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The Purple Book: Symbolism & Sensuality in Contemporary Art and Illustration
$70.00 – Hardback / Laurence King Publishing
The Purple Book is a luxurious compendium of contemporary illustration that explores fantasy, sensuality and the erotic imagination.It highlights visual art and the written word as media for representing human desires... Buy or find out more→
Southern Cross the Dog
$29.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
As the Great Flood of 1927 bursts the levees of Mississippi and sweeps away rural homes, 8-year-old Robert Chatham is separated from his parents. He is entirely alone. Robert's adventures through the brooding swamplands, from the... Buy or find out more→
The China Factory
$22.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
A collection of twelve exquisite stories that explore how ordinary men and women endure the trials and complexities of life and the ripples of disquiet that lie beneath the surface.An elderly schoolteacher recalls the single... Buy or find out more→
Creative Writing for Beginners
$24.95 – Paperback / Affirm Press
Joel, a charming drifter, finds his moorings in the world of books. Attending a creative writing class, he strikes up an unlikely friendship which dredges up painful memories.Creative Writing for Beginners is an... Buy or find out more→
The Limit
$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
It's a sweltering summer's day, and Anja Aropalo is on her way home with two errands in mind: first, to water the roses, and then to commit suicide. She is slowly losing her husband to Alzheimer's disease, and she has made him a... Buy or find out more→
Never Let Me Go
$19.99 – Paperback / Faber and Faber
In one of the most acclaimed and original novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never... Buy or find out more→
A Man in Love
$27.95 – Paperback / Vintage
Karl Ove Knausgaard leaves his wife and everything he knows in Oslo for a fresh start in Stockholm. There he strikes up a deep and competitive friendship with Geir and pursues Linda, a beautiful poet who captivated him years... Buy or find out more→
Steal My Sunshine
$18.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
During a Melbourne heatwave, Hannah's family life begins to distort beyond her deepest fears. It's going to take more than a cool change to fix it, but how can a girl who lives in the shadows take on the task alone? Feeling... Buy or find out more→
All That is
$24.95 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
From his experiences as a naval officer in battles off Okinawa during World War II, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as a book editor. He soon inhabits a world where marriages fail as affairs ignite, alcohol... Buy or find out more→
Steeplechase
$29.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
I force myself to take the phone away from my ear and search for the last incoming call. I store the number under one word, 'sister'. I know I should have used her name but it is all I can think of in this moment. Sister. My... Buy or find out more→
The Crane Wife
$27.99 – Paperback / Canongate Books Ltd
One night, George Duncan - decent man, a good man - is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from... Buy or find out more→
Levels of Life
$24.95 – Hardback / Vintage
Tells about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. Buy or find out more→
Harmless
$22.99 – Paperback / Fremantle Press
Full of suspense, Harmless, is the tightly woven story of eight year old Amanda, whose father is in prison, and Rattuwat, a Thai man burying his daughter in a strange land. Abandoning their broken-down car on the way to the... Buy or find out more→
Here and Now
$27.99 – Paperback / Faber and Faber
Although Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging... Buy or find out more→
Paris Street Style: A Guide to Effortless Chic
$24.95 – Paperback / Abrams
One city always seems to win the award for most-wanted style—Paris, where people walking down the avenues mix timeless and trendy pieces in a way that appears effortless. French fashion writers Isabelle Thomas and Frédérique... Buy or find out more→
Instructions for a Heatwave
$24.95 – Paperback / Headline Publishing Group
Maggie O'Farrell has now sold over a million books in the UK through Bookscan. She is consistently a hardback bestseller - THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE sold just over 15,000 copies in hardback alone. Buy or find out more→
Nothing Gold Can Stay
$29.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash returns again to Appalachia to capture lives haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear in unforgettable stories that span the Civil War to the present day. In... Buy or find out more→
Tasmania: The Tipping Point?
