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Ransom
Author: David Malouf
ISBN: 9781741668377
Format: Hardback Book
With learning worn lightly and in his own lyrical language, David Malouf retells Homer's Iliad. Focusing on the unbreakable bonds between men - Priam and Hector, Patroclus and Achilles, Priam and the cart driver hired to retrieve Hector's body. Pride, grief, brutality, love and neighbourliness are explored. And, this retelling has a few surprises. The minute you finish this novel you will want to return to the beginning and start all over again.
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Mr Chicken Goes to Paris
Author: Leigh Hobbs
ISBN: 9781741757699
Format: Hardback Book
Mr Chicken has taken up his friend Yvette's invitation to visit Paris. As they journey together through the City of Love, Mr Chicken is overcome by the magic of all it has to offer - and the inhabitants of this most stylish city don't quite know what to make of him. Mr Chicken will delight children of all ages.
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The Colony
Author: Grace Karskens
ISBN: 9781741756371
Format: Hardback Book
A groundbreaking history of the colony of Sydney in its early years, from the sparkling harbour to the Cumberland Plain, from convicts to the city's political elite, from the impact of its geology to its economy.
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The Danger Game
Author: Kalinda Ashton
ISBN: 9781740668132
Format: Paperback Book
Alice and Louise are sisters united by a distant tragedy, a house fire lit by their brother who burnt to death. Alice teaches at a dirt poor school the government wants to close while Louise is a recovering heroin addict and habitual liar. When Louise decides to unravel the truth about her twin brother's death everything changes.
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The Tall Man
Author: Chloe Hooper
ISBN: 9780143010661
Format: Paperback Book
The story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Christopher Hurley, and of the struggle to bring him to trial. Above all, it is a story in luminous detail of two worlds clashing.
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Truth
Author: Peter Temple
ISBN: 9781921520716
Format: Paperback Book
Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead, a panic button within reach. Villani's life is his work. But now, over a few summer days, as fires burn across the state and his colleagues scheme and jostle, he finds all the certainties of his life are crumbling.
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The Vagrants
Author: Yiyun Li
ISBN: 9780007196654
Format: Paperback Book
The much-anticipated first novel from the Guardian First Book Award-winning Chinese writer.
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Succubus in the City
Author: Nina Harper
ISBN: 9780749929220
Format: Paperback Book
Lily has what looks like the perfect life: a fabulous day job at a fashion magazine a killer figure she can literally never lose and a great group of girlfriends who are always there for her. Oh, and she also just-so-happens to be a succubus: an immortal demon who draws her power from other men's pleasure. Although working for the Devil does have it's perks, Lily's realising that serving up bad boys to the fiery pits of Hell is just getting...well, lonely. Just once, Lily would like to wake up i ...
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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin
ISBN: 9780747597131
Format: Hardback Book
The linked stories in In Other Rooms, Other Wonders illuminate a place and a people as they describe the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family: the servants and dependents in Mr. K.K. Harouni's overflowing Lahore household, the peasants on his estates who rely on his favor, and the parallel world of his industrialist brother, who has distanced himself from the feudal past. Inextricably bound to each other, the characters confront the advantages and constraints of station, ...
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The American Civil War
Author: John Keegan
ISBN: 9780091794835
Format: Hardback Book
Highlights the geography, leadership and strategic logic at the heart of the first modern war.
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A Fine Balance
Author: Rohinton Mistry
ISBN: 9780571230587
Format: Paperback Book
Set in mid-1970s India, a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have foreseen soon after the government declares a 'State of Internal Emergency'. It is a breathtaking achievement: panoramic yet humane, intensely political yet rich with local delight.
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The Original of Laura
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ISBN: 9780141191157
Format: 1
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The Song is You
Author: Arthur Phillips
ISBN: 9781921640056
Format: Paperback Book
Julian Donohoe is in love with his iPod. Each song that shuffles through 'that greatest of all human inventions' triggers a memory. There are songs for the girls from when he was single; there's the one for the day he met his wife-to-be, and another for the day his son was born.
