The Age's Recommended Books of 2013
The Flamethrowers
The year is 1977 and Reno - so called because of the place of her birth - has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Reno meets a group of dreamers and raconteurs who submit her to...
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A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
Tells in brutal detail the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour. In this title, the author touches on everything from family violence to sexuality and the...
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Eyrie
Divorced and unemployed, he's lost faith in everything precious to him. Holed up in a grim highrise, cultivating his newfound isolation, Keely looks down at a society from which he's retired hurt and angry. He's done fighting the...
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A Death in the Family: My Struggle Book 1
When the author becomes a father himself, he must balance the demands of caring for a young family with his determination to write great literature. This title tells his story.
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Floodline
Funny, moving and utterly compelling, Floodline tells of the unexpected salvation that can be found on the edge of disaster.
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Autobiography
It has been said 'Most pop stars have to be dead before they reach the iconic status that Morrissey has reached in his lifetime.'
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Two Boys Kissing
A chorus of men who died of AIDS observes and yearns to help a cross-section of today's gay teens who navigate new love, long-term relationships, coming out, self-acceptance, and more in a society that has changed in many ways.
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All The Way
Solange wants to have sex. Will it be with one of the boys at school? The exchange student? The fireman she meets at the disco when she sneaks out one night? Or with Arnaud, the coolest boy she knows? She'd like to see more of her...
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Welcome to Your New Life
When Anna Goldsworthy, pianist and perfectionist, falls pregnant with her first child, her excitement is tempered by the daunting journey ahead. In Welcome to Your New Life, she shares the dizzying wonder and crippling...
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The Best Australian Poems 2013
The Best Australian Poems , celebrated poet Lisa Gorton assembles an outstanding collection of poetry that will surprise and delight. Featuring poets at the peak of their creativity alongside those who have recently burst onto the...
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Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
Widely acclaimed as one of the world's most influential economists, Tyler Cowen returns with his groundbreaking follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Great Stagnation.
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Middlemarch
George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment...
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Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend
In this new edition Alistair Thomson explores how the Anzac legend has transformed over the past quarter century, how a 'post-memory' of the Great War creates new challenges and opportunities for making sense of the national past,...
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Birds and People
Part natural history and part cultural study, it describes and maps the entire spectrum of our engagements with birds, drawing in themes of history, literature, art, cuisine, language, lore, politics and the environment.
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Riders in the Chariot
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MALOUF Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu, Miss Hare wanders, half-mad. They place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. Now in one shared vision they find themselves...
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Inside The Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer
J Robert Oppenheimer is among the contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb - a...
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The Memory Trap
A novel about memory, music, friendship, family rifts and reconciliation, this is an intelligent, compelling read set in Melbourne.
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The Sex Lives Of Australians: A History,
Cross-dressing convicts, effeminate bushrangers and women-shortage woes - here is the first ever history of sex in Australia, from Botany Bay to the present-day. In this highly readable social history, Frank Bongiorno uses vivid...
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An Elegant Young Man
For a long time Western Sydney has been the political flash-point of the nation, but it has been absent from Australian literature. Luke Carman's first book of fiction is about to change all that: a collection of monologues and...
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Mullumbimby
A darkly funny novel of romantic love and cultural warfare from one of Australia's most admired Indigenous voices. When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping...
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino was due to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard in 1985-86, but they were left unfinished at his death. The surviving drafts explore of the concepts of lightness, quickness, multiplicity, exactitude...
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Tempo
Time and motion are undercurrents in these new poems by Sarah Day. Her subjects encompass the commonplace in the Australian landscape as well as the exotic or peculiar. These poems, individually and collectively, invite questions...
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Hotel Hyperion
By turns intimate and grand in scale, Gorton's new collection of poems features snow domes, storm glasses, museum display cases, an ancestral home and the air-locked rooms of a mythical space hotel: all images which contains...
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Goat Mountain
Three generations of men hunt for deer on Goat Mountain. One hot autumn day, grandfather, son and grandson discover a poacher on their land. The eleven-year-old studies the poacher through the scope of his father's rifle - and...
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Foster
A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when she will return home. In the strangers' house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to...
