Conditions of Faith by Alex Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
An amazing book; a compulsively readable story composed by an award-winning author of brilliant, subtle, compassionate and intelligent language. When Alex Miller's mother died she left him her fragmentary journal from the 1920s. Inspired by her exotic tales as a young woman living in Paris and this entr ...Show more
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
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Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, lives in a once-elegant apartment with his two middle-aged stepchildren. When his condition worsens he is forced to take up residence with Roxana, his own daughter, her husband, Yezad ...Show more
Slade House by David Mitchell
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Category: General
Turn down Slade Alley - narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you're looking for it. Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall. No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it swings open. Enter the sunlit garden of an old house that doesn't quite make sense; too grand for the shabby ne ...Show more
Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life. The Making of an American Agitator by Michael Moore
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
"Here Comes Trouble" is Michael Moore's blistering anti-memoir, a hilarious book tracing the origins of his political rabble-rousing and his early forays into campaigning for change. Michael Moore has been called an iconoclast, a maverick, a vital dissenting voice and a one of the most un-American peopl ...Show more
November Criminals by Sam Munson
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'WHAT ARE YOUR BEST AND WORST QUALITIES?' This is the title of the essay Addison Schacht has to submit to gain a place at his chosen university. Straightaway, Addison, 18, sees an opportunity to tell his story-so-far: to unburden himself, so to speak. And boy is there a lot to unburden. His business - d ...Show more
Beginnings (The Secret Lives of Emma #1) by Natasha Walker
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Category: General | Series: The Secret Lives of Emma
Beginnings...Thirty-something Emma Benson is a free spirit. For her a good life means a life of sensuality. So it's a surprise to everyone when she marries David, a successful businessman, and settles down in the suburbs. One year on, and she's trying so hard to be loyal to her man. Not easy to do when ...Show more
The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
This book was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize; and shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. It was the winner of the Encore Award. It is longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. It is longlisted for the Impac Prize. Calcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become dangerou ...Show more
Illuminations by Andrew O'Hagan
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Category: General
How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it? Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow. Nobody remembers her now, but this elderly woman was i ...Show more
Goat Mountain by David Vann
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Three generations of men hunt for deer on Goat Mountain. One hot autumn day, grandfather, son and grandson discover a poacher on their land. The eleven-year-old studies the poacher through the scope of his father's rifle - and pulls the trigger. Goat Mountain is an intensely powerful novel about how the ...Show more
Lean on Pete (Prize Winner Impac Dublin shortlist 2012) by Willy Vlautin
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Category: General
Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson wants a home; food on the table; a high school he can attend for more than part of a year; and some structure to his life. But as the son of a single father working at warehouses across the Pacific Northwest, he's been pretty much on his own for some time. "Lean on Pete ...Show more
Arkie's Pilgrimage to the Next Big Thing by Lisa Walker
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'I watch the highway go by and ponder my situation. I am on the run from my husband's divorce lawyer, my mojo is still missing in action and my demon ex-lover is lurking...But, all things considered, my pilgrimage is going well...' Arkie used to be a trendspotter, running a successful business advising ...Show more
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
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Category: General | Series: P.S. | Reading Level: very good
Being released soon as a TV series starring Mark Ruffalo. On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother, Thomas, entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut, public library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God the sacrifice he was about to commit would be deemed acceptable. ...Show more