David Rakoff
American author and Melbourne Writers Festival guest David Rakoff takes us on a grand tour of the American culture of excess in his new collection of stories and satire, Don't Get Too Comfortable.
Top 10 Books
CBCA 2008 Winners
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Requiem For A Beast
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2008 Man Booker Prize Longlist
The Lost Dog
$35.00 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )
Whatever the linguistic equivalent of perfect pitch may be, she has it - Sunday Telegraph (UK) The Lost Dog is the extraordinary new novel by the acclaimed writer Michelle de Kretser. Her first novel, The Rose Grower, wa... More »
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The Enchantress Of Florence
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape )
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole... More »
A Fraction of the Whole
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton )
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... More »
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The Clothes On Their Backs
$33.00 (Trade paperback / Virago )
In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in ... More »
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