New Fiction
This Is How
$32.95$27.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
From the author of the Man Booker-shortlisted Carry Me Down comes a novel of remarkable power and resonance.
When his fiancée breaks off their engagement, Patrick Oxtoby leaves home and moves into a boarding house in a r... More »
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The Ice Age
$27.95 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )
A teenage girl is in the passenger seat; the driver is an older man. As they criss-cross America, destined for who knows where, she watches him and wants…what he is, what he has. She sees the black looks and knowing smil... More »
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Between The Assassinations
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Atlantic Books )
Welcome to Kittur,
an imaginary everytown nestling on the Indian coast south of Goa
and north of Calicut. Journeying through its streets and
schoolyards, bedrooms and businesses, its inner workings and outer
limits, Arav... More »
Armageddon In Retrospect
$29.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace. Imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humour, the pieces ra... More »
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City Of Strangers
$27.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
A novel as grim as it is extraordinary, MacKenzie's debut tells the story of two estranged brothers at odds on how to view their Nazi-sympathizer father. Paul Metzger has troubles: a struggling writer with a dying father... More »
Six Graves To Munich
$32.95 (Paperback book / Quercus )
In the final days of the Second World War, Michael Rogan, an American intelligence officer, is tortured by a group of seven senior Gestapo officers who need to discover the secrets he alone can give them. Ten years later... More »
Curse Of The Pogo Stick
$29.95 (Paperback book / Quercus )
Following a rash but perhaps not unexpected moment of insolence, Dr Siri is forced to go on a road trip with Judge Haeng and the Justice Department. On a deserted jungle trail they are ambushed and Siri is kidnapped by H... More »
We Don't Live Here Anymore
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )
I used to think I didn't fit in, but now I realise I do. We all have our place; some just never find it.
When awkward teenager Charlie Hudson is beaten up during a family holiday at the beach, beautiful Tess Bailey rescu... More »
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Figurehead
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Black Inc )
What if you saved a man’s life and he went on to play a leading role in one of the bloodiest revolutions of modern times?
Ted Whittlemore, a radical Australian journalist, does just that. In the late ’60s, he saves Nhe... More »
The River Wife
$24.99 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )
A grave, tender and gentle love story and an environmental fable for our times - a true original.
'This is the story of a river and the keeping of magic and the making of water and the nature of love. Some would say that... More »
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Sacred Hearts
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Virago )
1570 in the Italian city of Ferrara, and the convent of Santa Caterina is filled with noble women who are married to Christ because many cannot find husbands outside. Enter sixteen-year-old Serafina, ripped by her family... More »
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Tricking Of Freya
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )
'I may have been named after the goddess Freya but mostly I got called Frey. Which made me sound less like a deity and more like a drunken brawl. Or some badly wrecked nerves. Or a thing that is always unravelling at the... More »
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As The Earth Turns Silver
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Picador )
It is 1905 and brothers Yung and Shun eke out a living as green grocers in Wellington's bustling Chinatown. Recently-arrived immigrants, the pair must support their families back home in China, but know they must adapt i... More »
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The City And The City
$34.99 (Trade paperback / Macmillan )
When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borl of the Extreme Crime Squad. More »
Cleopatra's Daughter
$32.95 (Paperback book / Quercus )
The incredible untold story of Queen Cleopatra and Marc Antony’s orphaned children, taken to Rome to be raised as hostages in the palace of their father's greatest rival.
Following Cleopatra and Marc Antony’s deaths, t... More »
The Heretic Queen
$24.95 (Paperback book / Quercus )
When Nefertari’s entire family is killed in a fire, she’s left to grow up alone, a spare princess in the palace of the new Pharaoh. Her young life is overshadowed by the past – the name of her infamous aunt, Nefertiti, t... More »
My Father's Tears And Other Stories
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton )
John Updike's first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, "My Father's Tears" finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia... More »
We Are All Made Of Glue
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Fig Tree )
From bonding to bondage, from B&Q to Belarus, along with seven smelly cats, three useless handymen, two slimy estate agents, social workers, a bonker lady. The story of a very unlikely friendship.
Georgie Sinclair's ... More »
The True Story Of Butterfish
$32.95$27.95 (Trade paperback / Vintage )
Curtis is no longer a rock star. His dad is dead, he has no wife and his life is a mess.
'I'm not about to attack,' she said. She smirked with one side of her mouth and looked up at me through the black spray of her frin... More »
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The Complete Cosmicomics
$45.00 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
When the moon was closer to the earth, he would – once a month, when its orbit made it possible – climb a ladder to its scaly surface. He remembers life on the nebulae when matter first began to exist, causing great conf... More »
The Book Of Rapture
$29.99 (Trade paperback / Fourth Estate )
Three children wake up in a basement room of a large city hotel. They have been drugged and taken from their beds in the middle of the night. Now they are here. Alone.
Where are their parents? Who can they trust? The fam... More »
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Corduroy Mansions
$34.95 (Hardcover book / Polygon Press )
Corduroy Mansions – described in a guide to the architecture of the area as "a building of no interest whatsoever" - is believed to have been built as an asylum, or possibly a school, or maybe it was a mansion block - no... More »
The Sealed Letter
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
Longlisted for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Shortlisted for Lambda Literary Award (Best work of lesbian
fiction)
'Pop culture’s fascination with Hollywood divorces — Tom and Nicole, Denise and Charlie, Pamela and the... More »
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Shelley's Heart
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
Published for the first time in Australia, this is arguably the best novel ever written about Washington, D.C.
The first presidential election of the twenty-first century has been stolen, after a bitter contest between t... More »
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