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An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire
Category: Fiction
When 25-year-old Bella Michaels is brutally murdered in the small town of Strathdee, the community is stunned and a media storm descends. Unwillingly thrust into the eye of that storm is Bella's beloved older sister, Chris, a barmaid at the local pub, whose apparent easygoing nature conceals hard-won wi ...Show more
An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire
Category: Fiction
When 25-year-old Bella Michaels is brutally murdered in the small town of Strathdee, the community is stunned and a media storm descends. Unwillingly thrust into the eye of that storm is Bella's beloved older sister, Chris, a barmaid at the local pub, whose apparent easygoing nature conceals hard-won wi ...Show more
Fishing for Tigers by Emily Maguire
Category: Fiction
Six years ago, Mischa Reese left her abusive husband and suffocating life in California and reinvented herself in steamy, chaotic Hanoi. In Vietnam, she finds satisfying work and enjoys a life of relative luxury and personal freedom. Thirty-five and single, Mischa believes that romance and passion are f ...Show more
Love Objects by Emily Maguire
Category: Fiction
Nic is a forty-five-year-old trivia buff, amateur nail artist and fairy godmother to the neighbourhood's stray cats. She's also the owner of a decade's worth of daily newspapers, enough clothes and shoes to fill Big W three times over and a pen collection which, if laid end-to-end, would probably circle ...Show more
Love Objects by Emily Maguire
Category: Fiction
A stunning novel of great compassion and insight, from the author of the Stella Prize-shortlisted An Isolated Incident. Shortlisted for the 2022 ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year. 'Bold, furious, unapologetic and deeply insightful.' Sofie Laguna, author of Infinite Splendours 'A stunning, immersive ...Show more
Princesses and Pornstars: Sex, Power, Identity by Emily Maguire
Category: Culture
This sharp, funny and insightful book reveals how the treatment of young women as fragile or in need of male assistance can be as objectifying and damaging to women as pornography and raunch culture.
Rapture by Emily Maguire
Category: Fiction
An imaginative and audacious historical novel from the best-selling author of Love Objects and An Isolated Incident. 'Her self is an illusion yet it is one beloved by most everyone who has heard her speak . . . She is thirty-three years old and there is no one else in the world who knows who she used t ...Show more
Smoke in the Room by Emily Maguire
Category: Fiction
Holed up in a tiny flat during a Sydney summer American Adam, weary activist Graeme and wild Katie are each searching for life's biggest questions: why are we here; what is love; what constitutes betrayal and over an intense two-week period they begin to form answers and in doing so confront their darke ...Show more
Taming the Beast by Emily Maguire
Category: Fiction
Sarah Clark's life is irrevocably changed at the age of 14 when her English teacher, Mr Carr, seduces her after class. Their affair is illegal, erotic, passionate and dangerous - a vicious meeting of minds and bodies. But when Mr Carr's wife discovers the affair, he has to choose between them and moves ...Show more
Taming the Beast by Emily Maguire
Category: Fiction
The story of Sarah Clark, a precocious and impressionable young woman who is caught in a hostile web of love, sex and retribution with the teacher who abused her as a teenager. The book asks what it means to love someone who damages your body and soul.