July 2008 Fiction
Evening Is The Whole Day
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )
Set in Malaysia, this spellbinding first novel introduces us to the prosperous Rajasekharan family as it slowly peels away its closely guarded secrets.
When the family's rubber–plantation servant girl is dismissed for un... More »
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The Writing Class
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
A darkly comic novel about a writing class with a killer in its midst.
Amy Gallup is a reclusive widow whose only bright spot is the evening writing class that she teaches at the university. This semester’s class is full... More »
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Self Help: A Novel
$23.00 (Paperback book / Picador )
When Gabriel and Isabella Glover return to St Petersburg they are grief-stricken: their mother has died there suddenly, and alone. In the snowbound city of their childhood they must confront not only their family's troub... More »
One Foot Wrong
$24.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
A child is imprisoned in a house by her reclusive religious parents. Hester has never seen the outside world; her companions are Cat, Spoon, Door, Handle, Broom, and they all speak to her. Her imagination is informed by ... More »
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The Sea Of Poppies
$32.99 (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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Walking To The Moon
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
A woman wakes from a coma, its cause unknown.
She refuses to see her family; she does not say why.
Slowly, almost reluctantly, she becomes stronger.
Now she will walk.
Where?
Walking to the Moon, Kate Cole-Adams' enthral... More »
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The Forgotten Garden
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )
A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, an aristocratic family, a love denied, a mystery - The Forgotten Garden is a captivating, atmospheric and compulsively readable story of the past, secrets, f... More »
Netherland
$27.99 (Paperback book / Fourth Estate )
In London, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek hears the news, and remembers his unlikely friendship with Chuck and the off–kilter New York in which it flourished: the New York of 9/11, the powercut and the Iraq war.... More »
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Deaf Sentence
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Harvill )
When the university merged his Department of English with Linguistics, professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not enjoying it. He misses the purposeful routine of the academic year, and has lost his app... More »
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Atmospheric Disturbances
$38.95 (Hardcover book / Farrar Straus & Giro )
When Dr. Leo Liebenstein’s wife disappears, she leaves behind a single, confounding clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves exactly like her—oralmost exactly like her—and even audaciously claims to be her. While ever... More »
Garden Of Last Days
$32.95$27.95 (Trade paperback / Heinemann )
One early September night in Florida, a young woman brings her daughter to work. April's usual babysitter is in the hospital, so she decides it's best to have her three-year-old daughter close by, watching children's vid... More »
Beijing Coma
$32.95$27.95 (Trade paperback / Chatto & Windus )
Dai Wei is a medical student and a pro-democracy protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989. Caught by a soldier's bullet, he falls into a deep coma; as soon as the hospital authorities discover he is an activist, his mo... More »
The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
Wise, inspiring and brilliantly compelling, this is an unforgettable debut novel
At fifty, Pippa Lee seems just fine. The devoted wife of a brilliant publisher thirty years her senior, the proud mother of successful twin... More »
The Unbearable Lightness Of Scones
$34.95$29.95 (Hardcover book / Polygon Press )
The story of Bertie and his dysfunctional family continues in this fifth instalment, alongside the familiar cast of favourites – Big Lou, Domenica, Angus Lordie, Cyril and others – in their daily pursuit of a little happ... More »
The Last Cavalier: Being The Adventures Of Count Sainte Hermine In The Age Of Napoleon
$25.00 (Paperback book / Harper Perennial )
The last cavalier is Count de Sainte–Hermine, Hector, whose elder brothers and father have fought and died for the Royalist cause during the French Revolution. For three years Hector has been languishing in prison when, ... More »
The Lighted Rooms
$33.00 (Trade paperback / Weidenfeld And Nicolson )
Joan McAllistair is about to embark on the 'Trip of a Lifetime' with her daughter Eloise; a journey back to her childhood South Africa and the family homestead in the old Boer Republic of the Orange Free State. For Elois... More »
The Secret Scripture
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Faber )
Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up ... More »
The Story Of A Marriage
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Faber )
It is 1953, and America is still haunted by the war. Pearlie and Holland live quietly with their son in San Francisco, with a barkless dog in a vine-covered house. Apart from Holland's elderly aunts, the family have no r... More »
For You: A Libretto
$14.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Charles Frieth, preeminent composer, conductor and prodigious womaniser, is preparing for a performance of one of his early works, and the world premiere of Demonic Aubade. Obstinate and myopic, he is oblivious to the gr... More »
Air Kisses
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Michael Joseph )
If the devil wears Prada, then God wears La Mer.
Hanna Atkins - the girl most likely to be sporting an unblended foundations, orange wrists or a wobbly trail of eyeliner - has bluffed her way into a position of beauty ed... More »
Loving Frank
$24.99 (Paperback book / Hachette Livre )
“Loving Frank,” an enthralling first novel by Nancy Horan, is set at the same time as Doctorow’s modern classic — the decade before World War I — and recreates its weld of fact and fiction, wrapped around the core theme ... More »