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Railsea
$30.00$24.95 – Paperback book / Macmillan Uk
On board the Medes, Sham yes ap Saroop watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt. The giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey – and the inevitable battle that follows betwe... Buy or find out more →
Are You My Mother?
$33.95 – Hardcover book / Houghton Mifflin
From the best-selling author of "Fun Home," "Time "magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home" was a pop... Buy or find out more →
This Is How: Help For The Self
$28.00 – Paperback book / Picador
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes a groundbreaking book that explores how to survive the "un-survivable" and will challenge your notion of self-help books
To say that Augusten B... Buy or find out more →
HHhH
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill
We are in Prague, in 1942. Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent by London plan to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich - head of the Naz... Buy or find out more →
Bring Up The Bodies
$32.95$24.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
The sequel to Hilary Mantel's Booker-winning Wolf Hall.
′My boy Thomas, give him a dirty look and he′ll gouge your eye out. Trip him, and he′ll cut off your leg,′ says Walter Cromwell in the year 1500. ′But if you don′t ... Buy or find out more →
Dirt
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
The year is 1985 and 22-year-old Galen lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded old house with a walnut orchard in a suburb of Sacramento. He doesn’t know who his father is, his abusive grandfather is de... Buy or find out more →
The Forrests
$29.95$24.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the ... Buy or find out more →
Running Dogs
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Read our Q&A with Ruby Murray about Running Dogs.
Jakarta, 1997, and the city is on the verge of a revolution.
Even the Jordan children — Petra, Isaak and Paul — can feel it coming, shaking the edges of their privil... Buy or find out more →
Farther Away
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Jonathan Franzen′s FREEDOM was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. The editor of THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, Sam Tanenhaus, procla... Buy or find out more →
Canada
$29.95$24.95 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then the murders, which happened later.
In 1956, Dell Parsons' family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, the way many military families did following the war... Buy or find out more →
End This Depression Now!
$32.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
A call-to-arms from Nobel Prize–winning economist and best-selling author Paul Krugman.
The Great Recession is more than four years old—and counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful volley, "Nations ri... Buy or find out more →
Deadlocked: The Southern Vampire Mysteries Book Twelve
$29.99 – Paperback book / Orion
The Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Now the vampires and the shapeshifters are 'out', you'd think the supernaturals would get on with each other. But nothing is that simple in Bon Temps!... Buy or find out more →
Mildred Pierce
$19.95 – Digital video disc /
Divorced single mom Mildred Pierce decides to open a restaurant business, which tears at the already-strained relationship with her ambitious elder daughter, Veda. Buy or find out more →
The Mountain
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Read Drusilla Modjeska's interview with Geordie Williamson about The Mountain.
Special Readings edition with cover quote from Readings boss Mark Rubbo.
"The Mountain is a truly remarkable book - lush and fascinating, it... Buy or find out more →
Mortal Instruments 5: City Of Lost Souls
$24.95 – Paperback book / Walker Books
Can the lost be reclaimed? What price is too high to pay for love? Who can be trusted when sin and salvation collide? Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge. Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth b... Buy or find out more →
Woolgathering
$19.99 – Hard back / Bloomsbury
In this small, luminous memoir, the National Book Award-winner Patti Smith revisits the most sacred experiences of her early years, with truths so vivid they border on the surreal. The author entwines her childhood self ... Buy or find out more →
A Game Of Thrones: Graphic Novel
$24.99 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
George R. R. Martin's epic fantasy masterwork A Game of Thrones is brought to life in the pages of this full-colour graphic novel. This is the first volume in what is sure to be one of the most coveted collaborations of ... Buy or find out more →
Not Dead Yet
$32.95$27.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
For LA producer Larry Brooker, this is the movie that could bring the fortune that has so long eluded him...
For rock superstar, Gaia, desperate to be taken seriously as an actor, this is the role that could get her an O... Buy or find out more →
Eleven Seasons
$30.00$24.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award winner 2012.
