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Dream of Ding Village
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
The life and death of an entire community is told by a dead boy. His story reveals the moral vacuum at the heart of Communist-capitalist China. During a blood-contamination scandal in Henan province, villagers sell their... Buy or find out more→
Blue Skies
$29.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
A young wife and mother watches a clock that seems forever stuck at three-in-the-afternoon. Her husband didn't come home last night. She lives for Tuesdays and Thursdays, when she can escape to a less humdrum life. Jonathan, man... Buy or find out more→
One Foot in Eden
$22.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Simon Tofield returns with a charming follow-up to Simon's Cat. Buy or find out more→
Bright And Distant Shores
$29.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Chicago First Equitable is to construct the world's tallest building and its president, Hale Gray, hits upon a way to make it an enduring landmark: to establish on the roof an exhibition of real-life 'savages'. Caught up in this... Buy or find out more→
This Too Shall Pass
$27.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books
Jen Montgomery's life appears, almost suddenly, to be at an impasse. Nothing is as secure or as certain as she had previously thought. Love, marriage, parenthood, family, work, the very fabric of her identity seems to be shifting.... Buy or find out more→
The Summer without Men
$22.99 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division
An exhilarating tragicomedy about the war of the sexes and what makes women tick by the internationally bestselling author Siri Hustvedt. 'Some time after he said the word pause, I went mad and landed in the hospital. He... Buy or find out more→
Fall Girl
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Evolutionary biologist Ella Canfield is seeking funding for a research project to prove that an extinct animal still roams in Australia. Millionaire Daniel Metcalf donates money to offbeat scientific projects. Problem 1: There is... Buy or find out more→
To the End of the Land
$39.95 – Paperback / Vintage
Ora, a middle-aged mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer's release from Israeli army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. In a fit of grief and magical thinking, she sets out for a hike in the... Buy or find out more→
The New Yorker Stories
$44.95 – Hardback / Scribner Book Company
Beattie, a master of the short form, delivers a collection of all the storiesshe has published in The New Yorker. Buy or find out more→
20 Under 40 Stories From The New Yorker
$21.95 – Paperback / Farrar Straus Giroux
In June 2010, the editors of The New Yorker announced their selection of 20 Under 40 --the young fiction writers who are, or will be, central to their generation. Those stories are now collected for the first time in one... Buy or find out more→
Aphrodite's Hat
$30.00 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers
The stories in this long-awaited collection by Salley Vickers all deal with psychological aspects of love: love given and withheld, love craved and lost, love met and disappointed; the differing shades of loves between friends,... Buy or find out more→
Rumpole at Christmas
$22.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Rumpole isn't particularly fond of Christmas - time has a horrible habit of hanging heavily on the hands as the usual rituals are observed. But at least the criminal fraternity never rests, and many is the time Rumpole's... Buy or find out more→
While The Women Are Sleeping
$32.95 – Hardback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
First published in Spain in 1990 as Mientras ellas duermen. Buy or find out more→
A Reliable Wife
$22.99 – Paperback / Hachette Australia
Set in the American Midwest in 1907, A RELIABLE WIFE is the story of Ralph Truitt, a wealthy but lonely man in his fifties who places an ad in the paper for a reliable wife. Buy or find out more→
Djibouti
$33.00 – Paperback / Orion Publishing Co
Elmore Leonard brings his trademark wit and inimitable style to this twisting, gripping - and sometimes playful - tale of modern-day piracy. Buy or find out more→
Best European Fiction
$22.95 – Paperback / Dalkey Archive Press
Best European Fiction is an exhilarating read. --Time Buy or find out more→
Doctor Zhivago
$49.95 – Hardback / Vintage
This title is from the acclaimed translators of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina", a stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, the first since the 1958 original. Banned in the Soviet Union... Buy or find out more→
Rickshaw Boy
$25.00 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers Inc
A beautiful new translation of beloved Chinese author Lao She's masterpiece of social realism, about the misadventures of a poor Beijing rickshaw driver First published in China in 1937, Rickshaw Boy is the story... Buy or find out more→
Tree of Codes
$49.99 – Paperback / Visual Editions Ltd
Tree of Codes, is a haunting new story by best-selling American writer, Jonathan Safran Foer. With a different die-cut on every page, Tree of Codes explores previously unchartered literary territory.... Buy or find out more→
Serena
$22.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
The year is 1929 and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive from Boston in the North Carolina mountains to create a timber empire. Serena is new to the mountains— but she soon proves herself the equal of any... Buy or find out more→
