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Dvorak Cello Concertos
The Dvořák Cello Concerto in B Minor is well-known, both to cellists and concert goers alike. A work of surpassing beauty and Dvořák’s signature melodies, it was originally supposed to be premiered by Dvořák’s good friend, Hanuš Wihan. However there…
Report from the Interior by Paul Auster
Who is the ‘You’ that Paul Auster’s memories in Report from the Interior are addressed? Not even addressed, perhaps it is more accurate to say directed, by a giant wagging finger, a bit like Monty Python’s all-crushing foot. Auster’s new…
Twiggy by Andrew Burrell
John Andrew Henry Forrest was born in 1961. His great-great-uncle, Sir John Forrest, was a pioneering and forceful premier of Western Australia, and his parents ran a cattle property in the remote Pilbara. Growing up there, Forrest naturally acquired a…
A Country Too Far by Thomas Keneally & Rosie Scott
‘If the truth is silenced, lies can fill the space,’ says Geraldine Brooks in A Country Too Far, a stunning anthology and searing moral work that beautifully gives voice to the voiceless without preaching at any point. This work…
Moving Among Strangers by Gabrielle Carey
In Moving Among Strangers, Gabrielle Carey intertwines the histories of the reclusive Australian writer Randolph Stow, and that of her acutely reserved mother, Joan, who both grew up in Geraldton, Western Australia. Carey has lived most of her life…
Down in the City by Elizabeth Harrower
Far from the Newcastle shores of her youth, in 1950s London, Elizabeth Harrower penned her first novel, Down in the City. Staged in an ordinary apartment block in Sydney’s Kings Cross, the lives of two young couples and a…
The Two Hotel Francforts by David Leavitt
The Two Hotel Francforts is set in Lisbon in June of 1940, and revolves around the rapidly entwining lives of two American couples, the Frelengs and the Winters. Having left America in order to live la belle vie in Paris…
The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles by Katherine Pancol
Frumpy but loveable twelfth-century history boffin Josephine dispatches her adulterous husband and must confront life on the outskirts of Paris as a single, middle-aged mother of two daughters. When her beautiful but scheming Chanel-wearing sister Iris tempts her with a…
Cartwheel by Jennifer DuBois
Twenty-one year old Lily Hayes is an American college student studying in Argentina. Five weeks into her exchange program, she is arrested for the murder of her roommate, fellow American student Katy Kellers. The case becomes a media sensation and…
Subtle Bodies by Norman Rush
Ned, a California anti-war activist, and his wife Nina are trying to conceive – he is 48, she is 37, and the clock is ticking. When Ned, without warning, travels to upstate New York for the funeral of his eccentric…
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