The Age Book of the Year Shortlist 2008 Fiction
Burning In
$27.95 (Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing )
In her late twenties, Martine Hartmann moves from Sydney to New York to pursue her career as a photographer, leaving behind her mother Lotte, a holocaust survivor. Nine years later, Martine's daughter Ruby goes missing i... More »
Orphan Gunner
$29.95 (Paperback book / Giramonndo )
A romance between two young Australian women, set in Bomber Command in Lincolnshire during the Second World War. Evelyn has escaped to England to become one of the few female pilots with the Air Transport Auxiliary. Jour... More »
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Diary Of A Bad Year
$35.00 (Hardcover book / Text Publishing )
A famous writer is commissioned to contribute to a book of
essays called Strong Opinions when he meets a young woman who lives
in his apartment tower.
He asks her to become his . . .
In the laundry room of her apartment ... More »
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The Good Parents
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Vintage )
Maya de Jong, an eighteen-year-old country girl from the West, comes to live in Melbourne and starts an affair with her boss, the enigmatic Maynard Flynn, whose wife is dying of cancer. When Maya's parents, Toni and Jaco... More »