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Wonders of a Godless World
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Andrew McGahan

In a hospital on a tropical island, the wards are segregated across two buildings. The front wards are for general patients whilst the back wards are for the dying and insane. One ward, right at the end, is euphemistically called the crematorium and it is

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Sons of the Rumour
Price: AUD 39.99 Author: David Foster

The Arabian Nights forms the basis for this tale of Al Morrisey, a middle-aged man who is not, to say the least, enjoying a calm existence. His marriage has failed and his dreams, as well as being invaded by his mother, all have a Persian connotation. Thi

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Parrot & Olivier in America
Price: AUD 49.95 Author: Peter Carey

Peter Carey's new novel is a highly entertaining, historical romp set in the first half of the nineteenth century. It revolves around the lives of the two, very different, main characters and their turbulent relationship. Olivier is the scion of an aristo

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Lovesong
Price: AUD 39.99 Author: Alex Miller

Alex Miller is one of those writers I've had on my "to read" list for a long time and I finally got around to it with his latest offering, Lovesong. This deftly crafted story, set in Paris and Melbourne, delves into the intimate loves and relationships of

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The Umbrella Club
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: David Brooks

From the author of The Fern Tattoo, this novel tells the story of two men who meet on the battlefields of France. They forge a friendship that will see them survive the war, take up hot air ballooning, and then compel one to search out the reasons for the

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Stealing Picasso
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Anson Cameron

The theft of Picasso�s Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria in 1986 is the basis for this novel. The main character is Harry Broome, an artist in need of money and reputation, who becomes embroiled in a plot to steal the Picasso.

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After the Fire, a Still Small Voice
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Evie Wyld

This debut novel focuses on male friendships and the way in which men come to terms with the events in their lives. Frank moves to the coast from Sydney in an attempt to rebuild his life after a failed relationship. Leon was also a Sydneysider, but lived there forty years before Frank. As the novel progresses the two lives intersect.

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88 Lines about 44 Women
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Steven Lang

Lawrence Martin met Roly at school in England, travelled to Australia with him, and shared the songwriting with him for his rock band. It is only very much later in the friendship that Lawrence realises all was not quite as it seemed.

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Ransom
Price: AUD 29.95 Author: David Malouf

The “Troy” story as imagined in David`s internal literary life.

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The Lost Life
Price: AUD 29.99 Author: Steven Carroll

It is 1934 and two couples are making their way to the rose garden at Burnt Norton, an abandoned estate in the English countryside. One couple is T.S. Eliot and Emily Hale; the other is Catherine and Daniel, young students on the threshold of adulthood. Eliot and Hale mistakenly believe they are all alone but Catherine and Daniel will be silent witnesses to perhaps the most significant moment in the older couple`s lives.

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Reunion
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Andrea Goldsmith

This story opens with Jack driving in peak hour traffic in Melbourne musing on the reunion that is about to take place with his university friends. Twenty years have passed since Jack, Ava, Helen, and Conrad were together and this reunion, like all such, shall be both pleasurable and painful as they unearth long-forgotten memories and tensions.

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The Marriage Club
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Kathy Legge

Leith Kremmer learnt about secrets very early on in life, as her formative years were peppered with unexpected and unintended family revelations. After her sudden death, her family and friends realise just how adept she was about keeping secrets.

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The Book of Emmett
Price: AUD 23.95 Author: Deborah Forster

The Book of Emmett is a powerful portrayal of the very complicated and damaging relationships within families. We are not privy to an in-depth analysis of Emmett but rather to fragments of his life and character that impact so tellingly on his wife and children. Deborah Forster has captured the intensity of the fear and mystery associated with living with an all powerful, destructive and unpredictable figurehead while also exposing the guilt and sadness associated with not being able to communicate or truly understand that which is feared. The repercussions continue long after the fear has faded.

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Jasper Jones
Price: AUD 29.99 Author: Craig Silvey

In the summer of 1965 a gruesome discovery in a West Australian mining town leads to an unlikely friendship between bookish thirteen-year old Charlie Bucktin and town pariah Jasper Jones. Despite some minor misgivings – mainly the overdeveloped worldliness of the teenage characters – I found this to be an enjoyable and intriguing story.

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Valley of Grace
Price: AUD 29.95 Author: Marion Halligan

The setting is suburban Paris where Gerard has purchased an old house. His discoveries in the attic of the house will form the thread through which several people’s lives are connected. Marion Halligan weaves a story of love and family, of academia, and of boundaries placed on love by social mores.

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A Most Immoral Woman
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Linda Jaivin

George Ernest Morrison, an Australian, is the Peking correspondent for The Times of London and about to fall in love. Mae Perkins is the daughter of an American millionaire. They will meet against the backdrop of political turmoil and will embody the intricacies of cultural difference between westerners, and between the west and Asia.

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Butterfly
Price: AUD 29.95 Author: Sonya Hartnett

Plum Coyle is about to turn fourteen and with this particular birthday will be facing the disruptive teenage years. Her older brothers are testing their boundaries in the awaiting adult world and her friends are closing in on her inability to cope with all that is happening. Hartnett draws an unforgettable character in Plum and reminds every female reader of what it was to be a teenager.

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The Rip
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Robert Drewe

This collection of thirteen short stories transports the reader from the coastline of Australia to many foreign landscapes, both physical and metaphorical.

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Deception
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Michael Meehan

Nick Lethbridge is an Australian studying in London when he decides to spend the summer in Paris tracing his family roots. He knows his great-grandfather was deported to the Pacific after the fall of Paris. He remembers his grandmother’s home in South Australia near Mount Deception. And, he carries with him a manuscript handed down through the generations, written in French, that is the catalyst for his trip to Paris. His journey will uncover the lost secrets of his family and lead him to a new understanding of what it means to belong.

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The Lieutenant
Price: AUD 45.00 Author: Kate Grenville

The setting is colonial New South Wales and Daniel Rooke is a lieutenant of marines who has arrived on the First Fleet. He is also an astronomer who proceeds to set up his own observatory in the new land. He becomes immersed in this life, forming friendships with the local Aboriginal community, but inevitably Rooke’s old and new worlds collide.

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The Pages
Price: AUD 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: AUD 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: AUD 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: AUD 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: AUD 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: AUD 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: AUD 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: AUD 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: AUD 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: AUD 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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