Fortune Cookie
$49.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Australia
The new blockbuster from Bryce Courtenay. Buy or find out more→
Surface Detail
$35.00 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group
The dazzling new Culture novel from a modern master of science fiction - a tour de force of brilliant storytelling, world-building and imagination. Buy or find out more→
A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta
$24.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
'The most gifted, the most prodigal writer of his generation' JONATHAN RABAN Jerry Delfont is a travel writer with writer's block. Lounging in Calcutta one day, he receives a mysterious letter. It comes from an American... Buy or find out more→
Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes
$30.00 – Paperback / Quercus Publishing Plc
In the first of Fame’s nine stories, the technician Ebling whose high point of the week is the Wiener Schnitzel on the office canteen menu, at last succumbs to the blandishments of the mobile phone and through an error is... Buy or find out more→
Mr Shakespeares Bastard
$30.00 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
In a quiet manor house in Oxfordshire, an ailing housekeeper by the name of Aerlene Ward feels the time has come to confess the great secret that has shaped her life -- Buy or find out more→
The Penguin Book of the Ocean
$35.00 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
THE WORLD'S FINEST WRITING ABOUT THE WORLD'S WILDEST PLACE Ever since the first travellers reached the coast of Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago, the ocean has been one of the wellsprings of the human... Buy or find out more→
Nourishment
$33.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
With her children evacuated and her husband at the front, Tory Pace is grudgingly sharing the family home with her irascible mother. As Tory works at the local gelatine factory - doing her bit for the war effort - her mother has... Buy or find out more→
Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore
$30.00 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group
* A brilliant new novel from the author of Singling out the Couples, State of Happiness and Parallel Lies Buy or find out more→
The Man Who Loved Children
$9.95 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
Set in Baltimore in the 1930s, this novel tells of American family life, of the relations between parents and children, husbands and wives. Buy or find out more→
The Man in the Wooden Hat
$24.99 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group
For those of you who loved Gardam’s Old Filth, this is the perfect companion. Old Filth traced the life of Sir Edward Feathers: judge, expat and Raj orphan, whose relationship with his wife, while central to... Buy or find out more→
How it Feels
$23.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
"I had no idea how free we were. That's how free I was." An old friend, a best friend, a first love and the dreamer Neil Cronk who connects them all... Four schoolfriends are on the verge of adulthood and... Buy or find out more→
War Dances
$26.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
With unparalleled insight into the minds of artists, laborers, fathers, husbands, and sons, Alexie populates his stories with ordinary men on the brink of exceptional change. In a bicoastal journey through the consequences of both... Buy or find out more→
Preincarnate
$29.95 – Hardback / Hardie Grant Books
Australia's pre-eminent comic Renaissance man turns his genius to novel writing. Having conquered television, radio, theatre and film, Shaun Micallef smashes his mighty fist onto the keyboard of his soul and produces a novel of... Buy or find out more→
Player One
$34.95 – Paperback / Cornerstone
A real-time five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. It explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion and the afterlife. Buy or find out more→
Interrogative Mood
$24.99 – Hardback / Profile Books Ltd
Are your emotions pure? Are your nerves adjustable? How do you stand in relation to the potato? Should it still be Constantinople? Does a nameless horse make you more nervous or less nervous than a named horse? In your view, do... Buy or find out more→
The Philanthropist
$27.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books
Centres on Charles Bradshaw, an ageing tycoon haunted by past. When he suffers a heart attack, he abruptly retires and announces that he will give his fortune to charity. This leads to conflict with wife and adult children. Buy or find out more→
Walking to Hollywood
$40.00 – Hardback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
An extraordinary triptych in which Self burrows down through the intersections of time, place and psyche to explore some of our deepest fears and anxieties. Walking to Hollywood is an extraordinary triptych in which... Buy or find out more→
Mary Ann in Autumn
$32.95 – Paperback / Transworld Publishers Ltd
The brilliant new episode in the magical Tales of the City series. 'Everything around her was familiar but somehow foreign to her own experience, like a place she had seen in a movie but had never actually visited. She... Buy or find out more→
The Annual Fiction Edition
$24.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Griffith REVIEW’s second annual fiction collection will focus on the Pacific region: from the Americas to Asia, the Pacific islands, New Zealand and Australia. What binds us? What pulls us apart? As economic, political... Buy or find out more→
