July 5-12 2026 is NAIDOC week! The theme of this year is 50 Years of Deadly: fifty years of celebration and pride, survival and resistance. We pay our respects to the Elders and the communities that built this movement, showing up and celebrating the world’s oldest living culture since 1976 (and before that too).

As booksellers, we want to highlight just a fraction of the stories, histories and rich knowledge that has been shared down generations and continues to inspire and inform us today. Check out our picks below:

Adult Non-Fiction

The Knowledge by Victor Steffensen

Filled with stories of Victor's work applying Indigenous solutions throughout Australia and in North America, The Knowledge will transform the way you think about our responses to bushfires, floods and the climate crisis. Never has the call to change our global environmental approach been so strong or so clear. The Knowledge is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of our planet.

The Art of Kaylene Whiskey: Do You Believe in Love? by Kaylene Whiskey, ed. Natalie King

Kaylene Whiskey's paintings dazzle with brightly coloured pop stars rendered in dots and set amongst her own community in remote Central Australia. She depicts female pop culture icons - including Dolly Parton, Tina Turner, Catwoman, Cher and Wonder Woman - all connected to the Kungkarangkalpa Tjukurpa, or Seven Sisters Story. These heroines, however, are shown partying at Iwantja Art Centre in Indulkana, South Australia.

Aunty Beryl’s Cookbook by Aunty Beryl Van-Oploo

In this beautiful cookbook, Aunty Beryl shares recipes that are close to her heart and stories from her life of cooking. This is food that is both familiar and comforting, and which champions native ingredients. Aunty Beryl's Cookbook is a way of sharing culture and passing down food knowledge for future generations.

Kids and Teen

One Word by Melissa-Jane

Inspired by the author's own experiences, One Word is one little girl's story about discovering her grandfather's first Aboriginal language, and his journey towards reclaiming that language.

Belonging by Ambelin Kwaymullina

BELONGING is a First Nations poetic reflection on Country and the everlasting ties that bind us. A lyrical narrative full of the eternal interconnectedness of our families: land, water, sky, earth, space, time, story and language.

Good Young Men by Gary Lonesborough

A brilliant contemporary YA coming-of-age novel about three small-town Aboriginal friends finding their way towards adulthood, from the multi-award-winning author of The Boy from the Mish, We Didn't Think It Through and I'm Not Really Here.

Adult Fiction

The Paradise Pact by Anita Heiss

Recovering from a bad break-up, Abbey travels with her two tiddas to Hawai'i where personal challenges, laughter and new love await. Paradise beckons in this heartwarming and contemporary novel!

Melaleuca by Angie Faye Martin

A country town, a brutal murder, a shameful past, a reckoning to come... The injustices of the past and dangers of the present envelop Aboriginal policewoman Renee Taylor, when her unwilling return to the small outback town of her childhood plunges her into the investigation of a brutal murder.

Joey and the Junjardy by Allison Rocca

A funny, raucous romp grounded in First Nations storytelling, featuring a mischievous character brought to life by debut author Allison Rocca.

Action-packed with loads of humour and heart, Joey and the Junjardy shows us how the smallest of creatures can help you to stand tall and proud.

Damn Good Television by Loki Liddle

Gritty, bloodsoaked and unsentimental, Loki Liddle's debut work takes readers on a deranged road trip from Coolangatta to Broome. Along the way, he consumes and spits out western popular culture and connects to the voices of his Jabirr Jabirr ancestors, weaving past, present and fiction together in a surreal and unforgettable feature.

A Piece of Red Cloth

Batjani's beloved granddaughter Garritji is on the cusp of womanhood, about to go through the rituals preparing her for marriage. Batjani uses all means at her disposal to protect her granddaughter from the visiting Macassan trepang fishers, but she is betrayed. Can Garritji be saved?

This powerful and unique novel is based on oral history and told through Yolngu eyes, with ancestors as the Yolngu remember them: proud, strong, resilient people in control of their world and interacting with foreigners on their own terms.

Dive into the weird and wonderful worlds of the Weird Girls Vintage Classics!

From popular modern classics to rediscovered hidden gems, these books dive into the depraved (and delectable) depths of strange fiction from nine pioneering authors.