Some guys are good at school and telling jokes or they have the latest stuff. Others are cricketers and basketball players: they can do things with the ball that make th... Buy or find out more →
Darth Vader And Son
$16.95 – Hardcover book /
What if Darth Vader took an active role in raising his son? What if "Luke, I am your father" was just a stern admonishment from an annoyed dad? In this hilarious and sweet comic reimagining, Darth Vader is a dad like any... Buy or find out more →
Granta 119: Britain
$27.99 – Paperback book / Granta
It is a nation defined by tradition and built on expansion. Now it has more languages spoken within its capital than any other city in the world. What are the stories Britain is telling about itself today? Buy or find out more →
What Is Australia For? Griffith Review 36
$27.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
It is time to revive the debate about national identity. The clichés of old have long exceeded their use-by date.
This is a trying time of global transition and uncertainty, for societies and for individuals. Yet it is ... Buy or find out more →
Let's Pretend This Never Happened
$29.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
′When I tell people that my father is kind of a total lunatic, they laugh and nod knowingly. They assure me that theirs is too, and that he′s just a "typical father".
And they′re probably right, if the typical father... Buy or find out more →
Sinning Across Spain
$29.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
I WILL WALK OFF YOUR SINS.
Pilgrim seeks sinners for mutually beneficial arrangement. Seven Deadlies a specialty.
With these words Ailsa Piper’s journey begins. Less than a month later she finds herself hiking through ol... Buy or find out more →
Metro Winds
$24.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
An engrossing collection of stories from one of Australia's most loved fantasy writers, and creator of the acclaimed Obernewtyn Chronicles.
A girl is sent across the world to discover her destiny in the dark tunnels of t... Buy or find out more →
Love And Hunger: Thoughts on the Gift of Food
$29.95$24.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
The award-winning author of The Children and Animal People, explores the solitary and shared pleasures of cooking and eating in an ode to good food, prepared and presented with minimum fuss and maximum love.
'A love of f... Buy or find out more →
The Weight Of A Human Heart
$27.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
Read our Q&A with Ryan O'Neill about The Weight of a Human Heart.
Sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, this collection turns the rules of storytelling on their head.
A series of graphs illustrates the disintegration o... Buy or find out more →
Madlands
$29.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
An idealistic twenty-something environmentalist.
A retired right-wing finance minister.
All their lives, they’ve happily ignored each other.
Until now.
Anna Rose, environmental crusader since the age of fourteen and co... Buy or find out more →
The Wind Through The Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
In The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King returns to the rich landscape of Mid-World, the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower fantasy saga that stands as his most beguiling achievement.
Roland Deschain and his ka... Buy or find out more →
The Spinoza Problem
$29.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
‘This is the most intriguing novel I’ve read in many a year. Irvin Yalom has created a taut, deeply informative page turner. I enthusiastically recommend The Spinoza Problem.’ Sir Anthony Hopkins
In 1909, sixteen-y... Buy or find out more →
The Art Of Fielding
$29.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people ar... Buy or find out more →
Paris In Love
$29.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
In 2009,New York Timesbestselling author Eloisa James took a leap that many people dream about: she sold her house, took a sabbatical from her job as a Shakespeare professor, and moved her family to Paris.Paris in Love: ... Buy or find out more →
A History Of Books
$26.95 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
This new work by Gerald Murnane is a fictionalised autobiography told in thirty sections, each of which begins with the memory of a book that has left an image on the writer's mind.
The titles aren't given but the reader... Buy or find out more →
Stonemouth
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Hachette
The long-awaited and stunning new novel from the unrivalled Iain Banks.
Pitched between THE CROW ROAD and THE WASP FACTORY, STONEMOUTH is set in a small town north of Aberdeen and involves two warring crime families.
