AU shoppers - which I guess means
Bookpossum - you might like to take a look at
The Toymakers by Robert Dinsale, currently on special at Kobo AU and Amazon AU.
I stumbled over this quite some time ago while searching out other books for this club (see May 2018 "Doomed to Repeat It" nomination thread). It turned out to be one of my 5 star readers for this year. It is highly emotive, which isn't everyone's cup of tea.
Here are a few of the quotes I thought worth sharing. Obviously YMMV, but I loved it.