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Book of the Month
The Fragments
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Addition and Nine Days, a superbly crafted and captivating literary mystery about a lost book and a secret love.
The Fragments
Inga Karlson died in a fire in New York in the 1930s, leaving behind three things: a phenomenally successful first novel, the scorched fragments of a second book—and a literary mystery that has captivated generations of readers.
Nearly fifty years later, Brisbane bookseller Caddie Walker is waiting in line to see a Karlson exhibition featuring the famous fragments when she meets a charismatic older woman. The woman quotes a phrase from the Karlson fragments that Caddie knows does not exist—and yet to Caddie, who knows Inga Karlson’s work like she knows her name, it feels genuine.
Caddie is electrified. Jolted her from her sleepy, no-worries life in torpid 1980s Brisbane she is driven to investigate: to find the clues that will unlock the greatest literary mystery of the twentieth century.
Nothing to See Here
Sand Talk
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Room for a Stranger
Exploded View
The Trauma Cleaner
Radiant Shimmering Light
The Death of Noah Glass
A Week in the Life of Cassandra Aberline
The Cage
The Stolen Bicycle
The Shadow Land
A Dutiful Daughter
Anna
The Restorer
War and Turpentine
My Brilliant Friend
My Last Continent
Keep Me Posted
When the Sky Fell Apart
The Life of Elves
The Story of the Lost Child
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
The Story of a New Name
The Truth and Other Lies
The Surfacing
Academy Street
Silence Once Begun
The Train to Paris
The Pure Gold Baby
The Secret River
The Gargoyle
The Good Muslim
Genesis
An Exclusive Love
All the Way
The Woman Before Me
This Is How
Saving Mozart
Hand Me Down World
Mister Pip
The Dinner
Beatrice and Virgil
Serena
