DIALOGUE 2021 BOOK GROUPS CATALOGUE

CENTRE FOR ADULT EDUCATION / 253 FLINDERS LANE, / CAE.EDU.AU / 03 9652 0620 2 Contents

4 5 11 3 Join or Start a Growing Up, Exceptional Introduction Book Group Moving On Women

29 17 Step Back Artist, in Time Maker, 22 36 Thinker Relationships Grand Visions

42 57 Families Surviving, Prevailing 51 65 Journeys Dark Deeds

72 76 82 85 Index by Index by Index by Enrolment Form Author Title Box Number

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Centre for Adult Education Borrow an eBook CAE is a part of Box Hill Institute and a leading provider of Adult As part of your Book Groups membership, you can borrow an eBook and Community Education and has been providing lifelong learning version – in addition to the print copy – absolutely free! To receive eBooks, opportunities to Victorians for over 70 years. CAE has a strong focus on please ensure you have filled out the online form to Register Your Interest. delivering nationally recognised and accredited training as well as non- The form is available on the eBook section of the Book Groups website. accredited short courses, and connects with the community through Please note this service is supplementary to our physical books. Titles have socially inclusive practices that recognise diversity and creativity. Located limited availability and some are only available upon request. Titles will be in the heart of the arts and café area of Melbourne’s CBD, CAE offers a prioritised for members who are using eBooks due to visual impairment. vibrant and supportive adult learning environment, flexible learning options, skills recognition, practical training and supervised work placements.

Book Groups The program has significant autonomy. Members of Book Groups select their own pool of titles for their year’s reading list, decide on monthly Theme Icons meeting times, choose their own members, and pick a place to meet such as a private home, café or library. Book Group members can also suggest F Fiction L Large Print titles for inclusion into the program. From international award winners to N Nonfiction Adapted Books debut and Australian authors, there are hundreds of books to choose from. Reading guides accompany each box of books and the questions provided S Short Stories µ Book Group Favourite can be used to frame each group’s discussion. E eBook Book Groups has a long history that can be seen in our selection of titles, or even in the way the discussion notes are written. We like to think of it as a great trip down memory lane; we hope you do too. New Icon NEW Using Dialogue Book Cover A selection of Reactions (feedback on the books that our members The have read) from group members as well as our staff favourites are Book Title Testaments included to provide a broad perspective on the titles in the program. Margaret The Reactions we receive from all our book groups provide vital feedback Author to Book Groups staff. Atwood There are three indexes: Author Index (arranged alphabetically by author WINNER Literary Booker Prize surname), Title Index and Box Number Index. The Title Index also advises Prize which books are available as eBooks and large print editions. WINNER Please ensure all members of your group have access to Dialogue, which ABIA Book of the Year can also be downloaded as a PDF via our website at www.cae.edu.au. The much-anticipated follow-up If you would like to receive a copy as a PDF, just email us and we will send to Atwood’s dystopian classic you one. The Handmaid’s Tale. Fifteen years The titles are grouped thematically, with fiction and nonfiction titles after the events of the previous novel, three women from Gilead often sitting side by side. You will find a description of the themes in the risk their lives to tell their story. content list. Year A story of hope and courage, and Published a thrilling read for our times. Book Groups Online Theme type FE 2019 448pp B2330 Box Selections and meeting dates for 2021 can be entered online at our new Number A vivid, compelling read with website Book Groups Online at https://bgonline.cae.edu.au. Secretaries Number much to discuss. A worthy sequel will receive a login to access this. You can also view your member list and of Pages to satisfy avid readers of the Group update your delivery address. If you need any assistance with Book Groups Handmaid’s Tale. Reaction Online please contact us. Nicole P, Book Groups Group Name Staff Member Members will also receive a login to view their group details and selections. No login is required to browse the catalogue. If you would prefer not to enter your selections online, please contact us so we can provide a selection card. 4 Join or Start a Book Group

Starting a Book Group Book Groups is a great way to connect with other readers in your local How do we receive and return books? community. Get together with friends, neighbours or colleagues to discuss CAE sends a box in advance of each meeting to the delivery address the sort of books that might appeal to you as a group and choose a suitable nominated by the Group Secretary. Books are returned to CAE by the time and venue. Once you have between 6-15 people and have decided on Group Secretary via courier or post. Return labels are included in all the number of discussion meetings you would like to have, you are ready boxes. Groups operate most efficiently when books are returned to and to take the next step of electing a Book Group Secretary. collected from the Group Secretary by each individual member at the Contact Book Groups via phone, email or through our website to receive scheduled meeting. a New Group Pack so you can begin selecting your books. What do I get for my fee? Fees cover the delivery and return of book boxes each month and access Joining a Book Group to the eBook catalogue. Each box contains copies of the selected book If you would prefer to join an existing group, please contact Book Groups (maximum 15 copies) and notes on loan for each individual member. via phone, email or through our website, and we will help you find a group Group Secretaries should only distribute books to paid members. Group in your area and confirm the appropriate pro-rata fee. To ensure you and members can also sign up for Book Groups Newsletter to receive timely the new group are the right match, your first meeting with a new group news on events and competitions, as well as book reviews by Book is free. Groups staff. Running a Book Group Victorian Annual Membership Fees 2021 (per member) The Book Group Secretary Book Group Secretaries provide a permanent delivery address for books No of meetings Full Fee Seniors Concession Secretary and liaise with CAE staff on book selections, payments and enquiries from 11 $153 $139 $103 $90 potential new members. Secretaries are vital to the success of book groups 9 $142 $129 $96 $84 and ensure CAE keeps in touch with the needs of each group. The role 6 $113 $104 $77 $68 of secretary can rotate between group members from year to year. The secretary will be able to login to Book Groups Online to choose books, allocate meeting dates and view enrolled members. Interstate Annual Membership Fees 2021 (per member) Where do Book Groups meet and how often? No of meetings Full Fee Seniors Concession Secretary Book Groups meet whenever they want through the year and choose to receive CAE books 6, 9 or 11 times a year. Groups choose the time, place 11 $176 $154 $121 $101 and format of their meetings and direct their own discussions. 9 $159 $140 $110 $92 6 $122 $107 $85 $71 Books available for loan Each month, CAE selects a book from the list of possible titles your group has chosen from Dialogue. Groups have the option of requesting books in priority or random order. We will only ever send books on your selected list. Enrolment form CAE discussion notes Please see page 85 for an enrolment form, or download it via our website www.cae.edu.au/book-groups/. The enrolment process can be handled Kick-start your meeting with CAE discussion notes. While there is no by post, email or phone. If you are eligible for a seniors or concession fee, formal tuition or assessment, all books are accompanied by specially you will need to provide a photocopy of your senior or concession card. commissioned notes written by our experienced note writers, complete Students are also eligible for a discount (same as the senior’s fee). For more with discussion questions. More than just a book review, the notes are details on discount eligibility, please see our website or contact us. guaranteed to get your group talking.

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

Barracuda Breath A B Christos Tsiolkas From the author of The Slap comes WINNER About a Boy Bad Blood an exploration of class, identity Miles Franklin Literary Award Nick Hornby Lorna Sage and the meaning of success. Will, a bachelor who is delighted In Lorna’s bizarre upbringing in a Danny, from a working class When paramedic Bruce Pike to be child-free, gets mixed up North Wales town her dissolute background, obtains a scholarship arrives too late to save a boy found with twelve-year-old Marcus and vicar grandfather and furious to a prestigious college and hanged in his bedroom, he senses his newly separated mother. This grandmother are dominating figures. builds his identity on becoming this lonely death is an accident. entertaining novel is about families, ‘A totally unexpected book ... rackety, an Olympic swimming champion. Pike, too, was once addicted to being a man, being a kid ... and the painful, sometimes menacing and But what happens when things extremes, barely knowing when to importance of being cool. mad. Out of it all she has made come crashing down? Explicit stop. Winton’s ninth novel returns to FE 1998 286pp B1706 something devastatingly funny, full language and content may offend the remote West Australian coast of characters and full of exhilarating some readers. and the fictional universe of Sawyer. resilience and sly wit,’ said reviewer FE 2013 516pp B2202 Simple yet profound, Breath is a All the Pretty Horses Anthony Thwaite. moving story of youth’s reckless compulsion to oblivion. Cormac McCarthy NE 2000 281pp B1663 The Bean Trees 2008 216pp B1992 SHORTLISTED Barbara Kingsolver FE National Book Award Balzac and the Little Young Taylor Greer has grown up While not a formula western or a Chinese Seamstress poor in rural Kentucky and achieved Butterfly ‘man’s book’, this novel has very Dai Sijie her first two aims – to avoid Sonya Hartnett American themes. At sixteen, John During Mao’s Cultural Revolution, becoming pregnant and to get away from her hometown. She buys SHORTLISTED Grady Cole leaves the Texan ranch two sons of doctors are sent to the Miles Franklin Literary Award where he grew up but has no future, country for their ‘re-education’. an old car, heads West, acquires Plum Coyle is nearly fourteen and to ride into the Mexican frontier: To keep their sanity, they have their an unexpected responsibility, stops on the fringe of her peer group. into adventure, romance and rough sense of humour and also some somewhere in Arizona, and begins When her glamorous next-door male justice. Strong masculine point distraction from the charming a surprising new life. neighbour Maureen, a young wife of view, powerful landscapes and daughter of the local tailor. When 1988 246pp B1869 F and mother, befriends her, Plum distinctive style. they discover a suitcase full of feels reinvented. But Maureen has forbidden literature, new worlds FE 1992 302pp B1481 The Bell Jar an ulterior motive for taking Plum open for them. Delightful, funny under her wing. Gripping, disquieting and unexpected. Sylvia Plath An Australian Son The only novel by this well-known and beautifully observed. F 2001 172pp B1671 Gordon Matthews poet. A brilliant treatment of the FE 2009 215pp B2045 An extraordinary life story without Deceptively simple and very effect of society’s expectations literary pretensions. Adopted into picturesque. Everyone in the on a sensitive young woman who a Melbourne family in the 1950s, group loved it. It was like reading went to England, married the poet Matthews’ distinctive colouring a painting, very descriptive. Ted Hughes, had two children C set him apart at school and in A wonderful book. The whole story and committed suicide seven adolescence he lost the sense the writer so clever about telling years later. The Catcher in the Rye of where he belonged, until he stories. Most of us were ignorant J.D. Salinger of the cultural revolution and found FE 1963 260pp B0188 identified as an Aborigine. His it very interesting to see how the SHORTLISTED search to uncover his origins opens characters coped. The humour The Boy in the Green Suit National Book Award up questions of adoption, colour was enjoyed, it was great. and Aboriginality. Holden Caulfield is a sixteen- Women’s Robert Hillman year-old American boy who has 1996 230pp B1503 Club 2 Tuesdays N WINNER just flunked out of his third smart National Biography Prize school. His own values reveal Barn Blind In 1965, sixteen-year-old Robert that he has a deep intuitive sense Jane Smiley Hillman boarded a boat for Ceylon, of what has gone wrong with This is a striking study of a woman wearing a green suit and carrying a the culture to which he belongs, of powerful will. Entirely focused suitcase of books and a typewriter. and the book is written from his on the world of horses and riders, When the ship arrived in Athens point of view and in his American Kate has conscripted all four of her instead, a penniless Hillman period slang. Enjoyed Barn Blind? children in the service of her vision. began an adventure that led him F 1951 224pp B0257 But their own adolescent natures to Istanbul, Tehran and Kuwait. assert themselves, and events Punctuated by tales of growing Try Foal’s Bread move to a conclusion the family up in rural Victoria, this is a tender, by Gillian Mears has never imagined. Written with funny memoir of a young writer-in- [B2139] superb insight into human nature the-making. and the young. NE 2003 232pp B1872 FEL 1980 218pp B1433

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Cat’s Eye A Fortunate Life Ghost River Margaret Atwood D A.B. Facey Tony Birch A Canadian painter, returning Abandoned as a child by his WINNER to Toronto for a retrospective David Copperfield widowed mother in the late 1890s, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award exhibition of her work, is caught Charles Dickens Facey endured extraordinary up in a reflection of her life and of This partly autobiographical novel hardships in the pioneering days of Ren and Sonny dedicate their free the driven relationship with her wonders ‘whether I shall turn out the Western Australian wheatbelt, time to exploring the Yarra River and On Up, Moving Growing ‘best friend’, Cordelia. Comic, to be the hero of my own life’. experienced Gallipoli, survived the its secrets, stories and adventures. mind-stretching, terrible in its grasp A wonderful blend of comedy and Depression and, having taught The Yarra winds itself through their of children’s needs and cruelties, pain, with Dickens’ unforgettable himself to write, penned this lives as the boys grow, and they hopeful – and a compulsive read! characters: the Micawbers and powerful autobiography. must eventually find the courage to 1988 421pp B1249 Murdstones, Mrs Gummidge, Uriah 1981 326pp B0360 face the threats to their river – but F Heep, Miss Betsey and Mr Dick. NE at what cost? An atmospheric and 1850 920pp B0224 haunting novel from the bestselling The Chosen FE Fresh Fields author of Shadowboxing and Blood. Chaim Potok Peter Kocan F 2015 305pp B2230 Two young Jewish boys growing up Drinking Coffee Elsewhere With little money, an indifferent in Brooklyn around the time of World ZZ Packer mother and no home, a shy War I study Talmud together, but Surprising, witty and involving, these fourteen-year-old boy drifts between The Go Between differences in upbringing, attitude eight stories follow characters on city and bush, slowly becoming L.P. Hartley and belief create tension in their the brink of change. Their stories alienated and distrustful. Fresh Fields A study of early adolescence, as friendship. Will Danny, the Rabbi’s are connected by themes of race, is a dark portrait of the evolution of an old man recalls his boyhood son, become a Rabbi himself or will black identity, religion and belonging. a loner sustained only by a potent in a country house in the 1920s. he break with tradition? Zionism, the They range from a teenager who inner-life, where love and death are His life has been shaped by his birth of the state of Israel and the flees the Pentecostal fanaticism of increasingly confused. As a lonely, involvement in the relationships and destruction of the European Jews her hometown, finding herself in silent teenager in 1966, award- traumas of three adults. A profound are important themes in this novel. a dangerous world of drugs and winning novelist Kocan shot and novel about social stratification, F 1966 281pp B0121 sexual exploitation, to a girl who injured Arthur Caldwell, the federal adolescence and the sometimes stages a political sit-in at a local café. opposition leader of the day. destructive effects of love. Coda FS 2003 243pp B1829 F 2004 373pp B1880 F L 1953 280pp B0187 Kathleen’s memory and body show Great Expectations signs of failing, but she is still her E G Charles Dickens feisty, independent self, wanting Extremely Loud and Late, great Dickens. An to lead her own life. How long, she A Gate at the Stairs anonymously given fortune takes wonders, before she becomes a Incredibly Close Lorrie Moore Pip, a blacksmith’s apprentice, dumped granny? In this brilliant Jonathan Safran Foer Tassie, a college student from the from his pre-industrial world to a small book, with its glittering satiric Foer explores grief through the eyes American Midwest, gets a job as gentleman’s life in 19th century wit and aching poignancy, Astley is of nine-year-old Oskar, whose father part-time nanny for an affluent London. The rich cast of characters at her best. died in the 9/11 World Trade Center middle-aged couple who harbour includes Miss Haversham, FE 1993 188pp B1436 disaster. Oskar is an intelligent, a dark family secret and are in the Magwitch, Jaggers, and Wemmick sensitive and creative kid, whose process of adopting a biracial child. – incomparable figures of comedy, Tassie’s time away has changed her terror and human and social insight. A Complicated Kindness business card lists Inventor, Amateur Entomologist, and Origamist as perspective and during a visit home, FE L 1861 493pp B0063 Miriam Toews some of his interests. When he she sees her family differently, This Canadian novel examines finds a mysterious key in his father’s including her brother Robert, who is a family whose life within their wardrobe, he embarks on an being approached by the military. H fundamentalist Mennonite investigation to help him understand FE 2009 322pp B2068 community has reached a crisis his loss. The Hanging Garden point. Narrator, teenaged Nomi, FE 2005 326pp B1922 is superbly sustained, her voice is The Getting of Wisdom funny, dark, and piercing. Tuned in to Henry Handel Richardson It is World War II, and two children every hypocrisy yet barely conscious A semi-autobiographical account are sent to a house with a wild of her own confusion, she is torn by F of Laura, a Victorian country girl garden overlooking Sydney her love of those who have left and whose quirky individuality creates Harbour. White tenderly explores the father who remains. For Today I Am a Boy awkwardness in the conformist the Sydney of his childhood, the FE 2004 246pp B1920 Kim Fu atmosphere of a girls’ private nature of war, and the ceaseless As the only son of Chinese boarding school. human yearning for connection. immigrants, Peter struggles with the F 1910 240pp B0131 This is an unexpected opportunity strong patriarchal expectations of his to re-connect with an iconic parents – especially as he has always Australian novelist. Enjoyed Ghost River? felt he should have been born a girl. FE 2012 240pp B2161 This delicately handled coming of age Try novel follows Peter and his sisters The White Girl as they journey into the wider world, by Tony Birch finding their places and conquering [B2333] the shadows of the past. FE 2014 256pp B2203

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Hello, Goodbye How the Light Gets In Lilian’s Story Emily Brewin M.J. Hyland J Kate Grenville Set in 1968 during the time of the SHORTLISTED The exuberant but painful story Vietnam War, sheltered seventeen- Jasper Jones of a child born in Sydney in 1901, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize year-old May Callaghan’s future is Craig Silvey who bursts beyond constraining torn apart when she gets ‘in trouble’ A bright teenager cannot wait to SHORTLISTED stereotypes to make herself as large with her high school boyfriend Sam, escape from the poverty of her and unique as her own sense of life. On Up, Moving Growing Miles Franklin Literary Award who has moved to Melbourne and family life in Sydney. Living as an Lilian will stay with you long after is awaiting draft orders. Once she exchange student with an American Summer, 1965. Charlie Bucktin, you finish this moving, exceptional can no longer hide from small- family seems like a dream come a bookish boy of thirteen, is and unique novel. A must-read for town gossip and her conservative true, but things quickly begin startled by an unexpected visitor: any Grenville fan. Catholic mother, May takes a train to to unravel. A masterly study of Jasper Jones, an outcast in the FE 1985 211pp B0819 Melbourne and meets feminist Ruby adolescent spirit, defiance and regional mining town of Corrigan. L and Indigenous student Clancy who longing for acceptance, as well as Jasper represents danger and introduces her to the liberal anti- the complexities of family dynamics. intrigue, so when he begs for M war movement. FE 2003 317pp B1820 Charlie’s help, Charlie nervously FE 2017 344pp B2271 follows and witnesses Jasper’s Excellent book for discussion, the horrible discovery. Middlesex group were divided on opinions Jeffrey Eugenides The Highest Tide which led to a lively discussion and FE 2009 368pp B2061 Jim Lynch debate. Beautiful poise and sense WINNER of unease, some asked why, what’s Johnno Pulitzer Prize Thirteen-year-old Miles O’Malley the point, others deeply moved by is an avid beachcomber who the character’s experience. Because of a rare genetic deficiency, discovers a rare giant squid Belconnen South David Malouf’s first novel is set the narrator is a hermaphrodite. washed up on the mudflats of the mainly in the Brisbane of the 1940s The book covers a startling Washington coast. Miles becomes and ’50s. It is the story of two men family history of Greek-American an overnight sensation, attracting The Hundred Secret who spend much of their time migrant experience and moves attention from scientists, spiritual Senses together, although they seem to have into an evocation of Callie/Cal’s healers, and media vultures. This Amy Tan little in common. Distinguished by its predicament: in this either/or world, charming coming of age story is fine depictions of people and places what does it mean to discover that funny and well-paced, and raises SHORTLISTED and its deep personal feeling. one is both and neither? lots of material for discussion. Orange Prize F 1975 170pp B0277 FE 2002 529pp B1792 F 2005 246pp B1924 Two half-sisters link the Chinese Everyone loved it. The book and American cultures when the is complex but humorous. His Illegal Self life of five-year-old Olivia is taken K It was compassionate and rich over by her older sister’s traditional in its characterisation and plot Yin world of ghosts and stories. Che is the precocious son of radical The Kite Runner development. The book generated For thirty years she struggles to get a wonderful discussion. student activists. Raised in isolated Khaled Hosseini away from them and live a ‘normal’, Hervey Bay privilege and denied access to American life. But events unfold to Amir and Hassan have an eventful television and news, his timely rescue surprise her, and us, into other ways childhood set against a backdrop pitches him into a hippy commune of seeing life in both countries. of tumultuous Afghan history. When Milkman in the jungle of tropical . unforeseeable events take Amir Anna Burns Here he slowly confronts his life, FE 1995 345pp B1468 back to Afghanistan in the rise of learning that nothing is as it seems. the Taliban regime, he must right old WINNER Carey lends his narrative wizardry wrongs in this moving exploration of Man Booker Prize to a beautiful story of love between I love and duty. SHORTLISTED mother and son. FE 2003 324pp B1860 FE 2008 288pp B2020 I for Isobel Women’s Prize for Fiction Amy Witting An utterly original novel that Hoi Polloi L explores coming of age in Northern SHORTLISTED Ireland during the Troubles. Burns’ Craig Sherborne Miles Franklin Literary Award The Life and Times of strange and ambiguous protagonist This boyhood memoir has a The small but unrelenting cruelties (named Middle Sister) is a brilliant startling vividness, its comedy and of Isobel’s unloving parents make the Thunderbolt Kid narrator, and through her unique pathos deriving partly from the her life a misery, but her struggle for Bill Bryson point of view, we are delivered a remorseless candour with which creative self-knowledge is sustained In 1950s Des Moines, Iowa, Bill novel that is all too familiar, and at Sherborne portrays his social- by glimpses of kinder adults and Bryson is the thunderbolt kid. He the same time, completely foreign. climbing parents and the sexual by the enchantment of words and vividly recalls the experiences of his Milkman’s unique prose and fumblings of adolescent boys. His writing. A shapely and vivid evocation childhood in baby boomer America, portrayal of the stigma of standing parents move to Sydney from a of day to day Australian life. and draws on a fascinating breadth out, the pressure for conformity, small New Zealand town, where of social history to bring alive an era static gender roles and the divisions they hope to join the ‘hoi polloi’, FE 1989 158pp B1246 of unprecedented affluence and that exist in society will defy reading as his mother mistakenly calls the downright weirdness. expectations and provoke a upper crust. rich discussion. NE 2006 309pp B1970 NE 2005 197pp B1908 FE 2018 360pp B2297

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Miss Gymkhana, Out Stealing Horses Purple Hibiscus R.G. Menzies and Me O Per Petterson Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Kathy Skelton Old School WINNER WINNER Skelton was born in 1946 and grew Independent Foreign Fiction Commonwealth Writers’ Prize up in seaside Sorrento, Victoria. Tobias Wolff Subtitled ‘Small Town Life in the SHORTLISTED Fifteen-year-old Trond witnesses Fifteen-year-old Kambili grows up the sudden breakdown of his friend, in sheltered privilege in a Nigeria On Up, Moving Growing Fifties’, this book is a portfolio of PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction snapshots and anecdotes evoking a the first in a series of incidents in ravaged by political unrest. She lives world of red-hot commos, the young In an American boys’ school in the fateful summer of 1948 leading in fear of her fanatically religious Queen, strict Catholics, the Petrovs, 1960 where a strong culture of to the destruction of his family. and tyrannical father, a charismatic Billy Graham, the Olympic Games literature and writing prevails, This coming of age tale explores Catholic patriarch. When Nigeria is and the Saturday matinée. Sure to writers Robert Frost, Ayn Rand and the relationship between father shaken by a military coup, Kambili provide laughs of recognition and a Ernest Hemingway visit to judge and son, and the impact of war. and her brother are sent to live with wave of reminiscences. a literary competition, the prize a Winner of the International IMPAC their aunt, which allows Kambili private audience with the writer. Dublin Award. to blossom in a new life amid the N 1990 153pp B1278 This exploration of adolescent F 2005 264pp B1993 turmoil of the old. identity, writing and the complexities F 2004 307pp B1933 Mister Pip which surround ambition, offers Over the Top with Jim Lloyd Jones much to discuss. Hugh Lunn The Puzzles of Childhood After civil war trouble reaches F 2003 195pp B1889 Matilda’s tropical island, one white Journalist Hugh Lunn was born in Manning Clark man remains. When Mr Watts One of the Wattle Birds Brisbane in 1941. This engagingly The author of the six-volume History begins to read aloud from Great down to earth book evokes his of undertakes the history Expectations, Dickens’ hero Pip Jessica Anderson boyhood in the 1940s and ’50s of his own early years, from his comes alive for Matilda, but on an In the days before her exams, Cecily and is a breath of fresh air. Full of infancy to his Melbourne Grammar island at war, imagination can be a is more concerned with questions resonances for anyone who knew days. His memories focus on his dangerously provocative thing. This about the recent death of her Australia in those years. intensely religious parents whose is a moving, uplifting love letter to mother than with study. Her need to N L 1989 272pp B1311 existence together was riven by books and reading. make sense of things provides the various conflicts. Moves between action in this funny and engaging Sydney, Kempsey, Phillip Island FE 2006 220pp B1959 study of the brio and independence P and Belgrave. of the young. N 1989 213pp B1258 Modern Interiors F 1994 192pp B1419 Andrea Goldsmith Past the Shallows Favel Parrett After forty-one years of prosperous Oranges Are Not R marriage, Philippa Finemore is the Only Fruit SHORTLISTED widowed. Hoping to be not only a Miles Franklin Literary Award grandmother and babysitter, she Jeanette Winterson makes major changes in her life – A young girl’s world is forever A deceptively simple story about Kylie Tennant but the family circle responds with changed when she falls in love two brothers growing up on the wild Written with a sly humour, this novel indignation and fury. with another girl. Winterson skilfully Tasmanian coast, and the tragedy tells of the trials of the ‘impossible’ that fractured their family beyond Shannon Hicks sent off to a F 1991 242pp B1414 portrays the ensuing emotions and confrontations common to all repair. The raw island landscape doughty aunt at a tender age. The human experience - but particularly frames this story, where the austere aunt is impossible too, so Shannon Mudeye acute in an evangelical household. prose belies a book of great makes her own way in the world of Bary Dowling sensitivity and power. This debut the unskilled, conmen, eccentrics FE 1985 171pp B1312 and losers, the world of Sydney in Dowling’s memory is precise and novel is effortless and commanding, the 1930s. detailed, and his clear, sensuous and the last third absolutely writing brings to life the highly The Outcast shattering. You will not forget Harry F 1943 301pp B0928 individual past of the boy and Sadie Jones and Miles. his family; the provincial city of In 1957, nineteen-year-old Lewis F 2011 254pp B2127 The Road from Coorain Ballarat – its lake, shops, schools, travels home from prison in the Jill Ker Conway churches; the surrounding farms; south of England. His return echoes A Portrait of the Artist the people. An emotional and his father’s return from war a This evocative, readable powerful autobiography. decade earlier, before his mother as a Young Man autobiography of the author’s life to her mid-twenties conveys day-to- N 1995 266pp B1465 died in a tragic accident. Her death James Joyce strained the relationship between Joyce is one of the great 20th day details – the smells, sounds, Lewis and his father, and as time century novelists. This book is weather, plants and people. blends Lewis’ grief with anger, largely autobiographical and traces Why did she leave Australia for a childhood friend Kit’s attempts to Stephen Dedalus’ boyhood and distinguished intellectual career, help will release dark secrets. progressive isolation in Ireland and and how did her family and the drought-vulnerable plains of their F 2008 345pp B2040 commitment to art: his education, the growth of his creative sheep property in New South Wales powers, and his religious and shape her sensibility? sexual consciousness. N 1989 238pp B1289 FE 1916 256pp B0276