$27.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Tasmania, the smallest of Australia's states, has long been on the edge of national conversations about prosperity, equality and identity. In Tasmania: The Tipping Point? Griffith Review serves up strategic slices of Tasmania's... Buy or find out more→
Love with a Chance of Drowning: A Memoir
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
Love can make a person do crazy things . . . A city girl with a morbid fear of deep water, Torre DeRoche is not someone you would ordinarily find adrift in the middle of the stormy Pacific aboard a leaky sailboat – total... Buy or find out more→
Revenge
$24.95 – Paperback / Vintage
A woman goes into a bakery to buy a strawberry cream tart. The place is immaculate but there is no one serving so she waits. Another customer comes in. The woman tells the new arrival that she is buying her son a treat for his... Buy or find out more→
Belomor
$29.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Elegiac and seductive, Belomor is the frontier where truth and invention meet--where fragments from distant lives intermingle, and cohere. Buy or find out more→
The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers
$19.99 – 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 Bob... Buy or find out more→
I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
$35.00 – Paperback / Vintage
: 'There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.' Leonard Cohen The genius behind such classic songs as Suzanne, Bird on the Wire and Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen has been one of the most important and influential... Buy or find out more→
The Essential Leunig: Cartoons from a Winding Path
$49.99 – Hardback / Penguin Books Australia
Four hundred definitive cartoons spanning five decades From the vast repertoire created by Michael Leunig since 1965 comes this inspired selection of his most universal and timeless pieces. Such is his... Buy or find out more→
Jerusalem
$39.95 – Hardback / Ebury Press
Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi are the men behind the bestselling Ottolenghi: The Cookbook. Their chain of restaurants is famous for its innovative flavours, stylish design and superb cooking. At the heart of... Buy or find out more→
Grace: A Memoir
$39.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
Grace Coddington's celebration of fashion has danced along its cutting edge for over 30 years. Abandoning a highly lucrative career as a leading model on the 60s London scene, alongside such swinging contemporaries as Jean... Buy or find out more→
Song Reader
$35.00 – Hardback / Faber and Faber
A groundbreaking publication: Faber is releasing Beck's new 'album' in the form of twenty songs existing only as individual pieces of sheet music, never before released or recorded. Complete with full-colour,... Buy or find out more→
The Midnight Dress
$29.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
When a teenage girl disappears, a small town is awash with rumours: everyone is talking about the dress she wore, a midnight-blue dress made from the remnants of other dresses, a dress of stories ... Buy or find out more→
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
$19.99 – Paperback / Simon & Schuster Ltd
Charlie is a shy and introspective boy, a wallflower always standing on the edge of the action. He encounters many of the struggles familiar to everybody from their school days, but he must also deal with his best friend's suicide... Buy or find out more→
Just My Typo: From Sinning with the Choir to the Large Hardon Collider
$24.99 – Hardback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division
A compendium of funny typos, the perfect word-lovers'/pedants' stocking filler for Christmas 2012. From the sublime to the ridiculous, JUST MY TYPO is a hilarious collection of typographical errors, slips of the pen... Buy or find out more→
Artful
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Adapted from four lectures given by the author at Oxford University, this book offers a tidal wave of ideas in four thematically organised bursts of thought: 'On Time', 'On Form', 'On Edge' and 'On Offer and On Reflection'. It... Buy or find out more→
Paris Review Issue 202 (Autumn 2012)
$24.99 – Paperback / Canongate Books Ltd
The Paris Review is a groundbreaking publication bringing together fiction, poetry and prose from great writers all over the world. Its legendary interview series alone represents the single most important body of work that... Buy or find out more→
Trifle
$24.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
From al fresco dining to a formal dinner party, there's a trifle for every occasion. Simple step-by-step instructions show you how to make each component – the sponge cake, jelly and custard – while the recipes range... Buy or find out more→
