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Denis Johnson
A classic of Twentieth-Century American Literature from one of America’s greatest living writers.
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Clarice Lispector
Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be…
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M.J. Hyland
Lou Connor wants to escape her life of poverty, so she travels from Sydney to the US as an exchange student. But her host-family, the Hardings - who live in…
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Kevin Gilbert
First published in 1973, Gilbert’s controversial account of Aboriginal affairs paints a disturbing image of the impact of the colonisation of Australia and the ongoing problems faced by the Aboriginal…
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Thomas Pynchon
Oedipa Maas, recent heiress, enquires into the nature of her inheritance- trying to understand her own life and the motivation of her dead lover, she is led on am ambiguous…
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Thea Astley
Wresting his family from the easy living of 19th-century Sydney, Cornelius Laffey takes them to northern Queensland where thousands of hopefuls are digging for gold in the mud. They confront…
Karl Ove Knausgaard
When the author becomes a father himself, he must balance the demands of caring for a young family with his determination to write great literature. This title tells his story.
Truman Capote
Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood is both a masterpiece of journalism and a powerful crime thriller.
Per Petterson
In the bitter cold of Danish Jutland, where the sea freezes over and the Nazis have yet to invade, a young girl dreams of one day going on a great…
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Siri Hustvedt
This is the story of two men who first become friends in 1970s New York, of the women in their lives, and of their sons, born the same year. Both…
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England.
Charles M. Schulz
Peanuts is the most popular comic strip in the history of the world. Its characters - Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, Schroeder, and so many more - have become dearly…
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