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Solar
Ian McEwan

$32.95$27.95 (Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape )

An engrossing, satirical and very funny new novel on climate change

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name t... More »

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Mr Rosenblum's List
Natasha Solomons

$24.95 (Hardcover book / Hachette )

Jack Rosenblum is five foot three and a half inches of sheer tenacity. Through study and application he intends to become a Very English Gentleman. Jack is compiling a list, a comprehensive guide to the manners, customs ... More »

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Dawn Of The Dreadfuls
Jane Austen and Steve Hockensmith

$24.95 (Paperback book / Quirk )

With more than one million copies in print, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was the surprise publishing phenomenon of 2009. A best seller on three continents, PPZ has been translated into 21 languages and optioned to bec... More »

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Helen Simonson

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )

Honour, duty and a properly brewed cup of tea ... get ready for the Major to steal your heart in the sweet, moving and uplifting story of a highly unlikely relationship between a very proper English gentleman and a widow... More »

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The Postmistress
Sarah Blake

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )

Letters of love, telegrams of loss – the postmistress awaits them all

The wireless crackles with news of blitzed-out London and of the war that courses through Europe, leaving destruction in its wake. Listening intentl... More »

The Norseman's Song
Joel Deane

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Hunter )

An ancient man with no past hails a taxi driven by a petty crim with no future.

Reluctantly, the pair embarks on a journey in search of a legendary whaler and murderer known simply as The Norseman. To guide them they hav... More »

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Wildhorse Creek
Kerry McGinnis

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Michael Joseph )

From the bestselling author of Pieces of Blue and The Waddi Tree comes a spellbinding novel about loyalty, friendship and first love.

Young Billy Martin runs from home, burying his past in the quest for a future. He find... More »

Alone In Berlin
Hans Fallada

$26.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk )

Berlin, 1940. The city is paralysed by fear.

But one man refuses to be scared.

Otto, an ordinary German living in a shabby apartment block, tries to stay out of trouble under Nazi rule. But when he discovers his only son... More »


All That Follows
Jim Crace

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Picador )

A gunman seizes hostages a short drive from Leonard Lessing's house. His face leaps out of the evening news – and out of Leonard's own past...

Lennie Lessing is a jazzman taking a break. His glory days seem to be behin... More »

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The Secret Adventures Of Charlotte Bronte
Laura Joh Rowland

$24.95 (Paperback book / Pier 9 )

Laura Joh Rowland's San Ichiro novels have enthralled thousands of readers. Now the author turns her gift for historical fiction to Victorian England and the famous and fascinating Bront family with this critically accla... More »


The Surrendered
Chang-Rae Lee

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Little Brown )

June Han has forged a life thousands of miles from her birthplace: she has built a business in New York, survived a husband, borne a child. But her past holds more secrets than she has ever been able to tell, and thirty ... More »

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Point Omega
Don DeLillo

$29.95$24.95 (Trade paperback / Picador )

In the middle of a desert somewhere south of nowhere, to a forlorn house made of metal and clapboard, a secret war advisor has gone in search of space and time. Richard Elster, 73, was a scholar – an outsider – when he w... More »

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Gravel
Peter Goldsworthy

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton )

Eight brilliant stories by a master of the form, author of the classic 'Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam' and 'The Kiss'

A contented woman finds herself considering a bizarre sexual invitation that just days before filled he... More »

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Below The Styx
Michael Meehan

$29.99 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )

How on earth does Marcus Clarke, a brilliant young Englishman - author of For the Term of His Natural Life - stranded on the far side of the world and dead for more than a century, get himself mixed up in a murder in exc... More »

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Trespass
Rose Tremain

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Chatto & Windus )

Rose Tremain won the 2008 Orange Prize. Her brilliant new novel, Trespass, is a gripping story of redemption and revenge, in the beautiful, sinister setting of the gorges and forests of the Cevennes.

Set among the hills ... More »

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The Man Who Disappeared
Clare Morrall

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Hodder Headline )

What would you do if, out of the blue, your reliable husband disappears? Then you are told he has been involved in money-laundering. Surely the man you know intimately couldn't be a criminal... could he? When Felix Kenda... More »


Black Hills
Dan Simmons

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Quercus )

Paha Sapa, Black Hills , is a Red Indian shaman who as a young boy at the Battle of Little Bighorn takes the ghost of the dying General Custer into his own body. Sixty years later as an old man working as a dynamiter on ... More »

The Hopeless Life Of Charlie Summers
Paul Torday

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Orion )

Hector Chetwode-Talbot, Eck to his friends, has left the army after a rather nasty moment in Colombia. From a privileged background, he is slightly at a loss as to what to do next, when he is approached by an old army pa... More »

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Diamond Star Halo
Tiffany Murray

$29.99 (Trade paperback / Portobello )

The summer Elvis and Marc Bolan die, a new star is born ... and this is his story ...

