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Mister Pip
Lloyd Jones

$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
Andrea Levy

$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
Caryl Phillips

$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
Richard Flanagan

$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
Peter Carey

$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
J. M. Coetzee

$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
Peter Carey

$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
Rohinton Mistry

$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
Louis de Bernieres

$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
Vikram Seth

$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
Alex Miller

$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
Rohinton Mistry

$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
Janet Frame

$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 


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