Man Booker Prize Longlist 2008
The Secret Scripture
$23.99 (Paperback book / Faber )
Roseanne McNulty, perhaps nearing her one-hundredth birthday - no one is quite sure - faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for cl... More »
A Case Of Exploding Mangoes
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
A superb debut novel centred around the assassination of the Pakistani dictator General Zia. Mohammed will be appearing at the Sydney Writers' Festival. One of the most important Pakistani novels of recent times, unputdo... More »
Sea Of Poppies
$24.99 (Paperback book / 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 Enchantress Of Florence
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
The magnificent new novel by the winner of the 'Booker of Bookers'.
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell’Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, th... More »
The Lost Dog
$23.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
Whatever the linguistic equivalent of perfect pitch may be, she
has it - Sunday Telegraph (UK)
The Lost Dog is the extraordinary new novel by the acclaimed
writer Michelle de Kretser. Her first novel, The Rose
Grower, w... More »
Netherland
$24.99 (Paperback book / Harper Perennial )
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 »
The Northern Clemency
$27.99 (Paperback book / Harper Perennial )
Beginning in 1974 and ending with the fading of Thatcher′s government in 1996, THE NORTHERN CLEMENCYis Philip Hensher′s epic portrait of an entire era, a novel concerned with the lives of ordinary people and history on t... More »
The White Tiger
$24.95 (Paperback book / Atlantic Books )
Winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer. Balram was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the son of a ricksha... More »
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The Clothes On Their Backs
$0.00 (Trade paperback / Virago )
In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in ... More »
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A Fraction Of The Whole
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
Meet the Deans.
Heroes or criminals?
Crackpots of visionaries?
Relatives or enemies?
It's a simple family story...
From the New South Wales bush to bohemian Paris, from sports fields to strip clubs, from the jungles of T... More »
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From A To X: Some Letters Recuperated By John Berger
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Verso )
In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida's letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and of its motley... More »