NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2010 Winners
Kill Khalid: Mossad's Failed Hit...And The Rise Of Hamas
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
September 1997, in an Amman street in broad daylight five men purporting to be Canadian tourists, accost a Palestinian and inject a mysterious chemical into his ear. Within 48 hours it should kill him and leave no trace.... Buy or find out more →
Summertime
$39.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
Completing the majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with Boyhood and Youth.
A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years from 1972 - 1977 w... Buy or find out more →
Document Z
$23.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A masterful, taut and atmospheric novel of political espionage and intrigue, telling the story of the Petrov defection during the Cold War of the 1950s. Winner of the 2008 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award.
Evdokia kne... Buy or find out more →
The World Beneath
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Once Rich and Sandy were environmental activists, part of a world-famous blockade in Tasmania to save the wilderness. Now, twenty-five years later, they have both settled into the uncomfortable compromises of middle-age ... Buy or find out more →
Macquarie PEN Anthology Of Australian Literature
$49.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
A landmark anthology of Australian literary writing across all genres from over two centuries, this is an authoritative collection more than six years in the making, providing a window onto Australian culture. An essenti... Buy or find out more →
Krakatoa Lighthouse
$17.95 – Paperback book / Puffin
Suddenly there was a trench across the beach, about ten meters away from the fishermen, where before there had been nothing but flat sand. The fishermen moved quickly away as the trench heaved grey ash across the sand. T... Buy or find out more →
When The Hipchicks Went To War
$18.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
The sixties are in full swing and going to a war is the last thing on Kathy’s mind. For sixteen-year-old Kathy, it’s all about miniskirts, the Beatles, discos and her fab new boots! The world is rapidly changing, her bro... Buy or find out more →
Networked Language: Culture And History In Australian Poetry
$44.00 – Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub
A revelation in literary criticism, Philip Mead’s Networked Language offers absorbing new perspectives on Australian poetry and its cultural life. This study presents new ways of understanding Australian poetry, drawing ... Buy or find out more →
Leave To Remain: A Memoir
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
In Leave to Remain: A Memoir, Abbas El-Zein tells his story of growing up in a middleclass family in civil-war Beirut, a city in the throes of self-destruction, yet obstinately clinging to its cosmopolitan past. El-Zein ... Buy or find out more →
The Sonnet According To 'M'
$24.95 – Paperback book / John Leonard
The letter ‘m’ is emblematic of recurrence and precipitousness in these poems. They emerge with the wantonness of sensations in everyday life. In this case three lives: maternal grandmother, paternal great-great grandmot... Buy or find out more →
Fairweather Man
$24.95 – Digital video disc / Abc Dvd
Fairweather Man - An intimate portrait of the life and work of Australia's greatest abstract painter Ian Fairweather. When Ian died alone in Queensland in 1974 Australia not only lost a great artist but one of our greate... Buy or find out more →