Carlton Bestsellers 2008 April
Portrait Of Australia
$45.00 (Hardcover book / New Holland Pub )
This pictorial celebration of Australia includes state by state coverage of all Australia's most famous tourist sites. Images of the vast country are woven together with photographs that capture the country's scenic dive... More »
The Spare Room
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Text Publishing )
An extraordinary work of fiction from one of Australia's best-selling and most admired writers
Helen prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola, who is flying down from Sydney for a three-week visit. But this is no or... More »
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At The Winds Hand
$25.00 (Paperback book / Ginninderra Press )
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The Sacrifice
$35.00 (Paperback book / Arena )
As the world spins out of control into World War II, Robert and his family wrestle with the challenges it presents. Robert offers his apartment to German-Jewish refugees, Artie intends to join up as soon as the fighting ... More »
Melbourne City Guide
$12.95 (Paperback book / )
Wallpaper City Guides not only suggest where to stay, eat, and drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he or she has a week or just 24 hours in the city. The guides feature up-and-c... More »
The Good Parents
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Vintage )
Maya de Jong, an eighteen-year-old country girl from the West, comes to live in Melbourne and starts an affair with her boss, the enigmatic Maynard Flynn, whose wife is dying of cancer. When Maya's parents, Toni and Jaco... More »
American Journeys
$49.95$29.95 (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 »
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The Brain That Changes Itself
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, e... More »
The Girl Of His Dreams
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Heinemann )
As Commissario Guido Brunetti watches his mother buried, he takes some solace in the cloud dappled sky, the tops of the Venetian cypress trees, moving gently in the spring breezes. As ever, his wife Paola is at his side.... More »
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Dread of Death
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
Written in Irvin Yalom’s inimitable story-telling style, Staring at the Sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality.
In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of work and personal ex... More »