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In the throes of a ‘temporary nervous depression’ following childbirth, a woman is brought by her physician husband to recuperate in an isolated New England mansion.

There she is barred from her work of writing and encouraged to simply get better. Sequestered in the old nursery at the top of the house, with barred windows and a bed nailed to the floor, she has little to do but examine the strange wallpaper that surrounds her – and appears to shift before her very eyes.

Here accompanied by Gilman’s key wider stories, The Yellow Wall-Paper endures as a groundbreaking, deeply disturbing classic of feminist horror.

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez

ouisiana, 1850. A young girl escapes slavery and is taken in by two mysterious women.

Rumoured to be witches, the pair travel only at night, dress in men's clothing and seem to know others' innermost thoughts. But the girl sees the promise of true freedom in their dark glittering eyes: the promise to 'share the blood' and live forever. They name her Gilda.

Over the next two hundred years, Gilda moves through unseen spaces: through antebellum brothels, hair salons and jazz clubs, searching for a way to exist in the world. But can Gilda truly outrun the darkness of history and face a future where the lives of everyone she loves are at stake?

Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

Welcome to the circus - strange, dirty and shameless, this is the greatest show on Earth.

Sophie Fevvers is a seductress, a braggart and an ariel performer in Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan.

Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover the truth behind her identity. Dazzled by his love for her, and desperate for the scoop of a lifetime, Walser has no choice but to join the circus on its magical tour through turn-of-the-nineteenth-century London, St Petersburg and Siberia.

Black Magic by Marjorie Bowen

In a quiet medieval city, alone in his shadowy chambers, Dirk Renswoude worships the devil. Then the wind brings the young scholar Theirry to his door. Could this beautiful man share his dark obsession? Under a hushed midnight sky, the pair swear themselves to the black arts, and to one another.

Yet Dirk shies away at the slightest touch. He will not discuss his past. As the duo hex their way across moonlit woodlands and learned cities, it becomes clear that Dirk will stop at nothing to live the life he desires, while concealing one precious secret.

Apple and Knife by Intan Paramaditha

In this dazzling debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, fairytale, taboo, lust and death all come together in a heady, intoxicating mix.

These stories set in the Indonesian everyday – in corporate boardrooms, in shanty towns – reveal a soupy otherworld stewing just beneath the surface. Melding horror and myth, this is subversive feminist fiction at its finest, where men and women alike are arbiters of fear, and where revenge is sometimes sweetest when delivered from the grave.

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

When Elspeth Noblin dies she leaves her beautiful flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina Poole, on the condition that their mother is never allowed to cross the threshold. But until the solicitor's letter falls through the door of their suburban American home, either Julia nor Valentina knew their aunt existed.

The twins hope that in London their own, separate, lives can finally begin but they have no idea that they've been summoned into a tangle of fraying lives, from the obsessive-compulsive crossword setter who lives above them to their aunt's mysterious and elusive lover who lives below them and works in the cemetery itself.

As the twins unravel the secrets of their aunt, who doesn't seem quite ready to leave her flat, even after death, Niffenegger weaves together a delicious and deadly ghost story about love, loss and identity.

Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

While on her daily walk with her dog in the woods near her home, Vesta comes across a chilling handwritten note.

Shaky even on her best days, Vesta is also alone, and new to the area, having moved here after the death of her husband. Her brooding about the note grows quickly into a full-blown obsession: who was Magda and how did she meet her fate?

From the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen comes this razor-sharp, chilling and darkly hilarious novel about the stories we tell ourselves and how we strive to obscure the truth.

The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa

A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking an unspoken infatuation that draws out darker possibilities.

A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a diary, but rather than a story of growth the diary reveals a more sinister tale of greed and repulsion.

Driven by nostalgia, a woman visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo. There she finds an isolated world shadowed by decay, haunted by absent students and the unsettling figure of the looming caretaker.

Auto Fiction by Hitomi Kanehara

Rin is flying back from her honeymoon. She's madly in love with her husband. The future looks rosy.

Then he disappears to the bathroom and Rin imagines that he has gone to seduce the flight attendant. As her thoughts spiral out of control, the phrase 'madly in love' takes on a more sinister meaning.

Prizewinning author Hitomi Kanehara follows Rin's life backwards from this moment, as a picture of the dark core and violent past of this disturbed young woman gradually comes into focus.

