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Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink
RRP $33.00, Our Price $23.10
When young, fatherless Peter Debauer discovers an incomplete story in a volume of fiction, he becomes obsessed with the tale of a soldier, presumed dead, who returns home after the war. Peter begins a quest to find the ending and to discover what the soldier finds at the house he shares with his wife and daughter. The search leads Peter to the identity of the author and to his own, long-lost father...the father he thought was dead.
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Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
RRP $32.95, Our Price $23.07
From the Pulitzer Prize Winning author of “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” comes a tale of two wandering adventurers and unlikely soul mates caught up in a tale of royal intrigue in 950 A.D. It tells the tale of two wandering adventurers and unlikely soulmates, variously plying their trades as swords for hire, horse thieves and con artists - until fortune entangles them in the myriad schemes and battles that follow a bloody coup in the medieval Jewish empire of the Khazars.
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The Ingenious Edgar Jones by Elizabeth Garner
RRP $33.00, Our Price $23.10
In nineteenth-century Oxford, an extraordinary child is born - Edgar Jones, a porter's son with a magical talent. Though his father cannot see beyond his academic slowness, his abilities as a metalworker and designer are quickly noticed, and become a source of tension within the family. Edgar's position is a dangerous one - will he be able to control the rebellious spirit that fires his inventiveness, but threatens to ruin him, and to break up his family once and for all? In the tradition of Susanna Clarke and Philip Pullman.
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Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S Thompson by Jann Wenner & Corey Seymour
RRP $35.00, Our Price $24.50
As told by the friends and family who inhabited Hunter S Thompson’s world, this biography illuminates his Gonzo ways: drugs, booze, manic creativity, affairs, guns and his ultimate suicide.
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The Logic of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of Everything by Tim Harford
RRP $35.00, Our Price $24.50
A dazzling application of new economic theories to the world around us by the author of The Undercover Economist. The Logic of Life shows how the new economics of rational choice theory explains much, much more. Drug addicts and teenage muggers can even be rational. Suburban sprawl and inner city decay are rational. Endless meetings at the office and the injustices of working life? Rational. This is the new economics of everything you never thought was economics, and it will help you see the world in a new way.
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Maynard & Jennica by Rudolph Delson
RRP $35.00, Our Price $24.50
A wildly original debut, Maynard & Jennica weaves together dozens of voices to give us an unforgettable love story, a hilarious urban comedy, a page-turning literary mystery, and a portrait of our times. Set in New York, either side of 9/11 Delson has given us a pair of lovers who are flawed, complex, at once eccentric and deeply familiar -- and in whose story we continue to feel invested long after we have turned the last page.
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The House at Midnight by Lucie Whitehouse
RRP $32.95, Our Price $23.07
Within the claustrophobic confines on hot, decadent summer, sexual tensions escalate, shattering a close group’s friendship and changing all their lives irrevocably. The House at Midnight is a chilling and utterly compelling debut novel.
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True Blue? On Being Australian edited by Peter Goldsworthy
RRP $27.95, Our Price $19.57
Australians mostly live in cities, yet many of our favourite movie characters are working men from the bush. We revere our sporting heroes, yet we prize their larrikin irreverence. Each year we enthusiastically commemorate a battle we lost. True Blue? draws together novelists, journalists, poets, cultural icons, historians, commentators, photographers and painters, old voices and new voices, who reflect on the stories we tell about ourselves and the myths we cultivate. By turns funny, ironic, penetrating, provocative and inspiring, True Blue? is a great companion for a day at the beach or in the bush.
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
RRP $32.95, Our Price $23.07
Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Rendered with uncommon warmth and humour, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao presents an astonishing vision of the endless human capacity to persevere - and to risk it all - in the name of love. A literary triumph, this novel confirms Junot Diaz as one of the funniest, warmest and most exciting writers of our time.
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The Way of the Women by Marlene Van Niekerk
RRP $35.00, Our Price $24.50
A compelling portrait of two women's lifelong relationship against the backdrop of apartheid South Africa. Marlene van Niekerk's is a stunning new literary voice from South Africa, to compare to J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer.
“'Voluminous, detailed, momentous … It is an allegory of colonial exploitation, apartheid and the precarious steps towards reconciliation.” - The Independent |
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