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Emma Young is a WAtoday journalist and book blogger. Her debut novel, The Last Bookshop, was shortlisted for the Fogarty Literary Award in 2019, and published by Fremantle Books in 2021.
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'Cait is a bookshop owner and book nerd whose social life revolves around her mobile bookselling service hand-picking titles for elderly clients, particularly the grandmotherly June. After a tough decade for retail, Book Fiend is the last bookshop in the CBD, and the last independent retailer on a street given over to high-end labels. Profits are small, but clients are loyal. When James breezes into Book Fiend, Cait realises life might hold more than her shop and her cat, but while the new romance distracts her, luxury chain stores are circling Book Fiend's prime location, and a more personal tragedy is looming. Written by WAtoday journalist Emma Young and shortlisted for the Fogarty Literary Award, this uplifting novel reminds us never to underestimate the power of people who love books.' (Publication summary)