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Climate Code Red: The Case For Emergency Action
David Spratt and Phillip Sutton

$27.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )

In this meticulously documented call-to-action, David Spratt and Philip Sutton reveal extensive scientific evidence that the global warming crisis is far worse than official reports and national governments have indicate... More »

Breath
Tim Winton

$45.00$34.95 (Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton )

Breath is a story about the wildness of youth - the lust for excitement and terror, the determination to be extraordinary, the wounds that heal and those that don't - and about learning to live with its passing.

In his f... More »

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People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks

$33.00 (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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The Boat
Nam Le

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton )

The Boat will take you everywhere.

In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the world.

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The Time We Have Taken
Steven Carroll

$27.99 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )

Winner of the 2008 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

That exotic tribe was us. And the time we have taken, our moment.'

One summer morning in 1970, Peter van Rijn, proprietor of the television and wireless shop, pronounces ... More »

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The Dog on the Tuckerbox
Corinne Fenton and Peter Gouldthorpe

$25.00 (Hardcover book / Black Dog Books )

The Dog on the Tuckerbox is the story of Lady and her master Bill.

It is the story of Australia’s pioneers; the bullockies who worked the rough tracks, and of one dog’s unwavering loyalty to her master. From the award-wi... More »

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The Sea Of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh

$32.99$32.95 (Trade paperback / Hodder Headline )

At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and ... More »

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The Spare Room
Helen Garner

$29.95 (Hardcover book / Text Publishing )

An extraordinary work of fiction from one of Australia's best-selling and most admired writers

Helen prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola, who is flying down from Sydney for a three-week visit. But this is no or... More »

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Eat Pray Love: One Womans Search For Everything
Elizabeth Gilbert

$24.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )

It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love aff... More »

Sea Of Many Returns
Arnold Zable

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )

In Sea of Many Returns, master storyteller Arnold Zable delivers a cavalcade of stories, characters and places. He takes us to the island of Ithaca, the Ionian Sea, Kalgoorlie and Melbourne, as well as Port Said, the Bla... More »

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