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50 Books You Can't Put Down

Her Fearful Symmetry
Audrey Niffenegger

$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

The brilliant new novel from the author of the massive international bestseller, The Time Traveler's Wife now in second format.

Julia and Valentina Poole are normal American teenagers – normal, at least, for identical ‘m... Buy or find out more 


King Of The Cross
Mark Dapin

$22.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan

King of the Cross is a dazzling novel that explores the criminal world of Jacob Mendoza: legendary Godfather of Kings Cross and for more than four decades, Australia's most powerful and notorious crime figure. To record ... Buy or find out more 



Campaign Ruby
Jessica Rudd

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing

When she gets the email announcing her redundancy, Ruby Stanhope hopes to maintain the composure expected of your average London investment banker.

Instead, the next day’s hangover brings two unfortunate discoveries. Fir... Buy or find out more 


Halo
Alexandra Adornetto

$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins

Nothing much happens in the sleepy town of Venus Cove. But everything changes when three angels, Ivy, Bethany and Gabriel are sent from heaven to protect the town against the gathering forces of darkness. They work hard ... Buy or find out more 



The Happiest Refugee: My Journey From Tragedy To Comedy
Anh Do

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin

Winner of the Indie Book of the Year Award 2011

The laugh-out-loud, reach-for-your-hanky story of one of Australia's best-loved comedians. Description

Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came clo... Buy or find out more 


Diary Of A Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney

$14.95 – Paperback book / Puffin

Being a kid can really stink. And no one knows this better than Greg Heffley, who finds himself thrust into high school where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving.... Buy or find out more 



Trouble At The Zoo: Bindi Wildlife Adventures Book One
Bindi Irwin

$9.95 – Paperback book / Random House

Come and join Bindi Irwin on her next wildlife adventure!

Bindi's birthday party at Australia Zoo is going to be HUGE. Karaoke, animal rides, dancing competitions, it's all happening! But when a spoilt ten-year-old boy d... Buy or find out more 


Everything Beautiful
Simmone Howell

$16.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan

I believe in Chloe and chocolate. I believe the best part is always before. I believe that most girls are shifty and most guys are dumb. I believe the more you spill, the less you are. I don't believe in life after death... Buy or find out more 



Beatle Meets Destiny
Gabrielle Williams

$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

Imagine your name is John Lennon, only everyone calls you Beatle.

And then you meet your Dream girl and her name is Destiny McCartney.

But what if you're already with the perfect girl?

A novel about change, chance and ev... Buy or find out more 


Camelot: The Dragons Book One
Colin Thompson

$14.95 – Paperback book / Random House

In the days when dragons roamed the earth turning people into toast, a mighty King ruled the world. This King lived in the great castle of Camelot in the beautiful island of Avalon. Guided by the great wizard Merlin, thi... Buy or find out more 



The Magician's Apprentice
Trudi Canavan

$22.99 – Paperback book / Orbit

Prequel to The Black Magician trilogy.

In the remote village of Mandryn, Tessia serves as assistant to her father, the village Healer - much to the frustration of her mother, who would rather she found a husband. Despite... Buy or find out more 


Chasers: Alone Book One
James Phelan

$16.99 – Paperback book / Lothian

The gripping story of four teenagers who survive a devastating pandemic in New York City.

FOUR TEENAGERS. ONE DESTROYED CITY. THOUSANDS OF INFECTED PREDATORS…

Jesse is on a UN Youth Ambassadors camp in New York when hi... Buy or find out more 



Marked: The House Of Night Book One
P.C. and Kristin Cast

$16.99 – Paperback book / Atom Books

When sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird gets Marked as a fledgling vampire she must join the House of Night school where she will train to become an adult vampire. That is, if she makes it through the Change. But Zoe is no or... Buy or find out more 


Dead Until Dark: The Southern Vampire Mysteries #1
Charlaine Harris

$19.99 – Paperback book / Victor Gollancz

Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's quiet, keeps to herself and doesn't get out much - not because she's not pretty - she's a very cute bubbly blonde - or not interested in ... Buy or find out more 



Loathing Lola
William Kostakis

$16.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan

Fifteen-year-old Courtney Marlow didn't exactly think it through. She thought the offer to have her life broadcast on national television was the perfect solution to her family's financial troubles.

She was wrong.

