All the Way Home
Kristin Henry
UWAP, PB, 9781742582825
It's the end of the 60s. American Jesse travels light. He has no family, just a guitar and a desire to do what he's always done - keep moving. Flannery is attached to plenty of strings in her Northern Ireland home, but she's worn out by sectarian violence and looking for a place to help her forget. Australia is waiting to ... More/Buy
The Architecture of Song
Gary Crew
Harper Collins, PB, 9780732285876
I lived many lives beneath that piano ... I heard ten thousand stories in that space. There I was privileged to observe, to gather - and not only gather, to concentrate within myself - so much that is usually denied a child of my age. As a result, I have, you might say, grown.' So says Augustus Trump - a dwarf ... More/Buy
Caleb's Crossing
Geraldine Brooks
Harper Collins, PB, 9780732289232
NOW IN B FORMAT. When Bethia Mayfield, a spirited 12 year old living in the rigid confines of a 17th century English Puritan settlement, meets Caleb, the young son of a Wampanoag chieftain, the two forge a secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. As Bethia's father, a Calvinist minister, tries to convert the Wampanoag to ... More/Buy
Hide Your Fires: 2012 UTS Writers' Anthology
UTS Creative Writing Program
Seizure, PB, 9781921134210
The creative writing program at the University of Technology, Sydney, is the oldest and most prestigious in Australia. The annual Anthology is a celebration of the depth and breadth of talent within the program, and brings together the work of approximately 35 of the best and brightest undergraduate and postgraduate students in one unmissable collection. Personal, dramatic and profound, the 2012 ... More/Buy
A History of Books
Gerald Murnane
Giramondo, PB, 9781920882853
This new work by Gerald Murnane is a fictionalised autobiography told in thirty sections, each of which begins with the memory of a book that has left an image on the writer’s mind. The titles aren’t given but the reader follows the clues, recalling in the process a parade of authors, the great, the popular, and the now-forgotten. The images themselves, ... More/Buy
Lucinda's Whirlwind
Louise Limerick
Macmillan, PB, 9781742610948
Lucinda Ellis has never really mastered the knack for dealing with people. Not that she is shy. On the contrary, she has no qualms telling others exactly what she thinks of them. So she usually avoids undue human contact. Until her sister, Jayne, decides to take a sudden trip to America. With Jayne's husband, Brian, stranded in a remote Aboriginal community, ... More/Buy
Mary Bennet
Jennifer Paynter
Penguin, PB, 9780670075706
Mary Bennet has been long overshadowed by the beauty and charm of her older sisters, Jane and Elizabeth, and by the forwardness and cheek of her younger sisters, Kitty and Lydia. From her post in the wings of the Bennet family, Mary now watches as Mr Bingley and Mr Darcy -“ and Mr Wickham - glide into her sisters' lives. While ... More/Buy
The Meaning Of Grace
Deborah Forster
Vintage, PB, 9781742755342
Grace Fisher, mother of three, one day decides her husband is a sore disappointment and moves the family from Melbourne to a coastal village in Victoria. But Ian's slow dissolution on the couch masked a depression that will harrow him into an early grave, leaving the kids with a lifetime of questioning: what happened to their father; how did he get ... More/Buy
The Mountain
Drusilla Modjeska
Vintage, PB, 9781741666502
In 1968 Papua New Guinea is on the brink of independence, and everything is about to change. Amidst the turmoil filmmaker Leonard arrives from England with his Dutch wife, Rika, to study and film an isolated village high in The Mountains. The villagers' customs and art have been passed down through generations, and Rika is immediately struck by their paintings on ... More/Buy
The Reunion
Joanne Fedler
Allen & Unwin, PB, 9781742375595
It's been ages since Jo, Helen, Ereka and CJ first became friends through their mothers' group-back then, life revolved around their small children. Now their kids are pre-teens and teenagers with attitudes, iPods and raging hormones, and life is feeling emptier for some mothers, more liberating for others. While away together in an old country house with a couple of new ... More/Buy
Running Dogs
Ruby J Murray
Scribe Publications, PB, 9781921844706
Jakarta, 1997, and the city is on the verge of a revolution. Even the Jordan children — Petra, Isaak and Paul — can feel it coming, shaking the edges of their privileged, protected expat world, where nothing is quite as it seems. Years later, Diana, an Australian development worker, moves to Jakarta and becomes entwined in the powerful Jordans' adult lives. ... More/Buy
Secrets of the Tides
Hannah Richell
Hachette, PB, 9780733628542
Every family has its secrets. Some are small, like telling a white lie or snooping through a private drawer. Others are more serious, like infidelity and betrayal. And some secrets are so terrible they must be hidden away in a deep, dark place, for if they ever came to light, they would surely tear a family apart The Tides are a ... More/Buy
We All Fall Down
Peter Barry
Transit Lounge, PB, 9781921924187
We All Fall Down is a vivid and compelling narrative of middle class friends and families, relationships and the contemporary workplace. Kate and Hugh Drysdale like many couples buy a house that stretches them to the limits financially. Hugh looks at the soaring property market, the fact he’s earning a good salary, and all the signs of a booming economy and ... More/Buy
The Weight of a Human Heart
Ryan O'Neill
Black Inc, PB, 9781863955577
Sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, this collection turns the rules of storytelling on their head.A series of graphs illustrates the disintegration of a marriage, step by excruciating step. A literary stoush - and an affair - play out in the book review section of a national newspaper. The heartbreaking story of a Rwandan boy is hidden in the pages of his English ... More/Buy