Dialogue 2019

CAE Book Groups Catalogue

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Centre for Adult Education CAE is a leading provider of Adult and Community Education and Theme Icons has been providing lifelong learning opportunities to Victorians for 70 years. CAE has a strong focus on delivering nationally F Fiction Large Print recognised and accredited training as well as non accredited L short courses, and connects with the community through socially N Nonfiction Adapted Books inclusive practices that recognise diversity and creativity. Located S Short Stories Book Group Favourite in the heart of the arts and café area of Melbourne’s CBD, CAE µ offers a vibrant and supportive adult learning environment, flexible learning options, skills recognition, practical training and supervised work placements. New Icon NEW CAE Book Groups Book Book Title On The Cover The program has significant autonomy: members of CAE Book Java Groups select their own pool of titles for their year’s reading list; Ridge decide on monthly meeting times; choose their own members; Author Jock and pick a place to meet such as a private home, café or library. Serong CAE Book Group members can also suggest titles for inclusion into the program. From international award winners to debut and SHORTLISTED Literary Australian authors, there are hundreds of books to choose from. Indie Book Award Prize Reading guides accompany each box of books and the questions provided can be used to frame each group’s discussion. LONGLISTED Australian Book Industry Award CAE Book Groups has a long history that can be seen in our selection of titles, or even in the way the discussion notes are Skipper Isi Natoli is charge of tour boat Java Ridge, written. We like to think of it as a great trip down memory lane; currently hosting a group of rich we hope you do too. Australian surf tourists in search of perfect waves in the remote Using Dialogue Indonesian islands. When a A selection of Reactions (feedback on the books that our storm approaches, the crew and members have read) from group members as well as our staff passengers are anchored beside an idyllic reef where they come favourites are included to provide a broad perspective on the into contact with the wreckage titles in the program. The Reactions we receive from all our book of Takalar, a people-smuggling groups provide vital feedback to CAE Book Groups staff. boat harbouring asylum There are four indexes: Author Index (arranged alphabetically seekers. The novel deals with by author surname), Title Index, Large Print Index and Box the unfolding political dilemma Number Index. Year in Canberra, at the same time Published as depicting the desperation Please ensure all members of your group have access to to survive. Dialogue, which can also be downloaded as a PDF via our Theme type F 2017 309pp B2279 BOX website at www.cae.edu.au. If you would like to receive a copy NUMBER as a PDF, just email us and we will send you one. Number The titles are grouped thematically, with fiction and nonfiction titles of Pages An explosive book that blends often sitting side by side. You will find a description of the themes literary fiction with political thriller. The story raises a lot in the content list. of moral questions surrounding asylum seekers, persecution Borrow an eBook and ‘turning a blind eye’. Group Reaction As part of your CAE Book Groups membership, you can borrow The tension kept me going an eBook version – in addition to the print copy – absolutely until I had read the entire book in one sitting. An extremely free! To receive eBooks, please ensure you have filled out the powerful read that will provoke online form to Register Your Interest. The form is available on intense discussions. the eBook section of the Book Groups website. When there is Group Name Larriana M, CAE Book an eBook available to match the book selected for your group’s Groups staff member next meeting, you will be able to borrow the eBook in advance of the meeting. 4 Join or Start a Book Group

Starting a Book Group CAE Book Groups is a great way to connect with other readers in your How do we receive and return books? local community. Get together with friends, neighbours or colleagues CAE sends a box in advance of each meeting to the delivery address to discuss the sort of books that might appeal to you as a group and nominated by the Group Secretary. Books are returned to CAE by the choose a suitable time and venue. Once you have between 8-15 Group Secretary via courier or post. Reply paid slips are included in people and have decided on the number of discussion meetings you all boxes. Groups operate most efficiently when books are returned to would like to have, you are ready to take the next step of electing a and collected from the Group Secretary by each individual member at CAE Book Group Secretary. the scheduled meeting. Contact CAE Book Groups via phone, email or through our website What do I get for my fee? to receive a New Group Pack so you can begin selecting your books. Your first book will arrive within two weeks of receipt of membership Fees cover the delivery and return of book boxes each month and payments and book selections. access to the CAE eBook catalogue. Each box contains copies of the selected book (maximum 15 copies) and notes on loan for each Joining a Book Group individual member. Group Secretaries should only distribute books If you would prefer to join an existing group, please contact CAE Book to paid members. Group members can also sign up for CAE Book Groups via phone, email or through our website, and we will help you Groups Newsletter to receive timely news on events and competitions, find a group in your area and confirm the appropriate pro-rata fee. To as well as book reviews by CAE Book Groups staff. ensure you and the new group are the right match, your first meeting with a new group is free. Running a Book Group Victorian Annual Membership Fees 2019 (per member) No of meetings Full Fee Seniors Concession Secretary The CAE Book Group Secretary 11 $151 $137 $101 $87 CAE Book Group Secretaries provide a permanent delivery address 9 $140 $127 $94 $81 for books and liaise with CAE staff on book selections, payments 6 $111 $101 $75 $65 and enquiries from potential new members. Secretaries are vital to the success of book groups and ensure CAE keeps in touch with the needs of each group. The role of secretary can rotate between group members from year to year. Interstate Annual Membership Fees 2019 (per member)

Where do CAE Book Groups meet and how often? No of meetings Full Fee Seniors Concession Secretary CAE Book Groups meet whenever they want through the year 11 $174 $152 $119 $98 and choose to receive CAE books 6, 9 or 11 times a year. Groups 9 $157 $137 $108 $89 choose the time, place and format of their meetings and direct their 6 $120 $105 $83 $68 own discussions.

Books available for loan Each month, CAE selects a book from the list of possible titles Enrolment form your group has chosen from Dialogue. Groups have the option of Please see page 91 for an enrolment form, or download it via our requesting books in priority or random order. We will only ever send website www.cae.edu.au/book-groups/. The enrolment process can books on your selected list. be handled by post, email or phone. If you are eligible for a seniors or concession fee, you will need to provide a photocopy of your senior CAE discussion notes or concession card. Students are also eligible for a discount (same as Kick-start your meeting with CAE discussion notes. While there the seniors fee). For more details on discount eligibility, please see our is no formal tuition or assessment, all books are accompanied by website or contact us. specially commissioned notes written by our experienced note writers, complete with discussion questions. More than just a book review, the notes are guaranteed to get your group talking.

How much time do we have to read the book before the discussion? One month. Books are delivered to the Group Secretary prior to the scheduled meeting. Members collect their copy of the book from the secretary then meet again the following month to discuss the book they’ve just read and collect their next book.

CONNECT WITH US / 9652 0620 / CAE.EDU.AU / @CAEBOOKGROUPS / BOOKGROUPS_CAE 5 Growing Up, Moving On Exploring the experience of childhood and finding one’s way in the world. This chapter celebrates both fiction and nonfiction coming-of-age stories.

Barracuda The Boy in the Green Suit A B Christos Tsiolkas Robert Hillman From the author of The Slap WINNER About a Boy Bad Blood comes an exploration of class, National Biography Prize Nick Hornby Lorna Sage identity and the meaning of In 1965, 16-year-old Robert Will, a 36-year-old bachelor who In Lorna’s bizarre upbringing success. Danny is from a Hillman boarded a boat for is delighted to be child-free, in a North Wales town her working-class background, and Ceylon, wearing a green suit gets mixed up with 12-year-old dissolute vicar grandfather when he obtains a scholarship to and carrying a suitcase of books Marcus and his newly separated and furious grandmother are a prestigious college he builds his and a typewriter. When the mother. This entertaining dominating figures. ‘A totally identity on becoming an Olympic ship arrived in Athens instead, novel is about families, being unexpected book ... rackety, swimming champion. But what Hillman, with no money and no a man, being a kid ... and the painful, sometimes menacing happens when things come return ticket, began an adventure importance of being cool. and mad. Out of it all she has crashing down? Strong language that led him to Istanbul, Tehran made something devastatingly and explicit content may offend F 1998 286pp B1706 and Kuwait. Punctuated by tales funny, full of characters and full of some readers. of growing up in rural , exhilarating resilience and sly wit,’ 2013 516pp F B2202 this is a tender, funny memoir of All the Pretty Horses said reviewer Anthony Thwaite. a young writer-in-the-making. Cormac McCarthy 2000 281pp B1663 N The Bean Trees N 2003 232pp B1872 SHORTLISTED Barbara Kingsolver National Book Award Balzac and the Little Young Taylor Greer has grown Breath While not a formula western or Chinese Seamstress up poor in rural Kentucky and a ‘man’s book’, this novel has Dai Sijie achieved her first two aims – to avoid becoming pregnant and to very American themes. At 16, During Mao’s Cultural Revolution, WINNER get away from her hometown. John Grady Cole leaves the two sons of doctors are sent to Miles Franklin Literary Award Texan ranch where he grew up She buys an old car and the country for ‘reeducation’. When paramedic Bruce Pike but has no future, to ride into the heads West, but before long To keep their sanity, they have arrives too late to save a boy Mexican frontier: into adventure, she acquires an unexpected their sense of humour and found hanged in his bedroom, romance and rough male justice. responsibility, and when car also some distraction from he senses this lonely death is an Strong masculine point of troubles lead her to stop the charming daughter of the accident. Pike, too, was once view, powerful landscapes and somewhere in Arizona, Taylor local tailor. When they discover addicted to extremes, barely distinctive style. begins a surprising new life. a suitcase full of forbidden knowing when to stop. Winton’s F 1992 302pp B1481 literature, new worlds are F 1988 246pp B1869 ninth novel returns to the remote opened to them. Delightful, funny West Australian coast and the An Australian Son and unexpected. The Bell Jar fictional universe of Sawyer. Gordon Matthews F 2001 172pp B1671 Sylvia Plath Simple yet profound, Breath is a moving story of youth’s reckless An extraordinary life story without The only novel by this wellknown compulsion to oblivion. literary pretensions. Adopted into Barn Blind poet. A brilliant treatment of the a Melbourne family in the 1950s, Jane Smiley effect of society’s expectations F 2008 216pp B1992 on a sensitive young woman Matthews’ distinctive colouring This is a striking study of a who went to England, married set him apart at school and in woman of powerful will. Entirely Butterfly the poet Ted Hughes, had two adolescence he lost the sense focused on the world of horses Sonya Hartnett children and committed suicide of where he belonged, until he and riders, Kate has conscripted seven years later. identified as an Aborigine. His all four of her children in the SHORTLISTED search to uncover his origins service of her vision. But their F 1963 260pp B0188 Miles Franklin Literary Award opens up questions of adoption, own adolescent natures assert Well written and realistically Plum Coyle is nearly fourteen colour and Aboriginality. themselves, and events move to captures the turmoil and on the fringe of her peer a conclusion the family has never N 1996 230pp B1503 experienced through the group. When her glamorous imagined. Written with superb process while functioning nextdoor neighbour Maureen, a insight into human nature and in day-to-day life with its young wife and mother, befriends the young. challenges, choices and her, Plum feels reinvented. But FL 1980 218pp B1433 decisions. The Bell Jar created Maureen has an ulterior motive Enjoyed Barracuda? much discussion regarding for taking Plum under her mental health issues and how wing. Gripping, disquieting and in today’s society, we still have beautifully observed. Try much to learn. F 2009 215pp B2045 For Today I Am a Boy Exeter Book Group by Kim Fu [B2203]

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A Complicated Kindness A Fortunate Life C Miriam Toews E A.B. Facey This Canadian novel examines Abandoned as a child by The Catcher in the Rye a family whose life within their Extremely Loud and his widowed mother in the J.D. Salinger fundamentalist Mennonite Incredibly Close late 1890s, Facey endured community has reached a crisis Jonathan Safran Foer extraordinary hardships in SHORTLISTED point. Narrator, teenaged Nomi, the pioneering days of the Foer explores grief through the National Book Award is superbly sustained, her voice is Western Australian wheatbelt, eyes of 9-year-old Oskar, whose funny, dark, and piercing. Tuned experienced Gallipoli, survived Holden Caulfield, is a 16-year-old father died in the 9/11 World in to every hypocrisy yet barely the Depression and, having American boy who has just Trade Center disaster. Oskar conscious of her own confusion, taught himself to write, set about flunked out of his third smart is an intelligent, sensitive and she is torn by her love of those this powerful autobiography. school. His own values reveal creative kid, whose business who have left and the father that he has a deep intuitive sense card lists Inventor, Amateur N 1981 326pp B0360 who remains. of what has gone wrong with Entomologist, and Origamist the culture to which he belongs, F 2004 246pp B1920 as some of his interests. When Fresh Fields Growing Up, Moving On Moving Up, Growing and the book is written from his he finds a mysterious key in his Peter Kocan point of view and in his American father’s wardrobe, he embarks period slang. D on an investigation to help him With little money, an indifferent 1951 224pp B0257 understand his loss. mother and no home, a shy F 14-year-old boy drifts between David Copperfield F 2005 326pp B1922 city and bush, slowly becoming Cat’s Eye Charles Dickens alienated and distrustful. Fresh Margaret Atwood This partly autobiographical novel Fields is a dark portrait of the A Canadian painter, returning wonders ‘whether I shall turn out F evolution of a loner sustained to Toronto for a retrospective to be the hero of my own life’. only by a potent inner-life, where exhibition of her work, is caught A wonderful blend of comedy For Today I Am a Boy love and death are increasingly up in a reflection of her life and pain, with Dickens’ Kim Fu confused. As a lonely, silent unforgettable characters: the teenager in 1966, award-winning and of the driven relationship As the only son of Chinese Micawbers and Murdstones, novelist Kocan shot and injured with her ‘best friend’, Cordelia. immigrants, Peter struggles Mrs Gummidge, Uriah Heep, Arthur Caldwell, the federal Comic, mind-stretching, terrible with the strong patriarchal Miss Betsey and Mr Dick. opposition leader of the day. in its grasp of children’s needs expectations of his parents – and cruelties, hopeful – and a F 1850 920pp B0224 especially as he has always felt F 2004 373pp B1880 compulsive read! he should have been born a girl. F 1988 421pp B1249 Drinking Coffee This delicately handled coming of Elsewhere age novel follows Peter and his sisters as they journey into the The Chosen ZZ Packer wider world, finding their places Chaim Potok SHORTLISTED and conquering the shadows of Two young Jewish boys growing PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction the past. up in Brooklyn around the time F 2014 256pp B2203 of the Second World War study Surprising, witty and involving, Talmud together, but differences these eight stories follow in upbringing, attitude and belief characters on the brink of create tension in their friendship. change. Their stories are Will Danny, the Rabbi’s son, connected by themes of become a Rabbi himself or will race, black identity, religion he break with tradition? Zionism, and belonging. They range the birth of the state of Israel and from a teenager who flees the Looking to grow your own the destruction of the European Pentecostal fanaticism of her business? Learn the essential Jews are important themes in hometown, finding herself in a skills with a small business this novel. dangerous world of drugs and short course. 1966 281pp B0121 sexual exploitation, to a girl F who stages a political sit-in at a local café. Coda 2003 243pp B1829 FS Kathleen’s memory and body show signs of failing, but she is still her feisty, independent self, wanting to lead her own life. How long, she wonders, before she Enjoyed Cat’s Eye? becomes a dumped granny? In this brilliant small book, with its Try Skylarking by glittering satiric wit and aching poignancy, Astley is at her best. Kate Mildenhall [B2249] cae.edu.au F 1993 188pp B1436 03 9652 0611

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Great Expectations The Highest Tide The Hundred G Charles Dickens Jim Lynch Secret Senses Late, great Dickens. An 13-year-old Miles O’Malley is Amy Tan A Gate at the Stairs anonymously given fortune takes an avid beachcomber who Lorrie Moore Pip, a blacksmith’s apprentice, discovers a rare giant squid SHORTLISTED Orange Prize Tassie, a 20-year-old college from his pre-industrial world washed up on the mudflats of student from the American to a gentleman’s life in 19th the Washington coast. Miles Two half-sisters link the Chinese Growing Up, Moving On Midwest, gets a job as part-time century London. The rich cast becomes an overnight sensation, and American cultures when nanny for an affluent middle-aged of characters includes Miss attracting attention from the life of 5-year-old Olivia is couple who harbour a dark family Haversham, Magwitch, Jaggers, scientists, spiritual healers, and taken over by her older sister’s secret and are in the process and Wemmick – incomparable media vultures. This charming traditional Yin world of ghosts of adopting a biracial child. figures of comedy, terror and coming of age story is funny and and stories. For thirty years she Tassie’s time away has changed human and social insight. well-paced, and raises lots of struggles to get away from them her perspective and during a FL 1861 493pp B0063 material for discussion. and live a ‘normal’, American visit home, she sees her family F 2005 246pp B1924 life. But the marvellous story differently, including her brother unfolds to surprise her, and us, Robert, who is being approached H His Illegal Self into other ways of seeing life in by the military. both countries. 2009 322pp B2068 F 1995 345pp B1468 F The Hanging Garden Che is the precocious son of radical student activists. Raised The Getting of Wisdom Critics have hailed this in isolated privilege and denied Henry Handel Richardson posthumously published novel access to television and news, I A semi-autobiographical account as an unfinished masterpiece. his timely rescue pitches him into I for Isobel of Laura, a Victorian country girl It is WWII, and two children a hippy commune in the jungle whose quirky individuality creates are sent to a house with a wild of tropical . Here he Amy Witting awkwardness in the conformist garden overlooking slowly confronts his life, learning Harbour. White tenderly explores that nothing is as it seems. Carey SHORTLISTED atmosphere of a girls’ private Miles Franklin Literary Award boarding school. the Sydney of his childhood, the lends his narrative wizardry to a nature of war, and the ceaseless beautiful story of love between 1910 240pp B0131 The small but unrelenting F human yearning for connection. mother and son. cruelties of Isobel’s unloving This is an unexpected F 2008 288pp B2020 parents make her life a misery, Ghost River opportunity to re-connect with an but her struggle for creative Tony Birch iconic Australian novelist. Hoi Polloi self-knowledge is sustained by F 2012 240pp B2161 glimpses of kinder adults and WINNER Craig Sherborne by the enchantment of words Victorian Premier’s Literary Award This boyhood memoir has a and writing. A shapely and Ren and Sonny dedicate their NEW startling vividness, its comedy vivid evocation of day to day free time to exploring the Yarra and pathos deriving partly Australian life. River and its secrets, stories from the remorseless candour F 1989 158pp B1246 and adventures. The Yarra Hello, with which Sherborne portrays winds itself through their lives Goodbye his social-climbing parents and the sexual fumblings of as the boys grow, and they Emily Brewin J must eventually find the courage adolescent boys. His parents to face the threats to their Set in 1968 move to Sydney from a small river – but at what cost? An during the time New Zealand town, where they Jasper Jones atmospheric and haunting novel of the Vietnam hope to join the ‘hoi polloi’, as Craig Silvey War, sheltered 17-year-old May from the bestselling author of his mother mistakenly calls the SHORTLISTED Shadowboxing and Blood. Callaghan’s future is torn apart upper crust. when she gets ‘in trouble’ with Miles Franklin Literary Award F 2015 305pp B2230 N 2005 197pp B1908 her high school boyfriend Sam, Summer, 1965. Charlie Bucktin, who has moved to Melbourne How the Light Gets In a bookish boy of thirteen, is The Go Between and is awaiting draft orders. startled by an unexpected L.P. Hartley Once she can no longer hide M.J. Hyland visitor: Jasper Jones, an outcast from small-town gossip and her in the regional mining town of A study of early adolescence, as conservative Catholic mother, SHORTLISTED an old man recalls his boyhood Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Corrigan. Rebellious and solitary, May takes a train to Melbourne Jasper represents danger and in a country house in the 1920s. and meets feminist Ruby and His life has been shaped by his A bright 16-year-old cannot wait intrigue, so when he begs for Indigenous student Clancy who to escape from the poverty of Charlie’s help, Charlie nervously involvement in the relationships introduces her to the liberal anti- and traumas of three adults. her family life in Sydney. Living follows and witnesses Jasper’s war movement that changes her as an exchange student with horrible discovery. A profound novel about social life forever. stratification, adolescence and an American family seems like F 2009 368pp B2061 the sometimes destructive effects F 2017 344pp B2271 a dream come true, but things of love. quickly begin to unravel. A masterly study of adolescent FL 1953 280pp B0187 spirit, defiance and longing for acceptance, as well as the complexities of family dynamics. F 2003 317pp B1820

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Johnno Mudeye The Outcast M Bary Dowling Sadie Jones David Malouf’s first novel is set Dowling’s memory is precise In 1957, 19-year-old Lewis mainly in the of the Middlesex and detailed, and his clear, travels home from prison in the 1940s and ’50s. It is the story Jeffrey Eugenides sensuous writing brings to south of England. His return of two men who spend much of life the highly individual past echoes his father’s return from their time together, although they WINNER of the boy and his family; the war a decade earlier, before seem to have little in common. Pulitzer Prize provincial city of – its his mother died in a tragic Distinguished by its fine Because of a rare genetic lake, shops, schools, churches; accident. Her death strained the depictions of people and places deficiency, the narrator is a the surrounding farms; the relationship between Lewis and and its deep personal feeling. hermaphrodite. The book covers people. An emotional and his father, and as time blends F 1975 170pp B0277 a startling family history of Greek- powerful autobiography. Lewis’ grief with anger, childhood American migrant experience N 1995 266pp B1465 friend Kit’s attempts to help will and moves into an evocation release dark secrets. K of Callie/Cal’s predicament: in F 2008 345pp B2040 Growing Up, Moving On Moving Up, Growing this either/or world, what does it O The Kite Runner mean to discover that one is both All the members really enjoyed and neither? the book and found it a Khaled Hosseini Old School compelling novel. We had an 2002 529pp B1792 Amir and Hassan have an F Tobias Wolff animated discussion about eventful childhood set against the many issues raised by the SHORTLISTED author, including mental illness, a backdrop of tumultuous Miss Gymkhana, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Afghan history, from the fall child abuse, arson, self-harm, R.G. Menzies and Me relationships. We laughed that of the monarchy and Soviet In an American boys’ school in Kathy Skelton it was peculiar to enjoy a novel intervention, to the flight of 1960 where a strong culture of Skelton was born in 1946 and so much when it covered so refugees to America. When literature and writing prevails, grew up in seaside Sorrento, many dark issues; sadly many unforeseeable events take Amir writers Robert Frost, Ayn Rand Victoria. Subtitled ‘Small Town of the issues still prevail today. back to Afghanistan in the rise and Ernest Hemingway visit to Life in the Fifties’, this book is Highly recommended. of the Taliban regime, he must judge a literary competition, the a portfolio of snapshots and Seaford Shortfalls right old wrongs in this poignant, prize a private audience with anecdotes evoking a world of red- moving exploration of love the writer. This exploration of hot commos, the young Queen, and responsibility. adolescent identity, writing and Out Stealing Horses strict Catholics, the Petrovs, Billy the complexities which surround F 2003 324pp B1860 Graham, the Olympic Games and Per Petterson ambition, offers much to discuss. the Saturday matinée. Sure to WINNER provide laughs of recognition and F 2003 195pp B1889 Independent Foreign Fiction L a wave of reminiscences. N 1990 153pp B1278 One of the Wattle Birds 15-year-old Trond witnesses the The Life and Times of sudden breakdown of his friend, Jessica Anderson the first in a series of incidents the Thunderbolt Kid Mister Pip In the days before her exams, in the fateful summer of 1948 Bill Bryson Lloyd Jones Cecily is more concerned with leading to the destruction of his In 1950s Des Moines, Iowa, Bill questions about the recent family. This coming of age tale Bryson is the thunderbolt kid. SHORTLISTED death of her mother than with explores the relationship between Via this superhero persona (with Man Booker Prize study. Her need to make sense father and son, and the impact of of things provides the action in a handy death ray for zapping After civil war trouble reaches war. Winner of the International this funny and engaging study morons) he vividly recalls the Matilda’s tropical island, one IMPAC Dublin Award. of the brio and independence of experiences of his childhood white man remains. When Mr 2005 264pp the young. F B1993 in baby boomer America, and Watts begins to read aloud draws on a fascinating breadth of from Great Expectations, F 1994 192pp B1419 social history to bring alive an era Over the Top with Jim Dickens’ hero Pip comes alive Hugh Lunn of unprecedented affluence and for Matilda, but on an island Oranges Are Not downright weirdness. at war, imagination can be a the Only Fruit Journalist Hugh Lunn was N 2006 309pp B1970 dangerously provocative thing. born in Brisbane in 1941. This This is a moving, uplifting love Jeanette Winterson engagingly down to earth book Lilian’s Story letter to books and reading. A young girl’s world is forever evokes his boyhood in the 1940s 2006 220pp B1959 changed when she falls in love and ’50s and is a breath of Kate Grenville F with another girl. Winterson fresh air. Full of resonances for The exuberant but painful story skilfully portrays the ensuing anyone who knew in of a child born in Sydney in 1901, Modern Interiors emotions and confrontations those years. who bursts beyond constraining Andrea Goldsmith common to all human experience NL 1989 272pp B1311 stereotypes to make herself as After forty-one years of prosperous - but particularly acute in an large and unique as her own marriage, Philippa Finemore is evangelical household. sense of life. Lilian will stay with widowed. Hoping to be not only a F 1985 171pp B1312 you long after you finish this grandmother and babysitter, she moving, exceptional and unique makes major changes in her life - novel. A must-read for any but the family circle responds with Grenville fan. indignation and fury. FL 1985 211pp B0819 F 1991 242pp B1414

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The Puzzles of Childhood Roundabout at Bangalow Skylarking P Manning Clark Shirley Walker Kate Mildenhall The author of the six-volume This Australian memoir moves Based on true events, the novel Past the Shallows History of Australia undertakes from a childhood in the lush revolves around the friendship Favel Parrett the history of his own early rainforests of the Byron Bay between Kate and Harriet, two SHORTLISTED years, from his infancy to his hinterland to farming a sugarcane daughters of lighthouse keepers Melbourne Grammar days. property in north Queensland; in an isolated coastal town of Growing Up, Moving On Miles Franklin Literary Award His memories focus on his from the restrictive small town late 19th century Australia. As A deceptively simple story about intensely religious parents whose life of Grafton to an enjoyable the pair approach womanhood, two brothers growing up on existence together was riven by time as a mature age student the arrival of fisherman McPhail the wild Tasmanian coast, and various conflicts. Moves between at university. Walker has a keen finds Kate torn by jealousy for the tragedy that fractured their Sydney, Kempsey, Phillip Island eye for her human and natural McPhail’s attention toward family beyond repair. The raw and Belgrave. surroundings and writes unfolds Harriet. Then, one moment at island landscape frames this N 1989 213pp B1258 in a dryly amusing voice. McPhail’s hut, Kate’s life is forever story, where the austere prose N 2001 232pp B1805 changed. A heartbreaking novel belies a book of great sensitivity that explores the complexity of and power. This debut novel R adolescent friendships and the is effortless and commanding, S price we pay for our mistakes. and the last third absolutely F 2016 288pp B2249 shattering. You will not forget Saving Jessie Harry and Miles. Kylie Tennant Imogen Clark The Smallest Color 2011 254pp B2127 Written with a sly humour, this F novel tells of the trials of the Only names have been changed Bill Roorbach ‘impossible’ Shannon Hicks sent in this true story of a Canberra In this fast-paced, funny, dark A Portrait of the Artist off to a doughty aunt at a tender family who discover that their first novel, Roorbach builds as a Young Man age. The aunt is impossible too, youngest child is addicted to an engaging portrait of the James Joyce so Shannon makes her own heroin. Intelligent, talented and turbulent 60s in the States: free way in the world of the unskilled, loved, Jessie did not fit the love and drug experiments, the Joyce is one of the great 20th conmen, eccentrics and losers, stereotype of the young person naïve innocence of some and century novelists. This book the world of Sydney in the 1930s. who turns to drugs to escape the restless violence of others. is largely autobiographical from pain or abuse. A candid, Gradually, the entwining tales and traces Stephen Dedalus’ F 1943 301pp B0928 unsensational account of a join – strands of the present and boyhood and progressive family trying to learn how far past, the man of 45 and the boy isolation in Ireland and The Road from Coorain it is possible to help. of 15, the 60s and the 90s. commitment to art: his Jill Ker Conway education, the growth of his N 1999 277pp B1741 F 2001 325pp B1810 creative powers, and his religious This evocative, readable and sexual consciousness. autobiography of the author’s Solid Bluestone life to her mid-twenties conveys Shadowboxing F 1916 256pp B0276 day-to-day details – the smells, Tony Birch Foundations sounds, weather, plants and A collection of ten linked stories Kathleen Fitzpatrick Purple Hibiscus people. Why did she leave about the life of a boy growing up Former Associate Professor Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Australia for a distinguished in Melbourne’s Fitzroy during the of History at the University of intellectual career, and how 1960s. Michael’s world is one of Melbourne, Kathleen Fitzpatrick WINNER did her family and the drought- simple pleasures, family life and evokes her South Melbourne Commonwealth Writers’ Prize vulnerable plains of their sheep love, punctuated by random acts girlhood, with its tensions property in New South Wales of brutality. The reader follows as 15-year-old Kambili grows up in between Protestant grandfather shape her sensibility? he matures into a sensitive adult and Irish Catholic grandmother, sheltered privilege in a Nigeria who can forgive, but never quite ravaged by political unrest. She N 1989 238pp B1289 trade and public service, her forget, the past. A fascinating schooling and early university lives in fear of her fanatically snapshot of working-class life in religious and tyrannical father, a experiences. Full of Australian Romulus, My Father inner-city Australia. people and places. charismatic Catholic patriarch. Raimond Gaita When Nigeria is shaken by a S 2006 178pp B1912 N 1983 210pp B1290 military coup, Kambili and her From a life whose events were brother are sent to live with their often historically terrible and personally tragic emerges an Sing Fox to Me aunt, which allows Kambili to Sarah Kanake blossom in a new life amid the extraordinarily brave and dignified turmoil of the old. man. Deep gratitude infuses his In 1986, 14-year-old Samson son’s frank, truthful biography. It and his twin brother are F 2004 307pp B1933 allows us to see how wisdom, sent to live with Clancy, the The book stimulated a very lively compassion and an ethical sense grandfather they’ve never met. Enjoyed Dirt Music? discussion on a range of general are developed in a growing child. As Samson, who has Down topics s well as about the N 1998 208pp B1554 syndrome, begins to understand author’s skill. The group found the situation both Jonah and Try the book very readable even Clancy fall into a wild obsession Past the Shallows if they didn’t sympathise with to find the Tasmanian tiger, a by Favell Parret the characters. We generally mystery linked to Clancy’s long- appreciated the broadening missing daughter. [B2127] of horizons. F 2016 264pp B2248 Willie Worms

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Spies Too Close to the Falls Unpolished Gem When the Night Comes Michael Frayn Catherine Gildiner Alice Pung Favel Parrett WINNER Growing up in respectable 1950s Set in Melbourne’s western LONGLISTED Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Lewiston, Catherine Gildiner suburbs, this documents the Miles Franklin Literary Award had a highly unusual childhood. arrival of Pung’s Cambodian Set in Britain during World War Probably today’s hyperactive Chinese family to Australia in the Isla and her brother see the world II, Spies takes us into a world child, Cathy was set to work 1970s. Populating her pages in grey until Bo enters their lives. under threat, but a threat situated in the family pharmacy at age with eccentric characters, she A cook on a Danish ship bound in the imaginings of two small four under the doctor’s orders. captures the essence of the for Antarctica, Bo lodges with boys living out the Blitz in a Prescription delivery rounds Asian immigrant experience. This them while his ship is in port, middle-class suburb. Superbly provided a fund of anecdote meditation on cultural difference expanding Isla’s world with his written, this novel combines and escapade that Gildiner is also a coming of age story of stories. This is an enchanting tale suspense, anguish, humour and uses to brilliant effect in this a talented woman struggling to about the magic of the ocean, surprising twists. captivating memoir. balance her parents’ dreams with the mysteries of the universe, F 2002 213pp B1691 N 1999 350pp B1798 her own. and of life and death, darkness Growing Up, Moving On Moving Up, Growing N 2006 282pp B1958 and light. F 2014 256pp B2225 Tuvalu We found this book delightful. T Andrew O’Connor It gave us insights into the Outsider Noah exchanges his difficulty of assimilation for When We Were Orphans Tell Me I’m Here directionless life in Melbourne ‘older’ migrants and how the Kazuo Ishiguro Anne Deveson for a dead-end teaching job in younger generation had to cope A celebrated detective is driven When her son Jonathan was Tokyo. His absent girlfriend and with a foot in each culture. to solve the mystery of the 17, Deveson realised he had inability to speak Japanese are Geelong Gardeners disappearance of his parents schizophrenia. Here she traces perfect excuses for isolation when he was a child. The seven years of his illness, until the gorgeous, manipulative novel becomes a disturbing, showing the fear and anguish Mami Kaketa crashes into his V challenging exploration of the which this condition produces life. This intriguingly offbeat relationship between the colonial in patients and in those close debut explores love, lust, The Voluptuous Delights British, China, and Japan, and to them. An important book – honesty and commitment. of Peanut Butter and Jam of the way simplistic ideas of informative, warm, humane, and Perceptive and droll, O’Connor oneself and the world might deeply moving. captures the darker side of the Lauren Liebenberg distort reality. Set in England N 1991 269pp B1342 expatriate experience. In Rhodesia in the late 1970s, and Shanghai in the early and F 2006 347pp B1957 sisters Nyree and Cia’s father mid-20th century, this is an ironic, is conscripted to fight against complex and deeply moving The Tin Moon the black freedom fighters. The tragic comedy. Stephen Lacey U girls inhabit an innocent world, F 2000 368pp B1652 ‘We had the rocket up on three roaming their run-down colonial farm, until their damaged, house bricks and were ready Uncle Tungsten A mixed reaction to the book to light the petrol,’ begins orphaned cousin Ronin arrives. - some found it less believable this nerve-fraying account of Oliver Sacks A beautiful, sad story about than others, but a wonderful young boys’ doings in a small Sacks takes a look at himself, childhood in a time of civil war. discussion was generated! town outside Sydney. From a unearthing the source of his F 2008 245pp B2015 Mt Eliza 6 10-year-old’s viewpoint, we take scientific curiosity in a sometimes in kaleidoscopic impressions of troubled childhood in wartime Wildlife school, family, new words and a Britain. He was born into a W Richard Ford world which offers endless scope distinguished, scientifically for getting into everything – oriented London family, and What Was Lost In the summer of 1960, the including trouble. A cliff-hanging developed a fascination with town of Great Falls, Montana, novel in which hilarity blends into metals, gases, chemistry and the Catherine O’Flynn is ringed by fires. When young darker comedy. discoveries of pioneer chemists. Joe’s father loses his job and WINNER goes off firefighting, his mother An unusual, warm and witty book. Costa Book Award F 2002 300pp B1693 meets Warren Mitchell. In spare, N 2001 337pp B1661 understated prose Ford evokes a WINNER young male making his way in a Tirra Lirra by the River Costa Biography Award Jessica Anderson Under My Skin world of adult upheaval which he Doris Lessing 10-year-old junior detective Kate only partly comprehends. This is WINNER follows ‘suspects’ at a shopping a moving, memorable read. Miles Franklin Literary Award An outstanding 20th-century autobiography, this first volume centre and befriends a man F 1990 162pp B1293 Nora Porteous returns as an takes Lessing from her African called Adrian. But when she old lady to the Queensland childhood to London in 1949. disappears, Adrian falls under town of her girlhood. With an Her freedom in the African suspicion. Years later, Adrian’s ironic eye, she reviews her landscape, her turbulent sister Lisa and security guard experiences there and tries to relationship with her parents, Kurt glimpse a little girl on the place them amongst the various her intense involvements with centre’s security cameras. strands of her life. A brilliant and people, politics, and everything Could it be Kate? unillusioned novel. around her are conveyed with F 2007 242pp B1996 F 1978 141pp B0120 keen intelligence. Small print. N 1994 419pp B1565

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Drawn from Life A C D Stella Bowen During her art school years in Animal, Vegetable, The Chase Desert Flower England Stella Bowen met the Miracle Ida Mann Waris Dirie & avant-garde artists of her day Barbara Kingsolver To be female, born in England Catherine Miller and, eventually, the writer Ford Madox Ford. The two lived When bestselling author Barbara in 1893, and to leave school at Waris Dirie tells her life story in together for 10 years, first in Kingsolver and her family move 16 without university entrance this co-authored book. A Somali Sussex where their daughter from suburban Arizona to rural qualifications: these seem desert child, she suffered her was born, and later in France. Appalachia, they take on a unlikely beginnings for Oxford’s people’s customary genital Witness the literary and artistic new challenge: to spend a year first woman professor. The rare rituals, but aged 12 ran away world of Paris in the 1920s eating locally produced food. account of a woman whose from an arranged marriage. and 1930s, the difficulties of Part memoir, part journalistic passion for her medical work is After years of domestic service, doing work of your own while investigation, and complete central in a dauntless and long Waris is now an international a handmaid to the genius of with original recipes, Kingsolver life which included travelling, a model and Special Ambassador another, the struggle to bring makes a passionate case for passionate marriage in her fifties with the United Nations. Direct up a daughter and the break up putting the kitchen back at and her work documenting and and without introspective after Ford’s affair with Jean Rhys. the centre of family life, and treating trachomas in Aborigines. profundity, this is genuinely ‘the diversified farms at the centre of N 1986 217pp B1197 extraordinary journey of a desert N 1941 303pp B1811 our diet. Small print. nomad’. N 2007 352pp B2006 Chocolat N 1998 369pp B1744 Joanne Harris E Are You Somebody? SHORTLISTED The Diaries of Edna Walling and Nuala O’Faolain Whitbread Novel Award Jane Somers Her Gardens Roddy Doyle said of this Doris Lessing Peter Watts remarkable memoir: ‘Writing ‘We came on the wind of the The editor of a successful Peter Watts describes the life, about herself, Nuala O’Faolain carnival.’ So begins this magical women’s magazine, Jane career, style and influence of has also written about Ireland. tale of Vianne, her daughter Somers is elegant, competent, Edna Walling. A writer as well It is a cruel, wounded place – Anouk, and a chocolate self-assured and self-contained as a gardener, generations of and this book has become an boutique nestled in the tiny until her attention is claimed by Australians have been able to important part of the cure’. This French village of Lansquenet – a tiny, fierce old woman who absorb the Walling philosophy extended 1998 edition, subtitled seductive, sensual and just a lives nearby, ill and in poverty. on plant groupings, colour, The Life and Times of Nuala little mischievous. It’s the Church A difficult alliance develops pathways, rockwork, and the O’Faolain also includes almost versus chocolate when the locals between the two. 200 pages of her lively and are tempted, the priest outraged. integration of house and garden. 1984 510pp B1270 perceptive journalism. Try me ... test me ... taste me ... F N 1991 136pp B1988 Who can resist? N 1996 434pp B1591 1999 394pp B1633 Divine Secrets of Amazing book that should be F required reading! Author wrote the Ya Ya Sisterhood the book as an undergraduate B The Courtesan’s Revenge Rebecca Wells thesis. Walling was an Frances Wilson SHORTLISTED interesting person, possibly with a difficult personality and The Bloody Chamber Born in 1786, Harriette Wilson Orange Prize an obsessive set to get her own Angela Carter became one of the celebrated When an utterly original mother- way. She pioneered a change Carter’s subversive retelling of courtesans of Regency London. daughter team get into a in landscaping and community familiar fairy tales restores their She entranced men with her savage fight over a New York living. Good Discussion. power to surprise and even wit and character as much Times article that refers to Glen Waverley Uniting to shock. Female or feminist? as her beauty. Her conquests the mother as a ‘tap dancing This sensual, daring and varied included royalty, at least three child abuser,’ the fall out is felt collection can provoke strong Prime Ministers and the Lord from Louisiana to New York to reaction and discussion. Chancellor. When her rich former Seattle. But Vivi’s intrepid gang Small print. lovers refused to pay her an annuity Harriette exacted her of life-long girlfriends, the Ya Yas, F 1979 126pp B1318 own revenge on the aristocracy, unforgettable Southern belles, Enjoyed Chocolat? eliciting the Duke of Wellington’s sashay in and conspire to bring famous retort: ‘publish and be everyone back together. Try damned’. Small print. F 1996 356pp B1682 Under the Tuscan Sun N 2003 359pp B1815 by Frances Mayes [B1553]

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Elizabeth David Friends, Lovers, Lisa Chaney F Chocolate G England was still in the grips Alexander McCall Smith of post-war food rationing A Fence Around The second novel in the Sunday Getting Equal when Elizabeth David’s first the Cuckoo Philosophy Club series. Isabel Marilyn Lake books appeared, French Dalhousie is an Edinburgh This ‘History of Australian Country Cooking and A Book philosopher, and when her niece Feminism’ is an eye opener, full of Mediterranean Food. With WINNER Cat decides to take a holiday, of lively, sharp and generous The Age Nonfiction Book of the Year her evocations of vibrant Isabel agrees to help out at portraits of significant (often colours and flavours, she her delicatessen. One of her forgotten) women and telling captured the imagination of a A lively account of Ruth Park’s early years in New Zealand. customers has recently had a (often amusing) anecdotes. Can generation of cooks. Daughter heart transplant and is being a mother be an independent of a Conservative MP, David was We see the dense bush of that country’s isolated regions, haunted by memories he feels woman? Do you want to courageous and independent, are not his own. Isabel soon be equal? Hugely readable a complex character whom one the Maori people whose lives intersected with hers, the dramas finds herself following another and discussable. reviewer called ‘an elegant, witty, risky investigation. charming minor monster’. within a battling Irish Catholic N 1999 316pp B1759 family, and the intense poverty F 2005 297pp B2051 1998 482pp B1734 N during the Depression years. The Girls NL 1992 294pp B1372 From Strength Robin Levett Excellent Women to Strength Barbara Pym Levett draws on an amazing First Lady Sara Henderson memory and a sprightly, comic, ‘... practically anything may be Kay Cottee Marriage to a glamorous forceful disposition to restore the business of an unattached American soon became life in her part of the Australia of the woman with no troubles of her Making this voyage was Kay Cottee’s dream. Following her a tin shack in a sea of red dust 1920s and ’30s and her war own, who takes a kindly interest on a remote Northern Australian service in the 40s. You’ll find it

Exceptional Women triumphant return after 189 days in those of her friends.’ Set in cattle station. On Charlie’s death, all here: Sorrento, South Yarra, the shabby-genteel world of at sea, she was named 1988 Australian of the Year. Here is her Sara discovered he had left her the Hermitage, Toorak College, flats, academic societies and with massive debt and a failing the National Gallery School, the tea rooms of London after the detailed account of the voyage – its highs and lows, the extremes property which she managed WRANS and WAS(B), post- Second World War, with an to rebuild. war England; the adventurous Austen like ear for dialogue. she endured, and the dangers presented by icebergs, whales, N 1992 337pp B1376 freedoms and startling F 1952 238pp B0776 rocks and huge seas. L constraints of her girlhood. N 1989 226pp B1373 N 1997 264pp B1533 The Eye of the Reindeer From the Beast Eva Weaver to the Blonde Fishing in the Styx Marina Warner NEW In 1913 Ritva is only sixteen Ruth Park when she is shipped off to Seili, Warner’s book explores the origin an asylum for troubled women This second volume of Ruth of fairy tales in women’s culture, on an island in southern Finland. Park’s popular autobiography using symbolic means such as Gravity Well Her only hope comes in the is set in Australia. Her warm, magic castles, impossible tasks, Melanie form of Martta, a headstrong frank record reveals an admirably beasts and blondes to address Joosten productive life – as writer of urgent life issues. A difficult, indigenous Sami woman with A beautifully ‘everything’, wife of D’Arcy stimulating and sumptuously whom she embarks on a bold constructed Niland, mother of five, and, illustrated book. escape to the North, a mythical novel told from the points of view place of reindeers where freedom above all, a getter of wisdom in 1994 458pp B1444 work, trouble, loss and joy. N of two very different women: is possible. The novel explores Lotte, an ambitious and free- love, family and betrayal and an NL 1994 302pp B1406 The Full Cupboard of Life spirited astronomer returning exploration of the indigenous Alexander McCall Smith home after a devastating Sami people of Scandinavia. Follow the Rabbit diagnosis, and her former best F 2016 384pp B2257 Proof Fence The fifth book in the No. 1 friend Eve, whose passion for Ladies’ Detective Agency series. sound is matched by her entry Doris Pilkington & Mma Ramotswe has been into motherhood. Joosten Nugi Garimara approached by a wealthy lady intelligently employs the use Nugi Garimara tells the story of to investigate several suitors. of gravity and solar systems three young girls who in 1931 Are these men just interested in to depict the complexity of escaped from the Moore River her money? Alexander McCall relationships, collision of Enjoyed Native Settlement north of Smith’s ‘novels are … extremely timelines, and the drifting apart The House of Spirits? Perth intending to walk home funny: I find it impossible to think and coming together of family: to the northern desert. We see about them without smiling’ – both family we are born to and Try the realities of social policy Mail on Sunday (UK). the ones we choose. at that time, but the focus is F 2003 212pp B2049 F 2017 288pp B2272 The Summer that on an extraordinary effort of Melted Everything willpower, knowledge, strategy by Tiffany McDaniel and stamina. [B2256] N 1996 133pp B1756

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In the Company of Joan Makes History H Cheerful Ladies Kate Grenville L Alexander McCall Smith The several Joans whose stories Hanna’s Daughters The sixth book in the No.1 animate this book put women The Little Coffee Marianne Fredriksson Ladies Detective Agency series. into the action of the last two Shop of Kabul From 1871 three generations Precious Ramotswe is now centuries of Australian history. Deborah Rodriguez Vivacious, diversified vignettes of a Swedish family live through married to Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, Sunny, café proprietor, needs are set into the narrative of Joan marked social change: from but life is still full of mishaps, a plan to keep her customers and Duncan, who also appear in primitive rural life to industrialised mysteries and personality safe; Halajan, her 60-year-old Lilian’s Story. society to the information age. clashes. ‘The story unfolds at a landlady, is willing to risk all for A complex chronicle of women’s familiar gentle pace … evoking F 1988 285pp B1202 love; young, pregnant Yazmina lives, unsentimental about the a powerful but simple morality: needs protection; Isabel is a burdens of family history, gender that sharing our hearts with journalist with a story of her own; and character. each other improves us all’ – K Candace, a wealthy American, F 1994 299pp B1617 Sunday Times. follows her Afghan lover to Kabul. F 2004 264pp B2050 The Kalahari Typing This novel captures the fears and Hidden Lives School for Men longings of each as the women The Invisible Woman make a life under the watchful Margaret Forster Alexander McCall Smith eyes of the Taliban. Exceptional Women Claire Tomalin Which lives are significant, and The Kalahari Typing School for F 2011 304pp B2124 why? Forster’s ‘family memoir’ This biography opens up the Men is the fourth volume of traces three generations of world of Ellen ‘Nelly’ Lawless the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ women: her grandmother, her Ternan, an actress who at Detective Agency series. mother and herself – of working- eighteen met the older, married Precious Ramotswe has M class background, born and Charles Dickens. Tomalin makes competition from a new EX raised in Carlisle, an industrial a strong case for their parenting CID, EX NY, EX cellent detective Madeleine town in North England, each of illegitimate children. She agency and Mma Makutsi, Helen Trinca experiencing radically different follows Nelly’s life through the who believes in ‘enterprise with circumstances and opportunities. decades after Dickens’ death. compassion’, runs evening WINNER Prime Minister’s Literary Award ‘Let no one say that nothing has N 1990 333pp B1512 classes for men. changed, that women have it as F 2002 210pp B2009 Late blossoming author bad as ever,’ Forster concludes. Madeleine St John (The Women N 1995 309pp B1510 J in Black) was brilliant and troubled. This biography follows Jane Austen: A Life her childhood in Sydney to The House of the Spirits years in London council flats, Isabel Allende Claire Tomalin culminating with the publication This is the beautiful, touching The heroines in Austen’s six of four acclaimed novels in the story of the Trueba family, novels inhabit a world of stability last decade of her life. following their lives through the and continuity, yet Tomalin sees 2013 272pp B2194 post-colonial social and political Jane Austen as a woman living F upheavals in Chile in the Latin on the margins of a competitive, American magic realism style. money-oriented world, part Follow volatile patriarch Esteban, of a lively, chaotic family and his wife Clara, their daughter a more volatile character than Blanca and their granddaughter previously thought. Alba in this epic novel of love, N 1997 358pp B1583 magic and fate. Keep your posture 1985 491pp F B1176 Jane Eyre and joints in an Charlotte Brontë exceptional state Jane Eyre moves from a harsh, with a bone I orphaned childhood to Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with boosters or I Don’t Know Mr Rochester, and is menaced Feldenkrais How She Does It by the madwoman in the attic. short Allison Pearson Her quest for independence, in course. Oh, the chaos of life, balancing romantic circumstances, has a job as a fund manager, two exceptional emotional power. small children, a husband and FL 1847 560pp B0024 a nanny who never listens. A young mother juggles time for her family while struggling with the ‘old boys’ network’. Will she cope? Often hilarious, sometimes sad, this novel portrays working cae.edu.au 03 9652 0611 motherhood in the 21st century. RTO 3737 F 2002 357pp B1785