The Book Face Erina team were lucky enough to work with Words on the Waves Writers Festival again as their official bookseller for 2026! It was a huge weekend with the whole Book Face and Words on the Waves team after months of planning (and lots of boxes of books).

Celebrating its sixth year, Words on the Waves Writers Festival is a celebration of words and ideas set on the beautiful Central Coast in New South Wales, offering a jam-packed week of author talks and signings, workshops and family friendly events.

This year, the theme was Take the Time: take the time to pause and hear a hard-won life story. To sit with a complex truth. Consider a view not your own. Indulge in imaginative curiosity. With a location like Umina Beach, it was hard not to take some time and enjoy the stunning Winter sun and sand between our book pages.

Here are some of our picks from the festival:

Warra Warra Wai by Darren Rix & Craig Cormick

A First Nations account of the arrival of Captain Cook and his Endeavour, told by Gunditjmara-GunaiKurnai man Darren Rix and author Craig Cormick as they retrace Cook’s steps. With a live didgeridoo performance from moderator John Maynard, this panel was a fantastic and insightful yarn!

Defiance by Bob Brown

For half a century, Bob Brown has been standing up to the powerful interests who would put profit before planet. In conversation with Natalie Kyriacou, we heard all about the tales of defiance from Brown’s illustrious career, as well as inspirational stories from younger generations. The perfect book for anyone feeling a little helpless during these times.

I Eat the Stars by Sarah Wilson

I Eat the Stars empowers readers to move beyond panic, doom and despair. How can we find meaning in a world facing systemic collapse? How can we live a good life, fully? This are the questions Sarah Wilson, Brigid Delaney and Yumi Stynes explored on their panel. I Eat the Stars is an impassioned case for finding joy and meaning in life, even when things feel unbalanced.

The Hidden by Bryan Brown

After a career as one of Australia’s favourite screen icons, Bryan Brown is turning his talents to crime fiction with this gripping thriller set on the South Coast of New South Wales. In conversation with Candice Fox, we were regaled with tales of Brown’s screen career and inspiration behind his novels.

Where It All Went Wrong by Amy Remeikis

A searing revaluation of John Howard’s time as Prime Minister from one of Australia’s leading political commentators, Amy Remeikis. We heard from Remeikis, journalist Cam Wilson and author Antoun Issa on legacies, independent media and the fall of mainstream media.

Calling all Empyrean fans! Back by popular demand – and reimagined for collectors – we are thrilled to offer a brand-new ANZ exclusive edition of Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros.

With the signature gradient dustjacket and stunning new sprayed edges, this new edition is designed to pair perfectly with the previous ANZ exclusive copies of Iron Flame and Onyx Storm so fans of the series can finally complete their matching sets, and curate their bookshelves to utter perfection.

Expected release date is 11 November 2025. Customers will be notified via text or email when it is available to be picked up from a local BOOK FACE store.

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There are one thousand stories up and down your street. There are nine thousand stories in your neighbourhood. This is the one about Noah Cork and the most important story he almost missed in pursuit of his dreams.

Dark, gritty, hilarious and unexpected, Gravity Let Me Go is a novel about marriage and ambition; truth-telling and truth-omitting; self-deception and self-preservation. It’s a novel about the stories we want to tell the world and those we shouldn’t, and how the stories we keep locked away are so often the stories that come to define us. 

It’s the story of a murder. 

It’s the story of a marriage. 

It’s the story of a lifetime. 

Expected release date is 30 September 2025. Customers will be notified via text or email when it is available to be picked up from a local BOOK FACE store.

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Set in the aftermath of a magical war won by a corrupt guild of necromancers, Alchemised follows Resistance healer Helena Marino: a prisoner with no memory of the final months of the war. She must now survive the dangerous new world while navigating a complex relationship with the man tasked to recover her lost memories. It is a sweeping dark, gothic fantasy, set to become a classic in the genre.

Two editions will be available from 23 September:

1. the paperback edition with sprayed edges. This will be a limited run.

2. the hardcover edition, which features: dust jacket with gold foil, gorgeous, designed endpapers, a gold foil case stamp and interior illustration.

Expected release date is 23 September 2025. Customers will be notified via text or email when it is available to be picked up from a local BOOK FACE store.