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Romulus, My Father Sing Fox to Me Spies The Tin Moon Raimond Gaita Sarah Kanake Michael Frayn Stephen Lacey From a life whose events were often In 1986, fourteen-year-old Samson WINNER ‘We had the rocket up on three historically horrific and personally and his twin brother are sent Commonwealth Writers’ Prize house bricks and were ready to light tragic emerges an extraordinarily to live with Clancy, the grandfather the petrol,’ begins this nerve-fraying brave and dignified man. Deep they’ve never met. As Samson, Set in Britain during World War II, account of young boys’ doings gratitude infuses his son’s frank, who has Down syndrome, begins Spies takes us into a world under in a small town outside Sydney. On Up, Moving Growing truthful biography. It allows us to to understand the situation both threat, but a threat situated in the From a ten-year-old’s viewpoint, we see how wisdom, compassion and Jonah and Clancy fall into a wild imaginings of two small boys living take in kaleidoscopic impressions an ethical sense are developed in a obsession to find the Tasmanian out the Blitz in a middle-class of school, family, new words and growing child. tiger, a mystery linked to Clancy’s suburb. Superbly written, this novel a world which offers endless long-missing daughter. combines suspense, anguish, scope for getting into everything NE 1998 208pp B1554 humour and surprising twists. F 2016 264pp B2248 – including trouble. A cliff-hanging FE 2002 213pp B1691 novel in which hilarity blends into Roundabout at Bangalow darker comedy. Skylarking Shirley Walker F 2002 300pp B1693 This Australian memoir moves from Kate Mildenhall T a childhood in the lush rainforests Based on true events, the novel Tirra Lirra by the River of the Byron Bay hinterland to revolves around the friendship Tell Me I’m Here farming a sugarcane property between Kate and Harriet, two Jessica Anderson Anne Deveson in north Queensland; from the daughters of lighthouse keepers WINNER restrictive small town life of Grafton in an isolated coastal town of late When her son Jonathan was Miles Franklin Literary Award to an enjoyable time as a mature 19th century Australia. As the pair seventeen, Deveson realised he age student at university. Walker approach womanhood, the arrival had schizophrenia. Here she traces Nora Porteous returns as an old has a keen eye for her human and of fisherman McPhail finds Kate torn seven years of his illness, showing lady to the Queensland town of her natural surroundings and her writing by jealousy for McPhail’s attention the fear and anguish which this girlhood. With an ironic eye, she unfolds in a dryly amusing voice. toward Harriet. Then, one moment condition produces in patients reviews her experiences there and and in those close to them. An N 2001 232pp B1805 at McPhail’s hut, Kate’s life is tries to place them amongst the forever changed. A heartbreaking important book – informative, various strands of her life. A brilliant novel that explores the complexity warm, humane, and deeply moving. novel, free from illusion. of adolescent friendships and the N 1991 269pp B1342 F 1978 141pp B0120 S price we pay for our mistakes. 2016 288pp B2249 Saving Jessie FE NEW Too Close to the Falls Imogen Clark Catherine Gildiner Only names have been changed The Smallest Color Growing up in respectable 1950s in this true story of a Canberra Bill Roorbach There Was Lewiston, Catherine Gildiner family who discover that their In this fast-paced, funny, dark had a highly unusual childhood. youngest child is addicted to heroin. first novel, Roorbach builds an Still Love Probably today’s hyperactive Intelligent, talented and loved, engaging portrait of the turbulent Favel Parrett child, Cathy was set to work in Jessie did not fit the stereotype 60s in the States: free love and drug the family pharmacy at age four of the young person who turns experiments, the naïve innocence WINNER under doctor’s orders. Prescription Indie Book Awards to drugs to escape from pain or of some and the restless violence delivery rounds provided a fund abuse. A candid, unsensational of others. Gradually, the entwining of anecdote and escapade that account of a family trying to learn tales join – strands of the present SHORTLISTED Gildiner uses to brilliant effect in this how far it is possible to help. and past, the man of 45 and the captivating memoir. N 1999 277pp B1741 boy of 15, the 60s and the 90s. Prague, 1938. On the brink of war, N 1999 350pp B1798 F 2001 325pp B1810 Eva’s actions will change the course of her life. Forty-two Shadowboxing years later and halfway across the Tuvalu Tony Birch Solid Bluestone world, children and families try Andrew O’Connor A collection of ten linked stories Foundations to find each other. A tale of two Outsider Noah exchanges his about the life of a boy growing up Kathleen Fitzpatrick women binding families together directionless life in Melbourne in Melbourne’s Fitzroy during the Former Associate Professor across time and distance, and how for a dead-end teaching job in 1960s. Michael’s world is one of of History at the University of love keeps us connected. Tokyo. His absent girlfriend and simple pleasures, family life and Melbourne, Kathleen Fitzpatrick F 2019 224pp B2331 inability to speak Japanese are love, punctuated by random acts of evokes her South Melbourne perfect excuses for isolation brutality. The reader follows as he girlhood, with its tensions between until the gorgeous, manipulative matures into a sensitive adult who Protestant grandfather and Irish Mami Kaketa crashes into his life. can forgive, but never quite forget, Catholic grandmother, trade and This intriguingly offbeat debut the past. A fascinating snapshot public service, her schooling and explores love, lust, honesty and of working-class life in inner- early university experiences. Full of commitment. Perceptive and droll, city Australia. Australian people and places. O’Connor captures the darker side of the expatriate experience. FSE 2006 178pp B1912 NE 1983 210pp B1290 F 2006 347pp B1957

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When We Were Orphans U W Kazuo Ishiguro A celebrated detective is driven Uncle Tungsten Warlight to solve the mystery of the Oliver Sacks Michael Ondaatje disappearance of his parents when Sacks takes a look at himself, LONGLISTED he was a child. The novel becomes unearthing the source of his a disturbing, challenging exploration On Up, Moving Growing Man Booker International Prize scientific curiosity in a sometimes of the relationship between the troubled childhood in wartime From the bestselling author of The colonial British, China, and Japan, Britain. He was born into a English Patient comes a gripping and of the way simplistic ideas of distinguished, scientifically oriented historical narrative that questions oneself and the world might distort London family, and developed a what remains after war. In 1945 reality. Set in England and Shanghai fascination with metals, gases, siblings Nathaniel and Rachel have in the early and mid-20th century, chemistry and the discoveries of been abandoned by their parents, this is an ironic, complex and pioneer chemists. An unusual, and left in the care of a man they deeply moving tragic comedy. warm and witty book. suspect might be a criminal. They F 2000 368pp B1652 N 2001 337pp B1661 are drawn into his circle of friends who seem to want to protect and educate them. Twelve years Wildlife Under My Skin later, Nathaniel reflects on this Richard Ford Doris Lessing experience, and how this time has In the summer of 1960, the town of An outstanding 20th-century shaped his life. Great Falls, Montana, is ringed by autobiography, this first volume FE 2018 304pp B2295 fires. When young Joe’s father loses takes Lessing from her African his job and goes off firefighting, childhood to London in 1949. Her his mother meets Warren Mitchell. freedom in the African landscape, What Was Lost In spare, understated prose Ford her turbulent relationship with her Catherine O’Flynn evokes a young male making his parents, her intense involvements way in a world of adult upheaval with people, politics, and everything WINNER which he only partly comprehends. Costa Book Award around her are conveyed with keen This is a moving, memorable read. intelligence. Small print. Ten-year-old junior detective Kate FE 1990 162pp B1293 N 1994 419pp B1565 follows ‘suspects’ at a shopping centre and befriends a man called Adrian. But when she disappears, Unpolished Gem Adrian falls under suspicion. Y Alice Pung Years later, Adrian’s sister Lisa Set in Melbourne’s western and security guard Kurt glimpse NEW suburbs, this documents the arrival a little girl on the centre’s security of Pung’s Cambodian Chinese cameras. Could it be Kate? family to Australia in the 1970s. F 2007 242pp B1996 Populating her pages with eccentric The Yield characters, she captures the Tara June essence of the Asian immigrant When the Night Comes Winch experience. This meditation on Favel Parrett cultural difference is also a story Isla and her brother see the world WINNER of a talented woman struggling to in grey until Bo enters their lives. Miles Franklin Literary Award balance her parents’ dreams with A cook on a Danish ship bound for her own. Antarctica, Bo lodges with them SHORTLISTED Stella Prize NE 2006 282pp B1958 while his ship is in port, expanding Isla’s world with his stories. This is an enchanting tale about the magic WINNER NSW Premier’s Literary Awards V of the ocean, the mysteries of the universe, and of life and death, August Gondiwindi returns home darkness and light. The Voluptuous Delights after her grandfather’s death. She F 2014 256pp B2225 has been living on the other side of Peanut Butter and Jam of the world for a decade. But the Lauren Liebenberg home she left is not the same, In Rhodesia in the late 1970s, Nyree and she is confronted by the news and Cia’s father is conscripted to that a mining company is trying fight against the black freedom to repossess their family home. fighters. The sisters inhabit an An exploration of language and innocent world, roaming their land, connection to home and run-down colonial farm, until their Indigenous rights, Winch’s novel of damaged, orphaned cousin Ronin a culture dispossessed is a marvel. arrives. A beautiful, sad story about FE 2019 352pp B2336 childhood in a time of civil war. F 2008 245pp B2015

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Divine Secrets of the A C D Ya Ya Sisterhood Rebecca Wells Animal, Vegetable, The Chase NEW Miracle Ida Mann SHORTLISTED Barbara Kingsolver To be female, born in England Orange Prize When bestselling author Barbara in 1893, and to leave school Death in When an utterly original mother- Kingsolver and her family move at sixteen without university daughter team get into a savage from suburban Arizona to rural entrance qualifications: these the Ladies’ fight over a New York Times article Appalachia, they take on a new seem unlikely beginnings for Goddess Club that refers to the mother as a ‘tap challenge: to spend a year eating Oxford’s first woman professor. dancing child abuser,’ the fallout The rare account of a woman Julian locally produced food. Part memoir, Leatherdale is felt from Louisiana to New York part journalistic investigation, and whose passion for her medical to Seattle. But Vivi’s intrepid gang Kings Cross, 1932. Aspiring crime complete with original recipes, work is central in a dauntless and of life-long girlfriends, the Ya Yas, writer Joan Linderman is living the Kingsolver makes a passionate long life which included travelling, unforgettable Southern belles, bohemian life. One night she is case for putting the kitchen back a passionate marriage in her sashay in and conspire to bring thrown into a real crime when one at the centre of family life, and fifties and her work documenting everyone back together. of her neighbours is murdered. diversified farms at the centre of our and treating trachomas in Determined to find the culprit, Joan’s FE 1996 356pp B1682 diet. Small print. Indigenous Australians. N 1986 217pp B1197 secret investigation leads her into NE 2007 352pp B2006 the lives of Sydney’s richest and its Drawn from Life seedy underbelly. A riveting mystery Stella Bowen Chocolat with plenty of colour and style. Are You Somebody? During her art school years in Nuala O’Faolain Joanne Harris FE 2020 400pp B2315 England Stella Bowen met the Roddy Doyle said of this remarkable SHORTLISTED avant-garde artists of her day and, memoir: ‘Writing about herself, Whitbread Novel Award eventually, the writer Ford Madox Nuala O’Faolain has also written Desert Flower Ford. The two lived together for about Ireland. It is a cruel, wounded ‘We came on the wind of the Waris Dirie & ten years, first in Sussex where carnival.’ So begins this magical tale place – and this book has become Catherine Miller their daughter was born, and later an important part of the cure’. of Vianne, her daughter Anouk, and in France. Witness the literary and Waris Dirie tells her life story in This extended 1998 edition, a chocolate boutique nestled in the artistic world of Paris in the 1920s this co-authored book. A Somali subtitled The Life and Times of tiny French village of Lansquenet – and 1930s, the difficulties of doing desert child, she suffered her Nuala O’Faolain also includes seductive, sensual and just a little work of your own while a handmaid people’s customary genital rituals, almost 200 pages of her lively and mischievous. It’s the Church versus to the genius of another, the struggle but at aged twelve escaped from perceptive journalism. chocolate when the locals are to bring up a daughter and the break an arranged marriage. After years tempted, the priest outraged. Try up after Ford’s affair with Jean Rhys. NE 1996 434pp B1591 me ... test me ... taste me ... Who of domestic service, Waris is can resist? now an international model and N 1941 303pp B1811 Special Ambassador with the 1999 394pp B1633 B FE United Nations. Direct and without introspective profundity, this is E The Bloody Chamber The Courtesan’s Revenge genuinely ‘the extraordinary journey Angela Carter Frances Wilson of a desert nomad’. Edna Walling and Carter’s subversive retelling of Born in 1786, Harriette Wilson N 1998 369pp B1744 Her Gardens familiar fairy tales restores their became one of the celebrated Peter Watts power to surprise and even courtesans of Regency London. The Diaries of She entranced men with her wit and Peter Watts describes the life, to shock. Female or feminist? Jane Somers career, style and influence of This sensual, daring and varied character as much as her beauty. Her conquests included royalty, Doris Lessing Edna Walling. A writer as well as a collection can provoke strong gardener, generations of Australians at least three Prime Ministers and The editor of a successful women’s reaction and discussion. Small print. have been able to absorb the Walling the Lord Chancellor. When her rich magazine, Jane Somers is elegant, philosophy on plant groupings, FE 1979 126pp B1318 former lovers refused to pay her an competent, self-assured and colour, pathways, rockwork, and annuity Harriette exacted her own self-contained until her attention the integration of house and garden. revenge on the aristocracy, eliciting is claimed by a tiny, fierce old the Duke of Wellington’s famous woman who lives nearby, ill and in N 1991 136pp B1988 retort: ‘publish and be damned’. poverty. A difficult alliance develops Small print. between the two. NE 2003 359pp B1815 F 1984 510pp B1270

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Elizabeth David First Lady From Strength to Strength The Girls Lisa Chaney Kay Cottee Sara Henderson Robin Levett England was still in the grips of post- Making this voyage was Kay Cottee’s Marriage to a glamorous American Levett draws on an amazing war food rationing when Elizabeth dream. Following her triumphant soon became life in a tin shack memory and a sprightly, comic, David’s first books appeared, return after 189 days at sea, she in a sea of red dust on a remote forceful disposition to restore her French Country Cooking and was named 1988 Australian of the Northern Australian cattle station. part of the Australia of the 1920s A Book of Mediterranean Food. Year. Here is her detailed account On Charlie’s death, Sara discovered and ’30s and her war service in the With her evocations of vibrant colours of the voyage – its highs and lows, he had left her with massive debt ’40s. You’ll find it all here: Sorrento, and flavours, she captured the the extremes she endured, and the and a failing property which she South Yarra, the Hermitage, Toorak imagination of a generation of cooks. dangers presented by icebergs, managed to rebuild. College, the National Gallery Daughter of a Conservative MP, David whales, rocks and huge seas. N L 1992 337pp B1376 School, the WRANS and WAS(B), was courageous and independent, N 1989 226pp B1373 post-war England; the adventurous a complex character whom one freedoms and startling constraints reviewer called ‘an elegant, witty, The Full Cupboard of Life of her girlhood. Fishing in the Styx charming minor monster’. Alexander McCall Smith N 1997 264pp B1533 N 1998 482pp B1734 The fifth book in the No. 1 Ladies’ This second volume of Ruth Park’s Detective Agency series. Mma Excellent Women popular autobiography is set in Ramotswe has been approached NEW

Australia. Her warm, frank record by a wealthy lady to investigate Women Exceptional Barbara Pym reveals an admirably productive several suitors. Are these men just ‘... practically anything may be the life – as writer of ‘everything’, wife interested in her money? Alexander business of an unattached woman of D’Arcy Niland, mother of five, McCall Smith’s ‘novels are … Girl, Woman, with no troubles of her own, who and, above all, a getter of wisdom in extremely funny: I find it impossible Other takes a kindly interest in those of work, trouble, loss and joy. to think about them without smiling’ Bernardine her friends.’ Set in the shabby- N L 1994 302pp B1406 – Mail on Sunday (UK). Evaristo genteel world of flats, academic F 2003 212pp B2049 societies and tea rooms of London WINNER after World War II, with an Austen Follow the Rabbit Man Booker Prize like ear for dialogue. Proof Fence G F 1952 238pp B0776 Doris Pilkington & SHORTLISTED Nugi Garimara Women’s Prize for Fiction The Eye of the Reindeer Nugi Garimara tells the story of three The Geography Grace, an orphan. Winsome, Eva Weaver young girls who in 1931 escaped of Friendship a young bride. Morgan, who used from the Moore River Native to be Megan. Twelve different In 1913 Ritva is only sixteen when Sally Piper Settlement north of Perth intending characters and a portrayal of she is shipped off to Seili, an asylum to walk home to the northern desert. contemporary Britain like no for troubled women on an island SHORTLISTED We see the realities of social policy ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year other, this outstanding and in southern Finland. Her only hope at that time, but the focus is on an complex novel will get you talking. comes in the form of Martta, a Twenty-year-old friends Samantha, extraordinary effort of willpower, Some readers may find certain headstrong indigenous Sami woman Nicole and Lisa set off through the knowledge, strategy and stamina. scenes confronting. with whom she embarks on a bold bush, but none of them realise what escape to the North, a mythical NE 1996 133pp B1756 impact this adventure will have on FE 2019 464pp B2319 place of reindeers where freedom them or the danger they will face. is possible. The novel explores Friends, Lovers, Decades later, they decide to revisit love, family and betrayal and an Gravity Well Chocolate this hike to find what they have lost. exploration of the indigenous Sami A story of the value of friendship Melanie Joosten people of Scandinavia. Alexander McCall Smith and how time changes us. A beautifully constructed novel F 2016 384pp B2257 The second novel in the Sunday FE 2018 264pp B2294 told from the points of view of Philosophy Club series. Isabel two very different women: Lotte, Dalhousie is an Edinburgh Getting Equal an ambitious and free-spirited F philosopher, and when her niece astronomer returning home after Cat decides to take a holiday, Marilyn Lake a devastating diagnosis, and her Isabel agrees to help out at her A Fence Around This ‘History of Australian Feminism’ former best friend Eve, whose delicatessen. One of her customers is an eye opener, full of lively, sharp passion for sound is matched by the Cuckoo has recently had a heart transplant and generous portraits of significant her entry into motherhood. Joosten Ruth Park and is being haunted by memories (often forgotten) women and telling intelligently employs the use of he feels are not his own. Isabel (often amusing) anecdotes. Can a gravity and solar systems to depict WINNER soon finds herself following another mother be an independent woman? the complexity of relationships, The Age Nonfiction Book of the Year risky investigation. Do you want to be equal? Hugely collision of timelines, and the A lively account of Ruth Park’s early F 2005 297pp B2051 readable and discussable. drifting apart and coming together years in New Zealand. We see N 1999 316pp B1759 of family: both family we are born the dense bush of that country’s to and the ones we choose. isolated regions, the Maori people FE 2017 288pp B2272 whose lives intersected with hers, the dramas within a battling Irish Catholic family, and the intense poverty during the Depression years. NE L 1992 294pp B1372

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In the Company of Jane Eyre H Cheerful Ladies Charlotte Brontë M Hanna’s Daughters Alexander McCall Smith Jane moves from a harsh, orphaned Madeleine The sixth book in the No.1 Ladies childhood to Thornfield Hall, where Marianne Fredriksson Detective Agency series. Precious she falls in love with Mr Rochester, Helen Trinca From 1871 three generations of a Ramotswe is now married to Mr. and is menaced by the madwoman in WINNER Swedish family live through marked J.L.B. Matekoni, but life is still full of the attic. Her quest for independence, Prime Minister’s Literary Award social change: from primitive rural mishaps, mysteries and personality in romantic circumstances, has Late blossoming author Madeleine life to industrialised society to the clashes. ‘The story unfolds at a exceptional emotional power. St John (The Women in Black) information age. A complex chronicle familiar gentle pace … evoking a FE 1847 560pp B0024 was brilliant and troubled. This of women’s lives, unsentimental powerful but simple morality: that L biography follows her childhood about the burdens of family history, sharing our hearts with each other in Sydney to years in London gender and character. improves us all’ – Sunday Times. Joan Makes History Kate Grenville council flats, culminating with the F 1994 299pp B1617 F 2004 264pp B2050 publication of four acclaimed novels The several Joans whose stories in the last decade of her life. Hidden Lives animate this book put women into The Invisible Woman the action of the last two centuries NE 2013 272pp B2194 Margaret Forster Claire Tomalin of Australian history. Vivacious,

Which lives are significant, and This biography opens up the world diversified vignettes are set into the Malinche’s Conquest Women Exceptional why? Forster’s ‘family memoir’ of Ellen ‘Nelly’ Lawless Ternan, an narrative of Joan and Duncan, who Anna Lanyon traces three generations of women: actress who at eighteen met the also appear in Lilian’s Story. The gifted young woman who her grandmother, her mother older, married Charles Dickens. FE 1988 285pp B1202 translated for Cortés in his 16th- and herself – of working-class Tomalin makes a strong case for century conquest of Mexico is background, born and raised their parenting of illegitimate children. remembered by the Mexican elite in Carlisle, an industrial town in She follows Nelly’s life through the as a traitor but is celebrated in North England, each experiencing decades after Dickens’ death. K radically different circumstances popular legend. Lanyon uncovers and opportunities. ‘Let no one say NE 1990 333pp B1512 The Kalahari Typing her ‘survival amid catastrophe’ to that nothing has changed, that School for Men see the luminous traces of a woman women have it as bad as ever,’ who was among the founders of Forster concludes. J Alexander McCall Smith modern Mexico. The Kalahari Typing School for 1995 309pp B1510 N 1999 233pp B1739 N Jane Austen: A Life Men is the fourth volume of the Claire Tomalin bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective The House of the Agency series. Precious Ramotswe A Month of Sundays Spirits The heroines in Austen’s six novels has competition from a new EX CID, inhabit a world of stability and EX NY, EX cellent detective agency Liz Byrski Isabel Allende continuity, yet Tomalin sees Jane and Mma Makutsi, who believes in Adele, Judy, Ros and Simone know This is the beautiful, touching story Austen as a woman living on the ‘enterprise with compassion’, runs each through an online book club. of the Trueba family, following their margins of a competitive, money- evening classes for men. When Adele decides to invite the lives through the post-colonial oriented world, part of a lively, 2002 210pp B2009 group to the Blue Mountains in an social and political upheavals chaotic family and a more volatile F effort to enjoy her retirement, they in Chile in the Latin American character than previously thought. finally meet face to face. The books magic realism style. Follow volatile NE 1997 358pp B1583 they choose to bring to the group patriarch Esteban, his wife Clara, L reveal more about themselves, and their daughter Blanca and their Whilst we had a good discussion on force them to face some of their granddaughter Alba in this epic related topics most found the book The Little Coffee fears. A love letter to books and novel of love, magic and fate. hard going and too detailed in parts their readers, and what our favourite to constitute a good read. For those Shop of Kabul books can uncover. F 1985 491pp B1176 who had not read an Austen novel Deborah Rodriguez the book was of limited interest. For Sunny, café proprietor, needs a FE 2018 352pp B2299 an Austen fan, it was a fascinating plan to keep her customers safe; I read. We did enjoy talking about Halajan, her 60-year-old landlady, aspects of life and customs in is willing to risk all for love; young, Morality for Austen’s time and role of women, I Don’t Know How and those who had visited the city pregnant Yazmina needs protection; Beautiful Girls She Does It of Bath or visited Jane Austen sights Isabel is a journalist with a story Alexander McCall Smith of her own; Candace, a wealthy enjoyed sharing their travel stories. The third in the bestselling No. 1 Allison Pearson American, follows her Afghan lover Brighton East 4 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. Oh, the chaos of life, balancing to Kabul. This novel captures the Precious Ramotswe has financial a job as a fund manager, two fears and longings of each woman worries, puzzling cases to solve small children, a husband and a making a life under the watchful and the ethical dilemma of a nanny who never listens. A young eyes of the Taliban. mother juggles time for her family beauty pageant. Enjoyed Jane Austen: 2011 304pp B2124 while struggling with the ‘old boys’ FE F 2001 246pp B1987 network’. Will she cope? Often A Life? hilarious, sometimes sad, this novel portrays working motherhood in the Try Miss Austen 21st century. by Gill Hornby 2002 357pp B1785 FE [B2325]

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Mrs Cook The No. 1 Ladies’ Over My Tracks Marele Day Detective Agency Evelyn Crawford & Q Before James Cook departed on Alexander McCall Smith Chris Walsh Quicksands his final voyage, he had been at Expansive middle-aged female Evelyn Crawford, born into the home with his wife Elizabeth for detective Precious Ramotswe Baarkanji tribal group, goes back over Sybille Bedford only four of their fourteen years brings her intelligence and intuition her tracks to tell us her eye-opening From World War I Germany to of marriage. She raised their six to bear on problems and mysteries life story. Crawford lived in the red 21st century England via Europe children, only to outlive them. This in her small town in Botswana. Far sandhills back of Bourke: her years of and America, Bedford evokes a ‘nonfiction novel’ imaginatively removed from the darkness and hard work droving and mustering, the world of writers and diplomats, the reconstructs the domestic life of the blood of many crime novels, this is varying contacts she made with white dispossessed and the powerful. An sea captain’s wife. a book full of humour, good heart Australians, and the ups and downs elegant mosaic of lovers and tragedy, FE 2002 357pp B1775 and gently ironic observation. of coping with her fourteen children. this is a spellbinding reflection on the intersection between history and 1998 235pp B1794 Involvement in her youngest son’s We had a spirited discussion F schooling takes her into the training of personal experience. of what was real and what was Aboriginal teachers. 2005 369pp B1955 imagined in the book. Some of the No Place for a NE group members were irritated and N 1993 319pp B1385 doubted the intimate scenes in the Nervous Lady book. The novel provided a good Lucy Frost This book was a big hit with our R social history of the time and how group. We all really enjoyed it. Women Exceptional Lucy Frost edits the diaries of We thought it a very important people lived. Marele Day shows 19th-century women pioneers in how well she has researched Mrs book, detailing as it did the lives Rain Birds Australia’s outback. Compelling Cook and Captain Cook. and times of Aborigines from the Harriet McKnight and absorbing reading from a late 1920s onwards, and we felt it Mont Albert XQS A powerful and lyrical novel set in fascinating time in our history, which should be included in the school East Gippsland, Victoria, where will lead to much discussion. reading list. There was a great deal to be learnt from that period, some the impact of climate change N NS 1984 279pp B0018 of which we didn’t know, and we is destroying the habitat of the felt it was a great companion piece endangered black cockatoos. The The Natural Way to Jacksons Track which we read storyline centres on recent retiree, O last year. Evelyn’s recollections of Pina, and conservation biologist, of Things a long life of hard work, details of Arianna, as they struggle to hold their Charlotte Wood One Life Aboriginal family life in the bush, on lives together. Pina’s once-loving station and in missions is definitely husband is turning aggressive in the WINNER Kate Grenville a valuable historical record, and for grips of early-onset Alzheimer’s and Stella Prize One of our favourite storytellers us, a most enjoyable read. Arianna deals with double standards is back with this moving tribute to Blackburn 5 Two women wake to find and incessant misogyny from co- her mother, Nance, a woman who themselves held captive in the workers who question a woman’s was in many ways revolutionary. desert with a group of eight place ‘in the field’. Grenville’s voice punctuates her others, and slowly realise they P warm and heartfelt account which FE 2017 288pp B2290 all have something in common: is partly crafted from Nance’s in each of their pasts is a sexual Paradise own diaries. This is a story about scandal with a powerful man. But Rebecca West Australian consciousness, and how Toni Morrison who is punishing them, and what Victoria Glendinning the patterns of the past can be The all black town of Ruby was for? This is a stark exploration West lived from 1892 to 1983 and seen in the present. founded by ex-slaves, determined to of contemporary misogyny and pass on the unchanging pure faith was both an agent and a victim corporate control – and the beauty NE 2015 272pp B2216 which had enabled them to survive of change. She marched with (and courage) of sisterly love. in the antagonistic American South. the suffragettes, and had a ten FE 2015 320pp B2237 Out of the Silence Morrison’s explosively imagined year liaison with H.G. Wells. An Wendy James novel focuses on the lives of the accomplished and affectionate women in and outside this fictitious portrayal of a complex woman. At the turn of the last century, three Nine Parts of Desire town, confronting the difficult issues women’s lives are on a collision N 1987 288pp B1578 Geraldine Brooks of black male violence. course: Vida, the fiery Melbourne Working in the Middle East, Brooks suffragist; Elizabeth, far from home 1999 318pp B1700 learned a lot about what life is like F and grieving for her lost love; and for Islamic women. Focusing on the courageous young country girl, individuals in different countries The Prime of Maggie. Their experiences revolve and in various roles, professional around issues that still touch us Miss Jean Brodie and domestic, she traces the deeply today: single motherhood, Muriel Spark origins of today’s practices, post-natal depression, and the role Miss Brodie is a school teacher showing that oppression of of women in public life. in 1930s Edinburgh, and in her women is inconsistent with Islam prime, she decides to inculcate in its purest form. 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NEW Reckoning: A Memoir Stravinsky’s Lunch Magda Szubanski S Drusilla Modjeska The Tenth WINNER A Scandalous Life WINNER Muse NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Mary S. Lovell The Age Nonfiction Book of the Year Catherine WINNER At seventeen, a beautiful English Stella Bowen and Grace Cossington Chung Smith were born in the 1890s. One Katherine grows up in 1950s ABIA Book of the Year girl married an older aristocrat who kept her as his mistress. Lady Jane left Australia before World War I America knowing she is different, Magda Szubanski, one of Australia’s Digby responded to this indignity and remained in Europe, the other the child of an American father and most beloved comedic performers, with unusual spirit and a highly lived for decades on the outskirts a Chinese mother. Against all odds, recounts her life from growing publicised divorce. The Austrian of Sydney. Their lives and work are she becomes a mathematician. up in the suburb of Croydon, her prince with whom she eloped was the focus of this moving meditation While longing to conquer an career as an actor, to the quest to succeeded by a baron, a count, on the friction between creative and impossible mathematical problem, find out the truth about her father, and a brigand, before she married domestic life. she also strives to find secrets of a Polish assassin during World a Bedouin sheikh twenty years her N 1999 364pp B1623 her past concealed in Germany War II. This multi-award winning junior, and lived among the Syrian during World War II. A story of memoir is a serious exploration on identity, ambition and belonging. desert tribes. The Summer finding courage, acceptance, and a N 1995 365pp B1552 F 2019 304pp B2329 daughter’s love for her father. Without Men Women Exceptional 2016 384pp B2266 Siri Hustvedt NE The Secret Life of Bees Poet Mia Fredrickson has a severe The Trauma Cleaner We were captivated by this Sue Monk Kidd breakdown when her husband remarkable memoir from the first Sarah Krasnostein In the deep south in the 1960s, leaves her. Returning to the prairie page. We were touched by the Lily lives with her strict father and way Magda explored the deep and town of her childhood, she rents WINNER servant Rosaleen. When racial Victorian Premier’s Literary Award dark background of her family as a house just down the road from tensions explode, Lily comes to she sought to deal with her gender her mother’s retirement home and her ongoing issues with Rosaleen’s aid and the two run away and spends a summer in the WINNER weight. In uncovering elements together, finding sanctuary with three company of some extraordinary ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year of her family history, she found a beekeeping sisters. A heart-warming women. Hustvedt has successfully Sandra Pankhurst has been a deep source of understanding and and life-affirming tale. combined the cerebral with the trauma cleaner for twenty years, but compassion. This took courage 2001 374pp B2005 visceral to create this small gem. and honesty. Our discussion F before her life cleaning crime scenes led us towards numerous F 2011 224pp B2136 and ‘caves of filth’, Sandra was ethical issues. The Signature also many other things: husband, Kangaroo Ground: Witty Winers of All Things The Sunday father, drag queen, sex worker, businesswomen and trophy wife. Elizabeth Gilbert Philosophy Club This touching memoir explores Return to the Little Born in Philadelphia in 1800, Alma Alexander McCall Smith more than just cleaning up death Coffee Shop of Kabul Whittaker’s remarkable mind and Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie and decay, but portrays an inspiring Deborah Rodriguez questing spirit reflect both the hosts the Sunday Philosophy Club woman overcoming a personal rigours of 19th-century scientific In this much-anticipated sequel, and uses her philosophy training history of trauma and works to bring curiosity and the exploration of a six women remain linked by their to solve murder and mayhem in care and dignity into the lives of the dimension beyond the empirical. experiences in a café in Kabul. Edinburgh. Warm-hearted with living and the dead. The Signature of All Things is Now on opposite sides of the gentle humour, it is ‘the literary simultaneously a book of ideas, NE 2017 261pp B2281 world, each will deal with the past equivalent of herbal tea and a cosy a travelogue, an unconventional in different ways as she faces the fire’ – The New York Times. love story and a testament to future. This delightful and poignant True North female achievement. F 2004 281pp B1979 novel explores the legacy of war, Brenda Niall the trouble with culture clash, and FE 2013 501pp B2208 SHORTLISTED the importance of friendship. T Victorian Premier’s Literary Award 2016 400pp B2238 The Stone Diaries FE This fascinating biography of Carol Shields Tears of the Giraffe sisters Mary and Elizabeth Durack The Rooms in WINNER Alexander McCall Smith looks beyond the legacy of Mary’s My Mother’s House Pulitzer Prize This second in the No. 1 Ladies’ classic book Kings in Grass Castles Olga Lorenzo Detective Agency series starts with to examine the dynamics of the Daisy is born on a kitchen floor the engagement of Mma Ramotswe Durack pastoralist dynasty and the Driven from Cuba after the in 1905 in Canada, and the and Mr J.L.B. They deal with the personal lives of these two creative, revolution, Dolores, Consuelo and ordinariness of her ordinary life is ups and downs of domestic life and but very different, women. In Ana settle in an old farmhouse in made remarkable in this original and find themselves with unexpected particular, it focuses on their strong, Miami, where they battle with each enjoyable novel. The unforgettable additions to their family. Mma lifelong ties to the Kimberley region other and the ghosts that remain in first chapter opens the way to Ramotswe and her secretary must and its people. their hearts. The spirit world blends further surprises and delights. also deal with questions of right and fabulously with their material one in NE 2012 275pp B2147 wrong in their Botswanan detective this vibrant novel. Contains themes F 1993 361pp B1460 agency business. that may disturb. 2000 217pp B1847 F 1996 405pp B1582 F

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True Pleasures Watched by Ancestors Lucinda Holdforth U Kathy Golski Ready for a change in direction, It’s one thing for trained Holdforth abandoned a career in The Unusual Life anthropologists to do their politics and diplomacy for a time of Edna Walling adventurous work, but here an artist in Paris, reading deeply about the Sara Hardy and her four children accompany lives of French women she had Independent and unconventional, her second husband to the remote long admired and exploring the Edna Walling was one of the first highlands of Papua New Guinea Paris locales with which they were women to graduate from the where they live for two years, giving linked. She reflects on the lives of Burnley School of Horticulture other, often surprising, dimensions women such as Marie Antoinette, in 1917 and went on to become to the lives of all concerned. Germaine de Staël, Coco Chanel, one of Australia’s finest landscape N 1998 270pp B1732 and writers such as Nancy Mitford, designers. Though her gardens are Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein and well documented, Hardy draws on The Whole Woman Colette. Intelligence and lightness memories, anecdotes, facts and of touch makes her book a pleasure documents to explore Edna’s private Germaine Greer to read. world – her family, friends, passions This sequel to The Female N 2004 227pp B1940 and sexuality, creating a tribute to Eunuch, the book Germaine said

a woman who was, in retrospect, she would never write, is vintage Women Exceptional True Stories way ahead of her time. A must read Greer: intelligent, wide-ranging, for greenthumbs as well as lovers of energetic, provocative, humorous Helen Garner Australian biography. and tender. Her angry thesis is This evocative collection is drawn that ‘real women are being phased from a quarter of a century of NE 2005 304pp B1945 out’, and it is certain to stimulate Garner’s nonfiction writing. The Most enjoyed the book and several strong discussion. topics range from the (1970s) of our group had been to Bickleigh N 1999 350pp B1720 four-letter words sex lesson in Vale in the past. Interesting a secondary school – she was discussion about life at the time sacked – to her accounts of 1980s and determination which Edna Wicked But Virtuous marriages at the Mint in Melbourne had – she was certainly ahead of Mirka Mora and of autopsies at the morgue in her time. Book was well written One of Melbourne’s best-known and extremely well researched. 1992, to births in a labour ward in artists, Mirka Mora arrived in Penrith (1995). A treasure chest. Brighton East 4 Australia from Paris in 1951 with NS 1996 242pp B1501 her husband and baby. Their restaurants were a magnet for the Everyone in our group enjoyed W artistic life of the city. The book this book thoroughly. Beautifully glows with examples of her work written, non-judgemental, Walking in the Shade and splendid photographs. This questioning mind revealed account of an eccentric life lived much to be pondered over and Doris Lessing to the utmost celebrates Mirka’s discussed. Members of the group Following Under My Skin, this lovers, work, family – and the rich also related to the descriptions of second volume of Lessing’s array of characters who were drawn place, as well as the controversies autobiography begins with her 1949 into her world. that resulted from some of arrival in grey post-war London (with her books. the manuscript of her first novel N 2000 331pp B1653 Mallacoota and one of her three children) and takes us through to 1962. It offers a Wild Swans wonderful sense of those times as well as insights into Lessing herself. Jung Chang She speaks with candour about WINNER bringing up her son on her own, her Society Gold Medal love affairs, years of psychotherapy, the realities of living by her writing Three generations, three women’s and her growing disillusionment stories in a period when the world’s with the Communist Party. most populous nation endured almost unimaginable change. One NE 1997 369pp B1705 way to begin to comprehend the recent history of China is through individuals who find the courage to experience and to voice the enormities which are the stuff of their everyday lives. Long, but compulsively readable. NE 1991 696pp B1397

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21 Lessons for the Author, Author Consolations of 21st Century David Lodge C Philosophy Yuval Noah Harari A great writer, but a fiercely private Cézanne: Paul Cézanne, Alain de Botton How do we make sense of the way man: Henry James seems an Philosophy is not just for the ivory the world is now? Today’s issues unlikely subject for a biographical 1839–1906 tower. Alain de Botton unfolds are forever more pressing in a novel by a comic writer. But Lodge’s Hajo Düchting – ART BOOK the thinking of six philosophers: rapidly changing world where fake novel is immensely lively, readable A recluse who shunned the Socrates on unpopularity (he died for news is prevalent and advanced and discussable, as he focuses on art world of Paris, Cézanne it); Epicurus on not having enough technology can be friend and foe. the last decades of James’ life. A never identified himself with the money; Seneca on frustration; In this stimulating book, Harari fascinating and informative account Impressionist group. This beautiful, Montaigne on inadequacies various; examines the future, how we can of the crowded setting of the English full-colour text explores Cézanne’s Schopenhauer on a broken heart; prepare for it and how we can forge literary, theatrical and social world, of great achievements in his ever and Nietzsche on the struggle. our way to the next century. sibling rivalries and love, and of the more subtle analysis of colour Immensely readable and satisfying. refined and dedicated life within. NE 2018 368pp B2307 and tone, and synthesis of reality Occasional coarse language. F 2004 389pp B1870 and abstraction. N 2000 265pp B1635 N 1991 239pp B0678 Autumn Laing The Crane Wife A Charles Dickens: A Life Patrick Ness Affluenza SHORTLISTED Claire Tomalin A crane lands in middle-aged Prime Minister’s Literary Award This rich biography of ‘the George’s back garden in London. Clive Hamilton inimitable’ Charles Dickens The next day, he meets artist Looking at Australian society, Inspired by the relationship between examines the many contradictions Kumiko, and together their art Hamilton sees a binge of iconic artist Sidney Nolan and of his divided character. Tomalin’s causes a public sensation. The consumption, associated with a his muse, Sunday Reed, this is a psychological analysis observes importance of family, love, and the trend towards overwork, the stuff skilfully drawn fiction of how such with an unblinking eye the virtues power of storytelling are all explored we accumulate and send to landfill, a person as Sunday might have and failings of both writer and in this reimagined Japanese folk financial over commitment, the become, having outlived the artists man; capturing the indomitable tale that merges the magical with medications we use to help us cope. who were her peers in the 1930s. imagination which hid a tormented, the real. Contains strong language. Accompanying this he identifies a Through 85-year-old Autumn’s tragic, brilliant man. reflections on the lives of the gifted, FE 2013 320pp B2189 range of ills such as lack of time, 2011 528pp stress, tiredness, depression, Miller explores the passions and NE B2164 health problems. Instead he offers ambitions of Australian art. an alternative path: less attention FE 2011 464pp B2157 Cider with Rosie D to material goods, and greater Laurie Lee connection with community and the Chronicling the traditional village NEW things that matter. B life which disappeared with the NE 2005 224pp B1916 advent of developments such as The Boyds: the motor car, this enduring classic An Artist of the is the English Cotswolds of years The Art of the Boyds ago, with Lee’s bucolic childhood Dark Emu Floating World Patricia Dobrez & Peter rendered in a bright and wryly Bruce Pascoe Kazuo Ishiguro Herbst – ART BOOK humorous manner. A must-read. Ishiguro’s elegant, restrained prose Six generations of Boyds have WINNER NEL 1959 240pp B0395 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards evokes the personality, career, been involved in the arts. This folio family and society of Masuji Ono, of lavish illustrations reflects the an ageing painter, living through diversity of talent – pottery, writing, Clarice Beckett SHORTLISTED Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards the turbulent post-war shift from architecture, painting, sculpting, Rosalind Hollinrake militarism to an Americanised ceramics – in ‘Australia’s most visible – ART BOOK democracy in Japan in 1948. and distinguished artistic family’. SHORTLISTED After her death in 1935, Clarice Victorian Premier’s Literary Award FE 1986 206pp B1228 N 1990 232pp B0656 Beckett was a forgotten artist. One of Australia’s great modernist Pascoe challenges the hunter- painters, Beckett’s lyrical, delicate gatherer stereotype for pre- studies evoke the spirit of a past colonial Indigenous Australians Melbourne – its city, suburbs with evidence of land cultivation. and beaches – in an application Pascoe’s research includes diaries of colour, tone and form beyond and records from early explorers. anything of her time. An important and thought- N 1999 77pp B1615 provoking read. NE 2018 278pp B2314

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Death Sentence Feet of Clay Gogh: Vincent van Great Writers, Don Watson Anthony Storr Gogh, 1853–1890 Great Loves Watson defends the language he Subtitled A Study of Gurus, this Ingo Walther – ART BOOK Ann Marie Priest loves (English with bite, flavour and sets some of the most notorious A complex and obsessive man, A fascinating, revealing journey life) against the verbal sludge which gurus, including Jim Jones and van Gogh was one of the great through the love lives of eight now threatens us from every side. David Koresh, beside some of forerunners of the modern age. This famous writers: Sylvia Plath, Virginia Managerial language has infiltrated the most respected leaders in the text presents van Gogh’s paintings Woolf, Vita Sackville West, D.H. the English of politics, bureaucracy, western world (Ignatius of Loyola, as testimony to a heroic quest for Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, education and the media. Read, Jesus) to show they have more new colour, line and life. Charmian Clift, Dylan Thomas and laugh, discuss, repent, abstain! in common than meets the eye. N 1987 96pp B0679 Frank O’Hara. Priest delves into NE 2003 198pp B1828 Why do we view some of them their letters and their writings. Their as legitimate thinkers or spiritual stories anticipated and reflected the leaders and others as madmen? The Golden Mean revolutionary rethinking of love, sex Other ‘gurus’ considered in the Annabel Lyon and marriage that occurred during E book are Gurdjieff, Steiner, Freud Told in earthy and contemporary the course of the 20th century. and Jung. A rich field for reflection prose, this is a story of Aristotle’s The Elegance of and discussion. N 2006 298pp B1918 the Hedgehog relationship with the young and NE 1996 254pp B1569 gifted Alexander whom he tutors Muriel Barbery from boyhood. Aristotle strives Renée is the concierge of a grand to impart his philosophy of the H Parisian apartment building on the G golden mean – a balance between Left Bank. Beneath her conventional extremes – to young Alexander. Half a Lifetime facade she is passionate about The Gift of Asher Lev FE 2009 282pp B2107 Judith Wright culture and the arts. Meanwhile, One of Australia’s finest poets, several floors up, twelve-year-old Chaim Potok Judith Wright was born into a family Paloma Josse is determined to avoid In this sequel to My Name is Asher The Goldfinch of New South Wales pastoralists. the predictably bourgeois future Lev, the painter is drawn back to Donna Tartt Jack McKinney, the philosopher laid out for her. The death of one of the Ladover Hasidic community in who became her lover, partner, and their privileged neighbours brings Brooklyn. Again, he experiences WINNER the father of her daughter, was also dramatic change and alters their the tension between his gift and the Pulitzer Prize her intellectual companion in her lives forever. community, now facing the death passionate lifelong commitment to When Theo is thirteen, a traumatic Maker, Thinker Artist, of its revered Rebbe, and making environmental causes and justice for F 2008 320pp B2046 experience inextricably entwines strong claims on his family. the Aboriginal peoples of Australia. his fate with a 17th-century Dutch A poem by Wright stands as 1990 370pp B1323 painting. An engaging cast of Elizabeth Costello F preface to each of the chapters in characters moves between high J.M. Coetzee this luminous memoir, an added society, the world of antiques, and a Girl with pleasure for the reader. SHORTLISTED murky criminal underground in this Miles Franklin Literary Award a Pearl Earring beautifully readable exploration of N 1999 296pp B1760 Tracy Chevalier love, loss and the messy business of In the form of lectures given by an This fine historical fiction evokes being alive. elderly Australian writer on tour, this The Hare with Amber Eyes the mid-17th century Netherlands. challenging novel of ideas opens F 2014 771pp B2211 Edmund de Waal Griet, a young servant girl, sits for up questions of the systematic the painter Vermeer, her employer, cruelties involved in farming animals WINNER and soon finds herself surrounded Grace Crowley: Costa Biography Award for food; the Holocaust; the nature by rumour. Deeply revealing of belief and reason, of writing and Being Modern about the process of painting and After inheriting a collection of of humanity; spirituality and morality; Elena Taylor haunting in its passion, outrage and Japanese carvings (netsuke), de Waal Kafka and the absurd. Nobel Prize Crowley played a central part in perceptions about human nature. felt compelled to trace its journey winner Coetzee shares with his introducing modern art to Australia. through the years. In doing so, he fictional character a reluctance to FE 1999 248pp B1621 Rejecting the expectations of her discovered his family’s history from make public appearances. Edwardian upbringing, she pursued 19th century Odessa to modern FE 2003 230pp B1830 Glass After Glass a career as an artist, leaving the Tokyo. An engrossing and moving Barbara Blackman parochial confines of Australia blend of art and social history. and replacing the convention of 2010 354pp B2140 Married for twenty-seven years marriage with a series of close NE F to the painter Charles Blackman, friendships. In this beautifully Barbara was also an artist’s model, illustrated edition, Taylor paints an Harland’s Half Acre Facing the Music muse, writer and mother. Here evocative portrait of Crowley. David Malouf she writes of the people she has Andrea Goldsmith The life story of Frank Harland, an known in Australia’s art world and N 2006 54pp B1950 For more than fifty years, Duncan artist whose first drawings are made of day-to-day living. The circle of Bayle’s glorious talent as a at night on his family’s struggling artists at Heide, her friendships with composer was fed by the women in dairy farm in Queensland. Malouf Joy Hester and with others, and her his life. Then his daughter Anna left writes with insight about many adaptation to increasing blindness Melbourne for London. While her themes: family life; the pressures father’s gift faltered, her creativity from a young age are all part of of poverty and temperament; the flowered. Goldsmith portrays a these memoirs. vocation of the artist; the changing toxic struggle between them, and N 1997 403pp B1573 patterns of Australian social history; family and friends are caught in their the natural world of Australia, destructive creativity. rendered with poetic precision. F 1994 263pp B1441 FE 1984 230pp B1043

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Here on Earth The Imperfectionists Killing Me Softly The Life and Death Tim Flannery Tom Rachman Philip Nitschke & of Sophie Stark From an ecological viewpoint, we This collection of stories told from Fiona Stewart Anna North have left a trail of destruction as the viewpoints of different staff Nitschke and Stewart take the view Told through the six different human civilisation spreads across members, from the Editor in Chief to that people should have the right to perspectives of the people closest the Earth. We will face climate the copy editor, at an international make informed end-of-life decisions. to her, the novel explores the life of changes, decreasing biodiversity, English language newspaper, Their book provides information an unapologetic film director who and scarcity of water and food. based in Rome. Their private lives about the current practice of slow values art over people. Sophie Flannery, a palaeontologist and overlap with work and world events. euthanasia; what is wrong with Stark uses her genius to make former Australian of the Year, Alternately hilarious and heart- palliative care; anguishing decisions movies from the lives of people suggests solutions to these wrenching. concerning the life or death of very who fascinate her, destroying problems. From the Stone Age FSE 2010 274pp B2089 ill babies. These writers envisage a the relationships with those that to the modern globalised world, world where a ‘peaceful pill’ could love her most and results in her he presents a view of how Inside Out be relied on to provide a peaceful, shocking end. The novel explores sustainability can be achieved dignified death. An opportunity the lengths you go for art and the through cooperation rather Robert Adamson to reflect on and discuss the cost of artist integrity. than competition. Sydney poet Robert Adamson many questions presented by the F 2015 304pp B2247 NE 2010 316pp B2114 grew up in Neutral Bay and on the euthanasia debate. Hawkesbury River in the 1950s 2005 354pp B1885 and ’60s. Bewitched by the natural N The Life to Come The Hours world, fishing and birds, his later Michael Cunningham escapades led him to incarceration Klimt: Gustav Klimt, WINNER in boys’ homes. Finally, his prison 1862–1918 SHORTLISTED encounter with the work of writers Stella Prize Pulitzer Prize Gottfried Fliedl – ART BOOK and poets set him on the path of The apocalyptic atmosphere of Cunningham takes Virginia Woolf’s writing. Full of event, sensation, SHORTLISTED Vienna’s upper middle-class society life and work as inspiration for movement and life, his memoir Victorian Premier’s Literary Award at the turn of the century found this exquisite and subtle novel. makes wonderful reading. expression through the art of Gustav An intelligent meditation set in He interweaves Woolf’s struggle N 2004 342pp B1833 Klimt. Klimt’s art and the Viennese Sydney, Paris and Sri Lanka. The to begin her novel Mrs Dalloway Secession movement are explored novel consists of five sections with that book’s effects on two in this richly illustrated book. that uncovers the lives of George, Maker, Thinker Artist, subsequent readers in 1940s Isobel on the Way to 1991 239pp pompous author and university Los Angeles and in contemporary the Corner Shop N B0683 lecturer; Pippa, a superficial writer New York. Amy Witting who dreams of Man Booker FE 1998 228pp B1642 success; Celeste, a manuscript SHORTLISTED L translator who is blind to her Miles Franklin Literary Award How Are We to Live? married lover’s intentions; Ash, an The Lacuna academic who blurs the memories Peter Singer Determined to make her way as a writer, Isobel has resigned Barbara Kingsolver from his childhood in Sri Lanka; The distinguished Australian from her job with very little to live and migrant Christabel, whose philosopher argues that in affluent on. Acute illness brings her to a WINNER generosity becomes the target of Western society, the pursuit of sanatorium where she remains Orange Prize Pippa’s malice. The novel explores material self-interest is the norm, for a long time, maintaining her Told in a mix of narrative forms the lies we tell to others, the lies we trapping people into the sense autonomy as best she can in these including diary entries, memoir, tell to ourselves, and the grand ego that life is meaningless. Is there claustrophobic surroundings. letters and newspaper articles. Born of Western Civilisation. anything to live for? Likely to prompt in America and raised in Mexico, unstoppable discussion. F 1999 352pp B1737 FE 2017 384pp B2278 Harrison Shepherd finds himself 1993 262pp B1411 N working for Mexican muralist Diego Lola Bensky K Rivera. He meets and befriends the artist Frida Kahlo, goes to work for Lily Brett I the Communist Lev Trotsky, and Lily Brett drew on her own Kandinsky: Wassily becomes caught up in a world of art experiences as a music journalist I Am Melba Kandinsky, 1866–1944 and revolution. The second half of in the ‘Swinging Sixties’ to create Hajo Düchting – ART BOOK the novel shifts to the United States nineteen-year-old Lola. When not Ann Blainey meeting rock icons such as Mick Kandinsky was one of the most where Harrison is dragged into the Jagger and Janis Joplin, Lola WINNER important pioneers of abstract public arena through the House Un- worries about her hair or her weight. National Biography Prize art, expressing feelings through a American Activities Committee. Like many of Brett’s characters, distinctive use of geometric shapes, A biography of Australia’s first FE 2009 507pp B2065 she also carries the legacy of her brilliantly coloured and superbly musical superstar, Nellie Melba. Holocaust survivor parents. Funny disposed in space. We had a lively discussion about From an early age Nellie dreamed this book. We thought Kingsolver and touching, this novel evokes a of fame. Her independent spirit N 1991 96pp B0716 researched this book very well. The time of unique social change. took her from Melbourne and the historical characters were woven 2012 267pp B2176 Queensland cane fields to London into the fictional story well and FE and Europe. I Am Melba captures gave it authenticity. Although quite an extraordinary life. difficult to read in the early section, it was very interesting and covered NE 2009 400pp B2063 several controversial and difficult periods in American history. Shoal Bay Bridge Bookies

