ABC TV's First Tuesday Book Club - 2012 Books
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
$29.99 – Paperback / Orion Publishing Co
Where'd You Go, Bernadette is a compulsively readable, irresistibly written, deeply touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's place in the world. Buy or find out more→
A Sport and a Pastime
$19.95 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
Touring Paris and provincial France in a handsome borrowed car, Philip Dean, Yale dropout, has an affair with a young French woman named Anne-Marie. Their liaison is imagined with candour and sensitivity by an unnamed narrator,... Buy or find out more→
Dirt
$29.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
The year is 1985 and twenty-two-year-old Galen lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded old house with a walnut orchard in a suburb of Sacramento, California. He yearns for transformation. But he's powerless to... Buy or find out more→
Animal People
$23.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
The hilarious, tender and heartbreaking story of a watershed day in the life of Stephen - aimless, unhappy and unfulfilled, this stiflingly hot December day is the day he has decided to dump his girlfriend. A sharply observed, 24... Buy or find out more→
Merivel: A Man of His Time
$13.00 – Paperback / Vintage
Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to Charles II, loved for his ability to turn sorrow into laughter, now faces the agitations and anxieties of middle age. Questions crowd his mind: has he been a good father? Is he a fair... Buy or find out more→
Middlemarch
$9.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
This text is an updated edition of George Eliot's classic tale. The novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Buy or find out more→
The Age of Miracles
$24.95 – Paperback / Simon & Schuster Ltd
One morning, Julia and her parents wake up in their suburban home in California to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth is noticeably slowing. The enormity of this is almost beyond... Buy or find out more→
The Sea, the Sea
$12.95 – Paperback / Vintage
When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood... Buy or find out more→
Crossing to Safety
$22.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams Afterword by T. H. Watkins Called a “magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher inThe Washington Post Book... Buy or find out more→
The Cook
$29.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
At seventeen Zac is given a choice: either go to a young offenders' institute, or enrol in a rehabilitation scheme - a course that teaches juveniles how to cook. He makes his choice. He chooses to cook. He also chooses to succeed.... Buy or find out more→
The Ghost Writer
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
Introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s; a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his... Buy or find out more→
The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service
$9.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Tempted by the idea of duck shooting, Carruthers joins his friend Davies on a yachting expedition in the Baltic. But Davies has more on his mind than killing fowl. As they navigate the waters and treacherous, shiftings sands on... Buy or find out more→
Silence of the Lambs: (Hannibal Lecter)
$19.95 – Paperback / Cornerstone
An FBI trainee. A psychopath locked up for unspeakable crimes. And a serial killer getting ever closer to his latest victim... FBI rookie Clarice Starling turns to Dr Hannibal Lecter, monster cannibal held in a hospital for the... Buy or find out more→
Why be Happy When You Could be Normal?
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
Tells the story of a life's work to find happiness. This book includes stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a tyrant in place of a mother, who has two sets of false teeth and a... Buy or find out more→
Nineteen Eighty-four
$10.00 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands... Buy or find out more→
The Submission
$29.95 – Paperback / Cornerstone
Cool, eloquent, raising two fatherless children, Claire has emerged as the most visible of the widows who became a potent political force in the aftermath of the catastrophe. She longs for her husband, but she has found her... Buy or find out more→
Great Expectations
$9.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
This text is a revised edition of Charles Dickens' classic tale. As Pip eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman, his education and development through adversity are depicted and he discovers the true... Buy or find out more→