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Wild Bees
Martin Harrison

$24.95 (Paperback book / Univ West Aust Pr )

Martin Harrison is a writer whose poetry is both a meditation and a meeting place between the immensity of the Australian environment and the hi-tech urbane world of everyday Western life. In this new collection Harrison... More »

The Honey Spinner
Grace Pundyk

$34.95 (Paperback book / Pier 9 )

This engaging narrative non-fiction tale follows Grace Pundyk's journey from the wild Yemeni deserts to the jungles of Borneo, and from Russia to Tasmania's leatherwood forests, with many other honey-producing destinatio... More »


Urban Myths: Two Hundred And Ten Poems New And Selected
John Tranter

$26.95 (Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr )

Urban Myths: 210 Poems brings the best work to date from a poet considered one of the most original of his generation in Australia, together with a generous selection of new work. Smart, wry and very stylish, John Trante... More »

The Spare Room
Helen Garner

$29.95 (Hardcover book / Text Publishing )

An extraordinary work of fiction from one of Australia's best-selling and most admired writers

Helen prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola, who is flying down from Sydney for a three-week visit. But this is no or... More »

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Chasing Harry Winston
Lauren Weisberger

$30.00 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )

Leigh, Adriana and Emmy are best friends, all leading very different lives and about to make some extreme choices...

Emmy has just split with her boyfriend of five years. A serial monogamist, she suddenly realises how mu... More »

What Is The What
Dave Eggers

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

In this heartrending and astonishing novel, Dave Eggers illuminates the history of the Sudanese civil war through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the US. Driven from his home as a boy, Deng walk... More »


Eat Pray Love: One Womans Search For Everything
Elizabeth Gilbert

$24.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )

It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love aff... More »

Alfred and Emily
Doris Lessing

$27.99$22.95 (Trade paperback / Fourth Estate )

'I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of... More »


The Boat
Nam Le

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton )

The Boat will take you everywhere.

In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the world.

T... More »

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The Four-Hour Work Week: Escape The Nine To Five Live Anywhere and Join The New Rich
Timothy Ferriss

$27.95 (Paperback book / Vermilion )

Tim Ferriss is a 28-year-old serial vagabond, successful entrepreneur and lifestyle hustler who has been teaching a wildly popular course at Princeton University for the past several years upon which this book is based. ... More »


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