Literary Prize Winners
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
$27.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
This astonishing, brilliantly written book brings us to places we could otherwise never go as it unfolds a riveting contemporary drama: a group of remarkable people striving to better their lives, in an age of bewildering global... Buy or find out more→
The Round House
$38.95 – Hardback / Harper
One Sunday in the summer of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to reveal the details of what... Buy or find out more→
Bring Up the Bodies
$32.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
The sequel to the Man Booker-winning Wolf Hall. Buy or find out more→
Foal's Bread
$33.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Winner of the 2012 PM's Literary Award for Fiction Read our Q&A with Gillian Mears about... Buy or find out more→
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia
$39.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Buy or find out more→
The Amateur Science of Love
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
They say we fall in love. But really we fall in sickness. I lost appetite for food in those two nights with Tilda. My stomach was sunken in its wishbone cavity. Me, I was never sick, but I was sick now, the strangest... Buy or find out more→
All That I Am
$22.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
An award-winning author delivers an affecting and beautifully evocative debut novel, set in 1930's Europe and based on a true story, about a group of young German exiles who risk their lives to awaken the world to the terrifying... Buy or find out more→
1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia
$29.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
In 1835 an illegal squatter camp was established on the banks of the Yarra River. In defiance of authorities in London and Sydney, Tasmanian speculators began sending men and sheep across Bass Strait - and so changed the shape of... Buy or find out more→
Past the Shallows
$26.99 – Paperback / Hachette Australia
Harry and Miles live with their father, an abalone fisherman, on the south-east coast of Tasmania. With their mum dead, they are left to look after themselves. When Miles isn't helping out on the boat they explore the coast and... Buy or find out more→
The Song of Achilles
$19.95 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A breathtakingly original rendering of the Trojan War - a devastating love story and a tale of gods and kings, immortal fame and the human heart Buy or find out more→
Even the Dogs
$19.95 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
From the Booker-nominated author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things and So Many Ways to Begin Buy or find out more→
A Monster Calls
$16.95 – Paperback / Walker Books Ltd
Winner of the 2012 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals This is an extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss. The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn't the... Buy or find out more→
Five Bells
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
Four adults converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Crowds of tourists mix with the locals, enjoying the glorious surroundings and the play of light on water. But each of the four... Buy or find out more→
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
$29.99 – Paperback / Orion Publishing Co
Winner of the 2012 Frank O'Conner Short Story Award. These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great... Buy or find out more→
Chinaman
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
Winner of the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize. Retired sportswriter WG Karunasena is dying. He will spend his final months drinking arrack, making his wife unhappy, ignoring his son and tracking down... Buy or find out more→
Pale King
$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
The character David Foster Wallace is introduced to the banal world of the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, and the host of strange people who work there, in a novel that was unfinished at the time of the... Buy or find out more→
Train Dreams: A Novella
$17.95 – Paperback / St Martin's Press
Finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. Robert Grainer is a day laborer in... Buy or find out more→
Swamplandia!
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
Finalist in the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (“How... Buy or find out more→
The Testament of Jessie Lamb
$19.95 – Paperback / Sandstone Press Ltd
Winner of the 2012 Arthur C. Clarke Award. Longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize. Women are dying in their millions. Some blame scientists, some see the hand of God, some see... Buy or find out more→
Me and Mr Booker
$22.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Looking back, Martha could've said no when Mr Booker first tried to kiss her. But Martha is sixteen, she lives in a small dull town - a cemetery with lights - her father is mad, her home is stifling, and she's waiting for the rest... Buy or find out more→
Eleven Seasons
$29.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award winner 2012. Some guys are good at school and telling jokes or they have the latest stuff. Others are cricketers and basketball players: they can do things with the... Buy or find out more→