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July Book of the Month:

The Mother Wound

by Amani Haydar

The Mother Wound is a tender, gripping memoir by Amani Haydar, a Western Sydney author, artist, lawyer and advocate. This book is exceptional: a loving tribute to Haydar's mother and grandmother, and a searing account of intergenerational trauma, state violence and domestic abuse.

The book follows the brutal death of Amani's mother, Salwa Haydar, at the hands of her father and the terrible aftermath. In the months and years following her death, Haydar revisits what she knew of her parent's relationship and comes to understand the emotional abuse and coercive control her mother lived with. She uncovers the flaws in the justice system for addressing domestic abuse, the policies that fail victims and their families, and the complexity and context behind every story of violence against women. The Mother Wound is an invaluable, generous contribution to current public conversations about coercive control and domestic violence in this country.

Haydar writes with an honesty, courage, grace and rage that made The Mother Wound hard to put down. This memoir will stay with me for a long time and I'll be recommending it to everyone I know. Beautiful, compelling and necessary.

– Emma

$34.99

August ILF Book of the Month

Dark As Last Night

by Tony Birch

As ever, reading Tony Birch’s work makes you think harder and better. Birch’s latest short story collection is as affecting as we would expect; we meet characters at turning points, as teens become adults, adults mourn lost siblings, and life keeps moving, but not always forward.

– Maddy

$29.99

This is our ILF (Indigenous Literacy Foundation) Book of the Month, which means 10% of the profits from this month's sales of the book will be donated to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.

Australian Fiction

Fiction

Detransition, Baby: Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2021 and Top Ten The Times Bestseller

Young Adult

Tim Te Maro and the Subterranean Heartsick Blues

Mim and the Baffling Bully (The Travelling Bookshop, #1)

The Amelia Six: An Amelia Earhart Mystery

Cooking

Linda McCartney's Family Kitchen: Over 90 Plant-Based Recipes to Save the Planet and Nourish the Soul

La Vita e Dolce: Italian-Inspired Desserts

Biography

I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

Australian Non-Fiction

Long Half-life: The Nuclear Industry in Australia

Labor People: The Stories of Six True Believers

True Tracks: Respecting Indigenous knowledge and culture

Everything You Need to Know About the Uluru Statement from the Heart

Non-Fiction

Earth Detox: How and Why we Must Clean Up Our Planet

Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency

Farmers or Hunter-gatherers?: The Dark Emu Debate

The Anthropocene Reviewed: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller

Lifestyle

Garden Like a Nonno: The Italian Art of Growing Your Own Food

The Complete Gardener: A Practical, Imaginative Guide to Every Aspect of Gardening

Art

Australia at the Venice Biennale: A Century of Contemporary Art

Kaffe Fassett in the Studio: Behind the Scenes with a Master Colorist

Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy - A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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