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BOOK OF
THE MONTH
FICTION
Merciless Gods
Emma
Christos
Tsiolkas
Paperback
RRP $ 32.99
Alexander
McCall-Smith
Paperback
RRP $ 29.99
Love, sex, death,
family, friendship,
betrayal,
tenderness,
sacrifice and revelation... A collection of
thrilling, original and imaginative stories
from the award-winning, bestselling
author of The Slap and Barracuda - a
showcase of all of his immense and
unique story-telling talents.
Beloved and
bestselling author
Alexander McCall
Smith lends his
delightful touch to Emma, the next
book in The Austen Project... Fresh
from university, Emma Woodhouse
triumphantly arrives home in Norfolk
ready to embark on adult life with a
splash.
The Burning
Room
Detective Harry
Bosch and his
new partner tackle
a cold case unlike any other. When
Orlando Merced finally succumbs to
complications from being shot ten
years earlier, Bosch catches a case in
which the body is still fresh, but any
other evidence is virtually nonexistent.
NON-FICTION
Australians
(Volume 3)
What Days
are For
Thomas
Keneally
Hardback
RRP $ 49.99
Robert Dessaix
Hardback
RRP $ 29.99
In the third
volume of Thomas
Keneally’s unique
history of Australia - where he shines
a light on the lives and deeds of our
countrymen and women, both known
and unknown - he takes up the story
at the end of the Great War and
explores our development as a nation
during the tumultuous 20th century.
One Sunday
night, Robert
Dessaix collapses
in a gutter in
Darlinghurst. While lying in the
hospital bed, Robert chances upon
Philip Larkin’s poem ‘Days’. What, he
muses, have his days been for? His
often surprisingly funny recollections
range over topics as eclectic as
intimacy, travel, spirituality, and
childhood.
The Food
Lover’s
Pilgrimage
to France
Dee Nolan
Hardback
RRP $ 79.99
In this book, as in her previous book
A Food Lover’s Pilgrimage Along the
Camino to Santiago de Compostela,
Dee Nolan seamlessly weaves
together her two great passions:
the history and religious relics of the
medieval pilgrimage and her keen
appreciation of food and wine.
Judith Rossell
Hardback
RRP $19.99
High above the
gloomy town of
Withering-bySea stands the
Hotel Majestic. Inside, eleven-yearold orphan Stella Montgomery leads
a miserable life. One night, Stella
sees something she shouldn’t have,
something that will set in motion
an adventure more terrifying and
wonderful than she could have ever
hoped for. 9+
Laurinda
Alice Pung
Paperback
RRP $19.99
Few genres are
more enthralling
than the school
story. In Laurinda,
acclaimed author
of Unpolished Gem and Her Father’s
Daughter, Alice Pung, tells an involving,
original story that captures the drama
and pain of school life today, as well as
revealing much about the choices of
young women. 12+
The Narrow Road
to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan
Paperback RRP $19.99
A novel of the cruelty of
war, and tenuousness of
life and the impossibility
of love. This novel is a
story about the many
forms of love and death,
of war and truth, as one
man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all
that he has lost. This year’s Indie Awards winner
has also won the world’s most prestigious award –
the 2014 Man Booker Prize.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Richard Flanagan was born in
Longford, Tasmania, in 1961.
His novels, Death Of A River
Guide, The Sound Of One
Hand Clapping, Gould’s Book
Of Fish, The Unknown Terrorist,
and Wanting have received numerous
honours. He directed a feature film version of
The Sound Of One Hand Clapping. A collection
of his essays is published as And What Do You
Do, Mr Gable?
OUR T P 20
1
My Story by Julia Gillard
2
The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion
3
The 52-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths
4
Plenty More by Yotam Ottolenghi
5
Gone Girl (Film Tie-In) by Gillian Flynn
Itsy Bitsy
Teenie Weenie
Yellow Polka
Dot Bikini + CD
6
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You
What She’s ‘Learned’ by Lena Dunham
7
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
8
The Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb
9
Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia by Don Watson
Paul Vance and
Lee Pockriss &
Kerry Argent
(Illus)
10 The Children Act by Ian McEwan
CHILDREN’S & YA
WitheringBy-Sea
WINNER OF 2014
MAN BOOKER PRIZE
Michael
Connelly
Paperback
RRP $ 32.99
Hardback RRP $19.99
She wore an itsy bitsy teenie weenie
yellow polka-dot bikini. No need
to be nervous! Sing along to this
favourite song as a hippo takes a
hilarious trip to the beach. Illustrated
by Kerry Argent. Includes a bonus CD
recording by Deborah Mailman! 3+
11 The Fast Diet: The Secret of Intermittent Fasting
by Mimi Spencer & Michael Mosley
12 The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
13 Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
14 This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial
by Helen Garner
15 The 13-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths
16 Minecraft: The Official Construction Handbook: (4)
17 More Fool Me by Stephen Fry
18 A Bone of Fact by David Walsh
19 Walking Free by Munjed Al Muderis
20 We are All Completely Beside Ourselves
by Karen Joy Fowler
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MONTHLY HIGHLIGHTS NOVEMBER
NEW FROM
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS
BEST FROM
ALLEN & UNWIN
Triumph
and Demise
New edition
The Book of
Strange New
Things
Paperback
Paperback
RRP $ 34.99
RRP $ 29.99
Paul Kelly
Triumph and Demise is the inside account of
the hopes, achievements and bitter failures of
the Labor Government from 2007 to 2013.
Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard came together,
defeated John Howard and raised the hopes of
a nation, yet fell into disagreements, tensions
and then hostilities. Paul Kelly probes the
dynamics of the Rudd-Gillard alliance and
dissects what tore them apart. This revised
edition features a new introduction in response
to Julia Gillard’s memoir My Story.
LONELY PLANET
ESSENTIAL GUIDES
Michael Faber
From the author of Under the Skin and
The Crimson Petal and the White, the first
novel from Michel Faber in twelve years is a
brilliantly compelling book about love in the
face of death, and the search for meaning in
an unfathomable universe. Peter Leigh is a
husband, a Christian, and now a missionary.
As The Book of Strange New Things opens,
he is set to embark on a journey that will be
the biggest test of his faith yet.
Paperback/Hardback RRP $ 39.99 each
Two wonderful new books from Lonely
Planet. The World is the first guide book
sized planning tool covering the entire planet.
Organised A-Z every country has a detailed
map, essential facts and its must-see
highlights. Or if flights of fancy are more
your thing then You Only Live Once is the
perfect book to inspire a lifetime of amazing
experiences.
MUST-HAVE
From Wiley
The Best Job
in the World:
How to Make
a Living from
Following
Your Dreams
Ben Southall
Paperback
RRP $ 27.99
How do you get hired to spend six months
on an idyllic tropical island? The Best
Job in the World is a roadmap to your
ideal life. Follow adventurer Ben Southall
as he shares his life, his journey and his
blueprint for turning your passions into a
living. Ben beat nearly 35000 candidates
to win Tourism’s Queensland’s Best Job in
the World campaign, and his dream job as
caretaker of a Great Barrier Reef Island.
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