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Malinche’s Conquest Nine Parts of Desire Anna Lanyon Geraldine Brooks O P The gifted young woman who Working in the Middle East, translated for Cortes in his 16th- Brooks learned a lot about One Life Paradise century conquest of Mexico is what life is like for Islamic Kate Grenville Toni Morrison remembered by the Mexican elite women. Focusing on individuals One of our favourite storytellers The all black town of Ruby as a traitor but is celebrated in in different countries and in is back with this moving was founded by ex-slaves, popular legend. Lanyon uncovers various roles, professional and tribute to her mother, Nance, determined to pass on the her ‘survival amid catastrophe’ domestic, she traces the origins a woman who was in many unchanging pure faith which to see the luminous traces of of today’s practices, showing ways revolutionary. Grenville’s had enabled them to survive a woman who was among the that oppression of women voice punctuates her warm and in the antagonistic American founders of modern Mexico. is inconsistent with Islam in heartfelt account which is partly South. Morrison’s explosively N 1999 233pp B1739 its purest form. Informative, crafted from Nance’s own diaries. imagined novel focuses on the readable, discussable. This is a story about Australian lives of the women in and outside Morality for Beautiful Girls N 1995 255pp B1543 consciousness, and how the this fictitious town, confronting patterns of the past can be seen the difficult issues of black Alexander McCall Smith The No. 1 Ladies’ in the present. male violence. The third in the bestselling 2015 272pp B2216 1999 318pp B1700 No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Detective Agency N F series. Precious Ramotswe has Alexander McCall Smith financial worries, puzzling cases Expansive middle-aged female Out of the Silence The Prime of to solve and the ethical dilemma detective Precious Ramotswe Wendy James Miss Jean Brodie of a beauty pageant. brings her intelligence and At the turn of the last century, Muriel Spark F 2001 246pp B1987 intuition to bear on problems three women’s lives are on a Miss Brodie is a school teacher; and mysteries in her small collision course: Vida, the fiery in the 1930s, and in her prime, town. Far removed from the Melbourne suffragist; Elizabeth, she decides to inculcate Exceptional Women Mrs Cook darkness and blood of many far from home and grieving for Marele Day ‘progressive’ ideas about politics, crime novels, this is a book full of her lost love; and the courageous sex and art into her pupils, Before James Cook departed humour, good heart and gently young country girl, Maggie. Their much to the consternation of her on his final voyage, he had been ironic observation. experiences revolve around conservative school. at home with his wife Elizabeth F 1998 235pp B1794 issues that still touch us deeply for only four of their 14 years today: single motherhood, post- F 1961 128pp B0925 of marriage. She raised their natal depression, and the role of six children, only to outlive No Place for a women in public life. them. This ‘nonfiction novel’ Nervous Lady F 2005 351pp B1932 Q imaginatively reconstructs Lucy Frost the domestic life of the sea Lucy Frost edits the diaries Quicksands captain’s wife. Over My Tracks Sybille Bedford of 19th-century women Evelyn Crawford & F 2002 357pp B1775 pioneers in Australia’s outback. From WWI to 21st Compelling and absorbing Chris Walsh century England via Europe reading from a fascinating time The 65-year-old Evelyn Crawford, and America, Bedford evokes a N in our history, which will lead to born into the Baarkanji tribal world of writers and diplomats, much discussion. group, goes back over her tracks the dispossessed and the The Natural NS 1984 279pp B0018 to tell us her eye-opening life powerful. An elegant mosaic Way of Things story. Crawford lived in the red of lovers and tragedy, this is a An interesting snapshot of sandhills back of Bourke: her spellbinding reflection on the Charlotte Wood 1800’s pioneering women in years of hard work droving and intersection between history and WINNER Australia. This was no place mustering, the varying contacts personal experience. for the faint-hearted: hardship, she made with white Australians, 2005 369pp B1955 isolation, endurance and a and the ups and downs of N Two women wake to find sense of trying to maintain coping with her fourteen children. themselves held captive in the standards from the society Involvement in her youngest desert with a group of eight and place of their birth. Our son’s schooling takes her into the others, and slowly realise they discussion was varied, covering training of Aboriginal teachers. the attitudes and coping all have something in common: N 1993 319pp B1385 in each of their pasts is a sexual strategies of the women and scandal with a powerful man. their fortunes or otherwise We all enjoyed this But who is punishing them, on events that occurred in autobiography and found and what for? This is a stark their lives. it remarkable in the way Ev Enjoyed exploration of contemporary Exeter Book Group tackled all that life threw at her, The Natural Way misogyny and corporate control and the way she managed to – and the beauty (and courage) work hard for her people and of Things? of sisterly love. help develop understanding between Indigenous and Try Berlin Syndrome F 2015 320pp B2237 white Australians. Camperdown: by Melanie Joosten The Leura Literati [B2113]

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Reckoning: A Memoir The Stone Diaries R Magda Szubanski S Carol Shields WINNER A Scandalous Life WINNER NEW NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Pulitzer Prize Mary S. Lovell WINNER At 17, a beautiful English girl Daisy is born on a kitchen floor Rain Birds ABIA Book of the Year married an older aristocrat who in 1905 in Canada, and the ordinariness of her ordinary Harriet Magda Szubanski, one of kept his mistress. Lady Jane Digby responded to this indignity life is made remarkable in this McKnight Australia’s most beloved comedic original and enjoyable novel. The performers, recounts her life with unusual spirit and a highly A powerful unforgettable first chapter opens from growing up in the suburb publicised divorce. The Austrian and lyrical the way to further surprises of Croydon, her career as an prince with whom she eloped novel set in and delights. actor, to the quest to find out the was succeeded by a baron, a East Gippsland, Victoria, where truth about her father, a Polish count, and a brigand, before she F 1993 361pp B1460 the impact of climate change assassin during World War 2. married a Bedouin sheikh 20 is destroying the habitat of the This multi-award winning memoir years her junior, and lived among endangered black cockatoos. Stravinsky’s Lunch is a serious exploration on finding the Syrian desert tribes. The storyline centres on recent Drusilla Modjeska courage, acceptance, and a N 1995 365pp B1552

retiree, Pina, and conservation Exceptional Women daughter’s love for her father. WINNER biologist, Arianna, as they The Age Nonfiction Book of the Year struggle to hold their lives N 2016 384pp B2266 The Secret together. Pina’s once-loving Life of Bees Stella Bowen and Grace husband is turning aggressive Return to the Little Sue Monk Kidd Cossington Smith were born in the grips of early-onset in the 1890s. One left Australia Coffee Shop of Kabul In the deep south in the 1960s, Alzheimer’s and Arianna deals before the First World War Lily lives with her strict father and with double standards and Deborah Rodriguez and remained in Europe, the servant Rosaleen. When racial incessant misogyny from co- In this much-anticipated sequel, other lived for decades on tensions explode, Lily comes to workers who question a woman’s six women remain linked by their the outskirts of Sydney. Their Rosaleen’s aid and the two run place ‘in the field’. experiences in a café in Kabul. lives and work are the focus of away together, finding sanctuary Now on opposite sides of the this moving meditation on the F 2017 288pp B2290 with three beekeeping sisters. world, each will deal with the friction between creative and A heart-warming and life- past in different ways as she domestic life. affirming tale. faces the future. This delightful 1999 364pp B1623 Rebecca West and poignant novel explores the F 2001 374pp B2005 N Victoria Glendinning legacy of war, the trouble with culture clash, and the importance The Summer West lived from 1892 to 1983 The Signature of of friendship. and was both an agent and a All Things Without Men victim of change. She marched F 2016 400pp B2238 Elizabeth Gilbert Siri Hustvedt with the suffragettes, and had Poet Mia Fredrickson has a Born in Philadelphia in 1800, a ten year liaison with H.G. severe breakdown when her The Rooms in My Alma Whittaker’s remarkable Wells. An accomplished and husband leaves her. Returning to Mother’s House mind and questing spirit reflect affectionate portrayal of a the prairie town of her childhood, both the rigours of 19th-century complex woman. Olga Lorenzo she rents a house just down scientific curiosity and the Driven from Cuba after the the road from her mother’s N 1987 288pp B1578 exploration of a dimension revolution, Dolores, Consuelo retirement home and spends a beyond the empirical. The and Ana settle in an old summer in the company of some Signature of All Things is farmhouse in Miami, where they extraordinary women. Hustvedt simultaneously a book of ideas, battle with each other and the has successfully combined the a travelogue, an unconventional ghosts that remain in their hearts. cerebral with the visceral to love story and a testament to The spirit world blends fabulously create this small gem. female achievement. with their material one in this 2011 224pp B2136 vibrant novel. Contains themes F 2013 501pp B2208 F that may disturb. We loved this sprawling, epic, The Sunday F 1996 405pp B1582 historical novel, tracing the life and times of Alma Whittaker. Philosophy Club Gilbert’s exquisite research Alexander McCall Smith and enthralling story, with Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie diverse well-drawn characters hosts the Sunday Philosophy Enjoyed Paradise? is a delight. Many topics Club and uses her philosophy for discussion and highly training to solve murder and Try recommended by our group. mayhem in Edinburgh. Warm- Exeter Book Group hearted with gentle humour, it is The Underground ‘the literary equivalent of herbal Railroad tea and a cosy fire’ – The New by Colson Whitehead York Times. [B2270] F 2004 281pp B1979

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True North The Whole Woman T Brenda Niall U Germaine Greer SHORTLISTED This sequel to The Female Tears of the Giraffe Victorian Premier’s Literary Award The Unusual Life Eunuch, the book Germaine said Alexander McCall Smith of Edna Walling she would never write, is vintage This second in the No. 1 Ladies’ This fascinating biography of Sara Hardy Greer: intelligent, wide-ranging, sisters Mary and Elizabeth energetic, provocative, humorous Detective Agency series starts Independent and unconventional, Durack looks beyond the legacy and tender. Her angry thesis with the engagement of Mma Edna Walling was one of the first of Mary’s classic book Kings is that ‘real women are being Ramotswe and Mr J.L.B. They women to graduate from the in Grass Castles to examine phased out’, and it is certain to deal with the ups and downs of Burnley School of Horticulture the dynamics of the Durack stimulate strong discussion. domestic life and find themselves in 1917 and went on to pastoralist dynasty and the with unexpected additions to become one of Australia’s finest N 1999 350pp B1720 personal lives of these two their family. Mma Ramotswe and landscape designers. Though her creative, but very different, her secretary must also deal with gardens are well documented, women. In particular, it focuses Wicked But Virtuous questions of right and wrong Hardy draws on memories, on their strong, lifelong ties to the Mirka Mora in their Botswanan detective anecdotes, facts and documents Kimberley region and its people. agency business. to explore Edna’s private world – One of Melbourne’s best-known F 2000 217pp B1847 N 2012 275pp B2147 her family, friends, passions and artists, Mirka Mora arrived in sexuality, creating a tribute to a Australia from Paris in 1951 with A brilliant anthropological study woman who was, in retrospect, her husband and baby. Their of its time. A very fascinating way ahead of her time. A must restaurants were a magnet for NEW book with great historical the artistic life of the city. The perspective. We were delighted read for green thumbs as well as lovers of Australian biography. book glows with examples of her to see a photo taken in 1932 work and splendid photographs. in Broome, one of the photos N 2005 304pp B1945 This account of an eccentric life The Trauma is of our group member’s aunt lived to the utmost celebrates

Exceptional Women Cleaner and mother sitting on their pony Mirka’s lovers, work, family – and Sarah bred by the Duracks. W the rich array of characters who Mont Albert Xqs Krasnostein were drawn into her world. Walking in the Shade N 2000 331pp B1653 WINNER True Pleasures Doris Lessing Victorian Premier’s Literary Award Lucinda Holdforth Following Under My Skin, this Wild Swans WINNER Ready for a change in direction, second volume of Lessing’s Jung Chang ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Holdforth abandoned a career in autobiography begins with her politics and diplomacy for a time 1949 arrival in grey post-war WINNER Society Sandra Pankhurst has been a in Paris, reading deeply about London (with the manuscript Gold Medal trauma cleaner for 20 years, the lives of French women she of her first novel and one of but before her life cleaning had long admired and exploring her three children) and takes Three generations, three crime scenes and ‘caves of the Paris locales with which they us through to 1962. It offers a women’s stories in a period when filth’, Sandra was also many were linked. She reflects on the wonderful sense of those times the world’s most populous nation other things: husband, father, lives of women such as Marie as well as insights into Lessing endured almost unimaginable drag queen, sex worker, Antoinette, Germaine de Staël, herself. She speaks with candour change. One way to begin to businesswomen and trophy wife. Coco Chanel, and writers such about bringing up her son on comprehend the recent history This touching memoir explores as Nancy Mitford, Edith Wharton, her own, her love affairs, years of China is through individuals more than just cleaning up death Gertrude Stein and Colette. of psychotherapy, the realities who find the courage to and decay, but portrays an Intelligence and lightness of of living by her writing and her experience and to voice the inspiring woman overcoming a touch makes her book a pleasure growing disillusionment with the enormities which are the stuff of personal history of trauma and to read. Communist Party. their everyday lives. Long, but compulsively readable. works to bring care and dignity N 2004 227pp B1940 N 1997 369pp B1705 into the lives of the living and N 1991 696pp B1397 the dead. True Stories Watched by Ancestors N 2017 261pp B2281 Helen Garner Kathy Golski This evocative collection is drawn It’s one thing for trained from a quarter of a century of anthropologists to do their Garner’s non-fiction writing. The adventurous work, but here topics range from the (1970s) an artist and her four children four-letter words sex lesson in accompany her second husband a secondary school – she was to the remote highlands of Papua Enjoyed sacked – to her accounts of New Guinea where they live for The Whole Woman? 1980s marriages at the Mint in two years, giving other, often Melbourne and of autopsies at surprising, dimensions to the Try The Bell Jar the morgue in 1992, to births in a lives of all concerned. labour ward in Penrith (1995). A N 1998 270pp B1732 by Sylvia Plath treasure chest. [B0188] NS 1996 242pp B1501

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Autumn Laing Charles Dickens: A Life Consolations of A Claire Tomalin Philosophy This rich biography of Alain de Botton Affluenza SHORTLISTED Prime Minister’s Literary Award ‘the inimitable’ Charles Philosophy is not just for the Clive Hamilton Dickens examines the ivory tower. Alain de Botton Inspired by the relationship Looking at Australian society, many contradictions of his unfolds the thinking of six between iconic artist Sidney Hamilton sees a binge of divided character. Tomalin’s philosophers on six of life’s Nolan and his muse, Sunday consumption, associated with psychological analysis observes real issues: Socrates on Reed, this is a skilfully drawn a trend towards overwork, the with an unblinking eye the virtues unpopularity (he died for it); fiction of how such a person as stuff we accumulate and send to and failings of both writer and Epicurus on not having enough Sunday might have become, landfill, financial overcommitment, man; capturing the indomitable money; Seneca on frustration; having outlived the artists who the medications we use to help imagination which hid a Montaigne on inadequacies were her peers in the 1930s. us cope. Accompanying this he tormented, tragic, brilliant man. various; Schopenhauer on a Through 85-year-old Autumn’s identifies a range of ills such as broken heart; and Nietzsche reflections on the lives of the N 2011 528pp B2164 lack of time, stress, tiredness, on the struggle. Occasional gifted, Miller explores the depression, health problems. coarse language. passions and ambitions of Cider with Rosie Instead he offers an alternative Australian art. F 2000 265pp B1635 path: less attention to material Laurie Lee goods, and greater connection F 2011 464pp B2157 Chronicling the traditional village with community and the things life which disappeared with the The Crane Wife that matter. advent of developments such Patrick Ness N 2005 224pp B1916 B as the motor car, this enduring A crane lands one day in middle- classic is the English Cotswolds aged George’s back garden in The Boyds: of years ago, with Lee’s bucolic London. The next day, he meets An Artist of the childhood rendered in a bright artist Kumiko, and together their Floating World The Art of the Boyds and wryly humorous manner. Patricia Dobrez & art causes a public sensation. Kazuo Ishiguro A must-read. The importance of family, love, Peter Herbst – ART BOOK Ishiguro’s elegant, restrained NL 1959 240pp B0395 and the power of storytelling are prose evokes the personality, Six generations of Boyds all explored in this reimagined Most of our group really enjoyed career, family and society of have been involved in the arts. Japanese folk tale that merges reading this book. We thought Masuji Ono, an ageing painter, This folio of lavish illustrations the magical with the real. reflects the diversity of talent the prose was beautifully Contains strong language. living through the turbulent written and we could see why post-war shift from militarism to – pottery, writing, architecture, F 2013 320pp B2189 painting, sculpting, ceramics – it’s been so popular. Lee has an Americanised democracy in a way with words and retold Japan in 1948. in ‘Australia’s most visible and distinguished artistic family’. both happy and sad events with F 1986 206pp B1228 much feeling. D N 1990 232pp B0656 Blackburn 10 Author, Author Death Sentence David Lodge C Clarice Beckett Don Watson A great writer, but a fiercely Rosalind Hollinrake Watson defends the language private man: Henry James Cézanne: Paul Cézanne, – ART BOOK he loves (the kind with bite, seems an unlikely subject for a with flavour, with life) against 1839–1906 After her death in 1935, Clarice the verbal sludge which now biographical novel by a comic Beckett was a forgotten writer. But Lodge’s novel is Hajo Düchting – ART BOOK threatens us from every side. artist. One of Australia’s great Managerial language has immensely lively, readable and A recluse who shunned the modernist painters, Beckett’s discussable, as he focuses on art world of Paris, Cézanne infiltrated the English of politics, lyrical, delicate studies evoke the bureaucracy, education and the the last decades of James’ life. never identified himself with spirit of a past Melbourne – A fascinating and informative the Impressionist group. This media. Read, laugh, discuss, its city, suburbs and beaches repent, abstain! account of the crowded setting beautiful, full-colour text explores – in an application of colour, tone of the English literary, theatrical Cézanne’s great achievements in and form beyond anything of N 2003 198pp B1828 and social world, of sibling his ever more subtle analysis of her time. rivalries and love, and of the colour and tone, and synthesis of refined and dedicated life within. reality and abstraction. N 1999 77pp B1615 F 2004 389pp B1870 N 1991 239pp B0678

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Feet of Clay Gogh: Vincent van Great Writers, E Anthony Storr Gogh, 1853–1890 Great Loves Subtitled A Study of Gurus, this Ingo Walther – ART BOOK Ann Marie Priest The Elegance sets some of the most notorious A complex and obsessive man, A fascinating, revealing journey of the Hedgehog gurus, including Jim Jones and van Gogh was one of the great through the love lives of eight Muriel Barbery David Koresh beside some of the forerunners of the modern age. famous writers: Sylvia Plath, most respected leaders in the Renée is the concierge of This text presents van Gogh’s Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville western world (Ignatius of Loyola, a grand Parisian apartment paintings as testimony to a heroic West, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Jesus) to show they have more building on the Left Bank. quest for new colour, line and life. Mansfield, Charmian Clift, Dylan in common than meets the eye. Beneath her conventional facade Thomas and Frank O’Hara. Priest Why do we view some of them N 1987 96pp B0679 she is passionate about culture delves into their letters and their as legitimate thinkers or spiritual and the arts. Meanwhile, several writings. Their stories anticipated leaders and others as madmen? The Golden Mean floors up, 12-year-old Paloma and reflected the revolutionary Other ‘gurus’ considered in Josse is determined to avoid Annabel Lyon rethinking of love, sex and the book are Gurdjieff, Steiner, the predictably bourgeois future Told in earthy and contemporary marriage that occurred during the Freud and Jung. A rich field for laid out for her. The death of one prose, this is a story of Aristotle’s course of the 20th century. reflection and discussion. of their privileged neighbours relationship with the young and N 2006 298pp B1918 brings dramatic change and N 1996 254pp B1569 gifted Alexander whom alters their lives forever. An he tutors from boyhood. Aristotle international bestseller. strives to impart his philosophy of H 2008 320pp B2046 G the golden mean – a balance F between extremes – to young Alexander. Half a Lifetime Elizabeth Costello The Gift of Asher Lev Judith Wright Chaim Potok F 2009 282pp B2107 J.M. Coetzee One of Australia’s finest poets, In this sequel to My Name is Judith Wright was born into SHORTLISTED Asher Lev, the painter is drawn The Goldfinch a family of New South Wales Miles Franklin Literary Award back to the Ladover Hasidic Donna Tartt pastoralists. Jack McKinney, In the form of lectures given community in Brooklyn. Again, he the philosopher who became by an elderly Australian writer experiences the tension between WINNER her lover, partner, and the father on tour, this challenging novel his gift and the community, now Pulitzer Prize of her daughter, was also her facing the death of its revered of ideas opens up questions When Theo is thirteen, a intellectual companion in her Rebbe, and making strong of the systematic cruelties traumatic experience inextricably passionate lifelong commitment claims on his family. involved in farming animals for entwines his fate with a 17th- to environmental causes and food; the Holocaust; the nature F 1990 370pp B1323 century Dutch painting. An justice for the Aboriginal peoples of belief and reason, of writing engaging cast of characters of Australia. A poem by Wright and of humanity; spirituality and Girl with a moves between high society, the stands as preface to each of the morality; Kafka and the absurd. world of antiques, and a murky chapters in this luminous memoir, Nobel Prize winner Coetzee Pearl Earring an added pleasure for the reader.

Artist, Maker, Thinker Artist, Maker, criminal underground in this shares with his fictional character Tracy Chevalier beautifully readable exploration N 1999 296pp B1760 a reluctance to make public This fine historical fiction evokes of love, loss and the messy appearances. the mid-17th century Netherlands. business of being alive. The Hare with 2003 230pp B1830 Griet, a young servant girl, sits for F 2014 771pp B2211 F the painter Vermeer, her employer, Amber Eyes and soon finds herself surrounded Edmund de Waal by rumour. Deeply revealing Grace Crowley: F about the process of painting Being Modern WINNER Costa Biography Award and haunting in its passion, Elena Taylor Facing the Music outrage and perceptions about Crowley played a central After inheriting a collection of human nature. Andrea Goldsmith part in introducing modern Japanese carvings (netsuke), For more than 50 years, Duncan F 1999 248pp B1621 art to Australia. Rejecting the de Waal felt compelled to trace Bayle’s glorious talent as a expectations of her Edwardian its journey through the years. composer was fed by the women Glass After Glass upbringing, she pursued a In doing so, he discovered his in his life. Then his daughter family’s history from 19th century Barbara Blackman career as an artist, leaving the Anna left Melbourne for London. parochial confines of Australia Odessa to modern Tokyo. An While her father’s gift faltered, her Married for 27 years to the and replacing the convention of engrossing and moving blend of creativity flowered. Goldsmith painter Charles Blackman, also marriage with a series of close art and social history. portrays a toxic struggle between artist’s model, muse, writer, friendships. In this beautifully N 2010 354pp B2140 them, and family and friends mother, Blackman writes of illustrated edition, Taylor paints an are caught in their destructive the people she has known evocative portrait of Crowley. in Australia’s art world and of creativity as the work moves to 2006 54pp its conclusion. day-to-day living. The circle of N B1950 1994 263pp B1441 artists at Heide, her friendships F with Joy Hester and with others, and her adaptation to increasing blindness from a young age are all part of these memoirs. N 1997 403pp B1573

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Harland’s Half Acre Klimt: Gustav Klimt, David Malouf I K 1862–1918 The life story of Frank Harland, Gottfried Fliedl – ART BOOK an artist whose first drawings I Am Melba Kandinsky: Wassily The apocalyptic atmosphere are made at night on his Ann Blainey Kandinsky, 1866–1944 of Vienna’s upper middle-class family’s struggling dairy farm in Hajo Düchting – ART BOOK society at the turn of the century Queensland. Malouf writes with WINNER Kandinsky was one of the most found expression through the insight about many themes: National Biography Prize important pioneers of abstract art of Gustav Klimt. Klimt’s art family life; the pressures of A biography of Australia’s first art, expressing feelings through and the Viennese Secession poverty and temperament; musical superstar, Nellie Melba. a distinctive use of geometric movement are explored in this the vocation of the artist; the From an early age Nellie dreamed shapes, brilliantly coloured and richly illustrated book. changing patterns of Australian of fame. Her independent spirit superbly disposed in space. N 1991 239pp B0683 social history; the natural world took her from Melbourne and of Australia, rendered with the Queensland cane fields to N 1991 96pp B0716 poetic precision. London and Europe. I Am Melba F 1984 230pp B1043 captures an extraordinary life. Killing Me Softly L N 2009 400pp B2063 Philip Nitschke & The Lacuna Here on Earth Fiona Stewart Barbara Kingsolver Tim Flannery The Imperfectionists Nitschke and Stewart take the From an ecological viewpoint, we Tom Rachman view that people should have the WINNER have left a trail of destruction as right to make informed end-of-life Orange Prize This collection of stories told decisions. Their book provides human civilisation spreads across Told in a mix of narrative forms from the viewpoints of different information about the current the Earth. We will face climate including diary entries, memoir, staff members, from the Editor practice of slow euthanasia; changes, decreasing biodiversity, letters and newspaper articles. in Chief to the copy editor, at an what is wrong with palliative care; and scarcity of water and food. Born in America and raised in international English language anguishing decisions concerning Flannery, a palaeontologist and Mexico, Harrison Shepherd finds newspaper, based in Rome. the life or death of very ill babies. former Australian of the Year, himself working for Mexican Their private lives overlap These writers envisage a world suggests solutions to these muralist Diego Rivera. He meets with work and world events. where a ‘peaceful pill’ could be problems. From the Stone Age Alternately hilarious and heart- and befriends the artist Frida to the modern globalised world, relied on to provide a peaceful,

Kahlo, goes to work for the Artist,Maker, Thinker wrenching. dignified death. An opportunity he presents a view of how Communist Lev Trotsky, and 2010 274pp B2089 to reflect on and discuss the sustainability can be achieved FS becomes caught up in a world many questions presented by the through cooperation rather of art and revolution. The second euthanasia debate. than competition. Inside Out half of the novel shifts to the N 2010 316pp B2114 Robert Adamson N 2005 354pp B1885 United States where Harrison is Sydney poet Robert Adamson dragged into the public arena grew up in Neutral Bay and on through the House Un-American The Hours Activities Committee. Michael Cunningham the Hawkesbury River in the 1950s and ’60s. Bewitched by F 2009 507pp B2065 WINNER the natural world, fishing and Pulitzer Prize birds, his later escapades led him to incarceration in boys’ homes. Cunningham takes Virginia Finally, his prison encounter with Woolf’s life and work as the work of writers and poets set inspiration for this exquisite and him on the path of writing. Full subtle novel. He interweaves of event, sensation, movement From the canvas to the screen, Woolf’s struggle to begin and life, his memoir makes unleash your inner artist her novel Mrs Dalloway with wonderful reading. that book’s effects on two with a painting or drawing subsequent readers in 1940s Los N 2004 342pp B1833 short course. Angeles and in contemporary New York. Isobel on the Way F 1998 228pp B1642 to the Corner Shop Amy Witting How Are We to Live? SHORTLISTED Peter Singer Miles Franklin Literary Award The distinguished Australian philosopher argues that in Determined to make her way affluent Western society, the as a writer, Isobel has resigned pursuit of material self-interest from her job with very little to is the norm, trapping people live on. Acute illness brings into the sense that life is her to a sanatorium where meaningless. Is there anything she remains for a long time, maintaining her autonomy cae.edu.au to live for? Likely to prompt 03 9652 0611 unstoppable discussion. as best she can in these RTO 3737 claustrophobic surroundings. 1993 262pp B1411 N F 1999 352pp B1737

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The Life and Death Lola Bensky More Please of Sophie Stark Lily Brett M Barry Humphries Anna North Lily Brett drew on her own Does this reveal the man behind Told through the six different experiences as a music journalist Mao’s Last Dancer the actor, with his vulnerabilities perspectives of the people in the ‘Swinging Sixties’ to Li Cunxin including alcoholism? Or is it closest to her, the novel explores create 19-year-old Lola. When This is the true story of Li Cunxin, another great performance, in the life of an unapologetic film not meeting rock icons such as a peasant boy from rural China which there is less generosity director who values art over Mick Jagger and Janis Joplin, who became a world-class ballet than sharpness? Readable and people. Sophie Stark uses her Lola worries about her hair or dancer. We follow him through often very funny. genius to make movies from the her weight. Like many of Brett’s his early training in Beijing to a N 1992 334pp B1381 lives of people who fascinate characters, she also carries the summer school in the US, his her, destroying the relationships legacy of her Holocaust survivor defection to the West, and his The Museum of with those that love her most parents. Funny and touching, this later transition to a new life in and results in her shocking end. novel evokes a time of unique Australia. Memories of his family Modern Love The novel explores the lengths social change. in China are an important thread Heather Rose you go for art and the cost of F 2012 267pp B2176 in his story. artist integrity. WINNER N 2003 447pp B1821 Stella Prize F 2015 304pp B2247 This book stimulated great conversation despite the fact This autobiographical drama that it was not universally liked. about the life of Li Cunxin was WINNER NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Issues such as the holocaust, a book I simply couldn’t put NEW Lola’s weight obsession, down. Most of us agreed that it When New York film composer interviews with famous rock had a beautifully written prose stars were all cause for Arky Levin is asked by his that captures his inspiring and terminally ill wife to keep a interesting discussion. extraordinary journey. This The Life Burnside Beyond promise, it throws Arky into a moving story about the quest devastating search for meaning. to Come for freedom, his courage to Arky discovers Marina Abramovic Michelle de escape communist China, the in The Artist is Present, and is The Lost Dog struggles he face and sacrifices Krester drawn to her performance. As and triumphs along the way are the performance continues, he SHORTLISTED Set in contemporary Australia powerfully described. The book produced a lot of discussion. questions what it means to love Stella Prize and 20th century India, de and to be an artist. The novel Kretser’s third novel is a love North-Eastern Bibliophiles explores relationships, illness and SHORTLISTED story entwined with a haunting how art shapes us. Victorian Premier’s Literary Award mystery. Tom Loxley, an Martin Boyd: A Life F 2016 296pp B2253 academic, is writing a book Brenda Niall An intelligent meditation set in on Henry James in a remote Sydney, Paris and Sri Lanka. bush shack when his dog Martin Boyd was a member of My Brilliant Career The novel consists of five goes missing. While searching the talented Boyd family which Miles Franklin Artist, Maker, Thinker Artist, Maker, sections that uncovers the lives for his dog, Tom revisits his included Arthur, Merric, Guy The first novel from one of the of George, pompous author emotional past and explores his and Robin. Both in background major Australian writers of her and university lecturer; Pippa, a troubled present. and inclination Martin Boyd superficial writer who dreams of was Anglo Australian: many of time, Stella Maria Sarah Miles Man Booker success; Celeste, F 2007 368pp B2028 his novels were written during Franklin, who wrote under the a manuscript translator who the restless expatriate years. A name Miles Franklin. Written is blind to her married lover’s The Lost Mother readable account of this complex as a romance to amuse the intentions; Ash, an academic Anne Summers and private man. author’s friends, the novel follows imaginative heroine Sybylla who blurs the memories from 1988 268pp B1262 his childhood in Sri Lanka; In 1933, Anne’s mother had her N growing up in rural Australia and migrant Christabel, whose portrait painted by a mysterious in the 1890s, and many of the generosity becomes the artist. Anne inherited the portrait Monet: Claude Monet, issues it raises are still relevant to target of Pippa’s malice. The after her mother died and is 1840–1926 women writers today. compelled to unravel its mystery, novel explores the lies we tell Karin Sagner Düchting F 1901 232pp B0062 to others, the lies we tell to exploring the difficult relationship ourselves, and the grand ego of she had with her mother. Anne’s – ART BOOK Western Civilization. detailed research encompasses Monet was both the most typical Paris, Cairo, Latvia and and the most individual French F 2017 384pp B2278 Russia and evokes memories Impressionist painter. His long of Melbourne’s art scene in life, extraordinary capacity for the 1900s. work and furious perfectionism N 2010 385pp B2123 are explored in this large volume. N 1990 228pp B1609

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Other People’s Words Right and Wrong A Short History N Hilary McPhee Hugh Mackay of Richard Kline The story of a friendship between This is a humane, thoughtful Amanda Lohrey Nice Work two women, the publishing book about the personal, Richard Kline has always felt that David Lodge company they built, and its family, sexual, legal, business, something in his life was missing. When Dr Robyn Penrose, contribution to literature in consumer, social and political Now middle-aged and facing temporary lecturer at the Australia. Helen Garner, Tim choices we all face. Mackay’s cycles of boredom and despair, University is volunteered by Winton and Drusilla Modjeska experience as a social researcher he finds himself awakening to the English Department to were part of McPhee Gribble’s who uses focus groups has alternative spiritual pursuits and shadow Vic Wilcox, a managing impressive list. A readable book given him an enviable capacity to philosophies despite his natural director in the industrial town with much to discuss about the open up complex moral issues cynicism, searching for ‘bliss’ of Rummidge, it’s a culture local, the global and the future in a way which makes them in the midst of chaos. Lohrey shock for them both. An astute of publishing. accessible for reflection and probes the relationship between account of Thatcher’s England, N 2001 312pp B1630 group discussion. devotion and dependence in this particularly of its business and N 2004 244pp B1841 comic yet moving exploration of intellectual theory and practice. masculinity and meaning. We laughed out loud. P The River F 2015 272pp B2224 F 1988 348pp B1252 Patrice Newell The Philosopher’s Dog Newell’s family lives in a close The Sitters North Face of Soho Raimond Gaita relationship with the river Pages Alex Miller Clive James Focusing on the creatures who which runs past their New are part of our domestic lives South Wales property. She SHORTLISTED The fourth in James’s Miles Franklin Literary Award autobiographical series, this and telling stories about animals looks at the river’s rich history covers 1968 to the 1980s as he has known, the author (geological, and in Aboriginal An ageing artist’s meeting with an James sets out to establish of Romulus, My Father asks and settler times) and its future older woman opens the enigmas himself in literary London. In questions about how animals (with competing demands of his childhood and returns him his trademark style, blending think and feel. This gentle enquiry from big business through to to painting. A complex, subtle wisecracks with serious into the connection between organic farms like her own). The story touching on theoretical observation, he depicts the people and animals needs careful condition of our waterways and art questions, the connections reading and discussion. life on the land is a topic of great unrelenting deadlines involved between loss and creativity, and Artist,Maker, Thinker in his work as reviewer, critic, N 2002 214pp B1689 national relevance. absence and presence in words essayist and commentator. An N 2003 244pp B1891 and images. entertaining read with insights F 1995 131pp B1459 about writing. R A Room of One’s Own N 2006 264pp B1973 Virginia Woolf The Spiral Staircase Reading by Moonlight This book arose from two Karen Armstrong Brenda Walker O lectures presented to Oxford Having left the religious life WINNER women’s colleges in 1928 on after seven difficult years, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award the subject of ‘women and Karen Armstrong found herself O’Keeffe: Georgia fiction’. Woolf believed that only in a changed world and was O’Keeffe In 2005, Brenda was diagnosed privacy (a room of one’s own) troubled by panic attacks and Nancy Frazier – ART BOOK with breast cancer. This book and independence (five hundred strange mental states. Her follows her treatment, along with a year) would allow women to O’Keeffe is best known for her memoir explores these years meditations on books that helped write freely and well. near abstract paintings based on of transition, a long period her on her road to recovery. enlargements of flower and plant N 1929 176pp B0381 of unbelief, and the unusual Referencing authors from Dante forms – works of great elegance, path by which she became a to Donna Tartt, she writes about rhythmic vitality and sensuality. respected commentator on the consolation a of the written This book captures the haunting major world religions, matters word. This is a moving book that S quality of her unique vision. of faith and fundamentalisms of resonates deeply. different kinds. N 1992 112pp B0694 The Secret Life of Money N 2010 240pp B2133 Valerie Wilson N 2004 342pp B1894 Oscar Wilde Religion for Atheists This book focuses on money Richard Ellmann in our everyday lives and how Alain de Botton ordinary people think and feel Wilde’s witty comedies made The issue is not whether or not about it. This is a look at the him the darling of London God exists, but where to go from complex and contradictory role theatregoers, but at the height of Enjoyed here. Alain de Botton makes money plays in our social world. his success he was imprisoned A Room of One’s Own? a case for the usefulness of due to homosexual practices. N 1999 224pp B1719 religion in our lives, regardless Physically and financially ruined, of whether it is believable or not. Try My Brilliant Career he declined into an early death. This read will challenge your way Ellmann’s account is full of by Miles Franklin of thinking and is guaranteed to understanding and humanity. [B0062] spark a great discussion! 1987 632pp B1585 N N 2012 320pp B2144

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Status Anxiety Toulouse Lautrec: Henri Walking on Water The Weather Makers Alain de Botton de Toulouse Lautrec Chester Porter Tim Flannery ‘This is a book about an almost Matthias Arnold – ART BOOK This Sydney defence lawyer’s Flannery’s flair for writing for universal anxiety ... about what Toulouse Lautrec’s bold memoir covers controversial a general readership is put to others think of us; about whether and arresting images were Australian cases and Royal excellent use here. We are the we’re judged a success or a failure, instrumental in gaining Commissions of the last fifty weather makers, and Flannery a winner or a loser.’ In it the author acceptance for both lithography years, but more than this, wants to inspire all of us to do examines lovelessness, snobbery, and the poster as major art through the many unpublicised something about climate change. expectation, meritocracy, forms. This tells Lautrec’s story cases with which its author He is insightful and inspiring as dependence; and offers some and gives a vibrant picture of was involved, it reveals a life in he suggests steps we can take ‘solutions’. Is this philosophy or Parisian life. the Law as experienced by a to reduce our carbon footprint at does the book fall into the self- good man. Porter’s humbleness the level of our own households help genre? The central subject N 1988 96pp B0715 and humanity, shining through and decisions. of keeping up with the Joneses his simple prose, is a bonus, N 2005 332pp B1943 provides plenty to discuss. likely to raise the law, the police N 2004 314pp B1845 W and legal practitioners in the reader’s estimation. The Women’s Pages Waging Peace N 2003 310pp B1898 Debra Adelaide T Anne Deveson Having read Wuthering Heights Waging Peace is a thematic The Waterlily to her dying mother, Dove finds memoir. Anne Deveson looks she cannot forget the novel’s A Tale for the Time Being Kate Llewellyn power. Instead of returning to Ruth Ozeki back on a long life, from her childhood during WW2 to her ‘A book that captures perfectly normal life, she clings to a story SHORTLISTED experiences as a filmmaker the exact pace and feel of life – she has begun writing: Ellis is a Man Booker Prize and social commentator. She the fine-tuning of one moment normal ‘60s suburban housewife questions our species’ urge to and one mood into the next’ – until she decides to leave her When 16-year-old Nao’s diary wage war, and discusses with (Grenville). This ‘Blue Mountains husband. A beautiful magic washes ashore on a lonely hope the promotion of peace Journal’ covers a year of Kate emerges as Dove teases out the Canadian coastline, Ruth feels and conflict resolution. Whether Llewellyn’s life in the mountains, secrets of Ellis’s life, while she compelled to read it. Nao’s life is or not you agree with her views, making a garden and determined attempts to live in her own. turbulent: her father is suicidal, this book is bound to promote to be happy. F 2015 305pp B2241 she is tortured by schoolyard lively discussion. N 1987 192pp B1345 bullies, and her only friend is her grandmother, a Buddhist nun. N 2013 238pp B2184 Ozeki weaves together philosophy, the nature of time, cultural identity and the true meaning of courage in this absorbing, beautifully written novel. Artist, Maker, Thinker Artist, Maker, F 2013 422pp B2204

MEET OUR NEW NOTEWRITERS Bec Kavanagh Bec Kavanagh is a Melbourne-based freelance writer, reviewer and powerful. It’s a story of war in a way, because it’s about a Japanese manager of the Stella Schools Program. Bec has appeared at the American family post-Pearl Harbour, as they are instructed to leave Melbourne Writers Festival, on ABC RN’s Books and Arts Daily their house and report to internment camps. But it’s so much more and has judged a number of literary prizes, including the Victorian intimate than a lot of ‘war’ books, and brings our focus right in on Premier’s Literary Awards. the way a family experiences this sense of loneliness, displacement and othering. What is your favourite Australian book? My favourite Australian book is currently one that’s being released in What has been your most influential read? August. It’s A Superior Spectre by Angela Meyer, and it’s a brilliant, It’s one that I read in high school actually, that had a profound impact eerie feminist dystopia that interrogates male power and privilege, I think on the way I view the relationships between lover and beloved, as well as female body autonomy and the way we think about and the way we see ‘ugly’ in literature - it’s a novella called The love. It’s got a unique, rich historical setting and the characters are Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers, who wrote The Heart incredibly complex. is a Lonely Hunter. It argues that we can never be both the lover and beloved, but that the balance shifts up and down like a seesaw over What is your favourite international book? the course of a relationship (all relationships, not just romantic ones). My favourite international book is one that my mentor recommended I found that idea incredibly powerful as a young woman. to me and is a story called When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka. The images are so simple and stark, which makes them very

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The Age of Innocence April Fool’s Day Between a A Edith Wharton Bryce Courtenay Wolf and a Dog Newland Archer has chosen a The emotive biography of Georgia Blain The Accidental Tourist conventional and rather limited Courtenay’s son Damon, who young woman for his wife. Now was born with haemophilia WINNER Anne Tyler Victorian Premier’s Literary Award Sharing a common grief, Macon Countess Olenska appears on and acquired AIDS through Leary and his wife Sarah now the scene, refreshingly different transfusion with contaminated SHORTLISTED find their differences too great in outlook and separated – blood. Told mainly in his father’s Stella Prize and they part. Macon makes shockingly – from her European words, but including passages As the rain beats down one world trips to write a series of husband. Wharton presents an from his mother, brother and sodden Sydney day, four people travel guides which reflect his unillusioned view of 1870s New partner, it is a heart-stirring will slowly come to terms with need of defensive routines. York, where a constricting social account. Whilst there is much their pasts – and their futures. Funnier than Dinner at the code puts individual lives under love and fortitude, there is also Ester is finally moving forward Homesick Restaurant but great pressure. an angry indictment of some from her divorce from estranged with that unmistakable ache institutions and individuals in F 1920 301pp B1313 husband, Lawrence. Her sister, and tenderness. Australia’s medical system. 1994 666pp April, wonders how she can F 1985 355pp B1193 Ali and Nino N B1432 heal the deep rift between her Kurban Said and Ester, while their mother Addition This little-known masterpiece Atonement Hilary considers the momentous Toni Jordan follows the cross-cultural marriage Ian McEwan decision she is making. Subtle, poignant and immersive. Grace Vandenburg counts. She of a young Muslim prince and a WINNER counts the number of poppy rich Christian girl. Love does not Commonwealth Writers’ Prize F 2016 320pp B2242 seeds on her piece of cake, run easily, but it works powerfully she counts the number of steps to try to overcome ancient tribal A story that begins with three Big Brother it takes her to reach her local differences. Considered the young people in the garden Lionel Shriver café, she even counts the letters Romeo and Juliet of Azerbaijan, it of a country house on the Pandora, a chef and in her name. Then she meets is a book for Western readers. hottest day of 1935, and ends entrepreneur, must deal with both Seamus O’Reilly. Addition is a with three profoundly changed F 1937 237pp B1658 her morbidly obese brother and quirky love story with a witty and lives. A depiction of love, war, her exercise and nutrition fanatic unconventional heroine. class, childhood and England, The Amateur Marriage exploring shame and forgiveness, husband when circumstances F 2008 256pp B2036 Anne Tyler atonement and the possibility of bring the three of them under Pauline and Michael marry in absolution. the same roof. In her distinctive style, the author of We Need to Aftermath haste. Slowly and painfully, F 2001 372pp B1668 Rachel Cusk they realise they are completely Talk About Kevin tackles family unsuited. A sensitively handled dynamics, addiction and our Subtitled ‘On Marriage and image-conscious society, asking Separation’. Cusk is not telling us portrayal of family dysfunction and of lives lived always B the question: is blood really how to live; this is her narrative thicker than water? on marriage, separation, the wondering how things ‘could have been’. Tyler’s look at one Bel Canto F 2013 373pp B2191 difficulties of motherhood, loss Ann Patchett of identity, feminism and more. family and at American family life It is an honest exploration of the from the 1940s to the present is WINNER Billie’s Kiss aftermath of her divorce and is incisive and poignant. Orange Prize Elizabeth Knox guaranteed to spark a discussion F 2004 306pp B1817 A novel for almost anyone, in your group. A group of international guests in an unnamed Latin American carrying the reader easily across N 2012 152pp B2169 American Wife country are taken hostage, but an extraordinary range of Curtis Sittenfeld the target, the President, is not concerns: a murder mystery, a Alice is a quiet, bookish only present. Among the hostages are traditional community faced with child from small-town Wisconsin, a famous American opera singer, Edwardian modernisation, a sexy who experiences an event which and a Japanese businessman. love story, pride and prejudice, shatters her identity and makes A charming, unconventional story family and community loyalties Enjoyed Bel Canto? her understand the fragility of life. unfolds as Bel Canto explores and divisions. A New Zealand A decade later, Alice, a Democrat the themes of art, politics view of reality, set in a small Try and school librarian, meets and and love. island off Scotland. Of Love and Shadows marries Charlie, the outgoing F 2001 318pp B1991 F 2002 280pp B1669 wealthy son of a Republican by Isabel Allende family. When Charlie becomes [B1349] President of the United States, Alice finds herself in a position of power, influence and privilege. F 2008 555pp B2044

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s Childish Things Eligible Truman Capote Robin Jenkins D Curtis Sittenfeld When Fred’s new neighbour Holly After the death of his much-loved Seeking out the ‘classic crawls through his window, he is wife, 72-year-old Gregor McLeod The Deep Field romance’ in modern life, this captivated by the glamorous 19 becomes the focus of several James Bradley Bridget Jones style adaptation year old. The wildly successful women in his Scottish village Anna flees the political situation of Pride and Prejudice is fresh, Audrey Hepburn movie sanitised and again in California, where in Hong Kong for Sydney, where fun and wholly enjoyable. After the novella’s complex narrative he escapes for a break. Greed, she is drawn to Seth, a blind their father’s heart surgery, Liz about sexual ambiguity and selfishness and goings on are the palaeontologist, and they begin and Jane Bennet return home to the struggle between the need stuff of this ironic, light-hearted, an affair; she also begins a Cincinnati, where their younger for stability and the longing well-paced comic novel. search for her missing brother. sisters run wild and their mother for freedom. Contains three F 2001 248pp B1778 Bradley’s future evokes a subtle despairs that they will ever marry. short stories. air of menace and decay, but Things change when ER doctor and reality television ‘star’ Chip FS 1958 168pp B2018 City of Friends ultimately, this is a sensual love story about love, touch, time Bingley arrives – but his friend, Joanna Trollope and loss. neurosurgeon Fitzwilliam Darcy, The Bride Stripped Bare is unimpressed by the Bennets. When high-powered career F 1999 412pp B1743 Anonymous woman Stacey is made F 2016 528pp B2244 A novel about the psychological redundant from her job, her life and physical aspects of a young is thrown into crisis and cracks Dirt Music We were pleased to have an woman’s extramarital affair. This begin to form in her tightly knit Tim Winton entertaining, simple and quick book to read. Many thought candid, fictional memoir raises friendship group. As tension WINNER it was not as good as the questions of trust, betrayal, increases, secrets come out and Miles Franklin Literary Award Jane Austen version, but a secrecy, cultural expectation their friendships are pushed to the limit. A light and relatable good adaption of the modern and obsessiveness. It contains Winton’s West Australian scene. The language was not sexually explicit material and may read, the novel showcases coastland is physically and various forms of working women sophisticated but that didn’t not be suitable for everyone. psychologically perilous for bother us. and the juggle between their F 2003 376pp B1814 the people who live by it, but Brighton Dawson personal and professional lives. its beauty still compels. Each F 2017 336pp B2259 member of the trio at the story’s C centre is differently damaged and Emma Cold Mountain dangerous. Winton’s narrative Jane Austen tension is extraordinary: he Captain Corelli’s Charles Frazier A classic comedy about the draws us into their struggles to development of a young woman, Mandolin A man, wounded in the Civil War, break with the past and regain and the disconnect between Louis de Bernières deserts from the army and travels hope and love. an individual’s inner life – her home, while a ‘lady’ learns to be F 2001 465pp B1664 deepest fears and hopes – and WINNER a woman on the frontier. As they the external world of customs Commonwealth Writers’ Prize journey towards their destinies, and manners. Emma’s spirit and Frazier evokes the times and the During WWII, Italian troops vivacity make her one of Austen’s southern Appalachians setting E occupy the Greek island of most beloved characters. with great immediacy in this Cephallonia. Billeted with the Inimitable prose. beautiful story of love and war. local doctor and his daughter, NEW F 1816 432pp B0001 Captain Corelli, musician and FL 1997 357pp B1557 comedian, tries to stay aloof. But it is no use: the two young Eleanor The English Patient Crossing to Safety Michael Ondaatje people fall in love. Wallace Stegner Oliphant is Relationships F 1994 436pp B1472 When Larry and his wife settle Completely WINNER into their new home in Wisconsin Fine Man Booker Prize A Change in the Lighting in the late 1930s, they begin a Gail Honeyman In the destruction and confusion Amy Witting friendship with the Langs that surrounding the end of the will echo through their lives. WINNER From its brilliant opening scene, Second World War, a small Exploring the mysteries of Costa Book Award Witting’s novel takes us into group of people find themselves friendship, Stegner traces the the feelings and decisions of 30-year-old accounts assistant together in Italy. Recreating both bond that develops between the a woman whose life changes and office eccentric Eleanor a devastated Italy and a desert families in this eloquent, powerful when her husband leaves her Oliphant lives alone in a tiny world far away, Ondaatje fuses narrative from this Pulitzer Prize- suddenly for a younger woman. flat in Glasgow. She has a rigid popular novel, war story, spy winning author. An insightful study of a woman in routine and a timetabled life, and story and the erotic in a complex her fifties and her adult children. F 1987 288pp B1522 makes an effort to avoid social work of wisdom and beauty. A must for appreciators of interaction. But when Eleanor F 1992 307pp B1370 Amy Witting. meets Raymond, his kindness F 1994 291pp B1401 forces Eleanor to confront the tragedy in her past that holds her back. A funny, yet deeply moving book about profound loneliness, mental illness and survival. F 2017 383pp B2283