Dickens at Christmas
$39.95 – Hardback / Vintage
It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas, and within these pages you'll certainly find all the elements of a quintessential traditional Christmas brought to vivid life: snowy rooftops, gleaming shop windows, steaming... Buy or find out more→
The 2013 Voiceless Anthology
$22.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
... a selection of lively, engaging and often passionately felt stories and essays revolving around one of the more urgent social and philosophical issues of our times. J.M. Coetzee, Winner of the 2003... Buy or find out more→
Wool
$24.95 – Paperback / Cornerstone
IS SEEING ALWAYS BELIEVING? How would you live in a world where… Grey skies are blue And air is unbreathable Where love is the greatest release And the deadliest bond Where every birth requires a... Buy or find out more→
The Toe Tag Quintet
$27.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
Retirement can be murder!The adventures of a former Sydney detective from 21 Division who, in his prime, collared some of the most murderous criminals in Australian history yet, on retiring to the Gold Coast in Queensland,... Buy or find out more→
This is Not a Test
$16.99 – Paperback / Griffin Publishing
It’s the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won’t stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a... Buy or find out more→
The Rolling Stones: 50
$39.95 – Hardback / Thames & Hudson Ltd
Celebrates the 50th anniversary of the greatest rock and roll band of all time - Rolling Stones. This title documents all of the albums, gigs and dramas in the bands unique, international history. It also features the work of... Buy or find out more→
Hallucinations
$29.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
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Feminist Ryan Gosling: Feminist Theory from Your Favorite Sensitive Movie Dude
$16.99 – Hardback / Running Press
What started as a silly way for blogger Danielle Henderson and her classmates to keep track of the feminist theorists they were studying in class quickly turned into an overnight sensation. Since its launch in October 2011, the... Buy or find out more→
Best European Fiction
$23.95 – Paperback / Dalkey Archive Press
2013 may be the best year yet for Best European Fiction. The inimitable John Banvillejoins the list of distinguished preface writers for Aleksandar Hemon s series, and A. S. Byatt represents England among a luminous cast of... Buy or find out more→
Things I Love
$49.99 – Hardback / Penguin Books Australia
A fun, inspiring and practical guide to loveable interiors. In Things I Love , interiors stylist extraordinaire and author of Home Love Megan Morton inspires by example, sharing her infectious enthusiasm for the houses, people and... Buy or find out more→
Fifty Sheds of Grey: A Parody: Erotica for the Not-too-modern Male
$19.99 – Hardback / Pan Macmillan
A compilation of shed erotica for the not-so-modern man 'Hurt me!' she begged, raising her skirt as she bent over the workbench. 'Very well,' I replied, 'You've got fat ankles and no dress sense.' Colin... Buy or find out more→
The Hobbit
$14.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A reluctant partner in this perilous quest is Bilbo Baggins, a comfort-loving unambitious hobbit, who surprises even... Buy or find out more→
Annual Fiction Edition: The Novella Project
$27.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
The annual Griffith REVIEW fiction edition is devoted to novellas. Shorter than a novel, longer than a story, the novella is the perfect length to read on the page or as an e-book. The Novella Project is a competition,... Buy or find out more→
Flinders: The Man Who Mapped Australia
$39.95 – Hardback / Hachette Australia
The exciting story of Matthew Flinders the man who named Australia and the first to chart its coastline. Matthew Flinders is a towering figure in Australian history the first to chart our coastline and the leading... Buy or find out more→
Both Flesh and Not
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected non-fiction, by the legendary David Foster Wallace Buy or find out more→
Citadel
$32.99 – Paperback / Orion Publishing Co
Combining the rugged action of Labyrinth with the haunting mystery of Sepulchre, Citadel is a story of daring and courage, of lives risked for beliefs and of astonishing secrets buried in time. Buy or find out more→
The Best Australian Stories 2012
$29.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
In The Best Australian Stories 2012, Sonya Hartnett compiles the year's most compelling short fiction from Australian authors. Buy or find out more→
Building Stories
$49.95 – Hardback / Vintage
Follows the inhabitants of a three-flat Chicago apartment house: a thirty-year-old woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life; a couple who wonder if they can bear each other's company for another... Buy or find out more→
