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When You Are Engulfed In Flames
David Sedaris

$32.99$27.95 (Trade paperback / Little Brown )

Sedaris, king of the poignantly absurd, triumphs in this sixth essay collection (after 2004's Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim). There is less focus here on the Sedaris clan as a whole, though the various members ... More »

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Breath
Tim Winton

$45.00$34.95 (Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton )

Breath is a story about the wildness of youth - the lust for excitement and terror, the determination to be extraordinary, the wounds that heal and those that don't - and about learning to live with its passing.

In his f... More »

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The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
Chloe Hooper

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton )

This is the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell.

This is the story of that policeman, the tall, enig... More »

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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
Matthew Frederick

$19.95 (Hardcover book / Mit Press )

This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to keep out of view of their professors, for it expresses in clear and simple language ... More »


Underbelly: The Gangland War
John Silvester and Andrew Rule

$24.95 (Paperback book / Floradale 47 Cookson St Camberwell Vic 3124 9882 7741 )

They called Carl Williams 'The Truth' but the truth was he was just a fat kid with a pill press and a taste for fast food, women and bucks. He got lucky the day Jason Moran shot him in the belly instead of the head. Carl... 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 Big Fat Cow That Goes Kapow
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton

$15.00 (Paperback book / Pan Macmillan )

Oh no – watch out!

Don't look now!

Inside this book is an EXPLODING cow!

FIVE...

FOUR...

THREE...

TWO...

ONE...

KAPOW!

More rhyming mayhem and comic madness from the bestselling duo of the inspired JUST! series. Andy G... More »

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The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Faber )

Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly i... More »


The Forgotten Garden
Kate Morton

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )

A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, an aristocratic family, a love denied, a mystery - The Forgotten Garden is a captivating, atmospheric and compulsively readable story of the past, secrets, f... More »

Wall And Piece
Banksy

$69.95 (Hardcover book / Century Media Record )

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