Australia-Asia Literary Award 2008 Longlist
Diary Of A Bad Year
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
A famous writer is commissioned to contribute to a book of essays called Strong Opinions when he meets a young woman who lives in his apartment tower. He asks her to become his . . .
In the laundry room of her apartment ... Buy or find out more →
The Lost Dog
$23.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Whatever the linguistic equivalent of perfect pitch may be, she
has it - Sunday Telegraph (UK)
The Lost Dog is the extraordinary new novel by the acclaimed
writer Michelle de Kretser. Her first novel, The Rose
Grower, w... Buy or find out more →
Orpheus Lost
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
In the myth, Orpheus travels to the underworld to rescue Eurydice from certain death – a rescue compelled by his determination and his belief in their shared life. Along the way the question arises: what would you risk f... Buy or find out more →
Blood Kin
$24.95 – Trade paperback / Atlantic Books
A barber, a chef and a portraitist are held hostage in a sparsely-furnished room, in a grand summer residence perched on a hill overlooking the capital city of a nameless hot country. They have been seized in a bloody co... Buy or find out more →
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
'Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened of my beard. I am a lover of America...'
So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore café as dusk settles. Invited to join... Buy or find out more →
Landscape Of Farewell
$23.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A hauntingly beautiful meditation on the land, the past, exile
and friendship, Landscape of Farewell is the powerful new
novel from acclaimed Australian author, Alex Miller.
It is the story of Max Otto, an elderly Germa... Buy or find out more →
After Dark
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. The musician ha... Buy or find out more →
The Trout Opera
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
The Trout Opera - more than ten years in the writing - is a stunning epic novel that encompasses twentieth-century Australia. Opening with a Christmas pageant on the banks of the Snowy River in 1906 and ending with the o... Buy or find out more →
The Complete Stories
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
David Malouf's imagination inhabits shocking violence, quick humor, appealing warmth and harsh cruelty with equal intensity. He shares tales of bookish boys, taciturn men and intimate stories of men and women looking for... Buy or find out more →
Burning In
$27.95 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
In her late twenties, Martine Hartmann moves from Sydney to New York to pursue her career as a photographer, leaving behind her mother Lotte, a holocaust survivor. Nine years later, Martine's daughter Ruby goes missing i... Buy or find out more →
Animal's People
$22.99 – Paperback book / Pocket Books
'I used to be human once. So I'm told. I don't remember it myself, but people who knew me when I was small say I walked on two feet just like a human being...' Ever since he can remember, Animal has gone on all fours, th... Buy or find out more →