Melbourne Writers Festival 2012
Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World
$35.00 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers
An entertaining biography of Charles Dickens by one of our finest actors Acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles Dickens in a sparkling biography that explores the central importance of the... Buy or find out more→
The Forrests
$29.99 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the very... Buy or find out more→
The Snow Child
$19.99 – Paperback / Headline Publishing Group
A magical novel with a distinctly grown-up sensibility, THE SNOW CHILD will appeal to fans of imaginative reading group fiction, such as THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, THE LOVELY BONES and THE BOOK THIEF. A bewitching tale of... Buy or find out more→
Gold
$33.00 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division
The extraordinary new novel from the author of international bestseller THE OTHER HAND. Buy or find out more→
Dirt
$29.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
The year is 1985 and twenty-two-year-old Galen lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded old house with a walnut orchard in a suburb of Sacramento, California. He yearns for transformation. But he's powerless to... Buy or find out more→
A Perfectly Good Man
$27.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
The apparent serenity of parish life in Pendeen and Morvah is disturbed when 20-year-old Lenny Barnes takes his own life in the presence of Father Barnaby Thomas, the charismatic, indefatigable local priest, whose enduring... Buy or find out more→
Silver: Return to Treasure Island
$29.95 – Paperback / Vintage
In marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Young Jim spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries, running errands for his father and listening to his stories in the... Buy or find out more→
Beasts of No Nation
$19.99 – Paperback / John Murray General Publishing Division
A stunning novel about a child-soldier in Africa that introduces a brilliant young writer. Agu is just a boy when war arrives at his village. His mother and sister are rescued by the UN, while he and his father remain... Buy or find out more→
Until Thy Wrath be Past: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation
$32.99 – Paperback / Quercus Publishing Plc
It is the first thaw of spring and the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Thorne in the far north of Sweden. Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby Karuna. Her sleep has been disturbed by haunting... Buy or find out more→
Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East
$29.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
Read our Q&A with Benjamin Law about Gasyia here. Benjamin Law considers himself pretty lucky to live... Buy or find out more→
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession
$21.95 – Paperback / Vintage Books USA
Acclaimed New Yorker writer and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z offers a collection of spellbinding short stories. Throughout, Grann's hypnotic accounts display the power--and often the willful... Buy or find out more→
The Engagement
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
The gripping, provocative new novel by the acclaimed author of The Tall Man and A Child's Book of True Crime. Liese Campbell has an engagement for the weekend: to stay with Alexander Colquhoun, the... Buy or find out more→
Nine Days
$29.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Read our Q&A with Toni Jordan about Nine Days here. It is 1939 and although Australia is about to go... Buy or find out more→
Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
At fourteen, Richard Holloway left his working-class home north of Glasgow and travelled hundreds of miles to an English monastery to be trained for the priesthood. By twenty-five, he had been ordained and was working in the... Buy or find out more→
Fishing for Tigers
$29.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
Six years ago, Mischa Reese left her abusive husband and suffocating life in California and reinvented herself in steamy, chaotic Hanoi. In Vietnam, she finds satisfying work and enjoys a life of relative luxury and personal... Buy or find out more→
Running Dogs
$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
Jakarta, 1997, and the city is on the verge of a revolution. Even the Jordan children -- Petra, Isaak, Kristina, and Paul -- can feel it coming, shaking the edges of their privileged, protected expat world. Buy or find out more→
My Hundred Lovers
$27.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Lyrical and exquisite, My Hundred Lovers captures the sheer wonder of life, desire and love. A woman, on the eve of her fiftieth birthday, reflects on her days with one hundred scenes from a life adding up to a simple human... Buy or find out more→
The Cook
$29.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Read Wayne Macauley's interview with Ben Pobjie about The Cook. Power through service, says Head... Buy or find out more→
The Street Sweeper
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
Read our Q&A with Elliot Perlman on The Street Sweeper. How breathtakingly close we are... Buy or find out more→
Animal People
$30.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
'He could not find one single more word to say. I just want to be free. He could not say those words. They had already withered in his mind, turned to dust. Buy or find out more→
A Tiger in Eden
$22.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Read our Q&A with Chris Flynn about A Tiger in Eden. Beautiful beaches, sexy young backpackers, cheap... Buy or find out more→
Mateship with Birds
