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The Infinities
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: John Banville

The 'immortals' are musing on the humans down below and how they approach the dawning of a new day so differently from each other. In particular, they are presiding over one day in the lives of the family at the Arden estate, a family gathering together a

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Invisible
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Paul Auster

Adam Walker is a student at Columbia University with pretensions of becoming a poet when he attends a party and meets Rudolph Bern and his girlfriend, Margot. Years later, Adam will not be able to recall why he was at that party but the memory of it, mark

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Black Water Rising
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Attica Locke

Jay, a one-time bad boy, is now a practising lawyer and husband to Bernie who is pregnant with their first child. While he and Bernie are at a party on a boat, Jay becomes entangled in a dark investigation of murder when he saves a woman from drowning. Th

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Too Much Happiness
Price: AUD 49.95 Author: Alice Munro

If there is a theme to join the ten stories in this collection together, it is that human relationships are fragile, beautiful, terrible, destructive and uplifting all at once. Alice Munro is justly considered one of Canada's most remarkable writers.

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Her Fearful Symmetry
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Audrey Niffenegger

As Elspeth passes from this life, she begins a chain of events that will alter the destiny of her twin nieces and 'keep' Elspeth here beyond her corporeal self. Julia and Valentina Poole had no idea they had an aunt living in London let alone that she int

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The Year of the Flood
Price: AUD 45.00 Author: Margaret Atwood

Only two women have survived the natural disaster that had been anticipated by Adam One, the leader of God's Gardeners, where science and religion co-exist. The women will need to join forces to survive while Adam One strives to protect his followers in t

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The Cry of the Sloth
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Sam Savage

Andrew Whittaker is a letter writer who increasingly cannot leave his woes off the page. By nature a depressive, Andrew expands his writing to quite desperately odd grocery lists. He is a man who could change his life if only he had the energy or the int

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Stardust
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Joseph Kanon

When Ben Collier refuses to accept his brother Daniel's death as suicide and travels to Hollywood where Daniel was a filmmaker, he enters the darkest period in the history of the American film industry. It is 1945 and suspicion and subterfuge are the orde

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The Wild Things (slipcased edition)
Price: AUD 59.95 Author: Dave Eggers

Maurice Sendak's classic Where the Wild Things Are is about to be released as a movie, a collaboration between Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers. To tie in with that release, there is a novelisation and a special slipcased edition that showcases Dave Eggers' i

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Love and Summer
Price: AUD 45.00 Author: William Trevor

The people of the small Irish town, Rathmoye, pass their days in the usual fashion, going about their business and dreaming their private dreams. When a man comes to town to photograph the burnt-out cinema on the day of Mrs. Connulty's funeral, his intent

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The Gourmet
Price: AUD 29.95 Author: Muriel Barbery

Pierre Arthens has spent his life indulging in food and writing critical reviews read with trepidation by chefs and restaurateurs alike. Now, with days left to live, he is obsessed with rediscovering one gourmet taste that has eluded him for years. This n

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The Museum of Innocence
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Orhan Pamuk

Kermal's Istanbul is one of privilege and certainty but when he falls in love with someone other than the bride who is waiting for him he will discover the Istanbul of back streets, cafes, and small family homes. As he and his lover steal moments together

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The Wild Things
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Dave Eggers

Maurice Sendak's classic Where the Wild Things Are is about to be released as a movie, a collaboration between Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers. To tie in with that release, there is a novelisation and a special slipcased edition that showcases Dave Eggers' i

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The Gladiator
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Simon Scarrow

Described as "Spartacus meets Master and Commander", Simon Scarrow's Roman Empire series continues with The Gladiator. Ajax is a fearless and vengeful gladiator, set to battle for ultimate power against two Centurions, Macro and Cato.

