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Title: Legacy
Author: Larissa Behrendt
Binding: PB
ISBN: 9780702237331
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Simone Harlowe is a young, clever Aboriginal lawyer studying at Harvard, straddling two lives and two cultures. But back in Sydney, her family life is defined by the complex relationship she has with her father Tony, a prominent Aboriginal rights activist. As Simone juggles the challenges of a modern woman's life, her father confronts his own hidden truths as his secret life implodes. Can Simone accept her father as he is, and forgive him for the man he's not?
Title: Peace
Author: Richard Bausch
Binding: HB
ISBN: 9781848870840
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One soldier's story in a war novel distilled to its disturbing essence. In Italy at the bitter end of the Second World War, an act of violence by their sergeant, along with a local guide they're unsure they can trust, sees a group of American soldiers in a predicament in which even the earth itself is an adversary. Peace is a bleak and compelling meditation on the moral dimensions of warfare.
Title: Best Australian Stories 2009, The
Author: Delia Falconer
Binding: PB
ISBN: 9781863954532
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This collection, showcasing the strength and diversity of Australian writing today, includes masterful stories from some of the country's best-loved authors, as well as exciting new work from up-and-coming young writers. A perfect book for summer, as well as a delightful introduction to Australia's best contemporary writing.
Title: Humbling, The
Author: Philip Roth
Binding: HB
ISBN: 9780224087933
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Simon Axler was one of the leading American stage actors of his generation - but now, in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent and his assurance. His wife has gone, his audience has abandoned him, and even his agent can't persuade him to make a comeback. Into this tragic account of inexplicable and terrifying loss bursts a counterplot of unusual - and dangerous - erotic desire. The humbling is the latest instalment in Roth's haunting group of late novels.
Title: Parrot And Olivier In America
Author: Peter Carey
Binding: HB
ISBN: 9781926428147
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The story of Olivier, a young French aristocrat, and Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer. In the aftermath of the French revolution, this unlikely pair set out together for the Americas, along the way having their adventures with women and money, incarceration and democracy, writing and painting. A spectacularly creative reimagining of Alexis de Tocqueville's famous journey, Parrot and Olivier brilliantly evokes two worlds colliding, an almost impossible friendship, and a completely improbable work of art.
Title: Sons Of The Rumour
Author: David Foster
Binding: HB
ISBN: 9781405039581
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Foster retells the tale of Scheherazade and the 1001 nights - but intersecting with this historical tale is the story of Al Morrisey, a middle-aged, Anglo-Irish, former jazz-drumming everyman, on the run from a failed marriage, and cursed with peculiar nightmares of all things Persian. Sprawling, ambitious, explicit and frequently hilarious, Sons of the Rumour is a dazzling and genre-defying work of genius.
Title: Palace Of Illusions, The
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Binding: PB
ISBN: 9780330458535
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The epic Mahabharata is retold from a woman's perspective - that of Panchaali, the wife of the five Pandava brothers. Tracing her life from a lonely childhood with her brother as her only true companion; through her complicated friendship with the mysterious Krishna; to marriage, motherhood, and her secret attraction to the man who is her husband's most dangerous enemy, this is a deeply human story about a woman in a man's world.
Title: Song In The Daylight, A
Author: Paullina Simons
Binding: PB
ISBN: 9780007241552
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Her husband and children were expecting her to be home on Friday evening as usual - but Larissa has disappeared. Happily married for fifteen years, she has a secret - she's met and fallen in love with a man she barely knows. But having abandoned everything and everyone, what sort of life can she have? How can she live with what she's done?
Title: Lacuna, The
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Binding: PB
ISBN: 9780571252640
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In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities. With deeply compelling characters, a vivid sense of place, and a clear grasp of how history and public opinion can shape a life, Barbara Kingsolver has created an unforgettable portrait of the artist-and of art itself. The Lacuna is a rich and daring work of literature, establishing its author as one of the most provocative and important of her time.
Title: Lovesong
Author: Alex Miller
Binding: HB
ISBN: 9781742371290
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Chez Dom - a small, rundown Tunisian cafe in Paris run by the widow Houria and her niece Sabiha - offers a home away from home for the North African immigrants working at the abattoirs of Vaugiraud. One day a lost Australian tourist, John Patterner, seeks shelter in the cafe from a sudden Parisian rainstorm. 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, and yet because they are essentially foreigners to each other, their love story sets in train an irrevocable course of tragic events. Lovesong is the story of a marriage, of people coming undone by desire, of ordinary lives and death, love and struggle. Into the wonderfully evoked contemporary settings of Paris and Melbourne, memories of Tunisian family life, culture and its music are tenderly woven. There is also a gorgeous limited edition available.
Title: Last Night In Twisted River
Author: John Irving
Binding: PB
ISBN: 9781408802144
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In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County - to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto - pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River - John Irving's twelfth novel - depicts the recent half-century in the United States as 'a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course'.
Title: Museum Of Innocence, The
Author: Orhan Pamuk
Binding: PB
ISBN: 9780571236992
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Set in Istanbul between 1975 and today, The Museum of Innocence tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique. The novel depicts a panoramic view of life in Istanbul as it chronicles this long, obsessive, love affair between Kemal and Fusun; and Pamuk beautifully captures the identity crisis experienced by Istanbul's upper classes who find themselves caught between traditional and westernised ways of being.
Title: Invisible
Author: Paul Auster
Binding: HB
ISBN: 9780571249503
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Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive girlfriend Margot. Three different narrators tell the story, as it travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from New York to Paris and to a remote Caribbean island in a story of unbridled sexual hunger and a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us to the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, authorship and identity to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers.