The Boat
Nam Le

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton )

The Boat will take you everywhere.

In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the world.

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American Journeys
Don Watson

$49.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )

Only in America, the most powerful democracy on earth, home to the best and worst of everything, are the most extreme contradictions possible. In a series of journeys in 2005 and 2006, acclaimed author Don Watson set out... More »

On Rage
Germaine Greer

$19.95 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )

Germaine Greer's passionate and powerfully worded essay about Aboriginal rage is a provocation that will cause heated and intense debate.

MUP's new series Little Books on Big Themes pairs leading Australian thinkers and ... More »

When You Are Engulfed In Flames
David Sedaris

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Little Brown )

Sedaris, king of the poignantly absurd, triumphs in this sixth essay collection (after 2004's Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim). There is less focus here on the Sedaris clan as a whole, though the various members ... More »

Stray Dog Winter
David Francis

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )

A searing story of a young man's search for his own family truths set against the relentlessly cold, cruel and stark realities of early 80s Soviet Russia.

Enthralling, atmospheric and suspenseful, Stray Dog Winter is at ... More »

The Lost Dog
Michelle de Kretser

$23.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )

Whatever the linguistic equivalent of perfect pitch may be, she has it - Sunday Telegraph (UK)



The Lost Dog is the extraordinary new novel by the acclaimed writer Michelle de Kretser. Her first novel, The Rose Grower, w... More »

When Will There Be Good News?
Kate Atkinson

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Doubleday )

The third Jackson Brodie novel by the bestselling author of Case Histories and One Good Turn.

In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime.

Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is r... More »

On Experience
David Malouf

$19.95 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )

In this beautifully written, eloquent piece, David Malouf explores the connections between writing and the imagination and offers wonderful insights into his own experiences of the writer's life.

MUP's new series Little ... More »

The Whisperers: Private Life In Stalin's Russia
Orlando Figes

$29.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

This is the story of the lives of ordinary people in Stalin's Russia: a world where everyone was afraid to talk and a society spoke in whispers, whether to protect friends and family - or to betray them. Where a junior w... More »

The General: CHERUB Book Ten
Robert Muchamore

$17.99 (Paperback book / Hodder Headline )

Riots, robbery & the biggest ever training exercise.

The world's largest urban warfare training compound stands in the desert near Las Vegas. Forty British commandos are being hunted by an entire American batallion. More »