October 2008 Fiction
The Believers
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )
A comic, tragic, supremely entertaining novel about one family's struggles with the consolations of faith and the trials of doubt.
When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New York radical lawyer Joel... More »
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A Most Wanted Man
$32.99$27.95 (Trade paperback / Hodder Headline )
A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his na... More »
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The Lieutenant
$45.00$39.95 (Hardcover book / Text Publishing )
In 1787 Lieutenant Thomas Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts, destined for New South Wales. As a young officer and a man of science, the shy and quiet Rooke is full of anticipa... More »
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Tender Morsels
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )
Tender Morsels is a dark and vivid story, set in two worlds and worrying at the border between them. It is a tale of journeys and transformations, penetrating the boundaries between male and female, reality and myth, con... More »
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Without Warning
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Macmillan )
2003: In Paris, an assassin wakes from a coma. In Kuwait, American forces are assembled for their invasion of Iraq. In the pristine forest of the Cascades, a lone hiker watches a plane fly into the side of a mountain. An... More »
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Oink, Oink, Oink: A Savage Modern Fable
$29.95 (Paperback book / Hunter )
A young boy grows up in rural Japan, raised by his mother among the clamour of industrial machines at the local fish cannery. He has never met his father, an Australian genetic scientist —he pieces together his sense of ... More »
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Taking Off
$23.95 (Paperback book / Arena )
Ash Lynch has worked (if you can call it that) in the magazine industry for what feels like forever. But he's at a very loose end - his ambition to climb the greasy pole of career success long since expired, his personal... More »
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To Love Honour And Betray: Till Divorce Us Do Part
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Bantam Press )
When Lucy's husband of eighteen years runs out on her, she'll do anything to win him back. Including climbing out of her bedroom window at one in the morning wearing her daughter's mini skirt. Jasper has left Lucy for he... More »
The Chinawoman
$34.95 (Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub )
The police-hunt for the murderers of an English prostitute fanned anti-Chinese hysteria in colonial Melbourne. The horrific crime was enveloped in mystery for months, until political pressure broke the silence and two Ch... More »
Indignation
$45.00$39.95 (Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape )
It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio’s ... More »
Goldengrove
$27.99 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )
At the center of Francine Prose's profoundly moving new novel is a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations, thirteen–year–... More »
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One Morning Like A Bird
$33.00 (Trade paperback / Hodder Headline )
- Tokyo. Japan is at war with China, and Yuji Takano is clinging to the life he has made for himself as a young poet the company of his friends, the monthly meetings of the French Club at Monsieur Feneon's house, the days...
American Wife
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Doubleday )
Curtis Sittenfeld, the critically acclaimed author of taut adolescent angst novel Prep and The Man of My Dreams, has turned to a real-life character as her inspiration for her third novel.
Sittenfeld, a passionate libera... More »
The Wasted Vigil
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Faber )
Nadeem Aslam was longlisted for the Booker for his last book, Maps for Lost Lovers. This latest novel is set in post-9/11 Afghanistan, where six very different characters gather in a half-ruined house, an old perfume fac... More »
The Independence Of Miss Mary Bennet
$49.99 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
Lovers of Pride and Prejudice take note – Colleen McCullough has turned her attention from the travails of ancient Rome to the ongoing adventures of the Bennett sisters. There is a whole genre of fan-lit spinning off fro... More »
From A To X: Some Letters Recuperated By John Berger
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Verso )
In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida's letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and of its motley... More »
The New Annotated Dracula
$52.95 (Hardcover book / Wiley )
In his first work since his best-selling The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Leslie S. Klinger returns with this spectacular, lavishly illustrated homage to Bram Stoker's Dracula. With a daring conceit, Klinger accepts St... More »
Brideshead Revisited
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, artis... More »
The Golden Bird: New And Selected Poems
$27.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )
The Golden Bird brings together the best of Adamson’s work from the last four decades, and many superb new poems. An accessible introduction to Australia’s foremost lyric poet and an insight into the recurring themes tha... More »
Night Work
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
There's nothing moving outside. No cars. No buses. No people. No birds.
Nothing. No one. Anywhere.
An ordinary man wakes up on an ordinary day to find that he's the only living creature in the entire city. The radio and ... More »
The Lieutenant and The Secret River: Signed Slipcase
$70.00 (Hardcover book / Text Publishing )
A two volume hardback slipcased edition of Kate Grenville's two acclaimed novels. The slipcase has Kate's signature embossed into it. A unique collector's item or perfect gift.
Order now to avoid disappointment. More »
To Light Attained
$24.95 (Paperback book / Hybrid )
Highly innovative, personal and idiosyncratic; Lurie's poetic use of language tells the story of a man whose daughter commits suicide and how he deals with it. Lurie has been compared with acclaimed American writers such... More »