Black Mountain
Venero Armanno
UQP, PB, 9780702239151
Beginning in the sulphur mines of Sicily over a century ago, Black Mountain takes you on a journey through time and back again. When a boy sold into slavery finds the courage to escape, he is saved by a mysterious stranger, who raises the boy as his own. Renamed Cesare Montenero after Sicily's own 'black mountain', Mount Etna, the boy begins ... More/Buy
Blueprints for a barbed-Wire Canoe
Wayne Macauley
Text Publishing, PB, 9781922079114
Bram and his fellow residents are drawn by a dream: the promise of a freeway leading to a new suburb north of the city. The houses are built, but the freeway never comes. One by one, the dreamers leave, until only a small, hardcore group is left–including Bram, One-eyed Michael, and Michael's self-possessed daughter Jodie. As the disused houses crumble around ... More/Buy
Hannah & Emil
Belinda Castles
Allen & Unwin, PB, 9781741755169
Emil and Hannah live their lives amid the turmoil of twentieth-century history. Emil, a German veteran of the Great War, has returned home to a disturbed nation. As inflation and unemployment edge the country near collapse, Emil's involvement with the resistance ultimately forces him from his family and his home. Hannah, soaked in the many languages of her upbringing as a ... More/Buy
The Marmalade Files
Steve Lewis, Chris Uhlmann
Harper Collins, PB, 9780732294748
When seasoned newshound Harry Dunkley is slipped a compromising photograph one frosty Canberra dawn he knows he's onto something big. In pursuit of the scoop, Dunkley must negotiate the deadly corridors of power where the minority Toohey Government hangs by a thread - its stricken Foreign Minister on life support, her heart maintained by a single thought. Revenge. Rabid Rottweilers prowl ... More/Buy
The Memory of Salt
Alice Melike Ulgezer
Giramondo, PB, 9781920882907
Ali's father is a Turkish circus musician performing in Kabul when Ali's mother, a young pediatrician from Melbourne, meets him in a bar. He plays the trumpet, the saz, the flute, hears voices that urge him to violence, sees angels in the skies and djinns in the street, inscribes prayers and invocations on the walls of his room, and across the ... More/Buy
Tarcutta Wake
Josephine Rowe
UQP, PB, 9780702249303
A mother drives north with her young children, who watch her and try to decipher her buried grief. Two photographers document a nation's guilt in pictures of its people's hands. An underground club in Western Australia plays jazz to nostalgic patrons dreaming of America's Deep South. A young woman struggles to define herself among the litter of objects an ex-lover has ... More/Buy
Zoe's Muster
Barbara Hannay
Michael Joseph, PB, 9781921901126
Three women . . . two families . . . one secret . . . When Zoe, restless black sheep of the Porter family, discovers that her biological father is a North Queensland cattleman, Peter Fairburn, her deep desire to meet him takes her from inner-city Brisbane to a job as a stockcamp cook. Zoe's mother, Claire, is wrestling with guilt ... More/Buy