All Clear
$33.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
In Blackout, Connie Willis returned to the time-travelling future of 2060 and sent three Oxford historians to World War II England. But the three become unexpectedly trapped in 1940. Small discrepancies in the historical record... Buy or find out more→
X'Ed Out
$29.95 – Hardback / Random House USA Inc
From the creator of Black Hole: the first volume of an epic masterpiece of graphic fiction in brilliant color. Doug is having a strange night. A weird buzzing noise on the other side of the wall has woken him up, and... Buy or find out more→
Amandine
$27.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
A sweeping historical drama of love, loss and family. Buy or find out more→
The Empty Family
$30.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
In the nine captivating stories that make up The Empty Family, Colm Toibin delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast adrift from their history. Buy or find out more→
The Plantation
$33.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
When Australian Julie Reagan discovers a book written about wild Malaysia in the 1970s, she decides to find out more about the author - her great aunt. Why did her grandmother refuse to speak about her sister who disappeared from... Buy or find out more→
Somebody to Love
$24.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
A transsexual mortician prepares three bodies for burial at a funeral home. As she works, she reflects on her own life and childhood, and her transformation from man to woman. Her sex change was a step towards finding somebody to... Buy or find out more→
Hand Me Down World
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
A multi-layered story of the search for a lost child from the internationally bestselling author of Mister Pip Buy or find out more→
The Countesses of Castello
$24.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
Three sisters live in three flats in an aristocratic palazzo in Cagliari's ancient Castello quarter, where rich and poor are mixed as they used to be in the old downtown quarter. Around the family and its persistent illusions... Buy or find out more→
A Pure Clear Light
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Simon and Flora Beaufort have three perfect children and a comfortable, happy life in London. When Flora takes the children for a month-long vacation in France, Simon stays home to work on his latest film project … what could... Buy or find out more→
A Darker Music
$32.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
When Mary Lanyon takes on the job of temporary housekeeper at Downe, her task is to get the house back into shape for the wedding of the only son and heir, Martin. When she arrives, however, Mary realises things are not right.... Buy or find out more→
Blossoms and Shadows
$35.00 – Paperback / Hachette Australia
This is the story of the birth of modern Japan, told by Tsuru, a young woman who breaks every stereotype of the Japanese lady. We meet her on the day of her sister s wedding, and soon realise that she will not accept the same... Buy or find out more→
Harbour
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
It was a beautiful winter's day. Anders, his wife and their feisty six-year-old, Maja, set out across the ice of the Swedish archipelago to visit the lighthouse on Gavasten. There was no one around, so they let her go on ahead.... Buy or find out more→
Ape House
$33.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Sam, Bonzi, Lola, Mbongo, Jelani, and Makena are no ordinary apes. These bonobos, like others of their species, are capable of reason and carrying on deep relationships - but, unlike most bonobos, they also know American Sign... Buy or find out more→
Hamlet
$55.00 – Hardback / Allen & Unwin
In this sumptuous staging of Shakespeare's enigmatic play on the page, Nicki Greenberg has created an extraordinary visual feast that sweeps up all in its path as the drama intensifies both on stage and off. Buy or find out more→
Started Early, Took My Dog: (Jackson Brodie)
$32.95 – Paperback / Transworld Publishers Ltd
Started Early, Took My Dog is the fourth novel in the bestselling sequence that started with Case Histories. It again features the beguiling former detective Jackson Brodie, who was also seen in the One Good Turn and When Will... Buy or find out more→
Having Cried Wolf
$24.95 – Paperback / Affirm Press
Small towns harbour secrets. Rising, receding and returning like the tides lapping the fictional coastal town of Kinsale the stories in this collection revolve around Alice and Grace, friends since childhood, who grow to live... Buy or find out more→
Convalescent
$29.95 – Paperback / Hunter Publishers
A story of a small, bearded man who sells meat out of a bus parked next to a stream in suburban Virginia, USA, and also somehow, the story of 10,000 years of Hungarian history. The author makes an unforgettable debut with an... Buy or find out more→
Like Being a Wife
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
Flitting from Sydney to Melbourne, Canberra to California, this loosely linked collection of stories shines a bright fluorescent light on family, friendships, work, love and loss. Buy or find out more→
Night Street
