Booktopia Buzz: Two brilliant shortlists, new Australian writing, and signed editions.

Shaun Tan’s quest to make you cry + Pre-Orders from John Purcell, Kate Atkinson and more [Booktopia Buzz] Dear {NAME}, In celebration of 50 years of the Man Booker Prize, a public vote is being held to choose the world favourite among a shortlist of five Booker-winning novels representing five decades of Booker history - [In a Free State]( by V. S. Naipaul; [Moon Tiger]( by Penelope Lively; [The English Patient]( by Michael Ondaatje; [Wolf Hall]( by Hilary Mantel; and [Lincoln in the Bardo]( by George Saunders. It’s an incredible list to choose from, a literary penalty shootout in the World Cup of fiction! We’re also eagerly awaiting the announcement of our 2018 Miles Franklin Award Winner. A fantastic selection of Australian writers have made the list including previous winner [Michelle de Kretser]( with what we think is her best work yet and Booktopia’s Literary Book of the Year for 2017. Read on for these brilliant books plus limited numbers of signed copies from some of our favourite authors, new books from near and far, Aussie classics, hot pre-orders and a new picture book from [Shaun Tan]( that will reduce readers of all ages to tears (in a good way). Happy Reading! Ben Hunter Booktopia New Australian Fiction [The Geography of Friendship]( [by Sally Piper]( [The Geography of Friendship]( We can’t ever go back, but some journeys require walking the same path again. When three young women set off on a hike through the wilderness they are anticipating the adventure of a lifetime. Over the next five days, as they face up to the challenging terrain, it soon becomes clear they are not alone and the freedom they feel quickly turns to fear. Only when it is too late for them to turn back do they fully appreciate the danger they are in. As their friendship is tested, each girl makes an irrevocable choice; the legacy... [RRP $29.95]( [$23.95]( [Save 20%]( [Prize Fighter]( [by Future D. Fidel]( [Prize Fighter]( A Congolese refugee getting by in the Australian suburbs, Isa has a background that seems unimaginable in his new country - a childhood as a boy soldier. Now, Isa's a brilliant boxer, but his most difficult opponent isn't in the ring - it's the terrors of his past. The powerful debut novel from acclaimed playwright... [RRP $29.99]( [$23.95]( [Save 20%]( [The Coves]( [by David Whish-Wilson]( [The Coves]( San Francisco, 1849. The hills are swarming with desperate men from all over the world, come to seek their fortune in the grip of yellow fever. In their wake come the opportunists, not least of whom are the Australians, many of them former convicts who are quick to seize control in a lawless world. This... [RRP $27.99]( [$22.50]( [Save 20%]( [Coach Fitz]( [Under Your Wings]( [The Fireflies of Autumn]( [When Elephants Fight]( [More in Australian Fiction]( [Our EOFYS Sale is on now! 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[RRP $32.95]( [$24.50]( [Save 26%]( [More in Signed Copies]( [Order your signed copy of Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton]( New International Fiction [Adjustment Day]( [by Chuck Palahniuk]( [Adjustment Day]( The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire. People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They’ve been reading a mysterious blue-black book and memorising its directives. They are ready for the reckoning. In... [RRP $32.99]( [$25.50]( [Save 23%]( [So Much Life Left Over]( [by Louis de Bernieres]( [So Much Life Left Over]( A sweeping, heartbreaking novel following Daniel in his troubled marriage with Rosie as they navigate the unsettled time between the World Wars. Rosie and Daniel have moved to Ceylon with their little daughter to start a new life at the dawn of the 1920s, attempting to put the trauma of the First World War... [RRP $32.99]( [$25.95]( [Save 21%]( [Spinning Silver]( [by Naomi Novik]( [Spinning Silver]( Spinning Silver is a new take on the classic fairytale Rumpelstiltskin, from Naomi Novik, the author of the award-winning Uprooted. Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father is not a very good one. Free to lend and reluctant to collect, he has left his family on the... [RRP $29.99]( [$23.95]( [Save 20%]( [Days of Awe]( [by A.M. Homes]( [Days of Awe]( A stunning new collection of short stories from the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction. A.M. Homes returns with signature humour and psychological accuracy, to tell thirteen stories exposing the heart of an uneasy 21st-century America. In tales of a family obsessed with the... [RRP $27.99]( [$22.50]( [Save 20%]( [More in Fiction]( [Visit the Booktopian for the latest news and reviews]( 2018 Miles Franklin Shortlist [Taboo]( [by Kim Scott]( [Taboo]( From Kim Scott, two-times winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, comes a work charged with ambition and poetry, in equal parts brutal, mysterious and idealistic, about a young woman cast into a drama that has been playing for over two hundred years. Taboo takes place in the... [RRP $32.99]( [$26.50]( [Save 20%]( [The Life to Come]( [by Michelle de Kretser]( [The Life to Come ]( Longlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize. Set in Sydney, Paris and Sri Lanka, The Life to Come is a mesmerising novel about the stories we tell and don't tell