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An Equal Music The Finkler Question The Four Letters of Love The Ground Beneath Vikram Seth Howard Jacobson Niall Williams Her Feet The narrator’s passionate love WINNER In Dublin, the life of 12-year- Salman Rushdie of chamber music is infused Man Booker Prize old Nicholas is upended when Rushdie’s verbal pyrotechnics by his passion for Julia, who William, his father, drops his conjure up a musical love story disappeared from his life when The Finkler Question tells the job in the civil service because between many worlds: India he left her in Vienna. Early in the story of Julian Treslove and his God wants him to be a painter. before and after Independence, novel, he sees her through the friends Sam Finkler and Libor Over on an island in the west, America, the underworld, and window of a London bus. What Sevcik. Sam and Libor are lonely 11-year-old Isabel thinks it is her above all the global worlds of next? A CD in each box provides widowers, while Julian wishes fault when her beloved musical rock’n’roll and late 20th-century sound recordings of the music one of his lovers would expire brother Sean is disabled after a showbiz. A heady and heart- referred to in the novel. romantically in his arms, and fit. Can the plots of God and love stirring song of love, loss, pain F 1999 485pp B1735 wonders what it would be like to override day-to-day trials? and liberation. be Jewish. This novel touches on F 1997 342pp B1711 anti-Semitism and Zionism, as F 1999 575pp B1746 Eucalyptus well as obsession, in a complex and insightful way. The Full Catastrophe A man plants out his property F 2010 307pp B2105 Edna Mazya H with an example of every known Aware that his beautiful young eucalypt and announces that wife is having an affair, Ilan is Happenstance his daughter will be a marriage Firehead compelled to track down her Carol Shields Venero Armanno prize to the first man who lover. Ilan’s actions become The parallel lives in contemporary correctly identifies every tree. The decades from 1975 to 1995 increasingly bizarre and irrational, marriages are linked in two Is Ellen to have no say in her and Brisbane are the setting in and his state of mind, super- companion novels within the own destiny? This is a strangely this ‘very Sicilian love story’. ‘An sensitivity in reading moods and one cover. Husband and wife exhilarating love story, blending eerie story of generations and appalling mother are brilliantly in a 20-year marriage each tell European folktale with a piquant love, of police corruption and a depicted in a suspenseful, funny their story of a week apart, she Australian rendering of landscape city’s changing terrain, and of psychological thriller. at a convention where she is and longing. searching for that one place in F 2005 334pp B1881 recognised as a gifted quiltmaker, F 1998 255pp B1594 the world you can finally say is he on home duties while home.’ Armanno is an Australian keeping his academic job going. writer with a unique voice: his Observant and compassionate. Eyrie novel is full of the urgency of G Tim Winton F 1982 390pp B1446 desire in sensuous prose. The Grass Harp 1999 401pp B1754 SHORTLISTED F Truman Capote Hateship, Friendship, Miles Franklin Literary Award SHORTLISTED Courtship, Loveship, Unlikable and self-pitying drunk Flights of Love Bernhard Schlink National Book Award Marriage Tom begins to feel compassion Alice Munro and desire when he encounters In these seven sophisticated Truman Capote was from the his neighbour, Gemma. Their short stories Schlink takes up the Deep South, and this novel is WINNER meeting brings back memories theme of love, different kinds of steeped in its symbolism and Man Booker International Prize of the past, forcing Tom to face sadness, devotion and desire, cultural associations. Three oddly a physical threat in his present misunderstandings, betrayal, endearing characters defy small- Nine short stories from a Relationships which is far more dangerous than midlife crises and the search town society; its other levels of master of the short story form. the demons in his head. for renewal. meaning will keep you talking Munro writes about ‘the lives for hours. of girls and women’ in her own F 2013 424pp B2210 FS 2000 309pp B1665 midwestern rural Canada. F 1952 192pp B0155 ‘Whole lives come into focus Five Bells suddenly through single events F Gail Jones The Great Fire or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface The Feel of Steel SHORTLISTED ... here are people who reinvent Helen Garner Victorian Premier’s Literary Award WINNER themselves, seize life by the Miles Franklin Literary Award throat.’ This nonfiction collection James and Ellie are haunted ranges from moods of loss and by the intimacy they shared; Set largely in Japan in the S 2001 323pp B1676 desolation to hilarity and awe. A Catherine fled the UK, grieving aftermath of Hiroshima, the brief diary of heartbreak following her older brother; Pei Xing lost love story at its centre unfolds a marriage break up, a journey her parents during the Cultural delicately and across continents. to Antarctica, fencing lessons, Revolution and survived years in Peter Craven called this ‘a Enjoyed reading the Bible: these short a re-education camp. Through riveting, slow intoxication of a pieces add up to a book with the their eyes we marvel at the novel which has a deliberateness Cold Mountain? texture of memoir. Sydney Harbour’s spectacular and a density of verbal beauty of NS 2001 223pp B1659 clash of natural beauty and iconic which most literary fiction has lost Try The Eye of the architecture, but as forewarned even the memory’. Reindeer by Slessor’s poem ‘Five Bells’, its 2003 278pp B1831 water harbours death. F by Eva Weaver F 2011 216pp B2112 [B2257]

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Heat and Dust How to Be Good Iris Journey from Venice Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Nick Hornby John Bayley Ruth Cracknell A young Englishwoman sets out Tired of her irascible husband Oxford critic John Bayley first In 1998, after 41 years of to discover the full story of the David, Katie Carr embarks on caught sight of Iris Murdoch marriage, the incomparable scandal of her great aunt in the an affair. Meanwhile, David falls (philosopher and writer) in 1954 Ruth Cracknell planned a well India of the last days of the Raj. under the spell of a faith healer and fell instantly in love. During earned holiday in Venice with In doing so, she sets that India and disrupts everyone’s lives the last four years of their long her beloved husband. An against the 1970s republic, and with his devotion to the general marriage, Murdoch’s formidable unexpected stroke landed him in evokes a country of heat, dust good. A dissection of modern intellect and imagination were intensive care. This is a memoir and passion. morals, family life and a heartfelt consumed by the ‘insidious fog’ of their love as they face the FL 1975 181pp B1168 diagnosis of divorce. of Alzheimer’s disease. Bayley outcome, and further evidence F 2001 244pp B1643 writes in a moving, dignified way of the indomitable spirit of this Heat Wave of the woman who was his wife, wonderful Australian woman. and their life together, in earlier N 2000 271pp B1764 Penelope Lively I days and at the time of writing. In her country house in England, N 1998 294pp B1736 the love and jealousy of Pauline’s L early marriage resonates in her I Capture the Castle daughter’s experience. While an Dodie Smith The Ivory Swing unusually hot season takes its When a new American ‘squire’ Janette Turner Hospital Lady Susan, course, the family story moves to moves into the great house in A Canadian couple and their The Watsons its startling climax in Lively’s lucid, her village, Cassandra and her two children move to a region and Sanditon witty prose. wildly eccentric family become of southern India, where Indian Jane Austen expectations, especially about F 1996 215pp B1534 embroiled in plots and plans Lady Susan is an epistolary caste and women’s roles, that test tempers and hearts. novel that was completed but confound the visiting family. Cassandra observes the goings not published during Austen’s Honour and Other Hospital’s first novel draws on on in her journal – a modern lifetime. The Watsons is an her time in India, and presents People’s Children Jane Austen, if not quite as unfinished fragment with a a disturbing meditation on the Helen Garner sharp. Recently republished spirited heroine who finds her and a favourite with readers for clash of cultures and the rebellion The first story, Honour, deals marriage prospects restricted many years. and feminine rage in each. with the emotional subtleties by poverty and pride. The of the interactions among a F 1949 352pp B1802 F 1982 252pp B1449 incomplete novel Sanditon, man, his wife, his prospective written in the last few months of second wife and the astute child, The Idea of Perfection Austen’s life, is set in a seaside whose affections and loyalties J resort and contemplates a hang in uneasy balance. The Kate Grenville changing society. This volume second story, Other People’s WINNER The Jane Austen includes an introduction by Children, explores the end of a Orange Prize Margaret Drabble who examines close relationship between two Book Club these three pieces within the women, and the break up of their Two Sydney people turn up on Karen Joy Fowler context of Austen’s work and life. collective household. work projects in a struggling Five women and a man form F 2003 224pp B1046 F 1980 156pp B0572 little town in outback New South a book group to discuss their Wales. The engineer has been favourite Jane Austen novels. sent to replace the old ‘bent’ Each chapter focuses on a Last Orders Hotel du Lac timber bridge with a concrete different Austen book, interpreted Graham Swift Anita Brookner one, but some of the locals have through the life experience of The novel concentrates on a their own thoughts on this. A WINNER the member hosting the month’s group of men whose friendships novel with Grenville’s incisiveness meeting. This is an entertaining and lives revolve around Relationships Man Booker Prize and comic flair. character driven comedy of work, family, racetrack and Sophisticated and with a F 1999 401pp B1733 manners. No prior knowledge pub. The narrative is initially perceptive eye for the world of of Austen’s work is required complex because nine different appearances and for human Instances of the but her fans will be especially voices carry it. But this gives a foibles and needs, this novel thrilled to observe the lives of wonderful mix of the lyric and unveils the self-containment, Number 3 the members unfold under the the realistic as four men carry loneliness, encounters and Salley Vickers guiding eye of a much adored out Jack’s strange last request – longings of a writer of romantic ‘After Peter Hansome died, 19th-century novelist. that his ashes be scattered into fiction in sanctuary in Europe people were surprised that his F 2004 279pp B1884 the sea. after an indiscretion. widow seemed to be spending F 1996 295pp B1538 F 1985 184pp B1325 so much time with his mistress.’ This novel explores the power of triangles: a man, his wife and his mistress, the three people he leaves behind – and more universal instances of the number three. F 2001 307pp B1686

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Love, Again Major Pettigrew’s The Mistake Doris Lessing Last Stand Wendy James O What happens when someone Helen Simonson A decision to adopt out a baby falls in love? Is it different for Major Ernest Pettigrew, a illegally comes back to haunt Of Love and Shadows the young and the old? Is widower, is grieving for his Jodie Garrow 25 years later. Isabel Allende it a madness, a blessing, a brother when he answers The ensuing investigation puts Journalist Irene has enjoyed rationalisation of lust? Lessing’s the door to Mrs Ali, a widow. pressure on the life and family a privileged upbringing and is leisurely, discursive novel They find they share a love of she has since built as Jodie engaged to an army captain interweaves the 19th century literature, and their friendship becomes entangled in a media when she is partnered with with the 20th to connect us with soon becomes the subject of witch hunt. Wendy James photographer Francisco. They the pains, delights and puzzles of slanderous town gossip. Set explores family dynamics, soon become an inseparable love, particularly that of an older in a rural English village, Major motherhood, and the powerful investigative team, and when woman for a younger man. Pettigrew’s Last Stand is told role of the media today. they discover an unspeakable FL 1995 352pp B1506 with insight, wit, and dignity and F 2012 278pp B2148 crime perpetrated under the is an unconventional, romantic chilling political regime of their Love in the Time comedy of manners that offers Moral Hazard country, they must risk everything much to discuss. to reveal the truth – and to admit of Cholera Kate Jennings F 2010 388pp B2077 the truth about their passion Gabriel García Márquez Cath’s much-loved older for each other. A magical, The consummation of Florentino Mansfield Park husband begins to succumb captivating read. Ariza’s passionate love for to Alzheimer’s. To earn the F 1987 298pp B1349 Fermina Daza is delayed for fifty Jane Austen money needed for his care, years by her highly satisfactory This heroine lacks the obvious Cath finds work on Wall Street Extremely positive reaction. marriage to Dr Juvenal Urbino. temperamental, physical and as an executive speechwriter Most completed the book and Magical yet realistic – this material advantages of Elizabeth and commutes between two thoroughly enjoyed the read. astonishing work is crowded Bennet or Emma Woodhouse. dementias – one of men, power A lively and detailed discussion – with life and love stories of the As Fanny Price struggles to and greed, the other of the a success with all. One member Caribbean country where it is set. make her way among luckier, crumbling away of the love of felt the need to have her own Smallish print. more extroverted and less her life. A mordant, harrowing, copy. Simon Winchester draws unsentimental novel. one into the story and holds one’s F 1985 348pp B1247 scrupulous people, Austen’s writing combines metaphoric F 2002 175pp B1672 attention throughout the book. subtlety and comic delight. One of the best books that we Love like Water have read and discussed lately. 1814 462pp B0576 Meme McDonald F The Mothers’ Group Hawthorn Cato Bluffers Fiona Higgins After the death of her fiancé in Queensland, Cathy spends Mateship with Birds Following six very different Olive Kitteridge time in Alice Springs with her Carrie Tiffany women in a mothers’ group Elizabeth Strout childhood friend, Margie, hoping This is a pitch-perfect depiction through the first years of their to work out what to do with her of the freedoms and strictures babies’ lives, this novel explores WINNER life. Cathy’s affair with Aboriginal of country town life in the motherhood and themes such Pulitzer Prize Jay reveals the underside of 1950s Australian countryside. as marriage, new parenting, and dealing with loss. One This series of stories is Alice Springs and the latent Lonely neighbours Harry and connected by the character racism that simmers beneath Betty lust after each other, and day, a shocking event changes everything, testing the women’s of teacher Olive Kitteridge in a Relationships the surface of Australian society. complicating matters, Harry is small coastal town in Maine, and A light and enjoyable read that also a father figure to Betty’s son; bonds and revealing secrets that threaten to shatter their lives. combines ‘the sustained, messy boldly confronts difficult issues of but it all goes wrong when he investigation of the novel with place, race and identity. tries to teach him about love and F 2012 312pp B2149 the flashing insight of the short F 2007 349pp B1951 lust. Contains sexual references. story... It illuminates both what F 2012 211pp B2159 people understand about others N and what they understand about M The Mint Lawn themselves’– The New York Gillian Mears Northanger Abbey Times. Small print. 2008 270pp B2060 Madame Bovary A 25-year-old woman’s Jane Austen FS Gustave Flaubert struggles with an unsatisfying A high spirited, enjoyable satire One of the great classics of marriage, childhood and her on romance mysteries and gothic On Chesil Beach world literature, this novel is mother’s death are conveyed tales of horror; one of Austen’s Ian McEwan earliest and most literary works about a young woman stultified in sensual, obsessively physical It’s 1962. Newlyweds Edward by marriage and motherhood prose. A strong sense of a that includes a spirited defence of novels. and Florence arrive at a hotel on in a confined society. Its portrait small New South Wales river the Dorset coast. They believe of Madame Bovary and the town. Unpleasant material that F 1818 252pp B1199 their marriage will bring them bourgeois life of country town may offend. happiness but each faces their France in the 19th century is vivid F 1991 298pp B1332 wedding night with unspoken and compelling reading. fears. A brilliant portrait of F 1856 361pp B0107 how a word not spoken can shape an entire life. Contains sexual content. F 2007 166pp B1954

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Plain Jane Pride and Prejudice P Joan Barfoot Jane Austen R A plain 28-year-old woman, Amusing and astringent. This Paula living alone, working in a brilliant novel has become The Reader Isabel Allende library, impulsively answers Austen’s most- loved work. The Bernhard Schlink ‘In ... 1991 my daughter, Paula, an advertisement to become delightfully spirited Elizabeth A 15-year-old German student fell gravely ill. These pages were the penpal of a prisoner - and Bennet must contend with becomes involved with a written during the interminable changes her life. Easy to read, the antics of her inappropriate 36-year-old woman. Long after hours spent ... beside her bed.’ wry and surprisingly tense. younger sisters, her hapless she has disappeared from his life, The novelist mother embarks F 1992 243pp B1421 parents, and the suitors that Michael has cause to reassess on the most magical, real and begin approaching herself and the Hanna he knew. This passionate of all her stories, The Poet’s Wife her older sister, Jane. She must haunting tale raises profound containing the family legends, also learn to overcome her own questions about action, choice, Chile’s dramatic history, and the Mandy Sayer faults as she deals with those of judgement and Germany’s recent poignant progress of Paula’s Sayer chronicles her turbulent her romantic interests. past. Good clear print. marriage to poet Yusef illness. Perhaps more Isabel’s F 1813 327pp B0210 1995 216pp than Paula’s saga. Komunyakaa in this unflinching F B1562 N 1994 330pp B1493 and intelligent memoir. She was Most enjoyed the book and 22 and he nearly 40 when they Private Life raised many questions like how met; she a busker, and he an Jane Smiley could people turn a ‘blind eye’. Perfect Skin out of work professor – yet each Margaret Mayfield is 27 when she Great discussion that continued Nick Earls found a kindred spirit in marries Captain Andrew Jackson for over an hour and raised even A single father juggles his day the other. The Poet’s Wife Jefferson Early. Despite her lonely further questions on life. job as a consulting dermatologist examines their troubled marriage she stands by him Brighton East 4 with the needs of his 6-month- relationship, and follows Sayer’s through grief and tragedy, but old daughter Lily. Brisbane development as a writer. is forced to examine their lives The Rosie Effect writer Nick Earls brings us a N 2014 417pp B2207 together as things take a darker Graeme Simsion very now novel with a lot about turn when WWII approaches. bad 80’s fashion and music, Portrait of a Marriage F 2010 318pp B2099 Don is ‘not fond of surprises, email etiquette, and dating thirty especially if they disrupt plans somethings. Full of insight, Nigel Nicolson already in place’, so he is dazed perceptive social comment and Harold Nicolson and Vita Prodigal Summer by Rosie’s revelation of his Earls’ comedic instinct. Sackville West were married Barbara Kingsolver impending fatherhood. Simsion’s humour shines throughout this F 2000 354pp B1688 for 49 years. During this time Over one humid summer in each had affairs with others southern Appalchia, as the sequel to The Rosie Project as of the same sex, notably Vita urge to procreate overtakes the Don’s fears see him return to Persuasion and Virgina Woolf, yet they countryside, three characters old ways, risking his newfound Jane Austen remained inseparably united. discover their connections to happiness as he comes to terms with the unpredictability of life. How far should one yield to Written by their son, much of one another and to the flora persuasion from older, wiser, the book is based on work and fauna with which they share F 2014 368pp B2217 loving people? When is advice obviously intended to be his a place. A lavish and sexually an interference? In Jane Austen’s mother’s autobiography. exuberant read. last completed work her N 1973 237pp B1073 F 2000 447pp B1690 characteristic incisiveness gains an autumnal tone. Poum and Alexandre: F 1818 264pp B0596 A Paris Memoir Catherine de Saint Phalle Relationships The Philosopher’s Doll Amanda Lohrey SHORTLISTED Stella Prize What happens when one partner wants a child and the other Set in post-war Paris during doesn’t? In a culture of affluence, the decline of the bourgeois what do we need to be happy, class, this beautifully written Do you have a and how much control do we memoir follows Catherine as flair for drama? have over our lives? This is an she recounts her unconventional accomplished novel exploring childhood through the life of her Express your contemporary life and how to mother, Poum, and her father, inner thespian with ‘have it all’. Alexandre, two flawed eccentrics a performing arts 2004 306pp B1822 with a love of mythology and the F old ways. A tender memoir about short course. acceptance, loneliness and freedom through the observant eyes of a child. N 2016 256pp B2254 cae.edu.au 03 9652 0611 RTO 3737

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The Rosie Project Shallows Sweet Old World Three Dog Night Graeme Simsion Tim Winton Deborah Robertson Peter Goldsworthy Don Tillman, professor of A small coastal town in Western David has always dreamed Goldsworthy’s intriguing novel genetics, leads a very ordered Australia clings to one of its few of becoming a father. When explores human extremes in a life. He has launched ‘The Wife surviving industries, whaling. troubled teen Esther tumbles into disturbing narrative of obsessive Project’ in a bid to find a suitable The township witnesses his life, David’s initial reluctance love, mortality and self- mate, but things go awry when struggle between whalers and to become involved changes deception. His deft and evocative impulsive barmaid Rosie Jarman conservationists; the community as he finds himself close to the prose carries the intensity of enters his life and he finds himself divides; a marriage founders. happiness for which he longs. the book’s dark journey, a agreeing to help find her father. F 1984 235pp B1213 This moving novel examines desert trip where the Australian This feel-good comic novel the often ignored male side of landscape and Aboriginal rituals celebrates difference, tolerance yearning for parenthood, and the amplify the ambiguities and and the transformative power of A Stranger Here importance of hope. complexities of his characters the unexpected. Gillian Bouras F 2012 224pp B2150 and preoccupations. Challenging F 2013 324pp B2182 Bouras uses three different and compelling reading. voices, each commenting on F 2003 342pp B1850 a recent crisis which concerns T S them all: Irene, Australian mother of three sons and wife of a Greek The Time husband, has suddenly departed Theft: A Love Story Traveler’s Wife Sense and Sensibility from her marriage and the village Peter Carey Audrey Niffenegger Jane Austen in Greece. As in her nonfiction, SHORTLISTED Clare and Henry, met when Clare Austen portrays sisters Elinor and here Bouras confronts the painful Miles Franklin Literary Award was 6 and Henry was 36 and Marianne, each with contrasting realities of marriage, motherhood, were married when Clare was temperaments and inclinations. being drawn to two cultures and Artist Michael ‘Butcher Bones’ 22 and Henry 30. Henry suffers In their story, she explores belonging fully to neither. Print Boone, divorced and bankrupt, from a rare condition where his distinctions between wisdom well-spaced. acts as caretaker for his genetic clock periodically resets and feeling, reserve and secrecy, F 1996 247pp B1507 patron’s remote estate and for and he finds himself pulled into spontaneity and steadiness. his ‘damaged 220lb brother’. his past or future. A moving F 1811 368pp B1085 When he meets American love story. The Submerged beauty Marlene, a chain of Cathedral unpredictable events unfolds. F 2004 518pp B2002 The Sense Charlotte Wood From rural Australia to New York of an Ending via Sydney and Tokyo, Theft is a Julian Barnes SHORTLISTED darkly funny, thought-provoking NEW Miles Franklin Literary Award story of love, responsibility WINNER and redemption. Man Booker Prize Taking her title from composer Claude Debussy’s La Cathédrale F 2006 269pp B1981 Together Tony Webster has lived an Engloutie, Wood has created a Julie Cohen ordinary, relatively unexamined haunting but beautiful story about Thinks . . . Robbie and life. Then, in retirement, an the consuming love between David Lodge unexpected bequest forces him Jocelyn, an editor and Martin, a Emily have been Another delightful comedy of together for 43

to revisit memories of his school doctor. When their relationship Relationships friends and university days that is disrupted by a family tragedy, manners about academia, years, with grandchildren, a life he had thought immutable. This grief forces them to separate and adultery and human of success and an unbreakable is a small novel that skilfully embark on personal journeys of consciousness. Ralph is an love. But one day Robbie wakes tackles big themes such as discovery. Wood’s prose is rich in international academic star up and walks into the ocean, memory, ageing, love, truth, imagery and metaphor. in the highly trendy field of leaving a letter that shatters and regret. language and thought research. Emily’s world. As the story F 2004 302pp B1846 Novelist Helen arrives at the 2011 150pp unfolds backwards over five F B2138 university to teach, and to decades, we discover a secret The Sugar Mother recover from the unexpected they’ve been protecting at all Shadow Lines death of her husband. costs. A thought-provoking read Despite their differences they Stephen Kinnane Edwin Page, gentle, prim, is on his with a jaw-dropping reveal that begin a secret affair – with Englishman Edward Smith own while his wife is overseas for a will get your book group talking. complicated consequences. emigrated to Australia and met year. But Leila and her mother, the F 2017 352pp B2282 Jessie Argyle, who was born in new tenants next door, somehow F 2001 342pp B1678 the remote East Kimberley and move in on him, and Edwin taken from her Aboriginal family becomes aware of how he longs at the age of five. In a deeply for the child he never had. Leila, it racially divided society, Jessie and seems, is quite happy to become Edward fell in love and married. a sugar – no, surrogate – mother. Despite official surveillance and F 1988 210pp B1339 harassment, their Perth home became a centre for Aboriginal cultural and social life. N 2003 414pp B1842

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Too Much Happiness Water Under the Bridge The Women in Black Alice Munro V Madeleine St John WINNER A novel of life in Sydney during In 1950s Sydney, several women Man Booker International Prize A Visit from the and after the Depression. Murder, are working at the famous F. Goon Squad comedy and spoiled dreams are G. Goode’s Department Store. Extraordinary events touch Jennifer Egan the stuff of this exceptional novel. Their hopes, fears, dreams and everyday lives within this brilliant F 1977 367pp B1132 romances unfold against the collection of short fiction from WINNER backdrop of a confined and celebrated Canadian writer and Pulitzer Prize changing society and as the New Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. We Are All Year begins, the characters find A Visit from the Goon Squad ‘Written with veteran assurance, Made of Glue themselves at the beginning of a delves into the pasts of former brimming with intensely new chapter in their lives. punk rocker and ageing record Marina Lewycka believable characters and rich producer Bennie and his After a rocky start, Georgie F 1993 228pp B2041 social detail, these dispatches assistant Sasha – who has befriends her eccentric old from the most unsparing reaches Our group enjoyed this book troubles of her own. It is witty, neighbour Mrs Shapiro. When of Munro’s imagination confirm and its step back in time. The insightful, funny, and touching. Mrs Shapiro is admitted to her acclaimed place on the older members of the group ‘Features characters about hospital, Georgie is named next highest ground of contemporary could remember the ‘posh’ whom you come to care deeply of kin. Sorting out Mrs Shapiro’s fiction’ – Sunday Times. department stores and some as you watch them doing things semi-derelict mansion isn’t easy. 2009 303pp had worked in such places. We FS B2108 they shouldn’t, acting gloriously, It is home to seven cats, the had lots of laughs reminiscing infuriatingly human.’ – Chicago handyman is not what he seems, about those times and the To the Wedding Tribune (US). two estate agents are trying to different mores. 2010 340pp B2129 trick Mrs Shapiro into selling her Geelong Booking Good John Berger F house and the social worker is In an extraordinary series of determined to commit her to a telling vignettes a blind man tells The Volcano Lover nursing home. Georgie also finds Wrack the story of the wedding between Susan Sontag herself unravelling a mystery that James Bradley young Gino and his bride. A Subtitled ‘A Romance’, the takes her to wartime Europe and mother and father, estranged for SHORTLISTED novel focuses on the famous the Middle East. years, travel across Europe for Miles Franklin Literary Award triangle of Sir William Hamilton, the celebrations. As the book F 2009 432pp B2048 his wife Emma, and her lover moves from one character’s This intelligent and provocative Nelson. Their personalities and perspective to another, events What I Loved first novel sets up a compelling destinies are lived out near the and characters move towards web of historical detection, actual volcano of Vesuvius, Siri Hustvedt the convergence of the wedding academic and amorous rivalry, and metaphorical volcanoes The New York art scene is the – a haunting dance of love and passions of love and including the French Revolution context for this powerful novel and death. war. Its focus is the wrecked and Napoleonic Wars. Sensual, about two families, two sons and Portuguese Mahogany Ship F 1995 202pp B1546 intelligent, demanding. two marriages, brought together whose discovery would rewrite F 1993 419pp B1431 by the friendship between the Australia’s European history. Print The Toucher two men, an art critic and an well-spaced. experimental artist. With a 1997 341pp B1548 Dorothy Hewett change of gear, the story shifts F Controversial in its graphic W from family and art into an urban depiction of the sexuality of thriller, complete with violence, Wuthering Heights a woman in her sixties in a Waiting duplicity, murder and erotica. Emily Brontë relationship with a much younger Ha Jin Hustvedt’s novel brims with ideas The poetic fierceness of Brontë’s man. A powerful and plangent and emotion. delineation of human neediness Lin Kong is an army doctor vision gives this book a rare Relationships and creativity, set in a haunting during China’s Cultural F 2003 370pp B1851 elemental power. Adopted by West Australian seascape. Revolution. He falls in love with Catherine Linton’s father, wildling a modern, educated woman, The Winter Vault Heathcliff is bullied by Catherine’s F 1993 300pp B1430 however Lin Kong is trapped in brother - and when he returns an arranged marriage to a work- Anne Michaels to the grand house of Wuthering The Transit of Venus worn loyal wife in his village, From the award-winning author Heights as a grown and powerful Shirley Hazzard and until she agrees to divorce of Fugitive Pieces comes a man, the consequences of his him, nothing will be possible. Ha poetic love story that juxtaposes vengeance will be far-reaching. SHORTLISTED Jin’s novel of love and enforced historical events with moments At the heart of the complex National Book Award obedience provides fascinating in individual lives. In 1964, newly drama of three generations of insights into the chasm between married couple Avery and Jean the Earnshaws and the Lintons is Explores the power of love, and the new industrial China settle into a houseboat on the the passionate love of Catherine its passing, through the lives of and the ways of its ancient Nile, but a tragic event occurs and Heathcliff. two young Australian sisters who agricultural settlements. which will influence their lives 1847 376pp B0002 go to London in the care of a and relationship. F difficult relative. An incisive study F 1999 308pp B1897 of relationships. Demanding, F 2009 341pp B2053 but rewarding. F 1980 337pp B0162

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At Home The Birth House Bring Larks and Heroes A Bill Bryson Ami McKay An entertaining, witty and During WWI, young Dora WINNER According to Queeney illuminative look at how history befriends the elderly Miss Miles Franklin Literary Award Beryl Bainbridge shapes our everyday lives. From Babineau, midwife in their small Savour this complex and the history of hygiene that is fishing village in Nova Scotia, This imaginative reconstruction of fascinating fictionalisation of the brought to bear in the bathroom, Canada. Together, they help the a convict settlement in Australia 20-year relationship between to nutrition and the spice trade women of Scots Bay through in the 1790s tells of the physical the acclaimed Samuel Johnson that are brought home to the difficult labour, infertility, and and mental demands made on and his benefactor, Mrs Thrale, kitchen. His great skill is making even marital troubles. But when soldier poet Corporal Halloran: according to her daughter daily life simultaneously strange Dr Gilbert Thomas moves to demands by his secret bride, his Queeney. A wonderful observer and familiar, helping us to town with his promise of modern superiors, his Irish comrades and of human folly, Bainbridge tells recognise ourselves. medicine, everything changes. most of all by his conscience. a candid story of unrequited N 2010 544pp B2096 ‘An impressive novel, laced F 1967 248pp B0166 love, passion, rejection and with quirky research and rippling possession, skilfully exposing the with muscular poetry’ Bring Up the Bodies sexual tensions that lie beneath B – Observer (UK). the surface of Georgian London. F 2006 385pp B2023 Hilary Mantel Loosely plotted through a series Bearbrass WINNER of letters, her concise style brings Bomb, Book Man Booker Prize a cast of remarkable characters Robyn Annear vividly to life. The authorial self-description and Compass: The sequel to Man Booker Prize F 2001 244pp B1947 sets the delightful and bracing Joseph Needham and the winner Wolf Hall, this novel tone: ‘Robyn Annear is a typist Great Secrets of China concentrates on the short, and lives in country Victoria with Simon Winchester brutal period of Anne Boleyn’s All the Light We somebody else’s husband’. downfall. Thomas Cromwell Cannot See History has never been such fun, From the author of The Surgeon is at the height of his powers, Anthony Doerr and Melbourne – ‘Bearbrass’ of Crowthorne and The Map masterfully negotiating court – won’t be the same after this That Changed the World. A politics to secure Henry VIII a way WINNER anecdotal, irreverent, informative distinguished biochemist working out of his failed marriage. This is Pulitzer Prize book about its past and present. at Cambridge University and a ‘must read’ for those who enjoy married to a fellow scientist, Mantel’s stylish prose and sly wit. Werner attends a Nazi boarding N 1995 290pp B1471 in 1937 Needham was asked school, gratefully escaping the to supervise a young Chinese F 2012 410pp B2155 mines of his hometown; Marie Bereft student named Lu Gwei Djen. Laure, blind from a young age, Chris Womersley He fell in love with both Lu and Burial Rites adores her father who brings the China and established himself as Hannah Kent world alive for her. Their eventful SHORTLISTED the pre-eminent China scholar, childhoods unfold until their Miles Franklin Literary Award documenting everything from SHORTLISTED paths cross in Nazi-occupied Chinese medicine to philosophy Stella Prize France in the walled port city of In 1919, Quinn Walker returns and nautical history. In Iceland, 1829, Agnes Saint Malo, where Marie Laure home from war, having fled his 2008 336pp B2021 Magnúsdóttir awaits execution. hides from heavy shelling – and hometown as a teenager falsely N Burial Rites chronicles the life that from a stranger who has hunted accused of killing his younger brought Agnes to this point, and her from afar. sister. On his return, he remains The Book Thief both an outsider and a wanted Markus Zusak explores the effect the doomed F 2014 544pp B2228 man. He meets a young orphan woman has on those who spend girl, Sadie, who seems to know Liesel is sent to live with a foster time with her in her last months. As I Walked Out One more about the crime and about family near Munich in World Kent evokes a harsh world within Quinn than she should, and she War II, and with the help of which humans battle for survival, Midsummer Morning her accordion-playing foster a sense of identitys, and for Laurie Lee encourages him to take justice into his own hands. father, learns to read. She is freedom. Based on a true story. Another re-creation of times soon stealing books, which F 2013 335pp B2193 gone by from the author of Cider F 2010 264pp B2106 she shares with her neighbours with Rosie, this book deals with and the Jewish refugee hiding Spain before the Civil War, seen in the basement. ‘Death’ is the through the eyes of a young unconventional narrator of this man destined to become a well international bestseller by an known British writer. Australian author. F 1969 186pp B0524 F 2005 550pp B1995

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Bush Studies Come in Spinner Empire Falls The Forgotten Garden Barbara Baynton Dymphna Cusack & Richard Russo Kate Morton These sharply effective stories Florence James WINNER This is an international bestseller share time and setting with Wartime Sydney, and the influx of Pulitzer Prize of family secrets, gothic Lawson’s. But Baynton’s American servicemen, described mysteries and fairy tales. When treatment strips away the through the eyes of six women A dying mill town in central Maine Cassandra travels from Brisbane romance and the heroics from working in the beauty parlour is the setting for Russo’s portrait to the windswept Cornwall coast the bush and its characters. of a large hotel: interesting of ordinary people swept up in and a cottage she inherited from Contains ‘Squeaker’s Mate’, the portrayal of urban working class economic and political forces as her grandmother, she discovers basis of a controversial film. Australian society. seen through MIles, a cook at a garden which holds the secret FS 1902 140pp B1055 the Empire Grill. The characters’ to her grandmother’s birth and F 1951 445pp B0568 behaviour and preoccupations journey to Australia as a 4-year- are utterly compelling without old stowaway. Cranford high drama or exaggeration. F 2008 549pp B2116 C Elizabeth Gaskell It gently reminds us that life itself, though often painful, must First published in instalments in Caleb’s Crossing be cherished. Geraldine Brooks a magazine edited by Dickens, G this is an affectionate portrait of F 2001 483pp B1684 SHORTLISTED people and small-town customs Galileo’s Daughter Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards and values in mid-Victorian Dava Sobel England. In a series of satirical F Another compelling historical sketches, Gaskell describes with Galileo was the foremost scientist novel from the author of People humour and tenderness the lives Fire Under the Snow of his day, fighting Church of the Book, Year of Wonders of good-natured spinster Miss opposition for acceptance of and March. This is inspired by the Matty, her maid Martha, and Palden Gyatso his heresy that the sun, not life of Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck narrator Mary Smith. Tibet, the last spiritual society, the earth, was the centre of who was born in 1646 and met an avowedly materialist the Solar System. His much- was the first Native American F 1853 312pp B0010 China, and lost. Gyatso, then loved daughter Maria Celeste, to graduate from Harvard. He 17, and a monk, tells the consigned to a convent at an befriends Bethia, who lives within strangest story, and the history early age, wrote to her father a Puritan settlement. D of contemporary Tibet. Is reality throughout her life, and Sobel F 2011 369pp B2109 only materiality? Striving here, has woven a clever narrative Dancing with Strangers innocence, naïveté, brutality, around these. A fascinating Inga Clendinnen brainwashing, imprisonment, account of everyday life in 17th Célestine hope, David and Goliath. Goliath century Italy. Gillian Tindall WINNER wins, but the Wheel turns. N 1999 429pp B1758 In a French peasant village, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards A rarity. Tindall (an English historian) ‘These people mixed with ours,’ N 1997 232pp B1570 Generations came across a bundle of letters wrote James Bradley, ‘and all Hugh Mackay from the 1860s, addressed hands danced together.’ What The Floating Brothel to a young woman, Célestine went wrong between the British One of Australia’s best known Chaumette, and used them to settlers of New South Wales Siân Rees social researchers analyses carefully reconstruct the lives and the Australian inhabitants The Lady Julian sailed in 1789 Australian society by generation. of the village and its people. they encountered? Arthur Phillip for Botany Bay with a cargo of He looks at baby boomers, Subtitled ‘Voices from a French and the local leader Bennelong female convicts. Rees writes their parents and their children. Village’, this thoughtful social pursued a difficult path to vividly of the social pressures Comparing their various attitudes history is detailed and complex conciliation; we follow the painful which led to female crime, of helps us understand the diverse as it creates the vivid sense of end of that relationship as cultural squalid prison conditions, the and changing circumstances ordinary daily lives and struggles. differences asserted themselves. routines on an 18th-century facing all Australians as a new N 1995 292pp B1486 sailing ship and a pragmatic millennium dawns. Will you agree N 2003 324pp B1826 approach whereby both men with his findings? at sea and in the young colony N 1997 194pp B1572 Charles Hotham might be provided with women. Shirley Roberts E Both aboard and in Australia, The Glass Room As the first governor of the many women convicts found a colony of Victoria, Hotham was Electricity life preferable to the one they had Simon Mawer soon faced with troubles in the Victoria Glendinning left behind. Viktor and Liesel Landauer goldfields and with the Eureka This high voltage, informative N 2001 248pp B1641 build their modern home in crisis. Before this, his naval career novel set in Victorian England is the countryside of the Czech was distinguished and varied: of a portrayal of Charlotte Mortimer Republic in 1928. But when particular note was his posting in and her surprising life, illuminating the Nazis rise to power, the West Africa where his squadron the family, sexual and social Enjoyed Landauers have to flee. The Step Back in Time in Step Back was engaged in suppressing mores of a culture undergoing Caleb’s Crossing? house witnesses the Nazis the trans-Atlantic slave trade. A great changes. and the Soviet invasion, but lucid and positive assessment of when Communism falls and the Hotham’s contribution to public F 1995 250pp B1527 Try March by Czech Republic becomes an life. Pleasant hardcover volume: Geraldine Brooks independent country again, the clarity of the print is excellent. [B1888] Landauers can return home. N 1985 201pp B1241 F 2009 404pp B2125

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The Good People Gould’s Book of Fish Hannah Kent Richard Flanagan H I SHORTLISTED This novel plucks a real-life thief Readings Prize and prisoner, English forger The Help NEW William Gould, from the pages Kathryn Stockett SHORTLISTED of history to act as protagonist- In the American South in the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction narrator. Sentenced to a prison early 1960s, aspiring writer Inglorious colony off the Tasmanian coast, Skeeter has graduated from Empire When Nora Leahy loses her Gould recounts his life story as university and returns home to husband and her daughter, he paints the island’s native fish, pressure from her mother to Shashi Tharoor she is left as the sole carer for recalling his grim childhood and get married. Aibileen is a black Former United Michael, her 4-year-old grandson ill-fated life of crime. Flanagan’s maid raising her seventeenth Nations diplomat who cannot walk or speak darkly humorous tale of the 19th- white child, with the knowledge strikes back with the real story and demands her attention century world of convicts and that this child, too, will come to of the British colonial oppression at all times. Desperate to end colonists slips between the real a certain age, and start to see and plunder of India. Tharoor the superstitious gossip of the and the fantastic. her differently. Minny, Aibileen’s reveals how the British Industrial townsfolk surrounding Michael’s F 2001 404pp B1675 best friend, keeps getting fired Revolution, and its wealth, was deformities, Nora seeks out because she won’t mind her founded on the demolishment Nance Roche, a recluse who The Guernsey Literary tongue. The three women band of the Indian Empire, whose claims to have the otherworldly together on a project that puts all economy matched the entire knowledge to banish the evil and Potato Peel Pie of them at risk. European continent. An from her grandson. Set in Society F 2009 451pp B2074 unapologetic and explosive 1900s poverty-stricken Ireland, Mary Ann Shaffer look at the devastating effects The Good People is a chilling of colonialism. story about the extremes of In January 1946, Juliet receives A History of the World superstition and faith. a letter which leads to an N 2017 336pp B2287 ongoing correspondence with in 10 ½ Chapters 2016 380pp B2258 F the members of a Guernsey Julian Barnes group formed during the German Jokey, sorrowful, resilient, this The Invention of Wings Go Set a Watchman occupation of the Channel unusual book is not so much Sue Monk Kidd Harper Lee Islands. When Juliet goes to a bird’s as a worm’s eye view meet her new friends, her life of history – seeing it from the The new novel by the author This newly rediscovered changes in unexpected ways. bottom up, hollowing out of The Secret Life of Bees is manuscript was intended as This warm and witty epistolary certainties, tackling the big inspired by the lives of abolitionist Lee’s first novel before her editor novel is a celebration of books human questions by storytelling sisters Sarah and Angelina suggested focusing on young and an exploration of friendship, and commentary. Grimké, born into a wealthy Scout’s perspective in what love, and sacrifice. Charleston plantation in the mid- became the Pulitzer winning To F 1989 309pp B1324 F 2008 273pp B2032 19th century. This is the story Kill a Mockingbird. Lee’s original of their slave, ‘Handful’, and the text is being published with no Human Croquet complex relationships with those revisions, and sees an adult Guns, Germs and Steel Kate Atkinson around them, marked by guilt, Scout returning to Maycomb Jared Diamond Isobel Fairfax, the appealing defiance, and the uneasy ways twenty years after the events of of love. Mockingbird. Whatever you think WINNER young narrator of this story, of the controversy surrounding Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction is both character in her own F 2014 373pp B2205 the book’s release, it will certainly right and representative of all stimulate discussion. Ambitiously subtitled ‘A short storytellers. She has the ability The Invisible History history of everybody for the last to move in and out of ‘normal’ F 2015 320pp B2218 13,000 years’, this is a thought- time, so that the novel consists of the Human Race Most members did enjoy the provoking book on human of varied story strands with Christine Kenneally book, although some felt a bit history, tackling the difficult different and equally plausible SHORTLISTED question of why human beings endings. Part ghost story, part disturbed about the way it was Stella Prize promoted by the publisher, developed so differently on murder mystery, this novel is against the wishes of the author. different continents. The writer also a stimulating presentation What is the complex notion However, we thought it had a of this Pulitzer Prize winning of English history and the people of ‘identity’? How can DNA right to be published and could work on the origins of human who walked through it. shape cultures and whole inequality is an American scientist stand as a companion to the F 1998 383pp B1925 nations? Award-winning Step Back in Time later book ‘To kill a Mocking and explorer, whose writings journalist Christine Kenneally bird’. In general, we thought it aim to make science accessible. asks these questions and more, provided an excellent insight Small print. encompassing genealogy, into the life of the south at N 1997 480pp B1713 science, cultural inheritance that time. and the concept of race. This Bendigo Free Spirits Enjoyed engrossing book asks what The Good People? we inherit from the past, and guarantees hours of discussion with its answer. Try The Wonder N 2014 368pp B2219 by Emma Donogue [B2250]

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The Lieutenant The Luminaries March J Kate Grenville Eleanor Catton Geraldine Brooks Lieutenant Daniel Rooke arrives WINNER WINNER Jack Maggs in New South Wales on the First Man Booker Prize Pulitzer Prize Peter Carey Fleet in 1788 and sets up an observatory to study astronomy On the New Zealand goldfields in Set during the first year of the WINNER and navigation. Aboriginal people 1866, Walter Moody encounters American Civil War, Brooks Miles Franklin Literary Award soon start to visit his isolated twelve men gathered to solve evokes the life of John March, Set in a vivid 19th century outpost and a child begins to a series of local crimes. In the absent father from Louisa London, Carey’s acclaimed teach him her language. As this vivid and intricate world, May Alcott’s Little Women. An novel in some ways reworks he meticulously records their fortunes are made and lost and anti-slavery idealist, March enlists both Great Expectations, with conversations, an extraordinary fate is governed by the stars. with the Union troops - but his Magwitch as Maggs, and the friendship develops and Rooke Ingeniously structured, The beliefs are challenged by the facts of Dickens’ own life in the soon faces a decision that will Luminaries reads like a 19th- horrors of war. Familiarity with figure of Tobias Oates. Other define not only who he is but the century murder mystery, but with Little Women is not essential. characters, like Mercy and Percy, course of his entire life. gripping hidden complexities. F 2005 338pp B1888 are pure Carey. Strongly and F 2008 320pp B2031 F 2013 834pp B2200 pacily plot driven, it puts a more Mary Barton Antipodean slant on the society The Light Elizabeth Gaskell from which Australia sprang. Between Oceans M 1997 392pp B1575 Gaskell’s first novel is set in her F M.L. Stedman native Manchester and follows The Madonnas two working-class families SHORTLISTED of Leningrad in the 1840s. John Barton Miles Franklin Literary Award L Debra Dean begins questioning the unequal Returned from WWI Europe, Tom As the German army blockades distribution of wealth, and The Lamp Still Burns is now the lighthouse keeper the beautiful city of Leningrad in becomes involved in the trade- Isabel ‘Spark’ Gill on a remote island off Western World War II, all food stocks are union movement; his daughter, Brought up in the Victorian town Australia, his young wife Isabel destroyed, leaving the people Mary, sees marriage as her only of Clunes, Isabel Gill longed to be his only companion. When to struggle for survival in the way out of poverty. Gaskell’s a nurse, and her autobiography tragedy touches their lives, they bombed out buildings. Recently wit shines through this clever, records her training and make a decision with far-reaching employed as a custodian in the emotional tale of romance and experience in hospitals from consequences. This moving story great art museum the Hermitage murder. 1936 to 1981. With many of love and loyalty probes the and now sheltering with others in F 1848 466pp B0252 photographs, it provides a blurry line separating right and its ruins, young Marina will always social history of changes in wrong, and the bond between remember its great paintings of mother and child. Madonna and Child. A moving Memoirs of a Geisha nursing, public health and Arthur Golden medical practice. F 2012 362pp B2166 exploration of the power of art N 1989 187pp B1551 and memory. Sold into a geisha house in 1929 F 2006 231pp B1971 at the age of 9, Sayuri describes The Long Song the elaborate ritual of making the The Law of Dreams Andrea Levy creature whose delicacy, artistry, Peter Behrens In this novel, Levy responds to The Man Who conversation and seductiveness Behrens brings alive the the question: ‘How can you be Lost Himself is captive to the entertainment catastrophe of the Irish potato proud of your Jamaican roots, Robyn Annear of rich and powerful men. Artifice, eroticism, exploitation famine with Fergus O’Brien, who when your ancestors were The author of Bearbrass brings and survival are part of a world is left alone at the age of fifteen. slaves?’ Its narrator is house us a true story about a 19th- evoked in fascinating detail, Sensing that he must keep slave July, born on a sugar century adventurer with a and Sayuri’s voice is perfectly moving if he is to live, he survives plantation in the early 19th difference. Annear’s account captured by Golden. privation, danger and betrayals century. July speaks for those of the contested Tichborne on his route to Canada. who are silent in the historical Inheritance sets out the evidence F 1998 428pp B1597 F 2006 394pp B1968 record of this repressive social for readers to judge, yet retains system, but her emotional the essential question: who was Midnight’s Children story is also highly personal the Claimant? and entertaining. Salman Rushdie N 2002 430pp B1687 F 2010 308pp B2078 This vital, wide-ranging novel inventively relates stories and characters of India and Pakistan since independence, and shows Enjoyed how politics can penetrate the The Night Watch? lives of ordinary and not so ordinary people. It is charged Step Back in Time in Step Back Try The Safest Place with Rushdie’s intense creativity. in London F 1981 463pp B1145 by Maggie Joel [B2261]

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Mr Darwin’s Shooter The Night Watch People of the Book Roger McDonald Sarah Waters P Geraldine Brooks The Night Watch follows the SHORTLISTED Parrot and Olivier SHORTLISTED Miles Franklin Literary Award intertwined lives and relationships Prime Minister’s Literary Award of four characters, Kay, Helen, in America What part did Syms Covington, Viv and Duncan, revealing how Peter Carey Pulitzer Prize winning author of Darwin’s manservant, play in On the war has changed each of March and bestselling novel Year Aristocrat Olivier, inspired by the Origin of Species? Drawing them. Through air raids, blacked of Wonders brings us the story of the French nobleman Alexis on the sparse historical details out streets, illicit partying and Hanna Heath, a renowned book de Tocqueville, who wrote of Covington’s life, McDonald sexual adventure, the novel conservator. She receives a call Democracy in America travels to imagines his boyhood, his begins in 1947 during peacetime in the middle of the night about a the new world to study the prison seafaring years, and his work and moves backwards to 1941, medieval manuscript recovered system, and to avoid another collecting specimens with allowing Waters to connect her from war-torn Sarajevo, and revolution; Parrot is a frustrated Darwin. Small print. cast in sometimes startling ways. makes her way to Bosnia to British artist who is sent with him restore the Sarajevo Haggadah, F 1999 369pp B1598 F 2006 480pp B1931 as spy, protector and servant. a Jewish prayer book, and to On their journey, they develop an piece together the remarkable unlikely and enriching friendship. Mr Rosenblum’s List Nothing But Gold story, throughout the centuries, Natasha Solomons Robyn Annear F 2009 452pp B2069 of this manuscript. Jakob is a Jewish refugee from The discovery of gold in Australia F 2008 390pp B1990 Nazi Germany who arrives in in 1851 tempted thousands to A Passage to India London in 1937, where he is rush to try their luck. This spirited E.M. Forster handed a list of rules on how account of the first year or so of Pure This novel tells more about to assimilate. Jakob takes this the Victorian goldfields conveys Andrew Miller India than a history text. Set in seriously – he wants to fit in – the day to day realities of getting Paris, 1785. Les Innocents the last decades of the Empire, and begins to update the list there and making a go of it: cemetery is full to bursting and it depicts a world of English, with observations of his own. His winter’s mud, summer’s dust, young provincial engineer Jean Hindu and Muslim difference actions bewilder his wife Sadie, the hard labour of digging, the Baptiste Baratte is chosen to and misunderstanding, and the who clings to where they came unimaginable water and food, the clear up the mess. The year land seems to have a mind of from and who they left behind. violence and camaraderie, the he spends doing so, and the its own, opposed to friendship exhilaration of being your own people he meets, are bound F 2010 311pp B2081 between races. boss. A feisty recreation. to change him forever. Pure is N 1999 329pp B1716 FL 1924 280pp B0012 elegantly written, with fascinating characters and discussable N The Passion subject matter such as themes of Jeanette Winterson corruption, personal integrity and The Narrow Road to O social unrest. Henri, a young French peasant, the Deep North F 2011 352pp B2146 Richard Flanagan One for the Master becomes Napoleon’s chicken Dorothy Johnston chef, and Villanelle is a Venetian fishergirl born with webbed WINNER Helen Plathe, a young girl, wife, feet. The public and private R Man Booker Prize mother, employee and citizen, passions of hero worship, war, tells her story in this powerful, gambling and love are explored WINNER modest and very readable novel Ransom Prime Minister’s Literary Award with deft realism and magical set in Geelong, a Victorian David Malouf inventiveness. A surprising and country centre, in the decades IIn 1943, surgeon Dorrigo Evans readable glimpse of early 19th SHORTLISTED after World War II. Johnston is a prisoner of war on the Thai century Europe. Miles Franklin Literary Award Burma railway. Haunted by his brings to life not only the affair with the enigmatic Amy, his characters in Helen’s personal F 1987 160pp B1226 A lyrical retelling of Homer’s Iliad, story but also the woollen mill set against the background life intersects the lives of guards Most of our group enjoyed with new technologies. of the Trojan War, Ransom is and fellow prisoners as they this book, finding it quirky, a meditation on grief and war. experience the daily brutalities F 1997 270pp B1544 fun, interesting, and were left – and their consequences. wanting more. Most agreed Described by the Australian Juxtaposing beauty with terror, Orphans of History that the author was a great as a ‘masterpiece, exquisitely Flanagan explores the capabilities story teller and enjoyed the written, pithy and wise and of the human spirit, and what Robert Holden writing along with the story. overwhelmingly moving’. Step Back in Time makes up ‘humanity’ in a time A look at the lives of the 34 Villanelle was the favourite F 2009 240pp B2058 of war. First Fleet children. Starting in character. Only one member 2013 467pp B2214 the London of John Hudson, was an unwilling reader, finding F a 9-year-old chimney sweep the book disjointed and not sentenced to transportation, it enjoying the fantasy elements. follows the children to prison, the Nowra Evening Book hulks, the voyage to Botany Bay Discussion Group and to Norfolk Island. Holden’s tender, clear-sighted focus on children allows us access to new facts and insights about our nation’s colonial origins. N 1999 219pp B1766

