MWF 2009 Author Highlights
The Red Highway
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Black Inc )
A key to unlock the heart of the country.
This is the story of a quest – a journey down the red highway.
On returning from a war zone, Nicolas Rothwell begins to explore the deserts and towns, sleepy coastline and hidd... More »
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This Is How
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
From the author of the Man Booker-shortlisted Carry Me Down comes a novel of remarkable power and resonance.
When his fiancée breaks off their engagement, Patrick Oxtoby leaves home and moves into a boarding house in a r... More »
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Tom Is Dead
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
Translated from the French by Lia HIlls
Set in the Blue Mountains and in Sydney, Tom is Dead is a suspense novel about grief. The narrator’s son has been dead for ten years; he was four and a half. For the first time sin... More »
The People's Train
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Vintage )
A novel adventuring between the pre-WWI Russian enclave in Brisbane and Tsarist Russia.
Artem Samsurov, a charismatic protege of Lenin and an ardent socialist, reaches sanctuary in Australia after escaping his Siberian l... More »
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
$34.95$14.95 (Trade paperback / Harvill )
A captivating, loveable novel of stunning originality and poignancy about a 12-year-old genius mapmaker.
T.S. Spivet is a 12-year-old genius mapmaker who lives on a ranch in Montana. His father is a silent cowboy and his... More »
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Burnt Shadows
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Bloomsbury )
In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantanamo Bay. How did it come to this, he wonders? August 9th 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taki... More »
The Reader
$22.99 (Paperback book / Phoenix House )
For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair, which leave... More »
The City And The City
$34.99 (Trade paperback / Macmillan )
When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borl of the Extreme Crime Squad. More »
The True Story Of Butterfish
$32.95$27.95 (Trade paperback / Vintage )
Curtis is no longer a rock star. His dad is dead, he has no wife and his life is a mess.
'I'm not about to attack,' she said. She smirked with one side of her mouth and looked up at me through the black spray of her frin... More »
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Things We Didn't See Coming
$24.95 (Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing )
It’s the anxious eve of the millennium. The car is packed to capacity, and as midnight approaches, a family flees the city in a fit of panic and paranoid, conflicting emotions.
The ensuing journey spans decades and off... More »
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The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
$23.95 (Paperback book / Red Fox Books )
Lines may divide us, but hope will unite us . . .
Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his count... More »
Tender Morsels
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )
Tender Morsels is a dark and vivid story, set in two worlds and worrying at the border between them. It is a tale of journeys and transformations, penetrating the boundaries between male and female, reality and myth, con... More »
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Tales From Outer Suburbia
$35.00 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )
CBCA Older Readers Book of the Year 2009
Do you remember the water buffalo at the end of our street?
Or the deep-sea diver we found near the underpass?
Do you know why dogs bark in the middle of the night?
Shaun Tan, cre... More »
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The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
War in the post-9/11 world is far different from what we expected it be. Counterinsurgency and protracted guerrilla warfare, not shock and awe, are the order of the day. David Kilcullen is the world’s foremost expert on ... More »
The China Lover
$24.95 (Paperback book / Atlantic Books )
'An extraordinary story . . . told wonderfully well' Victoria James, Independent
When Sidney Vanoven is sent to occupied Japan, in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, it is his dream posting. By day, he work... More »
The Bath Fugues
$29.95$24.95 (Trade paperback / Giramondo Publishing )
From one if Australia's most lauded writers, comes a wonderfully wrought work, melding intrigue, romance, comedy and deception, taking the form of three interwoven novellas. Castro has won nearly every Australian literar... More »
Affection: A Memoir Of Love Sex And Intimacy
$34.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
Krissy Kneen was raised by a very protective, quite eccentric family who avoided any mention of sexuality: perhaps it was no coincidence that she became obsessed by the very idea of sex. After leaving home she ... More »
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The Horse Boy: A Father's Quest To Heal His Son
$34.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
When his son Rowan was diagnosed with autism Rupert Isaacson was devastated, fearing he would never be able to communicate with his child. Then two things happened. Rowan made an unlikely connection with a group of visit... More »
Literary Melbourne
$24.95 (Hardcover book / Hardie Grant )
Created to mark the celebration of Melbourne becoming a UNESCO City of Literature, this anthology draws together a selection of the best Melbourne and Victorian writing. Extracts from eighty writers across different genr... More »
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The End Of The World
$23.95 (Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr )
Melbourne-based writer Paddy O’Reilly has both a great sense of humour and the tantalising ability to record the absurd. In this collection of short stories I loved ‘Speak to Me’, a quirky tale of a visiting alien kept i... More »
The Lost Mother: A Story of Art and Love
$35.00$26.95 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )
After her mother's death in 2005, Anne Summers inherits a portrait of her mother as a child. Mesmerised by this image, she finds herself drawn into the story of how the portrait was painted and eventually found its way i... More »
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Killing: Misadventures in Violence
$34.99 (Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press )
How hard it it to kill, as a hunter on a Kangaroo cull, as a worker in an abbatoir, as an executioner in a prison, as a soldier at war?
Ninety years after World War I, police in a Victorian country town uncover the mummi... More »
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Growing Up Asian In Australia
$27.95 (Trade paperback / Black Inc )
Asian-Australians are known to each other and the outside world by many labels: Quiet Achiever. FOB. Gangster Chigger. Mainlander. Banana. But are these labels based on some degree of truth, or only fiction? What is it l... More »
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The House Of Wittgenstein: A Family At War
$24.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented and most eccentric in European history. Karl Wittgenstein, who ran away from home as a wayward and rebellious youth, returned to his native Vienna to make a f... More »
The Lieutenant
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
Lieutenant Daniel Rooke, a brilliant young astronomer, sails on the First Fleet full of hope and ambition. New South Wales is a land waiting for scientific discovery: this is where he will make his mark.
He sets up an ob... More »
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Mao's Last Dancer
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )
From the bestselling autobiography by Li Cunxin
A film directed by Bruce Beresford
In cinemas October 1
Before you fly, you have to be free.
This is my story. Here is my recollection of those years growing up in Mao's Ch... More »
D-Day: The Battle For Normandy
$59.95 (Hardcover book / Viking )
Even Stalin was awed by D-Day.
'In the whole history of war,' he wrote to Churchill, 'there has never been such an undertaking.' Those who took part in the great cross-Channel invasion, whether soldier, sailor or airman,... More »
Everything I Knew
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton )
It's the year 1964, and fourteen-year-old know-it-all Robbie Burns is about to discover he still has a lot to learn.
The world is changing fast, although the news has yet to reach the small South Australian town of Penol... More »
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Guilt About The Past
$26.95 (Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr )
From the author of the international bestselling novel The Reader
Just as Bernhard Schlink's bestselling novels, The Reader and Homecoming, tackle the burden of German guilt about events during the Second World War, so t... More »
Look Who's Morphing
$24.99 (Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing )
This is a collection of brilliant stories about transformation, with the storyteller and his family shifting through identities drawn from comics, video games, daytime TV, porn flicks and movies, in fantasies of sexual a... More »
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Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Granta )
Startling, savagely funny stories from a highly original new voice.
A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn't match her own. Teenage... More »
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The Winter Vault
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Bloomsbury )
Egypt, 1964. The great temple at Abu Simbel must be rescued from the rising waters of the Aswan dam. Block by block it is to be dismantled and resurrected sixty metres higher. This most delicate and daunting of tasks is ... More »
