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Fiona Wright

‘a furious take on housing inequality’—The Australian, ‘the big books of 2026’Your dream home awaits – there’s only two things in your way…The great Australian dream is slipping out of reach for Keira and her friends. No partner, no house, no kids. At 30-ahem, she is still languishing in a mould-filled share house, with an unexplained and ever-growing hole in the floorboards that ...

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Edie Wright

Edith Wright grew up listening to stories about her great-grandfathers, Harry Hunter and Jules Adrien D’Antoine, two white men from Europe came to rule the pearling industry at its peak in northwest Australia. Between then, they changed the social and cultural fabric of the Kimberley region for generations to come, fathering many mixed-race children and gaining reputations for violent and exploitative behaviour towards Bardi Jawi people. These two men and their Aboriginal children lived co...

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Michelle Wright

Some bonds can't be brokenIt's September 1997 and Cookie, an inmate in a minimum-security prison, is serving the last four months of his sentence when he signs up for a last-chance rehabilitation program for abandoned dogs.He's assigned Nigel—whom he renames Good Boy—an anxious soul with a talent for gnawing his way through walls. Cookie has his work cut out preparing him for the upcoming behavioural assessment that will decide his fate: pass, and Good Boy ...

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Clare Wright

In 1963—a year of agitation for civil rights worldwide—the Yolŋu of northeast Arnhem Land created the Yirrkala Bark Petitions: Naku Dharuk. ‘The land grew a tongue’ and the land-rights movement was born.Naku Dharuk is the story of a founding document in Australian democracy and the trailblazers who made it. It is also a pulsating picture of the ancient and enduring culture of Australia’s first peoples.And it is a masterful, groundbreaking history.Clare Wright’s Demo...

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Laura Wright

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The Cavanaugh Brothers

In the small town of River Black, Texas, sits the Triple C - a working cattle ranch that sustains the town. But it also holds painful memories and shocking secrets for the Cavanaugh brothers . . .When the Cavanaugh brothers return home for their father's funeral, they discover unexpected evidence of the old man's surprising double life - a son named Blue, who wants the Triple C Ranch as much as they do. The eldest son, Deacon, a wealthy businessma...

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Wright

In Alive to the Word Stephen Wright offers a constructive introduction to preaching as an existing and varied practice throughout the church on which it is important to continue to reflect theologically, so that it is executed with developing spirituality, understanding and skill.Alive to the Word includes discussion of the full range of key components in the understanding and practice of preaching - from its basic theological rationale right through to the dynamics of live communication a...

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Erin Wright

What’s better than a sexy cowboy?How about a sexy firefighter too!Cowboys & Love is a limited-time edition boxset of the first book in two separate steamy series: Cowboys of Long Valley Romance and Firefighters of Long Valley Romance. Come on down to small-town Idaho where the cowboys (and firefighters!) are damn fine…Accounting for Love (Book 1 of the Cowboys series) – The bank’s...

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Evan Wright

Generation Kill is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have never really met any of these people, who serve as front-line troops. For whatever reason, the media simply doesn't get them. As we all know, news accounts of the last two wars focused almost exclusively on battlefield imagery of high-tech weapons wreaking astounding destruction, comp...

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Kenny Wright

Wife-watching. Swinging. Consensual infidelity. These are not concepts that Maxwell Callahan understands, let alone fantasizes about. Max has a great life: husband, father, successful bar owner. He has no plans to shake it up.And then he witnesses a couple play a dangerous game of pick-up in his bar: the wife gets picked up, the husband watches. A seed takes root and starts to grow. What would it be like to watch his beautiful wife, Katie, in the same situation?Smart, succe...

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Melissa Wright

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Between Ink and Shadows

The first in a romantic gaslamp fantasy series from author Melissa Wright.Nimona Weston has a debt to pay.Her father's dealings with the dark society known as the Trust cost Nim her freedom. There's one way out of the contract on her life and that's to bide her time and pay the tithes. But when the Trust assigns Nim to a task in the king's own castle, her freedom is not the only thing she'll risk.Warrick Spenser has a secret.

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Lawrence Wright

THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BESTSELLER, NOW AN ACCLAIMED TV SERIESThis is the definitive account of the run-up to 9/11: from the man who lit the spark of radical Islam in 1948, to those who built up a terror network, and to the FBI agent whose warnings of 'something big' coming were ignored until the Twin Towers fell.'The Looming Tower is a thriller. And it's a tragedy, too' The New York Times'The most detailed (and thrilling) accou...

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Alexis Wright

**Winner, Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024****Winner, Stella Prize 2024****Winner, Queensland Literary Awards, Fiction Book Award****Winner, The James Tait Black Prize, Fiction 2024****Winner, ALS Gold Medal 2024****Winner, 2026 Kate Challis RAKA Award****Shortlisted, The Dublin Literary Award 2024****Shortl...