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The Red Tent Salt Creek Sea of Poppies Sweet Caress Anita Diamant Lucy Treloar Amitav Ghosh William Boyd Narrated by Dinah, Jacob’s only SHORTLISTED SHORTLISTED Amory Clay is a woman who daughter in the Book of Genesis. Miles Franklin Literary Award Man Booker Prize knows her own mind. Born into From her upbringing by the four a wealthy English family in 1908, wives of Jacob, to becoming one 15-year-old Hester is troubled India is on the eve of the first her search for an interesting of the most influential women of by her father’s decision to move Opium War. Fleeing the violence life will take her from scandal in the time, Dinah’s story brings to their family of nine from the of her village customs and caste 1920s Berlin to an affair in New life women’s lives during biblical comfort of 1850s Adelaide to a laws, Deeti and ‘untouchable’ York in the 1930s; from a stint times, from Mesopotamia to remote outpost on the Coorong Kalua become servants on an old as a war photojournalist in WW2 Canaan to Egypt. River. When a native boy begins slave ship. The ship becomes a France to the Vietnam War. Her working and then living with shelter to them and the people life’s turns and the lovers she F 1998 395pp B1997 their family, Hester watches they meet on their eventful picks up along the twists of powerlessly as colonialist journey across the Indian Ocean. this story are engrossing, and The Remains prejudice comes to play out This is an immersive, rewarding Amory’s spirit and humour will of the Day against the backdrop of a family read. Unmissable. stay with you long after you finish Kazuo Ishiguro – and a country – in flux. F 2008 480pp B2017 this fascinating novel. For decades, Stevens has served F 2015 416pp B2234 F 2015 464pp B2243 as butler to Lord Darlington of The Secret River Darlington Hall. Now he recalls Samuel Pepys Kate Grenville Sweet Tooth a lifetime of service. Ishiguro Claire Tomalin Ian McEwan perfectly captures the tone and SHORTLISTED outlook of one to whom dignity Pepys lived through and Miles Franklin Literary Award In Britain in 1972, Serena is and correctness are all important. recorded the Great Plague recruited by MI5 for Operation There is wonderful comedy here of 1665 and the Great Fire of WINNER Sweet Tooth, a secret mission and a sense of the losses that London in the following year, as Commonwealth Writers’ Prize that brings Serena together with may lie behind such a life. well as the intimacies of daily writer Tom Haley. Soon she falls life – theatre going, philanderings, Grenville depicts the appalling in love and the rules of espionage F 1989 245pp B1267 business affairs, tiffs with his wife, poverty of William Thornhill, who fall away, but the truth is hard to recorder lessons, hangovers, is transported to New South discover. Set during the Cold War Remembering Babylon home improvements, clothes. Wales for theft, and his later and a time of domestic terrorism, David Malouf Biographer Claire Tomalin wonderment at becoming a free Sweet Tooth is complex, layered revels in her subject’s appetite man, able to claim land along and beautifully written. Gemmy Fairley stumbles into a for experience. the Hawkesbury and support his white settlement perched on the F 2012 370pp B2178 N 2002 499pp B1797 family. She brings alive the settler Queensland coast in the middle situation as well as the response of the 19th century. Is he white or of the Aboriginal people who black? In his new surroundings Sarah Thornhill already live on that land. T and with his affinity with the Kate Grenville feared blacks, his presence is F 2005 334pp B1934 Tartar City Woman most unsettling. Another subtle SHORTLISTED Trevor Hay reflection from Malouf on the Prime Minister’s Literary Award The Short Reign sense of the self and the other. Subtitled Scenes from the Life of Sarah is the daughter of William of Pippin IV Wang Hsin ping, Former Citizen FL 1993 202pp B1424 Thornhill of The Secret River. John Steinbeck of China. What understanding Nicknamed ‘Dolly’, she grows This light-hearted satire on do you have of China’s history up in the relative privilege of French monarchy and politics between 1937 and 1990? This S her father’s hard-won estate in is a long way from Steinbeck’s remarkable biography will make early-settlement Australia, and usual subject – the landless it live in your nerves and senses, The Safest Place must come to terms with the farm labourers of America. As through Hay’s account of the life in London tangled secrets and silent spaces enjoyable as it is unexpected. of an outspoken, irrepressible wrought by violent colonisation. Chinese woman, now living Maggie Joel Kate Grenville’s masterful story F 1957 168pp B0212 in Australia. Two women, Nancy and Diana, and colourful characters will stay The book generated a lively N 1990 181pp B1291 flee with their 3-year-old with you. discussion that lasted quite daughters to take refuge in F 2011 304pp B2115 some hours. Views were initially an underground bomb shelter polarised but after discussion a Tess of the D’Urbervilles in London’s East End, while number of people saw the book Thomas Hardy their husbands are away at the in a different light. Moral outrage greeted this story frontlines of World War Two. Set Tathra Book Group of a classic situation – a wronged in 1944, the novel explores the woman, a child conceived struggles of those left behind and outside marriage, and two the hard choices that are made men. Tess is bound up by the Step Back in Time in Step Back to remain safe. social forces of her time in this F 2016 352pp B2261 great 19th-century novel which remains relevant to the lives of women today. FL 1891 512pp B0084

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That Deadman Dance NEW Working for Rupert U Hugh Lunn WINNER Hugh Lunn now gives us his Miles Franklin Literary Award Under the Same Sun seventeen years before the Tin Man Andy Kissane masthead on the Australian Award-winning author Kim Sarah Two young Italian men migrate as ’s ‘foreign Scott’s novel is set in Western Winman to Australia in 1951. One is a correspondent’ in Queensland. Australia in the 1800s. It tells metalworker from northern Italy, Through most of the 1970s and the complex story of contact SHORTLISTED the other an apprentice chef from ’80s he parades us past a blur between Aborigines and early Costa Book Award the south. Part one immerses of editors, entertaining us in settlers in a harsh landscape. A tender and moving novel us in the different experiences Lunn style, and talking about the ‘There are many strands to That about two adolescent boys, and pressures leading to their newspaper world and how to Deadman Dance: epic coastal Ellis and Michael, whose close journeys. Part two brings alive write a story that people will read. journeys, whaling sequences that friendship turns into first love until the opportunities, pains and N 2001 244pp B1655 will make you gasp in wonder, Annie walks into their life, and prejudices they face, in their loves injustice, understanding and Michael disappears. As the novel and their work, first in Sydney loss. But it is the characters – switches from Ellis’s to Michael’s and then in the perilous Snowy Y flawed, credible human beings, point of view, we discover the Mountains Scheme. embodying their history but never heartbreak of first love, the grief F 2000 368pp B1651 The Year 1000 mere ciphers – who stay with of moving on and the journey you’. The Age from boys to men. A short but We enjoyed the book; it Robert Lacey & F 2010 400pp B2118 beautiful read. provided good discussion Danny Danziger F 2017 224pp B2285 and recollections of our own Here is the world of the English The Thousand Autumns experiences and understanding at the turn of the first millennium. of Jacob De Zoet of the Snowy Scheme and the This stylish social history charts True History of issues of migration, both then a typical year of the period, David Mitchell and now. demonstrating the differences the Kelly Gang Canberra 3 WINNER Peter Carey between a very old world and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize our own. WINNER N 1999 230pp B1656 The novel begins in 1799 Japan. The Age Book of the Year W Jacob de Zoet is a Dutch bookkeeper, working for the The enthralling voice of Carey’s Water for Elephants Year of Wonders Dutch East India Company, when Ned draws the reader into Sara Gruen Geraldine Brooks he falls in forbidden love with a understanding how a brave, loyal In 1665, the English village of Jacob Jankowski jumps onto Japanese midwife. The Empire of and gifted boy becomes the Eyam became infected with a passing train and enters a Japan has shut out the outside doomed, deluded yet compelling the plague. Rather than risk world of swindlers and misfits. world for a century and a half, writer of Kelly’s Jerilderie Letter. spreading it, the villagers decided The second rate circus Benzini but a European trading post A wonderful exploration of family to quarantine themselves, and Brothers Most Spectacular Show keeps open a narrow corridor to loves and tensions, rural poverty fear and superstition began to on Earth is touring the backblocks the outside world. The midwife and hope, the novel gives a voice break down courage and faith. In of Depression era America. uncovers a dark and heart- to Australia’s oppressed, then as Brooks’ novel, housemaid Anna A former veterinary student, breaking secret. now longing to be heard. becomes an unlikely hero - but Jacob becomes caretaker of 2000 401pp what is it like to survive while so F 2010 480pp B2093 F B1625 the circus menagerie. He meets many die? This is a poignant, Marlena, the star of the equestrian unforgettable read told in Brooks’ act, her husband who is a inimitable style. violently unpredictable animal Love learning about trainer, and Rosie, a seemingly F 2001 308pp B1662 unmanageable elephant. history, art or philosophy? 2006 335pp B1984 Why not consider F one of CAE’s Wolf Hall popular talks? Hilary Mantel WINNER Step Back in Time Man Booker Prize In England in the 1520s, Henry VIII finds himself without an heir by Catherine of Aragon, and charges Cardinal Wolsey with securing him a divorce already refused by the Pope. In comes Thomas Cromwell, whose rapid rise to power and ruthless agenda lead cae.edu.au to reformation, uncertainty, and 03 9652 0611 bloodshed. Two-month book. RTO 3737 F 2009 672pp B2054

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1984 The Annotated Alice Beyond Black George Orwell Lewis Carroll Hilary Mantel C Presents the classic dystopia, This volume contains both Alice’s SHORTLISTED and a state in which the Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Orange Prize Cabin Fever government has almost complete and Through the Looking Glass Elizabeth Jolley thought control. Orwell’s ideas and What Alice Found There Mantel’s imaginative thriller offers This second novel in the partly about totalitarian methods and (1872) by Lewis Carroll, with a darkly comic and unsettling autobiographical trilogy concerns speech are now part of the drawings by Tenniel. As editor, universe: polluted 1990s Britain, young Vera Wright and her efforts common language, and his Martin Gardner has included where psychic medium Alison in post-war England to survive depiction of suffering under annotations to help explain some tours London with her sidekick, as an unmarried mother in a totalitarian regimes is insightful. of Carroll’s mysteries. Colette. Intricately structured, world of scarcity and privation. elegant prose gives a biting F 1949 312pp B0029 F 1960 350pp B0430 A memorable, quirky study of L portrait of dreads and desires loneliness and longing and the which will evoke animated persistence of memory. Ape House discussion, not least about the A Sara Gruen implications of facing one’s past F 1990 238pp B1404 From the bestselling author of and demons. Contains themes The Accidental Water for Elephants comes this that may disturb. Cape Grimm Ali Smith gentle, funny novel. Isabel is a F 2005 451pp B1948 Carmel Bird WINNER scientist working with bonobos, Bird explores innocence and Whitbread Novel Award who are capable of reason, love The Blind Astronomer’s evil in a religious community on and developing relationships. When Daughter the coast of Tasmania. When Amber, a seemingly harmless the bonobos are stolen and turn up cult leader Caleb sets fire to the stranger, turns up at the Smarts’ on a reality TV series, Isabel teams John Pipkin group meeting house, all but holiday home, and as she up with journalist John in the fight to Set in the 18th-century quest three of the community perish. ingratiates herself with the family, save them amidst a media circus. for scientific discovery, the story Blending traditional folk-tale the question of who she is F 2010 303pp B2126 portrays a fictionalised account elements with contemporary fades away. Is her presence an of astronomer, William Hershel, events, this explores our darker innocent accident, or something and his unknown rival Arthur aspects and the reverberations more sinister? Smith presents a B Ainsworth and their obsession of history. modern reworking of Passolini’s with decoding the night sky. 2004 302pp B1825 1968 film Theorem. Original, When Arthur goes blind from F challenging and experimental The Bees staring at the sun, he chooses writing, this skilfully crafted book Laline Paull death, leaving behind his grief- Capital will raise as many questions as stricken daughter to continue John Lanchester it answers. SHORTLISTED his work while confronting Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction Encompassing a cast of F 2005 306pp B1915 her own desires. Based on characters all connected to Flora 717 is born a lowly worker actual historical events, the one suburban London street, Animal Farm bee, but unlike the others of her novel explores the race to Capital reveals the state of British mute caste, she can speak. As discover the planets, and the society at the beginning of the George Orwell Flora navigates the totalitarian role women played in aiding Global Financial Crisis. Sprawling Orwell’s famous satire on mid regime of the beehive in this these discoveries. but highly readable, this is a 20th century political reality, fascinating miniature world, she F 2016 480pp B2269 novel that addresses some telling how the animals revolt comes to a startling realisation big questions whilst remaining against the farmer and try to – and then begins a double- Brave New World intimate and compassionate. run their own affairs. Orwell life as a traitor to the hive. 2012 592pp B2170 raises issues about freedom Illuminating in its exploration of Aldous Huxley F and tyranny, and indicts Soviet difference, of feminism, and of A dystopian classic, this is a The group was divided in its leadership and totalitarianism. institutionalised intolerance. humorous and poignant novel reaction to this book. Some F 1945 120pp B0071 F 2015 352pp B2235 with much to discuss. In a members enjoyed the book - future world dominated by mass they thought it was entertaining With the exception of one production thanks to Henry and enlightening; carefully member, everyone thoroughly Ford’s innovations, genetic researched and the narrative enjoyed this book, much to their modification and brainwashing was quite colorful. Enjoyed 1984? surprise. Usually when we have keep the population docile. Caulfield 3 enjoyed a book the discussion But Bernard Marx is distressed Try can be lack lustre. Not this time. and wants to break free from Everyone had something to say this society. A readable, witty Brave New World with regard to the way the book novel, and this edition includes by Aldous Huxley was written, which we thought introductions by Margaret was clever making the bees the Atwood and David Bradshaw. [B2131] characters within the story. 1932 229pp B2131 Hamilton Book Chooks F

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Charades The Conjuror’s Bird Dissection The Eyre Affair Janette Turner Hospital Martin Davies Jacinta Halloran Jasper Fforde SHORTLISTED During Captain Cook’s second Dedicated GP and mother of In an alternate version of London Miles Franklin Literary Award expedition to the South Pacific, two boys, Anna’s life begins to in 1985, literary detective a rare and unique species of unravel when she is sued for Thursday is on the trail of criminal This novel interweaves an bird was captured. Cook later medical negligence. Deeply mastermind Hades, who has

Australian girl’s search for her presented the bird to naturalist ashamed of her mistake, she been kidnapping characters Grand Visions father and her origins with her Joseph Banks who displayed it retreats into family life, only to from works of fiction. When physicist lover’s mind play about until 1778 when it inexplicably become aware of her husband’s Jane Eyre is snatched from the origin of the universe, time disappeared from his collection. growing interest in a younger between her pages, Thursday and uncertainty. It ranges from Two centuries later, the race is woman. A confronting portrayal steps in as defender of literature Queensland’s rainforests to on to find the Mysterious Bird of a woman facing personal and in this exuberant, entertaining Boston, to MIT and Toronto; from of Ulieta. Dual narratives shift professional crises. read. Fans of Jane Eyre will be apparently sheltered Australian between past and present to F 2008 240pp B2033 rewarded, and those unfamiliar and Canadian lives to the create an 18th-century romance with the classic will want to aftermath of the Holocaust. inside a modern day thriller. Fast- read it. F 1988 345pp B1243 paced and enjoyable. E F 2001 373pp B1878 F 2005 309pp B1921 A Child’s Book of The Explosion Chronicles F True Crime D Yan Lianke Chloe Hooper LONGLISTED Foxybaby A young teacher has begun her Death in Venice Man Booker International Prize Elizabeth Jolley first job at a Tasmanian primary Thomas Mann school. Through her adulterous Translated from Chinese, the Miss Alma Porch journeys to affair with the father of a pupil, A lovely and disturbing evocation story follows two feuding families a remote Summer School to she begins to confront issues of life in the pre-war period. and the second-born son’s quest present a version of her novel in surrounding childhood and An austere, mature German to transform his small village, progress to the Creative Drama adulthood. Distinctions between writer, Aschenbach, is forced called Explosion, into an urban students. Jolley’s quirky subtlety fantasy and reality blur. What is by failing health to go to Venice. metropolis. Poetic and imbued combines with her sense of the true crime here? In a very different culture, he with elements of magical realism, human hurtfulness, robustness becomes obsessed by the the satirical novel critiques the and fragility. F 2002 238pp B1670 beauty of a young boy and rampant growth of capitalism F 1985 261pp B1310 changes profoundly. in post-Mao China, and the Cloud Atlas F 1912 79pp B1157 consequences of corruption David Mitchell and greed. The French Tutor Judith Armstrong Six stories explore the F 2016 480pp B2262 Death of a River Guide Postgraduate student intersection of history and Richard Flanagan humanity: an American Everyman’s Rules for Emily begins an affair with a notary’s South Sea journals, A drowning river guide is caught charismatic older academic who an Englishman transcribing for up in visions of the demanding Scientific Living insists on keeping his options a blind composer, a reporter story of his family, state and Carrie Tiffany open. The Albertine rose and investigates a nuclear cover up, people. This strikingly imaginative In 1934, Jean meets and marries the work of Proust are woven a futuristic fast-food robot, and Tasmanian novel conveys the soil scientist Robert. They settle into the fabric of a psychological a Hawaiian contemplating post- feeling of the great Franklin River, in the impoverished Mallee, novel involving obsessive love, apocalyptic life. This thrillingly and the uncensored experience determined to realise Robert’s deception and betrayal. original ride spans genres and and idiom of those who live ambition to live and farm by F 2003 301pp B1781 themes of colonialism, corporate in the physical, social and scientific principles. The ensuing culture and the collapse metaphorical wilderness. struggle slowly chips away at of civilisation. Challenging F 1994 324pp B1473 their idealism and relationship. G and imaginative, this will Set against the backdrop of an reward persistence. The Devil’s Larder impending threat of world war, The Great Gatsby F 2003 529pp B1875 Tiffany captures in a refreshing, Jim Crace quirky manner the hopes and F. Scott Fitzgerald Closed for Winter Food is central to each of the disappointments of the era. This is a richly textured, nuanced 64 brief tales in this literary feast F 2005 256pp B1906 exploration of the darker side Georgia Blain from English novelist Jim Crace, of the glamour of the Jazz What happened to 12-year-old where meals are served with Age. Seen through the eyes Frances on that hot summer lashings of passion, recipes of outsider Nick, Jay Gatsby’s day at the beach? The question are spiced with unexpected dream of the beautiful Daisy still haunts her younger sister, challenges and hopes and comes to symbolise the classic Elise, now in her twenties. Blain’s the ingredients are hilarious, American dream. evocative, well-wrought first delightful and subversive. Full of F 1925 160pp B0308 novel uncovers past and present exuberant invention. to arrive at an unexpected truth. FS 2001 193pp B1683 F 1998 249pp B1709

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Life After Life The Line of Beauty H K Kate Atkinson Alan Hollinghurst SHORTLISTED This beautifully nuanced comedy The Handmaid’s Tale Kurikka’s Dreaming Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction of manners portrays England’s Margaret Atwood Craig Cormick rich and powerful in the 1980s A woman designated ‘child- In Russian controlled Finland at Ursula is born on a wintery night at the peak of the Thatcher bearer’ In a rigid society lives the end of the 19th century, Matti in 1910, and when she dies, is years. The narrator is a young in a backlash against feminist Kurikka persuades his followers reborn on the same day and into man, newly arrived in London aspirations and sexual liberation. to search for a utopia where they the same family over and over. and mesmerised by the opulent A compelling depiction of can achieve independence and Each of her lives is fascinatingly world of his Tory hosts as he society’s flaws which raises prosperity. In 1899, they arrive different, woven throughout a independently discovers the backdrop of historical events pleasures of metropolitan gay life. Grand Visions Grand questions about the present. near Cairns in Queensland, their including both World Wars. F 1986 324pp B1189 land of ‘eternal summer’; but F 2004 501pp B1886 they find themselves in a strange Beautifully written, original and hostile country, where dream and moving. Lovesong How to Be Both becomes nightmare. 2013 480pp B2185 F Elizabeth Jolley Ali Smith 2000 218pp B1644 N After many years in an institution, WINNER Life of Pi Dalton Foster is released into Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction L Yann Martel a world he barely recognises. SHORTLISTED WINNER What has he done? There are Man Booker Prize disturbing indications that a Stella Prize Larry’s Party child was involved. Jolley’s The life of a 15th century Carol Shields A cargo ship carrying zoo account of his loneliness and Renaissance artist entwines with Larry Weller was once a floral animals flounders at sea, and longings is lyrical and at times that of teenage girl George in this designer, but becomes a Pi, a 16-year-old Indian boy, disturbingly comic. inventive novel. Smith challenges garden maze and landscape is stranded on a life raft with a F 1997 241pp B1576 the convention that a story gardener. The book progresses hyena, an orangutan, a zebra should run a reliably smooth episodically from 1977 across and a Bengal tiger. He must use course, asking whether history the next twenty years, through all his daring and wit to survive. M can exist simultaneously in the two failed marriages and into An engaging, dazzling novel. past and present. An element of a third. Shields writes with her F 2001 319pp B1788 The Man from chance determines which of the characteristic perceptiveness, characters you meet first in your irony and tenderness of this Primrose Lane copy of the book – guaranteeing ‘ordinary’ man, as she reflects on NEW James Renner good discussion! what it is to be male. As David struggles to overcome F 2014 284pp B2229 F 1997 339pp B1725 his wife’s unexplained suicide, he finds himself entangled in a The Hunter The Left Hand Lincoln in complex maze involving child the Bardo abduction and the murder of Julia Leigh of Darkness a mysterious man. Through A man takes to Tasmania to Ursula K. Le Guin George the unpredictable twists of this track down the last surviving The planet Winter is much like Saunders absorbing, genre-hopping thriller, marsupial tiger – and soon Earth except for two things: David battles with fatherhood, WINNER trauma and questions about disappears into a world of silence its climate is always subarctic, Man Booker Prize and stillness. With a small cast of and its inhabitants are all of one the future. bruised and bruising individuals, sex. Le Guin is a distinguished WINNER F 2012 363pp B2153 the pace of this impressive first writer of speculative fiction and Australian Book Industry Award novel is sustained through to its this book makes for compelling unforgettable conclusion. The Map That discussion on our attitudes here Centered on the death of Changed the World F 1999 170pp B1628 on Earth. Abraham Lincoln’s son William, Saunder’s experimental novel Simon Winchester F 1969 205pp B1064 is set in primarily in the ‘bardo’, William Smith, orphan of a village We read this book during which is the Buddhist transitory blacksmith, was one of the first the time that Le Guin passed realm between death and rebirth. to link the rock strata beneath away and it generated a great The novel weaves between the earth’s surface with the Enjoyed discussion to what was a passages drawn from historical characteristic fossils found in The Handmaid’s Tale? fantastic and forward-thinking texts and the points of view of each layer. He worked 20 years book that challenged so many Willie and other spirits within the on an enormous geological map, assumptions of gender – bardo. Saunders blurs the line only to find his ideas pirated by Try something that wasn’t really between the real and the surreal gentlemen of science. Alias Grace by talked about forty years ago to deliver a reading experience when the book was released, that purposefully confuses N 2001 338pp B1666 Margaret Atwood but is very relevant today. fact with fiction, and touches [B1556] Murray Riverside Readers on private grief versus public persona and the faults of the American democratic system. F 2017 368pp B2286

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Mara and Dann Notes on a Scandal Only the Animals Picnic at Doris Lessing Zoë Heller Ceridwen Dovey Hanging Rock An orphaned brother and From the first day that beautiful, WINNER Joan Lindsay sister journey together through bohemian art teacher Sheba Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction On a Valentine’s Day picnic in excitement and danger in a future joins the staff of St George’s, 1900, a group of schoolgirls where an Ice Age covers all of history teacher Barbara The souls of ten animals tell vanishes with their teacher. the northern hemisphere, and realises she is different from captivating stories of their lives in Witnesses are disoriented Grand Visions much of Africa is dry and famine- her colleagues. When Sheba is times of human conflict, drawing and confused, and the group stricken. Lessing opens up caught having an affair with a on often surprising literary are never recovered. The questions of how environments pupil, Barbara appoints herself connections. Henry Lawson’s consequences of the day are can change civilisations, testing her chief defender and closest camel witnesses the colonisation far-reaching for the community, human decency, endurance, ally. But all is not as it seems in of Australia, Himmler’s dog the remaining characters, and imagination and love. this compelling read of obsession ponders the meaning of the once-prestigious school. F 1999 407pp B1765 and loneliness. Buddhism, and a dolphin in The interaction of civilisation with F 2003 244pp B1974 the US Navy composes a letter nature is also explored in this to Sylvia Plath. Amusing and enduring Australian classic. My Sister’s Keeper touching, their tales explore the Jodi Picoult Not the End of the World consequences of warfare from F 1967 213pp B0402 Is it morally correct to do Kate Atkinson a unique and original perspective. whatever it takes to save a child’s ‘And now for something S 2014 248pp B2212 The Picture of life? Anna was conceived as a completely different.’ Imaginative Dorian Gray bone marrow match for her older and distinctive, these twelve Oscar Wilde sister Kate, who has leukaemia. linked stories create an Of a Boy Sonya Hartnett Scandal erupted over Wilde’s Picoult’s portrait of a family on unexpected sense of what it is novel when it was first published the brink will polarise readers to be alive. They portray ordinary In an Australian suburb, three as it ‘violated the laws of public and create robust discussion people in confining, dangerous, children set off for the milkbar – morality’; though perhaps less on parenting, ethics and the or lonely circumstances never to be seen again. 9-year- shocking now, this psychological implications of bioengineering. that unexpectedly, even old Adrian watches the goings on thriller remains just as enticing F 2004 423pp B1909 bizarrely, break into the mythic of his suburban world and tries to over a hundred years later. experience of Greek gods and keep his loneliness and fears of It examines the cost of self- magical transformations. rejection at bay. Throughout the indulgence, and the havoc we N FS 2002 278pp B1774 text weaves the aching true story wreak on our souls in the quest of the missing Metford children. for satisfaction. Never Let Me Go F 2002 188pp B1804 F 1891 247pp B0112 Kazuo Ishiguro O The Orchid Thief The Precipice SHORTLISTED The Ocean at the Susan Orlean Man Booker Prize End of the Lane Virginia Duigan A nonfiction book which A mix of literary thriller and Kathy, Ruth and Tommy attended Neil Gaiman reads more like a novel, with psychological drama, with a an elite school in the English Neil Gaiman explores memory, a wonderful oddball cast of welcome smattering of tongue countryside that sheltered its childhood vulnerability, and fanatics whose lives and crimes in cheek wit. Thea is a retired students from the outside. hidden trauma in this shadowy, revolve around their mania for school principal living in the Why were they there? Kathy atmospheric fairytale woven with orchids. The pacy narrative Blue Mountains. When a young narrates a retrospective journey his trademark touch of fantasy. follows John Laroche, self- couple and their niece move in through memory and fact, slowly As the unnamed narrator revisits confessed orchid thief, into the next door, old fears and paranoia unfolding details to a startling his childhood home, memories sucking mud of Florida’s swampy begin to take over her life. Thea resolution. An unsettling tale that long obscured lead him to the Fakahatchee Strand. is an engrossing, funny and probes moral responsibility and neighbouring farm where he N 1998 350pp B1622 unusual protagonist, and there the scientific ethics. spent time as a 7-year-old. He are a number of provocative F 2005 263pp B1864 remembers Lettie, the girl who issues to discuss. lived there, and what really happened during the summer P F 2011 284pp B2134 Nocturnes they spent together. Kazuo Ishiguro The Patron Saint of Eels F 2013 248pp B2206 Ishiguro explores love, music Gregory Day and the passing of time in Noel and Nannette are long-time Enjoyed this collection of short stories. locals of a small coastal town in Characters range from young the grip of gentrification. When Animal Farm? dreamers, to café musicians a freak flood leaves hundreds and faded stars. Throughout the of eels trapped in the ditches Try five stories, characters struggle around Noel’s home, Fra Ionio, a Only the Animals by to keep alive a sense of life’s 300-year-old Italian monk, comes romance as they grow older, to the rescue. Quirky and likeable Ceridwen Dovey their relationships flounder, and characters together with lyrical [B2212] youthful hopes fade. evocations of bush and sea FS 2009 221pp B2043 shine through in this delightful contemporary fable. F 2005 181pp B1865

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The Scapegoat State of Wonder The Strays R Daphne du Maurier Ann Patchett Emily Bitto After a chance meeting at a SHORTLISTED When lonely only child Lily Republic of Women French railway station, John, Orange Prize befriends Eva Trentham, she is Merrill Findlay a lonely professor, assumes entranced by the glamour of the Real people from history another man’s identity, and From the bestselling author Trentham family and their circle walk through the pages of becomes involved in the of Bel Canto comes this of avant garde artists – but their this book, and anyone who complex family relationships, love compelling, thrilling novel. seemingly idyllic, bohemian way knows Melbourne’s St Kilda will affairs and business life of the Scientists for a pharmaceutical of life is not without its costs. recognise its threatened inner-city selfish and arrogant man he is company are researching an A study of isolation mingles environment. ‘In this novel of impersonating. An intriguing and Amazonian tribe where women with the consequences of suspenseful story. radicalism in this haunting and Grand Visions Grand striking intellectual subtlety and remain fertile until old age, in authority, Merrill Findlay probes FL 1957 320pp B1126 hope of selling their secret. beautifully observed debut novel questions of sexual identity in a When the head researcher which draws on the legacy voice that is radical, humane and The Secret Cure disappears and the man sent of Melbourne’s Heide group tender’(Raimond Gaita). to discover the findings dies, of artists. Sue Woolfe pharmacologist Marina leaves 1999 280pp B1752 F 2014 350pp B2226 F Determined to find a cure for Minnesota to track down her her autistic child and motivated former mentor in the depths of The Road by her own passion for science, the Amazon. T Cormac McCarthy Eva takes on work as a cleaner F 2011 353pp B2120 A man and his young son walk in a medical research laboratory. The book combines a Tehanu through a post-apocalyptic Owen is the strange reclusive fascinating mix of genres and Ursula K. Le Guin American wasteland. Danger and man who has loved her for a lifetime. This moving novel generated much discussion. Beautiful, challenging, starvation lurk at every turn in this It has the mystery of a deeply disturbing yet ultimately explores what it means to be deceptively simple writing human, to be honourable, and, disappearance and hidden explores the stories of a woman redemptive story. A novel that secrets, armchair travel, a study asks what we might be capable above all, what it means to love. who adopts a girl crippled and of character and relationships, scarred by abuse, and a once of when pushed to the brink - F 2003 429pp B1823 with a touch of science fiction and whether we could make it great wizard who has exhausted or magic realism. It raises his magic. Can they survive back in one piece. Harrowing ethical and moral issues too, The Service of Clouds among brutal enemies in a land scenes may disturb; this book with the story of the boy Delia Falconer rotten with evil? Le Guin reflects will give your group a lengthy and Easter and with the research vivid discussion. Set in the Blue Mountains, this being carried out, where on power and powerlessness; the differing wisdom of women F 2006 256pp B1977 novel is almost hallucinatory in its there is a marked difference evocation of cloud landscapes, between female and male (the and men; and the possibility Most members enjoyed the and of the heroine Eureka’s company) attitudes. of healing. book although the subject yearning for photographer Hawthorn Cato Bluffers F 1990 204pp B1461 matter was grim. Mixed feelings Henry Kitchens. Katoomba’s life, about whether the ending was personalities and institutions in positive or not, which made for the early 20th century are deftly, good discussion. Left much to even comically presented. interpretation. All thought it was 1997 322pp B1580 well written and compelling. F Camperdown: The Leura Literati Solar Ian McEwan A Nobel Prize winning physicist S and middle-aged philanderer, Make the most of Michael is arrogant and selfish Saturday His career has stalled – until your Apple devices Ian McEwan he decides to claim for his with our iPhone and own another man’s work on iPad for Seniors McEwan creates for us one alternative energy resources day in the life of a London that just might save the planet. short courses. neurosurgeon, a man fully Solar spans several continents engaged in his work and as it explores the frailties of blessed with a domestic life of humankind and the threat of contentment, until one Saturday climate change. he must deal with the fall out from a minor traffic accident that F 2010 432pp B2066 morning. Accomplished writing, ‘beautifully alive to the fragility of happiness’ – The Times. F 2005 279pp B1911

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The Telling Three Cups of Tea The Unusual Life Ursula K. Le Guin Greg Mortenson U of Tristan Smith On an alien planet, Sutty now In 1993, Mortenson drifted into Peter Carey lives under the Corporation, a village in Pakistan’s Karakoram The Underground a capitalist dictatorship which Mountains. Touched by the WINNER Railroad The Age Book of the Year burns books and suppresses kindness of the villagers, he Colson Whitehead evidence of the past. From the went on to build 55 schools in The eponymous hero and Grand Visions mountain people, she learns of remote villages across Pakistan WINNER narrator is born dwarfed and the extraordinarily diverse, vital, and Afghanistan while the Taliban Pulitzer Prize badly deformed, the vital integrated culture that once was rising to power. Since and clever son of a beautiful, existed here. This meditation publication, the book’s accuracy WINNER activist actress in one of the on cultural decimation and has been questioned, both in a National Book Award richly imagined countries in this colonialism is part of the controversial 2011 documentary unusual, mind-stretching novel. cycle which includes The and by author Jon Krakauer. Cora, a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia is We follow Tristan’s struggles and Dispossessed and The Left Hand N 2007 368pp B2057 adventures through worlds which of Darkness. approached by Caesar, a fellow slave who tells her about the are new, yet disturbingly familiar. F 2000 264pp B1806 Underground Railroad, a network Not for the squeamish, but full of The Tin Drum wonders and marvels. Günter Grass of tracks and tunnels that runs beneath their feet. When tragic F 1994 422pp B1462 There’ll Be New Dreams This is the autobiography of Philip McLaren events in her life gives her Oskar Matzerath, a 30-year-old the courage she needs, Cora McLaren weaves together detained in a mental hospital, embarks on a harrowing journey V strands of Aboriginal experience and convicted of murder. It is to escape the horrors of slavery across the ages. Lottie, the taken down with the aid of his and a life lived in servitude. A Veronika Decides to Die city raised Aborigine, loses her tiny drum, the chosen symbol brutal book with confronting children to the welfare system of his way of life. A brilliant and scenes, it’s not an easy read but Paulo Coelho in the 1950s and her husband challenging work which has been a powerful novel on the dark Why would a young, attractive, to a suspicious death; Matlong seminal in German writing. history of slavery. steadily employed woman from saw Cook sail by in 1770; and F 1961 590pp B0070 2017 400pp B2270 a good family take an overdose? Dundiwuy goes to New York as F How will she feel when she a didgeridoo player in the 1970s. The Tyrant’s Novel The Underground Railroad survives only to be told that Sophisticated and profound, is a harrowing, but essential the damage will quickly prove human and funny. Thomas Keneally read that covers the treatment fatal? This accessible novel by F 2001 309pp B1667 In an oil-rich country, writer Alan of African slaves. Whitehead popular and uplifting Brazilian is asked to produce a novel uses the Underground Railroad writer Coelho is likely to provoke explaining the great deeds of to explore the different ways strong discussion about sanity, Things We Didn’t its tyrannical ruler and blaming covert and overt racism occur. madness, the meaning of See Coming the country’s difficulties on This book is sure to generate contemporary urban lives, and Steven Amsterdam outside forces. Facing a moral a lot of discussion on white about medical and literary ethics. dilemma and a tight deadline, supremacy, motherhood, and 1998 185pp B1770 WINNER Alan must resolve both at the how slavery leaves a stain on F The Age Book of the Year risk of his own life and those a nation. This collection of nine linked around him. Keneally’s portrayal Jess Z, CAE Book Groups Staff The Vintner’s Luck narratives is set in a near-future of the experiences of asylum Elizabeth Knox dystopia, recognisable and seekers is both terrifying and The Unknown Terrorist Among the vines of Burgundy unsettling. A young boy is caught utterly compelling. Richard Flanagan in 1808, Sobran Jodeau, a up in worldwide Y2K style young winemaker, has the first F 2003 292pp B1867 Set in post 9/11 Sydney, a panic, and becomes the book’s of his annual meetings with an Kings Cross pole dancer finds nameless narrator, travelling from angel. But this angel is not all she has become the most story to story and negotiating he seems, and complicates life wanted terrorist in the country, the lawlessness, epidemics, even further. A daring, sensuous, and is caught up in a vortex extreme weather, relationships unconventional, addictive novel. of murder, media hype and and politics of a post-millennium 1998 241pp B1751 world. Often dark, sometimes politically manipulated fear F mongering. A fast-moving thriller, funny, this intriguing book should It was certainly very complex this is also an angry portrayal of spark discussion about issues with many characters and contemporary Australia. potentially facing us all. multiple complex threads of 2009 174pp B2070 F 2006 320pp B1983 storylines interwoven. It really F did create an incredibly lively Enjoyed and protracted book discussion The Left Hand with widely varied perceptions of Darkness? and beliefs expressed. Warrandyte 5 Try The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin [B1806]

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The Wonder W Emma Donoghue Y When Nightingale trained nurse Wide Sargasso Sea Lib is sent to a village in 1850s The Year of the Flood Jean Rhys Ireland to investigate Anna, an Margaret Atwood In Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Mr 11-year-old girl who stops eating At a time when the human Rochester is not free to marry and claims to be nourished population has been decimated because of Bertha, his mad and by the Manna of Heaven for by a plague, the Corporations bad wife secreted in the attic. months, she has two weeks to have taken over the world, Dominican born Jean Rhys determine if this girl is a fraud. including all scientific and sympathetically re-imagines Inspired by the historical cases of technological developments. In fasting girls, this historical thriller Grand Visions Grand the Jamaican life of a young this bleak dystopia, eco-religious Creole heiress, Rochester’s pits motherly love against blind sect the God’s Gardeners try to courtship and the early years of faith, questioning what it means work with nature as civilisation their marriage, turning many of to be nourished. crumbles. The humanity and Brontë’s values and assumptions F 2016 256pp B2250 friendships of the female inside out. characters offer hope despite F 1966 156pp B0809 The World Without Us the grim atmosphere. This novel L contains some of the characters Mireille Juchau from Oryx and Crake but is not A Wild Sheep Chase Following their sister’s death, a sequel. Haruki Murakami Tess and Meg watch their F 2009 528pp B2079 A girl with ears so exquisite that devastated family come undone. they improve sex a thousand- Their mother Evangeline roams fold, a runaway friend, a right- the forests of their farmland; wing politico, an ovine-obsessed their father, Stefan, retracts into professor, and a manic- himself. When an old car wreck is depressive in a sheep outfit discovered with human remains are all implicated in a hunt for a inside, Evangeline is forced to sheep that may or may not be confront her present along with running the world in this singular secrets from her past life in a masterpiece from Japan’s finest local commune. Atmospheric novelist. Equal parts screwball and gripping. comedy, detective story and F 2015 320pp B2236 heroic quest. F 1982 299pp B1654

MEET OUR NEW NOTEWRITERS Fay Helfenbaum Fay Helfenbaum is an editor from Melbourne. She has worked The Waves’s form is less straightforward, it also tracks its characters’ in bookstores for over five years and edits and reviews books for coming-of-age stories and their passions, angst and senses of self. companies such as Penguin, Hardie Grant and Books + Publishing. The perfectly captured images, the timeless internal dialogue and poetry of this book create such a beautiful and insightful picture of the What is your favourite Australian book? six characters and their individuality as well as their shared humanity. Reading Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta was the first time I recognised my childhood as the grandchild of immigrants in a book. What has been your most influential read? Like Josie, my culture that was a source of pride but sometimes So many books have been influential but an early one is the collected also embarrassment – no teenager wants to be different but that poems of W.H. Auden. I first read it in high school in a literature class difference is also what makes life interesting. Josie is full of angst, with a charismatic teacher who had high expectations of us. As we passion and loyalty that felt so true to me both at fifteen and as an read and discussed the poems in class we were encouraged to think adult. Marchetta’s characters are complex, compelling and three- about the work for ourselves, discuss our thoughts and come to dimensional and this coming-of-age story holds up every time I our own conclusions. It is this way of thinking that led me to study (regularly) re-read it. literature at university, and change my public policy path for one of reading, writing and thinking about books. What is your favourite international book? While it is a very different book, The Waves by Virginia Woolf shares some of the characteristics I love about Looking for Alibrandi. While

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4 Scotland Street And the Mountains Births Deaths Marriages Alexander McCall Smith Echoed B Georgia Blain McCall Smith’s Scotland Street Khaled Hosseini In this beautiful collection of occupies a busy, bohemian From the bestselling author of Basil Street Blues stories, daughter of Anne corner of Edinburgh’s New Town, A Thousand Splendid Suns Michael Holroyd Deveson revisits her bohemian where the old haute bourgeoisie comes a multi-generational story The acclaimed biographer of childhood during the social rub shoulders with students, that explores sibling bonds. George Bernard Shaw, Holroyd change movement, the collapse poets and portraitists. And Beginning in Afghanistan in the never explored his own family’s of her parents’ marriage, her Number 44 has more than its fair early 1950s, the story shifts to history until his parents’ death, brother’s illness and her path share of eccentrics and failures. France and America, and back which left a vacuum he felt to becoming a writer. Deftly Dry, funny and entertaining, again, in a series of tales. the need to fill. The result? A examining her life’s triumphs and 44 Scotland Street was originally disappointments, she teases out F 2013 416pp B2197 continuation of his never-ending written as a serialised novel. love affair with human nature – the universal qualities that make F 2005 326pp B2052 part-detective story, part-family us both fallible and loveable. Aphrodite and the Others saga and part-oblique voyage of NS 2008 224pp B1998 84 Charing Cross Road Gillian Bouras self-discovery. Helene Hanff With candour and compassion, N 1999 309pp B1632 The Blind Assassin Bouras examines the outlook Margaret Atwood Helene Hanff wrote from New and life experience of her York to Marks and Co., second This sad, sharp, humorous mother in law, Aphrodite – NEW hand booksellers in London: priest’s wife, illiterate, and reflection on family life spans ‘I enclose a list of my most unbending matriarch. The book most of the 20th century. pressing problems’. The reply counterpoints the oral tradition Before With characters attracting and the books that were sent and the literate one, the personal We Were sympathy and rancour, across the Atlantic began a and the political. mysteries unravelling, and joyous correspondence that Yours themes of sacrifice and betrayal, lasted 20 years. This book N 1994 174pp B1402 Lisa inspiring pathos and bathos, celebrates friendship, the art of Wingate Atwood continues to surprise letter writing and a love of books The Art of the and intrigue. and the English language. Engine Driver WINNER Goodreads Choice Award F 2000 641pp B1619 N 1971 220pp B1200 for Historical Fiction SHORTLISTED Interwoven between present- The Book of Emmett Miles Franklin Literary Award day Avery Stafford, groomed Deborah Forster A to be her father’s successor in In late 1950s Melbourne, Vic politics, and 12-year-old ‘river SHORTLISTED Victorian Premier’s Literary Award All That Happened longs to perfect his engine rat’ Rill in 1939, who helps at Number 26 driving technique and achieve take care of her four younger the perfect smooth ride; his son siblings in their boat home on SHORTLISTED Denise Scott Miles Franklin Literary Award Michael dreams of fast bowling the Memphis river. The novel The much loved comedian tells perfection; Rita, mother and wife, the stories that attach themselves is based on actual incidents of A heartbreaking exploration longs for a life with something kidnapping and forced adoptions to a family home, exploring more. A distinctively Australian of domestic abuse. Emmett married life and the trials and of the Tennessee Children’s is an unpredictable alcoholic novel with a luminous evocation Home Society, who made a profit triumphs of raising children, and of ordinary lives. and violent father. His children, memories of her outer suburban from stealing children from poor Louisa, Rob, Peter, Daniel childhood. Life outside Number F 2001 278pp B1674 families to place with prominent and Jessie, are shaped by his society members. destructive presence, but as he 26 includes her career and Created vigorous discussion in lies dying they must all come to friendships forged with other our group. Many related their F 2017 352pp B2276 strong, funny women. Like the own family experiences in the terms with their past. house itself, this book is a bit 50s to the suburban life Michael F 2009 296pp B2100 ramshackle but warm and fun. had. The view of life through Behind the Scenes N 2008 261pp B2101 adolescent eyes was intriguing. at the Museum The thumbnail sketches were Kate Atkinson We found this an easy read that appreciated in almost a post- Enjoyed The Guernsey was entertaining and enjoyable. modern style. The author is a This four generation English family We all agreed she is a wonderful great observer, almost a voyeur saga is captivating. Atkinson’s Literary and the comic and her brilliant attitude, and interesting that the book is imagination and remarkable way Potato Peel Society? pathos and sense of timing biographical relating to Glenroy. with words lay open family life – provides great entertainment Barwite Bookworms the mismatches of personalities Try in a humane, honest and and expectations, the strains 84 Charing Cross humorous book. and trivialities, the ridiculous and Road by Helene Warrandyte 5 the tragic. Hanff [B1200] F 1995 382pp B1520

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Breathing Lessons The Children Act The Color of Water Anne Tyler C Ian McEwan James McBride WINNER Family Court judge Fiona daily McBride’s unforgettable memoir Pulitzer Prize Careless takes momentous decisions tells his mother’s brave, eccentric Deborah Robertson concerning children, and must story in her own words. Daughter Married for 28 years, Maggie and now rule on an unusual and of a failed orthodox Jewish rabbi Ira Moran are an unlikely couple: SHORTLISTED intelligent 17-year-old whose in the American South, she Ira is reticent and detached; Miles Franklin Literary Award faith has him unable to accept ran away to Harlem, became a Maggie optimistic, confiding, Tragedy enters the lives of two a lifesaving treatment. The Baptist, married a black man, impulsive, and an intervener in strangers: widowed Sonia, consequences of Fiona’s choices raised 12 children and put them other people’s lives. Marriage and and Adam, a young sculptor echo through her personal life, all through college. Around her family provide the focus for a wry, experiencing his first taste of and will make you reconsider story is McBride’s story of his tolerant look at life’s absurdity artistic success. This superbly medical, religious and legal own struggles for identity, and and underlying comedy. written, convincingly plotted ethics. This is McEwan’s towards faith in a God neither F 1988 327pp B1265 debut Australian novel skilfully succinct, gripping prose at black nor white, but ‘the color explores responsibility, for both its best. of water’. Brideshead Revisited the living and the dead. F 2015 224pp B2220 N 1997 291pp B1593 Evelyn Waugh F 2006 293pp B1960 The Children’s Bach The Corrections This is Waugh’s best-known The author wrote with novel, thanks largely to the atmosphere and we appreciated Helen Garner Jonathan Franzen sumptuous 1981 television her technique in telling the story A compact but densely styled Families SHORTLISTED series. When Charles meets from a child’s point of view. novel which teases apart the Pulitzer Prize glamorous Sebastian at Oxford, Stories felt real and the ending threads of a number of complex he is seduced by the exotic provoked discussion too. inter-relationships. An imaginative Alfred is elderly and increasingly allure of Sebastian’s aristocratic Mt Waverley Primers and compelling treatment of ill, and his wife Enid wants only family and their grand country inner suburban angst from the to have her three adult children house, Brideshead. As his friend The Casual Vacancy inimitable Garner. home for a family Christmas succumbs to alcoholism Charles F 1984 96pp B0569 together. These three moved to develops a complex relationship J.K. Rowling other cities, where they contend with Sebastian’s sister, Julia. This Through the microcosm of with their own messy adult lives. haunting novel is a portrait of parish council politics in the rural City of the Mind The black comedy and pathos in love and faith, and a eulogy for a town of Pagford, she brings Penelope Lively family living are counterpointed lost world. together a multigenerational His marriage now evaporated, against biting portraits of America F 1945 336pp B2130 cast of characters reflecting Matthew Halland shares in the in the late 1990s. An engrossing, many aspects of modern Britain. bringing up of his 8-year-old ambitious, powerful, funny, The Burgess Boys A compelling exploration of daughter. An architect, his work exceptional novel. community and family dynamics. takes him all over the ever- F 2001 568pp B1677 Elizabeth Strout F 2012 576pp B2174 changing cityscape of London. Haunted by the accidental death Lively’s characteristic fusing of Craft for a Dry Lake of their father, lawyers Bob and The Children feeling and intellect in this most Jim Burgess leave behind their satisfying novel. Kim Mahood Charlotte Wood sister, Susan, and town in Maine F 1991 220pp B1367 WINNER for new lives in New York. But When Mandy and her siblings The Age Nonfiction Book of the Year when Susan calls them back return home to watch over their home to help her lonely son, critically ill father, they struggle to Cloudstreet Artist Kim Mahood drives and who has thoughtlessly landed reconcile their past. Wardsman Tim Winton paints her way across the Tanami himself in deep trouble, old Tony has been waiting for Desert and the cattle station tensions surface. A beautifully Mandy’s return, and as he WINNER where she grew up. Fiona Capp written and complex story of insinuates himself into the family, Miles Franklin Literary Award comments: ‘This subtle, sharp- sibling relationships. pressure builds with devastating Two families of ordinary people eyed, resolutely unsentimental F 2013 336pp B2192 force. Wood’s acutely observed – battlers and losers – share memoir could well mark a new third novel explores the tenacious a ramshackle old Perth house phase in our literature about grip of childhood and the price called Cloudstreet. Over 20 Australian outback life and the paid for bearing witness to the years, the ups and downs of their complexities of a white woman’s suffering of others. lives bring them and the house relationship with the land and F 2007 269pp B2025 closer together in this sprawling, with the Aboriginal people who moving novel. inhabit it.’ N 2000 266pp B1636 Enjoyed F 1991 426pp B1269 The Casual Vacancy? 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Family Matters The Fine Colour of Rust D E Rohinton Mistry P.A. O’Reilly Who in the family will care for its Single mum Loretta lives in the Dark Places Every Secret Thing ageing patriarch, now helpless dusty rural town of Gunapan with Kate Grenville Gillian Slovo after a fall? His daughter’s family her two kids. She gamely steps This astonishing book traces take him into their crowded up when the local school is about SHORTLISTED Bombay apartment. The resulting to be closed and the council Miles Franklin Literary Award the life of the daughter of an imperilled South African family dilemmas and pressure are approves a dodgy development Albion Gidley Singer is the of passionate fighters against interwoven with the old man’s project near town. A book about cruel, domineering patriarch apartheid. What does it do to remembrances of a forbidden love, friendship and community, from Lilian’s Story. Grenville your personal life if your parents love in his earlier life. ‘A luminous covering contemporary issues assumes his voice to give are white, communist and compassion, an abundance of with tenderness and humour. his carelessly misogynistic irrepressible? Nadine Gordimer life and piercing moments’. F 2012 247pp B2151 perspective on his life and values calls this an ‘extraordinary F 2002 500pp B1818 as a son, husband, and father expression of the very nature of Foal’s Bread loving’. Compulsive reading. in this disturbing and impressive Fault Lines Gillian Mears novel that stands alone well, N 1997 282pp B1550 but perfectly complements Nancy Huston WINNER

Lilian’s Story. Told from the perspective of a The Age Book of the Year Families FL 1994 375pp B1439 NEW series of 6-year-olds, the story reveals how scars from the past SHORTLISTED can shape the present. From Miles Franklin Literary Award Digging to America California to New York, from Anne Tyler Extinctions Haifa to Toronto and Munich, Mears chronicles the hopes and Two families living in Baltimore family secrets unwind revealing heartbreaks of two generations of each adopt a baby girl from Josephine disturbing truths including a NSW farming family, particularly Korea and meet up at intervals Wilson the family’s history during the marriage of golden boy Roley over the years: the all American WWII. Content may offend to tough nut Noah. From the pre- WINNER some readers. war rural show jumping circuit to Donaldsons and the Yazdans, Miles Franklin Literary Award an Iranian American family. F 2007 308pp B1989 the changing world of the 50s, International adoption is only one 69-year-old engineer Fred this is a powerful testament to of the concerns here, as each Lothian has given up on life, and the Australian landscape and parent, child and grandparent in moved to a retirement village The Fence the vulnerability of the humans this sensitively observed novel after the loss of his wife and the Meredith Jaffe within it. responds differently to questions estrangement of his two children. Gardening column writer and F 2011 361pp B2139 of being a foreigner, belonging, Surrounded by clutter, Fred local stickybeak Gwen and her and being American. reminisces on his failures as a husband Eric have lived in the A Fraction of the Whole F 2006 277pp B1962 husband and a father. Then Fred same house in suburban Sydney Steve Toltz meets Jan, a bubbly woman for decades. When a new hipster who accepts no excuses, and family moves into the house next Heroes or criminals? Crackpots Dinner at the Homesick challenges him to confront the door with their four children and or visionaries? Relatives or Restaurant wrongs in his life, starting with his two loud dogs, it is the proposal enemies? From his prison cell, Anne Tyler children. Together, they embark of a fence that is the act of war Jasper Dean tells the unlikely on a journey of self-discovery, for Gwen. Clashes between story of his scheming father SHORTLISTED forgiveness, disability, ageing and generations, personalities and Martin, his crazy uncle Terry and Pulitzer Prize racial discrimination. lifestyle break out as the two how the three of them upset an entire continent. Incorporating Pearl has been left to bring 2016 280pp headstrong women battle for F B2289 death, parenting and first up two sons and an unruly, more than just council approval. love this is a scathingly funny, passionate daughter. Anne A relatable, witty look into the heartbreaking story of families Tyler skilfully uses the power of struggle between the old ways and how to survive them. youth’s perceptions, and sets and the new. them off against the reality of F 2016 368pp B2267 F 2008 711pp B2042 ‘adult’ life. Loving descriptions F of family relationships, including Falling Leaves The Fifth Child Frangipani youthful jealousies flavour life into Célestine Hitiura Vaite middle age. Adeline Yen Mah Doris Lessing Lessing’s engrossing novel This mother-daughter novel F 1982 303pp B0777 Embracing historical events is full of Tahitian lore about of world importance, Mah’s explores the ‘old fashioned’ idyll of a couple who meet, marry and men, women, children and tale of her life as an unwanted the realities of life. Gossip, daughter in thrall to the ideal of lovingly fill their house with their families. The arrival of their fifth, intrigues, family crises, and the filial devotion is gripping from the mother’s flavoursome advice beginning. A portrait of all the and very different, child raises dark questions about their family to her headstrong daughter are basic (and base) family feelings – conveyed with warmth, charm love and tenderness, hate, pain, – and about the human family in contemporary society. and gusto from this Tahitian- greed, resentment, indifference born author. and malice. F 1989 159pp B1259 2004 295pp B1879 N 1997 278pp B1558 F

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Freedom The God of Home Jonathan Franzen Small Things Ruth Park Larissa Behrendt We follow the lives of Patty Arundhati Roy This beloved Australian novel Stretching back to the early and Walter Berglund and their introduces Hugh and Margaret years of the 20th century, children, while touching on the WINNER Darcy, doing their best to raise Home describes three environment, overpopulation, Orange Prize a family amidst the poverty generations of an Aboriginal sustainability and life in Middle Twins Estha and Rahel live in and hardship of slum life in family. The novel begins in America after September 11. It the Indian state of Kerala, where 1940s Sydney. Ruth Park contemporary Australia with also tells a personal story that cruel caste traditions coexist combines robust and engaging Candice, a young indigenous explores the relationship between alongside a modern communist characters with acute social lawyer visiting her ancestral the Berglunds and Walter’s best movement. This moving novel observation. Her humanity, country with her father. friend and rival Richard Katz, a explores the joys and pains of humour and skilful storytelling Behrendt’s characters are rock musician. moments of life for a family in make The Harp in the South as vividly drawn and there is a F 2010 562pp B2104 a society where love laws ‘lay fresh and readable as ever. buoyancy and optimism in down who should be loved. And F 1948 225pp B2198 her vision. how, and how much’. F 2004 317pp B1832 G F 1997 340pp B1559 The Healing Party Micheline Lee The Household The Gathering The Good Parents Guide to Dying Anne Enright SHORTLISTED Joan London Victorian Premier’s Literary Award Debra Adelaide

Families WINNER Australian author and domestic SHORTLISTED Years after fleeing from her Man Booker Prize Prime Minister’s Literary Award advice columnist Delia Bennet domineering evangelical father, is diagnosed with cancer. She The nine surviving children of the Maya moves to Melbourne and Natasha returns to Melbourne’s knows she will leave behind her Hegarty clan gather for the wake begins an affair with her boss eastern suburbs to nurse her husband, two young daughters of their wayward brother Liam. It whose wife is dying of cancer. mother, Irene, who is dying and five chickens. Trying to wasn’t the drink that killed him; When her parents arrive to visit, from cancer. When she returns get her house in order, she it was the events of the winter they find out that their daughter she quickly realises nothing writes lists, makes plans, and of 1968 in his grandmother’s has disappeared. The award- much has changed. When her contemplates how she should house, which his sister Veronica winning author of Gilgamesh father claims to have received spend her remaining time. a message from God saying must now come to terms with. unravels the complex bonds F 2008 386pp B2011 Enright follows a line of hurt between parents, siblings, friends his wife is to be miraculously and redemption through three and lovers to create a portrait of cured, Natasha struggles with generations, as memories warp contemporary Australia. her family’s blind faith. Funny and secrets fester. at times, this novel tackles F 2008 351pp B2014 2007 261pp B1985 the serious issues of faith, lies F and family. Gilead H F 2016 304pp B2255 Marilynne Robinson WINNER Hamlet’s Dresser Pulitzer Prize Bob Smith Having spent his earlier years From the author of Housekeeping caring for a disabled sister, in his comes a beautiful story of faith, teens he joined the backstage family, and history. Towards the staff of a theatre company. end of his life, Reverend John Tender, restrained, and glowing Ames begins a letter to his son with excerpts from Shakespeare, Impress your about the strained relationship this book will fasten itself in book group between his father, a pacifist, and your memory. grandfather, an abolitionist, who with a range of 2002 285pp ‘preached men into the Civil War’. N B1782 authentic dishes F 2004 282pp B1963 The Hand That from around First Held Mine the world in our The Glass Castle cooking short Jeannette Walls Maggie O’Farrell Separated by fifty years, two courses. Walls’ father was a hopeless women are connected in alcoholic, and her mother an unexpected ways. Lexie is in her artist who let her four children early twenties when she moves fend for themselves. Walls’ to London, becoming immersed attitude to her parents is in the 1950s Soho art scene. In almost always affectionate contemporary London, artist Elina – but readers may not be so struggles to recover from a difficult forgiving! This book will elicit birth, while her partner Ted faces passionate discussion. cae.edu.au questions from his past. 03 9652 0611 RTO 3737 N 2005 341pp B1882 F 2010 341pp B2094

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The House in the Light Isa and May Last Friends Beverley Farmer Margaret Forster K Jane Gardam A divorced Australian woman Isamay is writing a master’s This is the final title in the trilogy returns to the Greek village where thesis about the role of The Kitchen God’s Wife featuring Old Filth and The Man she was once welcomed as a grandmothers in women’s history, Amy Tan in the Wooden Hat. It charts bride. Against the earthiness which leads to an examination Winnie’s story moves from the life of Old Filth’s great rival, and austerities of rural Greece, of her own grandmothers: Shanghai in the 1920s, through Terence Veneering, from his Farmer traces the affection, pugnacious May and chilly Isabel. the Japanese occupation of unconventional childhood to old scratchiness and strain in the Each harbours intriguing secrets, China, World War II and the age in the English countryside. relationship between Bell and which come to light as Isamay rise of the communists, to Gardam is a superb stylist and her ageing mother in law, the examines their lives. Forster’s her decades in America after an astute navigator of the human matriarch Kyria Sofia. Complex, writing is entertaining and 1949. Her personal life contains heart. Last Friends is a must with a luminous quality to accessible, and a great catalyst much pain, courage and for any group that enjoyed her the prose. for exploring the universal themes joy. Emotionally charged yet previous books. F 1995 235pp B1447 of family and the multiple roles unsentimental, the novel explores F 2013 224pp B2196 of women. relationships, uncovers secrets, Housekeeping F 2010 316pp B2121 and describes Chinese customs. Life in Seven Mistakes Marilynne Robinson F 1991 415pp B1330 Susan Johnson Families Still at school, Lucille and Ruth J Elizabeth Barton’s art career is have high hopes of their aunt finally taking off. She’s about Sylvie who comes to keep house L to fly to New York for her first for them after their mother’s Jesus Wants Me show at a prestigious gallery death. But the gentle Sylvie is for a Sunbeam Ladder of Years but first she must survive family a drifter and her behaviour too Peter Goldsworthy Anne Tyler Christmas on the Gold Coast. bizarre for some. One sister Rick, Linda and their two children Johnson explores relationships departs and soon Sylvie and SHORTLISTED and ageing in a black comedy represent the perfect Australian Orange Prize Ruth must move on. There is suburban family. When their with an unexpected climax. bleakness here, but also oddity, daughter is diagnosed with Sensing indifference in her family, F 2008 352pp B2037 beauty and a sense of stillness. cancer, their world is shattered. Delia Grinstead vanishes from A book that lingers in the mind. This novella poses important their lives. Walking along the F 1981 187pp B1206 questions about death, the beach, she keeps right on going afterlife and the place of religion. to a town nearby where she NEW The conclusion to this moving takes on a new life as a single I meditation on love, faith and working woman with no ties. fate will generate fiercely Where will things go from here? Little Indelible Ink divided responses. An unsettling look at marriage, Fires F 1993 133pp B1863 family, human complexity and Fiona McGregor simple needs. Funny and Everywhere Marie is 59, recently divorced The Joy Luck Club plangent by turns. Celeste Ng with grown children and living N 1995 326pp B1466 in an affluent Sydney suburb. Amy Tan WINNER When drunk she decides to get Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction a tattoo and develops an unlikely SHORTLISTED The Lake House friendship with the tattoo artist, National Book Award Kate Morton When artist and single mother Mia and her 15-year-old who shows her a different side A vibrant evocation of four A missing child and a family daughter Pearl rent a house from of Sydney. An immersing family Chinese women and their first secret are at the centre of this the affluent Richardson family, drama set in the Howard era. generation Chinese American enthralling mystery from the their growing connection to the 2010 446pp daughters: this brave, heartfelt author of The Forgotten Garden. F B2092 seemingly picture-perfect family novel powerfully communicates The Edevane family live an idyllic threatens the bonds between the intricacies of a double cultural life in their beautiful Cornwall Instructions for mother and daughter. Then identity, illuminating traditional home – until their toddler son a custody battle to adopt a a Heatwave Chinese customs and modern disappears. When disgraced Chinese-American baby tears Maggie O’Farrell mother-daughter relationships. police constable Sadie stumbles the town apart, causing the two Small print. across the house decades later, July, 1976. London is sweltering families to implode and familial she begins to unravel what really through a heatwave when Robert F 1989 288pp B1283 secrets are unearthed. A witty happened on that midsummer Riordan walks out on his wife exploration of white privilege, evening in 1933. and disappears. His three adult class snobbery and motherhood children return home, and family F 2015 608pp B2240 in the 90s that will leave you secrets are revealed as tensions Enjoyed Jesus Wants questioning: what side are mount on a journey to Ireland. you on? Beautifully written with surprising me for a Sunbeam? twists, this is a moving portrait of F 2017 338pp B2273 a family that comes undone. Try The Healing Party F 2013 338pp B2179 by Micheline Lee [B2255]

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Love and Vertigo Mother’s Milk No Great Mischief Hsu Ming Teo M Edward St Aubyn Alistair MacLeod Pandora is drawn back to her Patrick’s mother Eleanor, ageing Driven from the Highlands in native Singapore to die, and The Man in the and ailing, is determined to sign 1779, Calum MacDonald sails her Australian-born daughter Wooden Hat over his inheritance to a New for Nova Scotia, where he and Grace tries to understand her Jane Gardam Age Foundation, while his wife his people work as loggers and mother’s early life as the ‘rubbish Mary is lost in her obsession with miners, struggling in the new Child of the Empire, spirited child’ – the fourth daughter of a motherhood. A bitingly witty and land and its endless cold. Two young woman, Establishment Singaporean Chinese family in sometimes heart-breaking novel centuries later, these red-haired, wife of lawyer Edward Feathers; the 1940s. In turn funny, sad and about family dynamics. black-eyed MacDonalds are still Betty is every bit as intriguing and insightful about the tensions and linked by intense clan loyalty. vivid as her husband. Gardam F 2006 304pp B1952 mysteries in families fragmented explores the landscape of a F 1999 262pp B1627 by the dislocations of war marriage, including its secrets and emigration. My Family and and compromises, with wit and Other Animals N 2000 287pp B1645 understanding. This novel stands O alone well, and is a remarkable Gerald Durrell Lovers’ Knots companion piece to Old Filth. The Durrell family, their eccentric Old Filth Marion Halligan 2009 233pp B2073 hangers on, and the local F animals, birds and insects Jane Gardam WINNER provide a steady stream of Edward Feathers is well The Age Book of the Year The Memory hilarious incidents in this light- respected and known affectionately as Old Filth. Filth

Families Keeper’s Daughter hearted book, set in Corfu where A capacious, hundred year family Kim Edwards the author lived as a boy in the was a Raj orphan, sent ‘home’ novel which focuses on particular 1930s. Small print. at a young age from what was lives of individuals at key points. One evening in 1964, a blizzard then Malaya, to be fostered Like a moving photographic forces Dr Henry to deliver his NL 1956 300pp B0575 and receive a proper English collage, it lets the reader glimpse own twins. His son is born education. Gardam’s beautifully the time shifts which show healthy, his daughter has Down written, memorable novel individual and family destinies syndrome. Making a decision N pieces together the mosaic of from unexpected angles. that will haunt their lives forever, experiences that make up the he asks the nurse to take their F 1992 377pp B1380 Nine Days life of this one member of the daughter to an institution, and Toni Jordan Establishment, and by extension, tells his wife that the baby died. a generation of children of Spend nine days immersed in Lovesong This international bestseller is the Raj. Alex Miller a deeply moving exploration of the lives of members of one family secrets and the redemptive Melbourne family from the 1930s F 2004 260pp B1910 WINNER power of love. to the present day. Kit’s family, including his sister, mother and Our group was positive about The Age Book of the Year this novel - we were curious F 2005 401pp B1972 grandchildren, are engaging that it is part of a trilogy and and real in this evocative and SHORTLISTED will explore further. Gardam’s compassionate novel about Miles Franklin Literary Award The Moor’s Last Sigh evocation of the sense of loss Salman Rushdie sacrifice and survival. In her Tunisian café on the experienced by very young outskirts of Paris, Sabiha falls in This Indian family saga has a F 2012 245pp B2172 children wrenched from their parents for the sake of love with Australian John, and huge, surprising cast. Its mind educating them in England was together they fashion a new life. blowing mixture of the private Noah’s Compass convincing, often amusing and When writer Ken meets them and public, the historical and Anne Tyler invented is elegiac, outrageous, told us a lot about life under in Melbourne later in life, the A retired teacher in his 60s, the empire. sadness in Sabiha’s eyes draws astute, funny. An imaginative Liam lives a lonely life in a small Willie Worms him to tell their story. This is a and human challenge – vintage Rushdie! apartment. His inertia is broken story about home, family, and by an intruder, a knock on the human frailties, raising questions F 1995 434pp B1492 head and a case of amnesia. On Beauty of morals and purpose. His eccentric second ex-wife, Zadie Smith F 2009 368pp B2090 A Mother’s Disgrace his daughters and his grandson WINNER Robert Dessaix Noah all help Liam find direction. Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Noah’s Compass explores the An unusual and compelling meaning of happiness and From the bestselling author of autobiography written in mid-life the connections that keep us White Teeth. Howard is an art to describe how Dessaix came anchored in our lives. historian at an East Coast college to find and know the woman in the US. His marriage to Kiki is who is his birth mother. He F 2009 277pp B2084 strained to breaking point, and Enjoyed Old Filth? offers a moving account of the their three children struggle to apparently ordinary couple who cope. When Howard’s arch-rival adopted him and were such Try The Man in the accepts a post in Howard’s loving parents, and talks candidly faculty, a cascade of hilarious Wooden Hat about his move away from and tragic events ensues. by Jane Gardam married life to discover himself as [B2073] a homosexual. F 2005 446pp B1953 N 1994 195pp B1415

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Once in a House on Fire The Other Side The Pure Gold Baby Andrea Ashworth of the Bridge P Margaret Drabble This is an account of the Mary Lawson Jess is an anthropologist and writer’s early years following the Arthur and Jake Dunn are as Passing On single mother. Anna is her pure accidental death of her father. different as two brothers can Penelope Lively gold baby – a smiling child with The men her mother accepts be. Arthur, who is older, is shy, An unmarried daughter and son, a learning disability who never become violent, and the family dutiful and set to inherit the of 52 and 49 respectively, are left ‘grows up’. Narrated by their spirals downward into poverty family farm in northern Ontario, by the death of their domineering neighbour Eleanor, The Pure and uncertainty. Ashworth’s Canada, while Jake is young and mother to develop what remains Gold Baby profiles a changing lucid prose and lack of self-pity reckless. When Laura arrives in of their lives. Compassionate, society from ‘60s London to the and the child’s protectiveness their 1930s rural community their poised and finely written. present day, exploring forms of towards her beautiful, neglectful human kinship, the experience of uneasy relationship is pushed to 1989 210pp B1347 mother raise fascinating the edge. A beautifully told story F ageing, and the way we care for questions about human of love and family that spans one another. vulnerability and resilience. the changes of rural life from the The Poisonwood Bible F 2013 291pp B2201 N 1998 330pp B1740 Great Depression to WWII. Barbara Kingsolver F 2006 273pp B2003 SHORTLISTED The Orchard Thieves Pulitzer Prize R Elizabeth Jolley Our Father Who Families Missionary preacher Nathan In this beautiful, autumnal work Art in the Tree Reading in Bed Price moves his family to the Sue Gee Jolley creates an insightful and Judy Pascoe Congo in the ‘60s, a time of artful work about families. The A funny, touching novel evoking tremendous political and social Dido and Georgia have been figures of the grandmother, the a family in crisis. A man dies upheaval. The narrative alternates friends since university. They three sisters, and the young suddenly, leaving four bewildered between Nathan’s wife and live in a cultured English world grandsons who give the book children and a distraught wife. four daughters in this powerful, of lovely gardens, good books its title, open our imaginations to In the heat of a Queensland poignant and sometimes and conversation. But for the the poignant question of what summer they contend with his funny exploration of religious first time, Dido has reason to one generation can pass on to absence, and young Simone zeal, conscience, imperialist question her marriage, while following ones. More a fable than is convinced her father is still arrogance, and the many paths widowed Georgia has yet to a novel. Clear print. speaking to her from where he to redemption. Small print. come to terms with the loss of her husband; their children are F 1995 134pp B1477 now lives in the great tree behind F 1998 543pp B1728 the house. unhappy in love and perfect health is no longer a given. Other People’s Children 2002 169pp B1795 F Precious Bodily Fluids F 2007 340pp B2016 Joanna Trollope Charles Waterstreet What does it feel like, for adults Our Tiny, Useless Hearts Full of event, flavour and brio as The Rector’s Wife and children, when, after losing Toni Jordan 11-year-old Charlie threads his Joanna Trollope a partner by divorce or death, a ‘Nothing much happens in the way cheekily through a rollicking man or a woman with children outer suburbs. It’s just like a spa family memoir of the owners In her early 40’s, Anna realises of various ages enters a new retreat. A nudist, adulterous spa of Waterstreet’s pub in Albury that her Rector husband’s parish relationship? This absorbing, retreat.’ Caroline and Henry’s in 1961. Irish Catholic family is ‘the other woman in my life’. shrewd and sympathetic novel marriage is teetering on the brink, and school culture, six o’clock Children’s needs impel her to get probing the complexities of so it’s lucky that Caroline’s sister closing, SP bookies, police raids a paid job. Trollope’s account modern family life will surely Janice is there to look after their and sinister plots to fluoridate of the web of personal, family sound echoes for every reader. daughters. But Janice is busy the town’s water are all part of and parish life was reprinted 13 F 1998 320pp B1749 dealing with her feelings toward a delightful and dreadful time, times in its first two years as a her ex-husband, and to top it all now gone. paperback. Good black print. An amazing read and very much off, Caroline’s nosy neighbours N 1998 262pp B1718 FL 1991 243pp B1423 enjoyed by all our members. seem to be having their own There was much discussion marital crisis. This entertaining, about ‘colonial rule’ and the Revolutionary Road moving novel explores family, A Private Man influence few countries have on childhood, and the sacrifices we Malcolm Knox Richard Yates so many throughout the world. Well worth reading. make for love. Set in contemporary Sydney, SHORTLISTED Rylstone DGGs F 2016 288pp B2245 this is a portrait of three adult National Book Award brothers and their parents, over the days following the father’s Frank and April are bored by their unexpected death in curious 1950s suburban American lives circumstances. In Knox’s look at and dream of being extraordinary. different models of masculinity, But their decision to change their the worlds of medical practice, life leads to tragedy. Tennessee test cricket and pornography Williams said: ‘here is more merge in a literary thriller than fine writing; here is what … about a family under pressure. makes a book come immediately, Strong language. intensely and brilliantly alive.’ F 2004 385pp B1838 F 1961 336pp B2039

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The Riders A Short History of The Sound of Tim Winton S Tractors in Ukrainian One Hand Clapping WINNER Marina Lewycka Richard Flanagan Commonwealth Writers’ Prize The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad SHORTLISTED SHORTLISTED Orange Prize Miles Franklin Literary Award Fred Scully’s desperate quest A carefully developed human story to get his Australian family of an agent’s family in the grim Sisters Nadezhda and Vera Sonja Buloh has gone to Sydney together again drives him from world of the agent provocateur. haven’t always seen eye to eye. to make herself a carefully Ireland across Europe, with his It is based on a real incident, But when their father’s young, ordered life. Her return to gutsy and loving daughter. In the the attempted destruction of glamorous fiancée Valentina Tasmania connects her with the background are the mysterious, Greenwich Observatory, treated bursts into their lives ‘like a fluffy traumas of her migrant parents’ waiting riders and the Australian with Conrad’s irony, scepticism pink grenade’ they agree they European and Australian pasts, experience. Gripping suspense. and social insight. must rescue him from her greedy and the childhood she has tried FL 1994 377pp B1455 1907 249pp B1013 clutches and his own geriatric to forget. An important novel F fantasies. Enlivened with quirky about dislocation, work, family. characters and original dialogue, F 1997 425pp B1586 Rose Boys Seducing Mr Maclean this spirited story is about love, Peter Rose Loubna Haikal old age, immigration, Ukrainian A Spot of Bother WINNER The daughter of a Lebanese history and family secrets. Biography Prize family enrols in Medicine F 2005 324pp B1893 Mark Haddon to fulfil her family’s dreams. From the author of The Curious Robert Rose was a footballer and Families Her Australian boyfriend, the Sisters Incident of the Dog in the Night cricketer in a famous Melbourne suspect business dealings of her Time. George is trying to settle sporting family. Suddenly left brothers, and parents slaving Drusilla Modjeska and others quietly into retirement, but quadriplegic at 22 by a car away in their restaurant, are Australia’s foremost women his daughter is marrying an accident, Robert became totally ingredients in this fast-moving writers – Modjeska, Mears, Yahp, inappropriate man, his wife is dependent on others. His brother comic novel. Garner, Hewett and Jolley – carrying on with his ex-colleague, Peter, a poet, writer and editor, 2002 318pp B1679 explore the joys and vexations and an unsettling rash has has written a memoir about a F of sisters, in autobiographical appeared on his hip. As the Hall family under great pressure, a essays and more or less fictional family slides into chaos, George tribute to his brother and parents The Shipping News stories. Wonderful glimpses quietly and politely begins to and a book of quiet power. Annie Proulx of writers’ lives and into all go mad. N 2001 289pp B1796 that is involved in being and F 2006 390pp B1966 WINNER remembering siblings. Pulitzer Prize Running in the Family NS 1993 185pp B1427 Summer at Mount Hope Michael Ondaatje WINNER National Book Award Ondaatje returned to his native The Slap Ham’s second novel is a 19th- Sri Lanka in the 1970s to retrace A hapless New York hack Christos Tsiolkas century romance. Feisty heroine the baroque mythologies of his journalist takes off with his two Phoeba Crupp lives with her forebears, outrageous, eccentric, WINNER small, motherless daughters Commonwealth Writers’ Prize parents and sister on a small or embattled: ‘Everyone and redoubtable aunt to storm- farm near Geelong. Her father was vaguely related and had battered Newfoundland, where A man slaps a child at a moved his family from the city to Sinhalese, Tamil, Dutch, British he gradually makes a new life. suburban barbeque. The child is establish a vineyard, a decision and Burgher blood in them going The characters, wild setting not his own. This event and its Phoeba’s mother bitterly resents. back for generations. Love affairs and remarkable writing all come consequences have a rippling With less black comedy than in rainbowed over marriages and off the page with a blast of effect on the friends and family The Dressmaker, Ham highlights lasted forever so it often seemed freshness. An irresistible comedy at the barbeque. Told from the the efforts of women a century that marriage was the greater of human life and possibility. viewpoints of eight people, The ago to thwart tradition and infidelity.’ An unforgettable book. F 1993 337pp B1458 Slap is an unflinching look at the pursue their dreams. N 1982 207pp B1650 modern family. Strong language F 2005 296pp B1936 may offend some readers. Running with Scissors F 2008 400pp B2034 Swallow the Air Augusten Burroughs Burroughs’ mother gave him When May’s mother dies away to her psychiatrist when suddenly, she and her brother he was twelve. His bizarre Enjoyed Running Billy are taken in by Aunty. childhood, spent in the doctor’s While Billy takes his own self- dilapidated mansion where he with Scissors? destructive path, May sets off to maintained a relationship with a find her father and her Aboriginal paedophilic inpatient, is the basis Try The Curious identity. Written in a poetic for this harrowing, entertaining, style, with an excellent ear for and endlessly surreal memoir. Incident of the Dog in dialogue, these skilfully crafted Contains explicit content. the Night Time interlinked stories about growing N 2003 304pp B1892 by Mark Haddon up on society’s fringes herald a [B1816] distinctive and exciting voice in Australian indigenous fiction. FS 2006 198pp B1937

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The Sweet Shop Owner There Should A Thousand Trespass Graham Swift Be More Dancing Splendid Suns Valerie Martin A decisive day in the life of Rosalie Ham Khaled Hosseini Trespass is the story of two 60-year-old Willy Chapman On Margery’s eightieth birthday Brought together by war, loss, families haunted by the past. evokes the personal, family and she reflects back on her life. She and marriage to the same cruel Chloe Dale is discontent with social history of his life and his has lived quietly in Brunswick man, Mariam and Laila develop a the American involvement in shop. Clear, compassionate (Melbourne) for the past sixty lifelong friendship. Spanning the the Iraq war, and with her son writing reveals courage, years but now she wants to jump Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Toby’s girlfriend Salome Drago. pain, laughter, limitation and off the balcony at her hotel. She the Afghan civil war and the rule An émigré from the former unexpected sweetness in an doesn’t trust anyone, least of all of the Taliban, this is a moving Yugoslavia, Salome has her own ordinary life. her family. However, she doesn’t tale of friendship, love and family. concerns and dangerous secrets from her past are about to catch F 1980 222pp B1203 want to hurt anyone below F 2007 370pp B1961 the hotel so instead she thinks up with her. back and revisits her life. Told F 2007 288pp B2019 Swimming with with Rosalie Ham’s wit, humour The Tiger in the Tiger Pit the Jellyfish and compassion. Janette Turner Hospital Vicki Hastrich F 2011 347pp B2128 The tiger is an old man facing U With a gift for humour and his 50th wedding anniversary, characterisation Hastrich irritated and alienated by present Unless Families evokes a small New South A Thousand Acres incapacities and past lost Wales coastal town through Jane Smiley opportunities. His wife strives to Carol Shields the eyes of a likable eccentric recompose a family harmony, Norah, beloved adult daughter WINNER of Reta Winters, opts out of woman, still preoccupied by the Pulitzer Prize recognising that ‘We are all disappearance of her mother capable of brutality, aren’t we?’ normal life in order to sit on twenty years back. A warm, Dominating, implacable Larry A deftly woven plot in this a gritty street corner mutely quirky, insightful book with a cast Cook owns the largest, richest thought-provoking exploration of displaying a sign around her of memorable characters. farm in Zebulon County, Iowa. parents and children. neck that reads ‘GOODNESS’. Her mother’s search for what F 2001 224pp B1692 Without warning he opts to retire, F 1983 256pp B1244 passing the farm to his three drove her daughter to this daughters and setting off a chain turns into a funny meditation of events which will divide the The Time We Have Taken on where we find meaning and T family and bring dark secrets to Steven Carroll hope. A suspenseful fiction light. In her modern reworking about supposedly ordinary A Tale of Love of Shakespeare’s tragedy King WINNER lives from this exceptional and Darkness Lear, this American novelist Miles Franklin Literary Award Canadian novelist. Amos Oz produces a compelling tale about Summer, 1970: television and F 2002 213pp B1696 family, human nature, and this The single child of a couple wireless shop proprietor, Peter, farming community. who migrated to Israel in pronounces his Melbourne the 1930s, Oz grew up in F 1991 371pp B1499 suburb one hundred years old. V Jerusalem and is now one of As his community prepares to Israel’s foremost writers. His We all found this to be a celebrate progress, a mural is captivating, page-turning novel. Various Pets Alive family chronicle is mesmerising: commissioned of the area’s Despite its dark undertones of and Dead funny, intense, tragic. In the history. But what vision of the child sexual abuse and loss, layers of his extended family past will this painting reveal? The Marina Lewycka this book fascinated us in its in Israel – all transplanted from third in a trilogy, Carroll’s novel Unrepentant hippie Marxists Doro portrayal of family and place - is a meditation on the rhythms and Marcus realise the revolution Eastern Europe and drenched in Zebulon County in Iowa in the European languages and culture of suburban life during a time of is never coming. But why do late 70s was portrayed in such a radical change. their children have to embrace – we see the making of Jewish way that we felt transported. We capitalism and consumerism Jerusalem, and beyond that the all love books about families. F 2007 327pp B2027 so enthusiastically? A charming emerging state of Israel. As a result our discussion was story about family values and the N 2004 564pp B1938 lively - themes centred on what Tinkers can one forgive, what makes comedy of the new generation a good family and what do we Paul Harding gap from the author of A Short That Eye, the Sky History of Tractors in Ukrainian. owe our parents. WINNER Tim Winton Northo Bookends Pulitzer Prize F 2012 366pp B2165 A threatened family struggles to hold together in the city outskirts. Clockmaker George Washington The moving story is beautifully Crosby lies dying and travels told in the pungent slangy idiom back in time through memories Enjoyed The Art of of 12-year-old Ort Flack. We see of his impoverished childhood the Engine Driver? his family (and the big human in rural Maine, and of his father, questions) through his loving, a peddler who suffered from troubled, visionary eyes. epileptic seizures. Harding’s Try The Time language dazzles, whether he’s F 1986 150pp B0875 We Have Taken L describing the workings of clocks by Steven Carroll or sensory images of nature. [B2027] F 2009 191pp B2103

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The White Earth W Andrew McGahan Y WINNER We Are All Completely Miles Franklin Literary Award You Gotta Have Balls Beside Ourselves Lily Brett Karen Joy Fowler WINNER Ruth is a 54 year old Jewish The Age Book of the Year Australian running a successful WINNER business in New York. She PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Do we own the land or does worries about her weight, it own us? Who can claim to about her husband, and about SHORTLISTED belong here? In the Darling her 87-year-old father, the Man Booker Prize Downs in the years when the irrepressible Edek. Enter Zofia: imminent passage of Native Something in Rosemary’s buxom Polish 60 something with Title is of huge concern to local childhood turned her from a one eye for business and another landowners, a fatherless boy lively, chatty child into a quiet for Edek, and Ruth’s worrying and his mother are taken in by adult with a secret. Her siblings reaches hilarious heights. In this the family patriarch. Part family disappeared inexplicably; her light-hearted but satisfying novel, saga, part history and part father, a renowned psychologist, Brett tackles serious themes with gothic thriller, this novel is set in a brought home his work in wit and verve. Frank and with landscape haunted by the ghosts surprising ways. Rosemary occasional strong language, this of black and white. attempts to reconcile her present is delightful social comedy about 2004 389pp modern family life. Families with her jumbled memories, F B1852 wondering what it is we relate to F 2005 293pp B1944 in others – is it the ‘human’, or White Teeth the ‘being’? While some members enjoyed Zadie Smith this novel more than others, 2014 336pp B2215 F WINNER all agreed the characters were Whitbread Novel Award beautifully drawn, the dialogue was authentic and there were NEW This sparkling, noisy, comic epic many, many laugh-out-loud of multicultural Britain makes moments. Definitely not a book joyful use of vernaculars, various, to read on the train if you want What as it traces the inter-connections to look serious and dignified!! the Light of three families, one Indian, An uplifting book which Reveals one white and one mixed, over provoked a varied discussion. Nick McCoy 25 years in North London and Seaford Shortfalls Oxford. A novel with a relish for Set in ideas, for language and for the Melbourne in tragic comedy of human life. 1954, Australian-born communist Conrad, his wife Ruby and their F 2000 462pp B1772 two son’s lives are in shambles when Conrad is brought before The World Beneath the commission with false Cate Kennedy accusations of espionage during the peak of the Cold War. After As Sandy and Rich approach being vilified by peers and the middle age they look back on media, Conrad uproots his family the Franklin Blockade as the to Moscow where the family highlight of their lives. While must face up to their own lies Sandy embraced new age and secrets. A family drama spirituality and the mothering that explores identity, individual of their 15-year-old daughter, beliefs, family and politics during Rich roamed the world with the Cold War period. his camera, trying to recapture the promise of his youth. F 2018 368pp B2288 Rich attempts to rekindle his relationship with his daughter on a trek in the Tasmanian wilderness, but disaster looms. All three go on a journey and let go of the past, while they move towards a future together. F 2009 342pp B2071

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1788 An Authentic Life Bloodletting and Watkin Tench Caroline Jones Miraculous Cures C First-hand accounts of the First Caroline Jones sees her book Vincent Lam Fleet’s expedition to Botany as an invitation to the reader ‘to Dr Vincent Lam draws on his life Catfish and Mandala Bay written by a captain in the reflect on your own story, on experience as he follows a group Andrew X. Pham marines. Robert Hughes says: your own experience, on the of young doctors from medical Pham’s family escaped Vietnam ‘An eye that noticed everything, way you are living your life – to school to emergency rooms. in 1977. Twenty years later, Pham a young man’s verve, a sly wit ... discover the revelation it has ‘Each of these interconnected abandons his engineering career the most readable classic of early to offer you’. She reveals a few stories reveal nuances of different and makes an epic year-long Australian history.’ central moments in her own life pressures – the immense sense of bicycle journey on a shoestring N 1793 276pp B1517 story as she explores the stories responsibility, sleep disturbances, budget through New Mexico, she elicited in her ABC Radio psychological problems and the USA, Japan and finally Vietnam. National program ‘The Search for failures of imperfection’ – Toronto Part travelogue, part memoir, A Meaning’. Star (Canada). this is a confronting book about N 1998 312pp B1707 FS 2005 350pp B2024 cultural identity, framed within an The Accursed Mountains exciting adventure story. Robert Carver Brick Lane N 1999 342pp B1874 B Monica Ali Robert Carver knows he was A Change of Skies lucky to leave Albania alive. He Balanda foiled an attempt on his life, WINNER Yasmine Gooneratne Mary Ellen Jordan Man Booker Prize travelled the worst roads he A witty, multi-faceted has seen and fought off cholera ‘Balanda’ is the word used Life for Bangladeshi village girl exploration of differences and and dysentery. He describes by Aboriginal people in the Nazreen is duty and obedience misunderstanding between wonderful scenery and remote Northern Territory to describe until her father arranges her cultures, and the impact of settlements where a centuries- non-Aboriginal people. Fuelled marriage to Chanu of Tower moving between cultures. Neither old way of life is still unchanged. by a desire to make a meaningful Hamlets, London. Nazreen Australia nor Sri Lanka will look N 1998 349pp B1649 contribution to the lives of struggles to reconcile herself quite the same to you after this. indigenous Australians, Jordan both to fate and to choice as she 1991 329pp B1319 spent a year working at a tiny faces issues surrounding family, F The Adventures of arts centre in Arnhem Land. identity, Islam and community. Huckleberry Finn The transition from Melbourne 2003 492pp B1813 City of Djinns Mark Twain to Maningrida was extreme and F William Dalrymple being a ‘Balanda’ proved more This great American novel is a complex than Jordan bargained Subtitled ‘A Year in Delhi’, the comic and searching examination Brooklyn for. As her disillusionment book presents encounters with of American society in the mid- Colm Tóibín grows, her opinions on a range of individuals – Muslims, 19th century. The depiction of Eilis Lacey leaves her small race, culture, language, art Sikhs, Anglo Indians, Punjabis, Sufi life on the Mississippi raises town in south-east Ireland in the and political correctness mystics, calligraphers, eunuchs, larger questions of individuality, 1950s, and sets off for a new are constantly challenged. pigeon flyers – whose stories conformity and escape. life in Brooklyn. When tragedy An honest, perceptive and reflect the eventful history of this strikes, she is faced with a F 1884 370pp B0105 engaging contribution to the ancient city. Lively, diverting and difficult decision between love in relationship between black and informative: a real delight. Print her new land and the promises to white Australians. smallish but clear. Almost French her family back home. 2005 224pp B1868 N 1993 350pp B1405 Sarah Turnbull N F 2009 256pp B2059 A frank and engaging travel memoir from this Australian Behind the Wall Almost all enjoyed this ‘coming Conditions of Faith ex-pat about her new life in Paris Colin Thubron of age’ story. It was an accurate Alex Miller with a ‘very French Frenchman’. description of society in both A finely written look at China. The A young Australian decides to An honest, often amusing Ireland and America in the big picture is made up of many marry a Scottish Frenchman and account of the highs, lows and 1950s, and the expectations of tiny portraits of people who are follows him to 1920s Paris, where culture clashes associated a young lady in that era. simultaneously common and he is working on a design tender with living in a foreign country. Toowoomba 1 U3A extraordinary. Thubron parades for the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Read this book for an insider’s before us the little lives of babies, Inevitably the realities of her daily account of life in Paris – food, people who have nothing, life as wife, pregnant woman fashion, social rituals, bloody- the greedy and the powerful, and mother clash with her desire minded bureaucrats and all as individuals. Informative for liberty and the need to use pampered pooches. and rewarding. her mind. A splendid account N 2002 309pp B1776 of the excitement and cruel N 1987 302pp B1356 sacrifices entailed in creative and intellectual commitment. F 2000 406pp B1634

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The Fig Tree NEW D E Arnold Zable Including his Polish Jewish Forest A Death in Brazil Eat Pray Love parents and his wife’s Greek Peter Robb Elizabeth Gilbert parents, Zable collects stories Dark After a bitter divorce and a about belonging and dislocation. Nicole Krauss WINNER We move from late migrant era Moving from The Age Nonfiction Book of the Year turbulent love affair, Gilbert realised it was time to pursue Carlton to Ithaca, hearing tales of New York to Robb paints a picture of South three things: pleasure, devotion refugees and wanderers, singers Tel Aviv, the America’s largest and most and balance. Her spiritual quest and poets. Hospitality and the novel combines two narrative mysterious country, blending unfolds in an engaging and welcoming of strangers are threads from retired philanthropist personal journey with a portrait highly enjoyable travel narrative recurring motifs in a book which Jules Epstein, who goes missing of a sensual, often violent that takes her to Italy, India and remains relevant today. when he leaves New York with society with extremes of poverty Indonesia. N 2002 222pp B1685 what remains of his wealth to Tel Aviv, and 39-year-old and wealth; a background of N 2006 348pp B2000 Portuguese and centuries of Flight Behaviour American novelist Nicole, who’s slavery, workers’ strikes and plagued by writer’s block and a organised crime – all flavoured The End of Seeing Barbara Kingsolver stale marriage, and discovers a with lime and coconut juice. Christy Collins mystery that alters her life. The SHORTLISTED novel explores Jewish culture, Orange Prize N 2003 372pp B1827 WINNER Frankz Kafka and personal Seizure Viva La Novella Prize Farm-wife Dellarobia sees her metamorphosis. Diary of a Welsh Ana is still recovering from the world ignited in a literal blaze F 2017 304pp B2284 Swagman, 1869–1894 death of her daughter when of colour when rare Monarch William Evans her husband goes missing on butterflies make their home in the forests on her family’s land. Class Joseph Jenkins worked on farms a photojournalistic assignment differences and societal values in the Ballarat and Castlemaine overseas. Nick’s last pictures deepen as science clashes with The Fountain of Age area and kept diaries for 25 were taken all across Europe, religion around this small town years. These diaries lay in an attic following a theme of refugees Betty Friedan American family, and the result is (in Wales) for 70 years before and forgotten people. Friedan covers many of the a thought-provoking reflection of they were found and interpreted Uncovering the trail left by his issues and choices facing people humanity against a backdrop of a as a valuable historical document photographs, Ana sets out to as they age. She attacks our world in flux. which conveys the personality of find Nick – or, at least, the truth society’s fear and denial of age, the diarist. of what happened. Beautiful F 2012 436pp B2190 and its belittling stereotypes of Journeys and haunting. N 1975 216pp B1089 older women and men. She F 2015 240pp B2233 Floundering offers facts, anecdotes and Romy Ash experience in a discursive and Down Under cheerfully resilient account of the Bill Bryson The English SHORTLISTED third age – not a dead end, but a Jeremy Paxman Of course, we all know that Miles Franklin Literary Award fountain! Smallish print. Australia is a huge, mainly empty The English are an ineradicable Abandoned by their unreliable NL 1993 654pp B1407 country of aggressive climatic part of Australian history. This mother, Tom and Jordy live with extremes and teeming with witty, penetrating book analyses their grandmother until their French Lessons poisonous creatures. Even so, English society, offering historical mother’s sudden reappearance. give yourself the pleasure of and sociological explanations Alice Kaplan During a haphazard road trip, accompanying American born for the way the English are. Brought up in a Minneapolis she leaves them again, this Anglophile Bryson as he sights a Paxman’s scholarship and family, Kaplan spent her fifteenth time on Australia’s west coast. range of the country’s must-see intellectual rigour forces a year at a French-speaking Swiss Desperate, the boys turn to an destinations and draws such careful consideration. school. Exploring French became old man for help – but what conclusions for himself. He can’t a passion, and her account of N 1998 309pp B1639 danger does he pose? help just liking it here, but his this is entrancing to language account of Oz is still sharp-witted F 2012 202pp B2162 lovers. Her later research into and aware. F French fascist writing linked to 2000 319pp B1753 Footsteps memories of her father, a lawyer N at the Nuremberg trials. Direct, A Fez of the Heart Richard Holmes candid and mind stretching. Jeremy Seal These ‘footsteps of a romantic N 1994 221pp B1443 The fez has played a central role biographer’ appeal to lovers of in Turkey’s conflicting desires to biography, travel and history, be both Eastern and Western, telescoping the joys of several Enjoyed Hand Me both Muslim and secular. It books. Walk with R. L. Stevenson Down World? was banned in 1925 by Kemal through France; join in the French Atatürk, and Seal sets out to Revolution with Wordsworth and trace its history and demise. An Wollstonecraft; visit Shelley’s Try The End of Seeing engaging, gentle, often funny complicated household in Italy. by Christy Collins travelogue offering real insights Hunting his haunting subject, into Turkey. Holmes struggles towards his [B2233] own mature identity. N 1995 291pp B1528 N 1985 288pp B1530

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From Rice to Riches Interpreter of Maladies Jane Hutcheon H I Jhumpa Lahiri Born in Hong Kong and WINNER part Chinese herself, ABC Heart of Darkness I Heard the Owl Pulitzer Prize correspondent Jane Hutcheon Joseph Conrad Call My Name takes the reader on a journey In the Congo during its Margaret Craven Wherever each of these nine into her family’s past as well short stories is set, from colonisation by Belgium, shocks Despite encroaching social as across the new China. Bengal to Boston, all in some and transformations resulted change, tribal beliefs and ways With refreshing directness she way explore ‘Indianness’ from the clash of cultures. The are still important to the Indian recounts her round as a foreign and the complex mechanics novel follows a newcomer’s tribe living in a village of British journalist – meeting characters of adjustment to new journey up-river and inland to the Columbia. How can their new from all levels of society, circumstances, relationships, heart of that experience. Anglican vicar, young Mark Brian, outwitting the Security Police cultures. In transparently simple find acceptance, serve them and writing self-confessions F 1899 340pp B0003 writing, devoid of overt comment, and learn from them? Canada’s when found out, and sampling Lahiri uses voice and viewpoint in rivers, salmon, wild geese and the country’s varied and such a way that the stories linger Highways to a War changing seasons are central to delicious cuisine. in the mind. this simple and moving tale. Fair N 2003 371pp B1819 WINNER sized print. FS 1999 198pp B1763 Miles Franklin Literary Award F 1967 133pp B1235 Iron and Silk G ‘Being in battle, like being in Mark Salzman love, is one of the fundamental In Search of the Gilgamesh human experiences.’ Set in the Blue Tiger From the age of 13, this predominantly male world of war Robert Power engaging young American Joan London was absorbed by all things journalism, this novel opens in Aided by a vivid imagination, WINNER 1976 with the disappearance Chinese. His account of two lonely young Oscar escapes his years he spent teaching English The Age Book of the Year of a gifted war photographer brutal home life through a rich in Cambodia, and follows the in Changsha in the early fantasy world. The relationships 1980s is a series of entrancing SHORTLISTED highways of his life into the he forms along the way with Miles Franklin Literary Award countries and wars he covered. anecdotes about his students, widowed librarian Mrs April and friends and those who teach A small-town Australian woman F 1996 451pp B1504 twin girls Perch and Carp will him more about the literature, Journeys journeys to war-torn Armenia shape their destinies in profound calligraphy and martial arts he to find the father of her child. Holy Cow! and tragic ways. loves. Unforgettable vignettes of Her retelling of the ancient Sarah Macdonald F 2012 333pp B2160 China and the Chinese way of Mesopotamian epic of the hero doing things. Macdonald starts out as a Gilgamesh, his mourning for his ‘fundamentalist atheist’, but In Siberia N 1986 211pp B1304 beloved friend Enkidu and his her encounters with Hinduism, eventual homecoming, resonates Colin Thubron Islam, Judaism, Jainism, Sufis, with the journey taken. Thubron journeys by train, river Sikhs, Parsees, Christians and J 2001 255pp B1695 and truck across the vastness F an assortment of yogis, sadhus, of Siberia among the people swamis, nuns and Bollywood most damaged by the collapse Journey to the A God in Ruins stars leave her with a more of Communism. He ranges from Stone Country complex agnosticism. Kate Atkinson Mongolia to the Arctic Circle, Alex Miller Teddy is the younger brother of N 2002 298pp B1784 from the site of the last Czar’s Ursula in Life After Life, and in murder and Rasputin’s village to WINNER Miles Franklin Literary Award this companion novel we follow The Hungry Tide the graves of ancient Scythians, to Baikal, deepest and oldest of the life he would have had, had Amitav Ghosh A Melbourne academic and an he survived the war which killed the world’s lakes. Piya, an Indian born American is Aboriginal stockman meet again him in Ursula’s story. Atkinson 1999 287pp in search of a rare river dolphin N B1762 and travel together through the writes with sensitivity and humour in the wandering strands of the high ranges of remote North of life’s highs, including a bucolic Ganges. When she hires an Inside Outside Queensland to the places they childhood, and lows, such as illiterate local fisherman, to guide have known and come from. Teddy’s experience of war and Andrew Riemer her through the backwaters, Miller’s intimate knowledge of the small disappointments of The Sydney based academic, sophisticated Delhi businessman the outback resonates through fatherhood – and of living. writer and critic left Budapest Kanai must act as translator. his novel, both a cross-cultural 2015 400pp B2221 during 1946 at the age of 10. love story and an exploration F Ghosh skilfully binds three people In 1990 he returned for a visit, together in an exotic place to of identity, of how and where We felt the war scenes were hoping to get some sense of his examine ideas of love, jealousy, one belongs, and of our a good representation of how family’s past there. A witty, lucid pride and trust. painful histories. things would have been and and memorable account of two contrasted the God-like respect F 2004 403pp B1883 worlds, also offering Riemer’s F 2002 364pp B1803 and ‘hero’ status of Teddy views on issues such as the compared to his very ordinary importance in a new country of non-existent life afterward. language acquisition. Camperdown: N 1991 218pp B1328 The Leura Literati

