MRRW Festival Author's Books
There is nothing the Margaret River BookShop crew loves more than being the official bookseller for the Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival. We love connecting readers with their favourite authors, discover new voices and celebrate the power of storytelling. You will find our festival bookshop in the foyer of the HEART from Friday 17th May – 19th May Sunday
The Long Shadow by Anne Buist
$32.99 AUD
Category: MRRW Festival Author's Books
Write down something about yourself, as a mother, that worries you. Psychologist Isabel Harris has come to the outback town of Riley because her husband Dean is assessing the hospital--the hub of the community--with a view to closing it down. Isabel, mostly occupied with her toddler, will run a mother-b ...Show more
This I Would Kill For (#3Natalie King, Forensic Psychiatrist) by Anne Buist
$29.99 AUD
Category: MRRW Festival Author's Books | Series: Natalie King Ser.
The latest installment in the thrilling Natalie King series Natalie King has been hired to do a psychiatric evaluation for the children's court. A custody dispute. Not her usual territory. A distraught mother Jenna needs help maintaining custody of her children, claiming her former partner Malik has be ...Show more
Clean by Scott-Patrick Mitchell
$24.99 AUD
Category: MRRW Festival Author's Books
Our lucent teeth spark the rainbow dark.Here, we do not use words like love.Instead, we speak with hands that hold as shoulders tusslethe roughhouse rougher.In the absence of daylight,we are just two young men,silent save for giggle and shoe scuff-we do not rouse suspicion when touching. from 'Night Orc ...Show more
Fauna by Donna Mazza
$29.99 AUD
Category: MRRW Festival Author's Books
Fauna lays bare an electrifying genetically re-coded future so real, so terrifying, so close, I can feel its baby breath soft against my cheek.' Robyn Mundy, author of Wild Light 'Mazza's novel asks hard questions, yet brims with compassion. A thrilling, unsettling read.' Paddy O'Reilly, author of The ...Show more
The Secret Life - Three True Stories by Andrew O'Hagan
$22.99 AUD
Category: MRRW Festival Author's Books
In The Secret Life: Three True Stories, Andrew O'Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and the 'real world'. 'Ghosting' introduces us to the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, whose autobiography the author agrees to ghostwrite, with unforgettable consequences. 'The Inv ...Show more
The Albanian by Donna Mazza
$29.95 AUD
Category: MRRW Festival Author's Books
Rosa, a young woman from small town Australia, longing for mystery, adventure and the exotic, is fatally attracted to a romantic image of Eastern Europe, arriving alone in Dubrovnik in the months before the implosion of old Yugoslavia. Rosa ends up dangerously drawn into a relationship with a young Alba ...Show more
The Kindness Revolution: How we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism by Hugh Mackay
$34.99 AUD
Category: MRRW Festival Author's Books
Generous, erudite, optimistic and candid...Hugh Mackay encourages us to find the best in ourselves and in our society in both good and troubled times. Revolutions never start at the top. If we dare to dream of a more loving country - kinder, more compassionate, more cooperative, more respectful, more i ...Show more
Wilder Country (#2 The Winter Trilogy) by Mark Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: MRRW Festival Author's Books | Series: Winter Trilogy
Finn, Kas and Willow have survived the winter of storms. Severe winds and cold have kept the Wilders at bay. Now that spring has come, everything has changed. They're being hunted again, and they won't be safe while Ramage wants their blood. But Finn and Kas made a promise to Rose--to find her baby and ...Show more
What Makes Us Tick?: The ten desires that drive us by Hugh Mackay
$19.99 AUD
Category: MRRW Festival Author's Books
Dr Mackay has spent a lifetime listening to people talk about their dreams, fears, hopes, disappointments and passions. As well, his bestselling books have documented the impact of the changes that have been radically reshaping our society. In WHAT MAKES US TICK? he reflects on some of the things that d ...Show more
Sisters under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris
$32.99 AUD
Category: MRRW Festival Author's Books | Reading Level: very good
Sisters under the Rising Sun, the captivating new novel by Heather Morris, is a story of women in war: a testament to resilience, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances. It is February 1942. Amid the turmoil of World War II, a group of Australian Army nurses, among them Nesta James and ...Show more
The Good State - On the Principles of Democracy by A C Grayling
$34.99 AUD
Category: A.C.Grayling | Reading Level: very good
The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary - among them addressing the imbalance of power ...Show more
That'd Be Right: A Fairly True History of Modern Australia by William McInnes
$19.99 AUD
Category: MRRW Festival Author's Books
Part memoir, part personal history of Australia over the last thirty years, this is a biographical trip told through sport, families and the author's own experiences. He weaves in and around the events that have held a fascination for Australia. Some of these events would be considered momentous, some s ...Show more