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9781921656118
A Stairway to Paradise
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NZ$ 35.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Madeleine St John
Published by:
The Text Publishing Company
A Stairway to Paradise is classic Madeleine St John: poignant, witty, full of sharp and subtle observations. Alex and Andrew are friends. And Barbara...Barbara is a goddess. Here is the eternal triangle, the story of three people locked in an unhappy tangle of emotions, none able to articulate the precise quality of their longing and dissatisfaction. In St John's hands, what is commonplace is transformed and transcendent.
Author Biography: Madeleine St John is the author of The Women in Black, A Pure Clear Light, The Essence of the Thing (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize), and A Stairway to Paradise. She died in 2006
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9781926428192
Gravel
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Peter Goldsworthy
Published by:
Hamish Hamilton
The characters in these unsettling stories, of which there are six short and two long, want things that run counter to their sense of themselves. They're drawn outside their comfort zone into situations that are sometimes amusing, sometimes undignifying, never quite what they expect.
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9781741755763
The Nature of Ice
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Robyn Mundy
Published by:
Allen & Unwin
Freya has come to Antarctica ostensibly to undertake a photographic expedition to retrace Frank Hurley's iconic photographs, but also to escape a stifling relationship. Once she is there, though, living in the cramped and close confines of Davis Station, the extraordinary world of Antarctica gets under her skin and she starts to unfurl, finding her world change in ways she would never previously had thought possible. Weaving in a vivid recreation of Douglas Mawson's ill-fated 1911-14 Antarctic expedition into the contemporary story of a woman coming to terms with the end of her marriage, The Nature of Ice is a poetic, multi-stranded novel of present and past, hope and tragedy, love and loss. It is both a love story and an intensely moving polar adventure story. Most of all though it is a story of place, bringing to vivid life the extraordinary landscape of Antarctica, the frozen continent that intrigues us all.
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9780143009580
Breath
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author:
Tim Winton
Published by:
Penguin Books (AU) Ltd.
More than once since then I've wondered whether the life-threatening high jinks that Loonie and I and Sando and Eva got up to in the years of my adolescence were anything more than a rebellion against the monotony of drawing breath.
Breath
is a story about the wildness of youth - the lust for excitement and terror, the determination to be extraordinary, the wounds that heal and those that don't - and about learning to live with its passing.
In his first novel for seven years, Tim Winton has achieved a new level of mastery.
Breath
confirms him as one of the world's finest storytellers, a writer of novels that are at the same time simple and profound, relentlessly gripping and deeply moving.
Winner of Age Book of the Year: Fiction 2008 and
Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Awards: Best Australian Book 2008
Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Literary Award Christina Stead Prize ...
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9780141044873
And the Ass Saw the Angel (20th anniversary edition)
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author:
Nick Cave
Published by:
Penguin Books Ltd
Outcast, mute, a lone twin cut from a drunk mother in a shack full of junk, Euchrid Eucrow of Ukulore inhabits a nightmarish Southern valley of preachers and prophets, incest and ignorance. When the God-fearing folk of the town declare a foundling child to be chosen by the Almighty, Euchrid is disturbed. He sees her very differently, and his conviction, and increasing isolation and insanity, may have terrible consequences for them both. This new edition of Cave's cult classic has been cut down and reorganized by the author so the plot is clarified and the characters stand out more clearly. The book retains all its brilliance but is much more accessible to the general reader.
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9780143011347
Fishing for Stars
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author:
Bryce Courtenay
Published by:
Penguin Books (AU) Ltd.
Duncan is a semi-retired, wealthy shipping magnate who lives in idyllic Beautiful Bay, Vanuatu, where he is known as the old patriarch of the islands. He is grieving the loss of his beguiling Eurasian true love, Anna, and is suffering for the first time from disturbing flashbacks to the Second World War.
So he puts pen to paper and tells the compelling tale of the life he has lived since his war-hero days. It's an adventurous life that has had at its heart the love of two passionate and unforgettable - but very different - women.
The seductive Anna Til and the beguiling Marg Hamilton have spent a lifetime in contest for Nick's devotion. Nick remains torn between them, and struggles between their two opposing worlds of economic exploitation and environmental crusade - until he is called upon to referee...
Moving between the exotic Pacific Islands, Japan and Australia, over several decades, Fishing for Stars is an epic drama ...
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9781921520631
The Death of Bunny Munro
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NZ$ 37.00 each
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Author:
Nick Cave
Published by:
The Text Publishing Company
The lead singer of The Birthday Party, The Bad Seeds and Grinderman, Nick Cave has been performing music for more than 30 years. He has collaborated with Kylie Minogue, PJ Harvey and many others. His album Murder Ballads has sold nearly a million copies. His debut novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel, was published by Black Spring/Penguin in 1989 and has sold more than 100,000 copies. Born in Australia, Cave now lives in Brighton, England. FROM THE BOOK: 'I am damned,' thinks Bunny Munro in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those who are soon to die. He feels that somewhere down the line he has made a grave mistake, but this realisation passes in a dreadful heartbeat, and is gone-leaving him in a room at the Grenville Hotel, in his underwear, with nothing but himself and his appetites ...'
First published 2009.
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9781875847945
Eucalyptus
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Murray Bail
Published by:
The Text Publishing Company Pty Ltd
There was once a man on a property outside a one-horse town, in New South Wales, who couldn't come to a decision about his daughter. He then made an unexpected decision. Incredible! For a while people talked and dreamed about little else…
Winner of the 1999 Miles Franklin Award and the 1999 Commonwealth Writers Prize.
