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A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz Staff Pick A Fraction of the Whole is brilliant. Hysterically funny, yet profound. Themes of philosophy and literature, life and love, madness and creativity abound. I thoroughly enjoyed every page of Steve Toltz's debut novel. Perfectly absorbing with richly... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman Publisher Comments After years of unrequited love, a lonely man commits a desperate act that affects the lives of everyone it touches, triggering a chain of events no one could have anticipated.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Faces in the Water by Janet Frame Publisher Comments Takes readers into the hearts and minds of confused and tormented hospital patients.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bone People by Keri Hulme Publisher Comments In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes, part Maori, part European, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitor — a speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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My Life As a Fake by Peter Carey Publisher Comments Following the triumph of his Booker Prize-winning True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey ventures into the Far East with a novel shot through with mysteries at once historical, literary, and personal. Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Five Bells by Gail Jones Publisher Comments A Picador Paperback Original On a radiant day in Sydney, four adults converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbor Bridge. Crowds of tourists mix with the locals, enjoying the glorious surroundings and the play of light... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish by Richard Flanagan Staff Pick It doesn't really have that much to do with fish. They're just an excuse for William Gould to tell his life story as an inmate in a penal colony on Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania). Shocking in its brutality and touching in its humanity, this is an... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gabriella's Book of Fire by Venero Armanno Publisher Comments At fifteen, Sam Capistrano is a normal Australian teenager. The object of his desire is Gabriella, the Italian-Irish girl next door. Then one day Gabriella disappearsabandoning Sam. Bitter and resentful, Sam moves on with his life: into the shady side of... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Breadfruit by Celestine Hit Vaite Publisher Comments Not since Precious Ramotswe made her first appearance in The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency has a novel's heroine so immediately and completely won readers' hearts. Materena Mahi, "the best listener in Tahiti," is warm and generous, a natural problem... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Shade of the Shady Tree: Stories of Wheatbelt Australia by John Kinsella Publisher Comments In the Shade of the Shady Tree is a collection of stories set in the Western Australian wheatbelt, a vast grain-growing area that ranges across the southwestern end of the immense Australian interior. The stories offer glimpses into the lives of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Barley Patch (Australian Literature) by Gerald Murnane Publisher Comments Barley Patch takes as its subject the reasons an author might abandon fiction--or so he thinks--forever. Using the form of an oblique self-interrogation, it begins with the Beckettian question "Must I write?" and proceeds to expand from this small... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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My Life As a Fake by Peter Carey Publisher Comments Following the triumph of his Booker Prize-winning True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey ventures into the Far East with a novel shot through with mysteries at once historical, literary, and personal. Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London... (read more) Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dream Stuff: Stories by David Malouf Synopsis From the internationally acclaimed author of "Remembering Babylon" comes a collection of evocative stories that encompass a half-century of Australian life. From tropical settings to backsoil country, from the aboriginal outback to city streets, these... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Breath by Tim Winton Publisher Comments Breath is a story of risk, of learning one's limits by challenging death. On the wild, lonely coast of Western Australia, two thrill-seeking teenage boys fall under the spell of a veteran big-wave surfer named Sando. Their mentor urges them into a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan Publisher Comments Richard Flanagan's previous novels, including Gould's Book of Fish, have been some of the most acclaimed and beloved works of fiction in recent years. He has been described as a master of sleight of hand, adept at using words to conjure worlds, an... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Spare Room by Helen Garner Publisher Comments In her first novel in fifteen years, Helen Garner writes about the joys and limits of female friendship under the transforming pressure of illness. The clear-eyed grace of her prose in this darkly funny and unsparing novel has been hailed by Peter Carey... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin Publisher Comments Miles Franklin's classic of 1901 follows the unconventional life and struggles of one of Australia's most memorable female characters. Sybylla's passion and rebellion bring her no end of trouble, in life and in love. Included in this edition is the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Utu by Caryl Ferey List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Vintners Luck by Elizabeth Knox Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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