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The Age Book of the Year Shortlist 2009 Fiction

Ransom
David Malouf

$29.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Vintage )

With learning worn lightly and in his own lyrical language, David Malouf revisits Homer's ILIAD. Focusing on the unbreakable bonds between men - Priam and Hector, Patroclus and Achilles, Priam and the cart-driver hired t... More »

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Cooee
Vivienne Kelly

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )

Isabel Weaving, is not quite who she seems. True, she’s a daughter, a sister, a mother and an ex-wife, having escaped one unsatisfactory marriage, although not with her relationships with her children intact. Her second ... More »


Butterfly
Sonya Hartnett

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton )

Here is Plum Coyle, on the threshold of adolescence, striving to be new. Her fourteenth birthday is approaching: her old life and her old body will fall away, and she will become graceful, powerful, at ease. The strength... More »

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Things We Didn't See Coming
Steven Amsterdam

$24.95 (Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing )

It’s the anxious eve of the millennium. The car is packed to capacity, and as midnight approaches, a family flees the city in a fit of panic and paranoid, conflicting emotions.

The ensuing journey spans decades and off... More »

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Look Who's Morphing
Tom Cho

$24.99 (Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing )

This is a collection of brilliant stories about transformation, with the storyteller and his family shifting through identities drawn from comics, video games, daytime TV, porn flicks and movies, in fantasies of sexual a... More »

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