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The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

When people say ‘terminal’, I think of the airport.

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Lie Beside Me

I felt cold. Cold in the way of night sweats

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Think Again

After a bumpy flight, fifteen men dropped from the Montana sky.

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Summertime

As I write this on a Friday afternoon it has been forty-eight hours and he has barely lifted his head.

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The Tour

After more than two weeks at sea to simmer the tension between them, Violet and Daisie Chettle couldn’t stand each other, let alone stand next to each other.

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Prodigal Son

A stir moves through the Pride House Group Home, and seconds later adolescent faces pig against the muggy front window.

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Serpentine

My best friend, a seasoned homicide detective, is a master of discontent.

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Wreck This Picture Book

BLUMP. This is the sound of a book sitting.

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How to Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints)

I was a forty-three-year-old mother of two when I lost my orgasm.

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The Boy Who Fell to Earth

The car hits my sixteen-year-old son at 35 miles per hour.

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Fragile Monsters

A slap. A cry. Distress, which seems a poor enough start to things.

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The Push

Your house glows at night like everything inside is on fire.

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The Burning Girls

Twig dolls peculiar to the small Sussex village of Chapel Croft.

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The Funny Thing about Norman Foreman

When I was born my insides lay outside my body for twenty-one days.

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A Zero Waste Family

How many of us know our neighbours? Interact with our greengrocer? Know the names of the people who make our clothing?

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The Cousins

I’m late for dinner again, but this time it’s not my fault. There’s a mansplainer in my way.

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Fire Flood Plague

April in Melbourne is always glorious but through most of the autumn of 2020, between the hours of five and six, there was an exquisite clarity to the rose-gold sheen of the sky

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Underground Asia

This book tells the story of a connected wave of revolution across Asia from its beginnings in the first years of the twentieth century to a crescendo of protest, rebellion and war between 1925 and 1927.

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The Truths We Hold

How Kamala Harris felt the morning Donald Trump won in 2016

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Hollow Empire

You never get used to poisoning a child.

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Terry Denton's Really Truly Amazing Guide to Everything

The Universe is everything around you, beyond you, and IT IS ALSO YOU . . .

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Life After Truth

Her daughter had just fallen back asleep in the crook of her elbow when Mariam noticed the man on the bench in the courtyard below.

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The Magpie Society: One for Sorrow

The night she died, all our phones were turned off.

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