The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: Literature
'It was at Oxford that I first met Bysshe. We arrived at our college on the same day; confusing to a mere foreigner, it is called University College. I had seen him from my window and had been struck by his auburn locks'. The long-haired poet - 'Mad Shelley' - and the serious-minded student from Switzer ...Show more
JACK by JUDY JOHNSON
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Category: Literature
One-eyed Captain Jack Falconer is a man with many secrets. It's 1938, the eve of World War II, and a pearling lugger in the Torres Strait is the place he chooses to hide. But Jack's demons follow him out to sea and rise to the surface just as surely as the pearl shell his divers collect from the dangers ...Show more
The Countesses of Castello by Milena Agus
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Category: Literature
Three sisters live in three flats in an aristocratic palazzo in Cagliari's ancient Castello quarter, where rich and poor are mixed as they used to be in the old downtown quarter. The eldest, Noemi, dreams of lost splendours, while the second, Maddalena, dreams of having a child. The third, known as Coun ...Show more
A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell
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Category: Literature
A Dance to the Music of Time chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to generations. This first novel in the sequence follows Nicholas Jenkins, ...Show more
Temporary Kings (A Dance to the Music of Time - Book 11) by Anthony Powell
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Category: Literature
A Dance to the Music of Time chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to generations. Temporary Kings follows Nicholas Jenkins, Kenneth Widmerpo ...Show more
Rosewater and Soda Bread by Marsha Mehran
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Category: Literature
More than a year has passed since Marjan, Bahar, and Layla, the beautiful Iranian Aminpour sisters, sought refuge in the quaint Irish town of Ballinacroagh. Opening the beguiling Babylon Cafe, they charmed the locals with their warm hearts and delectable Persian cuisine, bringing a saffron-scented spice ...Show more
The Best Australian Poems 2012 by John Tranter (Editor)
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Category: Literature
'I was struck ... by just how many poems depended on the ancient devices of the storyteller ... Many have a lyrical or meditative feel, but most have a story to tell, captured in a brief glimpse of the meaning of life, or a dramatic climax.' -John Tranter In this impressive anthology John Tranter weave ...Show more
Dissection by HALLORAN Jacinta
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Category: Literature
Dr Anna McBride has been sued for medical negligence - a case of delayed diagnosis necessitating the amputation of a young man's leg. As the date for mediation draws closer, Anna's world begins to fray at the edges. Her daily work as a doctor, once routine, becomes increasingly difficult as she scrutini ...Show more
The Photographer's Wife by Suzanne Joinson
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Category: Literature
Jerusalem, 1920: in an already fractured city, eleven-year-old Prudence feels the tension rising as her architect father launches an ambitious - and wildly eccentric - plan to redesign the Holy City by importing English parks to the desert. Prue, known as the 'little witness', eavesdrops underneath the ...Show more
Adverbs by Daniel Handler
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Category: Literature
Marking the return of Daniel Handler to adult fiction, Adverbs tackles life
Zugzwang by Ronan Bennett
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Category: Literature
Where magnificence and squalor co-exist, there will always be envy, rage, cruelty, paranoia and violence... St Petersburg, 1914: imposing and shabby, monumental and squalid, and ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂàunder its surface of fro ...Show more