Stone Yard Devotional: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024

Literature & Fiction

Charlotte Wood

Genre Fiction

Sceptre

<p>A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend .\nA woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of the Monaro.\nShe does not believe in God, doesn't know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive life almost by accident. As she gradually adjusts to the rhythms of monastic life, she ruminates on her childhood in the nearby town. She finds herself turning again and again to thoughts of her mother, whose early death she can't forget.\nDisquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signalling a new battle against the rising infestation.\nSecond is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who left the community decades before to minister to deprived women in Thailand - then disappeared, presumed murdered.\nFinally, a troubling visitor to the monastery pulls the narrator further back into her past.\nWith each of these disturbing arrivals, the woman faces some deep questions. Can a person be truly good? What is forgiveness? Is loss of hope a moral failure? And can the business of grief ever really be finished?\nA meditative and deeply moving novel from the Stella Prize-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend .</p>

Stone Yard Devotional

The Weekend An unforgettable story of female friendship by the bestselling author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Stone Yard Devotional

Hodder&Stoughton

Spanning many years, travelling across Australia's vast continent and through some of Europe's great cities, THE SUBMERGED CATHEDRAL is a beguiling, heartbreaking story of paradise and the fall, of sacrifice and atonement, and of sisterly love and rivalry.

The Submerged Cathedral

Random House]

The Children

Allen& Unwin

Love and Hunger

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking Education & Reference

The Natural Way of Things

Literary

<p>An inspiring work about creativity and resilience from the multi-award-winning author of The Weekend.\n'A rich inner life is not just the preserve of the arts. The joys, fears and profound self-discoveries of creativity - through making or building anything that wasn't there before, any imaginative exploration or attempt to invent - I believe to be the birthright of every person on this earth. If you live your life with curiosity and intention - or would like to - this book is for you.' Charlotte Wood, from the Preface to The Luminous Solution\nIn this essential, illuminating book, award-winning writer Charlotte Wood shares the insights she has gained over a career paying close attention to her own mind, to the world around her and to the way she and others work.\nDrawing on research and decades of observant conversation and immersive reading, Charlotte shares what artists can teach the rest of us about inspiration and hard work, how to pursue truth in art and life, and to find courage during the difficult times: facing down what we fear and keeping going when things seem hopeless.</p>

The Luminous Solution

Self-Help

The Weekend

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