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The Memory of Running Mr Muo’s Travelling Norwegian by Night M Ron McLarty Couch Derek B. Miller Smithy, the middle-aged central Dai Sijie 82-year-old ex-marine Sheldon Mahjar figure in this American novel, Mr Muo, a 40-year-old student has reluctantly moved to Oslo, Eva Sallis is alone and in a bad way. of Freud, returns from long years where he remains haunted by Many books have been written Something prompts him to of study in Paris to his country of his past. When he witnesses a about the experience of migrating resurrect his old bicycle and head birth as its first psychoanalyst at woman’s murder by a Balkan to Australia from Europe and off for Los Angeles, through New large. China offers few patients gang, he rescues her 6-year-old Great Britain. But these eloquent, York, St. Louis, and Denver, to and he is consumed by a new son and makes a run, relying linked stories take us into the find the sister who went missing mission, to liberate his first love on military training now fifty very different lives of immigrants years ago. His encounters on from prison where she has been years old. Both a thriller and an from the Middle East. Sallis this cycling road trip show us an consigned for political dissent. emotionally haunting novel about explores exile, loss, personal inarticulate, decent, and honest This comic novel follows its naïve ageing and regret. displacement, growth and man. His story and voice carry hero’s adventures and mishaps F 2012 305pp B2186 idiosyncrasy with empathy, comic the novel along. through the maze of present- warmth, and an undercurrent of F 2005 405pp B1929 day China. Notes from a Small Island anger in this timely book that is a F 2005 264pp B1930 Bill Bryson joy to read. Mermaid Singing; 2003 168pp B1834 Bill Bryson is an unrepentant S Peel Me a Lotus Anglophile who happened to be Charmian Clift N born in Iowa. He spent 20 years Mantras and In 1954, Australian writers in England before deciding to Misdemeanours Charmian Clift and George The Namesake return to the land of his birth. Vanessa Walker Johnston moved with their Jhumpa Lahiri This account of his walking tour of the English countryside is full Former journalist Vanessa young family from London to A story about an Indian boy of genial fun poking at a country Walker decided to spend a the Greek Islands – long before growing up in America (and he adores. year in Macleod Ghanj (home the ‘seachange’ books of more afflicted with a pet name in of the Dalai Lama) researching affluent writers. Clift records the honour of a Russian writer), N 1995 352pp B1599 a book on Tibetans in exile and passage of the seasons and her this novel depicts a recognised furthering her study of Buddhism, family’s experiences, writing with pattern of cultural transition: the but unexpectedly fell in love perceptiveness, warmth and parents cling to their Bengali O with an ex-monk and became vivacity. past, while the next generation pregnant three months later. Part N 1956;1959 422pp B1791 cannot shed the old ways The Odyssey travelogue, part cross-cultural fast enough. Lahiri writes with Journeys Homer love story, this is an enjoyable, Miss Garnet’s Angel subtlety and her characters are educational and insightful read. beautifully observed. Odysseus’ long voyage home Salley Vickers from the Trojan War takes him 2006 293pp B1928 F 2003 291pp B1835 N A retired teacher rents an through the terrors of the one- apartment in Venice, changing eyed Cyclops, the seductive The Many Coloured Land her previously narrow life. Julia Night Letters Sirens, and the wandering Christopher Koch Garnet succumbs to the beauty Robert Dessaix islands, before he finally reaches Ithaca and his faithful Penelope. Koch’s two great-grandmothers of the city and its magnificent art SHORTLISTED This early Greek epic has inspired settled in Tasmania in the 1840s: and responds to the spirituality of Miles Franklin Literary Award writers and artists in later ages. one a Protestant gentlewoman, the Catholic religion, becoming the other transported as a caught up in the lives of both Diagnosed with a terminal illness, F C8th BC 376pp B0335 convict. He explores Tasmanian locals and visitors. A gentle, kind, the novel’s protagonist travels and Irish connections in a book decorous, funny novel. to Italy as his exploration of the meaning in life in the proximity The Old Man and the Sea which combines family history, F 2000 342pp B1647 Ernest Hemingway childhood memoir and his travels of death moves him from the in two rather different Irelands, in Montebello world of doing into a realm of In Hemingway’s clear and 1956 and in 2000. being. A beautiful, civilised work direct prose, this story of an Robert Drewe of tale-spinning, travel, and richly old man’s fishing trip becomes 2002 246pp B1790 N Drewe writes about ‘islomania’ fanciful speculation. the vehicle for the discovery of and the ocean, of death and F 1996 276pp B1542 a new awareness of the dignity renewal, his childhood and and beauty that can be found his career as a writer in this everywhere. A timeless tale. discursive sequel to The F 1952 128pp B0205 Shark Net. At its core is the Enjoyed Balzac and author’s journey with a group the Little Chinese of environmentalists to the ? Montebello islands, site of little Seamstress known British nuclear testing in the 1950s. Lots to discuss! Try Mr Muo’s Travelling N 2012 286pp B2183 Couch by Dai Sijie [B1930]

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The Old Man Who Otherland Our Woman in Kabul Read Love Stories Maria Tumarkin Irris Makler R Luis Sepúlveda Maria Tumarkin travels home Freelance journalist Makler to rediscover her roots and was one of the first people into River Town WINNER introduce her Australian born Afghanistan after the terrorist Peter Hessler Nobel Prize daughter to the place where she attacks of September 11. With Peter Hessler spent two years in Antonio Bolívar lives as a recluse grew up – but the Russia and a humorous and lively insight Fuling, a remote city in China’s deep in the Amazon jungle in Ukraine she returns to is not into the life of a journalist in the Sichuan province. This charming Ecuador. When an ocelot begins the same as the one she left in field and the contradictions of travel memoir is remarkable for attacking humans in the small 1989. Maria comes to realise she the American involvement in Hessler’s frankness, his curiosity settlement, he is obliged against cannot force her daughter to feel Afghanistan, Makler writes with and his unceasing desire to his will to join a hunting party and think things just because she a deep sympathy for the Afghan understand the people of China. and confront the creature and wants her to. people, particularly the women He provides a unique glimpse his own past. A tale of life, death, N 2010 313pp B2080 and children. into the Chinese psyche as he atonement and the pleasures N 2003 356pp B1837 considers the profound cultural of reading. The Other Side differences between China and F 1989 128pp B1836 of the World the USA. Stephanie Bishop P N 2001 402pp B1890 One Thousand WINNER Postcards Chestnut Trees Readings Prize for Mira Stout New Australian Fiction Annie Proulx S Irish American-Korean Anna visits A Vermont farm clan declines WINNER after a son flees in terror following Salvation Creek Korea to discover her mother’s ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year family, a powerful clan stripped of the violent death of his girlfriend. Susan Duncan their lands during the Japanese Set in post-war 1960s, Charlotte Barely literate, Loyal Blood Susan Duncan – forty-something, occupation. As the novel unfolds, struggles with the demands makes his way across America, high profile, successful – seems details of Korean life are evoked of being a new mother. Her sending occasional postcards to to have it all. But a series of with great piquancy, and we husband Henry makes a decision his family, unaware that disaster heartaches and tragedies means come to appreciate the country’s to move them from their cottage has overtaken them. Heartbreak, she must rebuild her life out hilarity and Proulx’s unique style turbulent history in this century. in Cambridge to sunny Perth, of the self-destruction she’s Journeys convincing himself that it’s all combine in this remarkable novel. 1997 324pp B1717 been indulging in. Despite the F for her sake. When their new F 1992 340pp B1495 grief underscoring this memoir, life doesn’t offer the solutions Duncan crafts her story with they’d hoped for, Charlotte honesty, humour and wit, and Henry embark on personal Q wonderful characterisation and journeys that threaten their life exquisite depictions of place. together. An emotional novel 2006 404pp B2091 that explores nostalgia, identity Questions of Travel N and the decisions we make to Michelle de Kretser find ourselves. WINNER Seize the Day F 2015 352pp B2268 Miles Franklin Literary Award Marie de Hennezel This moving compilation of Laura is an Australian traveller a psychologist’s diarised who becomes a travel guide experiences at a palliative care editor. Growing up by the sea in unit in France explores terminally Sri Lanka, Ravi dreams of other ill patients in their last stages of Interested in reading international books? places until calamitous events life. Compelling stories about Expand your language skills with one of our lead him to the uncertain life of a love and family, giving up and refugee. This tender, witty novel elementary language short courses. taking charge, with a focus on tells their stories across decades what we can learn from the and around the world. De Kretser dying, make this an inspiring and writes masterfully about identity, emotional read. authenticity and connection. N 2012 189pp B2143 F 2012 515pp B2188 Seven Years in Tibet Heinrich Harrer Enjoyed The Other Tibet, though torn and vandalised, has still not played Side of the World? out its final act with China. Harrer’s personal story is high Try The Hand That adventure, but he also became a Tibetan official, friend and tutor First Held Mine to the 11-year-old Dalai Lama, cae.edu.au by Maggie and fled with him before the 03 9652 0611 RTO 3737 O’Farrell [2094] advancing Chinese. N 1953 288pp B1360

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Shadow of the Silk Road Sing and Don’t Cry Things You Get for Free Throwim Way Leg Colin Thubron Cate Kennedy Michael McGirr Tim Flannery Colin Thubron traces the first Kennedy describes her years as Reader-friendly, funny and deeply ‘An Adventure’, promises the great trade route through a volunteer in Mexico with vivid thought-provoking. Maureen subtitle – a promise delightfully China, the mountains of Central accounts of food, family life, and McGirr’s long-delayed trip to fulfilled by Flannery’s account Asia, northern Afghanistan, fiestas. This is a poetic travel Europe with her priest son of his field-work in Papua New Iran and Kurdish Turkey. Over book with a social conscience, Michael provides a framework Guinea and Irian Jaya. It’s a eight months and 7000 miles which is both troubling for exploring life and character, dazzling yet unpretentious he recounts his experiences and uplifting. Michael’s relationship with his combination of his work as along this historic route. Rich in N 2005 300pp B1935 father, and the world, a bus a research scientist with his humour, compassion and history. L load of fellow tourists and the concerns over human rights and N 2006 363pp B2004 The Sisters Brothers touristic highlights. our planetary future, lightened N 2000 296pp B1624 by the marvellous stories The author has very clever Patrick deWitt of an incurably curious and writing, geo political using the SHORTLISTED This Book Will candid man. Silk Road to bind the histories of N 1998 326pp B1564 each area together. His writing Man Booker Prize Save Your Life has evocative prose and very Oregon, 1851: brothers Eli and A. M. Homes Tracks poetic. His adventures kept us Charlie Sisters embark upon a absorbed by his engaging style Richard trades stocks and shares Robyn Davidson journey to San Francisco to fulfil out of his beautiful LA home, as if we were there. This book a contract killing of a man who Davidson taught herself from created great discussion all isolated - until an inexplicable is not quite what he seems. The scratch to tame and train camels, praising the writing but finding and sudden burst of pain lands expedition offers dark adventures then travelled with four of them it a challenge to complete him in hospital. With his routine and one dog across 1700 miles but worth it for the little gems and comically bizarre encounters and his diet broken, Richard throughout the book. The multi in a fun revival of the western begins his journey to reconnect of desert from Alice Springs to layering was fascinating and a genre with a ‘Coen Brothers’ feel. with life. This an entertaining and the coast of Western Australia. few wanted to read it again to F 2011 325pp B2142 gently humourous novel that This is her engrossing book capture the layers. explores the quirkiness of LA and about the journey with plenty to discuss. Barwite Bookworms one man’s search for meaning. T F 2006 372pp B2007 NL 1980 247pp B0599 Siddhartha Hermann Hesse That Oceanic Feeling This Must Be the Place Travels with My Aunt Written in Hesse’s ‘Eastern’ Fiona Capp Maggie O’Farrell Graham Greene Journeys phase, this is a beautifully written Capp explores surfing as an Staid, conservative Henry Pulling novel about a young son of an emblem of freedom, journeying SHORTLISTED meets his Aunt Augusta for the Costa Book Award Indian Brahmin. His search for from the waters of Byron Bay, first time in over 50 years, and truth is first through the spirit, Hawaii, Cornwall, and Port Phillip Daniel’s life has careened soon finds himself accompanying then through the flesh, and finally Bay. A unique memoir blending spectacularly off track – yet her on journeys to exotic through both. the power of the sea, physical again. Banned from seeing his countries. Aunt Augusta is as F 1957 167pp B0464 elation, and personal reflection. children, he has set up a new fascinating as she is amoral. N 2003 288pp B1848 home in the Irish wilds with F 1969 265pp B1158 a startling woman; they are Silences Long Gone happy, until he hears news of a Anson Cameron That Old Ace in the Hole woman he loved (and wronged) Tuesdays with Morrie Annie Proulx Mitch Albom SHORTLISTED 20 years ago. Across decades Commonwealth Writers’ Prize When naïve young Bob is sent to and continents and alongside a A journalist renews his friendship purchase land for a polluting hog diverse cast of characters, Daniel with his old college professor Belle watches as her town in farm, he finds a tough, wayward will slowly learn about love, about who is dying. Mitch elects Western Australia is carted away, farming people intent on keeping forgiveness, and about living. to help Morrie on his quest vowing to remain and die in the their land despite all setbacks. F 2016 496pp B2246 to make a study of life’s last land where she long ago dug The eccentric and tenacious step. Written with a kind of the ashes of her family. This is a locals and a brilliantly-evoked unsensational sensationalism, curiously life-affirming expedition sense of place blend in this this is a fearless book. Morrie and into the Australian heartland, serious yet comic tale. Mitch’s stories are affecting and which considers spiritual F 2002 361pp B1849 ultimately joyous. allegiance to the land. N 1998 192pp B1769 F 1998 358pp B1767

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NEW The Unlikely Pilgrimage U of Harold Fry W Two Steps Rachel Joyce Forward Unaccustomed Earth Harold sets out to post a letter, When Gods Collide Graeme Jhumpa Lahiri an ordinary task which becomes Kate James Simsion & WINNER a 600-mile journey to the The daughter of evangelical Commonwealth Writers’ Prize deathbed of an old friend. Left missionaries who spent most of Anne Buist behind, Harold’s wife Maureen her childhood in India, James Recently From the Pulitzer Prize winning finds herself on her own voyage became an atheist as an adult. widowed Zoe, a Californian artist, author comes a poignant of self-discovery in this unusual This book recounts her journey and recently divorced Martin, collection of short stories that exploration of ageing, loneliness as she returns to India to a Yorkshire engineer, are both touch upon the immigrant and love. examine the nature of religious looking to make a fresh start by experience. Eight stories take F 2012 365pp B2187 belief and cultural identity, walking the 2000km Camino trail us from America to Europe, with particular reference to the stretching from France to Spain. India and Thailand as they follow shocking murder of Australian As the pair meet and develop characters forging new lives. Vanishing Points missionary Graham Staines and Thea Astley an unlikely companionship, FS 2008 333pp B2055 his sons. their personal demons are Astley’s larrikin humour and lyrically N 2012 244pp B2156 always close behind. Can the evocative writing shine through pair follow the same path? Under the Tuscan Sun these two linked novellas, centred Written in alternate chapters by Frances Mayes on life on a tiny Pacific isle for a When in Rome a husband-and-wife team, the Mayes opens the door to a new would-be hermit and a frustrated Penelope Green novel explores personal renewal: world when she and her partner wife. Small print, well spaced. Journalist Penelope Green physical, psychological and buy and restore an abandoned F 1992 234pp B1394 abandons her comfortable spiritual. villa in the Tuscan countryside. existence and buys a one-way F 2017 368pp B2280 In sensuous evocative language, ticket to Italy. Wrestling with the she celebrates what she calls Voyages to the language and culture, Green ‘the voluptuousness of Italian South Seas writes about Roman life in life’. Armchair travel at its Danielle Clode hilarious detail. This enjoyable most inviting. This is a swashbuckling tale of the and readable memoir outlines N 1996 280pp B1553 adventures of the French explorers the risks and rewards of chasing Journeys to Australia. Filled with colour a dream on the other side of illustrations, this lively account the world. brings to life a classic cast of 18th- N 2005 308pp B2026 century notables, exploring the French perspective of colonisation. N 2007 261pp B2012

MEET OUR NEW NOTEWRITERS Jessica Zibung Jessica Zibung is a Melbourne-based editor, writer and the program as misogyny and the destruction of the earth. It is also an allegory for coordinator for CAE Book Groups. She studied creative writing, colonisation. Le Guin wrote the novella with urgency and anger, and editing and literary theory at RMIT University and has written and I think her 189-page novella is more relevant now than it was in 1972 edited for various publications in education and the Australian when it was published. Throughout my reading it brought to mind literary scene. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and highlighted the power of speculative fiction to address current, real-world issues, or as Le Guin What is your favourite Australian book? herself puts it ‘science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive’. My favourite Australian novel is The Other Side of the World by Stephanie Bishop. I loved the evocative way Bishop explored issues What has been your most influential read? surrounding motherhood, feminism, postcolonialism and dislocation My most influential read is Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman. In and how nostalgia resonated throughout the novel. On a more an age dominated by dystopian possibilities, Bregman’s evidence- personal level, being half-Indonesian and half-Swiss, I resonated with based exploration of reduced working weeks, implementation of a Henry’s feeling of dislocation and otherness, which is what made this universal basic income and his practical utopian outlook inspired me already impressive novel stay with me. to delve into how utopian literature can challenge the ‘status quo’. This book hasn’t left my bedside table since I purchased it, and will What is your favourite international book? not be shelved anytime soon. My favourite international book is The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K Le Guin. The novella covers many issues relevant today such

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Aman The Assistant Beloved A Aman Bernard Malamud Toni Morrison The disturbing story of a Somali A Jewish storekeeper, in the After the Fire, girl’s first 17 years in the 1950s poverty of New York, is badly WINNER A Still Small Voice and 1960s. It shows the strong hurt by an anonymous attacker Pulitzer Prize traditional culture in which ‘Father who then becomes his assistant. This extraordinary novel reveals is your main blood’, a young A compassionate study of the haunting legacy of slavery WINNER female is answerable to her the human heart’s growth out and racism: ‘Not a house in John Llewellyn Rhys Literary Prize brothers, female circumcision is of violence. the country ain’t packed to its customary, and any involvement This debut novel set in Australia F 1957 224pp B0232 rafters with some dead Negro’s with whites can precipitate grief’. Morrison’s love song to shows the impact of the violence violence. Enlightening about of war. Frank moves to a seaside her people and to the country the tribal and city peoples of which has so abused the African shack after he breaks up with contemporary Africa. B his girlfriend. His father and Americans enables us to begin grandfather before him each N 1994 350pp B1467 The Bad-Ass Librarians to ‘understand the source of the came to the shack after they of Timbuktu outrage as well as the source of served time in the Vietnam and the light’. Smallish print. Anil’s Ghost Joshua Hammer Korean wars. Michael Ondaatje F 1987 275pp B1365 2009 296pp B2102 Young Abdel embarks on a F A forensic anthropologist returns journey across the deserts of to Sri Lanka, a land steeped Sahara to preserve and save Birds Without Wings All the Birds, Singing in culture and tradition, to the manuscripts of Timbuktu, Louis de Bernières Evie Wyld investigate organised campaigns first from the ravages of the An epic novel of love and war of murder engulfing the island. desert, then from the hands of is set in the former Ottoman WINNER Ondaatje blends the history, fundamentalist Islamists. The Empire. De Bernières recreates Miles Franklin Literary Award art, archaeology and folklore novel follows the story of Abdel a lost world in which Greeks and of his extravagantly beautiful setting up library archives, both Turks, Christians and Muslims, Tinged with anxiety, Jake’s birthplace, now ravaged by civil solitary life tending sheep on an public and private, in Timbuktu lived as neighbours, sharing their war. Telling of a culture’s attempt and then the quest to evacuate lives, their cultures intermingling. isolated and brooding island in to submerge its history, the novel England is somehow preferable them from the clutches of Harmonious village life is weaves an intricate chain of extremists. The novel examines destroyed by the events of World to whatever she left behind in human connection. Australia – until something starts both the rise of radicalism in War I and the collapse of the killing her flock. Tensions of her F 2000 311pp B1629 Northern Africa and Timbuktu’s Ottoman Empire. This engrossing past mix with her present in this literary heritage. novel is both a celebration of clever and thoughtful mystery An Anthropologist N 2016 336pp B2264 humanity and a lament over the which reflects on belonging and on Mars consequences of religious and identity. Contains themes that The Bean Patch racial intolerance. may disturb. Oliver Sacks 2004 625pp B1871 Shirley Painter F 2014 240pp B2227 Here are seven detailed stories F about patients living with Shirley Painter’s indomitable neurological conditions such memoir is sourced in her Black Rock White City All Quiet on the as autism, the violent tics of experience of the extreme child A.S. Patric Western Front Tourette’s syndrome, and a abuse she suffered, which was WINNER E.M. Remarque sudden and lasting inability to perpetrated within the family. Miles Franklin Literary Award see colour. Sacks’ infectious This is a tribute to the teachers This anti war polemic powerfully sense of wonder informs these in government schools who Serbian academics Jovan and portrays the agony and futility gentle, exploratory, thorough opened her spirit so that she Suzana move to the Melbourne of war. Remarque suffered accounts as he moves into wider survived, even flourished, suburb of Black Rock, leaving personally through loss of his speculations about the nature of to write this confronting yet behind two dead children when German citizenship as a result the mind. hopeful story. Likely to prompt they were forced to flee war-torn of this work. Many copies were NS 1995 319pp B1518 animated discussion with very Sarajevo. While at his cleaning seized and burnt by the Nazis. different viewpoints. job at Bayside Hospital, Jovan F 1929 192pp B0101 N 2002 310pp B1801 discovers bizarre graffiti that escalates into acts of violence. For Jovan, the seemingly nonsensical Enjoyed Aman? graffiti he cleans away evokes the trauma of his past and he begins Try to see the meaning behind the Songs of a War Boy vandalism. This literary award- winner offers a compelling insight by Deng Thiak Adut into displacement, language and [B2251] the immigrant experience. F 2015 248pp B2252

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The Boat Bury Me Standing Confessions of Nam Le Isabel Fonseca a Clay Man D WINNER The Gypsies are the Igor Gelbach Prime Minister’s Literary Award untouchables of Europe, the The decay of a picturesque Dangerous Love lowest of the low – a scattered Black Sea resort during the Ben Okri These short stories travel the nation of 12 million people decline of the Soviet empire A love story alive with the sounds globe and include a grim journey without a homeland. Fonseca, forms the setting for this and the smells of Nigeria in the of Vietnamese refugees on a a journalist, describes the four philosophical novel. The novel’s 1970s where the ordinary and small boat and a child living years she spent with them in main character, Bronhauser, the poor live in almost impossible in Hiroshima during WWII. various countries of Eastern struggles to make sense in a conditions. Struggling with Le intuitively conveys the Europe to bring back her Kafkaesque world. Gelbach, post-colonial realities and the psychological conflicts people insightful, personal account of who in 1994 was nominated for aftermath of the civil war, the experience when they find their this mysterious people and the the Russian Booker Prize, now young artist and lover Omovo hopes and ambitions slamming way they live. Many photographs. lives and writes in Melbourne. ‘A is still in touch with potent up against familial expectations N 1995 322pp B1521 wise and enchanting book,’ says communal, cultural and spiritual or the facts of history. Robert Dessaix. traditions. A gripping novel from FS 2008 312pp B2022 F 2001 184pp B1657 this Booker Prize-winning author. C F 1996 325pp B1523 Boomer and Me Coonardoo Jo Case Café Scheherazade Katharine Susannah Prichard The Day We Had Jo Case’s son, ‘Boomer’, was Arnold Zable Coonardoo is an Aboriginal girl Hitler Home diagnosed with Asperger’s You can go to this café in St brought up by a white woman Syndrome in primary school – Kilda and eat the delicious food. as companion to her little boy. A blind Hitler illegally enters something that led the writer But to find its real life, you need The boy is indoctrinated against Australia in 1919 with our to view herself and her family to read this haunting novel. It marrying black, and their love returning soldiers, and has from a fresh perspective. This interweaves the stories told changes from an idyll to a stark to be smuggled out. Audrey book (subtitled A memoir of by remarkably different Jewish tragedy. A moving account McNeil, a young Australian motherhood, and Asperger’s) émigrés from mid-20th century of the fate of black women in cinematographer, grabs her is sure to spark discussion Europe – Avram and Masha, ‘White’ Australia. chance to escape a difficult about what is ‘normal’, and the proprietors, and three of family, and goes to 1920s whether difference necessarily their regulars, Yossel, Laizer and F 1929 208pp B0201 Germany. At first incredulous, means disability. Zelman. Trauma and dislocation we come to recognise home are here transfigured by awe The Curious Incident of N 2013 337pp B2195 truths – about Australia’s present and lyricism. the Dog in the Night Time and past, our insights and Brain on Fire F 2001 223pp B1620 Mark Haddon blind spots. Susannah Cahalan 15-year-old Christopher finds a F 2000 351pp B1637 Close Range: neighbour’s dog lying dead on Cahalan was a bright young Wyoming Stories the lawn and decides to write journalist when a sudden illness a murder mystery about it. He Disgrace plunged her into terrifying Annie Proulx has Asperger’s syndrome, and J.M. Coetzee psychosis, which was in fact his flair for maths and scientific An academic faces retribution a rare autoimmune disease SHORTLISTED investigation is offset by unease when his sexual encounters with Surviving, Prevailing affecting her brain. Part memoir, Pulitzer Prize and unusual behaviour in the one of his students are exposed. part journalism, part medical Proulx is one of America’s great presence of other people. Refusing to offer the public detective story, this fascinating storytellers, and here Wyoming Christopher is a brilliant creation: apology demanded from him, book explores Cahalan’s forms the harsh territory of this depiction of the world from he resigns and retreats to his harrowing experience from eleven stories peopled by rugged his viewpoint leaves a strong adult daughter’s isolated farm. multiple perspectives. eccentrics – ranchers, rodeo impression with much to discuss. A powerful, quietly disturbing N 2012 264pp B2175 riders, country women – all F 2003 272pp B1816 study of moral and historical struggling to survive in a world accountabilities in the new of raw loneliness, brutality, All of us agreed that the both . Burnt Shadows longing, sexual urgency and was a fascinating exploration 1999 256pp B1745 Kamila Shamsie sometimes bizarre events. of a boy on the spectrum. F After 9/11, an unnamed man Includes ‘Brokeback Mountain’, a Haddon really put a lot of effort waits to be clothed in the orange story about two men gripped by into capturing an accurate jumpsuit of Guantanamo Bay a fierce attraction to each other voice and way of thinking, we and wonders ‘how did it come when working as cowhands, found that it challenged the to this?’ In August 1945 in which became a multi-award traditional ‘coming of age’ Nagasaki, Hiroko Tanaka survives winning film. narrative concept as they apply the bomb blast. Her fiancé NS 1999 318pp B1907 differently in this case. It was an Konrad Weiss does not. The illuminating and unique read. Enjoyed The Eye novel spans the intervening years Melbourne City Readers of the Sheep? and the interweaving lives of two families. Try Boomer and Me F 2009 363pp B2087 by Jo Case [B2195]

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The Diving Bell and The Eye of the Sheep A Fine Balance Fred Hollows: the Butterfly Rohinton Mistry An Autobiography Jean Dominique Bauby WINNER In India in 1975, two tailors and Fred Hollows At 42 and the father of two Miles Franklin Literary Award a college student come to the Appalled by the eye diseases young children, Bauby found vast, teeming city and end up he found among outback himself speechless and paralysed SHORTLISTED lodging in cramped quarters Aborigines, ophthalmologist Fred after a massive stroke. His mind Stella Prize with a struggling widow. Their Hollows gave years to a program was unimpaired. To dictate this efforts to survive are at the heart which improved the eye health small book, Bauby blinked for This beautifully nuanced coming- of this unforgettable portrait of of thousands of them, and also each letter of every word. More of-age story follows Jimmy, a kindness, dignity, heroism, cruelty worked in Eritrea and Nepal. This extraordinary is the writing itself kid not quite like the others. and corruption which is well life story of a doer, a maverick – the keen gaze, lightness of Buffered by his mother’s love, worth the read. Small print. and a humanitarian emphasises touch and sensuousness with Jimmy negotiates the realities of F 1995 614pp B1516 his public rather than private life. which he evokes his present his world as his father oscillates N 1991 240pp B1375 circumstances and memories. between alcohol and violence L – and when his home life alters The First Stone N 1997 139pp B1555 beyond recognition, Jimmy must Helen Garner learn to navigate an alien and This is a fictionalised account G The Drowned and grown-up world that the reader of the sexual harassment case the Saved aches to protect him from. at the University of Melbourne, The Golden Age Primo Levi F 1995 614pp B2231 which led to the resignation of Joan London the master, despite being cleared Levi’s last book argues that as a All of us enjoyed the brilliant WINNER Holocaust survivor he is a proxy of charges. The approach language of the book and really and the institutional issues Prime Minister’s Literary Award witness for the true witnesses – warmed to the central character. those who were annihilated. He is raised make it both relevant The story, told through Jimmy’s and controversial. SHORTLISTED lucid and with neither hatred nor eyes, gave rise to discussion of Stella Prize forgiveness as he investigates many different issues. N 1995 222pp B1442 The Gold family are immigrants the genocide and its relevance to Box Hill Nth 2 the present. His insight into the Flying with Paper Wings from war-torn Hungary, and while issues of guilt and shame makes 13-year-old Frank recovers from this an important book for any Sandy Jeffs polio in a convalescent home nation confronting violence and F Poet Sandy Jeffs grew up in in Perth, his parents can’t help racism in its past and present. a violent family, and her world missing the elegance and charm The Fault in Our Stars collapsed at 23 with the onset of the city they left behind. This 1986 170pp B1440 N John Green of schizophrenia. Since then, beautiful story touches on how she has become a community 16-year-old Hazel knows she we come to terms with the past, educator and speaker about has a limited time to live, but the many forms of recovery, and E living with mental illness. An everything she has ever thought the healing power of music. insightful look at mental illness, about life, love and death is 2014 256pp B2222 from the social and medical to F Edward Koiki Mabo upended when she meets the personal. Noel Loos & Koiki Mabo handsome Augustus Waters. A Good Day to Die The 1992 Mabo Decision A beautiful story about what it N 2009 268pp B2082 overturned the concept of terra means to be truly alive - it will Lisa Birnie nullius. Born on one of the make you sob and laugh. For Esther Is euthanasia either desirable or necessary, or could accessible remotest islands in the Torres F 2012 313pp B2181 Alex Sage Strait, Mabo found that he had palliative care supplant the no legal title to his land on Murray Born in 1924 into a devout need for it? In her search to Island spurred him into a ten year The Fiftieth Gate Chassidic family, Alex Sage understand what this question battle as a land rights activist on Mark Raphael Baker describes a childhood of acute means, Lisa Birnie asked the poverty. A life of living off his behalf of his people. Baker grew up in Melbourne, patients, family and staff of

Surviving, Prevailing Surviving, wits ensued, until he reached the son of Polish Jewish parents McCulloch House (a short- N 1996 206pp B1526 Australia via a death camp and who survived the Holocaust. In term palliative care centre) to Palestine. Sage attended English this ‘journey through memory’, tell their own stories. With her classes at CAE, and conveys his An Evil Cradling he seeks to draw his parents commentary, they make a story with compelling directness. Brian Keenan back into the terror of their wonderful book, based on the Keenan’s story of his years as childhood, attempting to N 2000 281pp B1757 compassionate conviction that hostage in Beirut is remarkable understand his own experience everyone should die with dignity for the humour, resilience and of growing up with their largely and free of pain. compassion which inform unspoken memories. N 1998 231pp B1712 his experience and suffering. N 1997 339pp B1529 It includes the record of a Enjoyed friendship between the writer The Golden Age? – a working-class Northern Irishman – and the upper class English public school humanist, Try Cloudstreet John McCarthy. by Tim Winton N 1992 297pp B1371 [B1269]

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The Grass is Singing Half the Sky Hidden Agendas The Horses Too are Gone Doris Lessing Nicholas Kristof & John Pilger Michael Keenan In this powerful novel set in Sheryl WuDunn As reporter, polemicist and When drought took hold in South Africa in the 1930s, we partisan, Pilger crusades against New South Wales in 1994, like experience the life of Mary Turner. WINNER the power agendas of the so many others, the Keenan Lessing writes with insight and Pulitzer Prize media and the global markets property was overstocked. His compassion of Mary’s formative Written by the first married and supports those whom they efforts to keep his cattle fed years, her young adulthood and couple to win a Pulitzer Prize for ignore – the poor who are getting and watered finally took Mike her marriage to Dick. We learn of journalism, Half the Sky grew poorer, the peoples of Iraq, Keenan onto the stock routes of the racial attitudes of that earlier from the authors’ desire to tell the Africa, Burma, and East Timor. south-west Queensland, where society and the way in which personal stories of women whose His immediate, urgent and lucid he coped with one setback after blacks were treated during South lives have been catastrophically style, and the gripping subject another. This true account of his Africa’s Apartheid. impacted by factors such as matter make for easy reading. experiences is a page turner and F 1950 220pp B0427 poverty, sex trafficking and Stacks to talk about, probably a great Aussie yarn. gender-based violence. It also with many different opinions. N 1998 348pp B1595 examines the ways many N 1998 687pp B1574 The Great World women have reclaimed their David Malouf lives from oppression, and offers House Rules suggestions to readers who want Hindustan Contessa Jodi Picoult WINNER Jane Watson Miles Franklin Literary Award to help alleviate global poverty. Jacob has Asperger’s syndrome. Readers may find some material A book where myth blends with He can’t read social clues, This ambitious novel traces in this book distressing. the everyday, and where the doesn’t like to make eye contact, the lives of two Australian men N 2009 295pp B2111 implications of cross-cultural and has a singular focus. He is who survive the Second World relationships are tested. Indian obsessed with forensic analysis. War and Changi. Malouf’s usual born Milan and his Australian wife He keeps showing up at crime interest in relatedness and Hand Me Down World Tilly travel to India where they fall scenes and telling the police wisdom is combined with an Lloyd Jones into the hands of kidnappers. what to do – usually he is right. exploration of some key national This is a hauntingly beautiful They must accept their fate But then his tutor is found dead myths. Print smallish but clear. tale of a mother’s search for her as prisoners and deal with the and Jacob is accused of murder. F 1990 332pp B1275 son, taken by his father when challenges they face within the F 2010 529pp B2076 only a few days old. Told from intricacies of Indian culture. the point of view of the people F 2002 308pp B1783 who meet the mysterious North The Human Stain H Philip Roth African woman after she is NEW Half of a Yellow Sun washed ashore in Sicily, different WINNER versions of the truth emerge to PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reveal a complex narrative of a WINNER displaced person struggling for Home A college professor is forced Orange Prize self determination and justice. Fire to retire when his colleagues F 2010 313pp B2122 declare him to be a racist. Not Set in 1960s Nigeria during the Kamila Shamsie true, but the real truth about Silk Biafran war, Adichie follows the SHORTLISTED would have astonished even lives of three characters caught The Happiest Refugee his most self-righteous accuser.

Costa Book Award Surviving, Prevailing up in the turbulent events of Anh Do Set in the late ’90s against the the time. As Nigerian troops In this popular memoir, comedian WINNER backdrop of the Clinton/Lewinsky advance and they run for their and actor Anh Do traces his Women’s Prize for Fiction affair, this novel interweaves one lives, their ideals, intimacies, family history from war-torn man’s story with the wider history and loyalties are severely tested. 1970s Vietnam to the current A modern retelling of Greek of modern America. Half of a Yellow Sun is an day. He also describes his own tragedy Antigone, Home Fire is F 2000 361pp B1618 emotional exploration of Africa, personal and professional journey a story of familial loyalty, politics, moral responsibility, race, class, with endearing candour and sacrifice, and what it means to and love. humour, in this story of strength, be Muslim in the West. The novel 2006 448pp hope and forgiveness. is told from different points of F B1964 view: Isma, the responsible sister N 2010 232pp B2141 who leaves her two younger siblings to study in America; Aneeka, the beautiful and headstrong sister who worries about the fate of her naive twin brother Parvaiz, who has been recruited by ISIS. When Eamonn, the son of an influential British Enjoyed Disgrace? Muslim politician enters the lives of the two sisters, love and family loyalties collide and the Try The Human Stain two British families’ fates are by Philip Roth devastatingly entwined. [B1618] F 2017 272pp B2277

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In the Country of Men A Long Long Way I Hisham Matar K Sebastian Barry WINNER In this thoughtful, moving novel, I Confess: Revelations Commonwealth Writers’ Prize A Kindness Cup Willie Dunne joins the Royal in Exile Thea Astley Dublin Fusiliers in 1914 and is Kooshyar Karimi SHORTLISTED A schoolteacher returns to a sent to the killing fields of Europe. When the 1916 Easter Rising in Growing up in the slums of Man Booker Prize Queensland town’s reunion, and Ireland is brutally quashed, he Tehran, Karimi had to hide his attempts to force the citizens Set in Libya during 1979, Matar and other Irish soldiers begin to Jewish faith. Through force to recognise their cruelty to the vividly evokes the brutalities of wonder why they are fighting for of will, he became a surgeon town’s Aborigines in an incident a terrifying regime from a child’s the Crown. This is a fascinating and successful author, until he in which they took part two perspective. Suleiman’s father is insight into a rarely examined was kidnapped by the Iranian decades previously. away on business but Suleiman aspect of Ireland’s troubled past. Intelligence Service, and forced is certain he sees him standing F 1974 154pp B0437 to betray his own people. He and F 2005 292pp B1927 across the street. Why doesn’t his family fled to Turkey and now he wave? Fears and whispers live in Australia. intensify and in an effort to save L Look at Me N 2012 365pp B2173 his family, Suleiman may end up Anita Brookner betraying his friends, his parents The Land of Green Plums Frances Hinton, shy and clever, The Inheritance of Loss and ultimately himself. Herta Müller works by day in a medical library Kiran Desai F 2006 360pp B1965 This unusual autobiographical and goes back every evening novel is a haunting account of a to the solitude of her London WINNER group of students in Ceausescu’s flat to write fiction. When she Man Booker Prize Into the Darkest Corner totalitarian Romania. Weaving is adopted socially by Nick and Elizabeth Haynes his wife, her heart is full of hope. In an isolated house at the foot back and forth between the This suspenseful psychological Brookner’s poised, elegant of the Himalayas live a retired, provinces and the city, the thriller unfolds over two timelines: prose is a superb vehicle for this embittered Cambridge educated narrator traces the story of her one follows the relationship novel, seen by one reviewer as judge, his granddaughter, and survival and escape. A complex between Cathy and the almost being about ‘monsters and their his cook. A Nepalese insurgency and poetic evocation of another perfect Lee; the other, Cathy victims’. soon disrupts their lives; while country, culture and politics. suffering from obsessive- in New York the cook’s son tries F 1983 192pp B1715 compulsive disorder. Dark F 1998 242pp B1747 to stay one step ahead of US themes are handled with finesse immigration services. Sometimes and insight, drawing you in to funny, sometimes sad, the The Last Magician Cathy’s world to explore the M possibility for hope or betrayal Janette Turner Hospital power of obsession. hangs over every moment. The Man Who Mistook 2011 416pp B2152 SHORTLISTED Small print. F Miles Franklin Literary Award His Wife for a Hat F 2006 384pp B1967 Traces the link between a Oliver Sacks J gifted photographer and the These extraordinary pieces In My Skin female image which compels show human beings striving Kate Holden Jackson’s Track him and others, as it moves to preserve their identity when Highly explicit and confronting Daryl Tonkin & between a Queensland rainforest things go wrong in different childhood and contemporary parts of the brain. The author is memoir told in a vivid narrative Carolyn Landon voice. Holden, a quiet, sensitive Sydney. Disturbingly connects lovingly and respectfully curious university graduate from a Not far from Drouin in the the powerful establishment and about his patients and gifted in comfortable middle-class Gippsland district of Victoria, the desperate underworld of presenting their states briefly background, spiralled into an almost utopian community the young, the homeless and and memorably. A book to make heroin addiction and prostitution of white and Aboriginal people the vulnerable. you wonder. at the age of 21. The book is lived and worked together in the F 1992 352pp B1379 N 1985 233pp B1260 Surviving, Prevailing Surviving, beautifully written in parts, but timber industry from the 1930s Holden’s attitude to sex work onwards - yet Daryl Tonkin’s Mind’s Eye will enrage some readers and choice of an Aboriginal wife Little Bee intrigue others. Love it or hate caused a serious rift in his family. Chris Cleave Oliver Sacks it, this book will generate fierce This life story of a hardworking, Little Bee and her sister are from Neurologist and acclaimed discussion, not least about the principled man and a vanished Nigeria; Sarah O’Rourke and her author Oliver Sacks explores the relationship between female way of life offers much husband are British tourists. Their relationship between the eye and sexuality and self-esteem. to discuss. meeting on a beach in Nigeria the brain, and what happens to Contains strong language, sex N 1999 297pp B1596 involves a choice that impacts our perception of the world when and drug use. all of their lives. A few years later this relationship is disrupted. N 2005 285pp B1926 and Sarah and Little Bee (who Using his signature style, Sacks has been in a British immigration turns medical case studies into detention centre) meet again. fascinating and moving human Some distressing material. stories – particularly poignant 2008 378pp because, this time, he includes F B2119 his own experiences. N 2010 240pp B2199

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A Month in the Country My Left Foot The Rituals of Dinner J.L. Carr Christy Brown P Margaret Visser SHORTLISTED Christy Brown was born in 1932, Visser’s focus is on table Man Booker Prize one of the 23 children of a Dublin The Plague manners – the customs, bricklayer. Born with cerebral Albert Camus expectations and proprieties of Returning from the Great War, palsy, he could not control A brilliant novel which examines eating together. Subtitled The the narrator goes to a small his speech or his movement, the reactions of a town’s people Origins, Evils, Eccentricities village to restore a historic wall apart from his left foot. Here he to a plague which kills much of and Meaning of Table painting. He works on it, works tells his own story of learning the population. It is set in Algeria Manners, this frolic will produce out its artist’s story and is drawn to read, write, paint and finally in the 1940s, and can be read animated discussion. into the local networks, making type with his left foot, and of his also as an allegory of the spread N 1991 432pp B1389 friends with another war survivor, wonderfully supportive family. The of Fascist beliefs. and piecing his own life together film of the same name, starring during the English summer. Daniel Day Lewis as Christy, is F 1947 288pp B0098 The Road Home F 1980 111pp B0783 based loosely on this book. Rose Tremain N 1954 184pp B1301 Pushing Time Away WINNER We absolutely loved this book!!! Peter Singer There was not a dissenting Orange Prize Singer’s biography of his voice! We found JL Carr to After the death of his wife, Lev be an author able to create N Austrian grandfather David Oppenheim before his death moves to London from his small atmosphere, mood and tone town in Eastern Europe to look with very few words. At times Nickel and Dimed in the Theresienstadt ghetto traces the personal, intellectual, for work so he can support his it was as if the world was Barbara Ehrenreich young daughter and elderly standing still, with the reader family and cultural richness of This US journalist gave up his grandfather’s life. A portrait mother. Despite isolation and holding their breath. One reader her comfortable middle-class loneliness, he finds a job at a commented that it was a book unfolds of a complex, admirable, life for three months to live and restaurant, discovers a passion where almost nothing happens surprising man. Full of important work for poverty-level wages. for cooking, and slowly begins to yet everything happens! So, and discussable matters. A readable book which examines transform from dreamer to doer. without any spoilers, we N 2003 322pp B1812 would thoroughly recommend the enormous disproportions in F 2007 365pp B2013 this book! wealth that exist in America today and raises many discussable Wood Glen: 2nd Tuesday issues. Does the ‘American The Rugmaker Book Group R dream’ really apply to all citizens of Mazar e Sharif of the USA? Reading Lolita in Tehran Najaf Mazari & The Multiple Effects Azar Nafisi of Rainshadow N 2001 221pp B1793 Robert Hillman In the mid-90s seven young Mazari was a shepherd in Thea Astley Iranian women gathered in Afghanistan who fled the Taliban WINNER O Nafisi’s home to discuss the regime to Melbourne, where he The Age Book of the Year work of forbidden Western set up a successful rug shop. Once Were Warriors writers. Their main focus was on His memoir, captured in his own SHORTLISTED Alan Duff Lolita, The Great Gatsby, and voice by writer Robert Hillman, novels of Henry James and Jane is a fascinating insight into what Miles Franklin Literary Award The Heke family’s world Austen. A narrative which begins compels people to leave behind Surviving, Prevailing Astley is on her Queensland home of unemployment, racism, with secret literature classes their homes and histories to ground, earlier this century. The dispossession, alcohol and expands into a picture of life in a search for peace for themselves narrative, woven from many voices violence is rendered in their own totalitarian regime. and their children. brutalised idiom. From within this and viewpoints, uncovers the N 2003 347pp B1839 2008 253pp B2010 extraordinary nature of everyday alienated Maori experience, Duff N life for both Aborigines and finds the seeds of reconnection settlers. Poignant and revealing. to their own past, and shows the Resilience The Rules of Inheritance birth of communal and individual Anne Deveson Claire Bidwell Smith F 1996 296pp B1541 change, pride and hope. Drawing on her own experience This is a moving memoir of a 1990 198pp B1451 My Dirty Shiny Life F and her work with media and woman whose identity was social justice organisations, Anne formed amidst the illness and Lily Bragge An Orphan’s Escape Deveson asks what enables death of her parents, both Child of a career criminal father Frank Golding individuals and communities to diagnosed with cancer when she and a head teacher mother, Lily cope with adversity. Her book was a teen. Unconventionally became a successful comedian In 1940, three young brothers interweaves memoir and stories, framed around the five stages of and journalist. Uncompromisingly were admitted to the Ballarat and her writing is effortlessly grief – denial, anger, bargaining, honest and highly entertaining in Orphanage, but like many of the readable, as usual. depression, and acceptance – children at the orphanage they equal measure, Bragge’s bumpy N 2003 296pp B1808 the story follows Claire’s journey personal journey and the way had living parents. Frank Golding as she battles to overcome and she eventually finds salvation are recalls the 12-bleak years of their resolve her unhappy inheritance bound to stimulate discussion. time there and pieces together of grief. the story of his parents’ struggle Contains sex, violence and 2012 298 B2163 drug use. against the state to get their N children back. N 2010 272pp B2097 N 2005 247pp B1946

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The Spare Room Streets of Hope NEW S Helen Garner Tim Costello WINNER Reverend Tim Costello is a The Shadow Child Prize for Fiction Melbourne lawyer and minister Rosalie Fraser of religion for whom private faith Tattooist of Born in 1958, Rosalie Fraser Helen prepares her spare room for and social issues have always Auschwitz was removed from her parents her friend Nicola, who is coming to inter-connected. His book Heather at two and a half years old. town to receive treatment for her chronicles the time leading up to Morris advanced cancer. Helen becomes his election as Mayor of St Kilda Her story is an eye-opener Based on the true story of Nicola’s nurse, protector, guardian and his battle for the democratic about the way children could Melbourne-based Lale Sokolov, angel and stony judge in this rights of St Kilda’s street workers, be ‘cared’ for in foster homes a former Auschwitz-Birkenau story of compassion and rage as drug users and homeless. It and institutions, and how our tattooist and privileged prisoner two women negotiate their way provides a rare insight into his governments saw to the ‘welfare’ who fell in love with Gita, a through gruelling treatments. life, his beliefs and his ongoing of their wards during Australia’s Jewish girl whose arm he was A provocative novel that provides struggle on behalf of others. most prosperously comfortable forced to tattoo with her prisoner rich material for discussion on decades. The teller’s persistence, N 1998 242pp B1703 identification number. The friendship, faith and death. frankness and enduring spirit novel differentiates itself from make the deprivation and F 2008 195pp B1999 Suite Française other Holocaust memoirs by brutalities of her life bearable Irène Némirovsky Lale’s outlook: Lale is not just in this ‘memoir of the stolen Stasiland determined to survive, but to generation’. Némirovsky depicted the manipulate the system to ensure N 1998 270pp B1730 experience of war and the survival of the prisoners and WINNER occupation as it affected the his lover Gita. A unique survivor’s Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction people around her, writing the account and love story full of So Much for That two sections of Suite Française heartbreak, hope, and triumph Lionel Shriver Forty years of communism in as events unfolded. The first part inside and outside the walls of East Germany ended when the portrays a group of Parisians as the Auschwitz prison. SHORTLISTED Berlin Wall came down in 1989. they flee the Germans and make National Book Award This book blends travel, history their way through the chaos of N 2018 270pp B2275 Shep Knacker has just sold his and biography in the true stories the French countryside. The company and decided to move of bravery and betrayal under second concerns the inhabitants to an island paradise, hoping the Stasi, the omnipresent secret of a small rural community The Tears of Strangers his wife Glynis will move with police of the former East German under occupation. him. But Glynis has a bombshell Government. Moving, exhilarating F 2004 403pp B1913 Stan Grant of her own, and reveals she and at times funny. Grant recounts the story of the has been diagnosed with a N 2002 282pp B1680 Wiradjuri people of New South rare and aggressive form of T Wales and the landowning cancer. Personal neuroses and Still Alice Grants, descendants of an Irish relationships are examined as the The Tattooed Flower rebel. White as well as black, question arises – how much is a Lisa Genova he has ultimately to reconcile life worth? Alice is a 50-year-old Harvard Suzy Zail that he is descended from 2010 436pp B2075 professor when she starts When Holocaust survivor the oppressors as well as the F experiencing symptoms of Emil is diagnosed with motor oppressed and his personal early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. neurone disease, he gathers success has removed him from Songs of a War Boy She is forced to re-evaluate her his family to share the secrets the violence, alcoholism and Deng Thiak Adut, relationship with her husband of his remarkable life. The book despair experienced by many Ben McKelvey and three grown children. takes us through Emil’s past of his cousins. Genova cleverly addresses the and present via his daughter, N 2002 259pp B1681 SHORTLISTED fundamental issue of disease and author Suzy Zail. This is an Victorian Premier’s Literary Award mental illness: what is left of Alice? inspirational story on father- daughter relationships and the Three Dollars Surviving, Prevailing Surviving, F 2009 292pp B2098 Sydney-based lawyer and 2017 extent to which we shape our Elliot Perlman NSW Australian of the Year, Deng The Stolen Children own destinies. WINNER Adut overcame deadly adversity N 2006 211pp B1939 The Age Book of the Year before calling Australia his Carmel Bird home. At the age of 6, he was Carmel Bird’s short book of the What effect has the emphasis on conscripted as a child soldier into stolen children’s own stories sits ‘the bottom line’ – downsizing, the Sudan People’s Liberation alongside a copy of the formal corporatising, consulting, Army, armed with an AK-47. Report of the National Inquiry into outsourcing – had on the well Rescued by his brother John, the separation of Aboriginal and Enjoyed educated young couples who Deng lived in refugee camps Torres Strait Islander children from Reckoning: A Memoir? are supposed to be among before coming to Australia as their families. Their unadorned its main beneficiaries? In his a refugee. This inspirational accounts are anguishing, but it compassionate first novel, biography tells his journey of is necessary witness not only to Try Perlman gives a moving overcoming the horrors of war tragedies and wrongs that were The Tattooed Flower and imaginative portrait of and the challenges faced by hidden and suppressed but to by Suzy Zail a loving family at risk in the refugees to Australia. the importance of acknowledging [B1939] heartless environment of N 2016 320pp B2251 the truth. contemporary Victoria. N 1998 188pp B1589 F 1998 381pp B1581

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Tiger’s Eye Touching the Void The Wilderness Inga Clendinnen Joe Simpson W Samantha Harvey Burning bright on every page, In 1985 two climbing friends SHORTLISTED this is the arresting story of what succeeded in scaling the Wanamurraganya Orange Prize happened to the distinguished spectacularly dangerous West Sally Morgan Geelong born historian when face of the Siula Grande, a Morgan met Jack McPhee while Jake has Alzheimer’s disease. It’s serious illness in her early peak in the Peruvian Andes. searching for her extended family his birthday, his wife has passed fifties pitched her into an Alice Catastrophe struck on the in Western Australia’s North. away, his son is in prison, and it in Wonderland otherworld of descent, leaving one severely Here, aged 84, he tells her his life is unclear where his daughter is. hospitals, organ transplant and injured, the other also in story. Of mixed Aboriginal and Told from Jake’s point of view, hallucination. She used writing extreme danger. Would both European ancestry, he worked The Wilderness sifts through to ‘cling to the shreds of self’. perish? Could one survive? from the age of seven as an his past. What really happened The publisher’s blurb is accurate: This anguishing dilemma, Joe’s itinerant station hand and mine and what may have happened ‘Lucid, fearless, passionate almost unbelievable will to persist worker in the Pilbara. Despite the blur together until it’s difficult and wise, its true subject is and the quality of his writing harsh government policies which to tell what is true and what is being alive.’ make this a modern classic affected his life, his story is told not. Beautifully written, this is a N 2000 289pp B1742 of mountain writing – even without rancour. Photographs compelling study of human frailty. more gripping than the recent through the text. F 2009 328pp B2086 documentary film about these 1989 196pp B1254 The Tiger’s Wife same events. N Tea Obreht The Woman Who N 1988 216pp B1866 WINNER Well Done, Those Men Walked Into Doors Roddy Doyle Orange Prize Traitor Barry Heard As a young man from a small Paula Spencer’s uncensored Natalia is a doctor visiting Stephen Daisley Victorian country town, Barry voice convincingly takes us into orphanages in the Balkans after Barely released before being Heard was conscripted into her brave attempt to struggle a devastating war when she swamped under awards and the army at age 21, fought in free from a violent marriage, her receives news that her beloved praise, Traitor asks the question: Vietnam and came back to cope drinking problem and her own grandfather has died. As Natalia What would make a soldier as best he could. In his laconic, denial: ‘After all the years and struggles to understand his life’s betray his own country? This is Aussie, blokey voice, Heard the broken bones and teeth quest, Obreht spins around an important book about love, tells us simply what happened and torture I still keep blaming her a series of magical tales loneliness, compassion, war and – during his training, in action, myself.’ Doyle’s writing pulls that bring home the tragedy of the bond between two people. and after his return to civilian life. no punches as she is seen in chronic conflict. Both brutal and beautiful, the Writing this memoir marked his the wider context of the poor F 2011 336pp B2117 writing is nuanced and personal, emergence from the massive in Ireland. and gently suffused with the Sufi breakdown which finally overtook F 1996 226pp B1505 To Kill a Mockingbird philosophy. The writing style is him. Gripping, at times funny, unusual but stick with it and you affecting, alarming, this book Harper Lee will be rewarded. enlarges our understanding of WINNER F 2011 293pp B2132 the damage war can do. Pulitzer Prize N 2005 290pp B1914 Atticus Finch is a lawyer who The Turning defends a black man who Tim Winton Surviving, Prevailing has been accused of raping a The run-down coastal town of white woman. The best and Angelus in Western Australia’s worst of life in a Southern town south is the setting for seventeen are brought to life through overlapping stories, men and the eyes of Scout, Atticus’ women, young and old, their Prevail at work and at home young daughter. hopes, longings, second with a personal effectiveness FL 1960 290pp B0037 thoughts, disappointments, as short course. they scan the horizon, looking to the world beyond and caught at a point of change or altered awareness. The natural world and human destinies within it are superbly evoked: this is Winton at his best. F S 2004 317pp B1896 Enjoyed The Wilderness? Try Together by Julie Cohen cae.edu.au [B2282] 03 9652 0611 RTO 3737

L Large Print F Fiction N Nonfiction S Short Stories Adapted Book µ Book Group Favourite Dark Deeds B1366 B1919 B1484 Try Enjoyed [B1853] Black Tide by by Temple Peter ? 1983 142pp 2006 313pp 1996 314pp F C Carry Me Down Hyland M.J. in the 1970s, In rural Ireland and acutely painfully awkward John observant 11-year-old believes he possesses a gift for lie detection, a belief that will have devastating consequences in The crisp prose for his family. second novel presents Hyland’s an enthralling portrait of a family, and a chilling study of lies the eyes of through interpreted a boy struggling on the cusp of adolescence. F The Brush Off The Brush Shane Maloney sex the opening sultry From scene between the ministerial of a smallminder and the editor this arty magazine, circulation mixesentertaining thriller deftly and the pleasures satire humour, of the whodunit, as Maloney in thehighlights the hypocrisy thecarryings on of politicians, theacquisitive art world and fliers. corporate high greedy F Wife The Butcher’s Li Ang In a small traditional town in a wife kills her husband, Taiwan, and her community cannot believe that she does not have what led to In showing a lover. this violent act, Li Ang does not censor the crude language or the brutality of the husband. A haunting and horrific tale, with insight into the gentle, driven woman at its centre.

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2005 345pp 1983 450pp 2005 320pp L Joe Cashin is sent to a quiet Victorian town to do the coastal undemanding work of a country cop. But a brutal attack on the town benefactor brings him back into the thick of things. A politics novel about place, family, less like and power which reads like literary crime fiction and more language. fiction. Strong F An unusual exploration of the lives of a woman, a child and a man. This novel portrays startling psychological and physical terror as the characters move towards which weaves a resolution together Maori spirituality and the traditional wisdom of East Not easy to read, and West. but a gripping novel with a considerable reputation. F Borderliners Peter Høeg This chilling, suspenseful novel is about what we owe to our abandoned, young. Three end up at a damaged children students select school where in an rigidly controlled are of subtle menace. atmosphere One, a boy in his teens, has to and what can work out why, be done. F The Broken Shore Peter Temple Blood from a Stone Blood from Donna Leon Commissario Brunetti In Venice, an Africanlooks into the case of while vendor shot dead street tourists.selling fake goods to status and his illegal The man’s into linked country of origin are mattersthe investigation, and with disturbing international with interwoven implications are family living. Venetian F The Bone People Keri Hulme

@CAEBOOKGROUPS / B1853 B2113 B1588 1999 356pp 2011 246pp 1998 278pp F F Black Tide Peter Temple A ne’er do well son has fleeced and Jack his ageing parents, Irish, AFL devotee and one- to look promises time solicitor, into it. The action shifts from and pub to Toorak Fitzroy to the horsetrack. Peter across masterly, settings are Temple’s convincing, his characters are and he writes some of the best dialogue on the current Australian scene. F B Berlin Syndrome Melanie Joosten A psychological thriller by a Clare debut Australian author. is a young backpacker who meets native Berliner Andi at Checkpoint Charlie. He invites her to move in with him and a tale of obsession and psychological intrigue begins. This is an intelligent novel with a masterful description of the loneliness and isolation that can city - and be found in a foreign the potential vulnerability of a woman travelling alone. Another World Another Pat Barker writing combines Wonderful today’s sharp observation of family lives with resonant and evocations of murders of oldmysteries. The power thewounds to hurt or heal in another is explored present intelligent, honest, generous- It spirited novel by Pat Barker. concerns families, two blended late 20thone 19th and the other and the centenarian century, the First who fought in Geordie, War. World 9652 0620 / CAE.EDU.AU / / 9652 B1861 B2137 B1556

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F Two friends of many years are friends of many years are Two among the mourners gathered at the North London funeral of Molly Lane, one an esteemed editor of a the other, composer, Also present quality broadsheet. Each, Secretary. is the Foreign had at one time it transpires, Incriminating lover. been Molly’s made, and the are revelations and destinies of the careers in question. A men are three cleverly plotted, blackly comic morality tale. F Amsterdam Ian McEwan Funder’s debut novel moves Funder’s between contemporary Sydney, and wartime Germany, Weimar and London. It New York fictionalises the true story of Ernst German revolutionary Toller of friends and and his circle associates as they struggled to publicise the brutality of the Nazi A compelling exploration regime. of sacrifice, betrayal, and the need to bear witness. All That I Am Anna Funder F A large, complex fiction mystery with combining murder andsocial comment on class based and sexual relationships, on historical fact: a notorious Atwood case in Canada. murder the ambiguities of explores Grace Marks, and 16-year-old also brings her usual wit and morality insight to psychology, and the management of Victorian homes and prisons. A must for Atwood lovers. Small print. Alias Grace Atwood Margaret A CONNECT WITH US

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Case Histories NEW Enduring Love Kate Atkinson D Ian McEwan Private investigator Jackson Joe becomes the object of Brodie finds himself immersed Dead Man Walking obsessive attentions from a in three unsolved mysteries, Helen Prejean The young man whom he has only and as he traces the threads This passionate case against Dry seen once before. Under this of these interweaving tragedies capital punishment comes from Jane stress, his previously happy we discover his own painful a nun brought into contact with Harper marriage begins to fail. A misfortunes. This unconventional violent criminals on Death Row. chilling study of the troubling detective novel focuses on Remarkable for exploring evil, WINNER phenomenon of the stalker, those who are left to pick up the love, and grace. CWA Gold Dagger Award from a novelist with an uncanny pieces, trapped by their need to ability to portray disturbing states know the truth. Each character N 1993 358pp B1502 WINNER of mind. is haunted by desperation to Ned Kelly Award F 1997 247pp B1710 remember their loved ones, while Diamond Dove seeking the relief of closure. Set in draught-ravaged rural Adrian Hyland Victoria, 36-year-old Federal F 2004 304pp B1873 Drifting back to the Aboriginal Agent Aaron Falk arrives back F community she left years ago, in his hometown Kiewarra to The Child in Time Emily doesn’t know where she attend the funeral of his former Farewell, My Lovely Ian McEwan belongs. Within hours of her best friend, Luke Hadler, who Raymond Chandler return, an old friend is brutally allegedly committed suicide WINNER murdered and an old enemy is after shooting and killing his wife Chandler is one of the most Whitbread Novel Award the only suspect. This outback and their 6-year-old son. Falk’s enthralling thriller writers and this, crime yarn tackles issues of unwelcome arrival unearths the his best-known book, withstands The only child of a young land, lore and relations between suspicion of a mysterious death the test of time. You may couple suddenly disappears in black and white Australians. that digs up a long-buried secret have seen the film with Robert McEwan’s complex, haunting, Strong language may offend that has been covered up for Mitchum and Charlotte Rampling almost magical interweaving some readers. 20 years. in the leading roles. of the themes of loss, memory F 1940 253pp B1060 and the human capacity F 2006 322pp B1949 F 2016 339pp B2274 for regeneration. Fatal Remedies F 1987 220pp B1316 The Dinner Herman Koch Donna Leon Paul and his wife are on their Police investigator Guido Brunetti The Cove deals with domestic tension Ron Rash way to a dinner, which he knows E neither of them will enjoy, and as his articulate, strong-willed In a gloomy valley in the his satiric, humorously snide Emergency Sex and wife makes a stand on an issue Appalachians there is a farm observations slowly reveal the Other Desperate of great concern. As crime that the locals believe is cursed. reasons for this over five courses. Measures escalates from the local to the The farm’s owners are Laurel, Expertly paced twists expose international scene, Leon deals an object of derision with a port dark events, and the veneer of Kenneth Cain, with issues of corruption in the wine birthmark, and her brother middle-class respectability is Heidi Postlewait & local scene of Venice, where she Hank, maimed from war in questioned in the face of parental Andrew Thomson has lived for 25 years. Europe. When mute stranger angst, loyalty and justice. F 1999 303pp B1855 Walter enters her life, Laurel The authors, former finds happiness she has never F 2012 309pp B2171 UN employees, met on known. But will Walter’s secret peacekeeping assignment in The Fig Eater destroy them? The Dressmaker Cambodia. The trio cross paths Jody Shields in Somalia, Haiti, and Bosnia, F 2012 255pp B2158 Rosalie Ham and their friendship strengthens. Vienna in 1910. It seems at first Tilly returns from fashionable Interweaving stories reveal that this will be a straightforward Europe to her mother, ‘old Mad idealism, humour and desire, historical crime novel, but The Cuckoo’s Calling it mines the fertile tension Robert Galbraith Molly’, and to the small country beneath accounts of war that town in the Victorian wheatbelt will educate and outrage. between morality and passion (J.K. Rowling) where she grew up. In this Confronting descriptions of sex that provided such rich material Published under a pseudonym, for Freud himself. Beneath inventive first novel, part pastoral, and genocide will offend some, Dark Deeds J.K. Rowling’s first crime part Gothic, there is much comic but this is well worth the effort for the imperial city’s respectable novel tells the story of Private brio as Tilly brings haute couture its brilliant investigation into the facade are layers of deception, Investigator Cormoran Strike, a to the backblocks. human cost of global politics. abuse and sexual perversion. Interweaving two parallel wounded war veteran with too 2000 296pp B1638

Dark Deeds 2004 352pp many debts and not enough F N B1877 investigations of a young girl’s clients. When Strike is asked to murder, Shields explores the investigate the death of a famous nature of investigation itself. What supermodel, he enters the is the role of logic, and what privileged world of the rich and of intuition? famous where things are never F 2000 349pp B1640 what they seem. F 2014 560pp B2265

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Fingersmith Sarah Waters H I J SHORTLISTED Man Booker Prize The Hamilton Case The Ice Princess Joe Cinque’s Michelle de Kretser Camilla Lackberg Consolation Sue grows up in a house of fingersmiths (petty thieves) in WINNER When writer Erica Falck returns Helen Garner a grimy back alley of Victorian Commonwealth Writers’ Prize to her hometown in Sweden, In this ‘true story of death, grief London. Baby farming, gloomy she learns that her childhood and the law’ Garner unravels the mansions, inheritances and This brilliant evocation of life in friend Alex has died. Police are bizarre killing of an unsuspecting conspiracies, hangings, 1930s Ceylon, at the end of the treating it as a suicide, but as young man by his girlfriend. oppressive relatives and British colonial period, focuses Erica interviews people about Why did those who knew of the eccentrics and lunatic asylums on the murder of an English Alex’s death, it becomes clear murder do nothing? An onlooker – it’s all here. Full of deceptions, tea planter and the tangled that deeper secrets are hiding during the legal proceedings, twists and unfolding romance, personal life of the narrator. A beneath the surface of the small, Garner comes to know the this novel is brilliantly written. Ceylonese lawyer who prides idyllic town of Fjallbacka. Cinque family, especially Maria, The lesbian love interest and himself on being more English F 2011 400pp B2145 Joe’s mother. than the English, Sam’s complex reference to the thriving Victorian N 2004 328pp B1859 pornography industry are post- character and distorted view In Cold Blood Dickensian. of the world are beautifully sustained. De Kretser’s historical Truman Capote 2002 548pp F B1807 novel is complex and satisfying. A Kansas farmer and his family K F 2003 369pp B1862 were murdered early one G morning in 1959, an event that The Killing of Sister The Harmony Silk Factory captivated Capote’s interest. In McCormack an effort to escape subjectivism, Anne Henderson The Girl with the Tash Aw he spent five years on the Sister Irene McCormack was case, made friends of the two Dragon Tattoo WINNER the first Australian Catholic murderers, and wrote this Stieg Larsson Commonwealth Writers’ Prize missionary to be murdered ‘nonfiction novel’ about it all. The first book in the Millennium abroad. What prompted her A kaleidoscopic portrait of N 1966 288pp B0100 to travel to in rural Peru, where trilogy. Set in Sweden, this Johnny Lim, textile merchant, unconventional and gripping she lived simply and taught petty crook and inventor, who the children of the poor? mystery delves into social issues, marries local beauty Snow The Invisible Ones particularly about violence Stef Penney Henderson skilfully teases out Soong. Years later, their son the many different facets of Sister against women. Disgraced Jasper seeks to unravel the truth journalist Mikael Blomkvist is In 1980s England, private eye McCormack’s life and death: about his parents’ relationship. Ray Lovell is investigating the theology, politics, terrorism, hired by a wealthy businessman Dealing with loyalty, love, and to investigate the disappearance, disappearance of a young relationships, mission work, betrayal in 1940s Malaysia on woman who married into and passion. of his niece Harriet Vanger. the brink of abandonment by the Lisbeth Salander, an anti- a travelling Gypsy family. British, Aw brilliantly exposes the Meanwhile, Romani teenager JJ N 2002 308pp B1673 social, tattooed, computer cultural tensions of an era. hacker becomes his unlikely struggles to unravel long-held assistant. Content may offend F 2005 362pp B1923 family secrets. Inspired by film Kittyhawk Down some readers. noir, this thriller explores hidden Garry Disher secrets, and the lives of those Set on the Mornington Peninsula F 2008 533pp B2067 Havana Bay on the fringes of society. From not far from Melbourne, this Martin Cruz Smith the author of The Tenderness crime novel offers dead bodies, of Wolves. Gone Girl Arkady Renko first appeared in manhunts, suspense and Gillian Flynn 1981 as the maverick Moscow F 2011 438pp B2135 intrigue. Disher’s character policeman in Gorky Park. Now development is excellent, When a seemingly happy woman Arkady has arrived in Cuba We really enjoyed this intriguing disappears without a trace, especially in unfolding the private to investigate the death of a tale, and had an interesting and professional life of his police convincing evidence points to discussion. Many loose ends Russian embassy worker. A richly investigator, Hal Challis. the involvement of her oddly intricate spy thriller, made more meant different interpretations! unemotional husband. This well compelling by its evocation of a Glen Iris 3 F 2003 275pp B1787 crafted psychological thriller threadbare, vibrant, dangerous surprises with each turn of the Havana with the insinuation of Dark Deeds investigation, unfolding disturbing music never far away. information with every twist. The unpredictable characters, F 1999 453pp B1761 absorbing storyline and creative Dark Deeds structure are stimulating discussion points, and questions and interview with author Gillian Flynn are included. F 2012 496pp B2177

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The Moonstone Nineteen Minutes L M Wilkie Collins Jodi Picoult A superb novel which has Picoult delves into small-town The Legacy Midnight In Sicily been regarded as the first of life to explore ‘difference’ in Kirsten Tranter Peter Robb the modern detective stories, our society. In Sterling, New Reimagines The Portrait of a A fascinating collage of Italian and was originally serialised in Hampshire, 17-year-old Peter Lady by Henry James. Ingrid art, history and travel - and the Charles Dickens’ magazine. has endured years of verbal inherits a fortune, moves to story of the Mafia in Sicily. Robb After a theft in a grand home, and physical abuse at the New York, marries, becomes claims that during the ‘season Sergeant Cuff must solve a hands of classmates. One final stepmother to teenage Fleur, and of distinguished corpses’, the mystery with as many facets as incident sends Peter over the immerses herself in the art scene. ‘men of honour’ built on their the priceless missing diamond, edge, leading him to an act The morning of September conservative Sicilian power base, including tracking down a which forever changes the 11, Ingrid disappears after an and with the support of the anti- missing nightgown as the key to town’s residents. Rich with appointment downtown, and her left Vatican and CIA, moved into a murder. psychological and social insight, cousin Ralph asks his friend Julia the top positions in Italy. A crime F 1868 526pp B1170 Picoult asks: how well can we to find out what happened. story like no other. really know someone? F 2010 438pp B2095 N 1996 326pp B1549 Morality Play F 2007 600pp B2001 Barry Unsworth The Little Stranger Midnight In the Garden In 14th-century England, a troupe O Sarah Waters of Good and Evil of travelling players is beset by John Berendt winter, plague and banditry. SHORTLISTED The players decide to replace On Beulah Height This ornate, readable book Man Booker Prize their usual miracle play with Reginald Hill transports us to the lush setting an improvisation of the events Three children are abducted In post-war rural Warwickshire, of Savannah, Georgia, a city leading up to a recent murder. in the small Yorkshire village country GP Dr Faraday becomes which is inward looking, ingrown, Historical novel and murder of Dendale. Fifteen years later, involved in a spiralling series and caught in a time warp. It’s mystery blend as we witness the Andy Dalziel, the uncouth but of disturbing events involving full of eccentric people and birth of modern drama. astute detective who worked the crumbling estate of grand anecdotes, with a murder and on the earlier case, is called in local family, the Ayres. A ghost four trials for good measure. F 1995 188pp B1511 story, a family in decline, and a when another child goes missing. N 1994 388pp B1476 A haunting novel with sharply rapidly changing society make L The Mystery of a this compelling reading from this observed characters, humour, popular author. The Midnight Watch Hansom Cab spirit and an aching sense of Fergus Hume loss. Small print. F 2009 501pp B2038 David Dyer On the night the Titanic sank, her This handsome 1999 edition F 1998 440pp B1727 passengers and crew noticed restores the local Melbourne The Lovely Bones detail and language of the original Alice Sebold another ship nearby. That ship One Good Turn was the Californian, and as text of this early murder mystery, Kate Atkinson 14-year-old Susie is brutally the details of the tragic night which sold 20,000 copies here At the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, murdered, and tells her story emerge, reporter John Steadman when it was first printed. This Jackson Brodie (from Case looking down from heaven. is intrigued by the reactions of readable, historically significant Histories) becomes enmeshed in Haunting, compelling, and her crew. Based on true events, example of crime fiction is a number of murders that ripple unsettling, this is an original and this gripping novel explores the a period piece of late 19th out from a road rage incident. challenging novel about healing, human failings of those who century Melbourne. An array of characters, from the recovery, and moving on towards could have prevented disaster – F 1886 309pp B0408 quirky to the bizarre, feature in a newly defined future. and yet, stood by. this fast moving, deftly plotted F 2002 328pp B1789 F 2016 336pp B2239 comic novel. N F 2006 396pp B1975 Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow Nice Try The title itself created Shane Maloney discussion. The group loved Peter Høeg Kate Atkinson’s use of words Melbourne may be the Australian A small boy fell to his death from and cheeky humour. There are capital of performance comedy the roof of an apartment block. always a lot of characters in Dark Deeds and Maloney lives up to this But was this really an accidental Atkinson’s books but she has reputation with this delightful tale. death? Smilla Jaspersen, the gift of creating great stories. Murray Whelan’s involvement descended from the Inuit people Mont Albert: Xqs with Melbourne’s bid to stage the of Greenland, has a feeling for Dark Deeds Olympic Games allows hilarious Enjoyed In Cold Blood? snow – and she thinks not. The insights into 1990s politics, gym action moves from Denmark culture, and Aboriginal activism. Try to the Arctic icecap, and snow and ice, beauty and extremity F 1998 312pp B1577 Midnight in the Garden are central to the world of this of Good and Evil unusual thriller. by John Berendt F 1992 410pp B1413 [B1476]

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NEW Postmortem Reading in the Dark P Patricia Cornwell Seamus Deane On The Set in Cornwell’s hometown SHORTLISTED The People in the Trees of Richmond, Virginia; the Man Booker Prize Java Hanya Yanagihara investigator is Dr Kay Scarpetta, Ridge Scientist Norton Perina reflects a forensic pathologist. A serial In the town of Derry in Northern Jock on his controversial Nobel killer is on the loose; three Ireland, a young boy from a Serong Prize winning discovery amid women have been attacked and Catholic family is gripped with a media storm of allegations killed in their own bedrooms. secrets, fears, suspicions and SHORTLISTED of child abuse. His matter of When a fourth victim is betrayals, all having to do with Indie Book Award fact viewpoint contrasts his discovered, the pressure is on for IRA involvement and the police. questionable morality, lending Scarpetta to produce results. A The boy’s gradual piecing LONGLISTED a dark psychological element real spine-chiller: not for the faint- together of events provides Australian Book Industry Award to a book which will leave you hearted. Small print. chilling suspense, but together with this bleakness Deane Skipper Isi Natoli is charge of considering Western colonisation, F 1990 293pp B1422 ecological disruption, and the renders a magical world of a tour boat Java Ridge, currently child’s imaginings; of tales, songs hosting a group of rich Australian subjective way we view ourselves The Power and the Glory – and our heroes. Endlessly and myths. surf tourists in search of Graham Greene perfect waves in the remote discussable. Contains themes F 1996 233pp B1545 Indonesian islands. When a that may disturb. Set in Mexico at the time of storm approaches, the crew and F 2013 384pp B2209 religious persecution in the name Rebecca passengers are anchored beside of revolution, and in many ways like a thriller, the story is of the Daphne du Maurier an idyllic reef where they come Perfume: into contact with the wreckage of last, hunted days of a whisky- WINNER Takalar, a people-smuggling boat The Story of sodden priest determined to National Book Award harbouring asylum seekers. The a Murderer continue the Church’s ministry. novel deals with the unfolding Patrick Süskind F 1940 288pp B0139 Max de Winter’s second wife political dilemma in Canberra, at lives with him in a suffocating Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is atmosphere of mystery and rising the same time as depicting the born with an astounding sense desperation to survive. menace, as she becomes vested of smell, yet he himself has no R in the mystery of what became F 2017 309pp B2279 scent. He learns the art of the of his first wife, the dazzling perfumer and creates a scent The Railway Station Man Rebecca. A classic thriller and for himself that can fool people’s Jennifer Johnston still a gripping story even if you An explosive book that blends perceptions of his personality. Helen has retreated to a small know Hitchcock’s film version. literary fiction with political One day, inspired to possess the town on the Irish coast as she thriller. The story raises a lot of scent of a young girl, he murders FL 1938 397pp B1137 recovers from the tragic death moral questions surrounding her, embarking on a journey to asylum seekers, persecution of her husband. She begins the dark side of humanity. and ‘turning a blind eye’. The painting again, and slowly Restless tension kept me going until I F 1985 263pp B1453 forms a relationship with war William Boyd had read the entire book in one hero Roger who lives at the In the summer of 1976, Ruth sitting. An extremely powerful The Poison Principle nearby railway station house – discovers the strange truth read that will provoke intense Gail Bell but happiness can be fleeting about her elderly mother, Sally. discussions. among the tensions of life. An Russian by birth, she worked for Larriana M, CAE Book Enticingly subtitled A Memoir explosive, well-plotted novel from the British Secret Service during Groups staff member of Family Secrets and Literary this Whitbread Novel Award- World War II. A suspenseful Poisonings. Bell’s grandfather winning author. novel of a female spy that sheds was known inside the family to F 1984 187pp B1234 a fascinating light into wartime have poisoned his two young British American relations and Orpheus Lost sons with strychnine in 1927. We usually find that the more explores the consequences of Janette Turner Hospital Herself a trained pharmacist, we dislike a book the better betrayal and duplicity. Bell spent years disentangling There is an explosion on the the discussion. However, in F 2006 304pp B1976 underground, terrorists are these events, and interweaves this case, despite the positive suspected, and Leela, a gifted her discoveries with precise detail reaction to the book, we had American mathematician, is about how arsenic, strychnine, a good discussion. We really taken to an interrogation centre and cyanide work, and accounts enjoyed the author’s prose Dark Deeds outside the city. Her childhood of famous poisoners and that somehow led to vivid friend, Cobb, is conducting an their victims. descriptions and most of the unconventional investigation and N 2001 279pp B1660 small number of characters Enjoyed were well-drawn. Most

Dark Deeds reveals that Leela’s love interest Mishka, a talented Australian members planned to read State of Wonder? musician, is not who he seems. another of Johnston’s books. Mt Eliza 6 F 2007 358pp B2008 Try The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara [B2209]

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Resurrection Bay The Robber Bride Silvermeadow Emma Viskic Margaret Atwood S Barry Maitland WINNER WINNER A missing teenager and a Ned Kelly Award Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Secrets of the Jury Room sighting of a vicious bank robber Malcolm Knox are both linked to Silvermeadow, WINNER Zenia was ‘pure, freewheeling What happens if twelve randomly a glitzy new shopping centre Davitt Award malevolence’, a manipulator who chosen men and women do on the outskirts of London. brilliantly exploited the generosity not easily reach a unanimous Maitland brings his architecture Deaf since childhood, Caleb has and weaknesses of friends. decision? Prompted by his background into play, not just always relied on his instincts. They attended her funeral with own experience of jury duty in with the design of the mall but When his best friend is murdered, relief - but now she returns to a criminal case, Malcolm Knox with the social psychology Caleb begins an investigation disrupt their lives again. Atwood (literary editor of the Sydney that underpins it. Well written that will force him to face the at her best: wittily observant, Morning Herald) has produced and plotted, with convincing demons from his past. Laced emotionally engaging, and a readable book about jury characters. Small print. with a dark humour, this original, positive about friendship. trials, and their advantages F 2000 346pp B1856 fast-paced thriller questions what F 1993 470pp B1456 and disadvantages. it means to pass for ‘normal’ in a world where otherness is N 2005 352pp B1956 Snow Falling often seen as ‘disability’, asking Room on Cedars intriguing questions about identity Emma Donoghue The Scholl Case David Guterson and belonging. SHORTLISTED Anja Reich-Osang SHORTLISTED 2015 192pp B2232 F Orange Prize SHORTLISTED PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction CWA Daggers Award The Return of the 5-year-old Jack lives in one In 1954 on an island off the Dancing Master room with his mother, and When a woman’s body is Pacific coast of America, a believes they are the only real found in the forest near Berlin, fisherman is found dead, and a Henning Mankell people in a world that exists only suspicion falls on her husband, second-generation Japanese In a remote location in northern within ‘Room’ – until his mother Heinrich Scholl, former mayor American is accused of Sweden, an off the job policeman confides her terrible secret. Jack and well-respected member of murdering him. This novel about decides to find out more about is by turns poignantly naïve and the community. They had been a small community examines the violent death of a colleague. wise beyond his years, and his married almost fifty years and prejudice, racial injustice, war, Mankell is a master of suspense story will haunt you long after were considered the perfect love and conscience. A page- and tension, able to take on big you finish this powerful novel. couple, could he really be turner offering much to discuss. Disturbing content with plenty of ideas such as the resurgence capable of her murder? But F 1994 404pp B1497 across Europe of neo-Nazism. material for discussion. when award-winning journalist Intelligent, complex crime writing. F 2010 400pp B2110 Anja Reich-Osang investigates The Snowman F 2000 520pp B1840 deeper into their marriage, she discovers not everything is what Jo Nesbo it seems. This is a true crime that The first day of snow has fallen reads more like a fiction novel. on Oslo, and police investigator N 2016 213pp B2263 Harry Hole is involved in solving a series of brutal murders. Hole finds himself trapped in the killer’s The Shark Net evil game, which will bring him Robert Drewe to the verge of insanity. Content In this memoir, subtitled may disturb. Memories and Murder, Drewe F 2010 576pp B2154 captures key images from his youth in Perth. After his family’s transfer from a more conservative Something Fishy Want to pen your Melbourne he experiences the Shane Maloney own crime novel? Perth locals as strange and It may be summer at the beach, fascinating. There’s humour, Discover the but the Hon. Murray Whelan MP perceptiveness and also dread – is onto something: criminality in building blocks as a serial murderer menaces the one area of the fishing industry. Dark Deeds of a great story city, a figure who turns out to be There are sharply observed more closely connected with their with our scenes of Lorne, and Maloney’s family than anyone realises. usual liking for fast, funny action. creative writing N 2000 358pp B1843 2002 242pp B1844

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Started Early, The Surgeon of The Thirteenth Tale Took My Dog Crowthorne T Diane Setterfield Kate Atkinson Simon Winchester Angelfield House was once the The fourth Jackson Brodie book The Oxford English Dictionary, The Tainted Trial home of the March family – the in the bestselling series that a massive work which took 70 of Farah Jama manipulative Isabelle, her brutal began with Case Histories and years to complete, was based on Julie Szego brother Charlie, and wild twins Emmeline and Adeline. But now was followed by One Good Turn the contributions of thousands A Somali teen in Melbourne the house stands forgotten, and When Will There Be Good of volunteers, but a mystery was convicted of the rape of its chilling secrets hidden from News? This gripping mystery is surrounded W.C. Minor, one of an Australian woman – but the view - until a biographer begins as compelling as its precursors. the most prolific and helpful of tireless efforts of his lawyer led to investigating Angelfield’s past. F 2010 400pp B2088 these. Winchester’s bestselling shocking revelations 18 months book sets out the bizarre tale later. Raising questions about F 2006 459pp B1994 Sucked In of Minor and his torments, and justice, migration, cultural taboos, also offers a diverting account prejudice and gender politics, this Shane Maloney of dictionaries. This House of Grief is a confronting story about the Helen Garner The discovery of a body in a N 1998 207pp B1704 legal system in Australia. Garner was shocked by the recently drained lake in country 2014 242pp B2213 Victoria sends Murray Whelan N tragic story of a man whose into investigation mode. Are Surrender three children drowned when these the remains of a union Sonya Hartnett The Tall Man his car plunged into a dam on leader, drowned twenty Gabriel once did a thing Chloe Hooper Father’s Day in 2005. Here, she follows the engrossing twists of years back? Maloney brings unforgivable in the eyes of his In 2004, Cameron Doomadgee the man’s court case and various us a sharp-witted picture of community. Now 20 years old was arrested for swearing at a appeals in this true crime story, Melbourne during the late 1990s. and dying, he has only his faithful white police officer. Within 45 watching as the theatre of the dog and his childhood friend minutes he was dead in a watch F 2007 276pp B1978 law tries to determine: was this Finnigan with whom he made a house cell, the main suspect is accidental, or deliberate? The Summer That chilling pact. This demanding, well respected Senior Sergeant disturbing and exhilarating Christopher Hurley. Hooper tells N 2014 288pp B2223 Melted Everything psychological thriller explores the full story of the subsequent Tiffany McDaniel the impact of suffering on a trial and its repercussions. Her child’s mind. This Is How When 13-year-old Sal arrives in reports won her a Walkley Award M.J. Hyland the summer of 1984 to Breathed, F 2005 245pp B1895 and were published around This is a vividly imagined novel Ohio, claiming to be the devil, he the world. about a young man on the edge is adopted into the Bliss family The Suspicions N 2008 288pp B2062 of sanity. Patrick is moving into as one of their own. As the Bliss a boarding house on the English family struggle with their own of Mr Whicher seaside, leaving behind his personal demons, a scorching Kate Summerscale The Tenderness of Wolves parents, an unfinished university heat-wave brings out a fanatical Stef Penney WINNER degree, and a failed engagement. hysteria of the town’s people that Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction WINNER There is a mounting sense question the nature of good and Costa Book Award of unease as we follow the evil. A poetic, lyrical and literary The murder of a child lies at emotionally inarticulate Patrick depiction of a fractured family the heart of this biography of 1867, Canada. As winter grips in this study in claustrophobia and a small town in crises. a middle-class Victorian family, the isolated settlement of and loneliness. F 2016 320pp B2256 Summerscale’s meticulous Dove River, a man is brutally research turns a mystery into murdered and a 17-year-old F 2009 320pp B2056 Thought-provoking and an accessible social history of boy disappears. Tracks outside powerful! The contrast Britain’s 19th-century love affair the dead man’s cabin head Trespass between what is perceived as with detectives, and the birth of north. One by one journalists, Rose Tremain fundamentally good and evil the detective novel. trappers, and traders set out Antiques dealer Anthony escapes had me tearing through every N 2008 372pp B2085 across a desolate and dangerous page. It builds to a climatic and landscape; pursuing the tracks his fading London life to his unexpected finish that left me before the snow erases the past sister’s house in France, where shocked in a heart-breaking yet for good. But do they want to his presence disrupts her life and wonderful way. Beautiful lyrical solve the crime or exploit it? relationship. When he decides to writing. This book generated the buy the run-down family home best discussion of the year, and F 2006 440pp B1980 of local siblings Aramon and Dark Deeds two members had to get their Audrun, he becomes entangled own copies of the book. in a struggle between brother Murray Riverside Readers Enjoyed and sister which runs deeper

Dark Deeds than he can know. Tremain The Scholl Case? explores family history and what it means to ‘trespass’ in this Try haunting novel. This House of Grief F 2010 253pp B2072 by Helen Garner [B2223]

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Truth The Untouchable The White Tiger Peter Temple John Banville W Aravind Adiga WINNER Quintessential member of the WINNER Miles Franklin Literary Award English Establishment, Anthony We Need to Talk Man Booker Prize Blunt was disgraced in 1979 About Kevin Inspector Stephen Villani is head when he was revealed as one of Lionel Shriver The son of a rickshaw puller, of the Victoria Police Homicide the Cambridge spies recruited Balram leaves school to work in Squad and he faces a series of in the 1930s. The central figure WINNER a teashop. When a rich village new murders to solve. A dark in Banville’s exploration of the Orange Prize landlord hires him as a chauffeur novel that explores corruption, spy’s mentality is loosely based in Delhi, Balram’s re-education When her son commits mass deceit and truth. ‘Truth is both on Blunt, with a supporting begins, but to access the wealth murder days before his sixteenth confronting and electrifying. It is cast of randy, heavy drinking and opportunity of the city he birthday, Eva is robbed of Temple’s best book’ – The Age. dissemblers. A dazzling read: must embrace a new morality. everything important to her. In a cool, ironic, sad and funny. Provincialism and the caste F 2009 387pp B2083 series of letters to her estranged system clash with the economic F 1997 405pp B1566 husband, Eva revisits the events glitter of the techno-boom, where that led to the horrific incident. Two Caravans murder is sometimes the best This chilling, deeply psychological Marina Lewycka option. V novel asks controversial From the author of the questions about parenting and F 2008 336pp B2030 international bestseller A Short family in the modern age. History of Tractors in Ukrainian The Verge Practice This book created great comes a hilarious, yet gritty look Barry Maitland F 2005 468pp B1942 discussion, very well written, at what lies behind the arrival of The glamorous world of architect some thought Babom was evil food at our tables. Lewycka’s Charles Verge is disturbed when When Will There and a murderer, but the majority depiction of the exploitation his second wife is murdered, agreed how else was he going Be Good News? to escape. An excellent read. involved in the global labour and he disappears. Is Verge Kate Atkinson market is just one part of a the killer, now on the run, or Cowwarr picaresque tale involving itinerant has someone killed both Verge From the bestselling author of migrant workers, young love and his wife? The action moves Case Histories and One Good The Woman in White and a caravan journey from the between London, Barcelona and Turn comes the third literary Wilkie Collins strawberry fields of Kent. the British countryside as police mystery with Jackson Brodie. Dr Hunter is missing and Reggie One of the first mystery novels F 2007 310pp B1982 investigators Kolla and Brock follow the trail. Small print. raises the alarm. In a series of and still a fine example of the deadly coincidences, Jackson genre one hundred and fifty F 2003 313pp B1854 joins Reggie’s search and years after it was written. Walter U reconnects with Detective Chief helps a distressed young woman Vernon God Little Inspector Louise Monroe. With dressed in white, then realises The Unfortunate Victim D.B.C. Pierre strong character development that she had escaped from a Greg Pyers and multiple plot twists nearby asylum. This sets up a WINNER accompanying Atkinson’s dark, surprising plot involving insanity, Set in the gold-mining town of Man Booker Prize humorous style. hidden identities and illegitimate Daylesford in 1864, this historical 2008 348pp B2029 children. It is said that politician crime fiction revolves around the WINNER F William Gladstone cancelled an brutal murder of a newlywed, Whitbread Novel Award evening at the theatre to read and the chase to find her killer. White Dog it; novelist William Makepeace Based on a true story, the novel The riotous adventures of Peter Temple Thackery sat up all night to finish offers plenty of discussion 15-year-old Vernon Gregory , gambler, cook, cabinet it – and it may produce a similar around the treatment of female Little in small-town Texas and response in you. Small print. victims and the state of law beachfront Mexico mark one of maker and one-time lawyer has enforcement during Australia’s the most spectacularly irreverent, a quiet, understated appeal. F 1859 648pp B1059 gold-rush period. satirically acute and critically In a rainy autumn he moves in a world of shady property F 2017 320pp B2260 acclaimed debuts of the 21st century. Strong language. deals, the squalid exploitation of young women, and untimely F 2003 279pp B1941 death. Peter Temple is admired for his superb ear for dialogue

and Australian idiom and his Dark Deeds unillusioned portrayal of the Melbourne and Australian scene. Enjoyed F 2003 337pp B1799

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Birnie, Lisa 64 Coetzee, J.M. 18, 63 Dovey, Ceridwen 41 A Bishop, Stephanie 59 Cohen, Julie 29 Dowling, Bary 8 Adamson, Robert 19 Bitto, Emily 42 Collins, Christy 56 Doyle, Roddy 69 Adelaide, Debra 22, 48 Blackman, Barbara 18 Collins, Wilkie 73, 77 Drabble, Margaret 51 Adiga, Aravind 77 Blainey, Ann 19 Conrad, Joseph 52, 57 Drewe, Robert 58, 75 Adut, Deng Thiak 68 Blain, Georgia 23, 39, 45 Conway, Jill Ker 9 Düchting, Hajo 17, 19 Albom, Mitch 60 Bouras, Gillian 29, 45 Cormick, Craig 40 Duff, Alan 67 Ali, Monica 55 Bowen, Stella 11 Cornwell, Patricia 74 Duigan, Virginia 41 Allende, Isabel 13, 27, 28 Boyd, William 36, 74 Costello, Tim 68 du Maurier, Daphne 42, 74 Aman 62 Bradley, James 24, 30 Cottee, Kay 12 Duncan, Susan 59 Amsterdam, Steven 43 Bragge, Lily 67 Courtenay, Bryce 23 Durrell, Gerald 50 Anderson, Jessica 8, 10 Brett, Lily 20, 54 Crace, Jim 39 Dyer, David 73 Annear, Robyn 31, 34, 35 Brewin, Emily 7 Cracknell, Ruth 26 Anonymous 24 Brontë, Charlotte 13 Craven, Margaret 57 E Armanno, Venero 25 Crawford, Evelyn 14 Brontë, Emily 30 Earls, Nick 28 Armstrong, Judith 39 Cruz Smith, Martin 72 Brookner, Anita 26, 66 Edwards, Kim 50 Armstrong, Karen 21 Cunningham, Michael 19 Brooks, Geraldine 14, 32, 34, Egan, Jennifer 30 Arnold, Matthias 22 35, 37 Cunxin, Li 20 Ehrenreich, Barbara 67 Ash, Romy 56 Brown, Christy 67 Cusack, Dymphna 32 Ellmann, Richard 21 Ashworth, Andrea 51 Bryson, Bill 8, 31, 56, 58 Cusk, Rachel 23 Enright, Anne 48 Astley, Thea 6, 61, 66, 67 Buist, Anne 61 Eugenides, Jeffrey 8 Burroughs, Augusten 52 Atkinson, Kate Evans, William 56 33, 40, 41, 45, 57, 71, 73, 76, 77 D Daisley, Stephen 69 Atwood, Margaret 6, 40, 44, 45, 70, 75 C Dalrymple, William 55 F Cahalan, Susannah 63 Danziger, Danny 37 Austen, Jane 24, 26, 27, 28 Facey, A.B. 6 Aw, Tash 72 Cain, Kenneth 71 Davidson, Robyn 60 Falconer, Delia 42 Cameron, Anson 60 Davies, Martin 39 Farmer, Beverley 49 Camus, Albert 67 Day, Gregory 41 Fforde, Jasper 39 B , , Capote, Truman 24 25 72 Day, Marele 14 Fiftieth Gate, The 64 Bail, Murray 25 Capp, Fiona 60 Dean, Debra 34 Findlay, Merrill 42 Bainbridge, Beryl 31 Carey, Peter Deane, Seamus 74 Fitzgerald, F. Scott 39 Baker, Mark Raphael 64 7, 29, 34, 35, 37, 43 , de Bernières, Louis 24 62 Fitzpatrick, Kathleen 9 Banville, John 77 Carr, J.L. 67 , , de Botton, Alain 17 21 22 Flanagan, Richard Barbery, Muriel 18 Carroll, Lewis 38 de Hennezel, Marie 59 33, 35, 39, 43, 52 Barfoot, Joan 28 Carroll, Steven 45, 53 de Kretser, Michelle 20, 59, 72 Flannery, Tim 19, 22, 60 Barker, Pat 70 Carter, Angela 11 Desai, Kiran 66 Flaubert, Gustave 27 Barnes, Julian 29, 33 Carver, Robert 55 de Saint Phalle, Catherine 28 Fliedl, Gottfried 19 Barry, Sebastian 66 Case, Jo 63 Dessaix, Robert 50, 58 Flynn, Gillian 72 Bauby, Jean Dominique 64 Catton, Eleanor 34 Deveson, Anne 10, 22, 67 Fonseca, Isabel 63 Bayley, John 26 Chandler, Raymond 71 de Waal, Edmund 18 Ford, Richard 10 Baynton, Barbara 32 Chaney, Lisa 12 deWitt, Patrick 60 Forster, Deborah 45 Bedford, Sybille 14 Chang, Jung 16 Diamant, Anita 36 Forster, E.M. 35 Behrendt, Larissa 48 Chevalier, Tracy 18 Diamond, Jared 33 Forster, Margaret 13, 49 Behrens, Peter 34 Clark, Imogen 9 Dickens, Charles 6, 7 Fowler, Karen Joy 54 Bell, Gail 74 Clark, Manning 9 Dirie, Waris 11 Franklin, Miles 20 Berendt, John 73 Cleave, Chris 66 Disher, Garry 72 Franzen, Jonathan 46, 48 Berger, John 30 Clendinnen, Inga 32, 69 Do, Anh 65 Fraser, Rosalie 68 Bidwell Smith, Claire 67 Clift, Charmian 58 Dobrez, Patricia 17 Frayn, Michael 10 Birch, Tony 7, 9 Clode, Danielle 61 Doerr, Anthony 31 Frazier, Charles 24 Bird, Carmel 38, 68 Coelho, Paulo 43 Donoghue, Emma 44, 75 Frazier, Nancy 21

