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The Tiger's Wife
$19.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
Winner of the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction.
'Tea Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years.' - Colum McCann (and she's only 24!).
As Natalia and a friend travel across the former Yugoslavia, immunising vi... Buy or find out more →
Fall Of Giants
$24.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan
A huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women.
It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams... Buy or find out more →
In The Company Of Angels
$21.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
A luminous love story and an internationally acclaimed masterpiece
How much of a survivor, in fact, survives? How much must remain of a survivor for him also to be called a man? You tell me to remember. All over again. T... Buy or find out more →
Solomon's Oak
$21.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
'If you haven't discovered Jo-Ann Mapson yet, you're in for the finest of treats - her books will move you from out-loud laughter to bittersweet tears' Jodi Picoult
Solomon's Oak is the story of three people who have suf... Buy or find out more →
Man Bites Murdoch
$29.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Man Bites Murdoch is Bruce Guthrie’s explosive account of almost 40 years in the news business, his brutal dismissal from Australia’s biggest selling paper, the celebrated court case that exposed the inner workings of th... Buy or find out more →
Hawke: The Prime Minister
$39.99 – Paperback book / Melbourne Books
Since its first publication in 1982, Blanche d'Alpuget's Robert J Hawke: A Biography has remained the benchmark by which other political biographies are measured.
Hawke: The Prime Minister begins as Bob Hawke wrestles th... Buy or find out more →
So Much For That
$19.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Bestselling author of We Need To Talk About Kevin.
′Shriver has produced another dazzling, provocative novel′ PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
All his life Shep Knacker has dreamed of leaving New York and living in simplicity in th... Buy or find out more →
Harbour
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
On a winter trip home to the island of Domarö, Anders and Cecilia take their six-year-old daughter Maja across the ice to visit the lighthouse at Gåvasten.
And Maja disappears. Leaving not even a footprint in the snow.... Buy or find out more →
Freedom
$19.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
′He has done it. Another nine years later, he has produced a novel as rich, knowing, limber and comic as THE CORRECTIONS′ THE AUSTRALIAN
Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul - the gentrifie... Buy or find out more →
A Tiny Bit Marvellous
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
Everyone hates the perfect family.
So you'll love the Battles.
Meet Mo Battle, about to turn 50 and mum to two hormonal teenagers. There's 17-year-old daughter Dora who blames Mo for, like, EVERYTHING and Peter who belie... Buy or find out more →
How Hard Can It Be?
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
How hard can it be . . .
to build a power station without upsetting the eco-mentalists? To seek world domination if you've been hit with the ugly stick? For the Met Office to get yesterday's weather right?
In volume four... Buy or find out more →
And Furthermore
$22.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
One of the world's most loved actresses tells her story, in her own words.
From the moment Judi Dench appeared as a teenager in the York Mystery Plays it was clear that acting would be her career. Trained at London’s Cen... Buy or find out more →
Piano Lessons
$22.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
In this remarkable memoir, Anna Goldsworthy recalls her first steps towards a life in music, from childhood piano lessons with a local jazz muso to international success as a concert pianist. As she discovers passion and... Buy or find out more →
Parisians
$24.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan
Fleeing the Louvre, Marie-Antoinette becomes lost in the unmapped streets of the Left Bank, an easy prey for revolutionaries bent on her execution. Young lieutenant Napoleon Bonaparte has his first sexual experience with... Buy or find out more →
At Home: A Short History Of Private Life
$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Swan
The brand new Bryson for 2010. Will do for social history what A Short History of Nearly Everything did for science.
It struck Bill Bryson one day that we devote a lot more time to the Wars of the Roses or the Normandy L... Buy or find out more →
The Importance Of Being Seven: 44 Scotland Street Series: Vol 6
$22.99 – Paperback book / Little Brown
The sixth volume of Alexander McCall Smith's wonderful serial novels set in Edinburgh's New Town.
