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AFTER LOVE THE AMBER AMULET THE CONVERSATION Subhash Jaireth Craig Silvey David Brooks Vasu is an Indian architecture student By day, 12-year-old Liam McKenzie seems Sometimes it’s easier to talk to a stranger studying in Moscow in the late 1960s. Full like an ordinary boy. To avoid any suspicion than to someone you love. That’s what of enthusiasm for the Soviet Union and its about his real identity, he sometimes Stephen experiences one night in Trieste, ways, he is blind to the hardships that many acts up at school or deliberately gets Italy. Alone in a restaurant, he notices a of its citizens face. Then he meets and falls himself into trouble at home. By night, striking woman who’s also about to dine in love with Anna, an archaeology student Liam is the Masked Avenger, patrolling the alone. A gust of wind upsets the contents of and talented cellist who desperately wants to neighbourhood and helping those in need. his table, and as the waiter cleans up, the leave the city. Uncertain that a return to India Whether it’s stepping in to help a neighbour woman invites him to sit with her. In minutes would be right for Anna, Vasu takes a teaching who has neglected to check his tyre he’s told her things it took him months to tell Transit Lounge PB job in Venice instead, where Anna can indulge Allen & Unwin pressure, or clearing someone’s congested University of his wife – and their conversation flows from $29.95 $16.99 Queensland Press her passion for music. But one day Anna goes HB garden sprinkler, the Masked Avenger, $29.95 there, accompanied by delicious food. This missing. A sensitive and moving love story, accompanied by his sidekick Richie the HB meditative book is reminiscent of Richard After Love explores the realm of emotions and Powerbeagle, is on the case. However, it’s Linklater’s classic film Before Sunrise, in music in a thought-provoking way, delving really the lady at the end of the street that which two strangers share a night of intense into the interplay and spaces between them needs his help, and the only thing that can conversation. Australian author David Brooks that cannot always be explained. help her is the Amber Amulet. But what if, by has outdone himself here, and the melancholy helping one person, you hurt someone else? and beauty of this novel linger well after the A big, heartfelt story presented in a small, last page is read. quirky package.

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LOLA BENSKY LAS VEGAS FOR VEGANS LIKE A HOUSE ON FIRE Lily Brett In the summer of 1967, Lily Brett travelled A S Patri´c Cate Kennedy to the UK and US, interviewing rock stars in This collection of short stories well and Cate Kennedy can write a mean short story, London and New York for Go-Set magazine truly lives up to the promise of its bleak and here she’s at her incisive and beautiful and attending the Monterey International and evocative front cover. Patri´c is based best. She writes about people who are as Pop Festival. This novel draws its inspiration in Melbourne and has been described as perfectly ordinary as any one of us – which from this experience, and its protagonist one of the country’s most exciting writers is to say absolutely extraordinary – and tells clearly has much in common with the youthful of literary fiction, but the stories here defy us about human weakness and strength, Brett – including parents who are Holocaust geographical or stylistic constraints, being set about love and loneliness, and about survivors. Lola is a curious mix of neuroses, Hamish Hamilton across the globe and within various genres. fear and bravery. Relationships between $29.99 self-deprecation and nonchalance, and her The book draws its title from the final story, people are portrayed in all their complexity: PB conversations with larger-than-life characters Transit Lounge PB $27.95 $29.95 a literary doff-of-the-cap to Chandleresque Scribe PB Kennedy can flawlessly evoke tenderness, such as Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Mick crime writing but with a protagonist who is scorn, impatience, protectiveness … any Jagger are far removed from the usual more vulnerable than hardboiled. It’s about of the many feelings that might rise up question-and-answer sessions of popular rock deserts – geographical and emotional – and between people. These stories are at once journalism. A lighter read than Brett’s previous is as daringly and dazzlingly original as the contemporary and timeless – finish one and novels, Lola Bensky is about rock musicians, stories it precedes. One for lovers of literary you won’t be able to decide whether to reread collective experience, self-esteem and the risk-taking. it or enjoy the rewards of the next. human condition. Australian fi ction 3

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DRINK, SMOKE, PASS OUT: THE END OF YOUR EVERY LOVE STORY IS A AN UNLIKELY SPIRITUAL LIFE BOOK CLUB SPECIAL GHOST STORY: A LIFE OF JOURNEY Will Schwalbe PRICE DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Judith Lucy Oh, what a wonderful, life-affi rming read D T Max Her yoga teacher in India was ‘incompetent and this is! Will Schwalbe’s memoir is about his Since his untimely death by suicide in bored’, her years of celibacy were defi nitely mother Mary Anne and the love of books that 2008 aged only 46, David Foster Wallace not deliberate, and she spent a trip to Italy he and she shared. It’s also about life – how has been described by many critics as ‘constipated and sleeping in a room with [her] to lead a life that is worthwhile, how to make the quintessential writer for his time, and seventy-year-old birth mother’. Judith Lucy’s the most of the life that we are given and how his masterwork, Infi nite Jest (Abacus. 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