Summer Reading Guide 2009/10

2009 Fiction

Eleanor Catton

Review

Sallie Muirden

Review

David Malouf

Review

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Mary Ann Shaffer

Murray Bail

Review

Audrey Niffenegger

More 2009 Fiction

Summer Bargains

Lovesong (Signed And Numbered Limited Edition)
Alex Miller

$59.95$33.95 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )

Hardback, jacket image printed directly on the jacket boards with foil, printed end papers all richly decorated, translucent tip in, individually hand numbered and signed by Alex Miller.

Seeking shelter in a Parisian caf... More »

Review

Britain Irelands Best Wild Places Five Hundred Ways To Walk In The Wild
Christopher Somerville

$65.00$19.95 (Hardcover book / Penguin Books )

Christopher Somerville takes us on a journey of discovery through Britain and Ireland, spanning their length and breadth as he seeks out 500 of his favourite Wild Places in fields and green lanes, in forests and mountain... More »

Children Of The Revolution France 1799 1914
Robert Gildea

$69.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )

Children of the Revolution is a wonderful account of how the French repeatedly tried and failed to come up with a new, stable regime for themselves. For those who lived through the quarter-century from the storming of th... More »

Essential Managers Manual
Robert Heller And Tim Hindle

$59.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Dorling Kindersley )

Improve your management skills and take control of your career with the new edition of this bestselling one-stop-shop for every manager.

Pick up tips and advice on 12 core management skills: from communicating and motiva... More »

Imagining India Ideas For The New Century
Nandan Nilekani

$49.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )

Indian software entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani has written the definitive book about modern India.

Nilekani gives us a fascinating new perspective for the twenty-first century, defying received and imported wisdom, and sh... More »

McSweeney's: No. 27
Dave Eggers (Ed)

$49.95$14.95 (Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton )

Plunging straight into the grayish, faintly understood area of the art world that involves oddly drawn objects coupled with uncertainly spelled text, McSweeney's 27 brings together a previously uncategorized cadre of pit... More »

More Summer Bargains

Readings Recommends: Australian Fiction

Best Of The Best: Top Australian Stories from Six Years' Collections Editor

Barry Oakley (Ed)

Smoke In The Room

Emily Maguire

Review

Wanting

Richard Flanagan

Review

Hollywood Ending

Kathy Charles

Review

Wonders Of A Godless World

Andrew McGahan

Review

The Virtuoso

Sonia Orchard

Review

More Readings Recommends: Australian Fiction

Readings Recommends: Movie Books

The Blind Side

Michael Lewis

Beneath Hill 60

Will Davies

Alice In Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief

Rick Riordan

Precious

Sapphire

A Single Man

Christopher Isherwood

2009 Biographies and Memoirs

Raising My Voice

Malalai Joya

Review

Letters Home: From Gallipoli and Beyond

Doug and Margot Anthony

The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One

David Kilcullen

She's Leaving Home

Monica Trapaga

The Hacienda: How Not To Run A Club

Peter Hook

Bart: My Life

J.B. Cummings

More 2009 Biographies and Memoirs

New Essays, Language & Reference Books

On Passion: Little Books On Big Themes

Dorothy Porter

Telling Tales: A History Of Literary Hoaxes

Melissa Katsoulis

The Best Australian Essays 2009

Robyn Davidson (ed.)

Review

Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

Zadie Smith

The World Of The Book

Des Cowley and Clare Williamson

A Dictionary Of Modern English Usage: The First Edition

H.W. Fowler, David Crystal (Ed)

More New Essays, Language & Reference Books

New Anthologies and Journals

Meanjin Vol 69 Number 1

Sophie Cunningham (Ed)

McSweeney's No. 33: The San Francisco Panorama

McSweeney's

Kill Your Darlings: Issue One

Rebecca Starford (Ed)

Review

Best European Fiction 2010

Aleksander Hemon (Ed)

Read Hard: 5 Years Of Great Writing From The Believer

Ed Park and Heidi Julavits (Eds)

The Paris Review Interviews: Volume 4

Philip Gourevitch (Ed)

More New Anthologies and Journals

The Best of 2009

The Best Australian Stories 2009

Delia Falconer (ed.)

The Best Australian Essays 2009

Robyn Davidson (ed.)

Review

Best Australian Political Cartoons 2009

Russ Radcliffe (ed.)

The Best American Short Stories 2009

Alice Sebold (Ed)

The Best Music Writing 2009: 10th Anniversary Edition

Greil Marcus (Ed)

The Best American Comics 2009

Charles Burns (Ed)

More The Best of 2009

New Politics

The Big Short: Inside The Doomsday Machine

Michael Lewis

Quarterly Essay 37: On The Future Of Conservatism: Where The Right Went Wrong

Waleed Aly

The Good Soldiers

David Finkel

Stripping Bare The Body: Politics, Violence, War

Mark Danner

Review

Trouble: Evolution Of A Radical, Selected Writings 1970-2010

Kate Jennings

Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs

Malcolm Fraser and Margaret Simons

More New Politics

Readings Recommends: Australian Studies

First Australians (Unillustrated Edition)

