Commonwealth Writers' Prize, South East Asia and Pacific, 2010 Shortlist
Look Who's Morphing
$24.95 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
This is a collection of brilliant stories about transformation, with the storyteller and his family shifting through identities drawn from comics, video games, daytime TV, porn flicks and movies, in fantasies of sexual a... Buy or find out more →
Parrot and Olivier in America
$49.95$29.95 – Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton
Short listed for the American Book Award.
Olivier is a young aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer, wanted to be an artist but ... Buy or find out more →
The Ice Age
$27.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
A teenage girl is in the passenger seat; the driver is an older man. As they criss-cross America, destined for who knows where, she watches him and wants…what he is, what he has. She sees the black looks and knowing smil... Buy or find out more →
Document Z
$23.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A masterful, taut and atmospheric novel of political espionage and intrigue, telling the story of the Petrov defection during the Cold War of the 1950s. Winner of the 2008 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award.
Evdokia kne... Buy or find out more →
After The Fire, A Still Small Voice
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Following the breakdown of a turbulent relationship, Frank moves from Canberra to a shack on the east coast once owned by his grandparents. There, among the sugar cane and sand dunes, he struggles to rebuild his life.
Fo... Buy or find out more →
A Good Land
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Margo has lived in the old apartment block in Beirut for as long as her friend Layla can remember. But before this life here, everything was very different. Married to a pilot who would be killed whilst flying over Germa... Buy or find out more →
Siddon Rock
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
When Macha Connor came home from the war she walked into town as naked as the day she was born, except for well-worn and shining boots, a dusty slouch hat, and the .303 rifle she held across her waist.' Macha patrols Sid... Buy or find out more →
Come Inside
$24.95 – Paperback book / Clouds Of Magellan
Winner of the 2011 Barbara Jefferis Award
A ship is wrecked in 1887 near the small country town of Colego. The sea throws up one troubled survivor who claims to know only her name.
Glenys Osborne's compelling first novel... Buy or find out more →
The People's Train
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
A novel adventuring between the pre-WWI Russian enclave in Brisbane and Tsarist Russia.
Artem Samsurov, a charismatic protege of Lenin and an ardent socialist, reaches sanctuary in Australia after escaping his Siberian l... Buy or find out more →
Summertime
$39.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
Completing the majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with Boyhood and Youth.
A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years from 1972 - 1977 w... Buy or find out more →