The Diviners
$24.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
1920s New York. A teen clairvoyant. An old evil. It has begun... Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old home town and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City - and she is pos-i-tute-ly thrilled!... Buy or find out more→
By the Book: A Reader's Guide to Life
$29.99 – Hardback / Text Publishing Co
What is it about reading that we love so much? Why do books make our lives so much richer? Ramona’s Koval’s By the Book is about reading and living, and about the authors that have written themselves into her life:... Buy or find out more→
Whole Larder Love: Grow Gather Hunt Cook
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
Food is an integral part of our lives. And in recent years, more and more people have been asking questions about the food they eat: How does that food get to our plates? How was it grown? What chemicals were used? How was the... Buy or find out more→
Growing Honest Food: An Oasis of Italian Tradition in the Suburbs
$39.95 – Hardback / Hyland House Publishing Pty Ltd
A barren block of land in the Australian suburbs has, over a period of 30 years, been transformed by the Sicilianos' passion, daring, perseverance and hard work into a slice of the Calabrian countryside - a lush and wonderful... Buy or find out more→
Every Day
$19.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Can you love someone who is destined to change each day? Every morning, A wakes in a different person's body. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed.... Buy or find out more→
Like a House on Fire
$27.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
Read Helen Garner's interview with Cate Kennedy about Like a House on Fire... Buy or find out more→
Wolf Hall
$19.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe... Buy or find out more→
Bring Up the Bodies
$32.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
The sequel to the Man Booker-winning Wolf Hall. Buy or find out more→
The Best American Short Stories
$21.95 – Paperback / Mariner Books
Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Tom Perrotta, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary "antenna for what is going on in the world" (Chicago Tribune). The collection boasts great... Buy or find out more→
A Corner of White
$27.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
The first in a rousing, funny, genre-busting trilogy from bestseller Jaclyn Moriarty! This is a tale of missing persons. Madeleine and her mother have run away from their former life, under mysterious circumstances, and... Buy or find out more→
Sufficient Grace
$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
Read Deborah Robertson's interview with Amy Espeseth here. A revealing, evocative, and... Buy or find out more→
Telegraph Avenue
$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
The immensely gifted writer and magical prose stylist Michael Chabon delivers another bravura epic (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) -- a big-hearted, exhilarating novel exploring the profoundly intertwined lives of two... Buy or find out more→
Postcards from The New Yorker: One Hundred Covers from Ten Decades
$29.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
"The New Yorker" was launched in 1925, and offers reporting, criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, humour, and cartoons. From the very outset, the founders, Harold Ross and Jane Grant, declared that their sophisticated magazine... Buy or find out more→
Mine-field: The Dark Side of Australia's Resource Rush
$24.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
‘It is not a case of governments and companies putting royalties and profits before people; instead it is as though people don’t matter at all …’ In Mine-Field, Paul Cleary counts the true cost of Australia’s... Buy or find out more→
Train Dreams
$24.99 – Hardback / Granta Books
Finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the... Buy or find out more→
Umbrella
$27.99 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The major new novel by the author of Great Apes, How the Dead Live and The Book of Dave Buy or find out more→
American Stories: Tales of Hope and Anger
$29.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
An engrossing account of America on a knife's edge by one of Australia's most well known journalists. In July 2009, Michael Brissenden, political editor for The 7.30 Report, moved to Washington to take up a new role as... Buy or find out more→
Sweet Tooth
$29.95 – Paperback / Vintage
Britain, 1972. Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services in her final year at Cambridge. The cultural cold war continues and the country is being torn... Buy or find out more→