Our... Buy or find out more →
The New Republic
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Fat and ostracized as a kid, Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. When he′s offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater that has sprouted a homegrown terrorist movement, Edgar recognize... Buy or find out more →
The Beginner's Goodbye
$29.95$24.95 – Trade paperback / Chatto & Windus
When Dorothy came back from the dead, Aaron noticed that some people simply ignored the fact; some seemed to have forgotten she'd died in the first place; and others just walked straight on by. The accident that killed D... Buy or find out more →
Fifty Shades Of Grey
$17.95 – Paperback book / Arrow
Romantic, liberating and totally addictive, Fifty Shades of Grey is a novel that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you for ever.
When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Chris... Buy or find out more →
Floundering
$27.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Read Romy Ash's interview with Tony Birch about Floundering.
Tom and Jordy have been living with their gran since the day their mother, Loretta, left them on her doorstep and disappeared.
Now Loretta’s returned, and she... Buy or find out more →
The Hanging Garden
$29.95$24.95 – Hardcover book / Random House
A previously unpublished novel from the winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature. Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. The boy's mother has ... Buy or find out more →
The Australian Moment
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
There's no better place to be during economic turbulence than Australia. Brilliant in a bust, we've learnt to use our brains in a boom. Although the Great Recession continues to rumble around the globe, we successfully n... Buy or find out more →
When I Was A Child I Read Books
$40.00$32.95 – Hardcover book / Virago
Since the 1981 publication of Marilynne Robinson?s novel Housekeeping a stunning debut that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize she has built a reputation not only as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, but also as ... Buy or find out more →
Leaving The Atocha Station
$20.95 – Paperback book / Coffee House Press
In Madrid on a fellowship, a young American poet examines his ambivalence about authenticity in this noteworthy debut novel by acclaimed poet Lerner, whose poetry collection, Angle of Yaw, was a finalist for the 2006 Nat... Buy or find out more →
The Hunger Games
$18.99 – Paperback book / Scholastic
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all ... Buy or find out more →
The Flame Alphabet
$35.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a work of heartbreak and horror, a novel about how far we will go, and the sorrows we will endure, in order to protect our families.
A t... Buy or find out more →
Sweet Old World
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Read Deborah Robertson's interview with Sian Prior about Sweet Old World.
'He goes down the stairs, singing Johnny Cash. It's a song about a man who's fallen real low, but he's not low, he's forty-three years old today,... Buy or find out more →
Heels On Wheels: A Lady's Guide To Owning And Riding A Bike
$19.95 – Paperback book /
Learning to ride a bike is easy, but getting back on one if you're over the age of 12 -- and have developed a penchant for high heels -- can be a daunting task. In Heels on Wheels Katie Dailey offers sage advice to the m... Buy or find out more →
City Of Dragons
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Kelsingra awaits for those brave enough to enter...
The dragons and their keepers have discovered Kelsingra but so far only Heeby has succeeded in flying over the river to enter the fabled city. The other dragons, with t... Buy or find out more →
The Fine Colour Of Rust
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Read our Q&A with Paddy O'Reilly about The Fine Colour of Rust.
Single mother and dreamer Loretta Boskovic lives in Gunapan, a town lost in the scrubby Australian bush. She has fantasies about dumping her two kids i... Buy or find out more →
Jamie's Thirty Minute Meals
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Michael Joseph
I'm going to show you how to put a whole meal on the table in 30 minutes flat! Not just one dish, a whole spread of beautiful things.
If, like me, you love food, and have hungry mouths to feed when you get home after a l... Buy or find out more →
The Doors
$32.99 – Hardcover book / Faber
A fan from the moment the Doors' first album arrived, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Filmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. Five years later it was all over.
Forty years after the sing... Buy or find out more →
A Tiger In Eden
$22.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Read our Q&A with Chris Flynn about A Tiger in Eden.
Beautiful beaches, sexy young backpackers, cheap drinks: southern Thailand in the mid- 1990s is the perfect place for a holiday.
