May 2008 Books
Taking Pictures
$32.95$16.95 (Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape )
The stories in Taking Pictures are snapshots of the body in trouble: in denial, in extremis, in love. Mapping the messy connections between people - and their failures to connect - the characters are captured in the grai... More »
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The Dog Of Marriage: Collected Stories
$35.00 (Hardcover book / Quercus )
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The Longest Decade
$29.95 (Paperback book / Scribe Publications )
Revised and updated edition.
Before the 1990s, the decades in Australia used to run to a predictable script of bust, boom, and bust. They’d commence with the economy in the pits, assume the personality of the good times ... More »
Story Of Forgetting
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Faber )
At seventy, Abel Haggard is a hermit, resigned to memories of the family he has lost, living in isolation on his family's farm amid the encroaching suburban sprawl of Dallas. Hundreds of miles to the south in suburban Au... More »
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Risk: The Science And Politics Of Fear
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
We are the safest and healthiest human beings who ever lived, and yet irrational fear is growing, with deadly consequences — such as the 1,595 Americans killed when they made the mistake of switching from planes to cars ... More »
Do Travel Writers Go To Hell?
$29.95$24.95 (Paperback book / Pier 9 )
Hired in 2004 to contribute to Lonely Planet’s Brazil guidebook, Thomas Kohnstamm fled his Wall Street job to pursue his dream of being a travel writer. Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? is the story of the adventure that ... More »
Bloodletting And Miraculous Cures
$28.00 (Paperback book / Fourth Estate )
In this beautifully written collection, Vincent Lam weaves together black humour, investigations of both common and extraordinary moral dilemmas, and a sometimes shockingly realistic portrait of today's medical professio... More »
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Voluptuous Delights Of Peanut Butter And Jam
$30.00 (Trade paperback / Virago )
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Same Earth
$33.00 (Trade paperback / Weidenfeld And Nicolson )
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Unaccustomed Earth
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Bloomsbury )
Winner of the 2008 Frank O'Connor Award.
Beginning in America, and spilling back over memories and
generations to India, Unaccustomed Earth follows new lives
forged in the wake of loss.
These are stories in which deeply... More »
Remember Me
$27.95 (Trade paperback / Hodder Headline )
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The White Tiger
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Atlantic Books )
Winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, brea... More »
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The Freedom On The Fatal Shore: Australia's First Colony 1788-1884
$36.95 (Trade paperback / Black Inc )
Freedom on the Fatal Shore brings together John Hirst’s two books on the early history of New South Wales.
Both are classic accounts which have had a profound effect on the understanding of our history. They also have ... More »
The Conviction Of Richard Nixon: The Untold Story Of The Frost/Nixon Interviews
$24.95 (Paperback book / Scribe Publications )
The Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the office of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel on June 17, 1971, and ended when President Gerald Ford granted Richard M. Nixon a pardon on September ... More »
A Deadly Business
$27.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
Jack Susko is trying for a quiet life in his second-hand bookshop in downtown Sydney. It’s more tin mine than gold mine, yet it’s his and that’s something. But when a wealthy businessman hires Jack to locate some books f... More »
Funny Boys
$27.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
Since the fame attending the publication and film of Warren Adler’s The War of the Roses, Adler has been chronicling the American experience in novels and screenplays. Now, with Funny Boys, Adler takes on the New York ... More »
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Mawson: Life and Death in Antarctica
$39.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
In Mawson: Life and Death in Antarctica, explorer Tim Jarvis relives Sir Douglas Mawson's extraordinary polar survival journey of 1912–13. Battling against ferocious blizzards and headwinds, Jarvis struggles to overcome ... More »
A Good Death
$32.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
A Good Death is Rodney Syme's extraordinarily candid and controversial account of the many terminally ill people who he has assisted to end their lives. Over the last 30 years Syme, at first clandestinely and now publicl... More »
A Family History Of Smoking
$32.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
A Family History of Smoking is a compelling memoir about two European families living through the last gasps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. From great-grandfather David, who saw his family's fortunes decline with the gr... More »
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Sweet Sorrow: A Beginner's Guide To Death
$32.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
With Mark as our guide, we are introduced to morticians and embalmers, rabbis and doctors, coffin makers and gravediggers. He reveals the fashions and the fads, the rituals and the deep emotion in a heartfelt and whimsic... More »
Remembered Gardens
$24.95 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )
Elizabeth Macarthur sailed into the fledgling settlement of New South Wales in 1790, after an horrific voyage from England. As a comfort and a way to evoke home in this distant and foreign land, Elizabeth set about to cr... More »
Market Versus Nature: The Social Philosophy Of Friedrich Hayek
$34.95 (Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub )
In his path-breaking report on global warming, Sir Nicholas Stern said that ‘climate change is the greatest market failure the world has ever seen’.
This book argues that to meet the global warming crisis we need to ... More »
Plaster And Paint: John Colquhoun Orthopaedic Surgeon And Hispatient Joyce Mcgrath Portrait Painter
$39.95 (Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub )
Two lives preserved in a biography: John Colquhoun, orthopaedic surgeon, and Joyce McGrath, Arts librarian and portrait painter. John’s life began in Scotland with the gifts of intellect and mastery. He was robust yet ge... More »
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Summer In The Hills Nineteenth Century Mountain Resort In Australia
$44.00 (Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub )
Australia’s colonial gentry found it fashionable to summer in the hills. Mountain resorts at Mount Macedon in Victoria, at Toowoomba in Queensland and in the Blue Mountains and Southern Highlands of New South Wales and t... More »
Art And Time
$34.95 (Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub )
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Centre Of The Periphery: Three European Art Historians In Melbourne
$39.95 (Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub )
This is a ‘rich and highly complex’ story of intricate cultural interactions between émigré scholars, refugee artists and Australian cultural elites, where the ‘outsiders’ transmitted innovative doctrines and principles ... More »
Profiles In Courage: Political Actors And Ideas In Contemporary Asia
$39.95 (Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub )
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Refugees And Rebels: Indonesian Exiles In Wartime Australia
$39.95 (Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub )
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Musk And Byrne
$24.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
Jemma Musk is settling into her new home in the bustling goldfields town of Wombat Hill, wanting to establish herself as a painter and an independent woman. But word has gone out that she saw a young girl brush with deat... More »
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Steele Diaries
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Vintage )
'It's as if I am slowly sinking in the water, just occasionally making it back to the top for a gulp of air - to a sort of memory of what life can be - what life SHOULD be - and then down down down I go again. And each t... More »
Bryson's Dictionary For Writers And Editors
$45.00$19.95 (Hardcover book / Doubleday )
From one of America's most beloved and bestselling authors, a wonderfully useful and readable guide to the problems of the English language most commonly encountered by editors and writers.
What is the difference between... More »
The Piazzas Of Florence
$34.95$29.95 (Hardcover book / Pier 9 )
Artist Lisa McGarry has captured the essence of her adopted city of Florence through an intimate exploration of twelve of her favourite piazzas, from the Piazza del Duomo to the Piazza Pitti that sits outside her front d... More »
The Lucy Family Alphabet
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )
Judith Lucy has been cracking jokes about her parents for years. But when a birth relative's casual comment implied that she despised them, Judith was shocked. Sure, she had been talking about Ann and Tony Lucy like they... More »
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The End Of Charity
$26.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
Nic Frances is a social entrepreneur. He once ran the Brotherhood of St Laurance. This is the story of how he came to understand that charity can never deliver a just and sustainable world. It is only through a value-cen... More »