Shadow Show: An Anthology of Original Short Fiction by 26 Authors, Each of Whom Was Inspired by the Legendary Work of Ray Bradbury
$22.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers Inc
What do you imagine when you hear the name . . . Bradbury? You might see rockets to Mars. Or bizarre circuses where otherworldly acts whirl in the center ring. Perhaps you travel to a dystopian future, where... Buy or find out more→
The Rise of the Fifth Estate: Social Media and Blogging in Australian Politics
$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
The Rise of the Fifth Estate is the first book to examine the emergence of social media as a new force in the coverage of Australian politics.It makes use of original research to reveal who makes up the Australian political... Buy or find out more→
The Dinner
$29.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Paul Lohman and his wife Claire are going out to dinner with Paul's brother Serge, a charismatic and ambitious politician, and his wife Babette. Paul knows the evening will not be fun. The restaurant will be over-priced and... Buy or find out more→
The Marmalade Files
$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
An imaginative romp through the dark underbelly of politics by two veteran Canberra insiders.When seasoned newshound Harry Dunkley is slipped a compromising photograph one frosty Canberra dawn he knows he's onto something... Buy or find out more→
The Twelve
$26.95 – Paperback / Orion Publishing Co
The epic story of THE PASSAGE continues Buy or find out more→
Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream
$34.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
Neil Young is an iconic figure in the history of rock and pop culture (inducted not once but twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame). This title offers an overview of his personal life and musical career, spanning his time in... Buy or find out more→
James Halliday Australian Wine Companion
$36.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books
Buy a copy of James Halliday's 2013 Wine Companion in-store or online during August to go in the running to win a case of Brown Brothers wine - rated 5 our of 5 stars by Halliday himself in the 2013... Buy or find out more→
Beneath the Darkening Sky
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
Read Alice Pung's interview with Majok Tulba, author of Beneath The Darkening... Buy or find out more→
The Night Circus
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
In 1886 a mysterious travelling circus becomes an international sensation. Open only at night, constructed entirely in black and white, the Cirque des Rêves delights all who wander its circular paths and warm themselves at its... Buy or find out more→
Kill Your Darlings Issue 10
$19.95 – Paperback
Kill Your Darlings is a quarterly publication that includes a mix of commentary, essays, reviews and new Australian fiction. This issue features work from journalist and award-winning writer Gideon Haigh, brilliant new fiction... Buy or find out more→
State of Wonder
$19.99 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The #3 New York Times Bestseller Buy or find out more→
The Age Good Bar Guide 2012
$9.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
THE GOOD BAR GUIDE team is on the trail, testing cocktail making skills, wine lists, beer knowledge, bar snacks and attitude. Firm but fair, we'll direct you to the best bar experiences in town and beyond, whether you're in the... Buy or find out more→
Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian
$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Eoin Colfer's final instalment in the bestselling Artemis Fowl series! Is this Armageddon for Artemis Fowl? Opal Koboi, power-crazed pixie, is plotting to exterminate mankind and become fairy... Buy or find out more→
Fire in the Sea
$19.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Winner of the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing, 2011 Sadie is sixteen and bored with life in Perth. It’s summer, and lazing on the beach in the stifling heat with her cousins and Tom is... Buy or find out more→
The Cat's Table
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly 'Cat's Table' with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two other boys. As the ship makes its way across the... Buy or find out more→
Crossing to Safety
$22.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams Afterword by T. H. Watkins Called a “magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher inThe Washington Post Book... Buy or find out more→
Leaving the Atocha Station
$27.99 – Paperback / Granta Books
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. Instead of following the dictates of his... Buy or find out more→
Toyo: A Memoir