First published 1998.
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9780330362061
The Idea of Perfection
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author:
Kate Grenville
Published by:
Picador
This beautifully crafted story of a man, a woman and a bent bridge is set in a dusty small town in rural New South Wales. Douglas and Harley — both of them single, hesitant and clearly flawed — contrast comically with perfect wife-and-mother Felicity, who rations her smiles each day in order to avoid wrinkles. A delightful comedy of manners, The Idea of Perfection won the 2001 Orange Prize for Fiction.
First published 1999.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781741755213
Red Dress Walking
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Author:
S A Jones
Published by:
Allen & Unwin
The dress haunts my steps. Flashes of red on the street mesmerise me. I am alive to red cars, red shoes and the red of Suella's lipstick. It is silken laudanum that has thrown a distorting film over everything. The dress flutters through my dream life like a taunting red banner. Dreams innocuous and surreal are sure to be punctuated by a crimson flash. Sometimes there is just the barest hint of it so I am not even certain that it flared at all.This is the story of an intimate circle of friends and one couple, Will and Emily, who are very much in love with each other. But one day Will gives Emily a stunning, deeply sexy red dress, and somehow everything changes. A thought-provoking novel of beauty, books, love and desire, Red Dress Walkingis a playful, clever and sexy novel about men and women, breakdowns and break-ups, the fierce friendships that women have, and what certain books mean to us.
First published 2008.
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9781742371290
Lovesong
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NZ$ 40.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Alex Miller
Published by:
Allen & Unwin
Strangers did not, as a rule, find their way to Chez Dom, a small, rundown Tunisian cafe on Paris' distant fringes. Run by the widow Houria and her young niece, Sabiha, the cafe offers a home away from home for the North African immigrant workers working at the great abattoirs of Vaugiraud, who, like them, had grown used to the smell of blood in the air. But when one day a lost Australian tourist, John Patterner, seeks shelter in the cafe from a sudden Parisian rainstorm, the quiet simplicities of their lives are changed forever. John is like no-one Sabiha has met before - his calm grey eyes promise her a future she was not yet even aware she wanted. Theirs becomes a contented but unlikely marriage - a marriage of two cultures lived in a third - and yet because they are essentially foreigners to each other, their love story sets in train an irrevocable course of tragic events. Years later, living a small, quiet life in suburban ...
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9781921497254
Stand Up Strummer : A tale of sex, love and side-effects
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Russ Harris
Published by:
Exisle Publishing (Australia)
It's time to enter the world of Max Strummer, a 30-something doctor who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. His medical practice is booming, his comedy career is taking off, and his three-year relationship with Sarah is thriving.
But everything crashes the night he catches Sarah in bed with another woman.
Following a painful break-up, Max slumps into a deep depression, from which nothing can lift him. Until he meets Orlanda. Stunning, vivacious, sexy, a successful photographer with a penchant for erotic pictures, Orlanda seems like the woman of Max's dreams. But as their relationship develops, Max begins to have doubts - and finds himself pulled between Sarah's desperate attempts to win him back and Orlanda's determined efforts to expand his sexual comfort zone. As he tries to cope with the problems of his private life, the mishaps of his medical practice, the chaos of his comedy career, and the trauma of his best friend's ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781926428147
Parrot and Olivier in America
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NZ$ 55.00 each
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Author:
Peter Carey
Published by:
Hamish Hamilton
Olivier is a young aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer, wanted to be an artist but has ended up in middle age as a servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons, but in reality to avoid yet another revolution - Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe and foil. Through their adventures with women and money, incarceration and democracy, writing and painting, they make an unlikely pair. But where better for unlikely things to flourish than in the glorious, brand-new experiment, America? A dazzlingly inventive reimagining of Alexis de Tocqueville's famous journey, Parrot and Olivier in America brilliantly evokes the Old World colliding with the New. Above all, it is a wildly funny, tender portrait of two men who come to form an almost impossible friendship, and a completely improbable work of art.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780143180258
Shallows
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NZ$ 28.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Tim Winton
Published by:
Penguin Books (AU) Ltd.
Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, a small town on the south coast of Western Australia. Their annual passing defines the rhythms of a life where little changes, and the town depends on their carcasses. So when the battle begins on the beaches outside their town, and when Queenie Cookson, a local girl, joins the Greenies to make amends for the crimes of her whaling ancestors, it can only throw everything into chaos.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780670073344
The Story of Danny Dunn
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NZ$ 55.00 each
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Author:
Bryce Courtenay
Published by:
Viking Press
In the 1930s few opportunities existed for boys in Balmain, but at just sixteen years of age Danny Dunn has everything going for him: brains, looks, sporting aptitude - and luck with the ladies. His parents run The Hero, the favourite neighbourhood watering hole, and Danny is a local hero. Luck changes for Danny when he signs up for the AIF. He returns to his beloved Balmain a broken man, embittered and disfigured by war, and knows that life for him will be forever changed. So, together with Helen, his strong-willed wife, he sets about rebuilding a life informed by both good fortune and the harshest of knocks - a life of compassion and corruption, love and power. And a life blessed by two beautiful daughters, Sam and Gabby. While they are identical twins, they chase two very different dreams...The Publican's Daughters is an Australian family saga spanning two generations of Sydney publicans and politicians. It is a compelling story of ...
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