Commonwealth Writers' Prize Winners
Mister Pip
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
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 then... Buy or find out more→
A Distant Shore
$19.95 – Paperback / 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 "illegal" who... Buy or find out more→
The True History of the Kelly Gang
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
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... Buy or find out more→
Disgrace
$19.95 – Paperback / 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 save his... Buy or find out more→
Jack Maggs
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
The year is 1837 and a stranger is prowling London. He is Jack Maggs, an illegal returnee from the prison island of Australia. He has the demeanor of a savage and the skills of a hardened criminal, and he is risking his life on... Buy or find out more→
Salt
$24.95 – Paperback / Faber and Faber
Salt is an extraordinary tour de force by one of the pre-eminent literary presences in the Caribbean, a novel which explores like none before it the intermingling of cultures that is the contemporary West Indian... Buy or find out more→
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
$19.95 – Paperback / 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
$24.99 – Paperback / Orion Publishing Co
The classic Number One bestseller from award-winning author Vikram Seth. Buy or find out more→
The Ancestor Game
$22.99 – Paperback / 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... Buy or find out more→