$29.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
Toyo learned to ask nothing, to wait and count the days. But they passed and passed and still the doorway remained empty of his deep voice, calling out her name. Blending the intimacy of memoir with an artist's... Buy or find out more→
The Prisoner of Heaven
$29.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
The third in a series of novels that began with The Angel’s Game and The Shadow of the Wind. The Prisoner of Heaven returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop. It begins... Buy or find out more→
Gold
$33.00 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division
The extraordinary new novel from the author of international bestseller THE OTHER HAND. Buy or find out more→
All of it: A Memoir of Love, Fear and Art
$29.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Bestselling author Bev Aisbett′s no-nonsense text, combined with her insightful cartoon images, have reassured countless people seeking help for anxiety. Now, she reveals the deep spirit that lies behind these deceptively... Buy or find out more→
Death Comes to Pemberley
$19.99 – Paperback / Faber and Faber
P. D. James masterfully recreates the world of Pride and Prejudice, and combines it with the excitement and suspense of a brilliantly-crafted crime story. The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six... Buy or find out more→
2312
$29.95 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group
Robinson (Galileo's Dream) delivers a challenging, compelling masterpiece of science fiction. In a spectacularly depicted future of interplanetary colonization, humanity has spread across the entire solar system, from... Buy or find out more→
This Is How You Lose Her
$27.99 – Paperback / Faber and Faber
Junot Diaz's new collection, This Is How You Lose Her, is a collection of linked narratives about love - passionate love, illicit love, dying love, maternal love - told through the lives of New Jersey Dominicans, as... Buy or find out more→
Meanjin
$24.99 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
The literary magazine, Meanjin reflects the breadth of contemporary thinking and writing through essays, interviews, memoir, fiction, poetry and visual art. Highlights include Neil Armfield remembering Patrick White;... Buy or find out more→
The Kingdom and the Quarry: China, Australia, Fear and Greed
$29.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
China has rapidly become Australia’s most important trading partner. It is also the rising power in our region. In The Kingdom and the Quarry David Uren takes us inside the high-stakes world of the two countries’ relationship.... Buy or find out more→
Bring Up The Bodies Special Signed Limited Ed
$55.00 – Hardback
Winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize Please note, special price available for a limited time only. The sequel to Hilary Mantel's Booker-winning Wolf Hall. ‘My boy Thomas, give him a... Buy or find out more→
The Cook
$29.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Read Wayne Macauley's interview with Ben Pobjie about The Cook. Power through service, says Head... Buy or find out more→
Living, Thinking, Looking
$22.99 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division
A dazzling collection of essays by the bestselling author of What I Loved - thought-provoking, engaging, illuminating reflections on what it means to be human. Buy or find out more→
Winter Journal
$29.99 – Paperback / Faber and Faber
In Winter Journal, Auster presents the abandonment of the family by his father from his mother's point of view: her struggle as a single mother; love found again late in life, a love that was short-lived; her troubled... Buy or find out more→
Green Monkey Dreams
$19.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
A brilliant collection of stories full of ideas and memorable images. Beauty and death, hatred and love, hope and despair join to spawn roads of paradox that branch from reality into myth and imagination. Winner of the Aurealis... Buy or find out more→
City of Lost Souls
$19.95 – Paperback / Walker Books Australia
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 book of... Buy or find out more→
Mildred Pierce Dvd
$19.95
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→
A Game of Thrones: Graphic Novel, Volume One
$24.99 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers
George R. R. Martin's epic fantasy masterwork A Game of Thrones is brought to life in the pages of this full-color graphic novel. This is the first volume in what is sure to be one of the most coveted collaborations of the year. Buy or find out more→
Darth Vader and Son
$17.95 – Hardback / Chronicle Books
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 / Granta Publications Ltd
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?
