Sydney Writers' Festival 2011
Beijing Blur
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Penguin Books
When Sydney journalist James West lands a job at a state-run radio station in Beijing, he imagines he knows a lot about China.
Then he arrives, and finds himself at a rave, dancing on the Great Wall. But is one night of ... Buy or find out more →
Songs Of Blood And Sword
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
In September 1996, a fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto hid in a windowless dressing room, shielding her baby brother while shots rang out in the streets outside the family home in Karachi. This was the evening that her fat... Buy or find out more →
The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob De Zoet
$24.95$16.95 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline
Imagine an empire that has shut out the world for a century and a half. No one can leave, foreigners are excluded, their religions banned and their ideas deeply mistrusted. Yet a narrow window onto this nation-fortress s... Buy or find out more →
There Goes The Neighbourhood: Australia And The Rise Of Asia
$32.95 – Paperback book / New South Books
For the first time in history, Australia will be uncomfortably close to the designs and demarches of competing great powers. In the years ahead, we will no longer be too small to make a difference. In his book, Wesley po... Buy or find out more →
Beautiful Thing: Portrait Of A Bombay Bar Dancer
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
When Sonia Faleiro set out to report on Bombay's bar dancers, she thought she knew what she would find: downtrodden, voiceless women, the helpless victims of predictable poverty.
Instead she meets Leela: nineteen, charis... Buy or find out more →
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers "Chaos" and "Genius, " now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era's defi... Buy or find out more →
The Finkler Question
$22.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
Funny, furious, unflinching - an extraordinary novel from the award-winning giant of literature, Howard Jacobson.
Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disap... Buy or find out more →
Guantanamo: My Journey
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Heinemann
Guantanamo: My Journey is the first published account by David Hicks of the years leading up to his incarceration in the infamous US military detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, his time as a detainee, and his search for a... Buy or find out more →
Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin
$69.95 – Hardcover book / Lantern Books
This is a joint biography of architects Walter Burley Griffin, of Canberra fame, and his wife, Marion Mahony Griffin. After their formative years in Chicago - the centre of the Prairie School of architecture made most fa... Buy or find out more →
I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish - now known simply as 'the Gaza doctor' captured hearts and headlines around the world in the aftermath of horrific tragedy: on January 16, 2009, Israeli shells hit his home in the Gaza Strip, kill... Buy or find out more →
Even Silence Has An End
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
Ingrid Betancourt s astonishing, powerful and deeply moving account of her six-year ordeal in the Colombian jungle as a hostage of the terrorist organisation FARC.
Ingrid Betancourt s story – her exemplary courage, spiri... Buy or find out more →
Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
$34.95 – Paperback book / Spinifex Press
Pornland takes an unflinching look at pornography and its effect on our lives, showing that today's pornography is strikingly different from yesterday's Playboy. As porn culture has become absorbed into pop culture, a ne... Buy or find out more →
The Tiger's Wife
$29.99$24.95 – Trade paperback / Orion
Winner of the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction.
'Tea Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years.' - Colum McCann (and she's only 24!).
As Natalia and a friend travel across the former Yugoslavia, immunising vi... Buy or find out more →
The Lincoln Lawyer (Film Tie-In)
$19.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Michael Connelly, the author of the acclaimed Harry Bosch series, delivers blistering legal thrills with his story of a cynical defence attorney and a case that's not all it seems.
Mickey Haller is a despised breed of la... Buy or find out more →
By Nightfall
$27.99 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate
Peter and Rebecca Harris: mid-forties, married for nearly twenty years, committed careers in the arts - he an art dealer, she an editor. With a spacious loft in Manhattan′s Soho, they are admirable, enviable contemporary... Buy or find out more →