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Jeff Atman is in Venice to cover the opening of the Biennale. He's expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties. He's not expecting to meet the spellbinding Laura, who will completely transform his few days in the city. Another city and assignment - on the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi, a different kind of transformation lies in wait.

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Described by Naomi Klein as 'Brilliant and hilarious', JENNIFER GOVERNMENT is a wickedly funny thriller for the NO LOGO generation.

(Paperback, Main - Canons)

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, an intimate novel about human desire against the backdrop of the sexual liberation movement of the Sixties.

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Bryce Courtenay's bestselling novel is based on the true story of an unforgettable woman, Jessica, who rebels against the rules of her society. When a crime is committed Jessica must fight for what she loves until the end - and then at last her secret can be told. Television mini-series to be screened July 2004.

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From award-winning journalist Paul Daley comes a gripping multi-generational saga about Australian frontier violence and cultural theft that will capture the national imagination.

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(Paperback, Main - Re-issue)

A coming-of-age classic by the 'best-loved English poetof the past 100 years. (Sunday Times) published to celebrateLarkin's centenary.

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After a terrible argument with her father over their family property, Waters Meeting, Rebecca Suanders throws her swag in the ute and heads north with her three dogs. A job as a jillaroo takes her into the rowdy world of B&S balls, Bundy rum and boys. It's only when tragedy shatters her world that Rebecca finds inner strength and courage.

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A love letter to the beautiful city of Lviv, by the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees

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This philosophical epic, with a large cast of characters, addresses the fervent desire of the human race to overcome the tyranny of aging and physical death.

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A wry and insightful portrait of contemporary life, this is the much-anticipated follow-up to the award-winning novelChemistry.

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This wonderfully irreverant novel rewrites 200-odd years of Australia's past. Joan is a wife and mother of no great distinction but in the life of her imagination she is in the front line of events, cheerfully altering the course of history

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Semi-autobiographical, the novel perfectly captures the ragged modernisation of Brisbane and the sense of a generation locked in combat with the elusive Australian Dream.

(Paperback, Main)

A collection that outlines the author's early preoccupation with issues of mental illness, creativity and femininity, all of which would become recurrent themes in her later work. It contains the thirteen stories together with five pieces of her journalism, as well as a further nine stories selected from the Indiana archive.

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For fans of Girl, Woman, Other and Homegoing, Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions follows the lives of a generation of Nigerian women, exploring their identity and experience, within Nigeria and the US, through a set of interlocking stories

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Trippy, incisive and riotously funny Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine A wonder Precision, humour, heart, this is a stunner Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, bestselling author of Chain-Gang All-Stars

(Paperback, New Illustrated Thorsons Classics edition)

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the most celebrated inspirational fable of our time, tells the story of a bird determined to be more than ordinary. This modern classic is a story for people who want to follow their dreams and make their own rules, and has inspired people for decades.

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A tour-de-force debut novel about a Two-Spirit Indigiqueer young man and proud NDN glitter princess who must reckon with his past when he returns home to his reservation.

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A mesmerising and enigmatic collection of short stories, haunted by the horrors of war, never before translated into English, and divided into two halves: journeys and
flowers.

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Judas Boys is the long-awaited new novel from Joel Deane: a searing de profundis that reads like the secret history behind today's political headlines. Deane brings the aftermath of professional catastrophe, personal betrayal, and public disgrace to life with a poets ear for the human voice fractured in extremis.