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The Corner is a devastating portrait of the American drugs war, from the creators of the award-winning series The Wire.

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New Fiction

 

This Is How
M.J. Hyland

$32.95$27.95 (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... More »

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Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel

$32.99 (Paperback book / Fourth Estate )

England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas ... More »

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One Day
David Nicholls

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Hodder Headline )

'I can imagine you at forty,' she said, with malice in her voice. 'I can picture it right now.' He smiled without opening his eyes. 'Go on then.' 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of th... More »

The Ice Age
Kirsten Reed

$27.95 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )

A teenage girl is in the passenger seat; the driver is an older man. As they criss-cross America, destined for who knows where, she watches him and wants…what he is, what he has. She sees the black looks and knowing smil... More »

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Between The Assassinations
Aravind Adiga

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Atlantic Books )

Welcome to Kittur,

an imaginary everytown nestling on the Indian coast south of Goa and north of Calicut. Journeying through its streets and schoolyards, bedrooms and businesses, its inner workings and outer limits, Arav... More »

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Armageddon In Retrospect
Kurt Vonnegut

$29.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )

First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace. Imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humour, the pieces ra... More »

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New Music

 

Hidden Hands

Jen Cloher and the Endless Sea

La Roux

La Roux

Miike Snow

Miike Snow

East Of Everything Season 2: Soundtrack

Various / Machine Translations

Salvador Dalí

Dalí's Mustache

Salvador Dalí, Philippe Halsman

Dalí (Taschen 25th Anniversary Edition)

Robert Descharnes and Gilles Neret

Salvador Dalí

Mary Ann Caws

Dalí

Robert Descharnes

Miles Franklin Shortlist 2009

Breath
Tim Winton

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

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 ... More »

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Breath
Tim Winton

$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 ... More »

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Wanting
Richard Flanagan

$35.00 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )

Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

It is 1839. A young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, is running through the long wet grass of an island at the end of the world to get help for her dying father, an Abori... More »

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The Slap
Christos Tsiolkas

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )

Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize

At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own.

This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group ... More »

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The Pages
Murray Bail

$23.95 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )

Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Erica Hazelhurst, a philosopher from Sydney, has been given a project by her university to work on the papers of the late Wesley Antill (The Pages). She travels acr... More »

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Ice
Louis Nowra

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )

Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

You have possessed me, let me go.



An iceberg is towed through the Heads to the astonishment of colonial Sydney. As it melts, the iceberg is revealed as a tomb to t... More »

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Siblings Without Rivalry

Faber Adele And Mazl

Modern Baker

Nick Malgieri

Nehrus Personal Histories

Mushirul Hasan

Ethnic Paris Cookbook

Charlotte Puckette And Olivia Kiang - Snaije

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