Taking Pictures
Anne Enright

$32.95$12.95 (Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape )

The stories in Taking Pictures are snapshots of the body in trouble: in denial, in extremis, in love. Mapping the messy connections between people - and their failures to connect - the characters are captured in the grai... More »

The Knife Of Never Letting Go: Chaos Walking Book One
Patrick Ness

$29.95 (Hardcover book / Walker Books )

Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town full of men, a town where everyone can hear your thoughts and Todd finds out he doesn't fit in with the town's plans as he approaches the birthday that will make him a man. The town ... More »

The Believers
Zoë Heller

$32.95$13.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )

A comic, tragic, supremely entertaining novel about one family's struggles with the consolations of faith and the trials of doubt.

When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New York radical lawyer Joel... More »

Breath
Tim Winton

$45.00 (Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton )

Winner of the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award

Breath is a story about the wildness of youth - the lust for excitement and terror, the determination to be extraordinary, the wounds that heal and those that don't - and ... More »

People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks

$33.00$32.99 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )

When Hanna Heath gets a call in the middle of the night in her Sydney home about a precious medieval manuscript which has been recovered from the smouldering ruins of war–torn Sarajevo, she knows she is on the brink of t... More »

Man In The Dark
Paul Auster

$29.95$9.95 (Trade paperback / Faber )

'I am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness.'

So begins Paul Auster's brilliant, devastating novel abo... More »

Novel About My Wife
Emily Perkins

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Bloomsbury )

If I could build her again using words, I would: starting at her long, painted feet and working up, meticulously shading in every cell and gap and space for breath until her pulse just couldn't help but kick back in to l... More »

Life In Seven Mistakes
Susan Johnson

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Bantam Press )

You're pathetic,' her brother said. 'Still bleating about what mummy and daddy did to you when you're almost old enough to retire. Are you still going to be blaming your parents when you're seventy? Life's too short, Liz... More »

The Slap
Christos Tsiolkas

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )

Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize

Winner of the 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction

At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a ... More »

Netherland
Joseph O'Neill

$27.99 (Paperback book / Fourth Estate )

In London, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek hears the news, and remembers his unlikely friendship with Chuck and the off–kilter New York in which it flourished: the New York of 9/11, the powercut and the Iraq war.... More »

A Fraction Of The Whole
Steve Toltz

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

Meet the Deans.

Heroes or criminals?

Crackpots of visionaries?

Relatives or enemies?

It's a simple family story...

From the New South Wales bush to bohemian Paris, from sports fields to strip clubs, from the jungles of T... More »

Julius Winsome
Gerard Donovan

$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 »