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Island Home
Tim Winton
RRP $39.99
the Secret chord
Geraldine Brooks
RRP $39.99
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of People of the
Book, Year of Wonders and March comes a unique
and vivid novel that retells the story of King David’s
extraordinary rise to power and fall from grace. Full of
drama and richly drawn detail, The
Secret Chord is a vivid story of faith,
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family, desire and power that bring
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David magnificently alive.
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a Strangeness in My Mind
Orhan Pamuk
RRP $32.99
This is an unforgettable tale of an Istanbul street
vendor and the love of his life. Told from the
perspectives of many beguiling characters, A
Strangeness in My Mind, from Nobel Prize winner
Orhan Pamuk, is a modern epic of coming of age
in a great city, and a mesmerizing narrative sure to
take its place among his finest achievements.
The Heart Goes Last
Margaret Atwood
RRP $32.99
Brilliantly conceived and executed, with a pace
that will leave you breathless, The Heart Goes
Last is a powerful satire of life in the twentyfirst century, charged throughout with Margaret
Atwood’s signature devastating wit, irony and keen
perception.
‘I grew up on the world’s largest
island.’ This apparently simple
fact is the starting point for Tim Winton’s beautiful,
evocative memoir of how this unique landscape
has shaped him and his writing. Island Home is not
just a brilliant insight into the life and art of one of
our finest writers, but a compelling
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investigation into the way our
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The White Road
Edmund de Waal
RRP $35.00
In The White Road, author and artist Edmund
de Waal travels the globe to tell the story of his
obsession with porcelain, or ‘white gold’, and the
lure it held for the Europeans who encountered it.
Within all this is an intimate memoir of the author’s
life as a potter, and his deepening understanding of
the material he has worked with for over forty-five
years.
the Simplest Words
Alex Miller
RRP $35.00
These short stories and essays, written over
the last forty years, comprise an insightful and
intelligent meditation on the life of the novelist and
the culture of contemporary Australia. Personal
and intimate as many of these pieces are, this
collection forms a kind of assured autobiography of
the sort that only Alex Miller could write.
The Natural Way of things
The Gap of Time
Jeanette Winterson
RRP $29.99
Jeanette Winterson’s cover version of The Winter’s
Tale vibrates with echoes of the original but tells
a contemporary story where Time itself is a player
in a game of high stakes that will either end in
tragedy or forgiveness. It shows us that however
far we have been separated, whatever is lost shall
be found.
Charlotte Wood
RRP $29.99
The Natural Way of Things is a gripping, starkly
imaginative exploration of contemporary
misogyny and corporate control, and of what it
means to hunt and be hunted. It is the story of
two friends, their sisterly love and courage. With
echoes of The Handmaid’s Tale and Lord of the
Flies, this is a compulsively readable, scarifying
and deeply moving novel.
Sweet Caress
Numero Zero
William Boyd
RRP $29.99
Umberto Eco
RRP $32.99
In this enthralling story of a life fully lived, William
Boyd has created a sweeping panorama of some
of the most defining moments of modern history,
told through the camera lens of one unforgettable
woman, Amory Clay. It is his greatest literary
achievement yet.
Fuelled by media hoaxes, Mafiosi, love, gossip and
murder, Numero Zero reverberates with the clash
of the cynical forces that have shaped Italy since
the last days of World War II. This gripping story
from the author of The Name of the Rose is told
with all the power of a master storyteller.