ourselves as individuals, as societies and as nations. It feels at once firmly classic and exhilaratingly contemporary. Pippa is a writer... [RRP $32.99]( [$25.50]( [Save 23%]( [Storyland]( [No More Boats]( [Border Districts]( [ The Last Garden]( [Browse the 2018 Miles Franklin Shortlist]( [Tune in to Booktopia's podcast]( The Golden Man Booker Shortlist [Wolf Hall]( [by Hilary Mantel]( [Wolf Hall ]( Winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize. Go backstage during the most dramatic period in English history: the reign of Henry VIII. England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this... [RRP $22.99]( [$19.25]( [Save 16%]( [Lincoln in the Bardo]( [by George Saunders]( [Lincoln in the Bardo]( The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War. The American Civil War rages while President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year... [RRP $19.99]( [$15.95]( [Save 20%]( [In a Free State]( [by V. S. Naipaul]( [In a Free State : A Novel with Two Supporting Narratives]( Winner of the Booker Prize 1971. Shortlisted for the Golden Man Booker Prize. From Pulitzer Prize winner V.S. Naipaul, In a Free State is set in an imaginary state in Africa against a background of civil conflict. The book travels from America to London to Africa. The first third focuses on the fortunes... [RRP $19.99]( [$16.95]( [Save 15%]( [Moon Tiger]( [by Penelope Lively]( [Moon Tiger]( 'I'm writing a history of the world,' she says... And in the process, my own.' Claudia Hampton is dying. A professional historian in her seventies, she casts her mind back through her own life to identify the currents and winds upon which she has been cast adrift. We see how this strong, independent woman... [RRP $19.99]( [$16.75]( [Save 16%]( [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 Bedouins from a burning plane, he is English, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and betrayal. The only clue Hana has to his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire - a copy of The Histories... [RRP $17.99]( [$14.95]( [Save 17%]( [Browse Man Booker Prize Winners]( [Over 128,000 titles ready to ship. Don't delay, order today!]( New in Non-Fiction [The Power of Hope]( [by Kon Karapanagiotidis]( [The Power Of Hope]( A powerful, inspiring memoir from Kon Karapanagiotidis, founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, which argues that by putting community, love and compassion at the centre of our lives, we have the power to change our world. 'I hope you take from this book the message that we all matter... [RRP $32.99]( [$25.50]( [Save 23%]( [Teacher]( [by Gabbie Stroud]( [Teacher]( A powerful and moving memoir about how the current system is letting down children and parents, and breaking dedicated teachers. Devastating, heart-breaking, enraging. Watching children learn is a beautiful and extraordinary experience. Their bodies transform, reflecting inner changes. Teeth fall... 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[RRP $26.99]( [$21.50]( [Save 20%]( [Rules of Summer]( [The Red Tree]( [The Lost Thing]( [The Rabbits]( [More by Shaun Tan]( [Must have Hot Pre-Orders - Shop now!]( Hot Pre-Orders [The Girl on the Page]( [by John Purcell]( [The Girl On The Page]( Two women, two great betrayals, one path to redemption. A punchy, powerful and page-turning novel about the redemptive power of great literature, from industry insider, John Purcell. Amy Winston is a hard-drinking, bed-hopping, hot-shot young book editor on a downward spiral... [RRP $32.99]( [$24.50]( [Save 26%]( [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%]( [Man Out of Time]( [by Stephanie Bishop]( [Man Out of Time]( From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of The Other Side of the World comes a brilliant and provocative new novel about inheritance and self-destruction. When Stella's father, Leon, disappears in September 2001, the police knock at her door. She baulks at their questions, not... [RRP $29.99]( [$23.95]( [Save 20%]( [Superior Spectre]( [by Angela Meyer]( [Superior Spectre]( The historical richness of Outlander meets the dystopian feminism of Margaret Atwood in this highly accomplished book from Angela Meyer, the most exciting debut novelist of 2018. Jeff is dying. Haunted by memories and grappling with the shame of his desires, he runs away to remote... [RRP $29.99]( [$23.95]( [Save 20%]( [Brief Answers to the Big Questions]( [by Stephen Hawking]( [Brief Answers to the Big Questions]( Professor Hawking was a brilliant theoretical physicist, an influential author and thinker, and a great popular communicator. Throughout his career he was asked questions by business leaders, politicians, entrepreneurs, academics and the general public on a broad range of subjects... [RRP $29.99]( [$23.95]( [Save 20%]( [21 Lessons for the 21st Century]( [by Yuval Noah Harari]( [21 Lessons for the 21st Century]( Yuval Noah Harari returns in August 2018 with a new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. In bringing his focus to the here and now, Harari will help us to grapple with a world that is increasingly hard to comprehend, encouraging us to focus our minds on the essential questions we should be asking ourselves... [RRP $35.00]( [$24.95]( [Save 29%]( [More in Hot Pre-Orders]( [Our EOFYS Sale is on now! 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