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Breath - Tim Winton
When paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with another teenage adventure gone wrong, he knows better than his partner - better than the paren...
View full detailsOff the Rails
This is the true story of two twenty-year-old Australians who travelled for fourteen months on recumbent bicycles from Russia, across Siberia and M...
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A child is imprisoned in a house by her reclusive religious parents. Hester has never seen the outside world; her companions are Cat, Spoon, Door, ...
View full detailsProust's Overcoat
The story of the overcoat begins with a chance meeting - between an obsessive bibliophile, Jacques Guerin, the head of a French perfume house, an...
View full detailsThe Cardboard Crown
It is 1949, and Guy Langton's houseŠ—”like his family's fortunesŠ—”has seen better days. The wealth and social standing that his grandparent's gene...
View full detailsBride's Farewell
Pell Ridley, daughter of a good-for-nothing preacher in rural England, has watched her mother suffer the intolerable burden of too many children, t...
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In October 1931, a station agent found two large trunks abandoned in LA's Union Station. What he found inside ignited one of the most scandalous ta...
View full detailsEva Luna
In her opulent novel, Eva Luna, Isabel Allende uses exquisite prose to describe the survival of a young Latin American woman whose powers as a stor...
View full detailsHoi Polloi
The hilariously compelling memoir that was hailed as an instant classic.'The first time I see drunks beat up my father I'm six and standing at the ...
View full detailsJarvis 24
So far, Marc E. Jarvis has lost a white football boot, a school tie and a best friend. But there's more in store for him when he completes Work Exp...
View full detailsLive and Let Die - Ian Fleming
Mr Big is a gold thief, Lord of the 'Black Widow' voodoo cult and top SMERSH operative is one of the most dangerous opponents James bond has faced....
View full detailsLucky Jim
Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new redbrick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Departmen...
View full detailsMrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren...
View full detailsOlive Kitteridge
Olive Kitteridge might be described by some as a battle axe or as brilliantly pushy, by others as the kindest person they had ever met. Olive herse...
View full detailsOnly Ever Always
Who dreams the dreamer? Claire lives in an ordinary world where everything is whole. But inside Claire is broken. The silvery notes of her music bo...
View full detailsRaw Blue
Readers of Tim Winton's Breath will be drawn to Kirsty Eagar's Raw Blue, an achingly beautiful young adult novel set in Sydney's northern beaches. ...
View full detailsRose Boys
'... a deeply felt, passionately uplifting story...'Liam Davison. The Weekend AustralianRose Boys is the story of two brothers profoundly different...
View full detailsSomething in the World Called Love
It's true, there's something in the world called love. Esma felt it when she moved into the house with the blue stairs. There was Kara beside her, ...
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One of the country's finest young cellists, 16 year-old Hugh Twycross has a very bright future. A future that has been mapped out by his parents, h...
View full detailsThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
A literary triumph - winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican ...
View full detailsThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Full grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very curio...
View full detailsThe Georges' Wife
Vera and Mr George have made a new life together but Vera's thoughts return again and again to loves and lovers, meetings and partings - the voices...
View full detailsThe Golden Day
There were only eleven of them, like eleven sisters all the same age in a large family. Because it was such a very small class, they had a very sma...
View full detailsThe Great Gatsby
In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusion of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with weal...
View full detailsThe Hound of the Baskervilles: Red Classic
The bane of a great beast echoes across the moors...Some blame the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville on the legend of a fearsome and ghostly ...
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When Kino, a Mexican pearl-diver finds 'the Pearl of the World' he believes that his impoverished life will be magically transformed. He will marry...
View full detailsThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John le Carre
Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good age...
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Her warmest novel, her most moving and possibly the best introduction to her fiction' New York Times Book Review. Edwin Page, an aging but handsome...
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When Henk's twin brother dies in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to return to the small family farm. He resigns himself to taking over his brothe...
View full detailsThe Winter's Tale
The jealous King of Sicily becomes convinced that his wife is carrying the child of his best friend. Imprisoned and put on trial, the Queen collaps...
View full detailsWhat Sport Tells Us About Life
Why will there never be another Bradman?How do you win thirty-three games in a row?Why did Zidane lose his rag on the world's stage? Foraying deep ...
View full detailsOf Mice & Men
Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except each other and a dream a dream that one d...
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