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88 Lines About 44 Women
Author: Steven Lang
ISBN: 9780670072835
Format: Paperback Book
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Juliet, Naked
Author: Nick Hornby
ISBN: 9780670915668
Format: Paperback Book
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Real Possibility of Joy
Author: Josephine Emery
ISBN: 9781741966107
Format: Paperback Book
This is a searing account of the author's physical, spiritual and emotional journey from man to woman. Josie has lived and loved as a man and as a woman. This is the story of her voyage from his days working in desert mining and construction camps through to the struggles with her family and eventual reconciliation with her dying mother. It is the story of his loves and his marriage as a man, of fatherhood, and his passage through the barriers of gender and sex. The story of the shock of discove ...
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Glass Room, the
Author: Simon Mawer
ISBN: 9781408702529
Format: Paperback Book
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Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
Author: Ben H. Winters & Jane Austen
ISBN: 9781594744426
Format: Paperback Book
The Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars, her romantic sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the hideous man-monster Colonel Brandon.
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The Better Angels
Author: Charles Mccarry
ISBN: 9781921640018
Format: Paperback Book
When Charles McCarry's The Better Angels was first published in 1979, one reviewer lamented that the author's premise - that terrorists would use passenger-filled airliners as tools of terror - was so incredible as to be an obstacle to the reader's suspension of disbelief. In retrospect, this was to be just one of the novel's many facets that would prove to be prophetic. The Better Angels takes place in an election year, close to the turn of the century, in a deeply polarised America. The presid ...
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Outside of a Dog: A Bibliomemoir
Author: RICK GEKOSKI
ISBN: 9781863220248
Format: 1
From the author of the bestselling Tolkiens Gown & Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books. The captivating and amusing account of the twenty-five books that have influenced the life of bibliophile Rick Gekoski. "Outside of a dog, a book is mans best friend. Inside of a dog, its too dark to read." Groucho Marx Outside of a Dog is the captivating account of twenty-five books drawn from the fields of literature, psychology and philosophy, and a memoir of a reading self. Tracing the formative ...
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Playlisted
Author: Craig Mathieson
ISBN: 9781742230177
Format: Paperback Book
Featuring Powderfinger, Kylie, The Presets, The Drones, Silverchair, Jet, INXS, Sarah Blasko, Eskimo Joe, The Veronicas, The Living End, Australian Crawl, You Am I, Delta Goodrem and many more, Playlisted takes the pulse of Australian rocknroll with a series of short, sharp chapters from leading music journalist Craig Mathieson. Smart, opinionated, funny and often controversial, each chapter launches from a single significant track on an illuminating musical journey into an underrated album or a ...
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Blood Brother
Author: Robin Bowles
ISBN: 9781742113609
Format: Paperback Book
On 28 August, 1993, at 4.30am, then 23-year-old Jeffrey Gilham appeared at his neighbour's house in Woronora, South Sydney, wet and distraught, wearing only boxer shorts. His family home was on fire. He gasped out that he had just stabbed his brother to death, after finding him standing over the stabbed bodies of their father and mother, whom the brother, Christopher, was trying to set on fire. Jeffrey pleaded guilty to manslaughter, received a bond, inherited the family estate, married, fathere ...
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Mexican Dream
Author: J.M.G. Le Clezio
ISBN: 9780226110035
Format: Paperback Book
Conjures the consciousness of Mexico, evoking the dreams that made and unmade an ancient culture. This book takes readers into the dream that was the religion of the Aztecs, a religion whose own apocalyptic visions anticipated the coming of the Spanish conquerors.
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Different Drummer
Author: Jann Parry
ISBN: 9780571243020
Format: Hardback Book
Kenneth MacMillan's ballets are in constant demand by world-famous companies, particularly "Romeo and Juliet", "Manon and Mayerling". This biography reveals a complex artist who fiercely guarded his own privacy, whilst his ballets communicated his darkest and most intimate thoughts.
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Smalltown
Author: Mischkulnig Martin & Winton Tim
ISBN: 9781926428123
Format: Hardback Book
In a perfect synergy of image and text, Smalltown shows us the bizarre, humorous and sometimes desolate aspects of our country towns, and challenges us to consider what Winton calls 'fugliness and the smalltown shambolic'.
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