Books from the ABC's First Tuesday Book Club with Jennifer Byrne, including the upcoming:
Miracles Of Life - J.G. Ballard
and
Peter Pan - J.M. Barry
July 2008
Miracles of Life By J. G. Ballard ISBN: 9780007270729
'Miracles of Life' opens and closes in Shanghai, the city where J.G.Ballard was born, and where he spent the most of the Second World War interned with his family in a Japanese concentration camp. In the intervening chapters Ballard creates a memoir that is both an enthralling narrative and a detai
RRP: $39.99 Price: $40.00
Delivery: 7-10 Days Type: Hardback Book
Peter Pan By J.M. Barrie ISBN: 9780192726193
The night that Peter Pan flies into the Darling children's nursery is the night that magic flies into their lives. It's the night that Wendy and her brothers follow Peter out of the window and soar through the sky to Neverland. It's the night that they discover a world of mermaids, fairies, and pira
RRP: $12.95 Price: $12.95
Delivery: 7-10 Days Type: Paperback Book
June 2008
Breath By Tim Winton ISBN: 9780241015308
When paramedic Bruce Pike arrives too late to save a boy found hanged in his bedroom he senses immediately that this lonely death is an accident. Pike knows the difference between suicide and misadventure. He understands only too well the forces that can propel a kid toward oblivion. Not just becaus
RRP: $45.00 Price: $45.00
Delivery: 7-10 Days Type: Hardback Book
Demons at Dusk By Peter Stewart ISBN: 9781921206573
This is an extremely powerful account of one of the most tragic and remarkable chapters of Australia's history and makes truly gripping and valuable reading.
RRP: $29.95 Price: $29.95
Delivery: 10-15 Days Type: Paperback Book
May 2008
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo By Stieg Larsson ISBN: 9781847243492
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle, Henrik, is convinced that she was murdered by someone in her own family - the deeply dysfunctional Vanger clan.Disgrac
RRP: $32.95 Price: $32.95
Delivery: 7-10 Days Type: Paperback Book
A Farewell to Arms By Ernest Hemingway ISBN: 9780099273974
In 1918 Ernset Hemingway went to the war to end all wars, in the ambulance service in Italy. He was wounded and twice decorated. Here he recreates the fear, comradeship, and the courage of his young American volunteer and the men an women he meets in Italy.
RRP: $24.95 Price: $24.95
Delivery: 7-10 Days Type: Paperback Book
April 2008
People of the Book By Geraldine Brooks ISBN: 9780732280376
People of the Book crosses continents and centuries to bring stories of hope amidst darkness, compassion amidst cruelty, all bound together by the discoveries made by a young Australian woman restoring an ancient Hebrew book. When Hanna Heath gets a call in the middle of the night in her Sydney hom
RRP: $32.99 Price: $33.00
Delivery: 1-2 Days Type: Paperback Book
Liar's Poker By Michael Lewis ISBN: 9780340839966
From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world's most powerful and profitable merchant bank. A true-life Bonf
RRP: $29.99 Price: $26.99
Delivery: 10-15 Days Type: Paperback Book
March 2008
Naked By David Sedaris ISBN: 9780349119779
A riotous collection of memoirs which explores the absurd hilarity of modern life and creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behaviour in 'A Plague of Tics' to the title story, where he is finally forced to face hi
RRP: $24.99 Price: $22.49
Delivery: 1-2 Days Type: Paperback Book
The Memory Room By Christopher Koch ISBN: 9781741667301
'What is a spy? Are they born, or are they made?' With these words, Vincent Austin analyses his future occupation. Some spies are made, he says, but his kind is born. He is devoted to secrecy for its own sake. Vincent is orphaned early, and his boyhood in Tasmania is spent with an elderly aunt. His
RRP: $32.95 Price: $32.95
Delivery: 7-10 Days Type: Paperback Book
August 2008
Devil May Care By Sebastian Faulks ISBN: 9780718154189
Devil May Care will be published in May 2008 to celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth. This new instalment in the adventures of the world's most iconic spy has been written by one of Britain's most admired novelists, Sebastian Faulks. 'My novel is meant to stand in the line of Fleming's o
RRP: $32.95 Price: $32.95
Delivery: 7-10 Days Type: Paperback Book
The Adventures of Augie March By Saul Bellow ISBN: 9780141184869
Augie March is a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Depression. A 'born recruit', he latches on to a wild succession of occupations, then proudly rejects each one as too limiting. Not until he tangles with the glamorous Thea, a huntress with a trained eagle, is his independence seriously t
