April 2008 Books
The Biographer
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Vintage )
Greer Gordon lives in Italy with Mischa Svoboda, a driven Czech-born painter with a booming international reputation. She and Mischa met in the 1970s, when his debut show at the small Melbourne art gallery where Greer th... More »
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The Invention Of Everything Else
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Harvill )
In THE INVENTION OF EVERYTHING ELSE, Samantha Hunt fictionalizes the story of the Serbian-born scientist Nikola Tesla, inventor of radio and creator of AC electricity, a notoriously marginalized genius whose wild eccentr... More »
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The Good Parents
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Vintage )
Maya de Jong, an eighteen-year-old country girl from the West, comes to live in Melbourne and starts an affair with her boss, the enigmatic Maynard Flynn, whose wife is dying of cancer. When Maya's parents, Toni and Jaco... More »
The God Of Speed
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )
Film mogul, aviator, addict, inventor, visionary, recluse, serial womanizer, political meddler: Howard Hughes was one of the strangest and most significant figures of the twentieth century. His obsessive-compulsive disor... More »
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The Lifeboat
$23.95 (Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr )
A man and a woman are found at sea in pirate-infested waters with no memory of who they are or how they got there. They are entrusted to the care of a young interpreter who is given two weeks to discover their identities... More »
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The Best Australian Political Writing 2008
$27.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
In The Best Australian Political Writing 2008, Lateline's Tony Jones selects the most illuminating, provocative and incisive analysis of the past year in politics. Here some of our leading commentators and writers dissec... More »
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The Dark Lantern
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
Victorian England comes to atmospheric life in a nineteenth-century home turned upside down when two women's dark secrets are revealed.
The Bentley's London household is in flux. The elderly matron is on her deathbed, so... More »
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The Enchantress Of Florence
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape )
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole... More »
The Spare Room
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Text Publishing )
An extraordinary work of fiction from one of Australia's best-selling and most admired writers
Helen prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola, who is flying down from Sydney for a three-week visit. But this is no or... More »
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The Sacrifice
$35.00 (Paperback book / Arena )
As the world spins out of control into World War II, Robert and his family wrestle with the challenges it presents. Robert offers his apartment to German-Jewish refugees, Artie intends to join up as soon as the fighting ... More »
Something To Tell You
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Faber )
Something to Tell You follows the fortunes of a successful psychoanalyst who, as the book opens, is reflecting on his coming-of-age in 1970s suburbia; on his first love (a relationship that continues to haunt him), and o... More »
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Julius Winsome
$22.95 (Paperback book / Faber )
Julius Winsome lives in a cabin in the hunting heartland of the
Maine woods, with only his books and his dog for company. That is
until the morning he finds that his dog has been shot dead - and
not by accident.
Gerard ... More »
The Abstinence Teacher
$29.99 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
The Abstinence Teacher is a wry suburban comedy which takes a scandalous and satirical look at modern American culture and the influence of the Christian right. Told through the stories of two very different people whose... More »
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Child Of All Nations
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
Kully knows some things you don't learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that cars are more dangerous than lions. She knows that you can't enter a country without a pa... More »
Death At Intervals
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Harvill )
On the first day of the New Year, no one dies. This understandably causes great consternation amongst religious leaders - if there's no death, there can be no resurrection and therefore no reason for religion - and what ... More »
Wolf Totem
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )
It is the 1960s, and Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote nomadic settlement on the Inner Mongolian grasslands. There, he discovers an age-old synergy between the nomads, their livestock, and the... More »
Change Of Heart
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )
One day June Nealon was happily anticipating a lifetime of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for t... More »
Our Story Begins
$42.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
One of the most exquisite storytellers delivers his first collection in over a decade: ten potent new stories that, along with 21 classics, display his mastery over a quarter century. More »
This Charming Man
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Michael Joseph )
The queen of chick-lit delivers another sparkling tale about modern women ... and one charming, unknowable man. Four very different women are intimately affected by the news of Paddy de Courcy’s engagement. Stylist Lola,... More »
Sticklebacks And Snow Globes
$24.95 (Paperback book / Scribe Publications )
Tot is good at watching, waiting and working things out. And there's a lot that demands close attention: her own epilepsy, an older sister who never wants to play anymore, a best friend who's changed her name to Roger, a... More »
