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 ... More »
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Carpentaria
$26.95 (Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing )
Set in the small, isolated town of Desperance on the Gulf of Carpentaria, Alexis Wright’s second novel conjures up a sweeping and poetic panorama of life in a town that seems a world away from modern civilisation. And ye... 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 ... More »
The Right Attitude To Rain: The Sunday Philosophy Club Book Three
$29.95$12.95 (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... 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... More »
Anonymous Lawyer
$26.95 (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... More »
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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... 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... More »
The Complete Stories
$45.00$19.95 (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... More »
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What Is The What
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
In this heartrending and astonishing novel, Dave Eggers illuminates the history of the Sudanese civil war through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the US. Driven from his home as a boy, Deng walk... More »
Castle In The Forest
$0.00 (Paperback book / Little Brown )
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Upside Of Down
$32.95 (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... 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 ... More »
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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... 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... 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... More »
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
$32.95 (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, ... 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... More »
Caravan Story
$25.95 (Paperback book / Black Pepper )
In 2004 Macauley published Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe to great acclaim, with one critic even going so far as to say that if more Australian literature was of this calibre, wed be laughing. On the strength of this... 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... More »
Towards Another Summer
$24.95 (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. I... More »
Out Stealing Horses
$27.95$24.95 (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... More »
Seven Hundred Penguins
$0.00 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
Design aficionados and book fetishists alike will savour this decidedly quirky little book: a kind of time capsule of book design history. This beautifully produced collection includes 700 memorable cover designs that ha... More »
The Seven Hundred Habits of Highly Ineffective People and How You Can Avoid Falling Into Them
$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 ... 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... More »
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... 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... More »
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
$32.95$14.95 (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... More »
Dodging The Bull
$22.95 (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... More »
I Wouldnt 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... 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... More »
Michael Sweeney's Method
$19.95 (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 ... 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... More »
Perfect Summer England 1911 Just Before The Storm
$28.99 (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$24.95 (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... More »
The Butterfly Month
$27.95 (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 ... More »
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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... More »
The View From Castle Rock
$24.95 (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... More »