Rachel Perkins and Marcia Langton

Peter Kennedy: The Man Who Threatened Rome

Martin Flanagan

Earth

Bob Brown

Great Australian Speeches

Pamela Robson

Hoax Nation

Simon Caterson

Raft

Howard Goldenberg

More Readings Recommends: Australian Studies

Readings Recommends: Cultural Studies

Excess: Anti-Consumerism in the West

Kim Humphery

Woman As Design

Stephen Bayley

Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

The Secret Lives Of Buildings

Edward Hollis

Strine: The Complete Works Of Professor Afferbeck Lauder

Afferbeck Lauder

Review

Surviving Against the Odds : Village Industry in Indonesia

S. Ann Dunham

More Readings Recommends: Cultural Studies

Readings Recommends: History

Mirrors: Stories Of Almost Everywhere

Eduardo Galeano

Churchill and Australia

Graham Freudenberg

Four Days In November: The Assassination Of John F. Kennedy

Vincent Bugliosi

The Storm Of War

Andrew Roberts

Shrinking The World: The 4000-Year Story Of How Email Came To Rule Our Lives

John Freeman

Terra: Tales Of The Earth

Richard Hamblyn

New Natural History

The Life And Love Of Trees

Lewis Blackwell

Seeing Further: 350 Years Of The Royal Society And Scientific Endeavour

Bill Bryson (Ed)

The Secret Life of Birds: Who They Are and What They Do

Colin Tudge

Natural Acts: A Sidelong View Of Science And Nature

David Quammen

Bird Australia

Kindersley Dorling

Wildflower

Mark Seal

Review

More New Natural History

Readings Recommends: Gardening

On Guerrilla Gardening

Richard Reynolds

Fabulous Food From Every Small Garden

Mary Horsfall

The Constant Gardener

Holly Kerr Forsyth

Flowers In History

Viane Ronald & Deherdt Rene

Gardens Of The Loire Valley

Marie-Francoise Valery

Italian Gardens

Georgina Masson

Readings Recommends: Climate Change Books

Building a New World Order: Sustainable Policies for the Future

Harald Muller

Poles Apart: Beyond the Shouting, Who's Right about Climate Change

Gareth Morgan and John McCrystal

Two Degrees Too High: Understanding the Copenhagen Summit

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Global Environmental Change and Human Security

Richard Matthew & Jon Barnett (et al)

Storms of my Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and our Last Chance to Save Humanity

James Hansen

Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis

Al Gore

More Readings Recommends: Climate Change Books

New Science Books

The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

The Warmth Of The Heart Prevents Your Body From Rusting

Marie de Hennezel

Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose

Deirdre Barrett

Natural Experiments Of History

Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson (Eds)

The Master And His Emissary: The Divided Brain And The Making Of The Western World

Iain McGilchrist

The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind

Jonah Lehrer

More New Science Books

New Psychology Books

Stress, Coping And Development: An Integrative Persective (2nd Edition)

Carolyn Aldwin

Happiness, Healing, Enhancement: Your Casebook Collection For Applying Positive Psychology In Therapy

George W Burns

The Gift Of Therapy

Irvin D. Yalom

Ethical Practice In Psychology

Alfred Allan and Anthony Love (Eds)

The D-Word: Talking About Dying

Sue Brayne

Counselling Adolescents: The Proactive Approach for Young People (Third Edition)

Kathryn Geldard

More New Psychology Books

New Philosophy

In Defence Of The Enlightenment

Tzvetan Todorov

How Philosophy Can Save Your Life

Marietta McCarty

Thinking Of Answers

A.C. Grayling

On Kindness

Phillips Adam and Taylor Barbara

Women, Work and the Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense and Sensibility

Mireille Guiliano

The Art Of Happiness In A Troubled World

Lama Dalai

More New Philosophy

Readings Recommends: Poetry

The Bee Hut

Dorothy Porter

Review

The Golden Bird: New And Selected Poems

Robert Adamson

Pilbara

Mark O'Connor

True Thoughts

Pam Brown

Fire Season

Kate Middleton

Opal Sunset: Selected Poems 1958-2008

Clive James

Faber Modern Poets

W.B. Yeats: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney
W.B. Yeats

$24.99 (Hardcover book / Faber )

W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in the twentieth century.

His extraordinary work, in the words of this volume’s editor, Seamus Heane... More »

John Betjeman: Poems Selected by Hugo Williams
John Betjeman

$24.99 (Hardcover book / Faber )

Sir John Betjeman (1906-84) was born in Highgate, the son of a manufacturer of Dutch descent. After university he joined the staff of the Architectural Review, thereafter working as a journalist and, during the Second Wo... More »

Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot

$24.99 (Hardcover book / Faber )

As a poet, editor and essayist, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of the twentieth century.

This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, includes many of his most celebrated works including 'The Love Song o... More »

Sylvia Plath: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes
Sylvia Plath

$24.99 (Hardcover book / Faber )

Sylvia Plath (1932-63) possessed one of the most commanding voices in twentieth-century poetry. She published only one volume of verse, The Colossus, during her life and a single novel, The Bell Jar.

After her death Wint... More »