MIFF Books 2012
Dead Europe
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
Powerful and shocking, Dead Europe is an exploration of what lies beneath Europe's cosmopolitan and progressive veneer - a brutal and cynical reality that is bursting at the seems with its hatreds and prejudices.... Buy or find out more→
On the Road
$19.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and... Buy or find out more→
On the Road
$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a... Buy or find out more→
Bad Debts
$22.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Melbourne in winter. Rain. Wind. Pubs. Beer. Sex. Corruption. Murder. A phone message from ex-client Danny McKillop doesn’t ring any bells for Jack Irish. Life is hard enough without having to dredge up old problems: his... Buy or find out more→
Black Tide
$22.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Black Tide has been made into a tele-movie starring Guy Pearce as Jack Irish and will be screened on the ABC in August 2012. Jack Irish has no shortage of friends. Jockeys and journos, lawyers and standover men, people... Buy or find out more→
Wuthering Heights
$9.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere . . . As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering Heights. It is a place he will never forget. There he will... Buy or find out more→
Easy Money
$28.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
From one of Sweden's most successful criminal defense lawyers--and one of the country's youngest bestselling authors--comes an unflinchingly raw and suspenseful novel about three men caught up in the twisted justice that rules in... Buy or find out more→
The Rings of Saturn
$12.95 – Paperback / Vintage
A record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia. Buy or find out more→
Pierre: Or the Ambiguities
$9.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
'Ambiguities indeed! One long brain-muddling, soul-bewildering ambiguity (to borrow Mr. Melville's style), like Melchisedeck, without beginning or end-a labyrinth without a clue - an Irish bog without so much as a Jacko 'the'... Buy or find out more→
The Abominable Man
$20.00 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
The seventh book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s -- the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing. Buy or find out more→
The Suicide Shop
$19.99 – Paperback / Gallic Books
With the twenty-first century just a distant memory and the world in environmental chaos, many people have lost the will to live. And business is brisk at The Suicide Shop. Run by the Tuvache family for generations, the shop... Buy or find out more→
Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House USA Inc
Set in eastern Borneo during the 1880s, Almayer's Folley recreates the conflicts of imperial Europe with the colonised East Indies through Joseph Conrad's story of Kaspar Almayer's personal tragedy: his loss of both his... Buy or find out more→
Chicken with Plums
$35.00 – Hardback / Vintage
In November, 1955, Nasser Ali Khan, one of Iran's most celebrated tar players, is in search of a new instrument. His beloved tar has been broken. But no matter what tar he tries, none of them sound right. Brokenhearted, Nasser... Buy or find out more→
Crime and Punishment
$9.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond... Buy or find out more→
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings
$9.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
A selection of Edgar Allen Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry that demonstrates his intense interest in aesthetic issues, and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the... Buy or find out more→
Faust, Part II
$9.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the beautiful Helen of Troy, as well as the classical gods. Faust falls in love with and marries Helen, embodying for Goethe his... Buy or find out more→
Faust Part One
$9.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
A major new translation of one of the greatest dramatic-poetic works in all of German literature A magnificent drama shaped by themes of redemption and salvation, Faust is the magnum opus of Goethe,... Buy or find out more→
Charles Dickens: A Life
$22.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
The tumultuous life of England's greatest novelist, beautifully rendered by an unparalleled literary biographer. Charles Dickens: A Life gives full measure to Dickens' heroic stature--his huge virtues both as a writer and as a... Buy or find out more→
Oliver Twist
$9.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye,... Buy or find out more→