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New & Notable
Whether you are a seasoned reader of international literature or
a reader just venturing out beyond your own literary shores, we know you
will find our New and Notable section a book browser's paradise! Reading
literature from around the world has a way of opening up one's perspective
to create as vast a world within us as there is without. Here are nearly 70 new
or notable books we hope will bring the world to you. Remember—depending on what country you are shopping in,
these books might be sold under slightly different titles or ISBNs, in different
formats or with different covers; or be published in different months. However, the author's name is always likely to
be the same! (a book published in another country may not always be available to your library or local bookstore,
but individuals usually can purchase them from the publishers or other online resources)
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AUSTRALIA & the PACIFIC ISLANDS
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BITE YOUR TONGUE
Francesca Rendle-Short
Bite Your Tongue is a story of great heart. It is the story of a teenage girl's growing up in Queensland during the 1970s, the daughter of a morals crusader, Angel Rendle-Short / Mother Joy Solider. The tale is thoroughly embedded in Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen's conservative Queensland; a time of great social change for the whole of Australia. The narrator's family is characterised by the fervour of religious fundamentalism and extremism, which manifested itself in Angel's highly public, right wing activism.
Bite Your Tongue is also the story of the daughter as an adult and a writer, facing her mother's mortality while at the same time 'discovering' her in archival materials. These threads are woven together in a mix of novel and memoir, each informing and illuminating the other with their different voices, making Bite Your Tongue a highly original work. Using this unusual and fascinating form, Francesca presents a personal social history, documenting a strong, conservative protest movement with a very real list of books to ban and to burn.
Spinifex Press, paperback, 9781876756963
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IN BED WITH
Edited by Jessica Adams
In Bed With is a collection of sexy bedtime stories by award-winning bestselling women novelists. To protect identities, each writer has adopted an x-rated pseudonym—the name of their first pet combined with that of their first street. Read about lavish boudoirs, sleazy brothels, shady adulterers, sci-fi seducers, and more. This is a short-story collection where the blinds are down and the sex is hot. Entertaining and unashamedly erotic, In Bed With is a delicious collection of fiction provocateur. Contributors include: Emma Darwin, Stella Duffy, Esther Freud, Joanne Harris, Bella Pollen, Ali Smith, Fay Weldon and more.
Penguin (AUS), paperback, 9780143204329
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ME AND MR BOOKER
Cory Taylor
Looking back, Martha could have said no when Mr Booker first tried to kiss her. That would have been the sensible thing to do. But she's sixteen, she lives in a dull small town—a cemetery with lights—her father's mad, her home's stifling and she's waiting for the rest of her life to begin. Of course Martha would kiss the charming Englishman who brightened her world with style, adventure, whisky and the promise of sex. But she didn't count on the consequences. Me and Mr Booker is a story about feeling old when you're young, and acting young when you're not.
Cory Taylor is an award-winning screenwriter who has also published short fiction and children's books. Me and Mr Booker is her first novel. She lives in Brisbane.
Text Publishing, paperback, 9781921758973 (February)
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AS THE EARTH TURNS SILVER
Alison Wong
He came from behind and held her in his arms, told her to look again at earth and sky and water. Could she see how the world turned silver? People died, he told her, because they were afraid. They did not go out at night on dangerous water. They did not see the earth as it turned overnight to silver ….
From the late nineteenth century to the 1920s, from Kwangtung, China to Wellington and Dunedin and the battlefields of the Western Front this is a story of two families. Yung faces a new land that does not welcome the Chinese. Alone, Katherine struggles to raise her children and find her place in the world. In a climate of hostility towards the foreign newcomers, Katherine and Yung embark on a poignant and far-reaching love affair …. Winner of the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Award for Fiction, now available in paperback format.
Penguin NZ, paperback, 9780143567110
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