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Women In Clothes, Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton (Penguin, $39.99)
Written by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton, Women In Clothes isn’t as much about what we wear as about how and why we wear it. Drawing on 639 interviews conducted with women around the world – including Lena Dunham, Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon and actress Molly Ringwald – this is a savvy, sophisticated celebration of clothes and why women love them. Out now.
Merciless Gods, Christos Tsiolkas (Allen & Unwin, $32.99)
Homegrown favourite Christos Tsiolkas – of The Slap fame – is back with Merciless Gods, a collection of explosive short stories written over the past 20 years. Heavy-hitting reading. Out now.
Beautiful You, Chuck Palahnuik (Random House, $29.99)
How would author Chuck Palahnuik take over the world? With sex toys so good women wouldn’t want to leave the house. This is the premise for the Fight Club author’s latest, Beautiful You. Out now.
Alexander McCall-Smith, Emma (Harper Collins, $29.99)
In Alexander McCall Smith’s take on Jane Austen’s Emma, Frank Churchill runs a winery, George Knightley is a fashion photographer and the eponymous heroine is an interior designer. See a classic through new eyes. Out now.
PLUS: Why everyone's talking about Thug Kitchen (Hachette, $29.99)
I don’t understand. If Gordon Ramsay, Snoop Dogg and Gwyneth Paltrow had a food blog, this
is what it would look like. Gwyneth Paltrow? She loves Thug Kitchen! She even wrote on Goop, “This might be my favourite thing ever.” But what is it? A wholefoods blog by a couple from Hollywood. They’re all about kale and quinoa, but they also say f**k a lot. And now it’s a cookbook? That’s right. You can find all of their street food-inspired recipes in Thug Kitchen out now.
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