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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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.

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“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…

With Mother’s Day right around the corner, it’s time to think about spoiling mum, the woman who can (and does) do it all. If you’re stuck for ideas, never fear, we’ve got you covered! With a great selection of old and new titles, gifts, and puzzles, finding the perfect gift for mum is easy! Below are some of our favourite new releases that have been tried, tested, and approved by our in-house bookworms!

Fiction

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

It’s hard to write a review for ‘Klara In The Sun’ as to avoid giving away major plot points. This is my first introduction to Kazuo Ishiguro, and I am absolutely floored.

Set in a dystopian future, this novel is told through the perspective of Klara, an Artificial Friend; a robot quipped with artificial intelligence that contains very human qualities, and exists to be a companion for a human child. One day she meets Josie, a 14 year old girl who is gravely ill. Klara observes human idiosyncrasies, the environment around her, the way humans interact with one another and how they exist among other Artificial Friend’s.

Klara is bought and taken in by Josie and her mother. With Klara’s optimism, she firmly believes that Josie will get better providing that the Sun – Klara’s solar panel charge – will heal Josie.

This is a stunning novel that delves into relationships between humans and their artificial companions. Klara’s gradual understanding of the world gives this perspective a very human and compassionate quality, and raises points of the binding love between humans and machines.

I highly recommend!

— Reviewed by Cathy, the manager of BOOK FACE Port Macqurie

non-fiction

One Last Dance by Emma Jane Holmes

A biography promising a behind the scenes look at two completely different industries – funeral homes and strip clubs. Emma Jane Holmes has had quite the colourful life. Tending to those who have passed at her day job as a mortician and enjoying the lucrative life of dancing in a strip club to help pay the bills.

Always very respectful to her clients both at the funeral home and the strip club, Emma gives us a very raw and honest look into both sides of her life. Although you may think a mortician should perhaps be sombre, her approach and zest for life that comes from seeing what she sees comes across as endearing. Her story will make you laugh and gasp all in one chapter.

Personally, I found her mortician life more intriguing and having learnt a lot about the industry. Like any great non-fiction book, One Last Dance has left me looking inward, considering what my final wishes may be. This book has raised a lot of questions and has prompted a lot of discussion with friends and family. Warning, some sections may stop you in your tracks or take your breath away. But for me, you get a sense this profession is definitely not for everyone and has left me with huge amounts of respect for those that dedicate their life to it. I would highly recommend!

— Jenny, bookseller at BOOK FACE Orion

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

In case you forgot, it’s almost Valentine's Day. That’s right—the day of love, sappy cards, and eating so much heart-shaped chocolate that you feel violently ill is right around the corner. Whatever your relationship status may be—totally loved up, “it’s complicated,” or just pining for your local barista who always remembers your coffee order—Valentine’s Day is the perfect excuse to pick up a romantic read and really get into the spirit of the holiday, in a literary way. But if meet-cutes aren’t really your cup of tea, never fear! We’ve made finding your perfect match easy (no Tinder required) with our Book Lover’s Quiz.

Answer the questions below to find your happily ever after!

The Book Lover’s Quiz

1. What’s your favourite place to read?

A. Wherever you can!

B. In your local cafe with your hot drink of choice.

C. At night, in bed.

D. On your lunch break at work.

2. When you’re stuck in traffic on your morning commute, what podcast are you listening to to help pass the time?

A. Conversations with Richard Fidler, Chat 10 Looks 3, The New Yorker Fiction Podcast.

B. Shameless, The High-Low, NYT: Modern Love.

C. My Favourite Murder, Serial, Crime Junkie.

D. NYT: The Daily, The TJoe Rogan Experience, Stuff You Should Know.

3. What’s your favourite holiday film?

A. Elf.

B. Love Actually.

C. Die Hard.

D. It’s A Wonderful Life.

4. On a typical Saturday night where can you be found?

A. Spending the night out on the town with your friends.

B. Dinner at a fancy restaurant followed by drinks at a dimly lit cocktail bar.

C. Quiet night in with pizza and a book/movie.

D. You’re already in bed. Gotta be well rested for your 5am run the next morning!

5. Someone just spoiled the ending to the show you’ve been binge-watching. Your immediate reaction is . . .

A. This would never happen. You’re always up to date with the latest episodes.

B. Literally never speaking to that person again.

C. Heads. Will. Roll.

D. Don’t really care. You don’t really watch TV.

6. When it comes to big adventures and trips, your friends would say that you…

A. Like to keep up a brisk pace and see what you can, but you aren’t opposed to slowing down now and then—as long as it’s not too often.

B. Prefer a relaxed, open-ended approach to traveling, in which you make time for plenty of stops and breaks to rest and take in the sights. You might nap a lot, too, if you’re in the mood (which is often).

C. Love to get fully immersed in a new place and culture - you want to feel like a local by the time you leave. You’re also quite partial to a good walking/cycling tour.

D. Want to explore absolutely everything, and get easily bored if you spend too much time at one stop!

7. Who’s your dream dinner party guest?

A. Shakespeare

B. Marilyn Monroe

C. Agatha Christie

D. David Attenborough

Mostly As - The Fiction Aficionado

You’re ecclectic and curious, with a wide array of intersts. You’ve got your finger on the pulse and like staying up to date with the latest trends but you also appreicate the classics. You can hold a conversation with just about anyone and love a good story. You always have a book buried in your bag. Looking for your next favourite book (at least for the month)? Check out these new releases gaurenteed to be the talk of book club!

Mostly Bs - The Regal Romantic

You’re a true romantic, right down to your bones. While life can be tough, you know that every cloud has a silver linging and that you’ll always find a happy ending, even if it’s not where you thought it would be. Your friends think you can be a bit of a dreamer, but isn’t that the best way to live? Fall in love with our selection of heart-stoppping romances and be swept of your feet this Valentine’s Day!

Mostly Cs - The Crime Connoisseur

Sharp, quick-witted, and a bit of an adrenaline junkie, you love a good mystery in all forms. Nothing entertains you more than a challenging puzzle - ideally packed into a heart-pounding read. You’re not adverse to taking calculated risks only because you’re confident in your abilities and you’re always up for an adventure. Halfway into any book, you’ve already predicted each plot twist and are pretty sure you know how it’s going to end. Need a new puzzle to sink your teeth into? Try these!

Mostly Ds - The Non-Fiction Fiend

You’re always on the go and love learning new things. Curious, realistic, and rational, you want the answers to life’s most interesting questions. You’ve been called down to earth before and pragmatic and you don’t mind that one bit. In your group of friends, you often find yourself being the voice of reason. Looking to up your game? Check out our selection of non-fiction essential reads.

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Our bookstores are teeming with new releases and old favourites and our booksellers are ready to help you select the perfect gift! Shopping early is important this year due to the high demand for books and the potential for supply delays. Check with your local BOOK FACE store on how you can shop with them - whether instore or via phone or email.

To help you with your holiday shopping we have summer reading guides for both kids and adults available at all of our stores and online that include a carefully curated selection of both Australian and international new releases chosen by local independent booksellers. Still not sure what to get? Check out some of our staff favourites below!

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