March 2008 Books
The Sorrows Of An American
$33.00 (Trade paperback / Sceptre )
After their father's funeral, Erik and Inga Davidsen find a cryptic letter from a woman among his papers, dating from his adolescence in rural Minnesota during the Depression. Returning to his psychiatric practice in New...
A Partisan's Daughter
$32.95$27.95 (Trade paperback / Harvill )
Set in North London during the Winter of Discontent, A Partisan's Daughter features the relationship between Chris, an unhappily-married, middle-aged Englishman and Roza, a young Serbian woman who has recently moved to L...
I Peed On Fellini
$34.95$29.95 (Trade paperback / Heinemann )
I Peed On Fellini, the long-awaited memoir from legendary film critic David Stratton, is an honest, funny and thoroughly entertaining journey through a remarkable life in film.
Passionate since boyhood about the cinema, ...
Holding Up The Sky: An African Life
$34.95$29.95 (Paperback book / Pier 9 )
This astonishing autobiographical work is the story of Australian woman Sandy Blackburn-Wright’s complex love affair with Africa and its people. Sandy lived in and worked in South Africa for 15 years. witnessing some of ...
The Clothes On Their Backs
$33.00 (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 ...
Now You See Him
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
In this suspenseful and beautifully written novel, the deaths of Rob and his girlfriend unleash a series of unexpected revelations in the lives of those around them, an unravelling that drives the narrative of Now You Se...
Desert Queen: The Many Lives And Loves Of Daisy Bates
$33.00 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )
In the 1890s, when most women were content to marry well and raise families, Daisy Bates, an Irish–born, former charity–case orphan, reinvented herself from governess to heiress to anthropologist. She would become one of...
Wartime Notebooks
$39.95 (Paperback book / Quercus )
Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelists of post-war France. She owed her success to her obstinacy to be and remain herself, come what may and at whatever cost to her own person. This previousl...
A Fraction of the Whole
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton )
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...
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Socialist Crosses the Line
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen Lane )
Gang Leader for a Day is a gripping journey of discovery about life on the wrong side of the tracks.
When naïve sociology student Sudhir Venakatesh went to find out more about urban poverty in Chicago , the last thing he...
Murder On The Apricot Coast
$21.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
After the murder, suspense and corruption that plagued the beginning of their relationship in The Apricot Colonel, Cassandra and the colonel are relieved to be happily ensconced in newly wedded bliss. Not for long though...
Princesses and Pornstars: Sex, Power, Identity
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
What's it like being a young woman today? Feminists won the equal rights war back in the 70s, and young women today have it so much easier than their mothers, right? Wrong, argues Emily Maguire.
Society today is most com...
The Comfort Of Figs
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr )
As a burgeoning city emerges from its landscape, so too does a bridge that will transform it from a sleepy country town. Three young men work on the construction of this iconic steel bridge. Labouring high above the rive...
Births Deaths Marriages
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
It wasn't until years later that I realized the obvious - the difference between us and the mythical normal family I was certain existed, was in fact the fiction. There is always so much more and it swims, shimmering ben...
Consumed
$24.95 (Paperback book / Abc Books )
Amelia wants to be the best cook in the world. But being the best cook is not just about preparing the perfect bean dish or cooking a steak so that it melts in your mouth, it's about struggle and learning. Amelia befrien...
The Landscape Of Desire
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
Several months have passed since the legendary explorers Burke and Wills disappeared into the desert and their whereabouts remain a mystery. Now, a search party has assembled to rescue them. Meanwhile, two other men are ...
The Solemn Lantern Maker
$26.95 (Paperback book / Pier )
Ten-year-old Noland, a mute lantern maker, imagines that he sees an angel falling from the sky to the slums where he lives. But it’s only an American tourist who is caught in a drive-by shooting of a political journalist...
Shades Of The Sublime And Beautiful
$24.95 (Paperback book / Freemantle Press )
The new collection by acclaimed local poet John Kinsella contemplates the aesthetic and the transcendent, examining both the natural and the artificial. From the soothing aesthetics of shape and form through to what cons...
Age Of Shiva
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Bloomsbury )
India, 1955: as the scars of Paritition are just beginning to heal, in Ramjas College, Delhi, seventeen-year-old Meera is enraptured. In a spotlight, a handsome young man, Dev, is singing a song that is redolent with a l...
The Cellist Of Sarajevo
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
Sarajevo: a city under siege. As the mortars fall and the snipers conduct their deadly chess manoeuvres, a cellist sits at his window. The piece he plays, Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor, is all that restores his hope, at l...
The Australian Game Of Football
$89.95 (Hardcover book / Geoff Slattery )
The Australian Game Of Football is a book to enjoy and share with all lovers of Australian history and sport. The birth of the game we know as Australian Rules took place through the middle months of 1858. Produced to ma...
Tamarisk Row
$27.95 (Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing )
Gerald Murnane is widely recognised as one of our country’s most significant literary figures – but only one of his novels, The Plains, is available. Until now. For the first time in 20 years, his masterful first nov...
Twenty Fragments Of A Ravenous Youth
$32.95$27.95 (Trade paperback / Chatto & Windus )
So I was the 6787th person in Beijing wanting to act in the film and TV industry. There were 6786 young and beautiful, or ugly and old people before me trying to get a role. I felt the competition, but compared with 1.6 ...
The Postman: A Novel
$18.95 (Paperback book / W W Norton )
Reissue of the 1985 novel, made it a hit film in 1994
Brick Lane
$24.95 (Paperback book / Black Swan )
Monica Ali caused a worldwide literary sensation with her debut novel, Brick Lane, now a major film. Nineteen-year-old Nazneen exchanges her Bangladeshi village home for a block of flats in London’s East End following he...
Day
$49.95 (Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape )
In 1949 Alfred Day returns to the war he fought in as a young gunner. He returns as an extra in a movie about a German POW camp; to relive his own experiences as a prisoner of war but his perspicacity is dimming. Alfred ...
Tree Of Smoke
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Picador )
This extraordinary Vietnam war novel is something like Apocalypse Now on paper – sometimes taut, sometimes rambling, often unhinged. The characters include novice CIA man Skip Sands; his Kurtz-like uncle; two brothers wh...
A Convergence Of Birds
$26.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
Jonathan Safran Foer has long had a passion for the work of the twentieth-century American assemblage artist Joseph Cornell. Inspired by Cornell s avian-themed boxes, and suspecting that they would be similarly inspiring...
The Natural Disorder Of Things
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Maclehose Press )
This is a literary thriller torn from grief and vengeance, a tale of an all-consuming erotic obsession and a mediation on fathers and the traces they leave on their children. Claudio Fratta is a garden designer and a nat...
October
$28.00 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
Jim Hillyer is 74, a retired Canadian professor of Victorian literature. His eldest daughter, Susan, has just been diagnosed with cancer. Her mother died of the disease, and father and daughter both know too well what a ...
I Am America And So Can You
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
From Stephen Colbert, the host of television’s highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book I Am America (And So Can You!) which contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn’t have time to shoehorn...
The Brain That Changes Itself
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, e...
Staring At The Sun: Overcoming The Dread Of Death
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
Written in Irvin Yalom’s inimitable story-telling style, Staring at the Sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality.
In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of work and personal ex...
Syrup
$24.95 (Paperback book / Scribe Publications )
Scat is young, confused, underemployed, and in Los Angeles. So when he comes up with the idea for the hottest new cola ever, he’s sure he’ll retire as the next overnight sensation. But in the treacherous waters of corpor...