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Taller When Prone
Author: Les Murray
ISBN: 9781863954709
Format: Paperback Book
Taller When Prone is Les Murray's first volume of new poems since 2006's The Biplane Houses. With characteristic grace and dexterity, these poems combine a mastery of form with a matchless ear for the Australian vernacular. Many evoke rural life - its rhythms and rituals, the natural world, the landscape and the people who have shaped it.
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So Much for That
Author: Lionel Shriver
ISBN: 9780732287030
Format: Paperback Book
Bestselling author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, Shriver has produced another dazzling, provocative novel. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY All his life Shep Knacker has dreamed of leaving New York and living in simplicity in the Third World. Yet he comes to realise that his wife, Glynis, has never been serious about making the change. On the very day that he announces he is leaving for the island of Pemba with or without her, she informs him that she is gravely ill.So he can't leave. If nothing else, Glynis ...
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The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
Author: Philip Pullman
ISBN: 9781921656194
Format: Hardback Book
In this ingenious and spellbinding retelling of the life of Jesus, Philip Pullman reimagines the most influential story ever told. Charged with mystery, compassion and great power, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ says something new about who Jesus was and asks questions that will resonate long after the book has been read. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is subversive, thought-provoking and deeply moving. Pullman's storytelling genius shows just why the charismatic person ...
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Trust
Author: Kate Veitch
ISBN: 9780670073979
Format: Paperback Book
Susanna Greenfield's handsome, successful husband is a loving father to their two teenage children. Her mother is her dearest friend. Susanna has a solid career as an art teacher. But beneath the carefully maintained surface, seismic forces are at work. In a single ill-judged moment the fabric it has taken a lifetime to construct can be torn apart.
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Nazi Literature in the Americas
Author: Roberto Bolano
ISBN: 9780330513883
Format: Paperback Book
An encyclopedia of right-wing writers. Composed of short biographies of imaginary pan-American authors (the nations with the most representatives are Argentina, with eight, and the USA, with seven), it describes, in fourteen thematic sections, the writers' lives, politics, and literary works.
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Blueeyedboy
Author: Joanne Harris
ISBN: 9780385609517
Format: Paperback Book
A gripping psychological thriller played out in cyberspace, from the bestselling author of Chocolat and The Lollipop Shoes.
"Once there was a widow with three sons, and their names were Black, Brown and Blue. Black was the eldest; moody and aggressive. Brown was the middle child, timid and dull. But Blue was his mother's favourite. And he was a murderer."
Blueyedboy is the brilliant new novel from Joanne Harris: a dark and intricately plotted tale of a poisonously dysfunctional family, a ...
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Short and Scary
Author: Karen Tayleur
ISBN: 9781742031330
Format: Paperback Book
Following on from the success of Short, Short and Scary features short stories and artworks from established and emerging Australian authors and illustrators. Contributors include Shaun Tan, Andy Griffiths, Carole Wilkinson, Sally Rippin, Lili Wilkinson, Terry Denton, and many others. Ages 10+.
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Foursome
Author: Jane Fallon
ISBN: 9780718156800
Format: Paperback Book
Rebecca, Daniel, Alex and Isabel have been best friends since university. Rebecca married Daniel, Alex married Isabel and, for 20 years, they have been inseparable. But all that is about to change ...When Alex walks out on Isabel Rebecca thinks things can't get any worse. But then she finds out the reason why and she's left harbouring a secret she'd rather forget ...And not only that, Alex's new girlfriend just happens to be Rebecca's skinny, neurotic, self-obsessed colleague, Lorna, her arch ne ...
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Sydney Bridge Upside Down
Author: David Ballantyne
ISBN: 9781921520020
Format: Paperback Book
First published in 1968, Sydney Bridge Upside Down has long been considered a New Zealand literary masterpiece. Published now for the first time in Australia, this brilliant tale, told in an entirely distinctive voice, deserves a place on the bookshelf alongside period classics like Wake in Fright and My Brother Jack .
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Otherland
Author: Maria Tumarkin
ISBN: 9781741666793
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Maria Tumarkin travels with her Australian-born teenage daughter, Billie, back to Russia and Ukraine to have her experience first-hand the seismic shifts of her family's native country. For Maria the trip back is no simple stroll down memory lane.
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Appetite for Destruction
Author: Mick Wall
ISBN: 9781409114345
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Collected interviews of Mick Wall from the 1980S heyday of KERRANG!
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Susan Boyle
Author: Alice Montgomery
ISBN: 9780718156916
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On 11 April 2009, Susan Boyle stepped out on to the stage of Britain's Got Talent to jeers and sniggers. As she announced she was going to sing 'I Dreamed a Dream', the judges didn't bother to hide their amusement. One minute later, they - and very soon the world - were giving Susan a standing ovation. This is her rags-to-riches story.
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Aboriginal Australians
Author: Richard Broome
ISBN: 9781742370514
Format: Paperback Book
'In this book Richard Broome has managed an enviable achievement. The vast sweeping story of Aboriginal Australia from 1788 is told in his typical lucid and imaginative style... ' Professor Lynette Russell, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University.
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Bleed for Me
Author: Michael Robotham
ISBN: 9781847442192
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When Sienna Hegarty turns up at his family home one night, covered in blood and frozen in shock, psychologist Joe O'Loughlin finds himself drawn deep into her world, trying to unearth the dark secrets her mind has buried. The police find a major piece of the puzzle at Sienna's house: her father, a retired cop, is face-down in a pool of his own blood, his throat slashed and his skull caved in. The blood covering Sienna was his. The 14-year-old can't remember what happened that night but, at the s ...
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The Disappeared
Author: M.R. Hall
ISBN: 9780230711280
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Two young British students, Nazim Jamal and Rafi Hassan vanish without a trace. The police tell their parents that the boys had been under surveillance, that it was likely they left the country to pursue their dangerous new ideals. Seven years later, Nazim's grief-stricken mother is still unconvinced. Jenny Cooper is her last hope.
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Let the Dead Lie
Author: Malla Nunn
ISBN: 9781405039208
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Cooper is forced to resign when re-classified as mixed-race. Now in the tough coastal town of Durban he mixes labouring with some surveillance for his old boss. One night he stumbles upon the body of a young white boy and when two more bodies are found in his boarding house unwittingly becomes the prime suspect in a triple murder case.
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The Life of Irene Nemirovsky
Author: Olivier Philipponnat & Patrick Lienhardt
ISBN: 9780701182892
Format: Paperback Book
Irne Nmirovksys own life was as dramatic as any fiction. And few writers enjoy a posthumous resurgence as astonishing as hers after the international triumph of Suite Franaise. She was born in 1903 in Kiev to a well-off Jewish family. The authors of this fascinating biography have had access to previously unpublished documents and to surviving family members in Russia, researching there her childhood in the Ukraine, and tracing her odyssey first to St Petersburg, where her father was a successf ...
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