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• Leather & Chains: My 1986 Diary

  Camp, Kate

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  Would you dare to publish your diary? Kate Camp is doing it, bringing 1986 into view. There is all the 80s backdrop of Revlon Custom Eyes and Ghostbusters, but also the people and big stuff that was happening to her. "These entries – over 100…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Hidden World

  Discovering the Beauty of New Zealand Fungi

  Vigus, Paula

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  I've only just discovered that photographer Paula Vigus (gapt.it_photography on Instagram) has a book out! She did the amazing photos for Liv Sisson's Fungi of Aotearoa. For fungi fans and nature lovers.

• Hoods Landing

  Vincent, Laura

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  NZ book. "Rita considered the dead. Shut her eyes. Rolled their names around her brain. Stacked each person in order like folded laundry, warm and crisp from the sun. She wondered how her name would sound amongst them. In the rural reaches of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Woman Dies

  Matsuda, Aoko, 1979-

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  "Piercing, inventive, and darkly humorous, the fifty-two stories in Aoko Matsuda's The Woman Dies explore the persistent and pervasive sexism faced by women in modern-day Japan. The normalization of violence against women on screen and in the media…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hooked /

  Yuzuki, Asako

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  A new book by the author of Butter (LOVED that book). This new book sounds like it also deals into strange relationships and friendships between women. Translated by Polly Barton, who translated Butter and also The Woman Dies (also on this list).

• Babe in the Woods

  Or, The Art of Getting Lost

  Heffernan, Julie, 1956-

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  The author says this book "emerged from decades of storytelling through my 40+ years of painting, exhibiting and lecturing. In the book, a young artist named Julie, on a hike with her infant son, takes a wrong turn and finds herself on an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lost Lambs

  Cash, Madeline

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  "For the three Flynn daughters, it’s been disastrous since their parents opened up their marriage. Abigail, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior nicknamed ‘War Crimes Wes’. Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Scene

  a Memoir

  Ferrara, Abel, 1951-

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  "A kaleidoscopic memoir by acclaimed filmmaker Abel Ferrara, director of the cult classic films Bad Lieutenant, King of New York, and Dangerous Game, offering an unflinching look at his life, career, and the gritty world of independent cinema."

• Everything We Do Is Music

  Alker, Elizabeth

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  I like books about music and this sounds like a goodie: "The worlds of pop and rock owe a much greater debt to the classical canon than we realise. A direct and fascinating lineage draws from the experimentalism of Pierre Henry to The Beatles’…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Dahlia

  Mann, William J.

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  "While I’m not much of a true crime guy, I appreciate that a splashy Hollywood murder is an attention-grabbing narrative upon which to hang a history of societal changes in the immediate aftermath of World War II. (It’s certainly catchier than…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Volcanic Tongue

  a Time-travelling Evangelist's Guide to Late 20th-century Underground Music

  Keenan, David, 1971-

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  "Glasgow’s Volcanic Tongue record shop and mail order company was in business during the period 2005-2015 ... Founded by Glaswegian writer David Keenan and Texan musician Heather Leigh Murray (now Heather Leigh), Volcanic Tongue’s legacy is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder

  McConigley, Nina

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  "Twelve years after her magnificent debut short story collection Cowboys & East Indians—which explores the immigrant experience in the contemporary American West—won the PEN/Open Book Award, Nina McConigley is back with a 1980s-set murder-mystery…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Age of Calamities

  Ahmad, Senaa

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  "I absolutely loved Senaa Ahmad’s deranged Anne Boleyn story “Let’s Play Dead,” in which Anne Boleyn simply will not die, so I was thrilled to learn that her full collection—which Claire Oshetsky calls “wild, incantatory, upending”—will be coming…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• They

  Helle, Helle

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  "I love quiet stories that find meaning in the otherwise mundane, and they is a novel about a mother and daughter so close they’re essentially a single entity, living their regular lives over the backdrop of the mother’s very serious illness. I’m…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Heap Earth Upon It

  Howarth, Chloe Michelle, 1996-

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  "I keep seeing comparisons to Shirley Jackson and Julia Armfield alongside the phrase “sapphic yearning,” which is enough to catch my attention when it comes to literally anything. Sunburn’s been on my TBR for a million years (it seems like I never…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• She Made Herself A Monster

  Kovatcheva, Anna

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  "Me? Reading gothic folk horror about the monsters that live inside all of us? It’s more likely than you think! This book hits almost all of my favorite things to read about. Creatures, autonomy, and a con artist posing as a vampire slayer? Exactly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lean Cat, Savage Cat

  Joseph, Lauren J.

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  "I love when I read a book that drops me right in the middle of a scene. Not scene as in a piece of a story, but scene as in a scene. A music scene. An art scene. A party scene. The scene that being scene was named after when I was in middle school.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hymn to Life

  Pelicot, Gisele

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  "Contemporary public life seems disproportionately populated by cowardly, self-regarding hypocrites fueled by vanity, insecurity, and greed—which makes the courage of Gisele Pelicot that much more extraordinary. Most are familiar with the horrific…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Leaving Home

  Haddon, Mark

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  "Booker-nominated English novelist Haddon, best known for his 2003 juggernaut The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is also an acclaimed writer of short fiction and children’s books, but Leaving Home is his first work of nonfiction. An…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kin

  Jones, Tayari

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  "Kin is a novel of mother and daughters, though the two main characters, Vernice and Annie, are motherless themselves. Best friends and neighbors, the girls live radically different lives and grow into very different women. Vernice is raised by her…Read moreRead more of this annotation