MWF 2010 Guests
Kraken
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan
A dark urban fantasy thriller from one of the all-time masters of the genre.
Deep in the research wing of the Natural History Museum is a prize specimen, something that comes along much less often than once in a lifetime... Buy or find out more →
Beautiful Malice
$24.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
With a page-turning plot and characters that leap off the page, this is the story of an obsessive friendship and dark secrets that can no longer be hidden.
'Truth or dare?' she asks.
I hesitate. I have so many secrets, s... Buy or find out more →
Taller When Prone
$24.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Taller When Prone is Les Murray's first volume of new poems since 2006's The Biplane Houses. With characteristic grace and dexterity, these poems combine a mastery of form with a matchless ear for the Australian vernacul... Buy or find out more →
A Fraction Of The Whole
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
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... Buy or find out more →
Saints Of New York
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Orion
The death of a young heroin dealer occasions no great concern for New York PD Detective Frank Parrish, but when the dealer's teenage sister winds up dead, questions are raised that have no clear answers. Parrish, already... Buy or find out more →
Sex and Stravinsky
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
From the bestselling author of Brother Of The More Famous Jack: it's 1995 and a mix of people from different parts of the globe - from Australia to South Africa, Senegal to Milan - are linked by their past.
The time is 1... Buy or find out more →
Gunshot Road
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
From the author of the critically acclaimed Diamond Dove.
Emily Tempest is small, black, as snaky as a taipan’s tooth and is the woman least likely ever to embark on a career in policing. But her old mate Superintendent ... Buy or find out more →
Impractical Jokes
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Three toilets, a deceased poodle and some sadly depreciated real-estate ... a rollicking, laugh-out-loud memoir of how a practical joke went too far from one of Australia's brightest young comedians.
'A diabolical ping-p... Buy or find out more →
The Shorter History Of Australia
$34.95 – Paperback book / Mandarin
After a lifetime of research and debate on Australian and international history, Geoffrey Blainey is well-placed to introduce us to the people who have played a part and to guide us through the events which have created ... Buy or find out more →
King Of The Cross
$22.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
King of the Cross is a dazzling novel that explores the criminal world of Jacob Mendoza: legendary Godfather of Kings Cross and for more than four decades, Australia's most powerful and notorious crime figure. To record ... Buy or find out more →
Up From The Mission: Selected Writings
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
Up from the Mission charts the life and thoughts of Noel Pearson, from his early days as a native title lawyer to his position today as one of Australia’s most influential figures.
This is writing of great passion and ... Buy or find out more →
The World Beneath
$24.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Winner of the People’s Choice Award for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2010
• Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2010 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction • Shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award 2... Buy or find out more →
For The Win
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Not far in the future...
In the twenty-first century, it′s not just capital that′s globalized: labour is too. Workers in special economic zones are trapped in lives of poverty with no trade unions to represent their righ... Buy or find out more →
Trick Of The Dark
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
Death is a hollow drum whose beat has measured out my adult life.' So writes Jay Macallan Stewart in her latest volume of memoirs. But nobody has ever asked whether that has been by accident or design. Nobody, that is, u... Buy or find out more →
Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Rainbow Pie is a coming-of-age memoir wrapped around a discussion of America’s most taboo subject — social class. Set between 1950 and 1963, Joe Bageant uses Maw, Pap, Ony Mae, and other members of his rambunctious Scots... Buy or find out more →
Rocks In The Belly
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
How far can you push a child before he snaps?
Rocks in the Belly is about a precocious eight-year-old boy and the volatile adult he becomes. During childhood his mother fosters boys despite the jealous turmoil it arouses... Buy or find out more →
Truth
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Winner of the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead, a pani... Buy or find out more →
Into The Woods: The Battle For Tasmania's Forests
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
For many years, the Tasmanian wilderness has been the site of a fierce struggle. At stake is the future of old-growth forests. Loggers and police face off with protesters deep in the forest, while savage political games ... Buy or find out more →
Utopian Man
$23.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
An exquisite historical novel about a remarkable man who chose his own path, charming and scandalising others in equal measure.
Co-winner of the 2009 Australian/Vogel Literary Award.
'Really impressive, vivid and enjoyab... Buy or find out more →
Lights Out In Wonderland
$32.95$9.95 – Trade paperback / Faber
The spectacular third novel from Booker Prize winner, DBC Pierre: a dazzling odyssey and a universal commentary on our times.
Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent, is thin... Buy or find out more →
Atlantic: The Biography Of An Ocean
$35.00 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
In a narrative tour de force, Simon Winchester dramatises the life of the Atlantic Ocean, from its birth in the farther recesses of geological time to its eventual extinction millions of years in the future.
At the core ... Buy or find out more →
The Family Law
$0.00 – Paperback book / Black Inc
‘A vivid, gorgeously garish, Technicolor portrait of a family. It’s impossible not to let oneself go along for the ride and emerge at the book’s end enlightened, touched, thrilling with laughter.’ – Marieke Hardy... Buy or find out more →
Night Street
$23.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
An intensely satisfying novel that celebrates the short richly lived life of Australian artist, Clarice Beckett.
Co-winner of the 2009 Australian/Vogel Literary Award.
