Hares Hyenas

05/06/2026

NEW: Bushranger Thriller & Sydney Historical Fiction, plus Witchy Romance, Moomin, Sydney Silverbacks, Nonmonogamy and Betrayal, and more! https://mailchi.mp/hares-hyenas/hares-hyenas-enews-latest-greatest-5770510

03/06/2026

NEW: Q***r Yearning & Female Pleasure, plus Cosy Medieval Fantasy, Romance in Deadly Storms, Paul O'Grady, and more! https://mailchi.mp/hares-hyenas/hares-hyenas-enews-latest-greatest-5770495

27/05/2026

NEW: Afghan Refugees, Australian Trans YA & Steam, plus David Sedaris, Hal Fischer, Marilyn Monroe, Irish Crime Novel, and more! https://mailchi.mp/hares-hyenas/hares-hyenas-enews-latest-greatest-5770430

23/05/2026

Almost Life
Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Picador, $35
Paris, 1978. Naive 18-year-old Erica is spending the summer abroad before she begins university back in England, when she meets Laure on the steps of the Sacré-Coeur. A hard-drinking, chain-smoking PhD student at the Sorbonne, Laure is immersed in the q***r demimonde of Paris. She draws Erica into it - and a whirlwind love affair which neither woman can forget - although their lives immediately diverge once summer fades. Through periods of estrangement, torrid adultery, marriage, children, and the death of friends, the bond between Erica and Laure persists through every sliding door moment, and they must decide whether to seize their chance at a future together in later life. Kiran Millwood Hargrave has created an epic and complicated love - and it is a sense of intimacy, as much as passion, that smoulders for decades. Almost Life is a sweeping romance that traces a dramatic arc towards gay liberation in society, and an equally challenging personal quest for authenticity in the realm of the heart. A mature, fully developed q***r love story.

Cameron Wood The Age 23 May 2026

Buy Almost Life by Kiran Millwood Hargrave from your local bookstore. A love story that will last a lifetime. Erica and Laure meet on the steps of ...

22/05/2026

Due in the shop next Tuesday

https://hares-hyenas.com.au/p/no-god-but-us

20/05/2026

Another week, another book launch. As part of Melbourne Design Week and Monash Art Design & Architecture @ VPC, we are the bookseller for the launch of Ari Seligmann's Ka Me Ra Modern Japanese Architecture through the Photographer's Lens. Thursday May 21 6pm

Due to hitting our credit limit having used so much of it up on event stock, our copies of the Int. Booker Prize winner Taiwan Travelogue will not arrive until next week. Just a little juggling!

19/05/2026

Q-Lit's 2026 Programme has been released.
https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/05/19/329984/q-lit-2026-program-announced/

Hope to see you on the fabulous Day of Books. If you are an independent author/ publisher, contact Q-Lit for stall details. Last year it was our fav event for the year (sorry all the authors that 'evented' with us)

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18/05/2026

No God But Us is out next week. Two Afghan refugees meet in Istanbul each searching for a future.
Out next week. Highly recommended.
Check out my review in June's DNA online.

https://hares-hyenas.com.au/p/no-god-but-us

18/05/2026

NEW: Aroace Love Story & Q***r Bookshops! PLUS Valkyrie, Shakespeare, Wicked, and more! https://mailchi.mp/hares-hyenas/hares-hyenas-enews-latest-greatest-5770348