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From bestselling, award-winning author Nina LaCour comes a sweeping family saga about self-discovery and love in all forms, inspired by the author's Creole roots New Orleans, 1944. Odette has always been one of the Honore sisters, glamorous and admired in their Creole community. But while...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MUD LITERARY PRIZE 2020 'An intriguing read with compelling descriptions of early 20th-century Sydney in all its squalor, debauchery and fascinating historical detail.' Who Weekly 'a brisk, original tale written with verve' Mud Literary Prize judging committee A story about...

The Rock Artist's Progress is set against the backdrop of the musical revolution that started with the Beatles and begins in 1968, a year after the Summer of Love and follows the story of Daniel Luckham, a young classical pianist studying at the Royal College of Music. Seduced by the rock music scene and vibrant counterculture in London at that time, he contrives to leave college and pursue a career in rock. But some bad decisions lead him down a dark and dangerous alley.

"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the intellectual and religious philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to Daedalus, the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology. Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe.