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Twenty-five years ago, a young curator of mammals from the Australian Museum in Sydney set out to research the fauna of the Pacific Islands.

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Winner of the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize, Backwaters is a tender and exquisitely written debut novel examining identity, race and complex family history

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Peter Hessler's account of his travels through China over the past decade. This is the story of a nation modernising at great pace, and of the lives of ordinary Chinese caught up in that modernisation. With eloquence and humour, Hessler takes us on the road less travelled, showing us a China rarely glimpsed by outsiders.

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The first in a new series from the author of the beloved Brock and Kolla mysteries

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An unprecedented exploration of contemporary Tibet, one of the worlds most inaccessible places, geographically and politically, and one of its most misunderstood.

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This profoundly moving tale, written in simple, clear prose, takes you inside the hearts and minds of two young boys trying their best to understand the unfathomable and to survive the unbearable. The ending will provide lots of opportunity for classroom talk.

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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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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.