D-Day: The Battle For Normandy
Antony Beevor

$59.95 (Hardcover book / Viking )

Even Stalin was awed by D-Day.

'In the whole history of war,' he wrote to Churchill, 'there has never been such an undertaking.' Those who took part in the great cross-Channel invasion, whether soldier, sailor or airman,... More »

The House In Via Manno
Milena Agus

$24.95 (Paperback book / Scribe Publications )

Translated by Brigid Maher.

Zerilli-Marimò Prize for Italian Fiction 2008

‘But what do we really know about other people?’

In this magical, jewel-like novel, a young Sardinian woman explores the life of her Nonna — ... More »

Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout

$22.99 (Paperback book / Pocket Books )

Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town ... More »

Gomorrah: Italy's Other Mafia
Roberto Saviano

$24.99 (Paperback book / Pan Macmillan )

Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities, the author has received so many death threats from the Camorra that he has been assigned police protection. Known by insiders as the System, the Camorra, ... More »

The Women In Black
Madeleine St John

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )

Written by a superb novelist of contemporary manners, The Women in Black is a fairytale which illuminates the extraordinariness of ordinary lives. The women in black are run off their feet, what with the Christmas rush a... More »

The Writing On My Forehead
Nafisa Haji

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )

Nafisa Haji is an American Muslim of Indo-Pakistani descent. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she now lives in Northern California with her husband and son. She is currently working on her second novel. Khaled Hosseini, a... More »

The Help
Kathryn Stockett

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Fig Tree )

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step in Kathryn Stockett's New York Times bestselling debut, The Help.

Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may h... More »

The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins

$18.99 (Paperback book / Scholastic )

Winner of the 2009 Silver Inky Award for international teenage fiction.

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to... More »

Still Alice
Lisa Genova

$24.95 (Paperback book / Simon & Schuster )

Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. A Harvard professor, she has a successful husband and three grown children.

When she begins to grow forgetful, she dismisses it for as long as she can, but ... More »

The Astonishing Life Of Octavian Nothing: The Kingdom On The Waves: Volume Two
M.T. Anderson

$29.95 (Hardcover book / Walker Books )

A fascinating portrait of betrayal - part gothic tale, part historical fiction - set against the backdrop of tragedy, slavery and war.

In the second volume of "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing", Octavian and Doct... More »

Things We Didn't See Coming
Steven Amsterdam

$24.95 (Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing )

It’s the anxious eve of the millennium. The car is packed to capacity, and as midnight approaches, a family flees the city in a fit of panic and paranoid, conflicting emotions.

The ensuing journey spans decades and off... More »

Someone Knows My Name
Lawrence Hill

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )

Winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize

The abolitionists say they have brought me to England to help them change the course of history. Well. We shall see about that. But if I have lived this long, it must be for... More »

The Slap
Christos Tsiolkas

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )

Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize

Winner of the 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction

At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a ... More »

The Gone-Away World
Nick Harkaway

$44.95 (Trade paperback / Heinemann )

Gonzo Lubitsch and the narrator of THE GONE-AWAY WORLD have travelled a long way together since their childhood-meeting in the park sandpit. They were close, and then not so close, and then literally wrenched apart. And ... More »

The Knife Of Never Letting Go: Chaos Walking Book One
Patrick Ness

$29.95 (Hardcover book / Walker Books )

Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town full of men, a town where everyone can hear your thoughts and Todd finds out he doesn't fit in with the town's plans as he approaches the birthday that will make him a man. The town ... More »

In Defence Of Food: The Myth Of Nutrition and The Pleasures Of Eating
Michael Pollan

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen Lane )

What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, the well-consider... More »