Despite inhabiting a great city renowned for its impeccable restraint, the extended family of 44 Scotland Street is trembl... Buy or find out more →
Secret Daughter
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
In a tiny hut in rural India, Kavita gives birth to Asha. Unable to afford the luxury of raising a daughter, her husband forces Kavita to give the baby up--a decision that will haunt them both for the rest of their lives... Buy or find out more →
Indelible Ink
$24.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Winner of the 2011 Age Book of the Year Award.
'For a long time now, when people ask me a favourite Australian author, invariably I think and say Fiona McGregor. There is a gutsiness, a splendour and command of language ... Buy or find out more →
Life
$22.99 – Paperback book / Orion
An international publishing event - one of the very few rock memoirs ever to have been published by a living legend.
With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the wor... Buy or find out more →
Little Hands Clapping
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
The darkest, most twisted novel yet from the author of Timoleon Vieta Come Home.
In a room above a bizarre German museum, and far from the prying eyes of strangers, lives the Old Man. Caretaker of the museum by day, by n... Buy or find out more →
The Family Law
$22.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Meet the Law family – eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide: Benjamin, the third of five children and a born humorist. Join him as he tries to answer some puzzling questions: Why won’t his Chinese dad wear ... Buy or find out more →
That Deadman Dance
$22.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Winner of the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Big-hearted, moving and richly rewarding, That Deadman Dance is set in the first decades of the 19th century in the area around what is now Albany, Western Australia. In ... Buy or find out more →
So This Is Life: Scenes From A Country Childhood
$27.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
So This Is Life is a wonderfully evocative account of youth that will surely take its place among the classics of Australian childhood.
At age seven, after her parents’ marriage broke down, Anne Manne travelled with her ... Buy or find out more →
Matterhorn
$24.99 – Paperback book / Corvus
Thirty years in the making, a powerful, visceral war novel that conveys the terror and immediacy of combat with rare authenticity.
Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of No... Buy or find out more →
Worth Dying For
$14.95 – Paperback book / Bantam Press
61 Hours ended with maverick loner Jack Reacher trapped in a desperate situation from which escape seemed impossible. Even for him. But Reacher has done the impossible before.
Now there's deadly trouble in the wilds of N... Buy or find out more →
Ask
$21.95 – Paperback book / Picador Us
The consistently hilarious Sam Lipsyte expands the parameters of his humorous portraits of pathos, as he uses the trials of a sporadically employed flunkee named Milo Burke to evoke the sorry status quo of contemporary A... Buy or find out more →
Bereft
$24.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Shortlisted for the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
It is 1919. The Great War has ended, but the Spanish flu epidemic is raging across Australia. Schools are closed, state borders are guarded by armed men, and train ... Buy or find out more →
The Dog Who Came In From The Cold: Corduroy Mansions Book Two
$22.99 – Paperback book / Little Brown
n the genteel environs of Corduroy Mansions, Pimlico, strange doings are afoot, mostly in the name of love. Lonely William French and his faithful canine Freddie are recruited to the service of MI6 by a beguiling lady op... Buy or find out more →
The Long Song
$22.99 – Paperback book / Headline
You do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, ... Buy or find out more →
Water For Elephants (Film Tie-In)
$24.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Set in a travelling circus touring the backblocks of America during the Great Depression of the early 1930s this is a story of love and hate, trains and circuses, dwarves and fat ladies, horses and elephants - or to be m... Buy or find out more →
Room
$19.99 – Paperback book / Picador
The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world
Jack is five and, like any little boy, excited at the prospect of presents and cake. He's looking forward to telling his friends it's his birthday, too.... Buy or find out more →
The Double Comfort Safari Club: The Number One Ladies' Detective Agency Book Eleven
$19.99 – Paperback book / Little Brown
Mma Ramotswe's wonderful eleventh novel.
Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are called to a safari lodge in Botswana s Okavango Delta to carry out a delicate mission on behalf of a former guest.
