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🗞️Lane Ideas | 28th March–3rd April Where browsers are always welcome…🐈‍⬛ See the full version of our latest edition in our Bio 🔗 🤖🌊 This week: The Indie Book Awards have had their say, and very sensible they were too. Charlotte McConaughey’s Wild Dark Shore took both Fiction and Book of the Year, while Hannah Kent’s Always Home, Always Homesick carried off the Non-Fiction prize. Meanwhile, Glenn Dixon has gone a step further and asked the question modern life has been circling for years: what if the machines became sentient before we became sensible? 📝 Reviews (fresh ink, sharp opinions) 🤖 The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances — Glenn Dixon A cosy dystopia with a Roomba at its centre: funny, strange, and just close enough to the truth to make your toaster look faintly ideological. 🏔 Always Home, Always Homesick — Hannah Kent A moving memoir of Iceland, longing, and the origins of Burial Rites — all atmosphere, memory, and the kind of homesickness that settles in the bones. 🌊 Wild Dark Shore — Charlotte McConaughey Melancholy, mystery, and environmental grief written with real force. A novel that understands loss at the family level and the planetary one, which is to say: cheerful enough for our times. 🗞 Lane Ideas Magazine (Mar–Apr 2026) Alan Fyfe on poetry, morality, drugs, poverty and social justice, plus our team’s favourite women writers. In other words, plenty to keep the civilised mind from atrophy. 🎤 Events 🕵️ Fleur McDonald introduces The Witness 🗓 Thursday 2nd April 🕒 Doors 5:30pm | 6:00pm start 📍 The Lane Bookshop 🎟 Tickets $15 🎬 Natasha Lester introduces The Chateau on Sunset 🗓 Thursday 9th April 🕒 Doors 6:00pm | 6:30pm start 📍 Claremont Yacht Club 🎟 $15 ticket only | $39.99 ticket with book 📘 Non-Fiction Book Club — Looking From the North by Henry Reynolds 🗓 Thursday 23rd April 🕒 Doors 5:30pm | 6:00pm start 📍 The Lane Bookshop 🎟 $5 (wine and nibbles) ⚡ Gillian O’Shaughnessy introduces Salt City Runaway 🗓 Thursday 4th June 🕒 Doors 5:30pm | 6:00pm start 📍 The Lane Bookshop 🎟 Tickets $15 #lanebookshop #claremontbookshop #thelanebookshop #claremont #independentbooksellers laneideas perthbooks authorevents