It’s also the perfect place for B... Buy or find out more →
Blue
$20.00 – Hardcover book / Giramondo Publishing
Part sci-fi part autobiography, this book is about localism and racism on the Australian beach. Lushly produced hardback printed in two Pantone inks on lovely thick cream coloured paper. Blue is 96 pages long with the fu... Buy or find out more →
Mad Women: The Other Side Of Life On Madison Avenue In The 1960s And Beyond
$27.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Mad Men is one of the hottest shows on television, and its fans are dying to know how accurate it is: did people really have that much sex in the office? Were there really three-martini lunches? Were women really second-... Buy or find out more →
As I Was Saying
$27.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
As I Was Saying is a swirling conversation with the reader on everything from travel to dogs and cats, from sport and swearing to the pleasures of idleness. Punctuated at regular intervals by talks Dessaix has given on a... Buy or find out more →
Mateship With Birds
$19.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Read Carrie Tiffany's interview with Gregory Day about Mateship With Birds.
On the outskirts of an Australian country town in the 1950s, a lonely farmer trains his binoculars on a family of kookaburras that roost in a t... Buy or find out more →
The Psychopath Test
$19.95 – Paperback book / Picador
The Sunday Times top-ten bestseller from the author of The Men Who Stare at Goats.
This is an utterly compelling and often unbelievable adventure into the world of madness. Jon Ronson meets everybody from a Broadmoor inm... Buy or find out more →
Religion For Atheists: A Non Believer's Guide To The Uses Of Religion
$35.00$29.95 – Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton
WHAT IF RELIGIOUS ARE NEITHER ALL TRUE NOR ALL NONSENSE?
The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain de Botton's inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supe... Buy or find out more →
Sarah Thornhill
$29.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
This powerful novel will enthrall readers of Kate Grenville’s bestselling The Secret River, winner of the Commonwealth Writers‘ Prize.
From the beginning Jack and I was friends. Somehow our way of looking at things f... Buy or find out more →
The Last Werewolf
$22.95 – Paperback book /
‘It’s official,’ Harley said. ‘They killed the Berliner two nights ago. You’re the last.’ Then after a pause: ‘I’m sorry.’
Yesterday evening this was. We were in the upstairs library of his Earl’s Court... Buy or find out more →
The Stranger's Child
$19.99 – Paperback book / Picador
Alan Hollinghurst's first novel since The Line of Beauty, winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize.
It is the late summer of the last year before the first Great War. Cecil Valance, a beautiful young aristocratic poet, is vis... Buy or find out more →
The King of Limbs: Live From The Basement
$44.95 – Digital video disc /
Radiohead's From The Basement performance of The King of Limbs is now available to order on DVD and BluRay. From The Basement is a live studio performance of The King of Limbs.
Included in the programme are performances ... Buy or find out more →
The Sense Of An Ending
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumo... Buy or find out more →
Franklin And Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage
$24.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt’s marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since thei... Buy or find out more →
Planet Word
$45.00$39.95 – Hardcover book / Penguin Group Uk
Introduction by Stephen Fry.
According to the Snohomish tribe of North America, we speak different languages today because of a row about a duck. There are more than 6,000 languages spoken in the world, some by only a ha... Buy or find out more →
Suddenly A Knock On The Door
$19.95 – Paperback book / Random House
Etgar Keret is an ingenious and original master of the short story. Hilarious, witty and always unusual, declared a ‘genius’ by the New York Times, Keret brings all of his prodigious talent to bear in this, his sixth bes... Buy or find out more →
Buzz Aldrin, What Happened To You In All The Confusion?
$34.95 – Paperback book / Univ West Aust Pr
Johan Harstad’s debut novel tells the story of Mattias, a thirty-something gardener living in Norway, whose idol is Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon: a man willing to stand in Neil Armstrong’s shadow in the servic... Buy or find out more →
Sea Hearts
$19.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A mesmerising selkie novel from multi-award winning, internationally acclaimed Australian author, Margo Lanagan - one of the most exciting voices in speculative fiction.
A HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL NOVEL FROM THE WINNER OF FO... Buy or find out more →
Pure
$19.99 – Paperback book / Headline
A stunning coming of age novel set in a richly imagined post-apocalyptic world. For fans of THE PASSAGE and THE HUNGER GAMES this is a fantastic addition to the growing cannon of dystopian fiction.
