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Title: Street Art Of Sydney’s Inner West

Author: Melinda Vassallo

Binding: PB

Category: Fiction

ISBN: 9780646514338

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Melinda has been photographing the street art of the Newtown area for years and has collated it in this wonderful book. Stencils, yarn bombs, paste-ups, installations and posters feature as well as interviews with some of the artists. This ephemeral art form is part of our local history and streetscape, and this beautiful book is an important record.

Title: Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest, The

Author: Stieg Larsson

Binding: PB

Category: Fiction

ISBN: 9781906694173

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Lisbeth Salander is plotting her revenge - against the men who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in Intensive Care, and is set to face trial for three murders and one attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist from Millennium Magazine, Salander must not only prove her innocence, but identify and denounce the corrupt politicians that have allowed the vulnerable to become victims of abuse and violence. Once a victim herself, Salander is ready to fight back.

Title: Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The

Author: Stieg Larsson

Binding: PB

Category: Crime

ISBN: 9781847245458

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Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family.He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.

Title: Mind and Times Of Reg Mombassa, The

Author: Murray Waldren and Reg Mombassa

Binding: PB

Category: Fiction

ISBN: 9780732287894

RRP: $75.00

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Reg Mombassa, has infiltrated our culture for more than thirty years with a unique, laconic view of our world ... and of his. His wit, sense of mischief and larrikin energy resonated in the songs and performances of one of Australia’s most beloved bands, Mental As Anything, whose music became the soundtrack to a generations misbegotten youth. His eye for the absurd and his unapologetic idealism captured another generation or three with his irreverent, frequently macabre and always distinctive designs for the original Mambo label. Yet long before he became a Mental or transformed shirts into collectors’ items, Mombassa was first and foremost an artist. But there is much more to Reg Mombassa, as fellow New Zealand-born writer and painter Murray Waldren shows in this illuminated journey. Illustrated with almost 300 original artworks and packed with photographs, posters and band memorabilia, this is a true collectors’ item.

Title: Wolf Hall, The

Author: Hilary Mantel

Binding: PB

Category: Crime

ISBN: 9780007292417

RRP: $32.99

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England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolseys clerk, and later his successor. Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages.

Title: Smh Good Food Guide 2010, The

Author: Joanna Savill and Simon Thomsen

Binding: PB

Category: Fiction

ISBN: 9780143011552

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Since 1984, The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide has provided expert advice on the plethora of options for eating out in Sydney, from cheap and cheerful locals to fine dining, keeping residents and visitors in touch with the best, most interesting, and most innovative places to dine in the city and suburbs, and further afield in regional New South Wales. For the twenty-fifth anniverary edition, food connoisseurs Simon Thomsen, Joanna Savill and their team have visited over 400 restaurants, and numerous bars and cafes, reviewing them with the honesty, insight and razor-sharp wit for which the guide has become known.

Title: Her Fearful Symmetry, The

Author: Audrey Niffegger

Binding: PB

Category: Fiction

ISBN: 9780224085625

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Julia and Valentina Poole are normal American teenagers – normal, at least, for identical ‘mirror’ twins who have no interest in college or jobs or possibly anything outside their cozy suburban home. But everything changes when they receive notice that an aunt whom they didn’t know existed has died and left them her flat in an apartment block overlooking Highgate Cemetery in London. They feel that at last their own lives can begin ... but have no idea that they’ve been summoned into a tangle of fraying lives, from the obsessive-compulsive crossword setter who lives above them to their aunt’s mysterious and elusive lover who lives below them, and even to their aunt herself, who never got over her estrangement from the twins’ mother – and who can’t even seem to quite leave her flat.... With Highgate Cemetery itself a character and echoes of Henry James and Charles Dickens, HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY is a delicious and deadly twenty-first-century ghost story about Niffenegger’s familiar themes of love, loss and identity. It is certain to cement her standing as one of the most singular and remarkable novelists of our time.

Title: Breath

Author: Tim Winton

Binding: PB

Category: Fiction

ISBN: 9780143009580

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THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER - Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009 When paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with another teenage adventure gone wrong, he knows better than his partner - better than the parents - what happened and how. Thirty years before, that dead boy could have been him.

Title: Death Of Bunny Munro, The

Author: Nick Cave

Binding: PB

Category: Fiction

ISBN: 9781921520631

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Bunny Munro sells beauty products and the scent of adventure to the lonely housewives of England’s south coast. Set adrift by his wife’s death he hits the road one last time—with his young son in tow. As Bunny swaggers from door-to-door hawking his wares and feeding his libido, nine-year-old Bunny Junior waits in the car seeking the comfort of his mother’s ghost and watching his father self-destruct. Haunted by his appetites, jealous husbands and a serial killer in a devil suit, Bunny Munro is a desperate man. And he’s going to die. Stylish, angry and engrossing, The Death of Bunny Munro is at once blackly comic, raw with heartache and bursting with Nick Cave’s hallmark wit and lyricism.

Title: Girl Who Played With Fire, The

Author: Stieg Larsson

Binding: PB

Category: Crime

ISBN: 9781906694180

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Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists who are about to expose the truth about sex trafficking in Sweden are murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society - but no-one can find her. The bestselling second volume in the Millennium Trilogy