Macken... Buy or find out more 


Meltdown
Ben Elton

$14.95 – Paperback book / Black Swan

A biting satire of the credit crunch from this hugely popular and bestselling author

Description of book

For amiable City trader Jimmy Corby money was the new Rock n’ Roll. His whole life was a party, adrenalin charged a... Buy or find out more 



Wonders Of A Godless World
Andrew McGahan

$23.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin

Suspend disbelief and immerse yourself in an electrifying, tumultuous work of the imagination - a powerful and apocalyptic tale of madness and revenge, desire and devastation, you'll be swept from the beginning of time t... Buy or find out more 


The Elegance Of The Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery

$24.95 – Paperback book / Gallic Books

Renée is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable but totally uncultivated, ... Buy or find out more 



Cleo
Helen Brown

$22.99 – Paperback book / Arena

Helen Brown wasn't a cat person, but her nine-year-old son Sam was. So when Sam heard a woman telling his mum that her cat had just had kittens, Sam pleaded to go and see them. Helen's heart melted as Sam held one of the... Buy or find out more 


Still Alice
Lisa Genova

$19.99 – Paperback book / Simon & Schuster

When Harvard professor Alice Howland gets lost in her own neighbourhood she knows something is terribly wrong. Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease at 50, she struggles to find purpose in her life. As her concept of self g... Buy or find out more 



Summer At Mount Hope
Rosalie Ham

$22.95 – Paperback book / Duffy & Snellgrove

Phoeba Crupp is a young woman who lives with her parents and sister on a small farm near Geelong in the 1890s. Her father is an eccentric ex-accountant who moved his family from the city in order to establish a vineyard,... Buy or find out more 


Pearl In A Cage
Joy Dettman

$22.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan

On a balmy midsummer's evening in 1923, a young woman – foreign, dishevelled and heavily pregnant – is found unconscious just off the railway tracks in the tiny logging community of Woody Creek.

The town midwife, Ger... Buy or find out more 



 

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen

$17.95$8.95 – Paperback book / Quirk

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English vil... Buy or find out more 


The Elusive Bride
Stephanie Laurens

$29.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins

In this exciting follow-up to The Untamed Bride and the second in the Black Cobra Quartet, battle-hardened Gareth Hamilton, a completely unstoppable ex-officer of the Crown, confronts the deadly enemy known only as the B... Buy or find out more 



Bittersweet
Melanie La'Brooy

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

Who knows you better than your sister?

Sabrina Falks is the golden girl; a beautiful, successful actress who is engaged to the too-good-to-be-true Edward. Her life is glamorous and seemingly perfect – apart from her recu... Buy or find out more 


Homecoming
Cathy Kelly

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins

Eleanor Levine left Ireland seventy years ago with little more than a suitcase and her mother′s handwritten recipe book. Now, a lifetime later, she′s returning from New York with hard won wisdom and memories of her own. ... Buy or find out more 



Lovesong
Alex Miller

$26.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin

Seeking shelter in a Parisian cafe from a sudden rainstorm, John Patterner meets the exotic Sabiha and his carefully mapped life changes forever. Resonant of the bestselling Conditions of Faith, Alex Miller's keenly awai... Buy or find out more 


The Cattleman's Daughter
Rachael Treasure

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

Born on the rugged Dargo High Plains and raised by her cattleman father, Emily Flanaghan has lost her way in life.

Locked in an unhappy marriage in the suburbs, Emily misses the high country with a fierce ache. To make m... Buy or find out more 



Itsy-Bitsy Babies
Margaret Wild and Jan Ormerod

$14.95 – Paperback book / Little Hare

This itsy bitsy baby sucks his thumb. That itsy bitsy baby bangs on a drum. These itsy bitsy babies splash through a puddle. Those itsy bitsy babies like to cuddle. All the itsy bitsy babies are warm and snug. All the it... Buy or find out more 


The Wonky Donkey (Book and CD)
Craig Smith and Katz Cowley

$16.99 – Paperback book / Scholastic

Small children and kids at heart will be in fits of laughter at this hilarious picture book about a three-legged donkey that, by the end of the story, is a ‘spunky, hanky-panky, cranky, stinky, dinky, lanky, honky-tonky,... Buy or find out more 



The Help
Kathryn Stockett

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

The book that has taken the US and UK by storm.

Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...