$19.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
On the outskirts of an Australian country town in the 1950s, a lonely farmer trains his binoculars on a family of kookaburras that roost in a tree near his house. Harry observes the kookaburras through a year of feast, famine,... Buy or find out more→
The Mountain
$32.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
Read Drusilla Modjeska's interview with Geordie Williamson about The... Buy or find out more→
The Fine Colour of Rust
$24.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
Read our Q&A with Paddy O'Reilly about The Fine Colour of Rust. Single mother and dreamer... Buy or find out more→
How Did You Get This Number
$20.00 – Paperback / Granta Books
What happens when the minibus full of your fellow wedding travellers hits a bear in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness? Or you hear the voice of your high school’s long lost queen bee from a bathroom cubicle? For Sloane... Buy or find out more→
I Was Told Thered Be Cake Essays
$24.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
From accidentally despoiling an exhibit at the Museum of Natural History to baking a cookie in the shape of her boss's face to win her approval, Sloane Crossley can do no right. Buy or find out more→
The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon
$20.00 – Paperback / Simon & Schuster Ltd
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a... Buy or find out more→
Tarcutta Wake
$19.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
This collection announces the arrival of an exciting new talent in Australian fiction In short vignettes and longer stories, Rowe explores the idea of things that are left behind: souvenirs and scars, or memories, values and... Buy or find out more→
Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
$24.95 – Paperback / Princeton University Press
In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Historically, the humanities have been central to education... Buy or find out more→
The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen
$32.95 – Hardback / WW Norton & Co
In this landmark work, a leading philosopher demonstrates the revolutionary power of honor in ending human suffering. Buy or find out more→
Swallow
$23.00 – Paperback / Interlink Books
A new novel from the winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature It is the mid-1980s in Lagos, Nigeria, and the government's War against Indiscipline is in full operation. Amid poverty and tight rules and... Buy or find out more→
Blood
$22.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
Read our Q&A with Tony Birch on Blood ‘Many of us have known for a long time what a wonderful storyteller... Buy or find out more→
The Marmalade Files
$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
An imaginative romp through the dark underbelly of politics by two veteran Canberra insiders.When seasoned newshound Harry Dunkley is slipped a compromising photograph one frosty Canberra dawn he knows he's onto something... Buy or find out more→
Beneath the Darkening Sky
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
Read Alice Pung's interview with Majok Tulba, author of Beneath The Darkening... Buy or find out more→
Legend of a Suicide
$24.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a .44 magnum to his head and kills himself on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that moment, gripped by its memory... Buy or find out more→
First Australians: An Illustrated History
$30.00 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
THE COMPANION BOOK TO THE AFI AWARD-WINNING TELEVISION SERIES, NOW IN PAPERBACK First Australians is the dramatic story of the collision of two worlds that created contemporary Australia. Told from the perspective of... Buy or find out more→
Silence
$24.99 – Paperback / Murdoch Books
A collection 'fictions' by one of Australia's finest writers. Winner of the Miles Franklin Award twice. Buy or find out more→
The Wreckage
$19.99 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group
Set in the turbulent aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, The Wreckage pits Vincent Ruiz against powerful agents who will stop at nothing to bury secrets. In London, ex-cop Vincent Ruiz rescues a young woman from... Buy or find out more→
As I Was Saying
$27.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
As I Was Saying is a swirling conversation with the reader on everything from travel to dogs and cats, from sport and swearing to the pleasures of idleness. Punctuated at regular intervals by talks Dessaix has given on a wide... Buy or find out more→
The Younger Man
$29.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
When Abby enjoys a memorable night with a delicious 22-year-old, she easily waves him out of her life the next morning. She doesn't have time for these sorts of distractions. And he's only 22, after all! A child. But the... Buy or find out more→
History Of Books
$26.95 – Paperback / Giramondo Publishing Co
This new work by Gerald Murnane is a fictionalised autobiography told in thirty sections, each of which begins with the memory of a book that has left an image on the writer's mind. The titles aren't given but the reader... Buy or find out more→
Caribou Island
$24.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Gary and Irene's marriage is unraveling. Soon they are hauling logs out to Caribou Island to build a cabin, and with each trip their desperation escalatesthe punishing desolation of the prehistoric wilderness threatening to push... Buy or find out more→
The Second World War
$49.99 – Hardback / Orion Publishing Co
A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian. The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six... Buy or find out more→