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NEW More Please Other People’s Words A Long Petal Barry Humphries N Hilary McPhee of the Sea Does this reveal the man behind The story of a friendship between the actor, with his vulnerabilities Nice Work two women, the publishing Isabel Allende including alcoholism? Or is it David Lodge company they built, and its Young ‘miracle’ another great performance, in When Dr Robyn Penrose, contribution to literature in Australia. doctor Victor Dalmau, caught up which there is less generosity than temporary lecturer at the University Helen Garner, Tim Winton and in the Spanish Civil War, is forced sharpness? Readable and often is volunteered by the English Drusilla Modjeska were part of into exile with his sister-in-law, the very funny. Department to shadow Vic Wilcox, McPhee Gribble’s impressive list. pianist Roser Broguera. Boarding N 1992 334pp B1381 a managing director in the industrial A readable book with much to a ship for Chile, they hope for the town of Rummidge, it’s a culture discuss about the local, the global promised freedom of ‘the long Most members enjoyed it. We felt shock for them both. An astute and the future of publishing. petal of sea and wine and snow’ his childhood was more interesting account of Thatcher’s England, N 2001 312pp B1630 which will affect generations to than his career as we could identify particularly of its business and come. A lyrical story of love and with it. intellectual theory and practice. struggle, including appearances by South Frankston Readers We laughed out loud. the poet Pablo Neruda. P FE 1988 348pp B1252 2020 336pp B2323 F The Museum of The Philosopher’s Dog Modern Love North Face of Soho Raimond Gaita The Lost Dog Heather Rose Clive James Focusing on the creatures who Michelle de Kretser WINNER The fourth in James’s are part of our domestic lives and Set in contemporary Australia and Stella Prize autobiographical series, this covers telling stories about animals he has 20th century India, de Kretser’s 1968 to the 1980s as James sets out known, the author of Romulus, third novel is a love story entwined WINNER to establish himself in literary London. My Father asks questions about with a haunting mystery. Tom NSW Premier’s Literary Awards In his trademark style, blending how animals think and feel. This Loxley, an academic, is writing a wisecracks with serious observation, gentle enquiry into the connection book on Henry James in a remote When New York film composer he depicts the unrelenting deadlines between people and animals needs bush shack when his dog goes Arky Levin is asked by his terminally involved in his work as reviewer, careful reading and discussion. missing. While searching for his ill wife to keep a promise, it throws critic, essayist and commentator. NE 2002 214pp B1689 Arky into a devastating search for An entertaining read with insights

dog, Tom revisits his emotional past Maker, Thinker Artist, and explores his troubled present. meaning. Arky discovers Marina about writing. Abramovic in The Artist is Present, F 2007 368pp B2028 and is drawn to her performance. NE 2006 264pp B1973 R As the performance continues, he The Lost Mother questions what it means to love and Reading by Moonlight Anne Summers to be an artist. The novel explores O Brenda Walker relationships, illness and how art In 1933, Anne’s mother had her shapes us. O’Keeffe: WINNER portrait painted by a mysterious Victorian Premier’s Literary Award artist. Anne inherited the portrait FE 2016 296pp B2253 Georgia O’Keeffe after her mother died and is Nancy Frazier – ART BOOK In 2005, Brenda was diagnosed compelled to unravel its mystery, My Brilliant Career O’Keeffe is best known for her with breast cancer. This book follows her treatment, along with exploring the difficult relationship Miles Franklin near abstract paintings based on she had with her mother. Anne’s meditations on books that helped The first novel from one of the enlargements of flower and plant detailed research encompasses forms – works of great elegance, her on her road to recovery. Paris, Cairo, Latvia and Russia and major Australian writers of her time, Referencing authors from Dante Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, rhythmic vitality and sensuality. This evokes memories of Melbourne’s book captures the haunting quality to Donna Tartt, she writes about art scene in the 1900s. who wrote under the name Miles the consolation of the written Franklin. Written as a romance to of her unique vision. 2010 385pp B2123 word. This is a moving book that N amuse the author’s friends, the N 1992 112pp B0694 resonates deeply. novel follows imaginative heroine NE 2010 240pp B2133 Sybylla growing up in rural Australia Oscar Wilde M in the 1890s, and many of the issues it raises are still relevant to Richard Ellmann Religion for Atheists Monet: Claude women writers today. Wilde’s witty comedies made him the darling of London theatregoers, Alain de Botton Monet, 1840–1926 F 1901 232pp B0062 but at the height of his success he The issue is not whether or not Karin Sagner Düchting was imprisoned due to homosexual God exists, but where to go from – ART BOOK practices. Physically and financially here. Alain de Botton makes a ruined, he declined into an early case for the usefulness of religion Monet was both the most typical in our lives, regardless of whether and the most individual French Enjoyed Of Love death. Ellmann’s account is full of understanding and humanity. it is believable or not. This read Impressionist painter. His long life, and Shadows? will challenge your way of thinking extraordinary capacity for work and N 1987 632pp B1585 and is guaranteed to spark a furious perfectionism are explored great discussion! in this large volume. Try A Long Petal NE 2012 320pp B2144 N 1990 228pp B1609 of the Sea by Isabel Allende [B2323]

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Right and Wrong A Short History Walking on Water Hugh Mackay of Richard Kline T Chester Porter A humane, thoughtful book about Amanda Lohrey A Tale for the Time Being This Sydney defence lawyer’s personal, family, sexual, legal, Richard Kline has always felt that memoir includes controversial business, consumer, social and something in his life was missing. Ruth Ozeki cases and Royal Commissions political choices we all face. Veteran Now middle-aged and facing of the last fifty years. Even more, social researcher Hugh Mackay SHORTLISTED through the many unpublicised cycles of boredom and despair, Man Booker Prize draws on his experiences with he finds himself awakening to cases with which its author was various focus groups to explore alternative spiritual pursuits and When teenager Nao’s diary washes involved, the book reveals a life complex moral issues, making philosophies despite his natural ashore on a lonely Canadian in the Law as experienced by a these accessible for reflection and cynicism, searching for ‘bliss’ in coastline, Ruth feels compelled to good man. Porter’s humility and group discussion. the midst of chaos. Lohrey probes read it. Nao’s life is turbulent: her humanity shine through his prose, N 2004 244pp B1841 the relationship between devotion father is suicidal, she is tortured and may even raise the reader’s and dependence in this comic yet by schoolyard bullies, and her estimation of the law, the police and legal practitioners. The River moving exploration of masculinity only friend is her grandmother, and meaning. a Buddhist nun. Ozeki weaves NE 2003 310pp B1898 Patrice Newell together philosophy, the nature of 2015 272pp Newell’s family lives in a close FE B2224 time, cultural identity and the true relationship with the river Pages meaning of courage. The Waterlily which runs past their New South The Sitters FE 2013 422pp B2204 Kate Llewellyn Wales property. She looks at the Alex Miller ‘A book that captures perfectly the river’s rich history (geological, and exact pace and feel of life – the SHORTLISTED in Aboriginal and settler times) and Teacher fine-tuning of one moment and one its future (with competing demands Miles Franklin Literary Award mood into the next’ (Grenville). This Gabbie Stroud ‘Blue Mountains Journal’ covers a from big business through to organic An ageing artist’s meeting with an year of Kate Llewellyn’s life in the farms like her own). The condition of older woman opens the enigmas SHORTLISTED mountains, making a garden and our waterways and life on the land is of his childhood and returns him ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year determined to be happy. a topic of great national relevance. to painting. A complex, subtle Gabbie loved being a teacher but in 2003 244pp story touching on theoretical N 1987 192pp B1345 N B1891 2014 she resigned, frustrated with art questions, the connections a system that no longer allowed her In general, we found the book well

between loss and creativity, and Maker, Thinker Artist, A Room of One’s to teach children according to their written and in a poetic style. We absence and presence in words Own individual needs and abilities. Now enjoyed the nature descriptions as and images. well as the recipes. She devoted Virginia Woolf she tells the full story of her journey FE 1995 131pp B1459 in education and how the system is little time in describing her relationship with her family. This book arose from two lectures unfair to both teachers and children. presented to Oxford women’s A powerful memoir. Mallacoota colleges in 1928 on the subject of The Spiral Staircase 2018 352pp B2298 ‘women and fiction’. Woolf believed Karen Armstrong N The Weather Makers that only privacy (a room of one’s Having left the religious life after own) and independence (five seven difficult years, Karen Toulouse Lautrec: Tim Flannery hundred pounds a year) would allow Armstrong found herself in a Henri de Toulouse Lautrec Flannery’s flair for writing for women to write freely and well. changed world and was troubled by a general readership is put to Matthias Arnold – ART BOOK excellent use here. We are the NE 1929 176pp B0381 panic attacks and strange mental states. Her memoir explores these Toulouse Lautrec’s bold and arresting weather makers, and Flannery years of transition, a long period images were instrumental in gaining wants to inspire all of us to do of unbelief, and the unusual path acceptance for both lithography something about climate change. S by which she became a respected and the poster as major art forms. He is insightful and inspiring as commentator on major world This tells Lautrec’s story and gives a he suggests steps we can take The Secret Life of Money religions, matters of faith and vibrant picture of Parisian life. to reduce our carbon footprint at the level of our own households Valerie Wilson fundamentalisms of different kinds. N 1988 96pp B0715 and decisions. This book focuses on money in our NE 2004 342pp B1894 everyday lives and how ordinary NE 2005 332pp B1943 people think and feel about it. Status Anxiety W This is a look at the complex and The Women’s Pages contradictory role money plays in Alain de Botton Waging Peace Debra Adelaide our social world. ‘This is a book about an almost Having read Wuthering Heights to universal anxiety ... about what Anne Deveson N 1999 224pp B1719 her dying mother, Dove finds she others think of us; about whether In this thematic memoir, Deveson cannot forget the novel’s power. we’re judged a success or a looks back on a long life, from her Instead of returning to normal failure, a winner or a loser.’ In it the childhood during World War II to life, she clings to a story she has author examines lovelessness, her experiences as a filmmaker and begun writing: Ellis is a normal ‘60s snobbery, expectation, meritocracy, social commentator. She questions suburban housewife – until she our species’ urge to wage war, and dependence; and offers some decides to leave her husband. A discusses with hope the promotion ‘solutions’. Is this philosophy or beautiful magic emerges as Dove of peace and conflict resolution. does the book fall into the self- teases out the secrets of Ellis’s life, Whether or not you agree with her help genre? The central subject while she attempts to live in her own. of keeping up with the Joneses views, this book is bound to promote provides plenty to discuss. lively discussion. FE 2015 305pp B2241 NE 2004 314pp B1845 NE 2013 238pp B2184

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Ali and Nino Billie’s Kiss A Kurban Said B Elizabeth Knox Considered the Romeo and Juliet A novel for almost anyone, featuring The Accidental Tourist of Azerbaijan, this little-known Bel Canto a murder mystery, a traditional Anne Tyler masterpiece follows the cross- Ann Patchett community faced with Edwardian Sharing a common grief, Macon cultural marriage of a young Muslim WINNER modernisation, a sexy love story, Leary and his wife Sarah now find prince and a rich Christian girl. pride and prejudice, family and Orange Prize their differences too great and they Love does not run easily, but it community loyalties and divisions. part. Macon makes world trips works powerfully to try to overcome A group of international guests in an A New Zealand view of reality, set in to write a series of travel guides ancient tribal differences. unnamed Latin American country a small island off Scotland. which reflect his need of defensive F 1937 237pp B1658 are taken hostage, but the target, F 2002 280pp B1669 routines. Funnier than Dinner at the the President, is not present. Among Homesick Restaurant but with that the hostages are a famous American unmistakable ache and tenderness. The Amateur Marriage opera singer, and a Japanese Breakfast at Tiffany’s FE 1985 355pp B1193 Anne Tyler businessman. A charming, Truman Capote Pauline and Michael marry in haste. unconventional story unfolds When Fred’s new neighbour Holly Slowly and painfully, they realise as Bel Canto explores the themes crawls through his window, he Addition they are completely unsuited. of art, politics and love. is captivated by the glamorous Toni Jordan A sensitively handled portrayal F 2001 318pp B1991 young woman. The wildly Grace Vandenburg counts. She of family dysfunction and of lives successful Audrey Hepburn movie counts the number of poppy seeds lived always wondering how things sanitised the novella’s complex on her piece of cake, she counts ‘could have been’. Tyler’s look at Between a Wolf and a Dog narrative about sexual ambiguity the number of steps it takes her one family and at American family Georgia Blain and the struggle between the to reach her local café, she even life from the 1940s to the present is need for stability and the longing counts the letters in her name. incisive and poignant. WINNER for freedom. Contains three Victorian Premier’s Literary Award Then she meets Seamus O’Reilly. F 2004 306pp B1817 short stories. Addition is a quirky love story with a FS 1958 168pp B2018 witty and unconventional heroine. SHORTLISTED American Wife Stella Prize F 2008 256pp B2036 Curtis Sittenfeld As the rain beats down one Alice is a quiet, bookish only sodden Sydney day, four people C Aftermath child from small-town Wisconsin, will slowly come to terms with their Rachel Cusk who experiences an event which pasts – and their futures. Ester is Captain Corelli’s Subtitled ‘On Marriage and shatters her identity and makes finally moving forward from her Mandolin Separation’. Cusk is not telling us her understand the fragility of life. divorce from estranged husband, Louis de Bernières how to live; this is her narrative on A decade later, Alice, a Democrat Lawrence. Her sister, April, wonders marriage, separation, the difficulties and school librarian, meets and how she can heal the deep rift WINNER of motherhood, loss of identity, marries Charlie, the outgoing between her and Ester, while Commonwealth Writers’ Prize feminism and more. It is an honest wealthy son of a Republican family. their mother Hilary considers the During World War II, Italian troops exploration of the aftermath of her When Charlie becomes President of momentous decision she is making. occupy the Greek island of divorce and is guaranteed to spark a the United States, Alice finds herself Subtle, poignant and immersive. Cephallonia. Billeted with the local discussion in your group. in a position of power, influence FE 2016 320pp B2242 doctor and his daughter, Captain N 2012 152pp B2169 and privilege. Corelli, musician and comedian, F 2008 555pp B2044 Big Brother tries to stay aloof. But it is no use: the two young people fall in love. The Age of Innocence Lionel Shriver Edith Wharton Atonement Pandora, a chef and entrepreneur, FE 1994 436pp B1472 Newland Archer has chosen a Ian McEwan must deal with both her morbidly conventional and rather limited WINNER obese brother and her exercise A Change in the Lighting and nutrition fanatic husband when young woman for his wife. Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Amy Witting Countess Olenska appears on circumstances bring the three of From its brilliant opening scene, the scene, with a refreshingly A story that begins with three young them under the same roof. In her Witting’s novel takes us into the different outlook and separated – people in the garden of a country distinctive style, the author of We feelings and decisions of a woman shockingly – from her European house on the hottest day of 1935, Need to Talk About Kevin tackles whose life changes when her husband. Wharton presents a and ends with three profoundly family dynamics, addiction and our husband leaves her suddenly for disillusioned view of 1870s New changed lives. A depiction of love, image-conscious society, asking a younger woman. An insightful York, in which a constricting social war, class, childhood and England, the question: is blood really thicker study of a woman in her fifties code places individual lives under exploring shame, forgiveness, and than water? and her adult children. A must for great pressure. the possibility of atonement. F 2013 373pp B2191 appreciators of Amy Witting. FE 1920 301pp B1313 FE 2001 372pp B1668 F 1994 291pp B1401

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Childish Things Emma Eyrie Robin Jenkins D Jane Austen Tim Winton After the death of his much-loved A classic comedy about the SHORTLISTED wife, 72-year-old Gregor McLeod Dirt Music development of a young woman, Miles Franklin Literary Award becomes the focus of several women Tim Winton and the disconnect between an in his Scottish village and again in individual’s inner life – her deepest Unlikable and self-pitying drunk Tom California, where he escapes for a WINNER fears and hopes – and the external begins to feel compassion and desire Miles Franklin Literary Award break. Greed, selfishness and goings world of customs and manners. when he encounters his neighbour, on are the stuff of this ironic, light- Winton’s West Australian coastland Emma’s spirit and vivacity make Gemma. Their meeting brings back hearted, well-paced comic novel. is physically and psychologically her one of Austen’s most beloved memories of the past, forcing Tom to F 2001 248pp B1778 perilous for the people who live by characters. Inimitable prose. face a physical threat in his present it, but its beauty still compels. Each FE 1816 432pp B0001 which is far more dangerous than the demons in his head. City of Friends member of the trio at the story’s centre is differently damaged and FE 2013 424pp B2210 Joanna Trollope dangerous. Winton’s narrative The English Patient When high-powered career woman tension is extraordinary: he draws Michael Ondaatje We have read several of Winton’s Stacey is made redundant from us into their struggles to break with WINNER books and found lots to discuss her job, her life is thrown into crisis the past and regain hope and love. and enjoy. This book we felt did Man Booker Prize and cracks begin to form in her not offer a similar reaction. We FE 2001 465pp B1664 appreciated the conversation tightly knit friendship group. As In the destruction and confusion message and the portrayal of the tension increases, secrets come surrounding the end of the World underbelly of Fremantle. Several out and their friendships are pushed E War II, a small group of people of our members could relate to to the limit. A light and relatable find themselves together in Italy. this as they had spent time there. read, the novel showcases various Recreating both a devastated Toowoomba: The Great Escape forms of working women and the Eleanor Oliphant is Italy and a desert world far away, juggle between their personal and Completely Fine Ondaatje fuses popular novel, professional lives. Gail Honeyman war story, spy story and the erotic F FE 2017 336pp B2259 in a complex work of wisdom WINNER and beauty. Costa Book Award The Feel of Steel Cold Mountain FE 1992 307pp B1370 Accounts assistant and office Helen Garner Charles Frazier This nonfiction collection ranges eccentric Eleanor Oliphant lives An Equal Music Wounded during the American alone in a tiny flat in Glasgow. She from moods of loss and desolation Civil War, a soldier deserts from has a rigid routine and a timetabled Vikram Seth to hilarity and awe. A brief diary of the Confederate army and travels life, and makes an effort to avoid The narrator’s passionate love of heartbreak following a marriage home. Meanwhile a ‘lady’ learns social interaction. But when Eleanor chamber music is infused by his break up, a journey to Antarctica, to be a woman on the frontier. meets Raymond, his kindness passion for Julia, who disappeared fencing lessons, reading the Bible: As their journeys entwine, Frazier forces her to confront the tragedy from his life when he left her in these short pieces add up to a evokes the times and the southern in her past that holds her back. Vienna. Early in the novel, he book with the texture of memoir. Appalachians with great immediacy A funny, yet deeply moving book sees her through the window NS 2001 223pp B1659 in this beautiful story of love and war. about profound loneliness, mental of a London bus. What next? A F 1997 357pp B1557 illness and survival. CD in each box provides sound L recordings of the music referred to The Finkler Question FE 2017 383pp B2283 in the novel. Howard Jacobson Relationships Crossing to Safety F 1999 485pp B1735 WINNER Wallace Stegner Eligible Man Booker Prize When Larry and his wife settle Curtis Sittenfeld Eucalyptus The Finkler Question tells the story into their new home in Wisconsin Seeking out the ‘classic romance’ in in the late 1930s, they begin a of Julian Treslove and his friends modern life, this Bridget Jones style Sam Finkler and Libor Sevcik. Sam friendship with the Langs that will adaptation of Pride and Prejudice A man plants out his property echo through their lives. Exploring with an example of every known and Libor are lonely widowers, is fresh, fun and wholly enjoyable. while Julian wishes one of his the mysteries of friendship, Stegner After their father’s heart surgery, eucalypt and announces that his traces the bond that develops daughter will be a marriage prize to lovers would expire romantically Liz and Jane Bennet return home in his arms, and wonders what it between the families in this to Cincinnati, where their younger the first man who correctly identifies eloquent, powerful narrative from every tree. Is Ellen to have no say in would be like to be Jewish. This sisters run wild and their mother novel touches on anti-Semitism and this Pulitzer Prize-winning author. despairs that they will ever marry. her own destiny? This is a strangely exhilarating love story, blending Zionism, as well as obsession, in a F 1987 288pp B1522 Things change when ER doctor complex and insightful way. and reality television ‘star’ Chip European folktale with a piquant Bingley arrives – but his friend, Australian rendering of landscape F 2010 307pp B2105 neurosurgeon Fitzwilliam Darcy, is and longing. Enjoyed Major unimpressed by the Bennets. FE 1998 255pp B1594 Pettigrew’s Last Stand? FE 2016 528pp B2244

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Firehead The Full Catastrophe Hotel du Lac Venero Armanno Edna Mazya H Anita Brookner The decades from 1975 to 1995 Aware that his beautiful young wife Sophisticated and with a and Brisbane are the setting in is having an affair, Ilan is compelled Happenstance perceptive eye for the world of this ‘very Sicilian love story’. ‘An to track down her lover. Ilan’s Carol Shields appearances and for human foibles eerie story of generations and love, actions become increasingly bizarre The parallel lives in contemporary and needs, this novel unveils of police corruption and a city’s and irrational, and his state of mind, marriages are linked in two the self-containment, loneliness, changing terrain, and of searching super-sensitivity in reading moods companion novels within the one encounters and longings of a writer for that one place in the world you and appalling mother are brilliantly cover. Husband and wife in a 20- of romantic fiction in sanctuary in can finally say is home.’ Armanno depicted in a suspenseful, funny year marriage each tell their story of Europe after an indiscretion. is an Australian writer with a unique psychological thriller. a week apart, she at a convention F 1985 184pp B1325 voice: his novel is full of the urgency F 2005 334pp B1881 where she is recognised as a gifted of desire in sensuous prose. quiltmaker, he on home duties while How to Be Good F 1999 401pp B1754 keeping his academic job going. G Observant and compassionate. Nick Hornby F 1982 390pp B1446 Tired of her irascible husband David, Flights of Love Katie Carr embarks on an affair. Bernhard Schlink The Grass Harp Meanwhile, David falls under the In these seven sophisticated Truman Capote Hateship, Friendship, spell of a faith healer and disrupts short stories Schlink takes up the Courtship, Loveship, everyone’s lives with his devotion theme of love, different kinds of SHORTLISTED to the general good. A dissection National Book Award Marriage sadness, devotion and desire, of modern morals, family life and a misunderstandings, betrayal, midlife Truman Capote was from the Deep Alice Munro heartfelt diagnosis of divorce. crises and the search for renewal. South, and this novel is steeped WINNER FE 2001 244pp B1643 FS 2000 309pp B1665 in its symbolism and cultural Man Booker International Prize associations. Three oddly endearing characters defy small-town society; Nine short stories from a master of Five Bells its other levels of meaning will keep the short story form. Munro writes I Gail Jones you talking for hours. about ‘the lives of girls and women’ in her own midwestern rural Canada. I Capture the Castle 1952 192pp B0155 SHORTLISTED F ‘Whole lives come into focus Dodie Smith Victorian Premier’s Literary Award suddenly through single events or When a new American ‘squire’ sudden memories which bring the James and Ellie are haunted by the The Great Fire moves into the great house in her past bubbling to the surface ... here intimacy they shared; Catherine fled village, Cassandra and her wildly are people who reinvent themselves, the UK, grieving her older brother; Set largely in Japan in the aftermath eccentric family become embroiled seize life by the throat.’ Pei Xing lost her parents during the of Hiroshima, the love story at its in plots and plans that test tempers Cultural Revolution and survived centre unfolds delicately and across FS 2001 323pp B1676 and hearts. Cassandra observes the years in a re-education camp. continents. Peter Craven called goings on in her journal – a modern Through their eyes we marvel at this ‘a riveting, slow intoxication of Heat and Dust Jane Austen, if not quite as sharp. the Sydney Harbour’s spectacular a novel which has a deliberateness Recently republished and a favourite clash of natural beauty and iconic and a density of verbal beauty of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala with readers for many years. A young Englishwoman sets out to architecture, but as forewarned by which most literary fiction has lost F 1949 352pp B1802 Slessor’s poem ‘Five Bells’, its water even the memory’. discover the full story of the scandal harbours death. of her great aunt in the India of the Relationships F 2003 278pp B1831 last days of the Raj. In doing so, she The Idea of Perfection F 2011 216pp B2112 sets that India against the 1970s Kate Grenville The Ground Beneath republic, and evokes a country of The Four Letters of Love Her Feet heat, dust and passion. WINNER Orange Prize Niall Williams Salman Rushdie FL 1975 181pp B1168 In Dublin, the life of twelve-year-old Rushdie’s verbal pyrotechnics Two Sydney people turn up on work Nicholas is upended when William, conjure up a musical love story Heat Wave projects in a struggling little town his father, drops his job in the civil between many worlds: India before in outback New South Wales. The service because God wants him to Penelope Lively engineer has been sent to replace and after Independence, America, In her country house in England, be a painter. Over on an island in the the underworld, and above all the the old ‘bent’ timber bridge with west, eleven-year-old Isabel thinks it the love and jealousy of Pauline’s a concrete one, but some of the global worlds of rock’n’roll and late early marriage resonates in her is her fault when her beloved musical 20th-century showbiz. A heady and locals have their own thoughts brother Sean is disabled after a daughter’s experience. While an on this. A novel with Grenville’s heart-stirring song of love, loss, pain unusually hot season takes its fit. Can the plots of God and love and liberation. incisiveness and comic flair. override day-to-day trials? course, the family story moves to FE 1999 575pp B1746 its startling climax in Lively’s lucid, FE 1999 401pp B1733 F 1997 342pp B1711 witty prose. F 1996 215pp B1534