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From #1 New York Times and global bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a twisted, subversive thriller about a columnist who finally decides to start following her own advice to make men pay for their sins...

Sometimes, enough is enough…

Debbie Mullen is losing it. For years, she has compiled all of her best advice into her column, Dear Debbie, where the wives of New England come for sympathy and neighborly advice. Through her work, Debbie has heard from countless women who are ignored, belittled, or even abused by their husbands. And Debbie does her best to guide them in the right direction.

Or at least, she did.

These days, Debbie's life seems to be spiraling out of control. She just lost her job. Something strange is happening with her teenage daughters. And her husband is keeping secrets, according to the tracking app she installed on his phone. Now, Debbie's done being the bigger person. She's done being reasonable and practical. It's time to take her own advice.

And now it's time for payback against all the people in her life who deserve it the most.

From #1 New York Times and international bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a biting, subversive thriller about what happens when women finally choose to take justice into their own hands – with killer results.

Expected release date is 28 Jan 2026. Customers will be notified via text or email when it is available to be picked up from a local BOOK FACE store.

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She's an assassin on the run

Raeve’s job is to complete orders and never get caught. Until a rival assassin devastates her world, and she is captured by a group of powerful fae.

He's the dragon rider who'll stop at nothing to save her

Crushed by the loss of his great love, Kaan Vaegor hunts the world for answers. Then a clue lures him to the capital's high-security prison, where he finds Raeve …

Together, they'll burn it all down

Now they seek truths that threaten to shatter everything they knew about their world – and each other.

Expected release date is 26 August 2025. Customers will be notified via text or email when it is available to be picked up from a local BOOK FACE store.

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Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.

Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick.

But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and – inconveniently – in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter Murdoch, is going after him.

But Hell is not as the philosophers claim, its rules are upside-down, and if she’s going to get out of there alive, she and Peter will have to work together.

That’s if they can agree on anything.

Will they triumph, or kill each other trying?

Expected release date is 26 August 2025. Customers will be notified via text or email when it is available to be picked up from a local BOOK FACE store.

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The highly anticipated fourth book in the award-winning Nevermoor series from one of Australia's best selling and most loved authors.

When Morrigan is invited into Nevermoor's wealthy Silver District, she discovers a world of extravagance and a family mystery she's eager to unravel. She could never imagine where it will lead: a white wedding, a golden dragon and a red pool of blood.

Embroiled in suspicion and danger, Morrigan leaps headfirst into a murder investigation, while also grappling with her ever-growing Wundersmith powers. And although her friends are there to help, she fears that could change if they learn she's keeping a terrible secret of her own.

As shadowy forces awaken in Nevermoor, can Morrigan find a killer and solve the mystery in her own past . . . before the clock strikes midnight?

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The Stella 2025 Shortlist is shaping up to be perhaps one the strongest collections yet.

“This year’s shortlist is consequential for Australian literary history, as it is the first time the Stella Shortlist features only women of colour. Now in its 13th year, these works showcase an incredible command of craft and understanding of our uncertain time. These works are riveting, and they stood out to the judging panel for their integrity, compassion and fearlessness.” Astrid Edwards – Chair of the Judges 2025

Melanie Cheng – The Burrow

Amy, Jin and Lucie are leading isolated lives in their partially renovated, inner city home. They are not happy, but they are also terrified of change. When they buy a pet rabbit for Lucie, and then Amy’s mother, Pauline, comes to stay, the family is forced to confront long-buried secrets. Will opening their hearts to the rabbit help them to heal or only invite further tragedy?

The Burrow tells an unforgettable story about grief and hope. With her characteristic compassion and eye for detail, Melanie Cheng reveals the lives of others—even of a small rabbit.

Samah Sabawi – Cactus Pear For My Beloved

The story of a family over the past 100 years, starting in Palestine under British rule and ending in Redland Bay in Queensland.

Filled with love for land, history, peoples it is more than anything else a family story and a love story told with enormous humanity and feeling. How the son (one of six), born at the height of the displacements to a disabled father and illiterate mother, a believer in peaceful resistance, became a leading poet and writer in Palestine, before being forced, with his own young family in tow, to flee and start a new life in Australia.

One of the gifts of Samah Sabawi’s Baba is to remain open-hearted and optimistic.