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The Good Parents
Maya de Jong, a country girl, comes to live in Melbourne and starts an affair with her boss. When Maya's parents, Toni and Jacob, arrive to stay with her, they are told by her housemate that Maya has gone away and no one knows...
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To the Lighthouse
'To the Lighthouse' was Virginia Woolf's fifth novel, and was the first book to win her a large public. The story of an English middle class family in the years leading up to the First World War, it has remained the most popular...
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Goodbye For Now
From the author of THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS. 'Very funny, yet so sad and thought-provoking too. I couldn't put it down' Liane Moriarty
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Blood
From the much-loved author of Shadowboxing comes a stunning debut novel in the tradition of Honey Brown, Chris Wommersley, and Kenneth Cook's Wake in Fright .
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Love is a Canoe
Love Is a Canoe is a smart, funny and romantic novel about the fragility of love and marriage. Peter Herman is something of a folk hero. Marriage Is a Canoe , his decades-old guide to love and relationships, won the hearts of...
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The Cheeky Monkey: Writing Narrative Comedy
A practitioners guide to the art that provides useful exercises to aid developing writers comedy-writing skills. It explores the seven distinct principles that have evolved for sitcom and takes the reader through each stage and...
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Carry a Big Stick: A funny, fearless life of friendship, laughter and MS
The frank and fearless story of a man fighting MS with comedy.
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Rabbit, Run
It is 1959 and, stuck with an alcoholic wife, a child and a futile job, Harry Rabbit Angstrom's powers of indecision are unlimited. And so he bounces like a ping-pong ball between a despairing wife and a demanding mistress, and...
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Waiting For The Barbarians
Coetzee - soon to be a major film starring Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson and Johnny Depp For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the...
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The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition, inspiring millions to revolution, forming the basis of political systems that still dominate countless lives and continuing to ignite violent...
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Sea Hearts
A mesmerising selkie novel from multi-award winning, internationally acclaimed Australian author, Margo Lanagan - one of the most exciting voices in speculative fiction.
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The Last Days of the National Costume
A charming and heartwarming novel about illicit love, sewing, blackouts and Belfast.
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The Hydrogen Sonata
A Sunday Times bestselling Culture novel from the UK's leading SF writer
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Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia
Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia. In this hilarious history, David Hunt tells the real story of Australia's past from megafauna to Macquarie, the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and...
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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
To be adapted into a major motion picture directed by Oscar-winning director Ang Lee
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The Generals
From the #1 bestselling author of Fiasco and The Gamble, an epic history of the decline of American military leadership from World War II to Iraq.
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Ephemeral Waters
Ephemeral Waters is a book-length poem, told by an Australian traveller, which follows the once-great Colorado River from its source in the central Rocky Mountains, through the American Southwest and the Sonoran...
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Bouncer
An unlikely candidate for the crowd control industry, Heath Lander recounts his journey from a hippy upbringing into the gritty and dangerous world of nightclub bouncing. As a university student, he takes up Kung Fu, a decision...
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At Mrs Lippincote’s
Elizabeth Taylor's first novel, published in 1945, hailed a brilliant new voice in twentieth-century literature.
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The Orphan Master’s Son
At a tender age, Pak Jun Do, is plucked from his orphanage of Long Tomorrows to be trained as a tunnel assassin, kidnapper and spy. How far can Jun Do go before he, too, is sent to the paradise beach of eternal retirement?
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Steeplechase
I force myself to take the phone away from my ear and search for the last incoming call. I store the number under one word, 'sister'. I know I should have used her name but it is all I can think of in this moment. Sister. My...
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Just Kids
Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe
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The Rehearsal
A high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power. But when the local drama school decides to turn the scandal into a show, the real world and the world of the theatre are...
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Feeling The Heat
Journalist Jo Chandler sets out on a quest that takes her across the Antarctic ice, under the seas and through the tropical rainforests of far north Queensland. Her mission is to explore one of the defining mysteries of our age -...
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The Rosie Project
A first-date dud, socially awkward, and overly fond of quick-dry clothes, Don Tillman has given up on love. Until a chance encounter gives him an idea.
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Kitty’s War
Kitty's War is based upon the previously unpublished war diaries of Great War army nurse Sister Kit McNaughton. Kit and historian Janet Butler grew up in the same Victorian district of drystone walls, wheatfields and meandering...
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