Held by Anne Michaels

Held by Anne Michaels1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast as the snow falls. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river alive, but not still whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens

Not since the dark days when the royal family was brutally murdered

as well as the construction of railway lines and highways

And he's the same Jack Smith who rules over the physics department at MIT

a bolt of cloth arrived from the capital

the inescapable power of the past

simple recipes that cater for our busy lives

This is a superb coming of age story that explores a fraught mother-daughter dynamic

Oh The Places You’ll Go

Featuring new fiction alongside Pascoe's most revered and thought-provoking nonfiction - including from his modern classic Dark Emu - Salt distils the intellect

being a tour guide

as she looks down on the earth for the very first time from the treetops with activist Snow

His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House