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Instances of the Number 3 Journey from Venice Love like Water Mateship with Birds Salley Vickers Ruth Cracknell Meme McDonald Carrie Tiffany ‘After Peter Hansome died, people In 1998, after fourty-one years of After the death of her fiancé in This is a pitch-perfect depiction were surprised that his widow marriage, the incomparable Ruth Queensland, Cathy spends time in of the freedoms and strictures seemed to be spending so much Cracknell planned a well earned Alice Springs with her childhood of country town life in the 1950s time with his mistress.’ This novel holiday in Venice with her beloved friend, Margie, hoping to work out Australian countryside. Lonely explores the power of triangles: a husband. An unexpected stroke what to do with her life. Cathy’s neighbours Harry and Betty lust man, his wife and his mistress, the landed him in intensive care. This is affair with Aboriginal Jay reveals the after each other, and complicating three people he leaves behind – a memoir of their love as they face underside of Alice Springs and the matters, Harry is also a father and more universal instances of the the outcome, and further evidence latent racism that simmers beneath figure to Betty’s son; but it all goes number three. of the indomitable spirit of this the surface of Australian society. wrong when he tries to teach him F 2001 307pp B1686 wonderful Australian woman. A light and enjoyable read that about love and lust. Contains N 2000 271pp B1764 boldly confronts difficult issues of sexual references. place, race and identity. Iris F 2012 211pp B2159 2007 349pp B1951 John Bayley F Oxford critic John Bayley first caught L The Mint Lawn sight of Iris Murdoch (philosopher Gillian Mears and writer) in 1954 and fell instantly Lady Susan, The Watsons M A young woman’s struggles with an in love. During the last four years and Sanditon unsatisfying marriage, childhood Madame Bovary of their long marriage, Murdoch’s Jane Austen and her mother’s death are formidable intellect and imagination Lady Susan is an epistolary novel Gustave Flaubert conveyed in sensual, obsessively were consumed by the ‘insidious that was completed but not One of the great classics of world physical prose. A strong sense of a fog’ of Alzheimer’s disease. Bayley published during Austen’s lifetime. literature, this novel is about small New South Wales river town. writes in a moving, dignified way of The Watsons is an unfinished a young woman stultified by Contains some unpleasant material the woman who was his wife, and fragment with a spirited heroine marriage and motherhood in a that may offend. their life together, in earlier days and who finds her marriage prospects confined society. Its portrait of F 1991 298pp B1332 at the time of writing. restricted by poverty and pride. The Madame Bovary and the bourgeois N 1998 294pp B1736 incomplete novel Sanditon, written life of country town France in in the last few months of Austen’s the 19th century is vivid and NEW compelling reading. The Ivory Swing life, is set in a seaside resort and contemplates a changing society. 1856 361pp B0107 Janette Turner Hospital FE This volume includes an introduction Miss Austen A Canadian couple and their by Margaret Drabble who examines Major Pettigrew’s two children move to a region these three pieces within the context Gill Hornby of southern India, where Indian of Austen’s work and life. Last Stand It’s been twenty- expectations, especially about caste three years since the F 2003 224pp B1046 Helen Simonson and women’s roles, confound the Major Ernest Pettigrew, a widower, death of Jane Austen. Her sister visiting family. Hospital’s first novel is grieving for his brother when Cassandra calls upon the Fowle draws on her time in India, and Love, Again he answers the door to Mrs Ali, a household in the village of Kintbury, presents a disturbing meditation Doris Lessing widow. They find they share a love where she unearths a collection on the clash of cultures and the What happens when someone falls of literature, and their friendship of family letters – the contents of rebellion and feminine rage in each. in love? Is it different for the young soon becomes the subject of which she is determined to hide. Relationships F 1982 252pp B1449 and the old? Is it a madness, a slanderous town gossip. Set in a In the correspondence she delves blessing, a rationalisation of lust? rural English village, this story is into the secrets of Jane’s past, and Lessing’s leisurely, discursive novel told with insight, wit, and dignity her own. A beautiful imagining of J interweaves the 19th century with and is an unconventional, romantic the life of the Austen sisters, based the 20th to connect us with the comedy of manners that offers on the real-life mystery of Jane’s lost letters. The Jane Austen pains, delights and puzzles of love, much to discuss. particularly that of an older woman F 2010 388pp B2077 F 2020 416pp B2325 Book Club for a younger man. Karen Joy Fowler FL 1995 352pp B1506 Five women and a man form Mansfield Park The Mistake a book group to discuss their Jane Austen Wendy James favourite Jane Austen novels. Each Love in the Time This heroine lacks the obvious A decision to adopt out a baby chapter focuses on a different of Cholera temperamental, physical and illegally comes back to haunt Jodie Austen book, interpreted through Gabriel García Márquez material advantages of Elizabeth Garrow years later. The ensuing the life experience of the member The consummation of Florentino Bennet or Emma Woodhouse. investigation puts pressure on the hosting the month’s meeting. Ariza’s passionate love for Fermina As Fanny Price struggles to life and family she has since built This is an entertaining character Daza is delayed for fifty years by make her way among luckier, as Jodie becomes entangled in a driven comedy of manners. No her highly satisfactory marriage more extroverted and less media witch hunt. James explores prior knowledge of Austen’s work to Dr Juvenal Urbino. Magical yet scrupulous people, Austen’s family dynamics, motherhood, and is required but her fans will be realistic – this astonishing work is writing combines metaphoric the powerful role of the media. especially thrilled to observe the crowded with life and love stories of subtlety and comic delight. F 2012 278pp B2148 lives of the members unfold under the Caribbean country where it is F 1814 462pp B0576 the guiding eye of a much adored set. Smallish print. 19th-century novelist. FE 1985 348pp B1247 FE 2004 279pp B1884

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Moral Hazard Plain Jane Kate Jennings O P Joan Barfoot Cath’s much-loved older husband A plain 28-year-old woman, begins to succumb to Alzheimer’s. Of Love and Shadows Paula living alone, working in a To earn the money needed for his Isabel Allende Isabel Allende library, impulsively answers an care, Cath finds work on Wall Street Journalist Irene has enjoyed ‘In ... 1991 my daughter, Paula, advertisement to become the as an executive speechwriter and a privileged upbringing and is fell gravely ill. These pages were penpal of a prisoner - and changes commutes between two dementias engaged to an army captain when written during the interminable her life. Easy to read, wry and – one of men, power and greed, she is partnered with photographer hours spent ... beside her bed.’ surprisingly tense. the other of the crumbling away Francisco. They soon become an The novelist mother embarks F 1992 243pp B1421 of the love of her life. A mordant, inseparable investigative team, and on the most magical, real and harrowing, unsentimental novel. when they discover an unspeakable passionate of all her stories, Stimulating discussion. Various FE 2002 175pp B1672 crime perpetrated under the chilling containing the family legends, members loved this book, whilst political regime of their country, Chile’s dramatic history, and the others struggled to engage with they must risk everything to reveal poignant progress of Paula’s Jane and her life. It presented an The Mothers’ Group the truth – and to admit the truth illness. Perhaps more Isabel’s than interesting discussion. Fiona Higgins about their passion for each other. Paula’s saga. Albury Nil Desperandum Following six very different women A magical, captivating read. N 1994 330pp B1493 in a mothers’ group through the F 1987 298pp B1349 The Poet’s Wife first years of their babies’ lives, this Mandy Sayer This story is a beautifully Perfect Skin novel explores motherhood and Sayer chronicles her turbulent themes such as marriage, new written love story set amid the Nick Earls realistic words of a policed Latin marriage to poet Yusef Komunyakaa parenting, and dealing with loss. A single father juggles his day job in this unflinching and intelligent One day, a shocking event changes American country with mass as a consulting dermatologist with murders and uncertainty. The memoir. She was twenty-two and everything, testing the women’s the needs of his infant daughter author has the skill to weave he nearly forty when they met; she bonds and revealing secrets that four different families so that Lily. Brisbane writer Nick Earls a busker, and he an out of work threaten to shatter their lives. you could understand and brings us a very now novel with professor – yet each found a kindred F 2012 312pp B2149 engage with different characters. a lot about bad 80s fashion and spirit in the other. The Poet’s Wife Beautifully written. music, email etiquette, and dating examines their troubled relationship, Warrandyte 5 thirty somethings. Full of insight, and follows Sayer’s development as perceptive social comment and a writer. N Earls’ comedic instinct. Olive Kitteridge N 2014 417pp B2207 Normal People Elizabeth Strout F 2000 354pp B1688 Sally Rooney Portrait of a Marriage WINNER Persuasion Nigel Nicolson WINNER Pulitzer Prize Jane Austen Costa Book Award This series of stories is connected Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville How far should one yield to West were married for 49 years. Connell and Marianne are from by the character of teacher Olive persuasion from older, wiser, Kitteridge in a small coastal town During this time each had affairs the same town, but their lives loving people? When is advice with others of the same sex, shouldn’t be this intertwined. Yet a in Maine, and combines ‘the an interference? In Jane Austen’s sustained, messy investigation of notably Vita and Virginia Woolf, relationship forms between them last completed work her yet they remained inseparably as they grow up and attend Trinity the novel with the flashing insight of characteristic incisiveness gains the short story... It illuminates both united. Written by their son, Relationships College in Dublin. An intelligent an autumnal tone. much of the book is based on and thoughtful insight into the what people understand about others and what they understand F 1818 264pp B0596 work obviously intended to be his complexities of intimate relationships mother’s autobiography. and an unflinching exploration about themselves’– The New York about femininity and masculinity in Times. Small print. The Philosopher’s Doll N 1973 237pp B1073 a modern-day setting. The novel FSE 2008 270pp B2060 Amanda Lohrey is sharp, the characters three- What happens when one partner Poum and Alexandre: dimensional, the writing is intelligent On Chesil Beach wants a child and the other A Paris Memoir and sure to provoke a great doesn’t? In a culture of affluence, discussion on intimacy, relationships Ian McEwan what do we need to be happy, and Catherine de Saint Phalle and so-called normality. Contains It’s 1962. Newlyweds Edward and how much control do we have over SHORTLISTED sexual content. Florence arrive at a hotel on the our lives? This is an accomplished Stella Prize FE 2018 288pp B2293 Dorset coast. They believe their novel exploring contemporary life marriage will bring them happiness and how to ‘have it all’. Set in post-war Paris during the decline of the bourgeois class, this but each faces their wedding night 2004 306pp Northanger Abbey with unspoken fears. A brilliant F B1822 beautifully written memoir follows Jane Austen portrait of how a word not spoken Catherine as she recounts her A high spirited, enjoyable satire on can shape an entire life. Contains unconventional childhood through romance mysteries and gothic tales sexual content. the life of her mother, Poum, and of horror; one of Austen’s earliest FE 2007 166pp B1954 her father, Alexandre, two flawed and most literary works that includes eccentrics with a love of mythology a spirited defence of novels. and the old ways. A tender memoir about acceptance, loneliness and F 1818 252pp B1199 freedom through the observant eyes of a child. NE 2016 256pp B2254

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Pride and Prejudice The Rosie Project Shadow Lines The Submerged Cathedral Jane Austen Graeme Simsion Stephen Kinnane Charlotte Wood Amusing and astringent. This In this first book in Simsion’s trilogy, Englishman Edward Smith SHORTLISTED brilliant novel has become Austen’s Don Tillman, professor of genetics, emigrated to Australia and met Miles Franklin Literary Award most- loved work. The delightfully leads a very ordered life. He has Jessie Argyle, who was born in the spirited Elizabeth Bennet must launched ‘The Wife Project’ in a bid remote East Kimberley and taken Taking her title from composer contend with the antics of her to find a suitable mate, but things go from her Aboriginal family at the age Claude Debussy’s La Cathédrale inappropriate younger sisters, her awry when impulsive barmaid Rosie of five. In a deeply racially divided Engloutie, Wood has created a hapless parents, and the suitors Jarman enters his life and he finds society, Jessie and Edward fell in haunting but beautiful story about the that begin approaching herself and himself agreeing to help find her love and married. Despite official consuming love between Jocelyn, her older sister, Jane. She must father. This feel-good comic novel surveillance and harassment, their an editor and Martin, a doctor. When also learn to overcome her own celebrates difference and tolerance. Perth home became a centre for their relationship is disrupted by a faults as she deals with those of her FE 2013 324pp B2182 Aboriginal cultural and social life. family tragedy, grief forces them to romantic interests. N 2003 414pp B1842 separate and embark on personal FE 1813 327pp B0210 We all enjoyed this book. Our journeys of discovery. Wood’s prose discussion was indeed stimulated is rich in imagery and metaphor. and we all felt that we would Shallows 2004 302pp B1846 Prodigal Summer recommend this book to others. Tim Winton FE Simsion’s succinct turn of phrase Barbara Kingsolver A small coastal town in Western was greatly appreciated. Over one humid summer in Australia clings to one of its few Sweet Old World Lismore 2 southern Appalchia, as the surviving industries, whaling. Deborah Robertson urge to procreate overtakes the The township witnesses David has always dreamed of countryside, three characters The Rosie Result struggle between whalers and becoming a father. When troubled discover their connections to one Graeme Simsion conservationists; the community teen Esther tumbles into his life, another and to the flora and fauna A hilarious and heartfelt conclusion divides; a marriage founders. David’s initial reluctance to become with which they share a place. A to the bestselling trilogy that began F 1984 235pp B1213 involved changes as he finds lavish and sexually exuberant read. with The Rosie Project. Don and himself close to the happiness for which he longs. This moving novel FE 2000 447pp B1690 Rosie are back in Melbourne and Small Blessings facing new challenges. Don realises examines the often ignored male that is isn’t enough to be the World’s Emily Brewin side of yearning for parenthood, R Best Problem-Solver – he has to The new novel by the author of and the importance of hope. embark on his most important Hello, Goodbye is a moving tale F 2012 224pp B2150 The Reader project yet and learn how to be a of motherhood and friendships. satisfactory parent and partner. Rosie is struggling to make a life Bernhard Schlink for herself and her son when her 2019 384pp B2303 A fifteen-year-old German student FE ex-boyfriend comes back into the T becomes involved with a thirty-six- picture. Isobel is trying to balance Theft: A Love Story year-old woman. Long after she has her career and starting a family, disappeared from his life, Michael S and past issues threaten to make Peter Carey has cause to reassess the Hanna themselves known. Circumstances SHORTLISTED he knew. This haunting tale raises Sense and Sensibility brings the two women together Miles Franklin Literary Award profound questions about action, Jane Austen in a story of hope, friendship and choice, judgement and Germany’s Austen portrays sisters Elinor and second chances. Artist Michael ‘Butcher Bones’ Relationships recent past. Good clear print. Marianne, each with contrasting FE 2019 248pp B2302 Boone, divorced and bankrupt, F 1995 216pp B1562 temperaments and inclinations. In acts as caretaker for his patron’s their story, she explores distinctions remote estate and for his ‘damaged between wisdom and feeling, 220lb brother’. When he meets The Rosie Effect A Stranger Here American beauty Marlene, a chain reserve and secrecy, spontaneity Gillian Bouras Graeme Simsion and steadiness. of unpredictable events unfolds. Bouras uses three different voices, From rural Australia to New York via Simsion’s humour shines 1811 368pp throughout in the second book in F B1085 each commenting on a recent Sydney and Tokyo, Theft is a darkly the Don Tillman trilogy. Don is ‘not crisis which concerns them all: funny, thought-provoking story. fond of surprises, especially if they The Sense of an Ending Irene, Australian mother of three F 2006 269pp B1981 disrupt plans already in place’, so Julian Barnes sons and wife of a Greek husband, he is dazed by Rosie’s revelation of has suddenly departed from her his impending fatherhood. Don’s WINNER marriage and the village in Greece. Thinks . . . fears see him return to old ways, Man Booker Prize As in her nonfiction, here Bouras David Lodge confronts the painful realities of Another delightful comedy of risking his newfound happiness Tony Webster has lived an ordinary, marriage, motherhood, being drawn manners about academia, adultery as he comes to terms with the relatively unexamined life. Then, in to two cultures and belonging fully and human consciousness. Ralph unpredictability of life. retirement, an unexpected bequest to neither. Print well-spaced. is an international academic star in 2014 368pp B2217 forces him to revisit memories of his FE the highly trendy field of language school friends and university days F 1996 247pp B1507 and thought research. Novelist that he had thought immutable. This Helen arrives at the university is a small novel that skilfully tackles to teach, and to recover from big themes such as memory, the unexpected death of her ageing, love, truth, and regret. husband. Despite their differences FE 2011 150pp B2138 they begin a secret affair – with complicated consequences. F 2001 342pp B1678 L Large Print F Fiction N Non-fiction S Short Stories E eBook Adapted Book µ Book Group Favourite 28

Three Dog Night To the Wedding Water Under the Bridge What I Loved Peter Goldsworthy John Berger Siri Hustvedt Goldsworthy’s intriguing novel In an extraordinary series of telling A novel of life in Sydney during The New York art scene is the explores human extremes in a vignettes a blind man tells the story and after the Depression. Murder, context for this powerful novel disturbing narrative of obsessive of the wedding between young Gino comedy and spoiled dreams are about two families, two sons and love, mortality and self-deception. and his bride. A mother and father, the stuff of this exceptional novel. two marriages, brought together His deft and evocative prose carries estranged for years, travel across F 1977 367pp B1132 by the friendship between the the intensity of the book’s dark Europe for the celebrations. As the two men, an art critic and an journey, a desert trip where the book moves from one character’s experimental artist. With a change Australian landscape and Aboriginal perspective to another, events We Are All Made of Glue of gear, the story shifts from family rituals amplify the ambiguities and and characters move towards the Marina Lewycka and art into an urban thriller, complexities of his characters and convergence of the wedding. After a rocky start, Georgie complete with violence, duplicity, preoccupations. Challenging and F 1995 202pp B1546 befriends her eccentric old murder and erotica. Hustvedt’s compelling reading. neighbour Mrs Shapiro. When novel brims with ideas and emotion. F 2003 342pp B1850 Mrs Shapiro is admitted to F 2003 370pp B1851 The Transit of Venus hospital, Georgie is named next Shirley Hazzard The Time Traveler’s of kin. Sorting out Mrs Shapiro’s The Women in Black SHORTLISTED semi-derelict mansion isn’t easy. Wife It is home to seven cats, the Madeleine St John National Book Award Audrey Niffenegger handyman is not what he seems, In 1950s Sydney, several women Clare and Henry, met when Clare Explores the power of love, and two estate agents are trying to are working at the famous F. was six and Henry was thirty-six its passing, through the lives of trick Mrs Shapiro into selling her G. Goode’s Department Store. and were married when Clare was two young Australian sisters who house and the social worker is Their hopes, fears, dreams and twenty-two and Henry thirty. Henry go to London in the care of a determined to commit her to a romances unfold against the suffers from a rare condition where difficult relative. An incisive study nursing home. Georgie also finds backdrop of a confined and his genetic clock periodically resets of relationships. Demanding, herself unravelling a mystery that changing society and as the New and he finds himself pulled into his but rewarding. takes her to wartime Europe and Year begins, the characters find past or future. A moving love story. F 1980 337pp B0162 the Middle East. themselves at the beginning of a new chapter in their lives. F 2004 518pp B2002 FE 2009 432pp B2048 FE 1993 228pp B2041 Together V Wrack Julie Cohen A Visit from the NEW Robbie and Emily have been James Bradley together for more than 40 years, Goon Squad SHORTLISTED with grandchildren, a life of success Jennifer Egan Miles Franklin Literary Award and an unbreakable love. But one The day Robbie wakes up and walks WINNER Weekend This intelligent and provocative first Pulitzer Prize into the ocean, leaving a letter Charlotte novel sets up a compelling web of historical detection, academic that shatters Emily’s world. As the This collection of interrelated short Wood story unfolds backwards over five stories delves into the pasts of former and amorous rivalry, and passions decades, we discover a secret punk rocker and ageing record WINNER of love and war. Its focus is the they’ve been protecting at all costs. wrecked Portuguese Mahogany producer Bennie and his assistant ABIA Book of the Year Relationships A thought-provoking read with a Sasha – who has troubles of her Ship whose discovery would rewrite jaw-dropping reveal that will get own. The adventures of these erratic SHORTLISTED Australia’s European history. Print your book group talking. characters are funny and touching. Stella Prize well-spaced. 2017 352pp B2282 2010 340pp B2129 FE 1997 341pp B1548 F F LONGLISTED Too Much Happiness Miles Franklin Literary Award Wuthering Heights Alice Munro W Sylvie has passed away. Her long Emily Brontë term friends Judith, Adele and The poetic fierceness of Brontë’s WINNER Waiting Wendy head to Sylvie’s beach vision gives this book a rare Man Booker International Prize house to clear it out at Christmas. elemental power. Adopted by Ha Jin But memories and frustrations Extraordinary events touch everyday Lin Kong is an army doctor during Catherine Linton’s father, wildling loom as their friendship begins to Heathcliff is bullied by Catherine’s lives within this brilliant collection China’s Cultural Revolution. disintegrate. Stella Prize winner of short fiction from celebrated He falls in love with a modern, brother - and when he returns Wood returns with an intricate novel to the grand house of Wuthering Canadian writer and Nobel Prize educated woman, however Lin of friendship, relationships, ageing winner Alice Munro. ‘Written with Kong is trapped in an arranged Heights as a grown and powerful and grief that is both starkly funny man, the consequences of his veteran assurance, brimming with marriage to a work-worn loyal and sad. intensely believable characters and wife in his village. Ha Jin’s novel vengeance will be far-reaching. At rich social detail, these dispatches of love and enforced obedience FE 2019 272pp B2332 the heart of the complex drama of from the most unsparing reaches provides fascinating insights into the three generations of the Earnshaws of Munro’s imagination confirm her chasm between the new industrial and the Lintons is the passionate acclaimed place on the highest China and the ways of its ancient love of Catherine and Heathcliff. ground of contemporary fiction’ – agricultural settlements. FE 1847 376pp B0002 Sunday Times. F 1999 308pp B1897 FS 2009 303pp B2108

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At Home The Birth House Bring Larks and Heroes A Bill Bryson Ami McKay An entertaining, witty and During World War I, young Dora WINNER According to Queeney illuminative look at how history befriends the elderly Miss Babineau, Miles Franklin Literary Award Beryl Bainbridge shapes our everyday lives. From the midwife in their small fishing village Savour this complex and fascinating history of hygiene that is brought to in Nova Scotia, Canada. Together, This imaginative reconstruction of fictionalisation of the twenty-year bear in the bathroom, to nutrition they help the women of Scots Bay a convict settlement in Australia in relationship between the acclaimed and the spice trade that are brought through difficult labour, infertility, and the 1790s tells of the physical and Samuel Johnson and his benefactor, home to the kitchen. His great skill even marital troubles. But when Dr mental demands made on soldier Mrs Thrale, according to her daughter is making daily life simultaneously Gilbert Thomas moves to town with poet Corporal Halloran: demands Queeney. A wonderful observer of strange and familiar, helping us to his promise of modern medicine, by his secret bride, his superiors, human folly, Bainbridge tells a candid recognise ourselves. everything changes. ‘An impressive his Irish comrades and most of all story of unrequited love, passion, N 2010 544pp B2096 novel, laced with quirky research by his conscience. rejection and possession, skilfully and rippling with muscular poetry’ – FE 1967 248pp B0166 exposing the sexual tensions that Observer (UK). lie beneath the surface of Georgian F 2006 385pp B2023 London. Loosely plotted through B Bring Up the Bodies a series of letters, her concise Hilary Mantel style brings a cast of remarkable Bearbrass Bomb, Book and Compass: characters vividly to life. Robyn Annear Joseph Needham and the WINNER Man Booker Prize F 2001 244pp B1947 The authorial self-description sets Great Secrets of China the delightful and bracing tone: Simon Winchester The sequel to Man Booker Prize ‘Robyn Annear is a typist and lives winner Wolf Hall, this novel All the Light We in country Victoria with somebody From the author of The Surgeon concentrates on the short, brutal Cannot See else’s husband’. History has never of Crowthorne and The Map That period of Anne Boleyn’s downfall. Changed the World. A distinguished Anthony Doerr been such fun, and Melbourne – Thomas Cromwell is at the height of ‘Bearbrass’ – won’t be the same after biochemist working at Cambridge his powers, masterfully negotiating WINNER this anecdotal, irreverent, informative University and married to a fellow court politics to secure Henry VIII a Pulitzer Prize book about its past and present. scientist, in 1937 Needham was way out of his failed marriage. This asked to supervise a young Chinese Werner attends a Nazi boarding N 1995 290pp B1471 is a ‘must read’ for those who enjoy student named Lu Gwei Djen. He Mantel’s stylish prose and sly wit. school, gratefully escaping the mines fell in love with both Lu and China of his hometown; Marie Laure, blind Bereft and established himself as the pre- FE 2012 410pp B2155 from a young age, adores her father Chris Womersley eminent China scholar, documenting who brings the world alive for her. everything from Chinese medicine to Burial Rites Their eventful childhoods unfold until SHORTLISTED philosophy and nautical history. Hannah Kent their paths cross in Nazi-occupied Miles Franklin Literary Award France in the walled port city of Saint NE 2008 336pp B2021 In 1919, Quinn Walker returns home SHORTLISTED Malo, where Marie Laure hides from Stella Prize heavy shelling – and from a stranger from war, having fled his hometown The Book Thief who has hunted her from afar. as a teenager falsely accused of Markus Zusak In Iceland, 1829, Agnes killing his younger sister. On his Magnúsdóttir awaits execution. FE 2014 544pp B2228 return, he remains both an outsider Liesel is sent to live with a foster Burial Rites chronicles the life that and a wanted man. He meets a family near Munich in World brought Agnes to this point, and As I Walked Out One young orphan girl, Sadie, who War II, and with the help of her explores the effect the doomed Midsummer Morning seems to know more about the accordion-playing foster father, woman has on those who spend crime and about Quinn than she learns to read. She is soon stealing time with her in her last months. Laurie Lee should, and she encourages him to books, which she shares with her Kent evokes a harsh world within Another re-creation of times gone by take justice into his own hands. neighbours and the Jewish refugee which residents battle for survival, from the author of Cider with Rosie, hiding in the basement. ‘Death’ a sense of identity and freedom. this book deals with Spain before the FE 2010 264pp B2106 is the unconventional narrator of Civil War, seen through the eyes of this international bestseller by an FE 2013 335pp B2193 a young man destined to become a Australian author. well known British writer. FE 2005 550pp B1995 Bush Studies F 1969 186pp B0524 Barbara Baynton These sharply effective stories share time and setting with Lawson’s. But Baynton’s treatment strips away the romance and the heroics from the bush and its characters. Contains ‘Squeaker’s Mate’, the basis of a controversial film. FS 1902 140pp B1055

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The Corset NEW The Floating Brothel C Laura Purcell Siân Rees When 16-year-old Ruth is imprisoned The The Lady Julian sailed in 1789 for Caleb’s Crossing and awaiting trial for murder, Dictionary of Botany Bay with a cargo of female Geraldine Brooks ‘charitable’ lady Dorothea wants convicts. Rees writes vividly of the to use Ruth to explore her theories Lost Words social pressures which led to female SHORTLISTED on phrenology, the science of skull Pip Williams crime, of squalid prison conditions, Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards measuring. But when the two women In the late 19th century, Esme the routines on an 18th-century Another compelling historical novel meet, Ruth recounts her devastating hides beneath the sorting table as sailing ship and a pragmatic from the author of People of the life of entrenched poverty, child lexicographers find words for the approach whereby both men at sea Book, Year of Wonders and March. labour and the strange ability to first Oxford English Dictionary. Soon and in the young colony might be This is inspired by the life of Caleb channel her pain into her embroidery. she discovers that certain words provided with women. Many women Cheeshahteaumuck who was born Can there be truth to Ruth’s strange are deemed more significant than convicts found a life preferable to the in 1646 and was the first Native tale? This evocative gothic novel others, and this results in women’s one they had left behind. American to graduate from Harvard. set in the rough streets of Victorian stories remaining untold. A hidden N 2001 248pp B1641 He befriends Bethia, who lives London asks the question: Is Ruth history of women and words, set mad, or a murderer? within a Puritan settlement. around the suffragette movement, The Forgotten Garden FE 2011 369pp B2109 FE 2018 416pp B2296 this is a lyrical joy to read. F 2020 384pp B2317 Kate Morton This is an international bestseller of Célestine family secrets, gothic mysteries and Gillian Tindall Cranford fairy tales. When Cassandra travels In a French peasant village, Tindall Elizabeth Gaskell E from Brisbane to the Cornish coast (an English historian) came across First published in instalments in a and a cottage she inherited from a bundle of letters from the 1860s, magazine edited by Dickens, this is Electricity her grandmother, she discovers a addressed to a young woman, an affectionate portrait of people and Victoria Glendinning garden which holds the secret to her Célestine Chaumette, and used small-town customs and values in This high voltage, informative grandmother’s birth and journey to them to carefully reconstruct the mid-Victorian England. In a series of novel set in Victorian England is a Australia as a stowaway. lives of the village and its people. satirical sketches, Gaskell describes portrayal of Charlotte Mortimer and FE 2008 549pp B2116 Subtitled ‘Voices from a French with humour and tenderness the her surprising life, illuminating the Village’, this thoughtful social history lives of good-natured spinster Miss family, sexual and social mores of a is detailed and complex as it creates Matty, her maid Martha, and narrator culture undergoing great changes. G the vivid sense of ordinary daily lives Mary Smith. F 1995 250pp B1527 and struggles. FE 1853 312pp B0010 Galileo’s Daughter 1995 292pp B1486 NE Empire Falls Dava Sobel Richard Russo Galileo was the foremost scientist of Charles Hotham D his day, fighting Church opposition Shirley Roberts WINNER for acceptance of his heresy that the Pulitzer Prize As the first governor of the Dancing with Strangers sun, not the earth, was the centre colony of Victoria, Hotham was Inga Clendinnen A dying mill town in central Maine of our solar system. His much-loved soon faced with troubles in the is the setting for Russo’s portrait daughter Maria Celeste, consigned WINNER to a convent at an early age, wrote goldfields and with the Eureka NSW Premier’s Literary Awards of ordinary people swept up in crisis. Before this, his naval career economic and political forces as to her father throughout her life. A was distinguished and varied: of ‘These people mixed with ours,’ seen through Miles, a cook at fascinating account of everyday life particular note was his posting in wrote James Bradley, ‘and all hands the Empire Grill. The characters’ in 17th century Italy. West Africa where his squadron danced together.’ What went wrong behaviour and preoccupations NE 1999 429pp B1758 was engaged in suppressing the between the British settlers of New are utterly compelling without high trans-Atlantic slave trade. A lucid and South Wales and the Australian drama or exaggeration. It gently positive assessment of Hotham’s inhabitants they encountered? reminds us that life itself, though Generations contribution to public life. Pleasant Arthur Phillip and the local leader often painful, must be cherished. Hugh Mackay hardcover volume: clarity of the print Bennelong pursued a difficult path F 2001 483pp B1684 One of Australia’s best known social is excellent. to conciliation; we follow the painful researchers analyses Australian N 1985 201pp B1241 end of that relationship as cultural society by generation. He looks differences asserted themselves. at baby boomers, their parents

