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🐈‍⬛ This week we asked ourselves a dangerous question: which books made you who you are? The answers are in our latest Lane Ideas Magazine — fantasy, fairy tales, journalistic histories, children's classics and more. Whether they changed us for better or worse, we’ll let you decide. Pick it up in store or download it online. ✨ This week in The Lane Newsletter 🗞️ see here to access the full copy http://eepurl.com/uBIpKdXEsN 📖 The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout (Pulitzer-winner) — A man, a secret, a country losing its mind, and the devastating discovery that the people closest to us are the ones we know least. Susan's pick. 📘 Free Love by Tessa Hadley — late-sixties London, a middle-class woman walks out on her marriage for a younger man, and Hadley refuses every easy moral the setup invites. Gabi’s pick. 🗓️ On the calendar 20 May: Non-Fiction Book Club — Going Nuclear by Tim Gregory. A chemist argues the atom will save the planet. Net zero meets the nucleus. Bring opinions, leave your half-lives at the door. $5. 21 May: Prema Arasu — The Book of Sea Monsters and Vampire Squid. From Homer's sirens to the Mariana Trench, in conversation with Professor Alan Jamieson of the Minderoo–UWA Deep Sea Research Centre. Wetsuits optional. $15. 28 May: Susan Midalia's Book Club — Trip by Amie Barrodale. A mortally funny debut about a mother's love that defies all odds, including death, told with the kind of absurd tenderness that makes you laugh and then immediately regret it. $5 including wine and nibbles. 4 June: Gillian O'Shaughnessy launches Salt City Runaway — fifty flash fictions from Fremantle to the Goldfields. Dead bats rain from the sky. Lou Reed gets offered a cigarette at a bus stop. Tim Winton called it "a chorus of tiny stabs." $15. ☕ Looking for a daytime book club? Morning clubs meet on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays at 10:30am — upcoming titles include Ivan Southall and Dorothy L. Sayers. Email [email protected] to join. 🍂 Our Autumn catalogue is out now — the season's biggest releases, waiting to be discovered. 🔗 Find it all at https://lanebook.com.au or http://eepurl.com/uBIpKdXEsN #TheLaneBookshop #LaneIdeas #PerthBooks #Claremont #IndependentBookshop