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  • Oscar and Lucindaby Peter Carey

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.95

    The Booker Prize-winning novel--now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight  Pictures. This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in  nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent--a haven for misfits of both the animal and human kingdoms--could a nervous... more...

  • Blissby Peter Carey

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 16.95

    For thirty-nine years Harry Joy has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack on his suburban front lawn, and, for the space of nine minutes, he becomes a dead guy. And although he is resuscitated, he will never be the same. For, as Peter Carey makes abundantly clear in this darkly funny novel, death is sometimes a... more...

  • Into White Silenceby Anthony Eaton

    Random House Australia 2011; US$ 18.08

    A tale of ambition and madness in the frozen seas of Antarctica. In 1922 the polar exploration vessel RAVEN sailed from Hobart in the early hours of the morning, south into the icy embrace of the Antarctic Ocean. Neither she nor the 28 souls aboard her were ever seen again. In 2005, during a visit to an Australian Antarctic station, a writer discover... more...

  • What Now, Tilda B?by Kathryn Lomer

    University of Queensland Press 2011; US$ 12.99

    Only a day ago, things were normal. As normal as this year gets anyway. Tilda Braint is nearly sixteen, restless and having trouble figuring out what on earth she?s supposed to do next. Living in a small coastal town doesn't help either. When two seals land in the middle of Tilda's life, they turn it upside down. They're a long way from home and... more...

  • Memento Moriby Daniel King

    IP (Interactive Publications) 2011; US$ 14.00

    La raccolta di racconti di Daniel King attraversa gli indistinti paesaggi della morte, delle relazioni inasprite dalla vita, dei lati instabili della natura umana, anche dell'attrazione contemporanea della chirurgia plastica spinta ad un sorprendente estremo. Filosoficamente acuti e dotati di un gusto per il surreale, i personaggi di questi racconti... more...

  • Ashes in the Airby Ali Alizadeh

    University of Queensland Press 2011; US$ 12.99

    Strong and thought-provoking, these poems examine themes such as aging, fatherhood, identity, and migration. From the Tehran of the poet?s childhood through the Australian coast of his teenage years to the nations visited in his adulthood, this dynamic volume gives voice to the story of a young man and his experiences of discovery. Sharing the hopes... more...

  • The Even More Complete Book Of Australian Verse: Text Classicsby John Clarke

    The Text Publishing Company 2012; US$ 12.95

    Possibly the most important anthology ever published. The definitive collection featuring key works by such famous Australian poets as Gavin Milton, Arnold Wordsworth, Sylvia Blath, Very Manly Hopkins, R.A.C.V. Milne and Dylan Thompson. more...

  • Human Headlinesby Derryn Hinch

    Port Campbell Press 2011; US$ 9.99

    He's met all the movers and shakers. And sometimes Derryn Hinch has moved and even shaken some of them. How did Malcolm Fraser really lose his trousers in Memphis? And what happened with Raquel Welch at the Logies? In this book - covering 50 years in the business - 'The Human Headline' goes behind the headlines to tell you the inside stories... more...

  • A Dagg at My Tableby John Clarke

    The Text Publishing Company 2012; US$ 23.95

    John Clarke has been making Australians laugh for more than two decades. Here is a wonderful selection of his work, beginning with the Fred Dagg radio scripts of the late seventies, and concluding with Clarke's famous television interviews of the nineties. more...

  • The Book with Twelve Talesby John Gallas

    Carcanet 2011; US$ 14.51

    The Book with Twelve Tales is a gallimaufry of stories: comic, frightening, exotic and magical. Here, in John Gallas's richly imagined narrative worlds, are the American gothic of Morten Mortenssen, the pig who eats his owners; the sexual folktale of a comedy of Mongolian marriage; a fable of the power of the imagination as a poet is interrogated... more...