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August new releases

This August, we have a global selection of books to share, with stories from Australia, Uruguay, Israel, and the US. From biographies of prominent Australian public figures to social journalism to climate dystopias and social satire, we have something to interest every reader this month.

Young Rupert uncovers the beginnings of the Murdoch empire, and offers a fascinating time capsule of Australian media by piecing together a paper trail of succession, sedition, and power. West Girls is a sharp new novel from Laura Elizabeth Woollett examining beauty, race, class divisions, and social mobility in Australia’s richest state. Pink Slime is an award-winning novel with striking prose and vivid characters, set against the backdrop of a city crumbling in an inexplicable plague. Women We Buried, Women We Burned is a piercing memoir of survival, self-discovery, and forgiveness from the author of No Visible BruisesThe Land of Hope and Fear presents a rich, wide-ranging portrait of the Israeli people at a critical juncture in their country’s history. Robert Menzies is a revelatory biography of Australia‘s longest-serving prime minister — now in a smaller edition with a new preface. 

Find out more about our August books below. For a chance to win a copy of one, head to our Facebook or Instagram where you can let us know what interests you and why.

Young Rupert

For half a century, the Murdoch media empire and its polarising patriarch have swept across the globe, shaking up markets and democracies in their wake. But how did it all start?

In September 1953, 22-year-old Rupert Murdoch landed in Adelaide, South Australia. Fresh from Oxford with a radical reputation, the young and brash son of Sir Keith Murdoch had arrived to fulfill his father’s dying wish: for Rupert to live a ‘useful altruistic and full life’ in the media.

For decades, Sir Keith had been a giant of the Australian press, but his final years were spent bitterly fending off rivals and would-be…

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West Girls

‘I chose the jagged rocks, the broken bones, the spattered brains. I chose beauty. I'd choose it again.’

Luna Lewis is white. But her friends aren’t, nor are her brothers, nor her one-time Princess of Indonesia–finalist stepmother. After transforming from pudgy preteen to ‘exotic’ beauty, Luna reinvents herself as ‘Luna Lu’ and takes her ticket out of the most isolated city on earth. However, as her international modelling career approaches its expiry date, Luna must grapple with what she’s sacrificed — and who she’s become — in her mission to conquer the world.

Featuring an…

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Pink Slime

Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolomé-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Literature Prize.

A port city is in the grips of an ecological crisis. The river has filled with toxic algae, and a deadly ‘red wind’ blows through its streets; much of the coast has been evacuated as the wealthy migrate inland to safety, leaving the rest to shelter in abandoned houses as blackouts and food shortages abound.

The unnamed narrator is one of those who has stayed. She spends her days trying to disentangle herself from the two relationships that had once…

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Women We Buried, Women We Burned

A riveting memoir of survival, self-discovery, and forgiveness from the author of the groundbreaking, award-winning No Visible Bruises.

Rachel Louise Snyder was eight years old when her mother died, and her distraught father thrust the family into an evangelical, cult-like existence halfway across the country. Furiously rebellious, she was expelled from school and home at age 16. Living out of her car and relying on strangers, Rachel managed to talk her way into college and eventually travelled the globe as a journalist. Survival became her reporter’s beat, and in places like India, Niger, and Cambodia,…

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The Land of Hope and Fear

One of the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books for 2023

?A correspondent who has spent thirty years in Israel presents a rich, wide-ranging portrait of the Israeli people at a critical juncture in their country’s history.

Despite Israel’s determined staying power in a hostile environment, its military might, and the innovation it fosters in businesses globally, the country is more divided than ever. The old guard — socialist secular elites and idealists — are a dying breed, and the state’s democratic foundations are being challenged. A dynamic and exuberant country of nine million, Israel now…

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Robert Menzies

A revelatory biography of Australia’s longest-serving prime minister.

Robert Menzies claimed the prime ministership in 1939 and led the nation during the early years of the war, but resigned two years later when he lost the confidence of his party. His political career seemed over, and yet he staged one of the great comebacks to forge a new political party with a new philosophy, and to craft a winning electoral approach that was to make him Australia’s longest-serving prime minister.

The lessons Menzies learned — and the way he applied them — made him a model that every Liberal leader since has…

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