Best Books of 2007
Diary Of A Bad Year
$35.00 – Hardcover 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 →
Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name
$24.95 – Paperback book / Atlantic Books
Upon the death of her beloved father, Clarissa finds out she was not biologically related to him. Unfortunately, she has no-one to turn to for answers. Her mother left when Clarissa was 14, and her only sibling has Down ... Buy or find out more →
The Right Attitude To Rain: The Sunday Philosophy Club Book Three
$32.99 – Paperback book / Abacus
Alexander McCall Smith's charming invention Isabel Dalhousie returns for another Edinburgh-based adventure in the delightful The Right Attitude to Rain. Although not as immediately quirky and accessible as his Botswana-b... Buy or find out more →
Arlington Park
$23.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Juliet is enraged at the victory of men over women in family life. Amanda is warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework. Solly is confronting her own buried femininity in the person of her Italian lodger. Mai... Buy or find out more →
Anonymous Lawyer
$25.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
He's a hiring partner at one of the world's largest law firms. Brilliant yet ruthless, he has little patience for associates who leave the office before midnight or steal candy from the bowl on his secretary's desk. He h... Buy or find out more →
On Chesil Beach
$29.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
On Chesil Beach is another superbly orchestrated work by Ian McEwan exploring the subtleties and fragility of human relationships. Florence is a talented violinist whose dream is to perform in concert on stage. Edward is... Buy or find out more →
Buying A Piece Of Paris
$29.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Paris has seduced many admirers, but for visiting Australian Ellie Nielsen it's true love. So deep is her infatuation that, if she can't have it all to herself, she'll only be satisfied with buying her own little piece o... Buy or find out more →
Infidel
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster
In this profoundly affecting memoir, the internationally renowned political superstar and intrepid activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia to her intell... Buy or find out more →
Engleby
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Hutchinson
What a wonderful experience reading this novel has been! Theres nothing I enjoy more than taking a risk on a piece of fiction and thinking: Sebastian Faulks isnt a writer whos been on my radar before, but this sounds int... Buy or find out more →
The Complete Stories
$45.00$14.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
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 →
Castle In The Forest
$0.00 – Paperback book / Little Brown
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Upside Of Down
$0.00 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Homer-Dixon, Director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, has written a book that should be required reading for all of us - especially our politicians and policy makers. He starts by analysing the coll... Buy or find out more →
The Memory Room
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
What is a spy? Are they born, or are they made?' With these words, Vincent Austin analyses his future occupation. Some spies are made, he says, but his kind is born. He is devoted to secrecy for its own sake. Vincent is ... Buy or find out more →
Sorry
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
In the remote outback of Western Australia during World War II, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife, Stella, raise a lonely child, Perdita. Her upbringing is far from ordinary: in a shack in the wilderness... Buy or find out more →
The Gift Of Rain
$32.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Staff Review This steamy atmospheric novel set in Penang in the years leading up to and during WWII made the Booker longlist, but not the shortlist. Phillip Hutton’s mother was Chinese, his father a wealthy English Penan... Buy or find out more →
Landscape Of Farewell
$35.00 – Hardcover 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 German... Buy or find out more →
The Discovery of France
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Picador
It's easy to reduce France to the sum of its parts: weekend breaks amid the culture of Paris or summer holidays basking in the sunshine of the south; accounts of the Revolution - Madame Defarge knitting beside the guillo... Buy or find out more →
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
$32.95$14.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
From the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author of Woman: An Intimate Geography, a playful, passionate guide to the science all around us — Lewis Carroll meets Lewis Thomas -- a book that will enrapture, inspire, ... Buy or find out more →
The Damned Utd
$23.95 – Paperback book / Faber
1974 was the year Britain had two general elections and there was great uncertainty in the air. Overachieving and eccentric football manager Brian Clough was on his way to take over at one of the country's most successfu... Buy or find out more →
Caravan Story
$25.95 – Paperback book / Black Pepper
So here I am, I’m going: it happens to us all. There is no rhyme nor reason. Even when you’ve sucked the fingers of the hand that feeds you it can still turn around and grab you by the throat.