We know you are here, ... Buy or find out more →
The Rook
$29.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
At the start of Australian author Daniel O'Malley's impressive debut, a supernatural detective thriller distinguished by its adept use of humor, an unknown woman reads a letter that opens Dear You and closes Sincerely, M... Buy or find out more →
Reframe: How To Solve The World's Trickiest Problems
$29.95$24.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
“An original and vital contribution to understanding politics.” – Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist
How to solve the world’s trickiest problems – terrorism, climate change, financial insanity and more.... Buy or find out more →
Looking For The Light On The Hill: Modern Labor's Challenges
$32.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Today, the Australian Labor Party is in crisis. Reduced to minority government after just one term, and at rock bottom in the opinion polls, the party seems to be at a defining moment in its history. The perception of th... Buy or find out more →
The Soldier's Wife
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Doubleday
Dan Riley is a major in the British Army. After a six month tour of duty in Afghanistan, he is coming home to the wife and young daughters he adores. The outside world sees those reunions as a taste of heaven after month... Buy or find out more →
Into The Woods: The Battle For Tasmania's Forests
$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
For many years, the Tasmanian wilderness has been the site of a fierce struggle. At stake is the future of old-growth forests. Loggers and police face off with protesters deep in the forest, while savage political games ... Buy or find out more →
The Traveller's Tool (Enlarged)
$29.95 – Paperback book /
Sir Les Patterson is back in print, and this time he is ENLARGED!
Since the original publication of this book in 1985, The Traveller's Tool has been an up market man's manual which will find its place next to the 'nivea'... Buy or find out more →
Kill Your Darlings Issue 8
$18.00 – Paperback book /
COMMENTARY Buy or find out more →
- Maria Tumarkin: Sublime and Profane: Our Contemporary Obsession with Food
- Clementine Ford: It’s a Sex Thing, Right?: When Fantasy Becomes Reality
- Scott Steensma: What the Internet Could Never Teach Me: Figh...
Fall Girl
$19.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Meet Ella Canfield, highly qualified evolutionary biologist. Attractive, if a little serious-looking in those heavy glasses—but then she’s about to put her career on the line. Dr Canfield is seeking funding for a highly ... Buy or find out more →
The Good, The Bad And The Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
Good drinkers, bad swimmers and unlikely heroes
Since Australia’s birth in 1901, twenty-seven politicians have run the national show. Their time at the top has ranged from eight days for Frank Forde to eighteen years for... Buy or find out more →
77 Shadow Street
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Old Silas Kinsley is the self-appointed resident-historian of The Pendleton, an imposing building raised by a titan of industry in the Gilded Age of the nineteenth century, now converted into a number of highly desirable... Buy or find out more →
Before I Go To Sleep
$19.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Christine wakes in a strange bed beside a man she does not recognise. In the bathroom she finds a photograph of him taped to the mirror, and beneath it the words ‘Your husband’.
Each day, Christine wakes knowing noth... Buy or find out more →
Look At Me
$19.99 – Paperback book / Murdoch Books
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit From the Goon Squad. Reconstructive facial surgery after a car crash so alters Manhattan model Charlotte that, within the fashion world, where one’s look is oneself, she ... Buy or find out more →
Riding The Trains In Japan: Travels In The Sacred And Supermodern East
$29.95 – Paperback book / Transit Lounge
Arriving late in Kyoto Patrick Holland cannot find a room for the night. Homeless and disorientated and in a place where loitering is not encouraged his only solution is to ride the trains. The train journey is the start... Buy or find out more →
The Fault In Our Stars
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
Despite the tumour-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters s... Buy or find out more →
The Casual Cyclist's Guide To Melbourne
$19.95 – Paperback book / Explore Australia
“The city and the bike – they were made for each other” begins The Casual Cyclist’s Guide, bringing a fresh and entertaining perspective to this much-loved mode of transport.
Beginning with the quest for personal... Buy or find out more →
Panic
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
Panic (noun). A sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking behaviour.