Santilla Chingaipe – Black Convicts

By uncovering lives whitewashed out of our history, in stories spanning Africa, the Americas and Europe, Black Convicts also traces Australia’s hidden links to slavery, which both powered the British Empire and inspired the convict system itself. Situating European settlement in its global context, Chingaipe shows that the injustice of dispossession was driven by the engine of labour exploitation. Black Convicts will change the way we think about who we are.

Michelle de Kretser – Theory & Practice

It’s 1986, and ‘beautiful, radical ideas’ are in the air. A young woman arrives in Melbourne to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In bohemian St Kilda she meets artists, activists, students—and Kit. He claims to be in a ‘deconstructed’ relationship, and they become lovers. Meanwhile, her work on the Woolfmother falls into disarray.

Theory & Practice is a mesmerising account of desire and jealousy, truth and shame. It makes and unmakes fiction as we read, expanding our notion of what a novel can contain.

Amy McQuire – Black Witness

From one of this country’s leading Indigenous journalists comes a collection of fierce and powerful essays proving why the media needs to believe Black Witnesses.

Black Witness showcases how journalism can be used to hold the powerful to account and make the world a more equitable place. This is the essential collection that we need right now – and always have.

Jumaana Abdu – Translations

Amid a series of personal disasters, Aliyah and her daughter, Sakina, retreat to rural New South Wales to make a new life. Aliyah manages to secure a run-down property and hires a farmhand, Shep, an extremely private Palestinian man and the region’s imām.

During a storm, she drives past the town’s river and happens upon a childhood friend, Hana, who has been living a life of desperation. Aliyah takes her in and tries to navigate the indefinable relationships between both Hana and her farmhand. Tensions rise as Aliyah’s growing bond with Shep strains her devotion to Hana.

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Rough Guides are written by expert authors who are passionate about both writing and travel. They have detailed knowledge of the areas they write about--having either traveled extensively or lived there--and their expertise shines through on every page. It's priceless information, delivered with wit and insight, providing the down-to-earth, honest read that is the hallmark of Rough Guides.

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As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honour of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes. Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves.

When Haymitch’s name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He’s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who’s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he’s been set up to fail. But there’s something in him that wants to fight ... and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.

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Like a long winter’s dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us on a journey from contemporary South Korea into its painful history

Beginning one morning in December, We Do Not Part traces the path of Kyungha as she travels from the city of Seoul into the forests of Jeju Island, to the home of her old friend Inseon. Hospitalized following an accident, Inseon has begged Kyungha to hasten there to feed her beloved pet bird, who will otherwise die.

Kyungha takes the first plane to Jeju, but a snowstorm hits the island the moment she arrives, plunging her into a world of white. Beset by icy wind and snow squalls, she wonders if she will arrive in time to save the bird – or even survive the terrible cold which envelops her with every step. As night falls, she struggles her way to Inseon’s house, unaware as yet of the descent into darkness which awaits her.

There, the long-buried story of Inseon’s family surges into light, in dreams and memories passed from mother to daughter, and in a painstakingly assembled archive documenting a terrible massacre on the island seventy years before.

We Do Not Part is a hymn to friendship, a eulogy to the imagination and above all an indictment against forgetting.

Out 25 February. Pre-order your copy at your local BOOK FACE.

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A huge congratulations to our very own bookseller, Madeleine Streater, who has been short listed as a finalist for The Australian Fiction Prize!

The Australian Fiction Prize is a collaborative project for finding new literary talent. Open to all Australian writers, the winner will receive prize money of $20,000, plus an advance of $15,000, and publication by Australia’s leading publisher, HarperCollins Australia.

Madeleine Streater, 32, has been working in our Sydney store for many years, giving excellent book recommendations and very quietly working on her writing. Maddie has recently moved on from bookselling and is in her first year as a high school English teacher.

Her pitch for The Australian Fiction Prize:

Summer Animals follows three generations of the Macleay family as they determine the fate of their once-grand sheep station, Nummerak. When a mining company makes an offer on their property, the Macleays must decide whether to fight or to sell.

Browse through tomes at your local BOOK FACE and earn double points on any purchase! from Friday 29 November. This amounts to 10% off on all titles and items in store, excluding rare books.