F in Time Step Back N 2003 324pp B1826 and their children. Comparing Come in Spinner their various attitudes helps us Dymphna Cusack & Fire Under the Snow understand the diverse and Florence James Palden Gyatso changing circumstances facing all Wartime Sydney, and the influx of Tibet, the last spiritual society, met an Australians as a new millennium American servicemen, is illuminated avowedly materialist China, and lost. dawns. Will you agree with Gyatso, then 17, and a monk, tells through the eyes of six women Enjoyed his findings? the strangest story, and the history working in the beauty parlour Galileo’s Daughter? of contemporary Tibet. Is reality only N 1997 194pp B1572 of a large hotel. An interesting materiality? Striving here, innocence, portrayal of urban working class naïveté, brutality, brainwashing, Australian society. Try The Dictionary imprisonment, hope, David and FE 1951 445pp B0568 of Lost Words Goliath. Goliath wins, but the Wheel by Pip Williams [B2317] turns. A rarity. N 1997 232pp B1570

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The Glass Room Gould’s Book of Fish Guns, Germs and Steel Human Croquet Simon Mawer Richard Flanagan Jared Diamond Kate Atkinson Viktor and Liesel Landauer This novel plucks a real-life thief WINNER Isobel Fairfax, the appealing young build their modern home in the and prisoner, English forger William Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction narrator of this story, is both a countryside of the Czech Republic Gould, from the pages of history character in her own right and in 1928. But when the Nazis rise to to act as protagonist-narrator. Ambitiously subtitled ‘A short history representative of all storytellers. power, the Landauers have to flee. Sentenced to a prison colony of everybody for the last 13,000 She has the ability to move in The house witnesses the Nazis off the Tasmanian coast, Gould years’, this is a thought-provoking and out of ‘normal’ time, so that and the Soviet invasion, but when recounts his life story as he paints the book on human history, tackling the novel consists of varied story Communism falls and the Czech island’s native fish, recalling his grim the difficult question of why human strands with different and equally Republic becomes an independent childhood and ill-fated life of crime. beings developed so differently on plausible endings. Part ghost story, country again, the Landauers can Flanagan’s darkly humorous tale of different continents. The writer of part murder mystery, this novel is return home. the 19th-century world of convicts this Pulitzer Prize winning work on also a stimulating presentation of the origins of human inequality is English history and the people who 2009 404pp B2125 and colonists slips between the real F and the fantastic. an American scientist and explorer, walked through it. 2001 404pp B1675 whose writings aim to make science FE 1998 383pp B1925 The Good People F accessible. Small print. Hannah Kent The Guernsey Literary and NE 1997 480pp B1713 I SHORTLISTED Potato Peel Pie Society Readings Prize Mary Ann Shaffer H Inglorious Empire SHORTLISTED In January 1946, Juliet receives a Shashi Tharoor letter which leads to an ongoing Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction The Help Former United Nations diplomat correspondence with the members Kathryn Stockett strikes back with the real story of When Nora Leahy loses her of a Guernsey group formed the British colonial oppression and husband and her daughter, she is during the German occupation of In the American South in the early plunder of India. Tharoor reveals left as the sole carer for Michael, the Channel Islands. When Juliet 1960s, aspiring writer Skeeter has how the British Industrial Revolution, her 4-year-old grandson who goes to meet her new friends, her graduated from university and and its wealth, was founded on the cannot walk or speak and demands life changes in unexpected ways. returns home to pressure from her demolishment of the Indian Empire, her attention at all times. Desperate This warm and witty epistolary mother to get married. Aibileen is a whose economy matched the entire to end the superstitious gossip of novel is a celebration of books and black maid raising her seventeenth European continent. An unapologetic the townsfolk surrounding Michael’s an exploration of friendship, love, white child, with the knowledge that and explosive look at the devastating deformities, Nora seeks out Nance and sacrifice. this child, too, will come to a certain age, and start to see her differently. effects of colonialism. Roche, a recluse who claims to FE 2008 273pp B2032 have the otherworldly knowledge to Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, keeps NE 2017 336pp B2287 banish the evil from her grandson. This story was told in quirky, getting fired because she won’t Set in 1900s poverty-stricken humorous form via a series of ‘letters’ mind her tongue. The three women The Invention of Wings Ireland, The Good People is a around events post-war in Guernsey band together on a project that puts Island. Most of us enjoyed the Sue Monk Kidd chilling story about the extremes of all of them at risk. book due to the author’s capacity superstition and faith. 2009 451pp B2074 The new novel by the author of The to develop an early feel for the FE Secret Life of Bees is inspired by the FE 2016 380pp B2258 different characters, as well as an old fashioned style of writing. She set up What a winner. All enjoyed this lives of abolitionist sisters Sarah and a combined mystery, an insight into an book for its challenging subject, its Angelina Grimké, born into a wealthy Go Set a Watchman otherwise little known chapter of war satire and in-depth interviews with Charleston plantation in the mid-19th history for Guernsey, as well as a good the domestic help. We were all century. This is the story of their Harper Lee youngsters in the 60’s and remember story of relationships. A great history slave, ‘Handful’, and the complex This newly rediscovered manuscript the racial upheaval in the US , the lesson told in an enjoyable, quirky relationships with those around was intended as Lee’s first novel story-form. Ku Klux Clan and the assassination of Martin Luther King. It was a very them, marked by guilt, defiance, and before her editor suggested Warrandyte 5 compelling read, a real page turner the uneasy ways of love. focusing on young Scout’s and not surprising it made a movie. It perspective in what became created much discussion and talk of F 2014 373pp B2205 the Pulitzer winning To Kill a NEW generational opinions on racism from Mockingbird. Lee’s original text is parents and grandparents. The Invisible History being published with no revisions, Barwite Bookworms and sees an adult Scout returning of the Human Race Gulliver’s to Maycomb twenty years after the A History of the World Christine Kenneally events of Mockingbird. Whatever Wife in Time Step Back in 10 ½ Chapters SHORTLISTED you think of the controversy Lauren Chater Stella Prize surrounding the book’s release, London, 1702. Midwife and mother Julian Barnes it will certainly stimulate discussion. What is the complex notion of Mary Burton Gulliver has rebuilt her Jokey, sorrowful, resilient, this ‘identity’? How can DNA shape 2015 320pp B2218 life in the absence of her husband, unusual book is not so much a FE cultures and whole nations? Award- lost at sea. But when he returns, bird’s as a worm’s eye view of winning journalist Christine Kenneally with wild tales of mythical lands, history – seeing it from the bottom asks these questions and more, everything familiar is disrupted. In a up, hollowing out certainties, encompassing genealogy, science, world of poverty and violence, she tackling the big human questions by cultural inheritance and the concept must find the truth and a way forward storytelling and commentary. of race. This engrossing book asks for her family and the women in her F 1989 309pp B1324 what we inherit from the past, and care. An imaginative look at an untold guarantees hours of discussion with side of Gulliver’s Travels. its answer. F 2020 416pp B2321 N 2014 368pp B2219

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The Light Between Memoirs of a Geisha J Oceans M Arthur Golden M.L. Stedman Sold into a geisha house in 1929 at Jack Maggs The Madonnas the age of nine, Sayuri describes Peter Carey SHORTLISTED of Leningrad the elaborate ritual of making the Miles Franklin Literary Award Debra Dean creature whose delicacy, artistry, WINNER conversation and seductiveness Miles Franklin Literary Award Returned from World War I Europe, As the German army blockades the Tom is now the lighthouse keeper beautiful city of Leningrad in World is captive to the entertainment of Set in a vivid 19th century London, on a remote island off Western War II, all food stocks are destroyed, rich and powerful men. Artifice, Carey’s acclaimed novel in Australia, his young wife Isabel his leaving the people to struggle for eroticism, exploitation and survival some ways reworks both Great only companion. When tragedy survival in the bombed out buildings. are part of a world evoked in Expectations, with Magwitch as touches their lives, they make Recently employed as a custodian in fascinating detail, and Sayuri’s voice Maggs, and the facts of Dickens’ a decision with far-reaching the great art museum the Hermitage is perfectly captured by Golden. own life in the figure of Tobias consequences. This moving story and now sheltering with others in FE 1998 428pp B1597 Oates. Other characters, like Mercy of love and loyalty probes the blurry its ruins, young Marina will always and Percy, are pure Carey. Strongly line separating right and wrong, remember its great paintings of Midnight’s Children and pacily plot driven, it puts a more and the bond between mother Madonna and Child. A moving Antipodean slant on the society and child. exploration of the power of art Salman Rushdie from which Australia sprang. FE 2012 362pp B2166 and memory. This vital, wide-ranging novel FE 1997 392pp B1575 inventively relates stories and F 2006 231pp B1971 characters of India and Pakistan The Long Song since independence, and shows L Andrea Levy The Man Who how politics can penetrate the In this novel, Levy responds to the Lost Himself lives of ordinary and not so ordinary people. In the magic The Lamp Still Burns question: ‘How can you be proud Robyn Annear of your Jamaican roots, when your realism tradition, it is charged with Isabel ‘Spark’ Gill The author of Bearbrass brings us Rushdie’s intense creativity. ancestors were slaves?’ Its narrator a true story about a 19th-century Brought up in the Victorian town is house slave July, born on a FE 1981 463pp B1145 of Clunes, Isabel Gill longed to be adventurer with a difference. sugar plantation in the early 19th Annear’s account of the contested a nurse, and her autobiography century. July speaks for those who records her training and experience Tichborne Inheritance sets out the are silent in the historical record of evidence for readers to judge, yet in hospitals from 1936 to 1981. With this repressive social system, but NEW many photographs, it provides a retains the essential question: who her emotional story is also highly was the Claimant? social history of changes in nursing, personal and entertaining. public health and medical practice. N 2002 430pp B1687 The Mirror F 2010 308pp B2078 N 1989 187pp B1551 and the Light March Hilary Mantel The Luminaries Geraldine Brooks The Law of Dreams Eleanor Catton LONGLISTED Peter Behrens WINNER Booker Prize Behrens brings alive the catastrophe WINNER Pulitzer Prize of the Irish potato famine with Fergus Man Booker Prize SHORTLISTED O’Brien, who is left alone at the age Set during the first year of the Women’s Prize for Fiction On the New Zealand goldfields in American Civil War, Brooks evokes of fifteen. Sensing that he must keep 1866, Walter Moody encounters The highly anticipated conclusion to moving if he is to live, he survives the life of John March, the absent twelve men gathered to solve a father from Louisa May Alcott’s Little Mantel’s trilogy that began with Wolf privation, danger and betrayals on series of local crimes. In this vivid Hall and Bring up the Bodies. Anne his route to Canada. Women. An anti-slavery idealist, and intricate world, fortunes are March enlists with the Union troops Boleyn has just been executed, and F 2006 394pp B1968 made and lost and fate is governed – but his beliefs are challenged by Thomas Cromwell celebrates with by the stars. Ingeniously structured, the horrors of war. Familiarity with the victors as Henry VIII prepares to The Luminaries reads like a 19th- Little Women is not essential. marry his new wife. But how long The Lieutenant century murder mystery, but with can Cromwell maintain his position, Kate Grenville gripping hidden complexities. FE 2005 338pp B1888 with the king turning on everyone Lieutenant Daniel Rooke arrives FE 2013 834pp B2200 around him? Recommended: a two in New South Wales with the Mary Barton month read. First Fleet in 1788 and sets up an

2020 912pp B2324 in Time Step Back observatory to study astronomy and Elizabeth Gaskell F navigation. Aboriginal people soon Gaskell’s first novel is set in her start to visit his isolated outpost native Manchester and follows two and a child begins to teach him working-class families in the 1840s. her language. As he meticulously John Barton begins questioning the records their conversations, an Enjoyed March? unequal distribution of wealth, and extraordinary friendship develops becomes involved in the trade-union movement; his daughter, Mary, sees and Rooke soon faces a decision Try Gulliver’s Wife that will define not only who he is marriage as her only way out of but the course of his entire life. by Lauren Chater poverty. Gaskell’s wit shines through [B2321] this clever, emotional tale of romance FE 2008 320pp B2031 and murder. FE 1848 466pp B0252

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Mr Darwin’s Shooter The Night Watch Orphans of History People of the Book Roger McDonald Sarah Waters Robert Holden Geraldine Brooks WINNER The Night Watch follows the A look at the lives of the thirty-four SHORTLISTED intertwined lives and relationships First Fleet children. Starting in the NSW Premier’s Award for Fiction Prime Minister’s Literary Award of four characters, Kay, Helen, Viv London of John Hudson, a nine- WINNER and Duncan, revealing how the war year-old chimney sweep sentenced Pulitzer Prize winning author of has changed each of them. Through to transportation, it follows the March and bestselling novel Year Victorian Premier’s Award for Fiction air raids, blacked out streets, illicit children to prison, the hulks, the of Wonders brings us the story What part did Syms Covington, partying and sexual adventure, voyage to Botany Bay and to Norfolk of Hanna Heath, a renowned Darwin’s manservant, play in On the novel begins in 1947 during Island. Holden’s tender, clear-sighted book conservator. She receives the Origin of Species? Drawing peacetime and moves backwards to focus on children allows us access a call in the middle of the night on the sparse historical details of 1941, allowing Waters to connect her to new facts and insights about our about a medieval manuscript Covington’s life, McDonald imagines cast in sometimes startling ways. nation’s colonial origins. recovered from war-torn Sarajevo, his boyhood, his seafaring years, F 2006 480pp B1931 N 1999 219pp B1766 and makes her way to Bosnia to and his work collecting specimens restore the Sarajevo Haggadah, a with Darwin. Small print. This book was enjoyed by most Jewish prayer book, and to piece FE 1999 369pp B1598 of the group. It was agreed that together the remarkable story of it was a very well written and P this manuscript. researched book. The riveting Mr Rosenblum’s List accounts of life in London during Parrot and Olivier FE 2008 390pp B1990 1941 were deemed accurate by Our group agreed in valuing the Natasha Solomons a member who lived through in America book & spoke of their enjoyment of Jakob is a Jewish refugee from Nazi these years. Peter Carey Germany who arrives in London in the stories and the research which Baxter Bookworms Aristocrat Olivier, inspired by had worked into the writing. 1937, where he is handed a list of the French nobleman Alexis de Box Hill 2 rules on how to assimilate. Jakob Nothing But Gold Tocqueville, who wrote Democracy takes this seriously – he wants to in America travels to the new world fit in – and begins to update the list Robyn Annear to study the prison system, and Pure with observations of his own. His The discovery of gold in Australia in to avoid another revolution; Parrot Andrew Miller actions bewilder his wife Sadie, who 1851 tempted thousands to rush to is a frustrated British artist who Paris, 1785. Les Innocents clings to where they came from and try their luck. This spirited account is sent with him as spy, protector cemetery is full to bursting and who they left behind. of the first year or so of the Victorian and servant. On their journey, young provincial engineer Jean F 2010 311pp B2081 goldfields conveys the day to day they develop an unlikely and Baptiste Baratte is chosen to clear realities: winter’s mud, summer’s enriching friendship. up the mess. The year he spends dust, the hard labour of digging, F 2009 452pp B2069 doing so, and the people he N the unimaginable water and food, meets, are bound to change him the violence and camaraderie, the forever. Pure is elegantly written, exhilaration of being your own boss. A Passage to India The Narrow Road to with fascinating characters and A feisty recreation. E.M. Forster discussable subject matter such the Deep North N 1999 329pp B1716 Set in the last decades of the as themes of corruption, personal Richard Flanagan Empire, this novel depicts a world integrity and social unrest. of English, Hindu and Muslim F 2011 352pp B2146 WINNER difference and misunderstanding, Man Booker Prize O and the land seems to have a mind One for the Master of its own, opposed to friendship WINNER between races. R Prime Minister’s Literary Award Dorothy Johnston F 1924 280pp B0012 In 1943, surgeon Dorrigo Evans Helen Plathe, a young girl, wife, L Ransom is a prisoner of war on the Thai mother, employee and citizen, tells David Malouf Burma railway. Haunted by his affair her story in this powerful, modest The Passion with the enigmatic Amy, his life and very readable novel set in Jeanette Winterson SHORTLISTED intersects the lives of guards and Geelong, a Victorian country centre, Henri, a young French peasant, Miles Franklin Literary Award in the decades after World War fellow prisoners as they experience becomes Napoleon’s chicken chef, A lyrical retelling of Homer’s Iliad, II. Johnston brings to life not only the daily brutalities – and their and Villanelle is a Venetian fishergirl set against the background of the the characters in Helen’s personal consequences. Juxtaposing beauty born with webbed feet. The public Trojan War, Ransom is a meditation story but also the woollen mill with with terror, Flanagan explores the and private passions of hero on grief and war. Described by new technologies. in Time Step Back human spirit, and what makes up worship, war, gambling and love the Australian as a ‘masterpiece, ‘humanity’ in a time of war. F 1997 270pp B1544 are explored with deft realism and exquisitely written, pithy and wise FE 2013 467pp B2214 magical inventiveness. A surprising and overwhelmingly moving’. and readable glimpse of early 19th 2009 240pp B2058 century Europe. F F 1987 160pp B1226

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The Red Tent Sea of Poppies Sweet Tooth Anita Diamant S Amitav Ghosh Ian McEwan Narrated by Dinah, Jacob’s only India is on the eve of the first Opium In Britain in 1972, Serena is recruited daughter in the Book of Genesis. The Safest Place in London War. Fleeing the violence of her by MI5 for Operation Sweet Tooth, From her upbringing by the four Maggie Joel village customs and caste laws, a secret mission that brings Serena wives of Jacob, to becoming one Two women, Nancy and Diana, flee Deeti and ‘untouchable’ Kalua together with writer Tom Haley. of the most influential women of with their young daughters to take become servants on an old slave Soon she falls in love and the rules the time, Dinah’s story brings to life refuge in an underground bomb ship. The ship becomes a shelter of espionage fall away, but the truth women’s lives during biblical times, shelter in London’s East End, while to them and the people they meet is hard to discover. Set during the from Mesopotamia to Canaan their husbands are away at the on their eventful journey across the Cold War and a time of domestic to Egypt. frontlines of World War II. Set in 1944, Indian Ocean. This is an immersive, terrorism, Sweet Tooth is complex, FE 1998 395pp B1997 the novel explores the struggles rewarding read. Unmissable. layered and beautifully written. of those left behind and the hard F 2008 480pp B2017 F 2012 370pp B2178 The Remains of choices that are made to remain safe. 2016 352pp B2261 the Day FE The Secret River Kate Grenville T Kazuo Ishiguro Salt Creek For decades, Stevens has served Lucy Treloar SHORTLISTED Tartar City Woman as butler to Lord Darlington of Miles Franklin Literary Award Darlington Hall. Now he recalls Trevor Hay SHORTLISTED Subtitled Scenes from the Life of a lifetime of service. Ishiguro Miles Franklin Literary Award WINNER Wang Hsin ping, Former Citizen of perfectly captures the tone and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize outlook of one to whom dignity and Fifteen-year-old Hester is troubled China. What understanding do you correctness are all important. There by her father’s decision to move Grenville depicts the appalling have of China’s history between is wonderful comedy here and a their family of nine from the comfort poverty of William Thornhill, who is 1937 and 1990? This remarkable sense of the losses that may lie of 1850s Adelaide to a remote transported to New South Wales for biography will make it live in your behind such a life. outpost on the Coorong River. theft, and his later wonderment at nerves and senses, through Hay’s When a native boy begins working becoming a free man, able to claim account of the life of an outspoken, FE 1989 245pp B1267 and then living with their family, land along the Hawkesbury and irrepressible Chinese woman, now Hester watches powerlessly as support his family. She brings alive living in Australia. Remembering Babylon colonialist prejudice comes to play the settler situation as well as the N 1990 181pp B1291 David Malouf out against the backdrop of a family response of the Aboriginal people who already live on that land. – and a country – in flux. Tess of the D’Urbervilles WINNER 2015 416pp B2234 FE 2005 334pp B1934 International Dublin Literary Award FE Thomas Hardy Moral outrage greeted this story WINNER Samuel Pepys The Short Reign of a classic situation – a wronged Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Claire Tomalin of Pippin IV woman, a child conceived outside Gemmy Fairley stumbles into a Pepys lived through and recorded John Steinbeck marriage, and two men. Tess is white settlement perched on the the Great Plague of 1665 and the This light-hearted satire on French bound up by the social forces of her Queensland coast in the middle Great Fire of London in the following monarchy and politics is a long way time in this great 19th-century novel of the 19th century. Is he white or year, as well as the intimacies of daily from Steinbeck’s usual subject – the which remains relevant to the lives black? In his new surroundings life – theatre going, philanderings, landless farm labourers of America. of women today. and with his affinity with the feared business affairs, tiffs with his wife, As enjoyable as it is unexpected. F 1891 512pp B0084 recorder lessons, hangovers, home L blacks, his presence is most F 1957 168pp B0212 unsettling. Another subtle reflection improvements, clothes. Biographer That Deadman Dance from Malouf on the sense of the self Claire Tomalin revels in her subject’s and the other. appetite for experience. Sweet Caress FL 1993 202pp B1424 NE 2002 499pp B1797 William Boyd WINNER Amory Clay is a woman who knows Miles Franklin Literary Award Sarah Thornhill her own mind. Born into a wealthy English family in 1908, her search for Award-winning author Kim Scott’s Kate Grenville an interesting life will take her from novel is set in Western Australia in SHORTLISTED scandal in 1920s Berlin to an affair in the 1800s. It tells the complex story New York in the 1930s; from a stint of contact between Indigenous

Prime Minister’s Literary Award in Time Step Back as a war photojournalist in World people and early settlers in a harsh Sarah is the daughter of William War II France to the Vietnam War. landscape and is an engrossing Thornhill of The Secret River. Her life’s turns and the lovers she tale of history. Scott offers a Nicknamed ‘Dolly’, she grows up in picks up along the twists of this story unique perspective on early the relative privilege of her father’s are engrossing, and Amory’s spirit European settlement. hard-won estate in early-settlement and humour will stay with you long F 2010 400pp B2118 Australia, and must come to terms after you finish this fascinating novel. with the tangled secrets and 2015 464pp silent spaces wrought by violent FE B2243 colonisation. Kate Grenville’s masterful story and colourful characters will stay with you. FE 2011 304pp B2115

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The Thousand Autumns Wolf Hall of Jacob De Zoet U Hilary Mantel David Mitchell Under the Same Sun WINNER WINNER Andy Kissane Man Booker Prize Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Two young Italian men migrate In England in the 1520s, Henry VIII The novel begins in 1799 Japan. to Australia in 1951. One is a finds himself without an heir by Jacob de Zoet is a Dutch metalworker from northern Italy, the Catherine of Aragon, and charges bookkeeper, working for the Dutch other an apprentice chef from the Cardinal Wolsey with securing him East India Company, when he falls south. Part one immerses us in the a divorce already refused by the in forbidden love with a Japanese different experiences and pressures Pope. In comes Thomas Cromwell, midwife. The Empire of Japan has leading to their journeys. Part two whose rapid rise to power and shut out the outside world for a brings alive the opportunities, pains ruthless agenda lead to reformation, century and a half, but a European and prejudices they face, in their uncertainty, and bloodshed. trading post keeps open a narrow loves and their work, first in Sydney Two-month book. corridor to the outside world. The and then in the perilous Snowy FE 2009 672pp B2054 midwife uncovers a dark and heart- Mountains Scheme. breaking secret. F 2000 368pp B1651 Working for Rupert F 2010 480pp B2093 Hugh Lunn Hugh Lunn now describes his Tin Man W seventeen years before the Sarah Winman masthead on the Australian Water for Elephants as Rupert Murdoch’s ‘foreign SHORTLISTED Sara Gruen correspondent’ in Queensland. Costa Book Award Jacob Jankowski jumps onto a Through most of the 1970s and A tender and moving novel about passing train and enters a world ’80s he parades us past a blur two adolescent boys, Ellis and of swindlers and misfits. The of editors, entertaining us in Michael, whose close friendship second rate circus Benzini Brothers Lunn style, and talking about the turns into first love until Annie Most Spectacular Show on Earth newspaper world and how to write walks into their life, and Michael is touring the backblocks of a story that people will read. disappears. As the novel switches Depression era America. A former N 2001 244pp B1655 from Ellis’ to Michael’s point of view, veterinary student, Jacob becomes we discover the heartbreak of first caretaker of the circus menagerie. love, the grief of moving on and the He meets Marlena, the star of the journey from boys to men. A short equestrian act, her husband who Y but beautiful read. is a violently unpredictable animal trainer, and Rosie, a seemingly Year of Wonders F 2017 224pp B2285 unmanageable elephant. Geraldine Brooks FE 2006 335pp B1984 In 1665, the English village of Eyam True History of the became infected with the plague. Kelly Gang Rather than risk spreading it, the We Must Be Brave villagers decided to quarantine Peter Carey Frances Liardet themselves, and fear and WINNER As a bus filled with people fleeing superstition began to break down The Age Book of the Year the horrors of the Blitz arrives in an courage and faith. In Brooks’ novel, English country town, local Ellen housemaid Anna becomes an The enthralling voice of Carey’s finds a little girl alone on a bus. unlikely hero - but what is it like to Ned draws the reader into She takes the child to her home survive while so many die? This is a understanding how a brave, loyal convinced she will be claimed, but poignant, unforgettable read told in and gifted boy becomes the as time goes by Ellen can’t help Brooks’ inimitable style. doomed, deluded yet compelling getting attached. At times heart- FE 2001 308pp B1662 writer of Kelly’s Jerilderie Letter. wrenching and wondrous, this A wonderful exploration of family novel encapsulates a difficult time loves and tensions, rural poverty in history and questions the small and hope, the novel gives a voice to moments that define what it means in Time Step Back Australia’s oppressed, then as now to be brave. longing to be heard. FE 2019 464pp B2310 F 2000 401pp B1625