The Okavango makes Precious app... Buy or find out more →
The Invisible Bridge
$23.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, Newsday, San Francisco Chronicle, and Entertainment Weekly
"A stunning first novel.... Profound love, famil... Buy or find out more →
Zeitoun
$24.95 – Paperback book / Hamish Hamilton
'Harrowing, spellbinding . . . nothing less than an indictment of the entire Bush era' Observer
'Shocking' The Times
In August, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina blew in, the city of New Orleans had been abandoned by most citiz... Buy or find out more →
Manhood For Amateurs
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' and 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union', offers his first major work of non-fiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, be... Buy or find out more →
Up From The Mission: Selected Writings
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
Up from the Mission charts the life and thought of Noel Pearson, from his early days as a native title lawyer to his position today as one of Australia’s most influential figures.
This is writing of great passion and p... Buy or find out more →
Solar
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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... Buy or find out more →
Cloudstreet (TV Tie-In)
$26.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Could you share a haunted house with eight strangers and a talking pig? Well, sometimes you don't get a choice.
Australia's favourite novel is a funny, heartbreaking story of making-do and yearning to belong. Now a major... Buy or find out more →
Germania
$24.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan
‘It made me laugh so hard that I woke up my wife and had to give up reading the book in bed. If Bill Bryson had collaborated with W. G. Sebald to write a book about Germany, they might have wound up with something like t... Buy or find out more →
Beatrice And Virgil
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Destiny can take many shapes. For Henry, a writer struggling to finish a book about the Holocaust, it arrives in the form of a puzzling envelope from a stranger.
The envelope takes him into a taxidermist's workshop. Fill... Buy or find out more →
Every Man In This Village Is A Liar
$24.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Shortlisted for the US National Book Awards 2010
A few weeks after the planes crashed into the World Trade Center on 9/11, journalist Megan Stack, a 25-year-old national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, was thrus... Buy or find out more →
The Distant Hours
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
The discovery of a long-lost letter reveals an old secret and the truth behind a woman's mysterious past in the eagerly awaited new novel from international publishing sensation, Kate Morton, author of The Shifting Fog a... Buy or find out more →
The Passage
$22.99 – Paperback book / Orion
An epic, awe-inspiring novel of good and evil - the most talked about book of the year and now a global bestseller.
Amy Harper Bellafonte is six years old and her mother thinks she's the most important person in the whol... Buy or find out more →
Dannii: My Story
$22.99 – Paperback book / Simon & Schuster
Dannii Minogue first appeared on television aged seven. She signed her first record deal at the age of seventeen and ever since she has been wowing audiences around the world with her charm and her charisma. The daughter... Buy or find out more →
The Fry Chronicles
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
Thirteen years ago, Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry's autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a huge bestseller. In those thirteen years since, Stephen Fry has moved into a completely new ... Buy or find out more →
Traitor
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Winner of the 2011 Prime Minister's Award for Fiction.
What would make a soldier betray his country?
In the battle-smoke and chaos of Gallipoli, a young New Zealand soldier helps a Turkish doctor fighting to save a boy’s... Buy or find out more →
A Nest Of Occasionals
$24.99 – Paperback book / Picador
Comedian Tony Martin's genius for unearthing the eccentric in seemingly ordinary people is laid bare in this hilarious new collection of tales from his tumultuous life outside show business.
Spanning four decades, two na... Buy or find out more →
Three Seconds
$19.99 – Paperback book / Quercus
Piet Hoffmann is the best undercover operative in the Swedish police force, but only one other man is even aware of his existence. After a drug deal he is involved in goes badly wrong, he must face the hardest mission of... Buy or find out more →
Imperial Bedrooms
$22.99 – Paperback book / Picador
In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with Less Than Zero, his ‘extraordinarily accomplished first novel’ (New Yorker), successfully chronicling the frightening consequences of unmitigated hedonism wi... Buy or find out more →
Reading By Moonlight: Reading By Moonlight: How Books Saved a Life
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
When Miles Franklin-shortlisted novelist Brenda walker became sick she turned to two healers: doctors and books. This is the story of how she recovered.
Packing her bag for hospital after being diagnosed with breast canc... Buy or find out more →
The Dreaming And Other Essays
$24.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
W.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. Without condescension and without sentimentality, in essays such as 'The Dreaming' Stanner conveyed the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture. In his Boyer Lectures he ex... Buy or find out more →