Praise by Andrew McGahan
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Category: fiction a-z
Winner of The "Australian"/Vogel Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in the Pacific Region. Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and the Canada-Australia Literary Award. "Praise" is an utterly frank and dar ...Show more
On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry
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Category: fiction a-z
From the two-time Man Booker short-listed author of The Secret Scripture comes a magnificent new novel that is the story of the twentieth century in America. Told in the first person, as a narrative of Lilly Bere's life over seventeen days, On Canaan's Side opens as Lilly mourns the loss of her grandson ...Show more
Leaving Elvis and Other Stories by Michelle Michau-Crawford
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Category: fiction a-z
We're travelling light, without excess, into our future. Gran had been rough as she uncurled my hands from their position, gripped around the open car doorframe, and shoved me into the passenger seat. A man returns from World War II and struggles to come to terms with what has happened in his absence. A ...Show more
The Alchemist, 25th Anniversary: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho
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Category: fiction a-z
An international bestseller Over 80 million copies sold worldwide A PBS Great American Read Top 100 pick A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of sel ...Show more
The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster
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Category: fiction a-z
'One day there is life ...and then, suddenly, it happens there is death'. So begins Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. The first section, 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', reveals Auster's memories and feelings after the death of his father. In "The Book of Memory" the perspective ...Show more
Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
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Category: fiction a-z
'On my desk sits a beautiful engraving, published in another century, that promises me: "Out of the chaos the future emerges in harmony and beauty." Promises and prayers contain their own kinds of answer, as consecrated aspiration. I need this one now...' In her new essay collection, written in the afte ...Show more
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
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Category: fiction a-z
From the best-selling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a rich and revelatory memoir about writing and running, and the integral impact both have made on his life. In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Haruki Murakami began running to keep fit. A year la ...Show more
The Cattle King by Ion L Idriess
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Category: fiction a-z | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
At the age of 13, Sidney Kidman ran away from home with only five shillings in his pocket. He went on to become a horse dealer, drover, cattle buyer and bush jockey and he also ran a coach business. This book is an inspiring tribute to the remarkable life of Sir Sidney Kidman - the Cattle King.
Voss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1957 by Patrick White
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Category: fiction a-z
"The novel that put Australian literature on the map is now in a Vintage Classic editionSet in nineteenth-century Australia, Vossis the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a na ve young woman. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive f ...Show more
Wish: Text Classics by Peter Goldsworthy
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Category: fiction a-z | Series: Text Classics
'I'm not deaf, but I've always felt more at home in Sign. Both my parents are deaf. Deaf as posts. Deaf as adders, deaf as beetles. And proud as peacocks, Deaf Pride long before there was a word, or a sign, for it. I learnt to speak with my hands from birth; there was no other way of reaching my parents ...Show more
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
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Category: fiction a-z | Series: Historical Trilogy Ser.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2006 COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN PRIZELondon, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mist ...Show more
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
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Category: fiction a-z
Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Leached of all confidence, she spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka self-recrim ...Show more