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Leesa loves books and people. So running a bookshop that brings her two favourite things together is literally a dream come true! Connecting readers with new books and holding space for the community to assemble (virtually or IRL) brings her unending joy.
** Leesa's Little Bookroom Favourites **
The Animals In That Country by Laura Jean McKay
$22.99 AUD
Category: Leesa's Neighbourhood Favourites
WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD A SUNDAY TIMESBOOK OF THE YEAR Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed grandma Jean has never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her granddaughter, Kimberly. Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, working ...Show more
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire by Chloe Hooper
$22.99 AUD
Category: Leesa's Neighbourhood Favourites
On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as fire ...Show more
The Furies: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2023 by Mandy Beaumont
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Cynthia was just about to turn sixteen when the unthinkable happened. Her mother was taken away by the police, and her father left without a word three months later. After that night, Cynthia began to walk in slow circles outside the family home looking for traces of her sister Mallory - she's sure tha ...Show more
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
You can't choose your family, but they make choices for you. 'Wise, provocative and wildly endearing' - Guardian 'Readably juicy and surreptitiously smart' - Barbara Kingsolver THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Rosemary doesn't talk much, and about certain things she's silent. She had a sister, Fern, her whir ...Show more