$23.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Night Street is the passionate story of a young painter, Clarice Beckett, who defies society's strict conventions and indifferent art critics alike and leads an intense private and professional life. With her extraordinary talent... Buy or find out more→
Utopian Man
$22.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
An exquisite historical novel about a remarkable man who chose his own path, charming and scandalising others in equal measure. Co-winner of the 2009 Australian/Vogel Literary Award. 'Really impressive, vivid and... Buy or find out more→
The Body in the Clouds
$30.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
The story of one extraordinary moment - a man falling from the sky, and surviving - and of three men who see it, in different ways and different times, as they stand on the same piece of land. An astronomer in the late 1700s, a... Buy or find out more→
Other Stories
$26.95 – Paperback / Black Pepper
Wayne Macauley's Other Stories collects a variety of short fiction that he has published in literary magazines over the past 18 years. Despite the work's lengthy gestation, these stories demonstrate an impressive unity of vision,... Buy or find out more→
Reading Madame Bovary
$32.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
A thrilling collection of stories that deal with transition and transformation. In these riveting stories, characters deal with crises of body and spirit. They find themselves caught between order and chaos, and must face the need... Buy or find out more→
The Accident
$24.00 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
A mysterious accident on a Vienna autobahn when a taxi driver loses control of his vehicle killing both passengers finds that investigation into the deaths mirrors the Balkan conflict. Buy or find out more→
Wildflower Hill
$33.00 – Paperback / Hachette Australia
In 1920s Glasgow, Beattie Blaxland falls pregnant to her married lover Henry just before her nineteenth birthday. Abandoned by her family, Beattie and Henry set sail for a new life in Australia. But life is not about to follow the... Buy or find out more→
Eleven
$30.00 – Paperback / Simon & Schuster Ltd
ONE MOMENT... ELEVEN LIVES... ENDLESS CONSEQUENCES Buy or find out more→
All the Hopeful Lovers
$33.00 – Paperback / Quercus Publishing Plc
A stylish romantic comedy from the BAFTA winning screenwriter of Shadowlands. Belinda, just fifty, wistfully reflects how much better she is at sex now than when she was young and gorgeous, and then discovers to her fury that... Buy or find out more→
Union Atlantic
$30.00 – Paperback / Atlantic Books
The eagerly anticipated debut novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist You Are Not a Stranger Here, Union Atlantic is a deeply affecting portrait of the modern gilded age, the first decade of the 21st century. Buy or find out more→
Lunatic In My Head
$29.95 – Paperback / Hunter Publishers
Set against the backdrop of a small Indian hill town called Shillong, this title is a beautiful lyrical novel about three lives in limbo. A compelling debut by a major new talent, will appeal to readers of Arundhati Roy. Buy or find out more→
Campaign Ruby
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
When she gets the email announcing her redundancy, Ruby Stanhope hopes to maintain the composure expected of your average London investment banker. Instead, the next day's hangover brings unfortunate discoveries. Her impromptu... Buy or find out more→
Mockingjay
$18.99 – Paperback / Scholastic
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge... Buy or find out more→
Comrades
$32.95 – Paperback / Transworld Publishers (Division of Random House Australia)
Sydney University is Australia's pre-eminent finishing school for politicians, and its Students' Representative Council is the nursery where generations of future leaders have cut their first dodgy preference deals and performed... Buy or find out more→
My Sister Chaos
$24.95 – Paperback / Spinifex Press
You will not elude me. I will measure your every dimension, I will trace your smallest lines. I will undo you from the inside. You will feel it like waves running across your floorboards, you will feel it like water rising... Buy or find out more→
The Red Queen
$36.00 – Hardback / Simon & Schuster Ltd
Continuing the tumultuous story of The Cousins War, Philippa tells the tale of a young mother's determined ambition for her son - soon to Henry VII Buy or find out more→
American Subversive: A Novel
$33.00 – Paperback / Simon & Schuster Australia
An extraordinary journey into the dark soul of modern America - from a back-to-the-land community in the Smoky Mountains to a weather underground-like bomb factory in Vermont; from Fishers Island, isolated getaway of the wealthy... Buy or find out more→
Errol, Fidel and the Cuban Rebel Girls
$32.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
Based on true events, Errol, Fidel and the Cuban Rebel Girls recreates one of the 20th century's great untold stories. Cuba, 1959: In the final year of his life, Errol Flynn found time for one last adventure. The dashing... Buy or find out more→
Repeat it Today with Tears
$28.00 – Paperback / Profile Books Ltd
A transgressive love story by a singular new voice. A secretive child by nature, Susanna makes a covert list of everything she knows about her absent father, determined that one day she will find him. Unable and... Buy or find out more→
Savages
$32.95 – Paperback / Cornerstone
A brilliant thriller that pits young, independent marijuana kingpins against a Mexican cartel Part-time environmentalist and philanthropist Ben and his ex-mercenary buddy Chon run an independent Laguna... Buy or find out more→
