Best Fiction 2008
Taking Pictures
$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... Buy or find out more →
The Knife Of Never Letting Go: Chaos Walking Book One
$0.00 – 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 ... Buy or find out more →
The Believers
$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... Buy or find out more →
Breath
$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 ... Buy or find out more →
People of the Book
$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... Buy or find out more →
Man In The Dark
$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... Buy or find out more →
Novel About My Wife
$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... Buy or find out more →
Life In Seven Mistakes
$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... Buy or find out more →
Netherland
$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.... Buy or find out more →
A Fraction Of The Whole
$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... Buy or find out more →
Julius Winsome
$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 ... Buy or find out more →