Bestselling Books from MWF Week One
Things We Didn't See Coming
$24.95 – Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing
It’s the anxious eve of the millennium. The car is packed to capacity, and as midnight approaches, a family flees the city in a fit of panic and paranoid, conflicting emotions.
The ensuing journey spans decades and off... Buy or find out more →
Guilt About The Past
$26.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
From the author of the international bestselling novel The Reader
Just as Bernhard Schlink's bestselling novels, The Reader and Homecoming, tackle the burden of German guilt about events during the Second World War, so t... Buy or find out more →
The Winter Vault
$32.99$14.95 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
Egypt, 1964. The great temple at Abu Simbel must be rescued from the rising waters of the Aswan dam. Block by block it is to be dismantled and resurrected sixty metres higher. This most delicate and daunting of tasks is ... Buy or find out more →
The Lost Mother: A Story of Art and Love
$34.99$15.95 – Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press
After her mother's death in 2005, Anne Summers inherits a portrait of her mother as a child. Mesmerised by this image, she finds herself drawn into the story of how the portrait was painted and eventually found its way i... Buy or find out more →
The Lieutenant
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Lieutenant Daniel Rooke, a brilliant young astronomer, sails on the First Fleet full of hope and ambition. New South Wales is a land waiting for scientific discovery: this is where he will make his mark.
He sets up an ob... Buy or find out more →
D-Day: The Battle For Normandy
$59.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
Even Stalin was awed by D-Day.
'In the whole history of war,' he wrote to Churchill, 'there has never been such an undertaking.' Those who took part in the great cross-Channel invasion, whether soldier, sailor or airman,... Buy or find out more →
The Horse Boy: A Father's Quest To Heal His Son
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
When his son Rowan was diagnosed with autism Rupert Isaacson was devastated, fearing he would never be able to communicate with his child. Then two things happened. Rowan made an unlikely connection with a group of visit... Buy or find out more →
Murder In Amsterdam: The Death Of Theo Van Gogh And The Limits Of Tolerance
$24.95 – Paperback book / Atlantic Books
It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaa... Buy or find out more →
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
War in the post-9/11 world is far different from what we expected it be. Counterinsurgency and protracted guerrilla warfare, not shock and awe, are the order of the day. David Kilcullen is the world’s foremost expert on ... Buy or find out more →