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1984 Ape House The Blind Astronomer’s Cape Grimm George Orwell Sara Gruen Daughter Carmel Bird Presents the classic dystopia, and a From the bestselling author of John Pipkin Bird explores innocence and evil state in which the government has Water for Elephants comes this Set in the 18th-century quest in a religious community on the almost complete thought control. gentle, funny novel. Isabel is a for scientific discovery, the story coast of Tasmania. When cult Orwell’s ideas about totalitarian scientist working with bonobos, portrays a fictionalised account of leader Caleb sets fire to the group methods and speech are now part who are capable of reason, love and astronomer, William Hershel, and meeting house, all but three of of the common language, and developing relationships. When the his unknown rival Arthur Ainsworth the community perish. Blending his depiction of suffering under bonobos are stolen and turn up on and their obsession with decoding traditional folk-tale elements with totalitarian regimes is insightful. a reality TV series, Isabel teams up the night sky. When Arthur goes contemporary events, this explores FEL 1949 312pp B0029 with journalist John in the fight to blind from staring at the sun, he our darker aspects and the save them amidst a media circus. chooses death, leaving behind his reverberations of history. FE 2010 303pp B2126 grief-stricken daughter to continue FE 2004 302pp B1825 A his work while confronting her own desires. Based on actual historical Capital The Accidental B events, the novel explores the race to discover the planets, and John Lanchester Ali Smith Encompassing a cast of characters The Bees the role women played in aiding these discoveries. all connected to one suburban WINNER Laline Paull London street, Capital reveals Whitbread Novel Award 2016 480pp F B2269 the state of British society at the SHORTLISTED beginning of the Global Financial Amber, a seemingly harmless Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction stranger, turns up at the Smarts’ Brave New World Crisis. Sprawling but highly holiday home, and as she Flora 717 is born a lowly worker Aldous Huxley readable, this is a novel that ingratiates herself with the family, bee, but unlike the others of her A dystopian classic, this is a addresses some big questions the question of who she is fades mute caste, she can speak. As Flora humorous and poignant novel with whilst remaining intimate away. Is her presence an innocent navigates the totalitarian regime much to discuss. In a future world and compassionate. accident, or something more of the beehive in this fascinating dominated by mass production F 2012 592pp B2170 sinister? Smith presents a modern miniature world, she comes to thanks to Henry Ford’s innovations, reworking of Passolini’s 1968 film a startling realisation – and then genetic modification and Charades Theorem. Original, challenging and begins a double-life as a traitor to brainwashing keep the population experimental writing, this skilfully the hive. Illuminating in its exploration docile. But Bernard Marx is Janette Turner Hospital crafted book will raise as many of difference, of feminism, and of distressed and wants to break free questions as it answers. institutionalised intolerance. SHORTLISTED from this society. A readable, witty Miles Franklin Literary Award F 2005 306pp B1915 FE 2015 352pp B2235 novel, and this edition includes introductions by Margaret Atwood This novel interweaves an Australian All members present fully appreciated and David Bradshaw. girl’s search for her father and her Animal Farm the research, imagination and 1932 229pp origins with her physicist lover’s George Orwell writing skills that were very evident F B2131 mind play about the origin of the throughout the novel. We all delighted Orwell’s famous satire on in the many exquisite descriptions and universe, time and uncertainty. mid-20th century political reality, one member became truly involved in It ranges from Queensland’s telling how the animals revolt the book, calling it the best book she’d C rainforests to Boston, to MIT and against the farmer and try to run read in a long time. Toronto; from apparently sheltered their own affairs. Orwell raises Lismore 2 NSW Cabin Fever Australian and Canadian lives to the issues about freedom and tyranny, aftermath of the Holocaust. and indicts Soviet leadership Beyond Black This second novel in the partly FE 1988 345pp B1243 and totalitarianism. Hilary Mantel autobiographical trilogy concerns FE 1945 120pp B0071 young Vera Wright and her efforts A Child’s Book of SHORTLISTED in post-war England to survive True Crime The Annotated Alice Orange Prize as an unmarried mother in a world of scarcity and privation. Mantel’s imaginative thriller offers a Chloe Hooper Lewis Carroll A memorable, quirky study of darkly comic and unsettling universe: A young teacher has begun her first This volume contains both Alice’s loneliness and longing and the polluted 1990s Britain, where psychic job at a Tasmanian primary school. Adventures in Wonderland (1865) persistence of memory. medium Alison tours London with Through her adulterous affair with and Through the Looking Glass 1990 238pp the father of a pupil, she begins and What Alice Found There (1872) her sidekick, Colette. Intricately FE B1404 structured, elegant prose gives a to confront issues surrounding by Lewis Carroll, with drawings by childhood and adulthood. Tenniel. As editor, Martin Gardner biting portrait of dreads and desires which will evoke animated discussion, Distinctions between fantasy has included annotations to help and reality blur. What is the true explain some of Carroll’s mysteries. not least about the implications of facing one’s past and demons. crime here? F 1960 350pp B0430 Contains themes that may disturb. F 2002 238pp B1670 FE 2005 451pp B1948

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Circe Death of a River Guide Madeline Miller Richard Flanagan E F SHORTLISTED WINNER Everyman’s Rules for Foxybaby ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Victorian Premier’s Award for Fiction Scientific Living Elizabeth Jolley Circe is born in the house of the SHORTLISTED Carrie Tiffany Miss Alma Porch journeys to sub god Helios. She is a strange Visions Grand Miles Franklin Literary Award a remote Summer School to child, scorned and rejected – and WINNER present a version of her novel in her gift of witchcraft causes her A drowning river guide is caught WA Premier’s Award for Fiction progress to the Creative Drama to be banished to a distant island. up in visions of the demanding students. Jolley’s quirky subtlety Her encounter with the mortal story of his family, state and people. SHORTLISTED combines with her sense of human Odysseus will change everything. This strikingly imaginative Miles Franklin Literary Award hurtfulness, robustness and fragility. An utterly original novel told Tasmanian novel conveys the In 1934, Jean meets and marries from the viewpoint of a defiant F 1985 261pp B1310 feeling of the great Franklin soil scientist Robert. They settle women scorned by fickle gods, River, and the uncensored in the impoverished Mallee, Circe is a must-read for fans of The French Tutor experience and idiom of those determined to realise Robert’s Greek mythology. who live in the physical, social and ambition to live and farm by Judith Armstrong FE 2018 352pp B2301 metaphorical wilderness. scientific principles. The ensuing Postgraduate student Emily begins FE 1994 324pp B1473 struggle slowly chips away at an affair with a charismatic older Closed for Winter their idealism and relationship. academic who insists on keeping The Devil’s Larder Set against the backdrop of an his options open. The Albertine rose Georgia Blain impending threat of world war, and the work of Proust are woven What happened to 12-year-old Jim Crace Tiffany captures in a refreshing, into the fabric of a psychological Frances on that hot summer day at Food is central to each of the 64 quirky manner the hopes and novel involving obsessive love, the beach? The question still haunts brief tales in this literary feast from disappointments of the era. deception and betrayal. her younger sister, Elise, now in English novelist Jim Crace, where F 2003 301pp B1781 her twenties. Blain’s evocative, meals are served with lashings of FE 2005 256pp B1906 well-wrought first novel uncovers passion, recipes are spiced with past and present to arrive at an unexpected challenges and hopes The Explosion Chronicles unexpected truth. and the ingredients are hilarious, Yan Lianke G FE 1998 249pp B1709 delightful and subversive. Full of Translated from Chinese, the story exuberant invention. Ghost Wall follows two feuding families and Sarah Moss The Conjuror’s Bird FS 2001 193pp B1683 the second-born son’s quest to Martin Davies transform his small village, called LONGLISTED Dissection Explosion, into an urban metropolis. Women’s Prize for Fiction During Captain Cook’s second Poetic and imbued with elements of expedition to the South Pacific, a Jacinta Halloran magical realism, the satirical novel Silvie is currently living in a hut with rare and unique species of bird was Dedicated GP and mother of two critiques the rampant growth of her family in Northumberland as part captured. Cook later presented boys, Anna’s life begins to unravel capitalism in post-Mao China, and of an experimental archaeology dig. the bird to naturalist Joseph Banks when she is sued for medical the consequences of corruption Her father enforces harsh rules from who displayed it until 1778 when it negligence. Deeply ashamed of and greed. a time long past, and she is haunted inexplicably disappeared from his her mistake, she retreats into family by a bog girl. The desolate landscape collection. Two centuries later, the life, only to become aware of her FE 2016 480pp B2262 threatens to both reveal and destroy. race is on to find the Mysterious husband’s growing interest in a A short book but a thrilling and Bird of Ulieta. Dual narratives shift younger woman. A confronting The Eyre Affair spine-tingling read, sure to elicit a between past and present to create portrayal of a woman facing Jasper Fforde strong emotional response. an 18th-century romance inside personal and professional crises. In an alternate version of London in F 2018 160pp B2292 a modern day thriller. Fast-paced FE 2008 240pp B2033 1985, literary detective Thursday is and enjoyable. on the trail of criminal mastermind F 2005 309pp B1921 Hades, who has been kidnapping characters from works of fiction. The Great Gatsby When Jane Eyre is snatched from F. Scott Fitzgerald D between her pages, Thursday steps This is a richly textured, nuanced in as defender of literature in this exploration of the darker side of Death in Venice exuberant, entertaining read. Fans the glamour of the Jazz Age. Seen of Jane Eyre will be rewarded, and through the eyes of outsider Nick, Thomas Mann those unfamiliar with the classic will Jay Gatsby’s dream of the beautiful An elegiac and disturbing evocation want to read it. Daisy comes to symbolise the of life before World War 1. An austere classic American dream. German writer in his 50s, Gustav F 2001 373pp B1878 von Aschenbach, goes to Venice FE 1925 160pp B0308 in failing health. While there he becomes obsessed by the beauty of a young boy and suffers a profound breakdown. A modern classic by this winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. FE 1912 79pp B1157

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Lincoln in the Bardo H L George Saunders M The Handmaid’s Tale Larry’s Party WINNER The Man from Margaret Atwood Carol Shields Man Booker Prize Primrose Lane WINNER Larry Weller was once a floral WINNER James Renner Arthur C. Clarke Award designer, but becomes a garden Australian Book Industry Award As David struggles to overcome his Visions Grand maze and landscape gardener. The wife’s unexplained suicide, he finds A woman designated ‘child-bearer’ book progresses episodically from Centered on the death of Abraham himself entangled in a complex in a rigid society lives in a backlash 1977 across the next twenty years, Lincoln’s son William, Saunders’ maze involving child abduction against feminist aspirations and through two failed marriages and experimental novel is set in and the murder of a mysterious sexual liberation. A compelling into a third. Shields writes with her primarily in the ‘bardo’, which is man. Through the unpredictable depiction of society’s flaws which characteristic perceptiveness, irony the Buddhist transitory realm twists of this absorbing, genre- raises questions about the present. and tenderness of this ‘ordinary’ between death and rebirth. The hopping thriller, David battles with FE 1986 324pp B1189 man, as she reflects on what it is to novel weaves between passages fatherhood, trauma and questions be male. drawn from historical texts and the about the future. FE 1997 339pp B1725 points of view of Willie and other How to Be Both spirits within the bardo. Saunders FE 2012 363pp B2153 Ali Smith blurs the line between the real and The Left Hand of Darkness the surreal to deliver a reading The Map That WINNER experience that purposefully Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction Ursula K. Le Guin Changed the World confuses fact with fiction, and WINNER touches on private grief versus Simon Winchester SHORTLISTED Hugo Award for Best SF Novel public persona and the faults of the William Smith, orphan of a village Stella Prize American democratic system. blacksmith, was one of the first The life of a 15th century Renaissance WINNER to link the rock strata beneath Nebula Award for Best Novel FE 2017 368pp B2286 artist entwines with that of teenage the earth’s surface with the girl George in this inventive novel. This is a modern science fiction characteristic fossils found in each Smith challenges the convention that classic. The planet Winter is much The Line of Beauty layer. He worked 20 years on an a story should run a reliably smooth like Earth except for two things: its Alan Hollinghurst enormous geological map, only to course, asking whether history can climate is always subarctic, and find his ideas pirated by gentlemen exist simultaneously in the past WINNER of science. its inhabitants are all of one sex. Man Booker International Prize and present. An element of chance Le Guin is a distinguished writer of NE 2001 338pp B1666 determines which of the characters speculative fiction and this book This beautifully nuanced comedy you meet first in your copy of the book makes for compelling discussion of of manners portrays England’s Mara and Dann – guaranteeing good discussion! our attitudes here on Earth. rich and powerful in the 1980s at Doris Lessing FE 2014 284pp B2229 1969 205pp B1064 the peak of the Thatcher years. F The narrator is a young man, An orphaned brother and sister newly arrived in London and journey together through excitement Life After Life mesmerised by the opulent world of and danger in a future where an K Kate Atkinson his Tory hosts as he independently Ice Age covers all of the northern discovers the pleasures of hemisphere, and much of Africa Kurikka’s Dreaming SHORTLISTED metropolitan gay life. is dry and famine-stricken. Craig Cormick Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction Lessing opens up questions of FE 2004 501pp B1886 how environments can change In Russian controlled Finland at Ursula is born on a wintery night civilisations, testing human decency, the end of the 19th century, Matti in 1910, and when she dies, is endurance, imagination and love. Kurikka persuades his followers reborn on the same day and into Lovesong to search for a utopia where they the same family over and over. Each Elizabeth Jolley FE 1999 407pp B1765 can achieve independence and of her lives is fascinatingly different, After many years in an institution, prosperity. In 1899, they arrive woven throughout a backdrop of Dalton Foster is released into near Cairns in Queensland, their historical events including both world a world he barely recognises. N land of ‘eternal summer’; but they wars. Beautifully written, original What has he done? There are find themselves in a strange and and moving. disturbing indications that a child Never Let Me Go hostile country, where dream 2013 480pp B2185 was involved. Jolley’s account of becomes nightmare. FE his loneliness and longings is lyrical Kazuo Ishiguro and at times disturbingly comic. N 2000 218pp B1644 Life of Pi SHORTLISTED F 1997 241pp B1576 Man Booker Prize Yann Martel Kathy, Ruth and Tommy attended WINNER an elite school in the English Man Booker Prize countryside that sheltered its A cargo ship carrying zoo animals students from the outside. Why flounders at sea, and Pi, a sixteen- were they there? Kathy narrates year-old Indian boy, is stranded on a a retrospective journey through life raft with a hyena, an orangutan, memory and fact, slowly unfolding a zebra and a Bengal tiger. He must details to a startling resolution. use all his daring and wit to survive. An unsettling tale that probes An engaging, dazzling novel. moral responsibility and the scientific ethics. FE 2001 319pp B1788 FE 2005 263pp B1864

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Nocturnes Of a Boy Picnic at Hanging Rock The Road Kazuo Ishiguro Sonya Hartnett Joan Lindsay Cormac McCarthy Ishiguro explores love, music and the WINNER On a Valentine’s Day picnic in 1900, WINNER passing of time in this collection of a group of schoolgirls vanishes Commonwealth Book Prize Pulitzer Prize short stories. Characters range from with their teacher. Witnesses are young dreamers, to café musicians SHORTLISTED disoriented and confused, and A man and his young son walk and faded stars. Throughout the five the group are never recovered. through a post-apocalyptic Visions Grand Miles Franklin Literary Award stories, characters struggle to keep The consequences of the day are American wasteland. Danger and alive a sense of life’s romance as In an Australian suburb, three far-reaching for the community, starvation lurk at every turn in this they grow older, their relationships children set off for the milk bar – the remaining characters, and deeply disturbing yet ultimately flounder, and youthful hopes fade. never to be seen again. Nine-year- the once-prestigious school. The redemptive story. A novel that asks FS 2009 221pp B2043 old Adrian watches the goings on of interaction of civilisation with nature what we might be capable of when his suburban world and tries to keep is also explored in this enduring pushed to the brink - and whether his loneliness and fears of rejection Australian classic. we could make it back in one piece. Notes on a Scandal at bay. Throughout the text weaves FE 1967 213pp B0402 Harrowing scenes may disturb; this Zoë Heller the aching true story of the missing book will give your group a lengthy Metford children. and vivid discussion. From the first day that beautiful, The Picture of bohemian art teacher Sheba joins F 2002 188pp B1804 FE 2006 256pp B1977 the staff of St George’s, history Dorian Gray teacher Barbara realises she is Only the Animals Oscar Wilde different from her colleagues. When Scandal erupted over Wilde’s novel S Sheba is caught having an affair with Ceridwen Dovey when it was first published as it a pupil, Barbara appoints herself WINNER ‘violated the laws of public morality’; her chief defender and closest Readings Prize for New Saturday Australian Fiction though perhaps less shocking now, ally. But all is not as it seems in this psychological thriller remains Ian McEwan this compelling read of obsession The souls of ten animals tell just as enticing over a hundred McEwan creates for us one day in and loneliness. captivating stories of their lives in years later. It examines the cost of the life of a London neurosurgeon, FE 2003 244pp B1974 times of human conflict, drawing self-indulgence, and the havoc we a man fully engaged in his work on often surprising literary wreak on our souls in the quest and blessed with a domestic life connections. Henry Lawson’s for satisfaction. of contentment, until one Saturday Not the End of the World camel witnesses the colonisation of he must deal with the fallout from a Kate Atkinson Australia, Himmler’s dog ponders FE 1891 247pp B0112 minor traffic accident that morning. ‘And now for something completely the meaning of Buddhism, and a Accomplished writing, ‘beautifully different.’ Imaginative and dolphin in the US Navy composes The Precipice alive to the fragility of happiness’ – distinctive, these twelve linked a letter to Sylvia Plath. Amusing Virginia Duigan The Times. stories create an unexpected and touching, their tales explore the consequences of warfare. A mix of literary thriller and FE 2005 279pp B1911 sense of what it is to be alive. psychological drama, with a They portray ordinary people in FSE 2014 248pp B2212 welcome smattering of tongue The Scapegoat confining, dangerous, or lonely in cheek wit. Thea is a retired circumstances that unexpectedly, Daphne du Maurier The Orchid Thief school principal living in the Blue even bizarrely, break into the mythic After a chance meeting at a French Susan Orlean Mountains. When a young couple experience of Greek gods and and their niece move in next door, railway station, John, a lonely A non-fiction book which reads more magical transformations. old fears and paranoia begin to take professor, assumes another man’s like a novel, with a wonderful oddball 2002 278pp over her life. Thea is an engrossing, identity, and becomes involved in FSE B1774 cast of fanatics whose lives and funny and unusual protagonist, and the complex family relationships, crimes revolve around their mania for there are a number of provocative love affairs and business life of orchids. The pacy narrative follows issues to discuss. the selfish and arrogant man he is O John Laroche, self-confessed orchid impersonating. An intriguing and thief, into the sucking mud of Florida’s FE 2011 284pp B2134 suspenseful story. The Ocean at the swampy Fakahatchee Strand. FL 1957 320pp B1126 End of the Lane NE 1998 350pp B1622 R Neil Gaiman The Secret Cure Neil Gaiman explores memory, Sue Woolfe childhood vulnerability, and P Republic of Women hidden trauma in this shadowy, Merrill Findlay Determined to find a cure for her atmospheric fairytale woven with The Patron Saint of Eels Real people from history walk autistic child and motivated by her own passion for science, Eva takes his trademark touch of fantasy. Gregory Day through the pages of this book, and As the unnamed narrator revisits anyone who knows Melbourne’s St on work as a cleaner in a medical Noel and Nannette are long-time his childhood home, memories Kilda will recognise its threatened research laboratory. Owen is the locals of a small coastal town in long obscured lead him to the inner-city environment. ‘In this novel strange reclusive man who has the grip of gentrification. When a neighbouring farm where he of striking intellectual subtlety and loved her for a lifetime. This moving freak flood leaves hundreds of eels spent time as a seven-year-old. authority, Merrill Findlay probes novel explores what it means to trapped in the ditches around Noel’s He remembers Lettie, the girl questions of sexual identity in a be human, to be honourable, and, home, Fra Ionio, a 300-year-old who lived there, and what really voice that is radical, humane and above all, what it means to love. Italian monk, comes to the rescue. happened during the summer they tender’ (Raimond Gaita). Quirky and likeable characters F 2003 429pp B1823 spent together. together with lyrical evocations of F 1999 280pp B1752 F 2013 248pp B2206 bush and sea shine through in this delightful contemporary fable. FE 2005 181pp B1865

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The Service of Clouds There’ll Be New Dreams The Tyrant’s Novel Delia Falconer T Philip McLaren Thomas Keneally Set in the Blue Mountains, this McLaren weaves together strands In an oil-rich country, writer Alan is novel is almost hallucinatory in its Tehanu of Aboriginal experience across asked to produce a novel explaining evocation of cloud landscapes, and Ursula K. Le Guin the ages. Lottie, the city raised the great deeds of its tyrannical of the heroine Eureka’s yearning Aborigine, loses her children to the ruler and blaming the country’s for photographer Henry Kitchens. WINNER welfare system in the 1950s and difficulties on outside forces. Visions Grand Nebula Award for Best Novel Katoomba’s life, personalities and her husband to a suspicious death; Facing a moral dilemma and a tight institutions in the early 20th century Beautiful, challenging, deceptively Matlong saw Cook sail by in 1770; deadline, Alan must resolve both are deftly, even comically presented. simple writing explores the stories of and Dundiwuy goes to New York at the risk of his own life and those F 1997 322pp B1580 a woman who adopts a girl crippled as a didgeridoo player in the 1970s. around him. Keneally’s portrayal and scarred by abuse, and a once Sophisticated and profound, human of the experiences of asylum and funny. seekers is both terrifying and Solar great wizard who has exhausted his magic. Can they survive among F 2001 309pp B1667 utterly compelling. Ian McEwan brutal enemies in a land rotten with FE 2003 292pp B1867 A Nobel Prize winning physicist and evil? Le Guin reflects on power middle-aged philanderer, Michael is and powerlessness; the differing Things We Didn’t See arrogant and selfish His career has wisdom of women and men; and the Coming U stalled – until he decides to claim possibility of healing. Steven Amsterdam for his own another man’s work on F 1990 204pp B1461 alternative energy resources that just WINNER The Underground might save the planet. Solar spans The Age Book of the Year Railroad The Telling several continents as it explores the This collection of nine linked Colson Whitehead frailties of humankind and the threat Ursula K. Le Guin narratives is set in a near-future WINNER of climate change. On an alien planet, Sutty now lives dystopia, recognisable and Pulitzer Prize FE 2010 432pp B2066 under the Corporation, a capitalist unsettling. A young boy is caught dictatorship which burns books and up in worldwide Y2K style panic, suppresses evidence of the past. and becomes the book’s nameless WINNER State of Wonder National Book Award From the mountain people, she narrator, travelling from story to story Ann Patchett learns of the extraordinarily diverse, and negotiating the lawlessness, Cora, a young slave on a cotton vital, integrated culture that once epidemics, extreme weather, plantation in Georgia is approached SHORTLISTED existed here. This meditation on Orange Prize relationships and politics of a by Caesar, a fellow slave who cultural decimation and colonialism post-millennium world. Often dark, tells her about the Underground From the bestselling author of Bel is part of the cycle which includes sometimes funny, this intriguing Railroad, a network of tracks and Canto comes this compelling, The Dispossessed and The Left book should spark discussion about tunnels that runs beneath their feet. thrilling novel. Scientists for a Hand of Darkness. issues potentially facing us all. When tragic events in her life gives pharmaceutical company are F 2000 264pp B1806 F 2009 174pp B2070 her the courage she needs, Cora researching an Amazonian tribe embarks on a harrowing journey to where women remain fertile until escape the horrors of slavery and a old age, in hope of selling their NEW Three Cups of Tea life lived in servitude. A brutal book secret. When the head researcher Greg Mortenson with confronting scenes, it’s not an disappears and the man sent In 1993, Mortenson drifted into a easy read but a powerful novel on to discover the findings dies, village in Pakistan’s Karakoram the dark history of slavery. pharmacologist Marina leaves The Mountains. Touched by the F 2017 400pp B2270 Minnesota to track down her Testaments kindness of the villagers, he went former mentor in the depths of on to build fifty-five schools in the Amazon. Margaret The Unknown Terrorist Atwood remote villages across Pakistan and F 2011 353pp B2120 Afghanistan while the Taliban was Richard Flanagan WINNER rising to power. Since publication, Set in post 9/11 Sydney, a Kings The Strays Booker Prize the book’s accuracy has been Cross pole dancer finds she has questioned, both in a controversial become the most wanted terrorist Emily Bitto WINNER 2011 documentary and by author in the country, and is caught up WINNER ABIA Book of the Year Jon Krakauer. in a vortex of murder, media hype and politically manipulated fear Stella Prize The much-anticipated follow-up NE 2007 368pp B2057 mongering. A fast-moving thriller, to Atwood’s dystopian classic The When lonely only child Lily befriends this is also an angry portrayal of Handmaid’s Tale. Fifteen years after Eva Trentham, she is entranced The Tin Drum contemporary Australia. the events of the previous novel, by the glamour of the Trentham Günter Grass family and their circle of avant garde three women from Gilead risk their FE 2006 320pp B1983 This is the autobiography of Oskar artists – but their seemingly idyllic, lives to tell their story. A story of Matzerath, a detained in a mental bohemian way of life is not without hope and courage, and a thrilling hospital and convicted of murder. It its costs. A study of isolation read for our times. is taken down with the aid of his tiny mingles with the consequences FE 2019 448pp B2330 drum, the chosen symbol of his way of radicalism in this haunting and of life. A brilliant and challenging beautifully observed debut novel A vivid, compelling read with work which has been seminal in which draws on the legacy of much to discuss. A worthy sequel German writing by this Nobel Prize Melbourne’s Heide group of artists. to satisfy avid readers of the Handmaid’s Tale. winning author. F 2014 350pp B2226 Nicole P, Book Groups FE 1961 590pp B0070 Staff Member

