$34.95]( [Save 30%]( [Browse our Mother's Day Gift Guide]( [Browse our Gift Certificates - the perfect gift for Mother's Day!]( New International Fiction [Conversations with Friends]( [by Sally Rooney]( [Conversations with Friends]( Review by Ben Hunter Conversations with Friends is a novel that has ricocheted about in my head long after reading. I was so gripped by this sharp, sophisticated, and darkly comic Irish debut that I’m jumping on the release of a new paperback edition as an excuse to keep talking... [Read the Full Review](. [RRP $19.99]( [$13.95]( [Save 30%]( [The Heart is a Burial Ground]( [by Tamara Colchester]( [Heart Is A Burial Ground]( On a brisk day in 1970, a daughter arrives at her mother's home to take care of her as she nears the end of her life. `Home' is the sprawling Italian castle of Roccasinibalda, and Diana's mother is the legendary Caresse Crosby, one half of literature's most scandalous couple in 1920s Paris, widow... [RRP $32.99]( [$25.95]( [Save 21%]( [Property]( [Love and Ruin]( [The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes]( [A Shout in the Ruins]( [More in Fiction]( [Browse our DVD Gift Ideas for Mother's Day]( Winner of the 2018 Stella Prize [Tracker]( [by Alexis Wright]( [Tracker]( Alexis Wright returns to non-fiction in her new book, a collective memoir of the charismatic Aboriginal leader, political thinker and entrepreneur Tracker Tilmouth, who died in Darwin in 2015 at the age of 62. Taken from his family as a child and brought up in a mission on Croker Island, Tracker Tilmouth worked tirelessly for Aboriginal self-determination, creating opportunities for land use and economic development in his many roles, including Director of the Central Land Council of the Northern Territory. Tracker was a visionary, a strategist... [RRP $39.95]( [$27.95]( [Save 30%]( [Browse the 2018 Stella Prize Longlist]( [Tune in to Booktopia's podcast]( Noteworthy Non-Fiction [Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World]( [by Simon Winchester]( [Exactly]( Review by Robert O'Hearn Oh, how I love the return of Simon Winchester! He is such an enthusiastic storyteller, and his love of language and ideas is contagious. Loyal readers will know a Winchester book is a journey with many an engaging diversion, and where an... [Read the Full Review]( [RRP $32.99]( [$25.95]( [Save 21%]( [Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia]( [by Marcia Langton]( [Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country]( Tourism Australia statistics show that many overseas tourists, as well as Australians, are keen to learn more about Australia’s first peoples. And while the Indigenous tourism industry continues to grow, no comprehensive travel guide is currently available. Marcia Langton’s Welcome to Country is a completely... [RRP $39.99]( [$30.80]( [Save 23%]( [The Cost of Living]( [by Deborah Levy]( [The Cost of Living]( Review by Ben Hunter The Cost of Living is the second instalment of Deborah Levy’s “living memoir.” You do not need to have read the first – Things I Don’t Want to Know – or any of the booker-shortlisted authors’ other works before starting on this, but if you’re like me, you’ll want... [Read the Full Review](. [RRP $29.99]( [$20.95]( [Save 30%]( [Australia Reimagined]( [by Hugh Mackay]( [Australia Reimagined]( When it comes to our ecological, social, cultural and economic future, misplaced optimism is as dangerous as blind faith. What is needed is the courage to face the way things are, and the wisdom and imagination - informed by the best available evidence - to work out how to make things better. Australia's unprecedented... [RRP $32.99]( [$24.95]( [Save 24%]( [More in Non-Fiction]( [Browse our Magazine Gift Ideas for Mother's Day]( Hot Pre-Orders [Boy Swallows Universe]( [by Trent Dalton]( [Boy Swallows Universe]( Review by Ben Hunter In Boy Swallows Universe, Walkley-winning journalist Trent Dalton bends his own horrific story of a chaotic youth in the heroin-drenched suburbs that Brisbane forgot into a bright and brilliant phantasmagoria – an instant classic of Australian storytelling. Eli Bell has unfortunate circumstances. His brother is mute, his dad is drunk, his mum is headed for jail, his step-dad deals heroin, his babysitter is a convicted murderer and his only friend seems to be his pen pal… who’s in prison... [Read the Full Review]( [RRP $32.99]( [$25.95]( [Save 21%]( [Transcription]( [by Kate Atkinson]( [Transcription]( A new novel from the author of Life After Life and God in Ruins. Transcription is a bravura novel of extraordinary power and substance. Juliet Armstrong is recruited as a young woman by an obscure wartime department of the Secret Service. In the aftermath of war she joins the BBC, where her... [RRP $32.99]( [$25.95]( [Save 21%]( [Killing Commendatore]( [by Haruki Murakami]( [Killing Commendatore]( 5 things to know about Killing Commendatore: 1. Haruki Murakami’s new novel, Killing Commendatore, will be published in November 2018. 2. The novel is a two-part story that will be published in one volume – Part 1: The Idea Made Visible and Part 2: The Shifting Metaphor. 3. The novel is centred on art and... [RRP $34.99]( [$27.95]( [Save 20%]( [Unsheltered]( [by Barbara Kingsolver]( [Unsheltered]( A testament to the power and goodness of the human spirit, Unsheltered explores the foundations we build, crossing time and place to give us all a little more hope in those around us, and a little more faith in ourselves. The New York Times bestselling author of Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna, and... 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