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Day After Night
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Anita Diamant

Four women – Shayndel, Leonie, Tedi, Zorah – are all survivors of the Holocaust but interned in a prison for illegal immigrants. Based on a true story, Anita Diamant imbues her characters with all the human traits that living through unspeakable tragedy a

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Half Broke Horses
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Jeannette Walls

Writing it in novel form, Jeannette Walls recounts the story of her grandmother, born in 1901. Leaving her Texan home where she breaks in horses with her father, Lily Casey Smith sets out to travel five hundred miles on horseback to a new town to take up

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Inherent Vice
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Thomas Pynchon

Set in the surfing, drugs and rock-and-roll subculture of Los Angeles in the late sixties, Pynchon's new book is nominally a crime novel. A private detective becomes embroiled in the case of a (possibly) kidnapped property developer and a murdered bodygua

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Ordinary Thunderstorms
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: William Boyd

At times of great social nervousness over the economic situation comes a novel about change. Adam is a climatologist, secure in his place in his home environment of England. However, a decision taken in a fleeting moment will spell the unravelling of all

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Lustrum
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Robert Harris

Lustrum follows Imperium (a tour-de-force) and we are once again in the company of Cicero and the slave, Tiro. Caesar, Pompey, Crassus, Cato, and others are, along with Cicero, embroiled in political intrigue, and the danger that is Rome in 63 BC. Robert

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The Lacuna
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Barbara Kingsolver

Harrison Shepherd is a totally fictional creation surrounded in this novel by real people who are represented with attention to the detail of their lives. Diego Riera, Frida Kahlo, Douglas Macarthur, and J. Edgar Hoover all feature in this examination of

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Generation A
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Douglas Coupland

Generation X, Douglas Coupland's 1991 debut novel, now has a bookend partner, Generation A. This is the new world where an individual can be at one end of the planet but share a common experience with someone at the opposite end of the world. This is a no

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Last Night in Twisted River
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: John Irving

When twelve year-old Daniel inadvertently kills the girlfriend of the local policeman, Constable Carl is intent on revenge. The fact that Daniel mistook Jane (the girlfriend) for a bear is not going to help as it is widely known the Constable doesn't beli

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The Disappeared
Price: AUD 29.99 Author: Kim Echlin

With ten years intervening, two lovers attempt to rekindle their relationship despite the outside world encroaching on their life together. Cambodia in the time of Pol Pot is both the backdrop and third character of this haunting novel.

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The World Beneath
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Cate Kennedy

Twenty-five years on from their environmental activism in the Tasmanian wilderness, Rich and Sandy are middle-aged and parents to a fifteen-year old daughter. Rich decides to return to Tasmania with his daughter, someone he hardly knows, to once again walk in the wilderness but the trip will result in momentous change for all three people.

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Noah’s Compass
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Anne Tyler

Liam is beginning to wind down from his life. He has lost his job and is noticing his memory is not what it should be for a man in his sixties. He has moved into an apartment in Baltimore that seems to be a meeting place for all the people in his life even though he doesn’t necessarily want or need them with him – his ex-wife, his daughters, his sister, his grandson. Liam is surrounded by people yet cannot shake the feeling he is largely unimportant in the grand scheme of life.

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Transition
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Iain Banks

In typical Iain Banks style, Transition is a novel of multiple layers and amazing characters. The Concern is the name of an organisation that is powerful and persuasive and which has many operatives working across society. When it has to grapple with a potential traitor in its midst, the whole world is turned into an unforgiving and unstable place.

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A Disobedient Girl
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Ru Freeman

Latha and Biso, two women separated by years, are bound together in this novel by the way in which each has to alter her destiny. Latha is an orphan who has been in service to a young girl her own age. Biso is a mother feeing with her children, away from her husband. The backdrop to their stories is Sri Lanka, the land in which the author was born.

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Summertime
Price: AUD 39.95 Author: J.M. Coetzee

With this work, Coetzee completes his trilogy, the two previous books of which were Boyhood and Youth. He contrives to explore his life by having as a main character a biographer who is focusing on the late John Coetzee’s life in Cape Town in the 1970s with his widowed father. The biographer draws on the memories of others to get a sense of Coetzee and finds a bookish, almost reclusive, person who was drawn back to his native land after years away.

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That Old Cape Magic
Price: AUD 34.95 Author: Richard Russo

Thirty years have elapsed since Jack Griffin was staying at Cape Cod. The first occasion he was on his honeymoon with Joy; now, he is back at the Cape for someone else’s wedding. The location is the backdrop to Jack’s assessment of his life and how closely reality has matched the plans he and his young bride had all those years ago.

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