$27.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
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→
More: The Architecture of Lyons 1996-2011
$99.95 – Hardback / Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
Presents images, plans, sketches and notes from Lyons - one of Australia's most significant architectural practices - from key projects cross the country. Known for their major commercial, institutional, educational... Buy or find out more→
Transit of Venus: 1631 to the Present
$59.95 – Hardback / UNSW Press
The transit of Venus across the sun in June 2012 will be the last chance in our lifetime to see this rare planetary alignment that has been so important in history. Rich in historical detail and cutting edge science, along with... Buy or find out more→
Metro Winds
$24.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
A girl is sent across the world to discover her destiny in the dark tunnels of the Metro. Another seeks a lost sister in a park where winter lasts forever. A young man fulfils a dying wish. A mother works magic to summon a true... Buy or find out more→
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)
$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Internet star Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut. Here she takes listeners on a hilarious journey through her life, recalling her redneck upbringing in rural Texas, her devastatingly awkward high school years, and... Buy or find out more→
The Weight of a Human Heart
$27.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
Read our Q&A with Ryan O'Neill about The Weight of a Human Heart. Sometimes comic, sometimes... Buy or find out more→
Madlands: A Journey to Change the Mind of a Climate Sceptic
$29.99 – Paperback / Melbourne University 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... Buy or find out more→
Jamie's 30-Minute Meals
$49.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
Shows that, by mastering a few tricks and being organized and focused in the kitchen, it is absolutely possible, and easy, to get a complete meal on the table in the same amount of time you'd normally spend making one dish. Buy or find out more→
Paris In Love
$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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... Buy or find out more→
The Beginner's Goodbye
$29.95 – Paperback / Vintage
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 Dorothy... Buy or find out more→
Fifty Shades of Grey
$17.95 – Paperback / Cornerstone
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... Buy or find out more→
When I Was a Child I Read Books
$39.99 – Hardback / Little, Brown Book Group
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 a... Buy or find out more→
Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott
$19.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
Read our Q&A with David Marr about Political Animal here. Tony Abbott is the... Buy or find out more→
Leaving the Atocha Station
$23.95 – Paperback / 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 National... Buy or find out more→
The Hanging Garden
$29.95 – Hardback / Random House Australia
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 died in... Buy or find out more→
The Hunger Games
$18.99 – Paperback / Scholastic
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 the death on live TV. But Katniss has been close to death before - and survival,... Buy or find out more→
The Fine Colour of Rust
$24.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
Read our Q&A with Paddy O'Reilly about The Fine Colour of Rust. Single mother and dreamer... Buy or find out more→
The Doors
$32.99 – Hardback / Faber and Faber
The author saw the Doors band many times at the legendary Filmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. This title tells the story of the band. Buy or find out more→
A Tiger in Eden
$22.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Read our Q&A with Chris Flynn about A Tiger in Eden. Beautiful beaches, sexy young backpackers, cheap... Buy or find out more→
Mateship with Birds
$19.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
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 tree near his house. Harry observes the kookaburras through a year of feast, famine,... Buy or find out more→
The Long Earth
$32.95 – Paperback / Transworld Publishers Ltd
1916:the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where have the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land... Buy or find out more→
Blue Nights
$27.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
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 Joan... Buy or find out more→
The Sense of an Ending
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
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, rumour and wit. May be Adrian was a little more... Buy or find out more→
History Of Books
$26.95 – Paperback / Giramondo Publishing Co
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→
The Stranger's Child
$19.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
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... Buy or find out more→
Indigenous Australia For Dummies
$39.95 – Paperback / John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd
A comprehensive, relevant, and accessible look at all aspects of Indigenous Australian history and culture What is The Dreaming? How many different Indigenous tribes and languages once existed in Australia? What is the... Buy or find out more→
Sea Hearts
$19.99 – Paperback / 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. Buy or find out more→
Existence - Limited Edition 3d Cover
$30.00 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group
Bestselling, award-winning futurist David Brin returns to globe-spanning, high concept SF Buy or find out more→
Rosemary Dobson - Collected Poems
$27.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF AN AUSTRALIAN LITERARY LUMINARY Since the publication of her first book in 1944, Rosemary Dobson has built a reputation as one of Australia’s most important poets. This volume collects and... Buy or find out more→
Into The Woods: The Battle For Tasmania's Forests
$19.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
For decades, the Tasmanian wilderness has been the site of bitter struggle. Sawmillers and police face off with protestors deep in the forest, while political games are played in the courts and parliaments. At stake is the future... Buy or find out more→
Reframe How To Solve The Worlds Trickiest Problems
