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The Stone Key: The Obernewtyn Chronicles Book Five
Isobelle Carmody

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )

Elspeth Gordie leaves Obernewtyn to testify at the trial of a rebel traitor, but instead, she finds herself enmeshed in an invasion. In seeking to thwart it, she is swept into the strangest and most dangerous journey she... More »

The Sleepers Almanac: No. 4
Zoe Dattner and Louise Swinn

$24.95 (Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing )

The Sleepers Almanac: No. 4 is a collection of short stories, with some cartoons and a dash of poetry to boot and showcases new and emerging writers alongside established authors. The fourth Almanac features Steven Carro... More »

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So Far: The Art of Dale Frank 1980-2005
Dale Frank

$199.00 (Hardcover book / Black Inc )

So Far: The Art of Dale Frank 1980-2005 traces a trajectory in the work of Australian artist Dale Frank, considering his early performance artworks of the 1970s and early 1980s and themes that emerged in his work of the ... More »

We Are Now Beginning Our Descent
James Meek

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )

Like the world around him, at the dawn of the twenty-first century Adam Kellas’s life is showing distinct signs of cracking. Against his better judgement, Kellas – spurned by his lover and by the world of letters – accep... More »

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The Dressmaker's Daughter
Kate Llewellyn

$33.00 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )

The Dressmaker's Daughter is a candid and exquisitely crafted account of Kate Llewellyn's life, from her earliest days on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia through to her nursing training, her marriage, life in bohem... More »

Van Diemen's Land: A History
James Boyce

$49.95 (Hardcover book / Black Inc )

Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen’s Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life. In this book James Boyce shows how the convict... More »


The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Maclehose Press )

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family. Harriet’s uncle, Henrik, is convinced that she was murdered by someone in her own family - the deeply... More »

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People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks

$33.00$32.99 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )

When Hanna Heath gets a call in the middle of the night in her Sydney home about a precious medieval manuscript which has been recovered from the smouldering ruins of war–torn Sarajevo, she knows she is on the brink of t... More »

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His Illegal Self
Peter Carey

$45.00$35.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )

His Illegal Self is the story of Che. Raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, he is the precocious son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties. Yearning for his famous Outlaw parents... More »

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Matter
Iain Banks

$35.00 (Trade paperback / Orbit )

In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it mean... More »


Addition
Toni Jordan

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )

Grace Vandenburg orders her world with numbers: how many bananas she buys, how many steps to the café, how many poppy seeds on her daily piece of orange cake.

She always sits at the first available table, starting from ... More »

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They Called Me the Wildman
Robert Hollingworth

$29.95 (Paperback book / Pier )

In 1880, Henricke Nelsen, the mysterious “Wildman of Tallarook” is at last captured after living secretly in the mountains for 14 years. He is tried for vagrancy and sentenced to six months gaol. There he begins a diary ... More »


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