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The Age Book of the Year Shortlist 2008 Fiction

Burning In
Mirielle Juchau

$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
Sara Knox

$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
JM Coetzee

$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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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 Good Parents
Joan London

$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 »

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