MWF Bestselling Books 2009
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... Buy or find out more →
A Lucky Child
$25.00 – Hardcover book / Profile
Thomas Buergenthal is unique. He is a judge at the International Court in The Hague who was rescued from the death camps of Auschwitz at the age of eleven. In this, A Lucky Child, his funny and heartfelt memoirs, he tell... Buy or find out more →
The Bee Hut
$24.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Known for her passionate, sensual and edgy poetry, Dorothy Porter was one of Australia's truly original writers. She was twice short-listed for Australia's premier literary award, the Miles Franklin, and her verse novel&... Buy or find out more →
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... Buy or find out more →
The Winter Vault
$32.99$14.95 – 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 ... Buy or find out more →
Swimming
$29.95 – Paperback book / Vanark
Kate Wilks is a swimmer, a teacher and a writer, but she has never been a mother. She believes she has a good and satisfying life until a chance encounter with her ex-husband and his daughter. Suddenly submerged by a pas... Buy or find out more →
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... Buy or find out more →
The Lost Mother: A Story of Art and Love
$34.99$15.95 – 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... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out more →