Ethan Grout
$32.95 – Paperback / Murdoch Books
Ethan Grout realises it's his 27th birthday when he receives a card from the fitness centre he recently quit along with the only job he had ever held. His father's life (and recent funeral) had featured a large cast: but his... Buy or find out more→
Equator: A Novel
$27.95 – Paperback / Fremantle Press
The year is 1947. Carlos slips over the orphanage wall in search of the village girl who has captured his heart. From that moment, his is a life at sea, a life that moves across the globe and across generations. Buy or find out more→
Our Tragic Universe
$29.95 – Paperback / Canongate Books Ltd
If Kelsey Newman's theory about the end of the time is true, we are all going to live forever. But for Meg - locked in a dead-end relationship and with a deadline looming for a book that she can't write - this thought fills her... Buy or find out more→
In the Company of Angels
$33.00 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bernardo Greene is attempting to rebuild his life. Imprisoned and tortured by Pinochet's regime for introducing his students to political poetry, he has arrived at Copenhagen's centre for rehabilitating torture victims at the age... Buy or find out more→
The Mary Smokes Boys
$29.95 – Paperback / Transit Lounge Publishing
Grey's mother dies giving birth to his sister Irene and the tragedy haunts his life in the small town of Mary Smokes. Grey prays that his mother will be returned to him in some form, so he might protect her from the world as his... Buy or find out more→
The Changeling
$40.00 – Hardback / Atlantic Books
The new work from Nobel prize-winner Kenzaburo Oe, The Changeling is an ambitious, sweeping novel about friendship and the distances we are prepared to travel to preserve it. Buy or find out more→
Holy Water
$39.95 – Paperback / UWA Publishing
Henry Tuhoe works for a multinational conglomerate thats begun to outsource everything it can to third world countries. His beautiful wife no longer lets him touch her, even though she demanded he get a vasectomy; and his bright... Buy or find out more→
Death Most Definite
$20.00 – Paperback / Hachette Australia
Steve knew something was wrong as soon as he saw the dead girl in the Wintergarden food court. Nothing new, he saw dead people all the time, but this one was about to save his life...Steve is a necromancer in the family firm,... Buy or find out more→
The Genesis Flaw
$32.95 – Paperback / Murdoch Books
He kicked the leather chair away and instantly the rope snapped tight. His lungs burned and the veins in his face felt close to bursting. His brown eyes bulged as if in surprise. Which, of course, it wasn't. He had to die:... Buy or find out more→
The Complete Cosmicomics
$26.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
'If you have never read Cosmicomics, you have before you the most joyful reading experience of your life' Salman Rushdie The Cosmicomics tell the story of the history of the universe, from the big bang, through millennia... Buy or find out more→
Family Album
$24.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
'Ridiculously readable. Lively displays an economy and elegance that put younger writers to shame' Sunday Telegraph Allersmead is a big shabby Victorian suburban house. The perfect place to grow up for elegant Sandra,... Buy or find out more→
The Delta
$33.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
After a failed assassination attempt on the president of Zimbabwe, ex-soldier turned mercenary Sonja Kurtz is on the run and heads for her only place of refuge, the Okavango Delta in the heart of Botswana. Where she came to find... Buy or find out more→
The Vintage and the Gleaning
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
The Vintage and the Gleaning is set in a winemaking town in the north-east of Victoria, close to the Murray River. Smithy is a retired shearer turned vineyard worker who has recently been forced to give up drinking... Buy or find out more→
Rocks in the Belly
$32.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
The story of an eight-year-old boy and the adult he becomes. When he is young his mother fosters boys, despite the jealous turmoil it arouses in her son. At twenty-eight, the son returns to face his mother, who is now chronically... Buy or find out more→
Good Daughter
$32.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
In the small town of Kiona, Rebecca Toyer and Zach Kincaid come from very different sides of the track. When Zach's wealthy mother goes missing, Rebecca finds herself the centre of attention and an important piece of the puzzle.... Buy or find out more→
The Fortunes of Ruby White
$30.00 – Paperback / Simon & Schuster Australia
Ruby White has burnt her bridges. She has no job, no direction in life, and just enough money to last a month. if she eats only rice and her cat catches his own meals. When her best friend, Anise, holds a dress-up party, Ruby... Buy or find out more→
After America
$33.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
Does this New America, and its gun-shy President, have the strength of will to destroy the past in order to save the future? Buy or find out more→
Animal Kingdom
$19.95 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
Everything sits in the order somewhere. Things survive because they're strong and everything reaches an understanding. But not everything survives because it's strong. Some creatures are weak. Armed... Buy or find out more→
The Radleys
