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The story of four remarkable women traversing the literary landscape of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Australia, from one of our nation's most eminent historians.

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If the conscious mind - the part you consider you - is just the tip of the iceberg in the brain, what is all the rest doing Our behaviour, thoughts and experiences are inseparably linked to a vast chemical-electrical network called the nervous system. David Eagleman illuminates this hidden world in his fascinating exploration of the human brain.

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An award-winning journalist takes to the protest-riven streets of Hong Kong to write this startling landmark account of the island citys complex past and precarious future.

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The true story of the wrongful conviction of the infamous West Memphis Three, Life After Death is a powerful and unflinching first-person account of life on death row.

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Clay Jannon, twenty-six and unemployed, reads books about vampire policemen and teenage wizards. Familiar, predictable books. Books that fit neatly into a section at the bookstore. But he is about to encounter a new species of book entirely: secret, strange, and frantically sought-after.

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A man wakes in terror, choking for air. He has no memories and no sens His licence tells him his name is Eric Sanderson. Then the attacks begin. The Raw Shark Texts is a psychological thriller, a haunting love story and an epic quest laced with absurdist wit. Funny, moving and gripping, this will be the left-field hit of the year.

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Whatever happened to the bard's books Ardent bibliophile Stuart Kells investigates.

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The thrilling, satisfying conclusion to internationally bestselling author Barry Maitland's the Belltree Trilogy.

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It's 1952 and the Scott family has moved unexpectedly from Los Angeles to London. Janie feels uncomfortable in her strange new school, until the local apothecary promises her a remedy for homesickness. But the real cure is meeting the apothecary's son Benjamin, a curiously defiant boy who dreams of becoming a spy.

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A gentle thriller featuring a charming Laotian doctor who investigates the cause of death of three young Vietnamese men and a Communist Party leader's life.

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Told as a series of dictionary entries, The Lover's Dictionary is an intimate portrait of a relationship in all its guises; a compelling, deeply romantic story of two people loving each other: passionately, imperfectly. Through these short entries, Levithan opens an intimate window into the couple's space, giving a name to their everyday struggles.

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The surprising true story of how the course of human history was redirected, time and again, by the pesky mosquito.

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Raymond Gaita interweaves stories about animals with reflections on how animals think, trust, hope and mourn. He argues that it is love which gives us the best model for the respect we show to animals and the natural world. Gaita teaches philosophy at Australian Catholic University as well as King's College, London.

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The story of the settlement of Australia and how our culture has been shaped by the scarcity of water and by the need to fill the imagined silence of the continent with the sounds of civilisation. It's the story of who we are today as much as a history of how the country grew. It's an important work of environmental and cultural history.

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Laos, 1977. Something wild and evil has been let loose in the city of Vientiane, and a series of mutilated corpses lands in the morgue of Dr. Siri Paiboun - the reluctant national coroner. This quasi-mystical story keeps a perfect balance between the modern mysteries of forensic science and ancient secrets of the sprit world.

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In this series of essays, Inga declares her belief that democratic peoples need true stories about their past and urged responsiveness to a multiplicity of stories catching the experiences of different individuals in different situations. Australian author.

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What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and 'discovered' Machu Picchu.

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Lia and Cassie were best friends. But something went wrong and Cassie changed. Now Cassie is dead. How did she die Why did she cut herself off While Lia searches for answers, she drives herself relentlessly down her own path to destruction - to be thin, strong, in control. A powerful story of one girl's chilling descent into anorexia.

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