Australians see themselves as a relaxed and tolerant bunch. But scratch the surface and you’ll uncover an extraordinary le... Buy or find out more →
Her Father's Daughter
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
Read our Q&A with Alice Pung about Her Father's Daughter.
From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Unpolished Gem.
At twenty-something, Alice is hungry for the milestones of young womanhood: leaving home, choosi... Buy or find out more →
A Common Loss
$29.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Read our Q&A with Kirsten Tranter about A Common Loss.
They were originally five. Elliot. Brian.Tallis. Cameron. And Dylan -- charismatic Dylan -- the mediator, the leader, the man each one turned to in a time of cr... Buy or find out more →
I Curse The River Of Time
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
An enthralling novel of a mother and son's turbulent relationship from the author of Out Stealing Horses.
It is 1989: Communism is crumbling, and Arvid Jansen, thirtyseven, is facing his first divorce. At the same time, ... Buy or find out more →
The Cook
$29.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Read Wayne Macauley's interview with Ben Pobjie about The Cook.
Power through service, says Head Chef. It's one of the first lessons taught at Cook School, where troubled youths learn to be master chefs by bowing to dec... Buy or find out more →
Blue Nights
$27.99 – Trade paperback /
Several days before Christmas 2003, Joan Didion's only daughter, Quintana, fell seriously ill. In 2010, Didion marked the sixth anniversary of her daughter's death. BLUE NIGHTS is a shatteringly honest examination of Joa... Buy or find out more →
Women's Stuff
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Penguin Books
Whether you're starting or ending a relationship, a friend has found a lump in her breast, you're in debt, your partner's lost interest in sex or you don't know whether to believe the moisturiser label, Women's Stuff is ... Buy or find out more →
The Hunger Games
$18.99 – Paperback book / Scholastic
Winner of the 2009 Silver Inky Award for international teenage fiction.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to... Buy or find out more →
A Game Of Thrones: A Song Of Ice And Fire Book One
$19.99 – Paperback book / Voyager
During Spring 2011, the first volume of George R R Martin′s glorious high fantasy will be aired as an HBO series on Sky in the UK.
Martin unfolds with astonishing skill a tale of truly epic dimensions, thronged with me... Buy or find out more →
A Tragedy In Two Acts: Marcus Einfeld And Teresa Brennan
$34.99 – Paperback book / Victory Books
This was not the ending either of them expected. Marcus Einfeld, former Federal Court judge and human rights champion, and his old friend Teresa Brennan, an exuberant, sometimes controversial US-based academic, had each ... Buy or find out more →
Forty-Six Square Metres Of Land Doesn't Normally Become A House
$70.00 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
This book starts on the front cover and ends on the back with no empty pages in between - to maximize available space. Which is what the book is about. With the largest houses in the world and ever-increasing suburban sp... Buy or find out more →
Melbourne
$29.95 – Hardcover book / New South Books
Read our Q&A with Sophie Cunningham about Melbourne.
Sophie Cunningham writes a year in the city’s life, a year that takes us from the heatwave that culminated on Black Saturday when temperatures soared to 47 degree... Buy or find out more →
Swamplandia!
$21.95 – Paperback book /
From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (“How I wish these were my own words, instead of the breakneck demon writer K... Buy or find out more →
It Chooses You
$32.95 – Hardcover book / Text Publishing
In the summer of 2009, Miranda July was struggling to finish writing the screenplay for her much-anticipated second film, The Future. During her increasingly long lunch breaks, she began to obsessively read the PennySave... Buy or find out more →
Indochine
$69.99 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
The French colonisation of Vietnam, which lasted for nearly one hundred years, had a profound influence on Vietnamese lifestyle, architecture and cuisine. Chef and author Luke Nguyen revisits his beloved Vietnam to delve... Buy or find out more →
The Sleepers Almanac No. 7
$24.95 – Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing
Every year, Sleepers assembles a motley crew of new and established (but mostly new – mostly never heard of) writers for their critically acclaimed collection of short fiction (with occasional miscellany): The Sleepers A... Buy or find out more →