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Five Bells
Gail Jones

$29.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage

An exquisite and moving new novel from this master storyteller.

On a radiant day in Sydney, four adults converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Crowds of tourists mix with... Buy or find out more 


Franklin And Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage
Hazel Rowley

$36.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press

Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt’s marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since thei... Buy or find out more 



Jamie's 30 Minute Meals
Jamie Oliver

$49.95 – Hardcover book / Michael Joseph

I'm going to show you how to put a whole meal on the table in 30 minutes flat! Not just one dish, a whole spread of beautiful things.

If, like me, you love food, and have hungry mouths to feed when you get home after a l... Buy or find out more 


The King's Speech
Mark Logue and Peter Conradi

$29.95 – Paperback book / Quercus

The King's Speech book forms the basis of a major motion picture starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham-Carter. One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century amazingly he ... Buy or find out more 



The Finkler Question
Howard Jacobson

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury

Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

Funny, furious, unflinching - an extraordinary novel from the award-winning giant of literature, Howard Jacobson.

Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disap... Buy or find out more 


Hand Me Down World
Lloyd Jones

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing

A woman washes ashore in Sicily. She has come from north Africa to find her son, taken from her when he was just days old by his father and stolen away to Berlin. With nothing but her maid’s uniform and a knife stashed i... Buy or find out more 



The Glass Room
Simon Mawer

$24.99 – Paperback book / Little Brown

Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession and the fear of failure - these are things that happen in the Glass Room. High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landaue... Buy or find out more 


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Freedom
Jonathan Franzen

$32.95$14.95 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins

Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul -- the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbour who could tell you where to r... Buy or find out more 



Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother
Amy Chua

$29.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury

Witty, entertaining and provocative, this is a unique and important memoir that will transform your perspective of parenting forever.

A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids.... Buy or find out more 


Bird Cloud
Annie Proulx

$27.99 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate

′Bird Cloud′ is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and 400 foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in th... Buy or find out more 



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