Affection: There is No Cure by Ian Townsend
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Category: Literature
January 1900, and Australia's tropical north just got a little hotter. An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner, armed with a microscope, a butterfly net and his lovelorn ...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
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
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Category: Literature
WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A finalist for the Kirkus Prize and Andrew Carnegie Medal, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family ...Show more
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
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Category: Literature
At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy. The boy is not his own. It's a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it. Told through the eyes of eight of those present at the barbecue, this acclaimed bestseller is an unflinching i ...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
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Seek by Anthony O'Neill
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Category: Literature
Seven years after the death of Edward Hyde, a stylish gentleman shows up in foggy London claiming to be Dr. Henry Jekyll. Only Mr. Utterson, Jekyll's faithful lawyer and confidant, knows that he must be an impostor - because Jekyll was Hyde. But as the man goes about charming Jekyll's friends and reclai ...Show more
Journey to Horseshoe Bend by Theodor George Henry Strehlow
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Category: Literature
Journey to Horseshoe Bend was first published in 1969 and has been out of print for almost forty years. An Australian literary classic, it was written by TGH (Ted) Strehlow, author of the monumental Songs of Central Australia. It describes the final days of his father, Pastor Carl Strehlow, head of the ...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 Devil's Eye by Ian Townsend
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Category: Literature
A forgotten fragment of Australia's past inspires a powerful new novel ... It is 1899, and one of the fiercest storms in history is brewing - a hurricane named Mahina. to a remote part of the Queensland coast come the hundreds of sails of the northern pearling fleets, and a native policeman trying to so ...Show more
Ruins by Rajith Savanadasa
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Category: Literature
In the restless streets, crowded waiting rooms and glittering nightclubs of Colombo, five family members find their bonds stretched to breaking point in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war. Latha wants a home. Anoushka wants an iPod. Mano hopes to win his wife back. Lakshmi dreams of rescuing a lo ...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