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The Pages
Price: $34.95 Author: Murray Bail

Setting out from Sydney are Erica and Sophie. They are travelling to the country to appraise the writings of a philosopher who has died on his family's farm. Their journey will have them facing many truths about their own lives.

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I Dream Of Magda
Price: $23.95 Author: Stefan Lasczuk

The opening pages of this book graphically describe a fatal car accident. Matthew survives the crash and now spends his life dreaming of falling in love with Magda Szubanski. And, then, there is his brother George (Harrison) who is afraid of the dark and worries about who might come in the night to watch him sleeping. And so we are welcomed into the Harrison family.

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A Guide to the Birds of East Africa
Price: $29.95 Author: Nicholas Drayson

Love will out and its declaration will be fuelled by all manner of strange behaviour. Mr. Malik is in love with the leader of his Tuesday morning bird walk, and he will do anything to ensure she comes to love him.

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Sea of Many Returns
Price: $32.95 Author: Arnold Zable

Xanthe dreams of Ithaca. She wants to connect with her father and his family, and with their travels from the old world to this life in Australia. Invoking Homer's Odyssey, Arnold Zable once again invites us to wander with him, through the landscape of me

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Dreamland
Price: $32.95 Author: Tom Gilling

Nick Carmody thinks admitting to someone else's crime is a simple case of doing a friend a favour. He quickly realises this one act will change his life forever and thrust him into a world where his real self disappears.

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The Dark Mountain
Price: $32.95 Author: Catherine Jinks

Using the details of a true story from the 1830s, Jinks explores the relationship between mother and daughter, and the burden of familial history. The setting is the Southern Highlands of NSW and the Oldbury estate.

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His Illegal Self
Price: $45.00 Author: Peter Carey

Raised by his overly protective grandmother, Che longs for news of his famous outlaw parents, student activists at Harvard during the 60s. Che's search for answers leads him to a hippy commune in Queensland where he must courageously face the truth about his own life.

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The Complete Stories
Price: $45.00 Author: David Malouf

Staff Review by Mary: 'We stood on opposite sides of the occasion'. A classic Malouf line, and one which exemplifies all I love in his writing. He writes with an economy that captures life-changing themes and places them amongst the ordinary, everyday li

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Landscape of Farewell
Price: $35.00 Author: Alex Miller

Max is a disillusioned German academic in the twilight of his years. When he is challenged by a young Australian visitor, his world suddenly expands to take in new horizons and old civilisations. His travels to Australia create the backdrop for Miller to

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The Lost Dog
Price: $35.00 Author: Michelle de Krester

When he goes missing from his owner, Tom Loxley's dog sets off a chain of events that encompass Australia and India. The 'lost dog' is the device used by the author to present a story of love and loss, of art and nature, and of the weight of history on th

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The Memory Room
Price: $32.95 Author: Christopher Koch

This is a tale of spies and of those who come after the spies have left, trying to expose the lives and the real people who were at work. Recently graduated, Vincent is recruited by ASIS, Australiaís overseas intelligence service. The intersections of h

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The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
Price: $29.99 Author: Mandy Sayer

One act results in three children desperately escaping their past and their violent father. But distance is no barrier to the secrets and scandals that surround Mark Stamp and his siblings. Once again, the author delivers a haunting and evocative tale set

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Rohypnol
Price: $23.95 Author: Andrew Hutchinson

This is a disturbing but brilliant portrayal of a world of disillusioned youth who do not recognise concepts of personal responsibility or guilt.

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Whitecap
Price: $32.95 Author: James Woodford

Research scientist Digby Stuart is comfortable in Bimbulla, studying the yearly journey of the albatross to Antarctica. However, this winter sinister secrets from the past throw his world into turmoil.

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The River Baptists
Price: $22.95 Author: Belinda Castles

The ubiquitous Australian town is a perfect setting for the exploration of human interaction. Rose is awaiting the arrival of her baby and seeking refuge from recent grief. However, Danny is about to enter her world.

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Love and the Platypus
Price: $32.95 Author: Nicholas Drayson

In 1883 William Caldwell arrives in Australia to determine whether platypuses are egg-laying. But which is the greater mystery: the breeding habits of the platypus or the workings of the human heart?

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The Gospel of Gods and Crocodiles
Price: $32.95 Author: Elizabeth Stead

Missionary Amen Morley arrives on a tropical island to find a community largely untouched by the modern world.

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Spiral Road
Price: $27.99 Author: Adib Khan

New from the award-winning author of Homecoming and Seasonal Adjustments.

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Orpheus Lost
Price: $32.99 Author: Janette Turner Hospital

In ancient myth, Orpheus travels to the underworld to rescue his lover from death. In this reimagining, Leela May travels into an underworld of kidnapping, torture and despair in search of her lover, Mishka.

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Price: $32.95 Author: Gail Jones

A new novel by the author of Sixty Lights. In the remote outback of Western Australia during World War II, an English anthropologist and his wife raise a lonely child, Perdita.

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The Crimes of Billy Fish
Price: $22.95 Author: Sarah Hopkins

A highly commended entry in the ABC Fiction awards, this novel explores redemption, the dark pervasiveness of addiction and violence, and the power of sibling love.

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The Time We Have Taken
Price: $27.99 Author: Steven Carroll

A celebration of the rhythms and intricacies of suburban life, and a meditation on its limitations. The story started in The Art of the Engine Driver and The Gift of Speed continues. Michael is at university, exploring new ideas and the heady world of gro

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A Curious Intimacy
Price: $27.95 Author: Jessica White

In the 1870s two remarkable women meet in a remote country town in Western Australia and form a bond that grows deeper then they could have imagined. But can their intimacy find acceptance in their conventional world?

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Love Without Hope
Price: $22.95 Author: Rodney Hall

The elderly Mrs Shoddy suffers acute depression as a result of a bushfire that kills her beloved horses. She loses her grip and is living in squalor when the district nurse finds her and has her committed to an insane asylum.

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The Secret of Lost Things
Price: $27.99 Author: Sheridan Hay

A debut from a new Australian writer - the story of a treasure hunt through the bookshops of New York. Based on actual documents the author found while doing research on Melville.

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Underground
Price: $29.95 Author: Andrew McGahan

The new novel from the Miles Franklin Award winner. Think ahead five or so years from now, to an Australia transformed by the never-ending war on terror. Canberra has been wiped out in a nuclear attack. There is a permanent state of emergency. Suspect min

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Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales for Girls
Price: $22.95 Author: Danielle Wood

A charming and thoroughly modern-day Scheherazade, Rosie shares with us her piquant and utterly engaging views on life and love, marriage and mating, desire and destiny as she tackles the sometimes thorny business of making her way through life.

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The Unknown Terrorist
Price: $32.95 Author: Richard Flanagan

Gina Davies, aka The Doll, is a 26-year-old pole dancer at the Chairman's Lounge in Sydney's Kings Cross. The evening of the Mardi Gras, 2007. Three unexploded bombs have been found that day at Homebush Stadium, so the country is on high-alert. When wande

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Every Move You Make
Price: $39.95 Author: David Malouf

A collection of stories by a brilliant writer. Bookish boys, taciturn men, strong women, wayward sons, fathers, daughters, lovers, husbands - here are their stories.

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