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Pacific, inc. Hawaii, Aus & NZ

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Memorial Days

A Memoir

by Geraldine Brooks

Hardcover: Feb 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey towards peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse.

Theory & Practice

A Novel

by Michelle de Kretser

Hardcover: Feb 2025 | Paperback: Feb 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A new novel of startling intelligence from prizewinning Australian author Michelle de Kretser, following a writer looking back on her young adulthood and grappling with what happens when life smashes through the boundaries of art.

Bright Objects

by Ruby Todd

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Oct 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A young widow grapples with the arrival of a once-in-a-lifetime comet and its tumultuous consequences, in a debut novel that blends mystery, astronomy, and romance, perfect for fans of Emma Cline's The Girls and Ottessa Moshfegh's Death in Her Hands....

Playground

A Novel

by Richard Powers

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment.

A Disappearance in Fiji

by Nilima Rao

Hardcover: Jun 2023 | Paperback: May 2024

Critics' Consensus:

A charming and atmospheric debut mystery featuring a 25-year-old Indian police sergeant investigating a missing persons case in colonial Fiji

Birnam Wood

A Novel

by Eleanor Catton

Hardcover: Mar 2023 | Paperback: Mar 2024

Critics' Consensus:

The Booker Prize–winning author of The Luminaries brings us Birnam Wood, a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive.

Exiles

Aaron Falk Mystery #3

by Jane Harper

Hardcover: Jan 2023 | Paperback: Feb 2024

Critics' Consensus:

From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jane Harper comes Exiles, a captivating mystery about a missing mother.

All That's Left Unsaid

A Novel

by Tracey Lien

Hardcover: Sep 2022 | Paperback: Sep 2023

Critics' Consensus:

For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut following a young Vietnamese-Australian woman who returns home to her family in the wake of her brother's shocking murder, determined to discover what ...

Dirt Creek

A Novel

by Hayley Scrivenor

Hardcover: Aug 2022 | Paperback: May 2023

Critics' Consensus:

In Hayley Scrivenor's Dirt Creek, a small-town debut mystery described as The Dry meets Everything I Never Told You, a girl goes missing and a community falls apart and comes together.

Edie Richter is Not Alone

by Rebecca Handler

Hardcover: Mar 2021 | Paperback: Oct 2022

Critics' Consensus:

Funny, acerbic Edie Richter is moving with her husband from San Francisco to Perth, Australia.

Crossings

by Alex Landragin

Hardcover: Jul 2020 | Paperback: Oct 2021

Critics' Consensus:

Alex Landragin's Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut--a novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hundred and fifty years and seven lifetimes.

A Million Things

by Emily Spurr

Paperback: Aug 2021

Critics' Consensus:

Winner of the 2021 BookBrowse Debut Award

A soaring, heartfelt debut following fifty-five days in the life of ten-year-old Rae, who must look after herself and her dog when her mother disappears.

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