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Fredriksson, Marianne 13 Hardy, Thomas 36 Jaffe, Meredith 47 Lahiri, Jhumpa 57, 61 Friedan, Betty 56 Harper, Jane 71 James, Clive 21 Lake, Marilyn 12 Frost, Lucy 14 Harrer, Heinrich 59 James, Florence 32 Lam, Vincent 55 Fu, Kim 6 Harris, Joanne 11 James, Kate 61 Lanchester, John 38 Funder, Anna 68, 70 Hartley, L.P. 7 James, Wendy 14, 27 Landon, Carolyn 66 Hartnett, Sonya 5, 41, 76 Jeffs, Sandy 64 Lanyon, Anna 14 G Harvey, Samantha 69 Jenkins, Robin 24 Larsson, Stieg 72 Hastrich, Vicki 53 Jennings, Kate 27 Lawson, Mary 51 Gaiman, Neil 41 Haynes, Elizabeth 66 Jin, Ha 30 Lee, Harper 33, 69 Gaita, Raimond 9, 21 Hay, Trevor 36 Joel, Maggie 36 Lee, Laurie 17, 31 Galbraith, Robert 71 Hazzard, Shirley 25 Johnson, Susan 49 Lee, Micheline 48 García Márquez, Gabriel 27 Heard, Barry 69 Johnston, Dorothy 35 Legacy, The 73 Gardam, Jane 49, 50 Heller, Zoë 41 Johnston, Jennifer 74 Le Guin, Ursula K. 40, 42, 43 Garimara, Nugi 12 Hemingway, Ernest 58 Jolley, Elizabeth Leigh, Julia 40 Garner, Helen 29, 38, 39, 40, 51 16, 25, 26, 46, 64, 68, 72, 76 Henderson, Anne 72 Le, Nam 63 Jones, Caroline 55 Gaskell, Elizabeth 32, 34 Henderson, Sara 12 Leon, Donna 70, 71 Jones, Gail 25 Gee, Sue 51 Herbst, Peter 17 Lessing, Doris Jones, Lloyd 8, 65 10, 11, 16, 27, 41, 47 Gelbach, Igor 63 Hesse, Hermann 60 Jones, Sadie 8 Levett, Robin 12 Genova, Lisa 68 Hessler, Peter 59 Joosten, Melanie 12, 70 Levi, Primo 64 Ghosh, Amitav 36, 57 Hewett, Dorothy 30 Jordan, Mary Ellen 55 Levy, Andrea 34 Gilbert, Elizabeth 15, 56 Higgins, Fiona 27 Jordan, Toni 23, 50, 51 Lewycka, Marina 30, 52, 53, 77 Gildiner, Catherine 10 Hillman, Robert 5, 67 Joyce, James 9 Lianke, Yan 39 Gill, Isabel ‘Spark’ 34 Hill, Reginald 73 Joyce, Rachel 61 Liebenberg, Lauren 10 Glendinning, Victoria 15, 32 Hitiura Vaite, Célestine 47 Joy Fowler, Karen 26 Lindsay, Joan 41 Golden, Arthur 34 Høeg, Peter 70, 73 Juchau, Mireille 44 Lively, Penelope 26, 46, 51 Golding, Frank 67 Holden, Kate 66 Llewellyn, Kate 22 Goldsmith, Andrea 8, 18 Holden, Robert 35 Locke Elliott, Sumner 30 Goldsworthy, Peter 29, 49 Hollinghurst, Alan 40 K Lodge, David 17, 21, 29 Golski, Kathy 16 Hollinrake, Rosalind 17 Kanake, Sarah 9 Lohrey, Amanda 21, 28 Gooneratne, Yasmine 55 Hollows, Fred 64 Kaplan, Alice 56 London, Joan 48, 57, 64 Grant, Stan 68 Holmes, Richard 56 Karimi, Kooshyar 66 Loos, Noel 64 Grass, Günter 43 Holroyd, Michael 45 Keenan, Michael 65 Lorenzo, Olga 15 Greene, Graham 60, 74 Homer 58 Keneally, Thomas 31, 43 Lovell, Mary S. 15 Green, John 64 Homes, A. M. 60 Kenneally, Christine 33 Lucinda, Holdforth 16 Green, Penelope 61 Honeyman, Gail 24 Kennedy, Cate 54, 60 Lunn, Hugh 8, 37 Greer, Germaine 16 Hooper, Chloe 76 Kent, Hannah 31, 33 Lynch, Jim 7 Grenville, Kate Hornby, Nick 5, 26 Kingsolver, Barbara 8, 13, 14, 26, 34, 36, 47 5, 11, 19, 28, 51, 56 Lyon, Annabel 18 Hosseini, Khaled 8, 45, 53 Gruen, Sara 37, 38 Kinnane, Stephen 29 Hulme, Keri 70 Guterson, David 75 Kissane, Andy 37 Hume, Fergus 73 M Gyatso, Palden 32 Knox, Elizabeth 23, 43 Humphries, Barry 20 Mabo, Koiki 64 Knox, Malcolm 51, 75 Huston, Nancy 47 Macdonald, Sarah 57 Kocan, Peter 6 Hustvedt, Siri 15, 30 Mackay, Hugh 21, 32 H Koch, Christopher 57, 58 Haddon, Mark 52, 63 Hutcheon, Jane 57 MacLeod, Alistair 50 Koch, Herman 71 Haikal, Loubna 52 Huxley, Aldous 38 Mahood, Kim 46 Krasnostein, Sarah 16 Halligan, Marion 50 Hyland, Adrian 71 Maitland, Barry 75, 77 Krauss, Nicole 56 Halloran, Jacinta 39 Hyland, M.J. 7, 70, 76 Makler, Irris 59 Kristof, Nicholas 65 Hall, Rodney 63 Malamud, Bernard 62 Hamilton, Clive 17 Maloney, Shane 70, 73, 75, 76 Hammer, Joshua 62 I Malouf, David 8, 19, 35, 36, 65 Ishiguro, Kazuo 10, 17, 36, 41 L Ham, Rosalie 52, 53, 71 Lacey, Robert 37 Mankell, Henning 75 Hanff, Helene 45 Lacey, Stephen 10 Mann, Thomas 39 Harding, Paul 53 J Lackberg, Camilla 72 Mantel, Hilary 31, 37, 38 Hardy, Sara 16 Jacobson, Howard 25 Laguna, Sofie 64 Martel, Yann 40

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Martin, Valerie 53 Ng, Celeste 49 Pung, Alice 10 Shields, Carol 15, 25, 53 Matar, Hisham 66 Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda Pyers, Greg 77 Shields, Jody 71 Matthews, Gordon 5 9, 65 Pym, Barbara 12 Shriver, Lionel 68, 77 Mawer, Simon 32 Niall, Brenda 16, 20 Sijie, Dai 5, 58 Mayes, Frances 61 Nicolson, Nigel 28 Silvey, Craig 7 Mazari, Najaf 67 Niffenegger, Audrey 29 R Simonson, Helen 27 Rachman, Tom 19 Mazya, Edna 25 Nitschke, Philip 19 Simpson, Joe 69 Rash, Ron 71 McBride, James 46 North, Anna 20 Simsion, Graeme 28, 29, 61 Rees, Siân 32 McCall Smith, Alexander Singer, Peter 19, 67 Reich-Osang, Anja 75 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 45 O Sittenfeld, Curtis 23, 24 McCarthy, Cormac 5, 42 Remarque, E.M. 62 Obreht, Tea 69 Skelton, Kathy 8 McCoy, Nick 54 Renner, James 40 O’Connor, Andrew 10 Slovo, Gillian 47 McDaniel, Tiffany 76 Rhys, Jean 44 O’Faolain, Nuala 11 Smiley, Jane 5, 28, 53 McDonald, Meme 27 Richardson, Henry Handel 7 O’Farrell, Maggie 48, 49, 60 Smith, Ali 38, 40 Riemer, Andrew 57 McDonald, Roger 35 Smith, Bob 48 O’Flynn, Catherine 10 , McEwan, Ian Robb, Peter 56 73 Okri, Ben 63 Smith, Dodie 26 23, 27, 36, 42, 46, 70, 71 Robertson, Deborah 29, 46 Ondaatje, Michael 24, 52, 62 Smith, Zadie 50, 54 McGahan, Andrew 54 Roberts, Shirley 32 O’Reilly, P.A. 47 Sobel, Dava 32 McGirr, Michael 60 Robinson, Marilynne 48, 49 Orlean, Susan 41 Solomons, Natasha 35 McGregor, Fiona 49 Rodriguez, Deborah 13, 15 Orwell, George 38 Sontag, Susan 30 McKay, Ami 31 Roorbach, Bill 9 Oz, Amos 53 Spark, Muriel 14 McKelvey, Ben 68 Rose, Heather 20 Ozeki, Ruth 22 St Aubyn, Edward 50 McKnight, Harriet 15 Rose, Peter 52 Stedman, M.L. 34 McLaren, Philip 43 Roth, Philip 65 Stegner, Wallace 24 , McPhee, Hilary 21 P Rowling, J.K. 46 71 Steinbeck, John 36 Mears, Gillian 27, 47 Packer, ZZ 6 Roy, Arundhati 48 Stewart, Fiona 19 Michaels, Anne 30 Painter, Shirley 62 Rushdie, Salman 25, 34, 50 St John, Madeleine 30 Mildenhall, Kate 9 Park, Ruth 12, 48 Russo, Richard 32 Stockett, Kathryn 33 Miller, Alex 17, 21, 50, 55, 57 Parrett, Favel 9, 10 Storr, Anthony 18 Miller, Andrew 35 Pascoe, Judy 51 Stout, Mira 59 Miller, Catherine 11 Patchett, Ann 23, 42 S Sacks, Oliver 10, 62, 66 Strout, Elizabeth 27, 46 Miller, Derek B. 58 Patric, A.S. 62 Safran Foer, Jonathan 6 Summers, Anne 20 Ming Teo, Hsu 50 Paull, Laline 38 Sage, Alex 64 Summerscale, Kate 76 Mistry, Rohinton 47, 64 Paxman, Jeremy 56 Sage, Lorna 5 Süskind, Patrick 74 Mitchell, David 37, 39 Pearson, Allison 13 , Sagner Düchting, Karin 20 Swift, Graham 26 53 Modjeska, Drusilla 15, 52 Penney, Stef 72, 76 Said, Kurban 23 Szego, Julie 76 Monk Kidd, Sue 15, 33 Perlman, Elliot 68 Salinger, J.D. 6 Szubanski, Magda 15 Moore, Lorrie 7 Petterson, Per 8 Sallis, Eva 58 Mora, Mirka 16 Pham, Andrew X. 55 Salzman, Mark 57 Morgan, Sally 69 Picoult, Jodi 41, 65, 73 T Saunders, George 40 Tan, Amy 7, 49 Morris, Heather 68 Pierre, D.B.C. 77 Sayer, Mandy 28 Tartt, Donna 18 Morrison, Toni 14, 62 Pilger, John 65 Schlink, Bernhard 25, 28 Taylor, Elena 18 Mortenson, Greg 43 Pilkington, Doris 12 Scott, Denise 45 Temple, Peter 70, 77 Morton, Kate 32, 49 Pipkin, John 38 Scott, Kim 37 Tench, Watkin 55 Müller, Herta 66 Plath, Sylvia 5 Seal, Jeremy 56 Tennant, Kylie 9 Munro, Alice 25, 30 Porter, Chester 22 Sebold, Alice 73 Tharoor, Shashi 33 Murakami, Haruki 44 Postlewait, Heidi 71 Potok, Chaim 6, 18 Sepúlveda, Luis 59 Thomson, Andrew 71 Power, Robert 57 Serong, Jock 74 Thubron, Colin 55, 57, 60 N Prawer Jhabvala, Ruth 26 Seth, Vikram 25 Tiffany, Carrie 27, 39 Nafisi, Azar 67 Prejean, Helen 71 Setterfield, Diane 76 Tindall, Gillian 32 Némirovsky, Irène 68 Prichard, Katharine Susannah Shaffer, Mary Ann 33 Toews, Miriam 6 Nesbo, Jo 75 63 Shamsie, Kamila 63, 65 Tóibín, Colm 55 Ness, Patrick 17 Priest, Ann Marie 18 Sherborne, Craig 7 Toltz, Steve 47 Newell, Patrice 21 Proulx, Annie 52, 59, 60, 63 Shields, Carol 40 Tomalin, Claire 13, 17, 36

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Tonkin, Daryl 66 Viskic, Emma 75 Wharton, Edith 23 Woolf, Virginia 21 Tranter, Kirsten 73 Visser, Margaret 67 Whitehead, Colson 43 Wright, Judith 18 Treloar, Lucy 36 White, Patrick 7 WuDunn, Sheryl 65 Tremain, Rose 67, 76 Wilde, Oscar 41 Wyld, Evie 62 Trinca, Helen 13 W Williams, Niall 25 Walker, Brenda 21 Trollope, Joanna 24, 51 Wilson, Frances 11 Walker, Shirley 9 Tsiolkas, Christos 5, 52 Wilson, Josephine 47 Y Walker, Vanessa 58 Yanagihara, Hanya 74 Tumarkin, Maria 59 Wilson, Valerie 21 Walls, Jeannette 48 Yates, Richard 51 Turnbull, Sarah 55 Winchester, Simon 31, 40, 76 Walsh, Chris 14 Yen Mah, Adeline 47 Turner Hospital, Janette Winch, Tara June 52 26, 39, 53, 66, 74 Walther, Ingo 18 Wingate, Lisa 45 Twain, Mark 55 Warner, Marina 12 Winman, Sarah 37 Z Tyler, Anne 23, 46, 47, 49, 50 Waters, Sarah 35, 72, 73 Winterson, Jeanette 8, 35 Zable, Arnold 56, 63 Waterstreet, Charles 51 Winton, Tim Zail, Suzy 68 Watson, Don 17 5, 24, 25, 29, 46, 52, 53, 69 Zusak, Markus 31 U Watson, Jane 65 Witting, Amy 7, 19, 24 Unsworth, Barry 73 Watts, Peter 11, 24 Wolff, Tobias 8 Waugh, Evelyn 46 Womersley, Chris 31 V Weaver, Eva 12 Wood, Charlotte 14, 29, 46 Vickers, Salley 26, 58 Wells, Rebecca 11 Woolfe, Sue 42

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4 Scotland Street 45 Art of the Engine Driver, The 45 Bomb, Book and Compass: Charades 39 84 Charing Cross Road 45 As I Walked Out One Joseph Needham and the Charles Dickens: A Life 17 Great Secrets of China 31 1788 55 Midsummer Morning 31 Charles Hotham 32 Bone People, The 70 1984 38 Assistant, The 62 Chase, The 11 Book of Emmett, The 45 At Home 31 Child in Time, The 71 Book Thief, The 31 Atonement 23 Childish Things 24 Boomer and Me 63 A Austen, Jane 29 Children Act, The 46 About a Boy 5 Borderliners 70 Authentic Life, An 55 Children’s Bach, The 46 Accidental, The 38 Boyds: The Art of the Author, Author 17 Children, The 46 Accidental Tourist, The 23 Boyds, The 17 Autumn Laing 17 Child’s Book of True Crime, A 39 According to Queeney 31 Boy in the Green Suit, The 5 Chocolat 11 Accursed Mountains, The 55 Brain on Fire 63 Chosen, The 6 Addition 23 B Brave New World 38 Cider with Rosie 17 Adventures of Huckleberry Bad-Ass Librarians of Breakfast at Tiffany’s 24 Finn, The 55 Timbuktu, The 62 Breath 5 City of Djinns 55 Affluenza 17 Bad Blood 5 Breathing Lessons 46 City of Friends 24 Aftermath 23 Balanda 55 Brick Lane 55 City of the Mind 46 After the Fire, A Still Balzac and the Little Brideshead Revisited 46 Clarice Beckett 17 Chinese Seamstress 5 Small Voice 62 Bride Stripped Bare, The 24 Closed for Winter 39 Barn Blind 5 Age of Innocence, The 23 Bring Larks and Heroes 31 Close Range: Barracuda 5 Wyoming Stories 63 Ali and Nino 23 Bring Up the Bodies 31 Alias Grace 70 Basil Street Blues 45 Broken Shore, The 70 Cloud Atlas 39 All Quiet on the Bean Patch, The 62 Brooklyn 55 Cloudstreet 46 Western Front 62 Bean Trees, The 5 Brush Off, The 70 Coda 6 All That Happened at Bearbrass 31 Burgess Boys, The 46 Cold Mountain 24 Number 26 45 Bees, The 38 Burial Rites 31 Color of Water, The 46 All That I Am 70 Before We Were Yours 45 Burnt Shadows 63 Come in Spinner 32 All the Birds, Singing 62 Behind the Scenes Bury Me Standing 63 Complicated Kindness, A 6 All the Light We Cannot See 31 at the Museum 45 Bush Studies 32 Conditions of Faith 55 All the Pretty Horses 5 Behind the Wall 55 Butcher’s Wife, The 70 Confessions of a Clay Man 63 Almost French 55 Bel Canto 23 Butterfly 5 Conjuror’s Bird, The 39 Aman 62 Bell Jar, The 5 Consolations of Philosophy 17 Amateur Marriage, The 23 Beloved 62 Coonardoo 63 American Wife 23 Bereft 31 C Corrections, The 46 Amsterdam 70 Berlin Syndrome 70 Cabin Fever 38 Courtesan’s Revenge, The 11 An Australian Son 5 Between a Wolf and a Dog 23 Café Scheherazade 63 Cove, The 71 And the Mountains Echoed 45 Caleb’s Crossing 32 Beyond Black 38 Craft for a Dry Lake 46 An Equal Music 25 Cape Grimm 38 Big Brother 23 Crane Wife, The 17 Ang, Li 70 Capital 38 Billie’s Kiss 23 Cranford 32 Anil’s Ghost 62 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 24 Birds Without Wings 62 Crossing to Safety 24 Animal Farm 38 Careless 46 Birth House, The 31 Cuckoo’s Calling, The 71 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle 11 Carry Me Down 70 Births Deaths Marriages 45 Curious Incident of the Dog Annotated Alice, The 38 Black Rock White City 62 Case Histories 71 in the Night Time, The 63 Another World 70 Black Tide 70 Casual Vacancy, The 46 Anthropologist on Mars, An 62 Blind Assassin, The 45 Catcher in the Rye, The 6 Ape House 38 Blind Astronomer’s Catfish and Mandala 55 D Aphrodite and the Others 45 Daughter, The 38 Cat’s Eye 6 Dancing with Strangers 32 April Fool’s Day 23 Blood from a Stone 70 Célestine 32 Dangerous Love 63 A Private Man 51 Bloodletting and Cézanne: Paul Cézanne, Dark Places 47 Are You Somebody? 11 Miraculous Cures 55 1839–1906 17 David Copperfield 6 Artist of the Floating Bloody Chamber, The 11 Change in the Lighting, A 24 Day We Had Hitler Home, The 63 World, An 17 Boat, The 63 Change of Skies, A 55 Dead Man Walking 71

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Death in Brazil, A 56 Explosion Chronicles, The 39 Fred Hollows: Ground Beneath Her Feet, The 25 Death in Venice 39 Extinctions 47 An Autobiography 64 Guernsey Literary and Death of a River Guide 39 Extremely Loud and Freedom 48 Potato Peel Pie Society, The 33 Death Sentence 17 Incredibly Close 6 French Lessons 56 Guns, Germs and Steel 33 Deep Field, The 24 Eye of the Reindeer, The 12 French Tutor, The 39 Desert Flower 11 Eye of the Sheep, The 64 Fresh Fields 6 Eyre Affair, The 39 Friends, Lovers, Chocolate 12 H Devil’s Larder, The 39 Half a Lifetime 18 Eyrie 25 From Rice to Riches 57 Diamond Dove 71 Half of a Yellow Sun 65 From Strength to Strength 12 Diaries of Jane Somers, The 11 Half the Sky 65 From the Beast Diary of a Welsh Swagman, Hamilton Case, The 72 1869–1894 56 F to the Blonde 12 Facing the Music 18 Hamlet’s Dresser 48 Digging to America 47 Full Catastrophe, The 25 Falling Leaves 47 Handmaid’s Tale, The 40 Dinner at the Homesick Full Cupboard of Life, The 12 Restaurant 47 Family Matters 47 Hand Me Down World 65 Dinner, The 71 Farewell, My Lovely 71 Hand That First Held Mine, The 48 Dirt Music 24 Fatal Remedies 71 G Galileo’s Daughter 32 Hanging Garden, The 7 Disgrace 63 Fault in Our Stars, The 64 Gate at the Stairs, A 7 Hanna’s Daughters 13 Dissection 39 Fault Lines 47 Gathering, The 48 Happenstance 25 Divine Secrets of the Feel of Steel, The 25 Generations 32 Ya Ya Sisterhood 11 Feet of Clay 18 Happiest Refugee, The 65 Getting Equal 12 Diving Bell and the Fence Around the Hare with Amber Eyes, The 18 Butterfly, The 64 Cuckoo, A 12 Getting of Wisdom, The 7 Harland’s Half Acre 19 Down Under 56 Fence, The 47 Ghost River 7 Harmony Silk Factory, The 72 Drawn from Life 11 Fez of the Heart, A 56 Gift of Asher Lev, The 18 Harp in the South, The 48 Dressmaker, The 71 Fifth Child, The 47 Gilead 48 Hateship, Friendship, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere 6 Fig Eater, The 71 Gilgamesh 57 Courtship, Loveship, Marriage 25 Drowned and the Saved, The 64 Fig Tree, The 56 Girls, The 12 Havana Bay 72 Dry, The 71 Fine Balance, A 64 Girl with a Pearl Earring 18 Hazzard, Shirley 30 Fine Colour of Rust, The 47 Girl with the Dragon Healing Party, The 48 Tattoo, The 72 Fingersmith 72 Heart of Darkness 57 E Glass After Glass 18 Heat and Dust 26 Eat Pray Love 56 Finkler Question, The 25 Glass Castle, The 48 Heat Wave 26 Edna Walling and Firehead 25 Glass Room, The 32 Hello, Goodbye 7 Her Gardens 11 Fire Under the Snow 32 Go Between, The 7 Help, The 33 Edward Koiki Mabo 64 First Lady 12 God in Ruins, A 57 Here on Earth 19 Eleanor Oliphant is First Stone, The 64 God of Small Things, The 48 Completely Fine 24 Fishing in the Styx 12 Hidden Agendas 65 Gogh: Vincent van Gogh, Electricity 32 Hidden Lives 13 Five Bells 25 1853–1890 18 Elegance of the Highest Tide, The 7 Flight Behaviour 56 Golden Age, The 64 Hedgehog, The 18 Highways to a War 57 Flights of Love 25 Golden Mean, The 18 Eligible 24 Hindustan Contessa 65 Floating Brothel, The 32 Goldfinch, The 18 Elizabeth Costello 18 His Illegal Self 7 Floundering 56 Gone Girl 72 Elizabeth David 12 History of the World Flying with Paper Wings 64 Good Day to Die, A 64 Emergency Sex and Other in 10 ½ Chapters, A 33 Foal’s Bread 47 Desperate Measures 71 Good Parents, The 48 Hoi Polloi 7 Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence 12 Good People, The 33 Emma 24 Holy Cow! 57 Footsteps 56 Go Set a Watchman 33 Empire Falls 32 Home 48 Forest Dark 56 Gould’s Book of Fish 33 End of Seeing, The 56 Home Fire 65 For Esther 64 Grace Crowley: Being Modern 18 Enduring Love 71 Honour and Other English Patient, The 24 Forgotten Garden, The 32 Grass Harp, The 25 People’s Children 26 English, The 56 For Today I Am a Boy 6 Grass is Singing, The 65 Horses Too are Gone, The 65 Eucalyptus 25 Fortunate Life, A 6 Gravity Well 12 Hotel du Lac 26 Everyman’s Rules Fountain of Age, The 56 Great Expectations 7 Hours, The 19 for Scientific Living 39 Four Letters of Love, The 25 Great Fire, The 25 Household Guide Every Secret Thing 47 Foxybaby 39 Great Gatsby, The 39 to Dying, The 48 Evil Cradling, An 64 Fraction of the Whole, A 47 Great World, The 65 House in the Light, The 49 Excellent Women 12 Frangipani 47 Great Writers, Great Loves 18 Housekeeping 49

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House of the Spirits, The 13 Jane Austen: A Life 13 Light Between Oceans, The 34 Middlesex 8 House Rules 65 Jane Austen Book Club, The 26 Lilian’s Story 8 Midnight In Sicily 73 How Are We to Live? 19 Jane Eyre 13 Lincoln in the Bardo 40 Midnight In the Garden How the Light Gets In 7 Jasper Jones 7 Line of Beauty, The 40 of Good and Evil 73 How to Be Both 40 Jesus Wants Me Little Bee 66 Midnight’s Children 34 How to Be Good 26 for a Sunbeam 49 Little Coffee Shop Midnight Watch, The 73 Human Croquet 33 Joan Makes History 13 of Kabul, The 13 Mind’s Eye 66 Human Stain, The 65 Joe Cinque’s Consolation 72 Little Fires Everywhere 49 Mint Lawn, The 27 Hundred Secret Senses, The 7 Johnno 8 Little Stranger, The 73 Miss Garnet’s Angel 58 Hungry Tide, The 57 Journey from Venice 26 Lola Bensky 20 Miss Gymkhana, R.G. Menzies and Me 8 Hunter, The 40 Journey to the Stone Country 57 Long Long Way, A 66 Joy Luck Club, The 49 Long Song, The 34 Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow 73 Look at Me 66 Mistake, The 27 I Lost Dog, The 20 Mister Pip 8 I Am Melba 19 K Lost Mother, The 20 Modern Interiors 8 Kalahari Typing School I Capture the Castle 26 Monet: Claude Monet, for Men, The 13 Love, Again 27 Ice Princess, The 72 1840–1926 20 Kandinsky: Wassily Love and Vertigo 50 Montebello 58 I Confess: Revelations in Exile 66 Kandinsky, 1866–1944 19 Love in the Time of Cholera 27 Month in the Country, A 67 Idea of Perfection, The 26 Keenan, Brian 64 Love like Water 27 Moonstone, The 73 I Don’t Know How Killing Me Softly 19 Lovely Bones, The 73 She Does It 13 Moor’s Last Sigh, The 50 Killing of Sister Lovers’ Knots 50 I for Isobel 7 McCormack, The 72 Lovesong 40, 50 Moral Hazard 27 I Heard the Owl Call My Name 57 Kindness Cup, A 66 Luminaries, The 34 Morality for Beautiful Girls 14 Imperfectionists, The 19 Kitchen God’s Wife, The 49 Morality Play 73 In Cold Blood 72 Kite Runner, The 8 More Please 20 Indelible Ink 49 Kittyhawk Down 72 M Mother’s Disgrace, A 50 Madame Bovary 27 Inglorious Empire 33 Klimt: Gustav Klimt, Mothers’ Group, The 27 Inheritance of Loss, The 66 1862–1918 19 Madeleine 13 Mother’s Milk 50 In My Skin 66 Kurikka’s Dreaming 40 Madonnas of Leningrad, The 34 Mr Darwin’s Shooter 35 In Search of the Blue Tiger 57 Mahjar 58 Mr Muo’s Travelling Couch 58 In Siberia 57 L Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand 27 Mr Rosenblum’s List 35 Inside Out 19 Malinche’s Conquest 14 Mrs Cook 14 Lacuna, The 19 Inside Outside 57 Man from Primrose Lane, The 40 Mudeye 8 Ladder of Years 49 Man in the Wooden Hat, The 50 Instances of the Number 3 26 Multiple Effects Lady Susan, The Watsons Mann, Ida 11 of Rainshadow, The 67 Instructions for a Heatwave 49 and Sanditon 26 Mansfield Park 27 Museum of Modern Love, The 20 Interpreter of Maladies 57 Lahiri, Jhumpa 58 Mantras and Misdemeanours 58 My Brilliant Career 20 In the Company of Lake House, The 49 Cheerful Ladies 13 Man Who Lost Himself, The 34 My Dirty Shiny Life 67 Lamp Still Burns, The 34 In the Country of Men 66 Man Who Mistook My Family and Land of Green Plums, The 66 Into the Darkest Corner 66 His Wife for a Hat, The 66 Other Animals 50 Larry’s Party 40 Invention of Wings, The 33 Many Coloured Land, The 58 My Left Foot 67 Last Friends 49 Invisible History of the Mao’s Last Dancer 20 My Sister’s Keeper 41 Last Magician, The 66 Human Race, The 33 Map That Changed Mystery of a Invisible Ones, The 72 Last Orders 26 the World, The 40 Hansom Cab, The 73 Invisible Woman, The 13 Law of Dreams, The 34 Mara and Dann 41 Iris 26 Left Hand of Darkness, The 40 March 34 Iron and Silk 57 Lessing, Doris 65 Martin Boyd: A Life 20 N Namesake, The 58 Isa and May 49 Lieutenant, The 34 Mary Barton 34 Life After Life 40 Mateship with Birds 27 Narrow Road to the Isobel on the Way Deep North, The 35 to the Corner Shop 19 Life and Death of McLarty, Ron 58 Natural Way of Things, The 14 Ivory Swing, The 26 Sophie Stark, The 20 Memoirs of a Geisha 34 Never Let Me Go 41 Life and Times of the Memory Keeper’s Thunderbolt Kid, The 8 Daughter, The 50 Nice Try 73 J Life in Seven Mistakes 49 Memory of Running, The 58 Nice Work 21 Jack Maggs 34 Life of Pi 40 Mermaid Singing; Nickel and Dimed 67 Jackson’s Track 66 Life to Come, The 20 Peel Me a Lotus 58 Night Letters 58

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Night Watch, The 35 Other Side of the World, The 59 Nine Days 50 Our Father Who Art Q S Nine Parts of Desire 14 in the Tree 51 Questions of Travel 59 Safest Place in London, The 36 Nineteen Minutes 73 Our Tiny, Useless Hearts 51 Quicksands 14 Salt Creek 36 No. 1 Ladies’ Our Woman in Kabul 59 Salvation Creek 59 Detective Agency, The 14 Outcast, The 8 R Samuel Pepys 36 Noah’s Compass 50 Out of the Silence 14 Sarah Thornhill 36 Railway Station Man, The 74 Nocturnes 41 Out Stealing Horses 8 Saturday 42 Rain Birds 15 No Great Mischief 50 Over My Tracks 14 Saving Jessie 9 Ransom 35 No Place for a Nervous Lady 14 Over the Top with Jim 8 Scandalous Life, A 15 Reader, The 28 Northanger Abbey 27 Scapegoat, The 42 Reading by Moonlight 21 Scholl Case, The 75 North Face of Soho 21 P Reading in Bed 51 Norwegian by Night 58 Sea of Poppies 36 Paradise 14 Reading in the Dark 74 Notes from a Small Island 58 Secret Agent, The 52 Parrot and Olivier in America 35 Reading Lolita in Tehran 67 Secret Cure, The 42 Notes on a Scandal 41 Passage to India, A 35 Rebecca 74 Secret Life of Bees, The 15 Nothing But Gold 35 Passing On 51 Rebecca West 15 Secret Life of Money, The 21 Not the End of the World 41 Passion, The 35 Reckoning: A Memoir 15 Secret River, The 36 Past the Shallows 9 Rector’s Wife, The 51 Secrets of the Jury Room 75 Patron Saint of Eels, The 41 Red Tent, The 36 O Seducing Mr Maclean 52 Paula 28 Religion for Atheists 21 Ocean at the End Seize the Day 59 of the Lane, The 41 People in the Trees, The 74 Remains of the Day, The 36 Sense and Sensibility 29 Odyssey, The 58 People of the Book 35 Remembering Babylon 36 Sense of an Ending, The 29 Of a Boy 41 Perfect Skin 28 Republic of Women 42 Service of Clouds, The 42 Of Love and Shadows 27 Perfume: The Story Resilience 67 Seven Years in Tibet 59 O’Keeffe: Georgia O’Keeffe 21 of a Murderer 74 Restless 74 Shadowboxing 9 Old Filth 50 Persuasion 28 Resurrection Bay 75 Shadow Child 68 Old Man and the Sea, The 58 Philosopher’s Dog, The 21 Return of the Dancing Shadow Lines 29 Old Man Who Read Love Philosopher’s Doll, The 28 Master, The 75 Stories, The 59 Picnic at Hanging Rock 41 Return to the Little Shadow of the Silk Road 60 Old School 8 Picture of Dorian Gray, The 41 Coffee Shop of Kabul 15 Shallows 29 Shark Net, The 75 Olive Kitteridge 27 Plague, The 67 Revolutionary Road 51 Ride on Stranger 9 Shipping News, The 52 On Beauty 50 Plain Jane 28 Riders, The 52 Short History of On Beulah Height 73 Poet’s Wife, The 28 Right and Wrong 21 Richard Kline, A 21 Once in a House on Fire 51 Poison Principle, The 74 Rituals of Dinner, The 67 Short History of Once Were Warriors 67 Poisonwood Bible, The 51 Tractors in Ukrainian, A 52 River, The 21 On Chesil Beach 27 Portrait of a Marriage 28 Short Reign of Pippin IV, The 36 River Town 59 One for the Master 35 Portrait of the Artist Shriver, Lionel 23 as a Young Man, A 9 Road from Coorain, The 9 One Good Turn 73 Siddhartha 60 Postcards 59 Road Home, The 67 One Life 14 Signature of All Things, The 15 Postmortem 74 Road, The 42 One of the Wattle Birds 8 Silences Long Gone 60 Poum and Alexandre: Robber Bride, The 75 One Thousand Chestnut Trees 59 Silvermeadow 75 A Paris Memoir 28 Romulus, My Father 9 Only the Animals 41 Sing and Don’t Cry 60 Power and the Glory, The 74 Room 75 On The Java Ridge 74 Sing Fox to Me 9 Precious Bodily Fluids 51 Room of One’s Own, A 21 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 8 Sisters 52 Precipice, The 41 Rooms in My Mother’s Orchard Thieves, The 51 Pride and Prejudice 28 House, The 15 Sisters Brothers, The 60 Orchid Thief, The 41 Prime of Miss Jean Rose Boys 52 Sitters, The 21 Orphan’s Escape, An 67 Brodie, The 14 Rosie Effect, The 28 Skylarking 9 Orphans of History 35 Private Life 28 Rosie Project, The 29 Slap, The 52 Orpheus Lost 74 Prodigal Summer 28 Roundabout at Bangalow 9 Smallest Color, The 9 Oscar Wilde 21 Pure 35 Rugmaker of Mazar e Snow Falling on Cedars 75 Otherland 59 Pure Gold Baby, The 51 Sharif, The 67 Snowman, The 75 Other People’s Children 51 Purple Hibiscus 9 Rules of Inheritance, The 67 Solar 42 Other People’s Words 21 Pushing Time Away 67 Running in the Family 52 Solid Bluestone Foundations 9 Other Side of the Bridge, The 51 Puzzles of Childhood, The 9 Running with Scissors 52 Something Fishy 75

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So Much for That 68 That Deadman Dance 37 Turning, The 69 What I Loved 30 Songs of a War Boy 68 That Eye, the Sky 53 Tuvalu 10 What the Light Reveals 54 Sound of One Hand That Oceanic Feeling 60 Two Caravans 77 What Was Lost 10 Clapping, The 52 That Old Ace in the Hole 60 Two Steps Forward 61 When Gods Collide 61 Spare Room, The 68 Theft: A Love Story 29 Tyrant’s Novel, The 43 When in Rome 61 Spies 10 There’ll Be New Dreams 43 When the Night Comes 10 Spiral Staircase, The 21 There Should Be When We Were Orphans 10 Spot of Bother, A 52 More Dancing 53 U When Will There Be Unaccustomed Earth 61 Started Early, Took My Dog 76 Things We Didn’t See Coming 43 Good News? 77 Uncle Tungsten 10 Stasiland 68 Things You Get for Free 60 White Dog 77 Underground Railroad, The 43 State of Wonder 42 Thinks . . . 29 White Earth, The 54 Under My Skin 10 Status Anxiety 22 Thirteenth Tale, The 76 White Teeth 54 Under the Same Sun 37 Still Alice 68 This Book Will Save Your Life 60 White Tiger, The 77 Under the Tuscan Sun 61 Stolen Children, The 68 This House of Grief 76 Whole Woman, The 16 Unfortunate Victim, The 77 Stone Diaries, The 15 This Is How 76 Wicked But Virtuous 16 Unknown Terrorist, The 43 Stranger Here, A 29 This Must Be the Place 60 Wide Sargasso Sea 44 Unless 53 Stravinsky’s Lunch 15 Thousand Acres, A 53 Wilderness, The 69 Thousand Autumns Unlikely Pilgrimage of Wildlife 10 Strays, The 42 Harold Fry, The 61 of Jacob De Zoet, The 37 Wild Sheep Chase, A 44 Streets of Hope 68 Unpolished Gem 10 Thousand Splendid Suns, A 53 Wild Swans 16 Submerged Cathedral, The 29 Untouchable, The 77 Three Cups of Tea 43 Winter Vault, The 30 Sucked In 76 Unusual Life of Three Dog Night 29 Wolf Hall 37 Sugar Mother, The 29 Edna Walling, The 16 Three Dollars 68 Woman in White, The 77 Suite Française 68 Unusual Life of Throwim Way Leg 60 Woman Who Walked Summer at Mount Hope 52 Tristan Smith, The 43 Tiger in the Tiger Pit, The 53 Into Doors, The 69 Summer That Melted Women in Black, The 30 Everything, The 76 Tiger’s Eye 69 Women’s Pages, The 22 Summer Without Men, The 15 Tiger’s Wife, The 69 V Vanishing Points 61 Wonder, The 44 Sunday Philosophy Club, The 15 Time Traveler’s Wife, The 29 Various Pets Alive and Dead 53 Working for Rupert 37 Surgeon of Crowthorne, The 76 Time We Have Taken, The 53 Verge Practice, The 77 World Beneath, The 54 Surrender 76 Tin Drum, The 43 Vernon God Little 77 World Without Us, The 44 Suspicions of Mr Whicher, The 76 Tinkers 53 Veronika Decides to Die 43 Wrack 30 Swallow the Air 52 Tin Man 37 Vintner’s Luck, The 43 Wuthering Heights 30 Sweet Caress 36 Tin Moon, The 10 Visit from the Goon Squad, A 30 Sweet Old World 29 Tirra Lirra by the River 10 Volcano Lover, The 30 Sweet Shop Owner, The 53 Together 29 Y To Kill a Mockingbird 69 Voluptuous Delights of Sweet Tooth 36 Peanut Butter and Jam, The 10 Year 1000, The 37 Too Close to the Falls 10 Swimming with the Jellyfish 53 Voyages to the South Seas 61 Year of the Flood, The 44 Too Much Happiness 30 Year of Wonders 37 To the Wedding 30 You Gotta Have Balls 54 T Toucher, The 30 W Tainted Trial of Touching the Void 69 Waging Peace 22 Farah Jama, The 76 Toulouse Lautrec: Waiting 30 Tale for the Time Being, A 22 Henri de Toulouse Lautrec 22 Walking in the Shade 16 Tale of Love and Darkness, A 53 Tracks 60 Walking on Water 22 Tall Man, The 76 Traitor 69 Wanamurraganya 69 Tartar City Woman 36 Transit of Venus, The 30 Watched by Ancestors 16 Tattooed Flower, The 68 Trauma Cleaner, The 16 Water for Elephants 37 Tattooist of Auschwitz, The 68 Travels with My Aunt 60 Waterlily, The 22 Tears of Strangers, The 68 Trespass 53, 76 Water Under the Bridge 30 Tears of the Giraffe 16 True History of the Kelly Gang 37 We Are All Completely Tehanu 42 True North 16 Beside Ourselves 54 Telling, The 43 True Pleasures 16 We Are All Made of Glue 30 Tell Me I’m Here 10 True Stories 16 Weather Makers, The 22 Tenderness of Wolves, The 76 Truth 77 Well Done, Those Men 69 Tess of the D’Urbervilles 36 Tuesdays with Morrie 60 We Need to Talk About Kevin 77

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1984 38 B0001 24 B0430 38 B1199 27 Barn Blind 5 B0002 30 B0437 66 B1200 45 Borderliners 70 B0003 57 B0464 60 B1202 13 Cider with Rosie 17 B0010 32 B0524 31 B1203 53 Cold Mountain 24 B0012 35 B0568 32 B1206 49 Dark Places 47 B0018 14 B0569 46 B1226 35 A Fence Around the Cuckoo 12 B0024 13 B0572 26 B1228 17 Fishing in the Styx 12 B0029 38 B0575 50 B1234 74 Fountain of Age, The 56 B0037 69 B0576 27 B1235 57 Fred Hollows: An Autobiography 64 B0062 20 B0596 28 B1241 32 From Strength to Strength 12 B0063 7 B0599 60 B1243 39 Go Between, The 7 B0070 43 B0656 17 B1244 53 Great Expectations 7 B0071 38 B0678 17 B1246 7 Heat and Dust 26 B0084 36 B0679 18 B1247 27 Jane Eyre 13 B0098 67 B0683 19 B1249 6 Lilian’s Story 8 B0100 72 B0694 21 B1252 21 Love, Again 27 B0101 62 B0715 22 B1254 69 Midnight In the Garden B0105 55 B0716 19 B1258 9 of Good and Evil 73 B0107 27 B0776 12 B1259 47 My Family and Other Animals 50 B0112 41 B0777 47 B1260 66 Over the Top with Jim 8 B0120 10 B0783 67 B1262 20 Passage to India, A 35 B0121 6 B0809 44 B1265 46 Rebecca 74 B0131 7 B0819 8 B1267 36 Rector’s Wife, The 51 B0139 74 B0875 53 B1269 46 Remembering Babylon 36 B0155 25 B0925 14 B1270 11 Riders, The 52 B0162 30 B0928 9 B1275 65 Scapegoat, The 42 B0166 31 B1013 52 B1278 8 Sing and Don’t Cry 60 B0187 7 B1043 19 B1283 49 Tess of the D’Urbervilles 36 B0188 5 B1046 26 B1289 9 That Eye, the Sky 53 B0201 63 B1055 32 B1290 9 To Kill a Mockingbird 69 B0205 58 B1059 77 B1291 36 Tracks 60 B0210 28 B1060 71 B1293 10 Wide Sargasso Sea 44 B0212 36 B1064 40 B1301 67 B0224 6 B1073 28 B1304 57 B0232 62 B1085 29 B1310 39 B0252 34 B1089 56 B1311 8 B0257 6 B1126 42 B1312 8 B0276 9 B1132 30 B1313 23 B0277 8 B1137 74 B1316 71 B0308 39 B1145 34 B1318 11 B0335 58 B1157 39 B1319 55 B0360 6 B1158 60 B1323 18 B0381 21 B1168 26 B1324 33 B0395 17 B1170 73 B1325 26 B0402 41 B1176 13 B1328 57 B0404 70 B1189 40 B1330 49 B0408 73 B1193 23 B1332 27 B0427 65 B1197 11 B1339 29

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B1342 10 B1449 26 B1538 26 B1618 65 B1673 72 B1741 9 B1345 22 B1451 67 B1541 67 B1619 45 B1674 45 B1742 69 B1347 51 B1453 74 B1542 58 B1620 63 B1675 33 B1743 24 B1349 27 B1455 52 B1543 14 B1621 18 B1676 25 B1744 11 B1356 55 B1456 75 B1544 35 B1622 41 B1677 46 B1745 63 B1360 59 B1458 52 B1545 74 B1623 15 B1678 29 B1746 25 B1365 62 B1459 21 B1546 30 B1624 60 B1679 52 B1747 66 B1366 70 B1460 15 B1548 30 B1625 37 B1680 68 B1749 51 B1367 46 B1461 42 B1549 73 B1627 50 B1681 68 B1751 43 B1370 24 B1462 43 B1550 47 B1628 40 B1682 11 B1752 42 B1371 64 B1465 8 B1551 34 B1629 62 B1683 39 B1753 56 B1372 12 B1466 49 B1552 15 B1630 21 B1684 32 B1754 25 B1373 12 B1467 62 B1553 61 B1632 45 B1685 56 B1756 12 B1375 64 B1468 7 B1554 9 B1633 11 B1686 26 B1757 64 B1376 12 B1471 31 B1555 64 B1634 55 B1687 34 B1758 32 B1379 66 B1472 24 B1556 70 B1635 17 B1688 28 B1759 12 B1380 50 B1473 39 B1557 24 B1636 46 B1689 21 B1760 18 B1381 20 B1476 73 B1558 47 B1637 63 B1690 28 B1761 72 B1385 14 B1477 51 B1559 48 B1638 71 B1691 10 B1762 57 B1389 67 B1481 5 B1562 28 B1639 56 B1692 53 B1763 57 B1394 61 B1483 70 B1564 60 B1640 71 B1693 10 B1764 26 B1397 16 B1484 70 B1565 10 B1641 32 B1695 57 B1765 41 B1401 24 B1486 32 B1566 77 B1642 19 B1696 53 B1766 35 B1402 45 B1492 50 B1569 18 B1643 26 B1700 14 B1767 60 B1404 38 B1493 28 B1570 32 B1644 40 B1704 76 B1769 60 B1405 55 B1495 59 B1572 32 B1645 50 B1705 16 B1770 43 B1406 12 B1497 75 B1573 18 B1647 58 B1706 5 B1772 54 B1407 56 B1499 53 B1574 65 B1649 55 B1707 55 B1774 41 B1411 19 B1501 16 B1575 34 B1650 52 B1709 39 B1775 14 B1413 73 B1502 71 B1576 40 B1651 37 B1710 71 B1776 55 B1414 8 B1503 5 B1577 73 B1652 10 B1711 25 B1778 24 B1415 50 B1504 57 B1578 15 B1653 16 B1712 64 B1781 39 B1419 8 B1505 69 B1580 42 B1654 44 B1713 33 B1782 48 B1421 28 B1506 27 B1581 68 B1655 37 B1715 66 B1783 65 B1422 74 B1507 29 B1582 15 B1656 37 B1716 35 B1784 57 B1423 51 B1510 13 B1583 13 B1657 63 B1717 59 B1785 13 B1424 36 B1511 73 B1585 21 B1658 23 B1718 51 B1787 72 B1427 52 B1512 13 B1586 52 B1659 25 B1719 21 B1788 40 B1430 30 B1516 64 B1588 70 B1660 74 B1720 16 B1789 73 B1431 30 B1517 55 B1589 68 B1661 10 B1725 40 B1790 58 B1432 23 B1518 62 B1591 11 B1662 37 B1727 73 B1791 58 B1433 5 B1520 45 B1593 46 B1663 5 B1728 51 B1792 8 B1436 6 B1521 63 B1594 25 B1664 24 B1730 68 B1793 67 B1439 47 B1522 24 B1595 65 B1665 25 B1732 16 B1794 14 B1440 64 B1523 63 B1596 66 B1666 40 B1733 26 B1795 51 B1441 18 B1527 32 B1597 34 B1667 43 B1734 12 B1796 52 B1442 64 B1528 56 B1598 35 B1668 23 B1735 25 B1797 36 B1443 56 B1529 64 B1599 58 B1669 23 B1736 26 B1798 10 B1444 12 B1530 56 B1609 20 B1670 39 B1737 19 B1799 77 B1446 25 B1533 12 B1615 17 B1671 5 B1739 14 B1801 62 B1447 49 B1534 26 B1617 13 B1672 27 B1740 51 B1802 26

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B1803 57 B1856 75 B1917 70 B1968 34 B2021 31 B2076 65 B1804 41 B1858 70 B1918 18 B1970 8 B2022 63 B2077 27 B1805 9 B1859 72 B1919 70 B1971 34 B2023 31 B2078 34 B1806 43 B1860 8 B1920 6 B1972 50 B2024 55 B2079 44 B1807 72 B1861 70 B1921 39 B1973 21 B2025 46 B2080 59 B1808 67 B1862 72 B1922 6 B1974 41 B2026 61 B2081 35 B1810 9 B1863 49 B1923 72 B1975 73 B2027 53 B2082 64 B1811 11 B1864 41 B1924 7 B1976 74 B2028 20 B2083 77 B1812 67 B1865 41 B1925 33 B1977 42 B2029 77 B2084 50 B1813 55 B1866 69 B1926 66 B1978 76 B2030 77 B2085 76 B1814 24 B1867 43 B1927 66 B1979 15 B2031 34 B2086 69 B1815 11 B1868 55 B1928 58 B1980 76 B2032 33 B2087 63 B1816 63 B1869 5 B1929 58 B1981 29 B2033 39 B2088 76 B1817 23 B1870 17 B1930 58 B1982 77 B2034 52 B2089 19 B1818 47 B1871 62 B1931 35 B1983 43 B2036 23 B2090 50 B1819 57 B1872 5 B1932 14 B1984 37 B2037 49 B2091 59 B1820 7 B1873 71 B1933 9 B1985 48 B2038 73 B2092 49 B1821 20 B1874 55 B1934 36 B1987 14 B2039 51 B2093 37 B1822 28 B1875 39 B1935 60 B1988 11 B2040 8 B2094 48 B1823 42 B1877 71 B1936 52 B1989 47 B2041 30 B2095 73 B1825 38 B1878 39 B1937 52 B1990 35 B2042 47 B2096 31 B1826 32 B1879 47 B1938 53 B1991 23 B2043 41 B2097 67 B1827 56 B1880 6 B1939 68 B1992 5 B2044 23 B2098 68 B1828 17 B1881 25 B1940 16 B1993 8 B2045 5 B2099 28 B1829 6 B1882 48 B1941 77 B1994 76 B2046 18 B2100 45 B1830 18 B1883 57 B1942 77 B1995 31 B2048 30 B2101 45 B1831 25 B1884 26 B1943 22 B1996 10 B2049 12 B2102 62 B1832 48 B1885 19 B1944 54 B1997 36 B2050 13 B2103 53 B1833 19 B1886 40 B1945 16 B1998 45 B2051 12 B2104 48 B1834 58 B1888 34 B1946 67 B1999 68 B2052 45 B2105 25 B1835 58 B1889 8 B1947 31 B2000 56 B2053 30 B2106 31 B1836 59 B1890 59 B1948 38 B2001 73 B2054 37 B2107 18 B1837 59 B1891 21 B1949 71 B2002 29 B2055 61 B2108 30 B1838 51 B1892 52 B1950 18 B2003 51 B2056 76 B2109 32 B1839 67 B1893 52 B1951 27 B2004 60 B2057 43 B2110 75 B1840 75 B1894 21 B1952 50 B2005 15 B2058 35 B2111 65 B1841 21 B1895 76 B1953 50 B2006 11 B2059 55 B2112 25 B1842 29 B1896 69 B1954 27 B2007 60 B2060 27 B2113 70 B1843 75 B1897 30 B1955 14 B2008 74 B2061 7 B2114 19 B1844 75 B1898 22 B1956 75 B2009 13 B2062 76 B2115 36 B1845 22 B1906 39 B1957 10 B2010 67 B2063 19 B2116 32 B1846 29 B1907 63 B1958 10 B2011 48 B2065 19 B2117 69 B1847 16 B1908 7 B1959 8 B2012 61 B2066 42 B2118 37 B1848 60 B1909 41 B1960 46 B2013 67 B2067 72 B2119 66 B1849 60 B1910 50 B1961 53 B2014 48 B2068 7 B2120 42 B1850 29 B1911 42 B1962 47 B2015 10 B2069 35 B2121 49 B1851 30 B1912 9 B1963 48 B2016 51 B2070 43 B2122 65 B1852 54 B1913 68 B1964 65 B2017 36 B2071 54 B2123 20 B1853 70 B1914 69 B1965 66 B2018 24 B2072 76 B2124 13 B1854 77 B1915 38 B1966 52 B2019 53 B2074 33 B2125 32 B1855 71 B1916 17 B1967 66 B2020 7 B2075 68 B2126 38

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CONNECT WITH US / 9652 0620 / CAE.EDU.AU / @CAEBOOKGROUPS / BOOKGROUPS_CAE 91 Book Groups Enrolment Form Centre for Adult Education Level 2, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC 3000 Phone: 03 9652 0611

Group Name: Group Number: ZZ  19 Is this your first CAE course? Yes  No  If no, please supply your CAE number:  Surname: Given names: Home phone: Mobile: Work Phone: Please tick box if you wish  to sign up to our free eBook Address: service to receive eBooks (in addition to your allocated State: Postcode: Email: physical books). FEE SCHEDULE 2019: VICTORIA (GST Inclusive). Please circle appropriate fee. No. of group meetings Full Fee Seniors Fee Concession Fee Secretary Fee Pro‑rata fee Pro‑rata fee approved 11 $151 $137 $101 $87

9 $140 $127 $94 $81 6 $111 $101 $75 $65

FEE SCHEDULE 2019: INTERSTATE (GST Inclusive). Please circle appropriate fee. No. of group meetings Full Fee Seniors Fee Concession Fee Secretary Fee Pro‑rata fee Pro‑rata fee approved 11 $174 $152 $119 $98 9 $157 $137 $108 $89 6 $120 $105 $83 $68 Please note: Interstate membership fees differ due to postage/delivery charges.

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