Diary Of A Bad Year
J M Coetzee

$22.95 (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 ... More »

The Lost Dog
Michelle de Kretser

$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... More »

Orpheus Lost
Janette Turner Hospital

$25.00 (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... More »

Blood Kin
Ceridwen Dovey

$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... More »

Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid

$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... More »

Landscape Of Farewell
Alex Miller

$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... More »

After Dark
Haruki Murakami

$22.95 (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... More »

The Trout Opera
Matthew Condon

$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... More »

The Complete Stories
David Malouf

$25.00 (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... More »

Love Without Hope
Rodney Hall

$22.95 (Paperback book / Picador )

The elderly Mrs Shoddy suffers acute depression as a result of a bushfire that kills her beloved horses. A capable countrywoman, she loses her grip and is living in squalor when the district nurse finds her and has her c... More »

Burning In
Mirielle Juchau

$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... More »

Animal's People
Indra Sinha

$21.95 (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... More »