The Book Worm
About the Book Worm
A handsel after our own heart! With your choice of a new-release novel or memoir, this makes a great gift for the friend who's favourite scent is the page of a freshly printed novel.
Bundle includes:
- Your Choice of Book. Choose from best-selling new release titles: 'Love & Virtue', or 'The Woman in the Library' or 'The Uncaged Sky'.
- Hunted + Gathered Chocolate 70% dark chocolate is paired with roasted hazelnuts for a lightly sweetened crunch. Yum!
- Leif Hand Balm: Buddha Wood The calming scent of Buddha Wood combines with Sandalwood and Sweet Almond Oil to bring a burst of moisture and therapeutic relaxation to tired hands.
- Mayde Serenity Tea. A soothing blend of calming herbs, Serenity is both nourishing and warming.
More about the selected books:
Feminism, power and sex play out through the eyes of young Australian uni students in a contemporary narrative that is fiercely authentic
Whenever I say I was at university with Eve, people ask me what she was like, sceptical perhaps that she could have always been as whole and self-assured as she now appears. To which I say something like: ‘People are infinitely complex.’ But I say it in such a way—so pregnant with misanthropy—that it’s obvious I hate her.
Michaela and Eve are two bright, bold women who befriend each other their first year at a residential college at university, where they live in adjacent rooms. They could not be more different; one assured and popular – the other uncertain and eager-to-please. But something happens one night in O-week – a drunken encounter, a foggy memory that will force them to confront the realities of consent and wrestle with the dynamics of power.
Written with a strikingly contemporary voice that is both wickedly clever and incisive, issues of consent, class and institutional privilege, and feminism become provocations for enduring philosophical questions we face today.
Awards:
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Winner ABIA Book of the Year Award
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Winner ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award
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Winner Booksellers’ Choice Fiction Book of the Year Award
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Winner MUD Literary Prize
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Shortlisted ABIA Matt Richell New Writer Award
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Shortlisted Indie Book Awards for Debut Fiction
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Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist
Four strangers. A quiet library. The perfect place for murder.
‘And then there is a scream. Ragged and terrified. A beat of silence even after it stops, until we all seem to realise that the Reading Room Rules no longer apply.’
Hannah Tigone, bestselling Australian crime author, is crafting a new novel that begins in the Boston Public Library: four strangers; Winifred, Cain, Marigold and Whit are sitting at the same table when a bloodcurdling scream breaks the silence. A woman has been murdered. They are all suspects, and, as it turns out, each character has their own secrets and motivations – and one of them is a murderer.
The Woman in the Library is an unexpectedly twisty literary adventure that examines the complicated nature of friendship – and shows that words can be the most treacherous weapons of all.
On September 12, 2018 British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested at Tehran Airport by Iran’s feared Islamic Revolutionary Guards. Convicted of espionage in a shadowy trial presided over by Iran’s most notorious judge, Dr Moore-Gilbert was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Written with extraordinary insight and vivid immediacy, The Uncaged Sky is Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s remarkable story of courage and resilience, and a powerful meditation on hope, solidarity and what it means to be free.