A Caravan Like a Canary

A Caravan Like a Canary
Author: Sasha Wasley
Publisher: Pantera Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2022-03-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0648987515

Two road trips. Twenty years apart. Can the memories of a troubled family past finally be put to rest? When Tara Button's mother asks her to drive the bright yellow family caravan from one end of the state to the other, it's her charming but unreliable brother, Zac, who convinces her it's a good idea. Besides, the road trip might keep Zac out of trouble – and that's always been a second job for Tara. Tara doesn't expect Zac's enigmatic friend Danh to come along for the ride. Or the bikies that seem to be following them up the coast ... As they travel along the open road, memories of the Buttons' last trip in the caravan engulf Tara, while a rediscovered love for the wild, glorious ocean chips away at her reserve. When forced to face her past, will Tara find the courage to let go and discover her dreams? Praise for Spring Clean for the Peach Queen: 'This joyous novel truly is a spring clean for the soul' Joanna Nell 'A heart-grabbing Aussie story that doesn't shy away from exploring complex family relationships' Rachael Johns

Spring Clean for the Peach Queen

Spring Clean for the Peach Queen
Author: Sasha Wasley
Publisher: Pantera Press
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0648676951

Twelve years had passed since the last Harvest Ball. I was just eighteen when my hometown crowned me their Peach Queen with a blossom coronet. And I was eighteen when I left. One tanked career, one badly timed glamour shoot and one dead boyfriend later, thirty-year-old Lottie Bentz is finally going home. Back in the orchard town of Bonnievale, Lottie embarks on a radical declutter of her life, Marie Kondo-style. She casts out everything that got her into trouble: her phone, socials, make-up and a tendency to tell little white lies – to herself and others. But home has its own issues, not least Lottie's staunchly feminist mother, who is furious with her. When Lottie lands herself a place to stay in exchange for helping kindly Mrs Brooker try out the Kondo method, it seems like the perfect farm escape. That's until Angus, Lottie's former Peach King and heir to the Brooker orchards, makes it clear she's not welcome – especially when Lottie's declutter begins to stir up long buried memories and half-truths. As Lottie finds her way back to herself, can she use her talents to coax Bonnievale and the Brookers out of the past? After all, everyone deserves to feel love, hope and the occasional spark of joy. A deeply moving story about forgiving, forgetting and falling in love with life again.

Fun Home

Fun Home
Author: Alison Bechdel
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780618871711

A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.

Dear Banjo

Dear Banjo
Author: Sasha Wasley
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2017-05-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0143784536

They were best friends who were never meant to fall in love – but for one of them, it was already way too late. Willow ‘Banjo’ Paterson and Tom Forrest were raised on neighbouring cattle stations in the heart of the Kimberley. As young adults, sharing the same life dreams, something came between them that Willow cannot forget. Now ten years have passed since she's even spoken to Tom. When her father falls ill, Willow is called home to take over the running of the family property, Paterson Downs. Her vision for a sustainable, organic cattle station is proving hard to achieve. She needs Tom’s help, but is it too late, and all too complicated, to make amends? Tom’s heartfelt, decade-old letters remain unopened and unmentioned between them, and Willow must find the courage to finally read them. Their tattered pages reveal a love story like no other – and one you’ll never forget. Dear Banjo is a wildly romantic and utterly captivating story about first love and second chances from an exciting new Australian author. 'I'm calling it early - this is one of the best novels of 2017.' AusRom Today

Caravan

Caravan
Author: Laura Harper-Hinton
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 554
Release: 2017-06-08
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 147354520X

Caravan is London's award-winning, hugely popular collection of restaurants. Caravan is about living and eating well. With Dining All Day, Caravan has the whole day covered. It begins with morning brews, healthy breakfasts and unbeatable brunches; next up are fresh lunchtime salads, soups, vegetables and grains, then a pause for afternoon bakes, before rounding the day off with stunning dinners, puddings and of course cocktails on the side. Founded by New Zealanders Chris Ammermann, Laura Harper-Hinton and Miles Kirby, Caravan embodies an antipodean, 'well-travelled' food culture and with this book you can get exactly what you are craving at any time of day. The ethos is bold flavours and global influences, relaxed and approachable recipes, vibrant and healthy ingredients.

A Routine Infidelity

A Routine Infidelity
Author: Elizabeth Coleman
Publisher: Pantera Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2023-01-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0645412929

A delightfully sharp and clever murder mystery, perfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club Private investigator Edwina 'Ted' Bristol deals in the cheating husbands and missing chihuahuas of Melbourne, but yearns for the heart-stopping excitement of real crime. When Ted discovers her sister, Bob, has fallen prey to an internet catfishing scam, she sets out with her beloved miniature schnauzer and shrewd sidekick, Miss Marple, to catch the swindler. Meanwhile, when conducting routine surveillance on a couple suspected of having an affair, she uncovers a plot to embezzle millions. As Bob's case takes a series of bizarre twists and turns and the embezzlement investigation escalates into murder, Ted finds her own life in peril. Will she crack her first criminal case before it's too late? If you love the madcap adventures of Phryne Fisher, you're sure to love Ted Bristol, written by Elizabeth Coleman, screenwriter for Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.

True Blue

True Blue
Author: Sasha Wasley
Publisher: Random House Australia
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2018-05-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0143784544

Love is random. Accidental. You just live your life and then one day it'll hit you with the right person. Wandering soul Freya 'Free' Paterson has finally come back home. Idealistic and trusting, she's landed the job of her dreams working on an art project with the local school, but she hadn't planned on meeting the man of her dreams as well. With his irresistible Irish accent, Constable Finn Kelly is everything Free wants - genuine, kind . . . and handsome as hell. He's also everything Free isn't - stable and dependable. Yet despite the passion simmering between them, he just wants to be friends. What is he trying to hide? As Free throws herself into the challenges of her new job, fending off the unwelcome advances of a colleague and helping to save her beloved Herne River, Finn won't stay out of her way, or out of her heart. But just when she needs him the most, will Finn reveal his true colours?

Doctor Dolittle's Caravan

Doctor Dolittle's Caravan
Author: Hugh 1886-1947 Lofting
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2021-09-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781015246607

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