$29.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
In the tradition of Freakonomics and The Tipping Point, Reframe brings a fresh perspective to our toughest political problems. This is a book by a young Australian thinker that turns conventional thinking on its head. Buy or find out more→
Fall Girl
$19.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
A conwoman and a millionaire meet in a story about passion and loyalty, deceit and integrity, and the importance of believing in things that don't exist. Buy or find out more→
The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers
$29.95 – 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 Bob... Buy or find out more→
Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation
$19.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
Why are Australians so disenchanted and angry when it comes to politics? Given how well the country is going, by all rights we should be delighted with our political leadership. And yet we’re not. In Quarterly Essay 46,... Buy or find out more→
Riding The Trains In Japan Travels In The Sacred And Supermodern East
$29.95 – Paperback / Transit Lounge Publishing
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 starting point... Buy or find out more→
The Casual Cyclist Guide to Melbourne
$19.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books
“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→
77 Shadow Street
$32.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
The stunning new thriller from the bestselling author of The Dead Town and What the Night Knows. Buy or find out more→
Panic
$29.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
Australians see themselves as a relaxed and tolerant bunch. But scratch the surface and you'll uncover an extraordinary level of panic about politics, art, sexuality, drugs, boat people, protest, religion and terror. Through it... Buy or find out more→
The Fault in Our Stars
$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
John Green is the best-selling author of Looking for Alaska; An Abundance of Katherines; Paper Towns; Will Grayson, Will Grayson and can be found on the WWW at johngreenbooks.com. The reviewers say: 'A novel of life and death and... Buy or find out more→
Common Loss
$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Washington Square Press fiction original trade --T.p. verso. Buy or find out more→
Melbourne
$29.95 – Hardback / NewSouth Publishing
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 degrees to the destructive deluge of a hailstorm. She walks through... Buy or find out more→
Her Father's Daughter
$29.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
Read our Q&A with Alice Pung about Her Father's Daughter. From the bestselling author of... Buy or find out more→
A Game of Thrones: Book 1 of a Song of Ice and Fire
$19.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
The first volume in the hugely popular and highly acclaimed epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire. There is passion here, and misery and charm, grandeur and squalor, tragedy, nobility and courage. Now a major HBO TV... Buy or find out more→
I Curse the River of Time
$19.95 – Paperback / 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... Buy or find out more→
Sarah Thornhill
$29.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
A new novel from Kate Grenville and a journey back to the Thornhill family of the bestselling The Secret River Buy or find out more→
Forty-six Square Metres of Land Doesn't Normally Become a House: Maximising Living Space - Australia and New Zealand
$70.00 – Hardback / Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
Stuart Harrison writes about residential architecture again in Forty-six square Metres Doesn't Normally Become a House, this time exploring how the constraints of space often result in the most innovative results. Buy or find out more→
Indochine: Baguettes and Bank Mi: Finding France in Vietnam
$69.99 – 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 deeper... Buy or find out more→
Women's Stuff
$59.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Australia
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 your... Buy or find out more→
A Tragedy in Two Acts: Marcus Einfeld and Teresa Brennan
$34.99 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
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 spent... Buy or find out more→
Blackwattle Creek
$29.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
From the winner of the 2011 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel comes a cracking new Charlie Berlin mystery. It's September 1957, two days before the VFL grand final, and Detective Sergeant Charlie Berlin, former bomber... Buy or find out more→
Looking For The Light On The Hill
$32.95 – Paperback / 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 the... Buy or find out more→
The Hunger Games
$10.00 – Paperback / Scholastic
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 the death on live TV. But Katniss has been close to death before - and survival,... Buy or find out more→
The Sleepers Almanac No. 7
$24.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books
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... Buy or find out more→
Sinning Across Spain: A Walker's Journey from Granada to Galicia
$29.99 – Paperback / Melbourne University 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... Buy or find out more→
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
$30.95 – Hardback / 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→
Look at Me
$19.99 – Paperback / Constable and Robinson
A fashion model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown with her face so badly shattered that it takes eighty titanium screws to reassemble it. She returns to New York still beautiful but oddly... Buy or find out more→
Before I Go to Sleep
$19.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love - all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the... Buy or find out more→
Swamplandia!
$20.95 – Paperback / Random House USA Inc
The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline and Swamplandia!, their island home in the Florida Everglades and gator-wrestling theme park, is swiftly being encroached upon by a sophisticated competitor known as The World... Buy or find out more→
Heels on Wheels: A Lady's Guide to Owning and Riding a Bike
$19.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books
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 modern... Buy or find out more→