Harlem Shuffle by Whitehead Colson

Harlem Shuffle by Whitehead ColsonTo his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his fa ade of normalcy has more

An astonishing number are either edible or medicinal

Gina goes on the run and witnesses every truth of her life turned into a betrayal

The stakes have never been higher

Set during the cataclysmic bushfire season of 2019 and into the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown

But to reach her he'll have to cross the vast saltlands on a trek that only a dreamer or a fugitive would attempt

For these people

Gary Crew's text is redolent with the sounds and colours of the Australian bush

Through a historical perspective

We watch her enchanted gestation

John Bradley's compelling account of three decades living with the Yanyuwa people of the Gulf of Carpentaria and of how the elders revealed to him the ancient songlines of their Dreaming

had he acted differently

After the birth of her illegitimate son