One morning, without wa... Buy or find out more →
Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand
$14.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill
Whilst preparing to leave Paris for a forensic training course in Quebec, Commissaire Adamsberg is troubled by an unsolved case from his past. For 30 years he has tried to prove that seemingly unrelated murders are the w... Buy or find out more →
Towards Another Summer
$19.95$8.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Sometimes, Grace thought, "no thank you" was the most chilling phrase in the English language. Janet Frame wrote this small and exquisite novel in 1963 whilst taking a break from her longest novel, The Adaptable Man. It'... Buy or find out more →
Out Stealing Horses
$27.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The events - the accidental death of a child, his best friend's feelings of guilt and eventual disappearance, his father's decision to le... Buy or find out more →
Darkmans
$35.00 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
If History is just a sick joke which keeps on repeating itself, then who exactly might be telling it, and why? Could it be John Scogin, Edward IV's infamous court jester, whose favourite pastime was to burn people alive ... Buy or find out more →
Courage
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
Courage is a quality this author holds dear. Rippling across the page in marvellously meditative style, the loosely connected chapters combine philosophy, memoir, history and anecdote to explore the concept of courage an... Buy or find out more →
The Seven Hundred Habits of Highly Ineffective People and How You Can Avoid Falling Into Them
$24.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
This is an hilarious book, laugh-out-loud funny from one of Australia's best comedic talents across stage, screen and writing. A direct take on The 700 Habits of Highly Effective People, Jonathan Biggins turns it on its ... Buy or find out more →
Touching From A Distance Film Tie In
$24.95 – Paperback book / Faber
This is the only in-depth biographical account of the legendary lead singer of Joy Division, written by his widow. Revered by his peers and idolised by his fans, Ian Curtis left behind a legacy rich in artistic genius. B... Buy or find out more →
Callisto
$0.00 – Trade paperback / Macmillan
Odell Deefus, a down-and-out American youth, may not have much going for him, but he has a story to tell. It was near the town of Callisto, where his car had broken down, that things started to go very wrong for him. Acc... Buy or find out more →
The Gathering
$44.95 – Hardcover book / Vintage
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Notes From An Exhibition
$28.00 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
When troubled artist Rachel Kelly dies painting obsessively in her attic studio in Penzance, her saintly husband and adult children have more than the usual mess to clear up. She leaves behind an extraordinary and acclai... Buy or find out more →
Yacoubian Building
$23.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
This controversial bestselling novel in the Arab world reveals the political corruption, sexual repression, religious extremism, and modern hopes of Egypt today.
All manner of flawed and fragile humanity reside in the Ya... Buy or find out more →
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
$32.95$0.00 – Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton
At a cafe table in Lahore, a Pakistani man begins the tale that has led to his fateful meeting with an uneasy American stranger. Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. He thrives on the energy of New York, hi... Buy or find out more →
Dodging The Bull
$9.95 – Paperback book / Wakefield Press
"This is rugged, strong writing with tonnes of character. It's for people who think life hurst, rewards, bends, breaks abd redeems." Martin Flanagan. Mitchell's stories are socially aware and compassionate, but also conf... Buy or find out more →
I Wouldn't Start From Here
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Picador
Andrew Mueller seems to be the leftwings answer to P.J. ORourke. This intriguing, intelligent, frankly hilarious book takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the worlds trouble spots Bosnia, Afghanistan, Albania, Iraq, B... Buy or find out more →
The Content Makers: Understanding the Media in Australia
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Penguin Books
In The Content Makers Margaret Simons explains the changes taking place in the Australian media. She analyses audiences, our major media organisations, the role of government – and the implications of all of these for ou... Buy or find out more →
Michael Sweeney's Method
$0.00 – Paperback book / Puffin
Michael Sweeney and his friend Dud are just two of the many invisible nothings at their expensive school. They come from deep in the suburbs and they're not cool or tough or even that brainy. So they're pretty much left ... Buy or find out more →
Sucked In
$32.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Murray Whelan is pushing fifty. He's also pushing something malodorous uphill as a member of the Labor Party's very small, very ineffectual parliamentary minority. It's a thankless task, and Murray is not a satisfied man... Buy or find out more →
Wild Mary A Life Of Mary Wesley
$19.95 – Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus
Mary Wesley published her first novel when she was 70 - and went on to write 9 more bestsellersbefore her death in 2002 at the age of 89. Wesley was a pen-name, derived from the family name of Wellesley. She was born Mar... Buy or find out more →
Perfect Summer England 1911 Just Before The Storm
$24.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline
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Towards The Light The Story Of The Struggles For Liberty Andrights That Made The Modern West
$49.95$34.95 – Hardcover book / Bloomsbury
In Towards the Light, A.C. Grayling places the liberation of the individual at the centre of the story of Western development between the Reformation and the late 20th Century. The Modern West, he argues, was formed by a... Buy or find out more →
The Butterfly Month
$0.00 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Betrayed by her parents, her lover, and her own body, Joni, a young doctor, leaves her home in the Netherlands for a rural hospital in post-apartheid South Africa. There she lives a life of self-imposed exile, dominated ... Buy or find out more →
No One Belongs Here More Than You
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Miranda July is a filmmaker, performing artist and writer. Her short fiction has appeared in the Paris Review and the New Yorker. Her 2005 feature film, Me and You and Everyone We Know, which she wrote, directed and star... Buy or find out more →
The View From Castle Rock
$24.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
On a clear day, you could see 'America' from Edinburgh's Castle Rock - or so said Alice Munro's great-great-great-grandfather, James Laidlaw, when he had drink taken. Then, in 1818, Laidlaw left the parish of 'no advanta... Buy or find out more →