There's Aibileen, raisi... Buy or find out more 


Riding The Black Cockatoo
John Danalis

$18.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin

This is the compelling story of how the skull of an Aboriginal man, found on the banks of the Murray River over 40 years ago, came to be returned to his Wamba Wamba descendants. It is a story of awakening, atonement, for... Buy or find out more 



Bleed For Me
Michael Robotham

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Little Brown

When Sienna Hegarty turns up at his family home one night, covered in blood and frozen in shock, psychologist Joe O'Loughlin finds himself drawn deep into her world, trying to unearth the dark secrets her mind has buried... Buy or find out more 


Ransom
David Malouf

$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

David Malouf shines new light on Homer’s ILIAD, adding twists and reflections, as well as flashes of earthy humour, to surprise and enchant.

Description of book

In this exquisite gem of a novel, Achilles is maddened by... Buy or find out more 



The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories Of Personal Triumph From The Frontiers Of Brain Science (Revised Edition)
Norman Doidge

$29.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications

A New York Times bestseller; an Amazon US top ten science book of 2008 and one of Amazon Canada's top books of 2008; one of the Globe and Mail's (Canada) top books of 2008; and one of Slate top books of 2008

'This book i... Buy or find out more 


Life In His Hands: The True Story Of A Neurosurgeon And A Pianist
Susan Wyndham

$24.99 – Paperback book / Picador

Charlie Teo is one of Australia's most celebrated yet controversial neurosurgeons. His pioneering "keyhole" techniques have earned him praise around the world, but in his home country he is regarded by some in the profes... Buy or find out more 



The Boat
Nam Le

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction 2009.

'The Boat raises the bar for Australian writing.'

PETER CRAVEN, Heat



'Nam Le is . . . a distributor of the peace.



'Consider the subjects of his stories: a... Buy or find out more 


Open
Andre Agassi

$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins

Coaxed to swing a racket while still in the crib, forced to hit hundreds of balls a day while still in grade school, Agassi resented the constant pressure even as he drove himself to become a prodigy, an inner conflict t... Buy or find out more 



Jasper Jones
Craig Silvey

$23.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin

Winner of the 2009 Indie Book of the Year award.

Full of unforgettable characters, a page-turning pace and outrageously good dialogue, this is a glorious novel - thoughtful, funny, heartbreaking and wise - about outsider... Buy or find out more 


Maralinga
Judy Nunn

$21.95 – Paperback book / Arrow

The power to love, the power to hate, the power to destroy human existence ... MARALINGA has them all!

During the darkest days of the Cold War, in the remote wilderness of a South Australian desert, the future of an infa... Buy or find out more 



Johnny Lewis: The Biography
Paul Kent

$35.00 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin

He's the best loved man in Australian boxing - from training Jeff Fench and Kostya Tszyu to touring with the Kangaroos and appearing on talk back with Alan Jones, Johnny Lewis looms large in Australian sporting life. Thi... Buy or find out more 


First Tests: Great Australian Cricketers And The Backyards That Made Them
Steve Cannane

$27.99 – Paperback book / Abc Books

Australia has dominated test cricket over the last 130 years. But it′s not the formal cricket academies or high-end coaching that are responsible for the Australian cricket team′s winning ways. The backyard has been the ... Buy or find out more 



Truth
Peter Temple

$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

Winner of the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead, a pani... Buy or find out more 


The World Beneath
Cate Kennedy

$24.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications

Winner of the People’s Choice Award for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2010

• Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2010 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction • Shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award 2... Buy or find out more 



The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest
Stieg Larsson

$24.95 – Paperback book / Maclehose Press

Lisbeth Salander is plotting her revenge - against the men who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking... Buy or find out more 


The Gallipoli Letter
Keith Murdoch

$24.99 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin

The vivid, charged and emotional letter that changed the course of the Gallipoli campaign.

In September 1915, Keith Murdoch, then a young war journalist, wrote an 8000-word letter to the Prime Minister, Andrew Fisher. 'T... Buy or find out more 



Ray: Stories Of My Life
Ray Martin

$34.95 – Trade paperback / Heinemann

The bestselling autobiography of one of Australia’s most loved personalities is now in paperback.

Now, in paperback, Ray Martin’s bestselling autobiography tells the story of his less than stellar introduction to the g... Buy or find out more 


Under The Dome
Stephen King

$24.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline

There's a reason why Stephen King is one of the best selling writers in the world ever. He knows how to write stories that suck you in and are impossible to put down. The New York Times describes it as a 'relentless tida... Buy or find out more 



Australians: Origins To Eureka
Thomas Keneally

$39.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin

The first volume of a unique history of Australia where people are always centre stage, from bestselling author Thomas Keneally who brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story.

Thomas K... Buy or find out more 


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