The Henson Case
David Marr

$24.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )

The Australian Prime Minister called them 'absolutely revolting'. Their removal from a Sydney art gallery was hailed by the Daily Telegraph as a 'Victory for Decency'. Cate Blanchett and members of the arts community cla... More »

A Fraction Of The Whole
Steve Toltz

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

Meet the Deans.

Heroes or criminals?

Crackpots of visionaries?

Relatives or enemies?

It's a simple family story...

From the New South Wales bush to bohemian Paris, from sports fields to strip clubs, from the jungles of T... More »

Eat Pray Love: One Womans Search For Everything
Elizabeth Gilbert

$24.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )

It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love aff... More »

Quarterly Essay 31: Now Or Never: A Sustainable Future For Australia?
Tim Flannery

$15.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )

Professor Tim Flannery investigates the latest climate science and the challenges facing Australia and the world. He looks at what the Rudd government needs to do if the nation is to play its part in averting a global ca... More »

The Lieutenant
Kate Grenville

$45.00$39.95 (Hardcover book / Text Publishing )

In 1787 Lieutenant Thomas Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts, destined for New South Wales. As a young officer and a man of science, the shy and quiet Rooke is full of anticipa... More »

Guide To Ethical Supermarket Shopping
Ethical Consumer Group

$6.00 (Paperback book / The Ethical Consumer Group )

Our choices affect the world we live in - whether we see it or not, whether we like it or not. We are in fact powerful people, and especially so when our energies are put together.

Companies today are beginning to see th... More »

A Fraction Of The Whole
Steve Toltz

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

Meet the Deans.

Heroes or criminals?

Crackpots of visionaries?

Relatives or enemies?

It's a simple family story...

From the New South Wales bush to bohemian Paris, from sports fields to strip clubs, from the jungles of T... More »

The Clothes On Their Backs
Linda Grant

$33.00 (Trade paperback / Virago )

In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in ... More »

The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Atlantic Books )

Winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, brea... More »

The Sea Of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Hodder Headline )

At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and ... More »

The Northern Clemency
Philip Hensher

$49.99 (Hardcover book / Fourth Estate )

Beginning in 1974 and ending with the fading of Thatcher's government in 1996, 'The Northern Clemency' is Philip Hensher's epic portrait of an entire era, a novel concerned with the lives of ordinary people and history o... More »

The Secret Scripture
Sebastian Barry

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Faber )

Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up ... More »