Stepping: Out A Novel
Catherine Rey

$27.99 (Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing )

This new novel by French-Australian writer Catherine Rey, begins in provincial France in the 1970s. Dressed in borrowed platform shoes and a cape, the seventeen-year-old Catherine is rejecting family and schooling to mov... More »

Wanting
Richard Flanagan

$35.00$29.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )

It is 1839. A young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, is running through the long wet grass of an island at the end of the world to get help for her dying father, an Aboriginal chieftain. Twenty years later, on at island at the... More »

The Slap
Christos Tsiolkas

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )

At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own.

This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the event.

In this remarkable n... More »

Everything I Knew
Peter Goldsworthy

$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 »

Vertigo
Amanda Lohrey

$27.95 (Hardcover book / Black Inc )

'There is something enormously satisfying, both aesthetically and morally, about this delicate tale, a sense that – as with a perfectly executed piece of music – no mistakes have been made.' Australian Book Review

Lu... More »

A Mercy
Toni Morrison

$39.95$34.95 (Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus )

In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class division, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were carefull... More »

Cooee
Vivienne Kelly

$32.95$24.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )

Isabel Weaving, is not quite who she seems. True, she’s a daughter, a sister, a mother and an ex-wife, having escaped one unsatisfactory marriage, although not with her relationships with her children intact. Her second ... More »

Happy Families
Carlos Fuentes

$49.95 (Hardcover book / Bloomsbury )

A rich Catholic rancher wants his four sons to become priests, while the boys themselves have other plans; three daughters meet up for the first time in ten years around their father's coffin; a bereaved mother explains ... More »

To Siberia
Per Petterson

$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )

In the bitter cold of Danish Jutland, where the sea freezes over and the Nazis have yet to invade, a young girl dreams of one day going on a great journey to Siberia, while her beloved brother Jesper yearns for the warme... More »

Real World
Natsuo Kirino

$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )

In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls drift through a hot smoggy August and tedious summer school classes. There's dependable Toshi; brainy Terauchi; Yuzan, grief-stricken and confused; and Kirarin, w... More »

The Good Angel Of Death
Andrey Kurkov

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Harvill )

When Kolia moves into a new flat in Kiev, he finds a book hidden within a volume of War and Peace . Intrigued by the annotations that appear on every page, Kolia sets out to discover more about the scribbler. His investi... More »

The Hour I First Believed
Wally Lamb

$35.00 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )

Wally Lamb's two previous novels, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, struck a chord with readers. They responded to the intensely introspective nature of the books, and to their lively narrative styles and b... More »

Stepmother's Diary
Fay Weldon

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Quercus )

Sappho was so happy when she married Gavin. She was in love and it seemed that at last everything was falling into place. But she hadn’t considered his daughter, Isobel. She is a delightful, charming girl who spends her ... More »

How To Break Your Own Heart
Maggie Alderson

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Michael Joseph )

Amelia Bradlow seems to have everything she needs to be happy - a handsome husband, a beautiful home, money, good looks and a glamour job. Everything, that is, except the thing she wants most - a baby.

Ed, her husband, i... More »

The Reinvention Of Ivy Brown
Roberta Taylor

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Atlantic Books )

It is the 15th of February 1963, and Ivy Brown, typist at the Wiseman Pulverising Factory, is about to turn thirty. As Ivy sits, staring at the back of the typist in front of her, she tries desperately to avoid thinking ... More »

My Sister, My Love
Joyce Carol Oates

$33.00 (Trade paperback / Fourth Estate )

Joyce Carol Oates's most controversial novel to date, and certainly her most satirical, My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike recounts the saga of a murder through the eyes of the ninteen–year–old "sur... More »

La's Orchestra Saves The World
Alexander McCall Smith

$29.95 (Hardcover book / Polygon Press )

Thank you for the music… It’s 1939 and the war in Europe casts a long, all-encompassing shadow. In a sleepy town in Suffolk, the generous and determined widow, La, forms an amateur orchestra to entertain the locals and s... More »

Songs For The Butcher's Daughter
Peter Manseau

$29.95 (Paperback book / Simon & Schuster )

Summer, sweltering, 1996. A book warehouse in western Massachusetts. A man at the beginning of his adult life -- and the end of his career rope -- becomes involved with a woman, a language, and a great lie that will defi... More »

Lemniscate
Gaynor McGrath

$29.95 (Paperback book / Transit Lounge )

One woman’s adventurous search for love, meaning and connection.

In the ‘70s travel scenes of Afghanistan, India and Thailand, Elsie discovers adventure, friendship and freedom. After three years she returns to her wel... More »

2666
Roberto Bolaño

$59.95 (Hardcover book / Farrar Straus & Giro )

The posthumous masterwork from "one of the greatest and most influential modern writers" (James Wood, New York Times Book Review).

Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolano's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and L... More »

2666: 3 Volume Boxed Set
Roberto Bolaño

$59.95 (Paperback book / Farrar Straus & Giro )

The posthumous masterwork from "one of the greatest and most influential modern writers" (James Wood, New York Times Book Review).

Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolano's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and L... More »

End
Salvatore Scibona

$47.95 (Hardcover book / Graywolf Press )

A small, incongruous man receives an excruciating piece of news. His son has died in a P.O.W. camp in Korea. It is August 15, 1953, the day of a tumultuous street carnival in Elephant Park, an Italian immigrant enclave i... More »