General Terms and Conditions:

* Double points only apply to book purchases made during the promotional period of Friday 29th November.

* Double points will be applied at the time of purchase during store hours.

* This does not apply to the range of rare books.

* All offers valid in store only at BOOK FACE. Offers are not valid online.

* Products will vary between stores.

*Items can be exchanged if in mint condition and must be arranged within 14 days of the original purchase with proof of purchase.

* BOOK FACE will offer a credit if the customer does not want an immediate exchange.

After six years, it is with great sadness we announce that BOOK FACE Orion Springfield will be closing. In an effort to clear out our entire inventory, we are having an End-of-Lease sale beginning on Monday March 11 and our last day of trade will be Saturday April 13, 2024.

For customers with gift vouchers and exchange vouchers, these vouchers are valid for up to three years from the date of issue and may be redeemed at any BOOK FACE store. All special orders placed prior to March 11 will be fulfilled, provided the item is in stock at the suppliers. We'll be offering discounts on all items in store over the next few weeks and hope you will come take advantage of these savings. Please also make sure to bring in your vouchers to redeem.

We would like to thank all of our loyal customers, local authors, staff and book club members for their continued loyalty and patronage over the past six years. We will miss our BOOK FACE Community.

For all other enquiries, please don't hesitate to contact us via phone at (07) 3470 1644 or email at orion@bookfacestores.com.au

It has been a pleasure serving the community of Orion Springfield.

fabulous fiction

“The world is always ending over and over again in one place but not another and that the end of the world is always a local event, it comes to your country and visits your town and knocks on the door of your house and becomes to others but some distant warning, a brief report on the news, an echo of events that has passed into folklore..”

Things are falling apart. Ireland is in the grip of a government that is taking a turn towards tyranny. And as the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a collapsing society - assailed by unpredictable forces beyond her control and forced to do whatever it takes to keep her family together.

BOOK FACE has been honoured to share the love of books with the locals of Port Macquarie over the past 9 years! We will be hosting a month-long celebration with giveaways, prizes and cake!

Loyalty customers who spend over $50 in November will enter a draw to win one of five $100 gift vouchers. Winners will be announced on our anniversary, 28 November, where food and drinks will be provided.

So join us in our love of books and stories in this amazing local community.

Father’s Day is less than a week away! Whether you’re celebrating at home or online, want to celebrate a father figure in your life or a looking for a new read to beat those lockdown blues, BOOK FACE has you covered!

These are our favourite new releases, perfect for gifting to yourself or others! Get in touch with your local BOOK FACE store to arrange click-and-collect or delivery to ensure everyone has a book in hand for the start of Spring.

FABULOUS FICTION

Billy Summers by Stephen King

A good guy with a bad job, Billy is a killer for hire but will only do the job if the target is a truly bad person but now he wants out. What could possibly go wrong?

How about everything.

Billy Summers is part war story, part love letter to small town America and the people who live there, and features one of the most compelling and surprising duos in King fiction, who set out to avenge the crimes of an extraordinarily evil man. It’s about love, luck, fate, and a complex hero with one last shot at redemption.

BRILLIANT BIOGRAPHIES

Blessed By John Doyle

Who is Rampaging Roy Slaven?

From one of Australia’s best-loved comedians and writers comes Blessed, a year in the life of Rampaging Roy Slaven. A hilarious biography telling the extraordinary tale of Roy’s humble beginnings in Lithgow, from trying to avoid Brother Connor’s strap to garnering Susan Morgan’s attention from the local Catholic girls’ school. John Doyle, the man who knows him best, delves into the early years of the master of midfield mayhem.

NOTABLE NON-FICTION

The Ferals That Ate Australia by Guy Hull

Isolation was once the impenetrable barrier that protected the unique fauna of Australia. But a little over two hundred years ago a foreign power took possession, bringing with it animals that now dominate our ecosystem and have contributed to the decimation of native species

Dangerous predators and ravenous herbivores, The Ferals that Ate Australia is the story of Australia’s feral nightmare. In this book, Guy Hull details the history and toll of the numerous animal species that have contributed to the decimation of Australian species, their assault on land and agriculture, and the modern strategies that are - hopefully - reclaiming the country for our native fauna and its human population.

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For more recommendations, check out our Father’s Day Newsletter…