Night Street is the passionate story of a young pain... Buy or find out more →
Sophie's World
$22.99 – Paperback book / Phoenix House
Ex-philosophy teacher Jostein Gaarder and Albert Knos stimulate 15 year old Sophieto ask those fundamental questions which have exercised the imaginations of Children Phiolosophers since the dawn of civilisation. Buy or find out more →
Unparalleled Sorrow
$29.95 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
"I can't remember going to bed the night before my first ECT. Or giving my permission or my wife giving her consent, but she did and for my part I was so confused I would've agreed to be shot at point-blank range by a fi... Buy or find out more →
Fray
$29.95 – Paperback book / Dark Horse Comics
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is re-imagined by her creator Joss Whedon for the dark future. In a future Manhattan which has become a deadly slum run by mutant crime-lords and disinterested cops, Fray--a street kid who though... Buy or find out more →
Black Mamba Boy
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Aden,1935; a city vibrant, alive, and full of hidden dangers. And home to Jama, a ten year-old boy. But then his mother dies unexpectedly and he finds himself alone in the world.
Jama is forced home to his native Somalia... Buy or find out more →
Adland: Searching for the Meaning of Life on a Branded Planet
$24.95 – Paperback book / Uwap
Somewhere between The Tipping Point and Mad Men lies Adland.
Adland is the wickedly funny, compelling personal chronicle of the rise and fall of a modern-day ad man; a riveting insider’s look at the astonishing transform... Buy or find out more →
Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books And The People Who Read Them
$26.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
The Possessed draws on Elif Batuman's articles in the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and n+1 to tell the true story of one woman's intellectual and sentimental education and her many strange encounters with scholars devo... Buy or find out more →
A Darker Domain
$16.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Twenty-five years ago, the daughter of Scotland′s richest man and her baby son were kidnapped and held to ransom. But Catriona Grant ended up dead and little Adam′s fate is still unknown. When a new clue is discovered in... Buy or find out more →
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories Of Personal Triumph From The Frontiers Of Brain Science (Revised Edition)
$29.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
A New York Times bestseller; an Amazon US top ten science book of 2008 and one of Amazon Canada's top books of 2008; one of the Globe and Mail's (Canada) top books of 2008; and one of Slate top books of 2008
'This book i... Buy or find out more →
Hollywood Ending
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Set in a glamorous and seedy Los Angeles, Hollywood Ending is a story that will make your heart skip a beat.
Pink-haired Hilda and endearing punk Benji are two seventeen year olds with an obsessive hobby — they haunt the... Buy or find out more →
My Grandmother: A Memoir
$23.95 – Paperback book / Spinifex Press
An urgent, passionate memoir of the author’s discovery of her Muslim grandmother’s true Armenian Christian identity When Fethiye Çetin was growing up in the small Turkish town of Maden, she knew her grandmother as a happ... Buy or find out more →
Quarterly Essay 37: What's Right?: The Future of Conservatism in Australia (Audio CD)
$16.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
Where did the Right go wrong? With the departure of George W. Bush and John Howard, conservative parties in the US and Australia entered a period of turmoil. Foreign affairs, economics, the environment all were issues ... Buy or find out more →
How A Moth Becomes A Boat
$16.95 – Paperback book / Hunter Publishers
How a Moth Becomes a Boat, a brand new collection of Rowe's short tales is moving its way along my shelf to the space strictly reserved for old favourites.’ — Brad Dunn, Three Thousand
‘Josephine Rowe has mastered th... Buy or find out more →
Inheritance
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill
What would you do if you suddenly inherited £17,000,000? An entertaining and poignant story of betrayal and redemption from one of our most-respected writers.
Andy Larkham is late. He is due at the funeral of his favour... Buy or find out more →
Terrorism And The Economy
$25.00 – Paperback book / Seven Stories Press
Economist and best-selling author Loretta Napoleoni traces the link between the finances of the war on terror and the global economic crisis, finding connections from Dubai to London to Las Vegas that politicians and the... Buy or find out more →
The Vintage And The Gleaning
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
The Vintage and the Gleaning is set in a winemaking town in the north-east of Victoria, close to the Murray River. Smithy is a retired shearer turned vineyard worker who has recently been forced to give up drinking after... Buy or find out more →
Quarterly Essay 37: What's Right?: The Future of Conservatism in Australia
$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Where did the Right go wrong? With the departure of George W. Bush and John Howard, conservative parties in the US and Australia entered a period of turmoil. Foreign affairs, economics, the environment all were issues ... Buy or find out more →
Little Brother
$22.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwittin... Buy or find out more →
Hawke: The Prime Minister
$59.99$9.95 – Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press
Since its first publication in 1982, Blanche d'Alpuget's Robert J Hawke: A Biography has remained the benchmark by which other political biographies are measured.
Hawke: The Prime Minister begins as Bob Hawke wrestles th... Buy or find out more →
Lovesong
$39.99$26.95 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
Seeking shelter in a Parisian cafe from a sudden rainstorm, John Patterner meets the exotic Sabiha and his carefully mapped life changes forever. Resonant of the bestselling Conditions of Faith, Alex Miller's keenly awai... Buy or find out more →
Makers
$32.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
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Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs
$59.99 – Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press
Malcolm Fraser is one of the most interesting and possibly most misunderstood of Australia's Prime Ministers. In this part memoir and part authorised biography, Fraser at the age of 79 years talks about his time in publi... Buy or find out more →
The Icarus Syndrome: The A History Of American Hubris
$39.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
In The Icarus Syndrome, Peter Beinart tells a tale as old as the Greeks-a story about the seductions of success. Beinart describes Washington on the eve of three wars-World War One, Vietnam, and Iraq-three moments when A... Buy or find out more →