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A brilliant and surreal novel about isolation and human connection, from award-winning author
A. S. King.

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Growing up in an Australian country town before World War I, Jackie Hanna and Cushie Moy are carefree and innocent in their love for each other. But Jackie is a dwarf, and his devotion to the beautiful Cushie is condemned by her parents. This is the story of their lifelong odyssey, and of the triumph of a special kind of courage.

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A spellbinding novel of psychological suspense that follows a young archivists obsession with her subjects mysterious death as it threatens to destroy her fragile grasp on sanity

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Best friends Ray and Jose are not your typical teenagers. They're on their own and on the run. They hide out in a wildwood Harlem park called Ten Mile River. Street-smart Jose and bookish, introspective Ray are closer than brothers until they meet Trini. They both fall for her immediately, and tension creeps into the boys' friendship.

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More wonderful interviews with Australia's leading citizens, drawn from John Clarke and Bryan Dawe's weekly broadcasts on ABC TV's 7.30 Report.

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In Vienna a taxi strikes the crash barrier, flinging its passengers out as it spins through the air. The driver cannot explain why he lost control; only that the couple in the back seat seemed to be about to kiss. Set against the backdrop of the Balkans war, The Accident intimately documents an affair between two people caught in each other's webs.

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Prequel to the bestselling The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game is a tale of lost souls and haunting shadows set amid the winding alleyways of Barcelona during the turbulent 1920s. It is a masterful tale and spellbinding love story about the magic of books and the darkest corners of the heart.

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Love, grief, and the strange and wonderful art of taxidermy.

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Kaz Cooke brilliantly illustrates this classic of manners and mores by the 19th-century actress and dancer who had affairs with, amongst others, Franz Liszt and Ludwig I of Bavaria, and famously horsewhipped the editor of the Ballarat Times during her visit to the goldfields in 1856.

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A boot camp for troubled young men, a hidden identity and murderous pursuit on a remote island: beloved author Catherine Jinks is back with another heart-pounding Australian thriller.

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At the heart of this title is Senator Obama's vision of how his country can move beyond its divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families and the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and considers the nature of threats from outside America's borders.

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There can be few other nations which are less certain than Australia as to what they are and where they are. Brilliant, witty, scathing, The Australian Ugliness is the classic postwar account of Australian society, how we live in the environments we create, and the consequences of our failure to think about how we live. www.textclassics.com.au

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A renowned French author asks fundamental questions about motherhood, gender roles and identity. A must read for fans of Rachel Cusk, Sheila Heti, Jenny Offill and Maggie Nelson

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Set in Paris between the wars. A love triangle, against this backdrop of political upheaval, that highlights women's growing independence.