$35.00 – Hardcover book / Text Publishing / ISBN:9781921145636
Diary Of A Bad Year
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 block a young woman makes the acquaintance of an ageing writer. She agrees to type up his opinions, although she is aware that what he really desires . . . The young woman's boyfriend starts to spy on his neighbour and hatches a jealous plot to . . .
J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year is about loneliness, friendship and the possibility of love. It takes the reader from Australian democracy to Guantanamo Bay, from the meaning of dishonour to the creative truth of dreams. Written in a wholly innovative form for three simultaneous voices; enthralling, unexpected and deeply moving; Diary of a Bad Year may be the most original work of fiction to appear this year.
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... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out more →
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 ... Buy or find out more →
Breath
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton
Winner of the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award
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 ... Buy or find out more →
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... Buy or find out more →
