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A FAR-FLUNG LIFE, RRP $38
This new novel from writer M.L. Stedman is set against the vast and timeless landscape of Western Australia. It’s described as a mesmeric tale of lives blighted by innocent guilt, from the author of the award-winning global bestseller The Light Between Oceans. Western Australia, 1958. Here, for generations, the MacBrides have lived on a remote sheep station. A million acres, it’s an ocean of arid land. On an ordinary day, on a lonely road, under the unending blue sky, patriarch Phil MacBride swerves to avoid a kangaroo. In seconds, the lives of the entire MacBride family are shattered.
SHAKESPEARE IS HARD, BUT SO IS LIFE, RRP $27.
The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They’re everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from classic theatre to modern adaptations on stage and screen. But how well do we really know his plays? In this witty, iconoclastic book, bestselling author Fintan O’Toole examines four of The Bard’s most enduring tragedies: Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and King Lear. He shows how their tragic heroes have been over-simplified and moulded to fit restrictive, conservative values, and restores the true heart and spirit of the classics.
