This competition is now closed. Congratulations to the winner, Michelle Hostrup from Redfern! MissCarterSheila Hancock Miss Carter’s War Actor Sheila Hancock’s debut novel opens in 1948: young Marguerite Carter has survived a terrifying war, and becomes one of the first women to receive a degree from Cambridge. A panoramic portrait of Britain down the decades through the life of a singular woman. Courtesy of Allen & Unwin longingCandice Bruce The Longing It is the 1840s in Victoria’s remote Western District, and Ellis McRorie has left her native Scotland to find herself married to a man she does not love. Her Aboriginal servant, Louisa, is her only source of friendship. Then the painter SP Hart enters their lives, with devastating consequences. Courtesy of Random House SiegeBelinda Neil Under Siege Belinda Neil lived and breathed her high-octane job as a homicide investigator and hostage negotiator with the NSW police. But as her memoir shows, the years of witnessing trauma took a shocking toll. Courtesy of Harlequin Mira mannequinCraig Cliff The Mannequin Makers Window dresser Colton Kemp decides to raise his children to be living mannequins in this gothic tale of obsession that travels from New Zealand to Scotland, from a rock in the Southern Ocean to Sydney’s northern beaches. Courtesy of Vintage  

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