Commonwealth Writers' Prize Winners
Mister Pip
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
Matilda lives on an island somewhere in the Pacific-but this is no paradise. Civil war is a fact of life, though at first the village is largely left alone by the soldiers and the rebel fighters. The school is closed but... More »
Secret River
$45.00 (Hardcover book / Text Publishing )
After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is sentenced in 1806 to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children in tow, he... More »
Small Island
$32.95 (Paperback book / Hodder Headline )
Reviewed by Rt. Hon. Paul Boateng MP Andrea Levy in Small Island brilliantly captures a world before the Race Relations Act and multiculturalism. A mastery of dialogue and capacity to capture mood and place makes this no... More »
A Distant Shore
$25.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Commonwealth Writers Prize 2004 Winner Judges' comments: 'This book speaks to our age and its entropy. The story moves with the converging lives of a middle-aged Midlands woman, declining into bewilderment, and an "illeg... More »
The Polished Hoe
$50.00 (Hardcover book / Amistad Press )
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Gould's Book Of Fish
$24.95 (Paperback book / Picador )
Winner of the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize Winner of the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction - Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2002 *"Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living t... More »
True History Of The Kelly Gang
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
With Ned Kelly as narrator, this is the heart-rending story of a young boy growing up in the grinding poverty of colonial Victoria and of a young man defiantly resisting the wealth and power of those who wish to destroy ... More »
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Eucalyptus
$32.90 (Hardcover book / Text Publishing )
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Jack Maggs
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda returns to the nineteenth century in an utterly captivating mystery. The year is 1837 and a stranger is prowling London. He is Jack Maggs, an illegal returnee from the... More »
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A Fine Balance
$63.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from ... More »
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A Suitable Boy
$29.99 (Paperback book / Phoenix House )
Vikram Seth's novel is at its core a love story, a tale of Lata - and her mother's attempts to find a suitable boy, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set in post-Independence India and involving the li... More »
The Ancestor Game
$23.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
A wonderful novel of stunning intricacy and great beauty.' - Michael Ondaatje The Ancestor Game, which Robert Dessaix described as 'one of the most engrossing books I've read in a long time', is an enthralling journey in... More »
Such A Long Journey
$22.95 (Paperback book / Faber )
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The Carpathians
$9.95 (Paperback book / George Braziller )
What happens when the town of Puamahara begins to profit from its legend and the astronomers discovering the Gravity Star predict an unthinkable future? Mattina Brecon, a New Yorker, arrives in Kowhai Street, Puamahara, ... More »