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
From one of Britain's finest young novelists comes a razor-sharp unpicking of adulthood and family life. Buy or find out more→
The Fable of All Our Lives
$33.00 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Tait has just been released from a psychiatric institution. He has received a grant to write poetry and is eager to settle into a routine but has come to perceive the world as a scene of struggle. As Tait becomes immersed in his... Buy or find out more→
And This is True
$33.00 – Hardback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division
'I kissed my father once, when he was sleeping.' Nevis Gow is fifteen. For eleven years he has lived in a van with his father Marshall, travelling the country. They don't need people or school or jobs. All they need is... Buy or find out more→
Inheritance
$34.95 – Paperback / Vintage
Andy Larkham is late. He is due at the funeral of his favourite school teacher. It's especially hard for Andy - stuck in a dead-end job, terminally short of cash and with a fiancee who is about to ditch him. When the funeral leads... Buy or find out more→
Ilustrado
$32.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
ILUSTRADO opens with Crispin Salvador, lion of Philippine letters, dead in the Hudson River. Buy or find out more→
Milk Fever
$32.95 – Paperback / Murdoch Books
Julia Heath is experiencing a tree-change nightmare; a dismal country town with no decent coffee, a yoga teacher husband who ishaving an affair with the butcher's wife and slowly sending them bankrupt, a mother-in-law coming to... Buy or find out more→
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
$32.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
Explores life's rich silences in relationships both acknowledged and covert, and in the unspoken, often treacherous dynamics of families. The stories plumb the depths of love, loss and hope. They are luminous, wise and unerringly... Buy or find out more→
The Passage
$35.00 – Paperback / Orion Publishing Co
First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a... Buy or find out more→
Menagerie of False Truths
$33.00 – Paperback / Exisle Publishing (Australia)
Art, relationships and a profound appreciation of the natural world collide in this utterly compelling account of two families. From the outset Cherry and Jack share an unspoken bond, and in learning to understand each other, they... Buy or find out more→
Light Boxes
$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
February is persecuting the townspeople. It has been winter for more than three hundred days. All forms of flight are banned and the children have started to disappear. The priests hang ominous sheets of parchment on the trees,... Buy or find out more→
Known Unknowns
$24.95 – Paperback / Affirm Press
With sharp, insightful prose that illuminates the frailty of human relationships, Known Unknowns is an arresting collection that marks the arrival an exciting new literary talent. Emmett Stinson is an American who moved to... Buy or find out more→
Singularity
$32.95 – Paperback / Random House New Zealand Ltd
Charlotte Grimshaw's collection of interlinked stories, Opportunity, was shortlisted for the 2007 Frank O'Connor International Prize, and won New Zealand's premier award for fiction, the 2008 Montana Book Award. She has... Buy or find out more→
Roddy Parr
$33.00 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Roddy Parr has just completed his PhD on the legendary David Anthem, a writer tipped to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature. He joins the Anthem household as David's secretary. Soon Roddy is indispensable, and finds his new... Buy or find out more→
The Pleasure Seekers
$30.00 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Zadie Smith meets Rohinton Mistry in this sparkling debut about family, belonging and the binding power of love. It all started in August 1968 when Babo, with curly hair and jhill mill teeth, became the first member of... Buy or find out more→
New And Rediscovered
$29.95 – Paperback / Transit Lounge Publishing
For the first time New and Rediscovered makes available some of the legendary Australian writers previously unpublished writing and drawings alongside a comprehensive selection of her published poetry and prose.Vicki Viidikas work... Buy or find out more→
Imperial Bedrooms
$33.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
Less Than Zero successfully chronicled the frightening consequences of unmitigated hedonism within the ranks of the ethically bereft youth of 80s Los Angeles. Now, many years later, this book returns to those same characters: to... Buy or find out more→
Imperfect Birds
$24.95 – Paperback / UWA Publishing
Rosie Ferguson is seventeen and ready to enjoy the summer before her senior year of high school. She's intelligent; athletic and beautiful. She is, in short, everything her mother, Elizabeth, hoped she could be. But as the school... Buy or find out more→
Making News
$32.95 – Paperback / Murdoch Books
'The photo was clearly sexual, all skin and limbs. It was a CCTV image, which looked to be from security footage. Lucas leaned forward to read the accompanying paragraph. Within half a sentence it was as though a foot had... Buy or find out more→
Android Karenina
$17.95 – Paperback / Quirk Books
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Winters is back with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Tolstoy, and the result is an enhanced edition of the classic love story set in a dystopian world of... Buy or find out more→
