Claire Thomas

A novel about three women at turning points in their lives, and the one night that changes everything. One night, three women go to the theater to see a play. Wildfires are burning in the hills outside, but inside the theater it is time for the performance to take over. Margot is a successful, flinty professor on the cusp of retirement, distracted by her fraught relationship with her adult son and her ailing husband. After a traumatic past, Ivy is is now a philanthropist with a seemingly perfect life. Summer is a young drama student, an usher at the theater, and frantically worried for her girlfriend whose parents live in the fire zone. While the performance unfolds on stage, so does the compelling trajectory that will bring these three women together, changing them all. Deliciously intimate and yet emotionally wide-ranging, The Performance is a novel that both explores the inner lives of women as it underscores the power of art and memory to transform us.

The Performance

Performance

Andrew Mcdonald

Carolyn Court

David Cohen

Paul Dawson

Andrew Morgan

Leanne Hall

Ellie Campbell

Lee Kofman

Mischa Merz

Melanie Joosten

Euan Mitchell

Adele Smith

John Holton

Jane Ormond

Nathan Curnow

Rachel Leary

Scott McDermott

Rose Mulready

Ann Bloch

Brook Dunnell

Caroline Petite

Daniel Wynn

Helen Addision-Smith

Jamie Buchanan

Julia Inglis

Leigh Coyle

Lucy Lawson

Melissa Bruce

Mira Cuturilo

Phil Guy

Ryan Paine

Sean M. Whelan

Paula Hunt

Cardigan Press are back with a new collection of fiction sourced from across Australia. Stories fall into sections that pass through the night with darkening themes: "Bedtime Stories", "Brink of Midnight", "Through the Looking Glass" and "Hallucinatory Bird Songs". New fiction meets pop culture in this collection that's all about getting postcards of your disappeared boyfriend, meeting Hemingway on the train, pretty exploding mosquitos and winning the race to the mixing bowl.

Fiction That Burns at Both Ends

Allnighter

Primarily aimed as a practical resource for parents, but also of interest to students and researchers because of its unique content, it includes recollections of and advice on many of the common issues or dilemmas that arise in multilingual families.

Reflections on Multilingual Childhoods

Growing Up with Languages

Primarily aimed as a practical resource for parents, but also of interest to students and researchers because of its unique content, this book includes recollections of and advice on many of the common issues or dilemmas that arise in multilingual families.

Laurel Gallucci

From LA's trendy bakery comes the new definitive grain-free baking book that makes eating paleo, gluten-free, and dairy-free diets a lot sweeter for home bakers. From the beginning, Sweet Laurel has been about making sweet things simple. The recipes here are indulgent yet healthful. They use just a few quality ingredients to create delicious desserts that benefit your body; all of these treats are paleo, and many are vegan and raw. From Matcha Sandwich Cookies to Salted Lemon Meringue Pie to Classic German Chocolate Cake, these treats are at once uncomplicated, beautiful, and satisfying, made only with wholesome ingredients such as almonds, coconut, cacao, and dates. Here, too, are basic staple recipes to keep with you, like grain-free vanilla extract and vegan caramel, and fancy finishes, like paleo sprinkles and dairy-free ice cream. Whether you’re looking for simpler recipes, seeking a better approach to dessert, or struggling with an allergy that has prevented you from enjoying sweets, Sweet Laurel will change the way you bake.

Recipes for Whole Food, Grain-Free Desserts: A Baking Book

Sweet Laurel

85 recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack time from the Los Angeles bakery setting the standard for healthful, grain-free cooking “For years Sweet Laurel has been my go-to for desserts and I'm yet to try a recipe I didn't love. I can't wait to incorporate the recipes from Sweet Laurel Savory into our everyday meals.”—Lauren Conrad Beloved for stunning and clean-yet-decadent cakes and confections, the grain-free brand Sweet Laurel offers its most delightful savory provisions, from pantry staples and breads to pastas, pizzas, and feasts. The recipes are gluten-free and refined sugar–free with keto, paleo, dairy-free, and vegan options, as well. Whether you’re working toward a more wholesome way of eating and living or working around food allergies, Sweet Laurel Savory brings satisfying simplicity to breakfast, lunch, dinner, and beyond. With Sweet Laurel’s uncomplicated whole-food approach, the recipes here are as doable as they are flavorful and healthy. Simple and readily available core ingredients build the foundation for indulgent favorites and craveable staples. With options like Sicilian Pan Pizza, Epic Bagel Spread, The Ultimate Sweet Laurel Burger with Sweet Potato Fries, and Zucchini Lattice Tart, you’ll never feel restricted.

Everyday Decadence for Whole-Food, Grain-Free Meals: A Cookbook

Sweet Laurel Savory

Thomas Hennessey

The real history of MI5 during the era of the Cold War, the IRA & international terrorism.

Spooks the Unofficial History of MI5 From the First Atom Spy to 7/7 1945-2009

Usually you can tell when something has fallen apart. You can see it deteriorating into awkward little pieces and you know, no matter what, it's a broken thing. But occasionally, it's not so obvious. Occasionally you find yourself clinging to a fragment that you've mistaken for a whole. A beautiful, beguiling and multi-layered novel, Fugitive Blue tells the story of a young art conservator and her work on an unusual panel painting in striking ultramarine. As she restores the fragile artwork, she begins to speculate on its provenance - its controversial creation in Renaissance Venice and reappearance three hundred years later during a young nobleman's Grand Tour of Europe, passing through nineteenth-century Paris before its eventual arrival in Australia as one of the scarce possessions of a post-war Greek migrant family. Threaded through the painting's progress is the story of the young conservator's own life in contemporary Melbourne, her developing passion for her work and the demise of her relationship with an actor named Mark. I spent so much of my time restoring things, trying to reclaim their original beauty. All day, I looked at deteriorating objects with their parts exposed like a person with her heart on the outside. I could touch these paintings, make a decision and watch them transform. Done. But then there was us. Captivating and intriguing, Fugitive Blue is a fluidly elegant novel that gets to the essence of love's fragility.

Fugitive Blue

Spooks the Unofficial History of MI5 From Agent Zig Zag to the D-Day Deception 1939-45

If you think having the devil snapping at your heels is scary, its nothing compared to finding Gods calm presence at your back every time you stop to draw breath in your race to escapeparticularly for a determined agnostic like Claire. Indeed, His presence is so unnerving and unwelcome that its not until her world crumbles to ashes that she fi nds the courage to stop running and turn toward Him. Moderately psychic and a most earthbound mystic, Claire has heard the voice of Thomas from the days of earliest childhood, but has worked tirelessly for most of her adult life to shut it out or shout it downuntil she made that fateful decision. Entanglement is the result of that choice. It describes the pain of surviving the traumatic deaths of four beloved people, fi nding the courage to walk away from abuse and oppression, and facing the fear of being utterly alone in the world. It also explains how confronting fear, accepting loss, and embracing the unknown and the mystical can create a life of enormous joy and enrichment. It focuses on how having the courage to stay in the not-knowing can be gloriously life-affirming and on how human life on earth is vastly more mysterious than most of us dare to imagine.

Entanglement: a True Story

Claire Thomas

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