Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006
Carry Me Down is a spell-binding psychological thriller about a boy's obsessive and dangerous desire to see the truth. A singular tale of disturbed love, it announces M. J. Hyland's arrival as a great writer.
M.J. Hyland
This Is How
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
From the author of the Man Booker-shortlisted Carry Me Down comes a novel of remarkable power and resonance.
When his fiancée breaks off their engagement, Patrick Oxtoby leaves home and moves into a boarding house in a r... Buy or find out more →
How The Light Gets In
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Lou Connor wants to escape her emotionally crass family and life of poverty, so she travels from Sydney to the USA as an exchange student. But her host-family, the Hardings – who live in a prefabricated mansion in a name... Buy or find out more →
This Is How (Unabridged Audio CD)
$56.95 – Compact disc / Louis Braille Audio
When his fiancee breaks off their engagement, Patrick Oxtoby leaves home and moves to a boarding house in a seaside town. Nothing goes to plan and Patrick is soon driven to take a desperate and chilling course of action.... Buy or find out more →
How The Light Gets In
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
I have read somewhere that a sheep raised by dogs will eventually learn to chase cars. But how long does it take to learn the tricks of another animal? How long will I need to live with the Hardings before I unlearn the ... Buy or find out more →
Carry Me Down
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006
Carry Me Down is a spell-binding psychological thriller about a boy's obsessive and dangerous desire to see the truth. A singular tale of disturbed love, it announces M. J. Hylan... Buy or find out more →
This Is How
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
From the author of the Man Booker-shortlisted Carry Me Down comes a novel of remarkable power and resonance.
When his fiancée breaks off their engagement, Patrick Oxtoby leaves home and moves into a boarding house in a r... Buy or find out more →
Booker Prize Shortlist 2006
Carry Me Down
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006
Carry Me Down is a spell-binding psychological thriller about a boy's obsessive and dangerous desire to see the truth. A singular tale of disturbed love, it announces M. J. Hylan... Buy or find out more →
In The Country Of Men
$32.95 – Paperback book / Viking
On a white-hot day in Tripoli, Libya, in the summer of 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman is shopping in the market square with his mother. His father is away on business - except that he is sure he has just seen his father, s... Buy or find out more →
Mother's Milk
$44.00 – Hardcover book / Picador
The novel's perspective ricochets among all members of the Melrose family – the family featured in St Aubyn's praised trilogy, Some Hope – starting with Robert, who provides an exceptionally droll and compelling account ... Buy or find out more →
The Night Watch
$24.95 – Paperback book / Virago
Sarah Water's wonderful new novel: The Night Watch is a move away from Victorian times. The background is of London finding its soul again after the bombings of the Second World War. Told backwards from 1947 to 1941, thi... Buy or find out more →
The Inheritance Of Loss
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
At the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, lives an embittered old judge who wants nothing more than to retire in peace. But with the arrival of his orphaned gran... Buy or find out more →