Commonwealth Writers' Prize Winners
Mister Pip
$0.00 – 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... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out more →
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 th... Buy or find out more →
True History Of The Kelly Gang
$24.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Winner of the 2001 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
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 t... Buy or find out more →
Disgrace
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities, he is expected to apologise and repent in an effort to s... Buy or find out more →
Jack Maggs
$24.95$19.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
A Fine Balance
$63.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
For use in schools and libraries only. In mid-1970s India, after a "state of internal emergency" is declared, four diverse people--a widowed seamstress, a student, and a man and his nephew who have fled their village--fi... Buy or find out more →
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
$19.95 – 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 ... Buy or find out more →
A Suitable Boy
$29.99 – Paperback book / Phoenix House
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize 1994.
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 ... Buy or find out more →
The Ancestor Game
$23.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Winner of the 1993 Miles Frankling Literary Award.
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... Buy or find out more →
Such A Long Journey
$22.95 – Paperback book / Faber
Such a Long Journey is set in (what was then) Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh, telling the story of the peculiar way in which the conflict impinges on the lives o... Buy or find out more →
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, ... Buy or find out more →