The Pindar Diamond
$33.00 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The stunning new historical novel from the author of The Aviary Gate. Venice, 1604. When rumours of a spectacularly rare and priceless diamond begin to circulate amongst the gamblers and courtesans of the... Buy or find out more→
The Canterbury Tales
$26.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
The Canterbury Tales is a major part of England's literary heritage. From the exuberant Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the Miller's worldly, ribald farce, these tales can be taken as a mirror of fourteenth-century London.... Buy or find out more→
The Dead Fish Museum
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
The author delivers eight short stories full of characters who floate through their lives and relationships, adrift and apprehensive, tested by failure and strengthened by adversity. Buy or find out more→
Freeing Grace
$33.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Warm, insightful and poignant, Freeing Grace tells the story of David, curate of an inner-city parish, and Leila, his Nigerian-born wife. Unable to have children of their own, they're desperate for a family. When they finally hear... Buy or find out more→
Kindling
$25.00 – Paperback / Hachette Australia
Nate Monk is Kieran's father. He's a single parent of a 'differently wired' child, a talented musician who once stood on the cusp of success and a man resigned to a pragmatic life of responsibility over opportunity. Both share the... Buy or find out more→
Houdini's Flight
$25.00 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Terry Voulos is struggling. His marriage, his relationship with his son and his work prospects are shaky. He finds solace in the possibility of a new career as a magician, before a tragic accident sends him into exile. Hal... Buy or find out more→
The Truth About Love
$25.00 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group
* Now in paperback, the exciting new novel from the bestselling author of DAMAGE, which received stunning reviews: 'An exhilarating adventure in language; the words throw up sparks of strange beauty ... A brave novel GUARDIAN Buy or find out more→
The Privileges
$24.99 – Paperback / Constable and Robinson
A lyrical novel about the ways wealth can change and fortify a family over time, forcing them to re-examine what really matters. Buy or find out more→
Blueeyedboy
$36.95 – Paperback / Transworld Publishers Ltd
A novel that tells a tale of a poisonously dysfunctional family, a blind child prodigy, and a serial murderer who is not who he seems. Buy or find out more→
The Rapture
$23.00 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
An environmental disaster movie of a thriller, from the celebrated author of The Ninth Life of Louis Drax. In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds, Gabrielle Fox's main concern is a personal... Buy or find out more→
Men of Bad Character
$32.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
Do you ever really know the man you love? When Rose's eighteen-year relationship ends in the most shocking and unexpected way, she emerges from years of what she thought was a loving relationship and realises the extent... Buy or find out more→
The Lonely Polygamist
$32.95 – Paperback / Vintage
From the author of the legendary novel The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, a highly anticipated new novel about the American Family writ large. Golden Richards, husband to four wives, father to twenty-eight children, is... Buy or find out more→
Then Came the Evening
$33.00 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bandy Dorner, home from Vietnam, awakes with his car mired in a canal, his home reduced to ashes, and his pregnant wife preparing to leave town with her lover. Within moments, a cop lies bleeding in the road. Nearly two decades... Buy or find out more→
The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge
$30.00 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
From the vineyards of Southern France to the gabled houses of Lubeck, through cathedrals, opera houses, museums and the cobbled streets of an Alpine village, this literary thriller is a metaphysical mystery of astonishing verve... Buy or find out more→
Sustenance
$39.95 – Paperback / UWA Publishing
In a small hotel on an island renowned for its hospitality and beauty, the Balinese staff and their Western guests are taken hostage. The event has a different impact on each person, but all will view life differently from this... Buy or find out more→
Five Wounds
$40.00 – Hardback / Allen & Unwin
Inspired by Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Uncanny X-Men, this surreal, darkly beautiful and unsettling graphic novel about five wounded orphans is by turns hilarious and horrific, grotesque... Buy or find out more→
The Ask
$30.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
When Milo Burke, a 'donations' officer at a university, has a disastrous run-in with a rich undergraduate, he winds up unemployed. Grasping at odd jobs to support his wife and young son, he's offered one last chance: he must reel... Buy or find out more→
The Crime of Huey Dunstan
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
A young man stands in the dock accused of murder. A brutal murder, apparently motiveless. When Professor Chesney, a psychologist specialising in trauma, is called as an expert witness, he is at first baffled. This... Buy or find out more→