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This is a family novel, and like almost all families these days this one is full of foundlings and misfits, but they coher... More »

The Cost Of Living
Mavis Gallant

$49.99 (Hardcover book / Bloomsbury )

'In this collection, we witness the miracle of a great writer's birth and brisk maturation, a blossoming incapable of withering, and that remains masterful and truthful today.' - Jhumpa Lahiri

Mavis Gallant is admired an... More »


The Forty Rules Of Love
Elif Shafak

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )

Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent – and suddenly her life is transformed. Her first assignment is to read a novel about the ancient Sufi mystic... More »

Best European Fiction 2010
Aleksander Hemon (Ed)

$24.95 (Paperback book / Dalkey Archive Press )

Historically, English-language readers have been great fans of European literature, and names like Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, and Thomas Mann are so familiar we hardly think of them as foreign at all. What those writ... More »


The Piper's Son
Melina Marchetta

$24.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )

Melina Marchetta's brilliant, heart-wrenching new novel takes up the story of the group of friends from her best-selling, much-loved book Saving Francesca - only this time it's five years later and Thomas Mackee is the o... More »

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This Is Where I Leave You
Jonathan Tropper

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Orion )

Judd Foxman returns home early to find his wife in bed with his boss - in the act. He now faces the twin threats of both divorce and unemployment. His misery is compounded further with the sudden death of his father. He ... More »


Nineteen Seventysomething
Barry Divola

$24.95 (Paperback book / Affirm )

Barry Divola‘s Nineteen Seventysomething is a requiem for bygone days. In the fictional suburb of Braithwaite, we meet Charlie during the listless weeks of his summer holidays. Against a backdrop of buzzing cicadas, Dr... More »

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Revenge
Sharon Osbourne

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Little Brown )

Amber and Chelsea Stone are sisters who share the same dream - huge, global fame. As children they were close, but success has pulled them apart. Both have the looks, the talent, and the star quality - but only one has t... More »


Border Watch
Helene Young

$29.99 (Trade paperback / Hodder Headline )

Captain Morgan Pentland flies for Border Watch, patrolling the vast Australian coastline. With steely determination, she's fought hard to reach this point in her career, but her private life is a shambles. Will she ever ... More »

Tuscan Rose
Belinda Alexandra

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )

The internationally bestselling author of WHITE GARDENIA returns with her greatest heroine yet. A mysterious stranger known as ′The Wolf′ leaves an infant with the sisters of Santo Spirito. A tiny silver key hidden in he... More »


Martin Westley Takes A Walk
Andrew Humphreys

$32.95$27.95 (Trade paperback / Vintage )

What if you were given the chance to wipe the slate clean?

"People were supposed to remember who they were and where they lived. They were supposed to remember who loved them and who did not and where their grandmothers ... More »

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Manhattan Dreaming
Anita Heiss

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Bantam Press )

From Manuka to Manhattan - Lauren’s going all the way!

Lauren is a curator at the NAG - the National Aboriginal Gallery in Canberra. She's good at her job, passionate about the Arts, and focused on her work - that is, ... More »


The Calligrapher's Daughter
Eugenia Kim

$23.99 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )

A richly drawn novel about a country torn between ancient customs and modern possibilities, a family ultimately united by love and a woman who never gives up her search for freedom.

Najin Han, the privileged daughter of ... More »

Blackout
Connie Willis

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )

No historian can possibly change the past - or can they?

In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and t... More »


Love In Mid Air
Kim Wright

$29.99 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )

Will a chance encounter with a stranger completely wreck Elyse's safe but stale life? Intense, honest and sexy - an irresistible, smart and thought-provoking novel about a woman exploring what's missing in her marriage. More »

South Of Broad
Pat Conroy

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )

The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship.

'It was my father who called the city the Mansion on the River. He was talking abou... More »


The Egyptologist
Arthur Phillips

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )

From the bestselling author of Prague comes a witty, inventive, brilliantly constructed novel about an Egyptologist obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king.

This darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on th... More »

A Stairway To Paradise
Madeleine St John

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )

A Stairway to Paradise is classic Madeleine St John: poignant, witty, full of sharp and subtle observations.

Alex and Andrew are friends. And Barbara…Barbara is a goddess. Here is the eternal triangle, the story of three... More »


The Theory Of Light And Matter
Andrew Porter

$27.95 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )

Winner, Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction

These ten stories offer a stunning vision of contemporary American suburbia, littered with tension, heartbreak and revelations. Andrew Porter’s stories take readers acr... More »

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The Eternal Son
Cristovão Tezza

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )

Winner, São Paulo Art Critics’ Association Award for that year’s best work of fiction, the Jabuti Prize, the Bravo! Award, the Portugal–Telecom Award, the São Paulo Literature Award, and the Zaffari & Bourbon Award, ... More »


Mornings In Jenin
Susan Abulhawa

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Bloomsbury )

The first commercial literary work to emerge from inside Palestine: an astonishing and important novel that forces us to re-think our understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Palestine, 1941. In the small villa... More »

Serena
Ron Rash

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )

The year is 1929 and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive from Boston in the North Carolina mountains to create a timber empire.

Serena is new to the mountains— but she soon proves herself the equal of any worker... More »

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