Both Ways is the Only Way I Want it
$27.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
A love-struck young ranch hand, an aging Argentine lover, a trusted confidante who isn't a friend and two hitchhikers named Bonnie and Clyde. Caught between opposing forces—fidelity and desire, impulse and security,... Buy or find out more→
Nowhere Man
$33.00 – Hardback / Pantera Press
Wealthy stock trader Michael Hunt is a secretive man with a past he's not even shared with Sonya, his university professor wife. But Sonya is forced to start piecing it together when Michael suddenly goes missing, leaving her with... Buy or find out more→
The Grand Hotel
$32.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
Robbed of his zest for life by the absurd innovations of the local shire, including knocking down the only pub in his beloved home town over a section of the creek to protect bathers from the rain. Artist, Noel Lea exiles himself... Buy or find out more→
Monsters Of Men Chaos Walking Book Three
$32.95 – Hardback / Walker Books Ltd
War, says the Mayor. At last. Three armies have marched on New Prentisstown, each one intent on destroying the others. And Todd and Viola are caught in the middle of it all. As the battles commence, can they hope to stop all-out... Buy or find out more→
Little Hands Clapping
$29.95 – Hardback / Canongate Books Ltd
The darkest, most twisted novel yet from the author of Timoleon Vieta Comes Home Buy or find out more→
Prague
$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
Five American expats come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune - financial, romantic, and spiritual - in an exotic city newly opened to the West. They hope to find adventure, inspiration, a gold rush, or history in... Buy or find out more→
Hotel Iris
$32.95 – Paperback / Vintage
A dark and beautifully written story of a young girl's tragic love triangle with an older man and his young nephew In a crumbling, sea-side hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet, seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk... Buy or find out more→
Book Of Lost Threads
$28.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Moss has run away from Melbourne to Opportunity on the trail of a man she knows only by name. But her arrival sets in train events that disturb the long-held secrets of three of the town's inhabitants: Finn, Lily, and Sandy. It is... Buy or find out more→
Killing Richard Dawson
$25.00 – Paperback / Pantera Press
A darkly comic, slow burn thriller, where reality is blurred and nothing can be taken for granted. All about love, friendship, booze, morality, death and a generation's casual dissatisfaction with modern life, where sometimes... Buy or find out more→
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
$25.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
From the creator of the international bestseller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies comes the untold (vampire-hunting) history of the Great US Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln. Buy or find out more→
The Beast of the Camargue: A Commandant Michel De Palma Investigation
$25.00 – Paperback / Quercus Publishing Plc
Commandant Michel de Palma is confronted by a series of unexplained deaths, all bearing the grisly hallmarks of an ancient myth. Buy or find out more→
Leaving Suzie Pye
$27.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Joe has had a great life, untroubled by career or monogamy. He's convinced that whatever he is doing, he'd still really rather be having sex - if only middle age hadn't made it so hard to find a woman who will share his... Buy or find out more→
The Daylight and the Dust: Selected Short Stories
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
Written over four decades and including all of her best stories, this new selection illustrates Janet Frame's dazzling versatility. Her themes range from childhood, to old age, death and beyond. Some stories are firmly rooted in... Buy or find out more→
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
$32.95 – Hardback / Text Publishing Co
Part novel, part history, part fairytale, this title offers a radical take on the myths and the mysteries of the Gospels, and the genesis of church that has so shaped the course of the last two millennia. Buy or find out more→
The Carrie Diaries
$25.00 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers
Meet Carrie Bradshaw before 'Sex and the City!' Buy or find out more→
The Vulture
$23.95 – Paperback / Canongate Books Ltd
A hip and fast-moving thriller Buy or find out more→
Match Fixer
$19.95 – Paperback / Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd
Match fixing is destroying The Beautiful Game in Asia, and corruption has spread its tentacles into 'squeaky-clean' Singapore. Feeding off the insatiable gambling habits of the local population, illegal football betting has... Buy or find out more→
The Tulip Virus
$33.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
The murder of a wealthy financier in modern-day London sets Alec, the man's nephew, on a desperate race for the truth that leads back to the death of a respected tulip trader in 17th-century Holland. Buy or find out more→
The Best of Rudyard Kipling: Jungle Book / The Second Jungle Book / Kim
$30.00 – Hardback / Allen & Unwin
There can be few people who have not heard of Rudyard Kipling's classic Jungle Book. Both of Kipling's volumes of Jungle Book stories feature in this massive omnibus edition along with his other Indian classic, Kim. Buy or find out more→