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The Unusual Life The Wonder of Tristan Smith W Emma Donoghue Peter Carey When Nightingale trained nurse Lib Wide Sargasso Sea is sent to a village in 1850s Ireland WINNER Jean Rhys to investigate Anna, an eleven-year- The Age Book of the Year WINNER old girl who stops eating and claims to be nourished by the Manna of Visions Grand The eponymous hero and narrator WH Smith Literary Award is born dwarfed and badly Heaven for months, she has two deformed, the vital and clever son In Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Mr Rochester weeks to determine if this girl is of a beautiful, activist actress in one is not free to marry because of a fraud. Inspired by the historical of the richly imagined countries in Bertha, his mad and bad wife cases of fasting girls, this historical this unusual, mind-stretching novel. secreted in the attic. Dominican thriller pits motherly love against We follow Tristan’s struggles and born Jean Rhys sympathetically blind faith, questioning what it adventures through worlds which re-imagines the Jamaican life of a means to be nourished. are new, yet disturbingly familiar. young Creole heiress, Rochester’s FE 2016 256pp B2250 Not for the squeamish, but full of courtship and the early years of wonders and marvels. their marriage, turning many of Brontë’s values and assumptions The World Without Us FE 1994 422pp B1462 inside out. Mireille Juchau F 1966 156pp B0809 Following their sister’s death, Tess L and Meg watch their devastated V family come undone. Their mother A Wild Sheep Chase Evangeline roams the forests of Veronika Decides Haruki Murakami their farmland; their father, Stefan, to Die A girl with ears so exquisite that retracts into himself. When an Paulo Coelho they improve sex a thousand-fold, old car wreck is discovered with a runaway friend, a right-wing human remains inside, Evangeline Why would a young, attractive, politico, an ovine-obsessed is forced to confront her present steadily employed woman from professor, and a manic-depressive along with secrets from her past life a good family take an overdose? in a sheep outfit are all implicated in a local commune. Atmospheric How will she feel when she survives in a hunt for a sheep that may or and gripping. only to be told that the damage will may not be running the world in FE 2015 320pp B2236 quickly prove fatal? This accessible this singular masterpiece from novel by popular and uplifting Japan’s finest novelist. Equal parts Brazilian writer Coelho is likely to screwball comedy, detective story provoke strong discussion about and heroic quest. Y sanity, madness, the meaning of contemporary urban lives, and FE 1982 299pp B1654 The Year of the Flood about medical and literary ethics. Margaret Atwood F 1998 185pp B1770 At a time when the human NEW population has been decimated by The Vintner’s Luck a plague, the Corporations have taken over the world, including Elizabeth Knox The all scientific and technological Among the vines of Burgundy in Woman Who developments. In this bleak 1808, Sobran Jodeau, a young Cracked the dystopia, eco-religious sect the winemaker, has the first of his annual God’s Gardeners try to work with meetings with an angel. But this angel Anxiety Code nature as civilisation crumbles. is not all he seems, and complicates Judith Hoare The humanity and friendships of life even further. A daring, sensuous, The true story of Dr Claire Weekes, the female characters offer hope unconventional, addictive novel. who changed the way we think despite the grim atmosphere. F 1998 241pp B1751 about anxiety and how to treat This novel contains some of the it. She helped millions of people characters from Oryx and Crake but with to overcome their conditions is not a sequel. with her pioneering approach. F 2009 528pp B2079 An intricate account of Weekes’ achievements and her life devoted to helping others. N 2019 352pp B2335 Enjoyed The Chase? Try The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code by Judith Hoare [B2335]

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44 Scotland Street The Art of the Behind the Scenes Breathing Lessons Alexander McCall Smith Engine Driver at the Museum Anne Tyler McCall Smith’s Scotland Street Kate Atkinson WINNER occupies a busy, bohemian corner SHORTLISTED This four generation English family Pulitzer Prize of Edinburgh’s New Town, where the saga is captivating. Atkinson’s Miles Franklin Literary Award old haute bourgeoisie rub shoulders imagination and remarkable way Married for twenty-eight years, with students, poets and portraitists. In late 1950s Melbourne, Vic longs to with words lay open family life – Maggie and Ira Moran are an And Number 44 has more than its perfect his engine driving technique the mismatches of personalities unlikely couple: Ira is reticent and fair share of eccentrics and failures. and achieve the perfect smooth and expectations, the strains detached; Maggie optimistic, Dry, funny and entertaining, 44 ride; his son Michael dreams of fast and trivialities, the ridiculous and confiding, impulsive, and an Scotland Street was originally written bowling perfection; Rita, mother and the tragic. intervener in other people’s lives. as a serialised novel. Marriage and family provide the wife, longs for a life with something FE 1995 382pp B1520 F 2005 326pp B2052 more. A distinctively Australian focus for a wry, tolerant look at life’s novel with a luminous evocation of absurdity and underlying comedy. Births Deaths Marriages 84 Charing Cross Road ordinary lives. FE 1988 327pp B1265 Georgia Blain Helene Hanff FE 2001 278pp B1674 In this beautiful collection of stories, Brideshead Revisited Helene Hanff wrote from New York the daughter of Anne Deveson to Marks and Co., second hand revisits her bohemian childhood Evelyn Waugh booksellers in London: ‘I enclose a B during the social change movement, This is Waugh’s best-known list of my most pressing problems’. the collapse of her parents’ novel, thanks largely to the The reply and the books that were Basil Street Blues marriage, her brother’s illness and sumptuous 1981 television series. sent across the Atlantic began a Michael Holroyd her path to becoming a writer. Deftly When Charles meets glamorous joyous correspondence that lasted The acclaimed biographer of examining her life’s triumphs and Sebastian at Oxford, he is seduced 20 years. This book celebrates George Bernard Shaw, Holroyd disappointments, she teases out the by the exotic allure of Sebastian’s friendship, the art of letter writing never explored his own family’s universal qualities that make us both aristocratic family and their grand and a love of books and the history until his parents’ death, fallible and loveable. country house, Brideshead. As English language. his friend succumbs to alcoholism which left a vacuum he felt the need NSE 2008 224pp B1998 N 1971 220pp B1200 to fill. The result? A continuation Charles develops a complex of his never-ending love affair with relationship with Sebastian’s human nature – part-detective story, The Blind Assassin sister, Julia. This haunting novel is A part-family saga and part-oblique Margaret Atwood a portrait of love and faith, and a voyage of self-discovery. eulogy for a lost world. WINNER 1945 336pp B2130 All That Happened NE 1999 309pp B1632 Booker Prize FE at Number 26 This sad, sharp, humorous The Burgess Boys Denise Scott Before We Were Yours reflection on family life spans most The much loved comedian tells the Lisa Wingate of the 20th century. With characters Elizabeth Strout stories that attach themselves to WINNER attracting sympathy and rancour, Haunted by the accidental death of a family home, exploring married Goodreads Choice Award mysteries unravelling, and themes their father, lawyers Bob and Jim for Historical Fiction life and the trials and triumphs of of sacrifice and betrayal, inspiring Burgess leave behind their sister, raising children, and memories of Interwoven between present-day pathos and bathos, Atwood Susan, and town in Maine for new her outer suburban childhood. Life Avery Stafford, groomed to be her continues to surprise and intrigue. lives in New York. But when Susan calls them back home to help her outside Number 26 includes her father’s successor in politics, and F 2000 641pp B1619 career and friendships forged with twelve-year-old ‘river rat’ Rill in lonely son, who has thoughtlessly other strong, funny women. Like 1939, who helps take care of her landed himself in deep trouble, the house itself, this book is a bit four younger siblings in their boat The Book of Emmett old tensions surface. A beautifully ramshackle but warm and fun. home on the Memphis river. The Deborah Forster written and complex story of sibling relationships. NE 2008 261pp B2101 novel is based on actual incidents of kidnapping and forced adoptions SHORTLISTED 2013 336pp B2192 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award FE of the Tennessee Children’s And the Mountains Echoed Home Society, who made a profit Khaled Hosseini from stealing children from poor SHORTLISTED Miles Franklin Literary Award From the bestselling author of families to place with prominent A Thousand Splendid Suns comes society members. A heartbreaking exploration of a multi-generational story that FE 2017 352pp B2276 domestic abuse. Emmett is an explores sibling bonds. Beginning in unpredictable alcoholic and violent Afghanistan in the early 1950s, the father. His children, Louisa, Rob, story shifts to France and America, Peter, Daniel and Jessie, are shaped and back again, in a series of tales. by his destructive presence, but as FE 2013 416pp B2197 he lies dying they must all come to terms with their past. FE 2009 296pp B2100

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NEW in the story; how we as a society deal with people’s strongly held The Corrections C views. There was a comment that Jonathan Franzen the book is manipulative and the Careless marital subplot a bit “Mills and SHORTLISTED The Death Deborah Robertson Boon”. Most found the character Pulitzer Prize of Fiona believable. of Noah Glass Alfred is elderly and increasingly South Yarra Readers 2 Gail Jones SHORTLISTED ill, and his wife Enid wants only to Miles Franklin Literary Award have her three adult children home WINNER Tragedy enters the lives of two The Children’s Bach for a family Christmas together. Prime Minister’s Literary Award strangers: widowed Sonia, Helen Garner These three moved to other cities, and Adam, a young sculptor A compact but densely styled where they contend with their SHORTLISTED Miles Franklin Literary Award experiencing his first taste of artistic novel which teases apart the own messy adult lives. The black success. This superbly written, threads of a number of complex comedy and pathos in family living Art historian Noah Glass dies convincingly plotted debut Australian inter-relationships. An imaginative are counterpointed against biting suddenly, leaving his adult children novel skilfully explores responsibility, and compelling treatment of portraits of America in the late Martin and Evie to try come to for both the living and the dead. inner suburban angst from the 1990s. An engrossing, ambitious, terms with it. But when their father F 2006 293pp B1960 inimitable Garner. powerful, funny, exceptional novel. is considered a person of interest FE 1984 96pp B0569 FE 2001 568pp B1677 in the case of a missing sculpture in The Casual Vacancy Italy, the mystery of Noah’s life and Families Craft for a Dry Lake death deepens. A thoughtful and J.K. Rowling City of the Mind lyrical reflection on the importance Through the microcosm of parish Penelope Lively Kim Mahood of family, culture and art. Artist Kim Mahood drives and council politics in the rural town His marriage now evaporated, FE 2018 336pp B2316 of Pagford, she brings together a Matthew Halland shares in the paints her way across the Tanami multigenerational cast of characters bringing up of his eight-year-old Desert and the cattle station reflecting many aspects of modern daughter. An architect, his work where she grew up. Fiona Capp Digging to America Britain. A compelling exploration of comments: ‘This subtle, sharp- takes him all over the ever-changing Anne Tyler community and family dynamics. cityscape of London. Lively’s eyed, resolutely unsentimental Two families living in Baltimore each characteristic fusing of feeling and memoir could well mark a new F 2012 576pp B2174 adopt a baby girl from Korea and intellect is evident in this most phase in our literature about meet up at intervals over the years: satisfying novel. Australian outback life and the The Children complexities of a white woman’s the all American Donaldsons and Charlotte Wood FE 1991 220pp B1367 relationship with the land and with the Yazdans, an Iranian American When Mandy and her siblings return the Aboriginal people who inhabit it.’ family. International adoption is home to watch over their critically Cloudstreet NE 2000 266pp B1636 only one of the concerns here, as ill father, they struggle to reconcile Tim Winton each parent, child and grandparent their past. Wardsman Tony has been in this sensitively observed novel waiting for Mandy’s return, and as WINNER D responds differently to questions of he insinuates himself into the family, Miles Franklin Literary Award being a foreigner, belonging, and being American. pressure builds with devastating Two families of ordinary people Dark Places force. Wood’s acutely observed – battlers and losers – share a FE 2006 277pp B1962 third novel explores the tenacious ramshackle old Perth house called Kate Grenville grip of childhood and the price paid Cloudstreet. Over 20 years, the ups SHORTLISTED Dinner at the Homesick for bearing witness to the suffering and downs of their lives bring them Miles Franklin Literary Award Restaurant of others. and the house closer together in F 2007 269pp B2025 this sprawling, moving novel. Albion Gidley Singer is the cruel, Anne Tyler domineering patriarch from Lilian’s FE 1991 426pp B1269 Story. Grenville assumes his voice SHORTLISTED The Children Act to give his carelessly misogynistic Pulitzer Prize Ian McEwan The Color of Water perspective on his life and values Pearl has been left to bring up two Family Court judge Fiona daily takes James McBride as a son, husband, and father in sons and an unruly, passionate this disturbing and impressive novel momentous decisions concerning McBride’s unforgettable memoir daughter. Anne Tyler skilfully uses that stands alone well, but perfectly children, and must now rule on an tells his mother’s brave, eccentric the power of youth’s perceptions, complements Lilian’s Story. unusual and intelligent seventeen- story in her own words. Daughter of and sets them off against the reality year-old whose faith has him unable a failed orthodox Jewish rabbi in the FEL 1994 375pp B1439 of ‘adult’ life. Loving descriptions to accept a lifesaving treatment. American South, she ran away to of family relationships, including The consequences of Fiona’s Harlem, became a Baptist, married youthful jealousies flavour life into choices echo through her personal a black man, raised twelve children middle age. life, and will make you reconsider and put them all through college. FE 1982 303pp B0777 medical, religious and legal ethics. Around her story is McBride’s story This is McEwan’s succinct, gripping of his own struggles for identity, and prose at its best. towards faith in a God neither black Enjoyed The Children? FE 2015 224pp B2220 nor white, but ‘the color of water’. Try The Death of This was a great book for NE 1997 291pp B1593 discussion. It presents a number Noah Glass of moral, ethical, religious and by Gail Jones personal dilemmas. 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The Fifth Child Frangipani E F Doris Lessing Célestine Hitiura Vaite Lessing’s engrossing novel explores This mother-daughter novel is full Falling Leaves the ‘old fashioned’ idyll of a couple of Tahitian lore about men, women, NEW Adeline Yen Mah who meet, marry and lovingly fill their children and the realities of life. Embracing historical events of world house with their families. The arrival Gossip, intrigues, family crises, and importance, Mah’s tale of her life as of their fifth, and very different, child the mother’s flavoursome advice Elephants an unwanted daughter in thrall to raises dark questions about their to her headstrong daughter are with the ideal of filial devotion is gripping family – and about the human family conveyed with warmth, charm and Headlights from the beginning. A portrait of all in contemporary society. gusto from this Tahitian-born author. the basic (and base) family feelings F 1989 159pp B1259 F 2004 295pp B1879 Bem Le Hunte – love and tenderness, hate, pain, Savitri doesn’t want to marry greed, resentment, indifference anyone. Her brother Neel wants and malice. The Fine Colour of Rust to marry an Australian girl. Their G N 1997 278pp B1558 P.A. O’Reilly parents are most displeased, but Single mum Loretta lives in the dusty maybe the family astrologer has a rural town of Gunapan with her two The Gathering solution – how can he influence love Family Matters kids. She gamely steps up when the Anne Enright and destiny? A warm, funny cross- local school is about to be closed Rohinton Mistry Families cultural tale of Indian and Australian WINNER Who in the family will care for its and the council approves a dodgy families and tradition vs modernity. Man Booker Prize ageing patriarch, now helpless after development project near town. FE 2019 304pp B2318 a fall? His daughter’s family take A book about love, friendship and The nine surviving children of the him into their crowded Bombay community, covering contemporary Hegarty clan gather for the wake apartment. The resulting dilemmas issues with tenderness and humour. of their wayward brother Liam. Every Secret Thing and pressure are interwoven with F 2012 247pp B2151 It wasn’t the drink that killed him; it Gillian Slovo the old man’s remembrances was the events of the winter of 1968 This astonishing book traces the of a forbidden love in his earlier Foal’s Bread in his grandmother’s house, which life of the daughter of an imperilled life. ‘A luminous compassion, an his sister Veronica must now come South African family of passionate abundance of life and piercing Gillian Mears to terms with. Enright follows a line fighters against apartheid. What moments’. WINNER of hurt and redemption through does it do to your personal life if F 2002 500pp B1818 The Age Book of the Year three generations, as memories your parents are white, communist warp and secrets fester. and irrepressible? Nadine Gordimer Fault Lines SHORTLISTED F 2007 261pp B1985 calls this an ‘extraordinary Miles Franklin Literary Award expression of the very nature of Nancy Huston loving’. Compulsive reading. Told from the perspective of a Mears chronicles the hopes and Gilead N 1997 282pp B1550 series of six-year-olds, the story heartbreaks of two generations of Marilynne Robinson reveals how scars from the past a NSW farming family, particularly the marriage of golden boy Roley to WINNER can shape the present. From Pulitzer Prize Extinctions California to New York, from Haifa tough nut Noah. From the pre-war Josephine Wilson to Toronto and Munich, family rural show jumping circuit to the From the author of Housekeeping secrets unwind revealing disturbing changing world of the 50s, this is a comes a beautiful story of faith, WINNER truths including the family’s history powerful testament to the Australian family, and history. Towards the end Miles Franklin Literary Award during World War II. Content may landscape and the vulnerability of the of his life, Reverend John Ames humans within it. WINNER offend some readers. begins a letter to his son about the F 2007 308pp B1989 FE 2011 361pp B2139 strained relationship between his Colin Roderick Award father, a pacifist, and grandfather, Engineer Fred Lothian has given up It was surprising the number of an abolitionist, who ‘preached men members who rode horses during on life, and moved to a retirement The Fence into the Civil War’. their childhoods. We agreed writing village after the loss of his wife Meredith Jaffe was excellent with interesting F 2004 282pp B1963 and the estrangement of his two Gardening column writer and local characterisation – a sad book. children. Surrounded by clutter, stickybeak Gwen and her husband Traralgon: Latrobe Ladies Fred reminisces on his failures Eric have lived in the same house The Glass Castle as a husband and a father. Then in suburban Sydney for decades. Jeannette Walls Fred meets Jan, a bubbly woman When a new hipster family moves A Fraction of the Whole Walls’ father was a hopeless who accepts no excuses, and into the house next door with their Steve Toltz alcoholic, and her mother an artist challenges him to confront the four children and two loud dogs, who let her four children fend wrongs in his life, starting with his it is the proposal of a fence that is SHORTLISTED for themselves. Walls’ attitude Man Booker Prize children. Together, they embark the act of war for Gwen. Clashes to her parents is almost always on a journey of self-discovery, between generations, personalities Heroes or criminals? Crackpots or affectionate – but readers may not forgiveness, disability, ageing and and lifestyle break out as the two visionaries? Relatives or enemies? be so forgiving! This book will elicit racial discrimination. headstrong women battle for From his prison cell, Jasper Dean passionate discussion. F 2016 280pp B2289 more than just council approval. A tells the unlikely story of his scheming N 2005 341pp B1882 relatable, witty look into the struggle father Martin, his crazy uncle Terry between the old ways and the new. and how the three of them upset F 2016 368pp B2267 an entire continent. Incorporating death, parenting and first love this is a scathingly funny, heartbreaking story of families and how to survive them. FE 2008 711pp B2042

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The God of Small Things The House in the Light Instructions for Arundhati Roy Ruth Park Beverley Farmer a Heatwave WINNER This beloved Australian novel A divorced Australian woman Maggie O’Farrell introduces Hugh and Margaret returns to the Greek village where Man Booker Prize July, 1976. London is sweltering Darcy, doing their best to raise a she was once welcomed as a through a heatwave when Robert Twins Estha and Rahel live in the family amidst the poverty and bride. Against the earthiness and Riordan walks out on his wife and Indian state of Kerala, where cruel hardship of slum life in 1940s austerities of rural Greece, Farmer disappears. His three adult children caste traditions coexist alongside Sydney. Ruth Park combines robust traces the affection, scratchiness return home, and family secrets a modern communist movement. and engaging characters with acute and strain in the relationship are revealed as tensions mount This moving novel explores the joys social observation. Her humanity, between Bell and her ageing on a journey to Ireland. Beautifully and pains of moments of life for a humour and skilful storytelling make mother in law, the matriarch Kyria written with surprising twists, this family in a society where love laws The Harp in the South as fresh and Sofia. Complex, with a luminous is a moving portrait of a family that ‘lay down who should be loved. readable as ever. quality to the prose. comes undone. And how, and how much’. F 1948 225pp B2198 F 1995 235pp B1447 F 2013 338pp B2179 F 1997 340pp B1559 The Healing Party Housekeeping Isa and May The Good Parents Micheline Lee Marilynne Robinson Margaret Forster

Joan London Years after fleeing from her Still at school, Lucille and Ruth have Isamay is writing a master’s thesis Families domineering evangelical father, high hopes of their aunt Sylvie who about the role of grandmothers SHORTLISTED Natasha returns to Melbourne’s comes to keep house for them after Prime Minister’s Literary Award in women’s history, which leads eastern suburbs to nurse her their mother’s death. But the gentle to an examination of her own Maya moves to Melbourne and mother, Irene, who is dying from Sylvie is a drifter and her behaviour grandmothers: pugnacious May begins an affair with her boss cancer. When she returns she too bizarre for some. One sister and chilly Isabel. Each harbours whose wife is dying of cancer. quickly realises nothing much has departs and soon Sylvie and Ruth intriguing secrets, which come to When her parents arrive to visit, changed. When her father claims to must move on. There is bleakness light as Isamay examines their lives. they find out that their daughter has have received a message from God here, but also oddity, beauty and Forster’s writing is entertaining and disappeared. The award-winning saying his wife is to be miraculously a sense of stillness. A book that accessible, and a great catalyst author of Gilgamesh unravels the cured, Natasha struggles with her lingers in the mind. for exploring the universal themes complex bonds between parents, family’s blind faith. Funny at times, FE 1981 187pp B1206 of family and the multiple roles siblings, friends and lovers to create this novel tackles the serious issues of women. a portrait of contemporary Australia. of faith, lies and family. FE 2010 316pp B2121 F 2008 351pp B2014 FE 2016 304pp B2255 I Home The Immortalists J H Larissa Behrendt Chloe Benjamin Stretching back to the early If you knew when you would die, Jesus Wants Me Hamlet’s Dresser years of the 20th century, Home how would you choose to live your for a Sunbeam Bob Smith describes three generations of life? Four adolescents Simon, Klara, Peter Goldsworthy Having spent his earlier years caring an Aboriginal family. The novel Daniel and Varya visit a travelling for a disabled sister, in his teens begins in contemporary Australia psychic who claims she knows the Rick, Linda and their two children he joined the backstage staff of a with Candice, a young indigenous exact date of their deaths. What represent the perfect Australian theatre company. Tender, restrained, lawyer visiting her ancestral they learn will influence the course suburban family. When their and glowing with excerpts from country with her father. Behrendt’s of their lives. A story about family, daughter is diagnosed with cancer, Shakespeare, this book will fasten characters are vividly drawn and choices and fate. their world is shattered. This novella poses important questions itself in your memory. there is a buoyancy and optimism in F 2018 368pp B2300 her vision. about death, the afterlife and the N 2002 285pp B1782 place of religion. The conclusion F 2004 317pp B1832 to this moving meditation on love, The Hand That Indelible Ink faith and fate will generate fiercely The Household divided responses. First Held Mine Fiona McGregor 1993 133pp Maggie O’Farrell Guide to Dying Marie is recently divorced with F B1863 Debra Adelaide grown children and living in an SHORTLISTED Australian author and domestic affluent Sydney suburb. When The Joy Luck Club Victorian Premier’s Literary Award advice columnist Delia Bennet is drunk she decides to get a tattoo Amy Tan Separated by fifty years, two women diagnosed with cancer. She knows and develops an unlikely friendship are connected in unexpected ways. she will leave behind her husband, with the tattoo artist, who shows SHORTLISTED Lexie is in her early twenties when two young daughters and five her a different side of Sydney. An National Book Award she moves to London, becoming chickens. Trying to get her house in immersing family drama set in the A vibrant evocation of four Chinese immersed in the 1950s Soho art order, she writes lists, makes plans, Howard era. women and their first generation scene. In contemporary London, and contemplates how she should F 2010 446pp B2092 Chinese American daughters: this artist Elina struggles to recover from spend her remaining time. brave, heartfelt novel powerfully a difficult birth, while her partner Ted FE 2008 386pp B2011 communicates the intricacies of a faces questions from his past. double cultural identity, illuminating F 2010 341pp B2094 traditional Chinese customs and modern mother-daughter relationships. Small print. F 1989 288pp B1283

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Life in Seven Mistakes Lovesong A Mother’s Disgrace K Susan Johnson Alex Miller Robert Dessaix Elizabeth Barton’s art career is WINNER An unusual and compelling The Kitchen God’s Wife finally taking off. She’s about to fly autobiography written in mid-life to The Age Book of the Year Amy Tan to New York for her first show at describe how Dessaix came to find Winnie’s story moves from Shanghai a prestigious gallery but first she and know the woman who is his birth in the 1920s, through the Japanese must survive family Christmas on SHORTLISTED mother. He offers a moving account Miles Franklin Literary Award occupation of China, World War II the Gold Coast. Johnson explores of the apparently ordinary couple who and the rise of the communists, to relationships and ageing in a black In her Tunisian café on the outskirts adopted him and were such loving her decades in America after 1949. comedy with an unexpected climax. of Paris, Sabiha falls in love with parents, and talks candidly about Her personal life contains much pain, F 2008 352pp B2037 Australian John, and together they his move away from married life to courage and joy. Emotionally charged fashion a new life. When writer Ken discover himself as a homosexual. yet unsentimental, the novel explores meets them in Melbourne later in N 1994 195pp B1415 relationships, uncovers secrets, and Little Fires Everywhere life, the sadness in Sabiha’s eyes describes Chinese customs. Celeste Ng draws him to tell their story. This Mother’s Milk FE 1991 415pp B1330 is a story about home, family, and WINNER human frailties, raising questions of Edward St Aubyn Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction morals and purpose. Patrick’s mother Eleanor, ageing

L When artist and single mother Mia FE 2009 368pp B2090 and ailing, is determined to sign Families and her teenage daughter Pearl over his inheritance to a New Ladder of Years rent a house from the affluent Age Foundation, while his wife Richardson family, their growing M Mary is lost in her obsession with Anne Tyler connection to the seemingly picture- motherhood. A bitingly witty and SHORTLISTED perfect family threatens the bonds sometimes heart-breaking novel The Man in the about family dynamics. Orange Prize between mother and daughter. Then Wooden Hat a custody battle to adopt a Chinese- F 2006 304pp B1952 Sensing indifference in her family, American baby tears the town apart, Jane Gardam Delia Grinstead vanishes from their causing the two families to implode Child of the Empire, spirited young lives. Walking along the beach, and familial secrets are unearthed. woman, Establishment wife of lawyer My Family and she keeps right on going to a town A witty exploration of white privilege, Edward Feathers; Betty is every bit as Other Animals nearby where she takes on a new class snobbery and motherhood intriguing and vivid as her husband. life as a single working woman with Gerald Durrell in the ’90s that will leave you Gardam explores the landscape no ties. Where will things go from The Durrell family, their eccentric questioning: what side are you on? of a marriage, including its secrets here? An unsettling look at marriage, hangers on, and the local animals, and compromises, with wit and family, human complexity and simple F 2017 338pp B2273 birds and insects provide a steady understanding. This novel stands needs. Funny and plangent by turns. stream of hilarious incidents in this Love and Vertigo alone well, and is a remarkable light-hearted book, set in Corfu NE 1995 326pp B1466 companion piece to Old Filth. where the author lived as a boy in Hsu Ming Teo F 2009 233pp B2073 the 1930s. Small print. The Lake House Pandora is drawn back to her 1956 300pp native Singapore to die, and her NEL B0575 Kate Morton Australian-born daughter Grace The Memory A missing child and a family secret tries to understand her mother’s Keeper’s Daughter are at the centre of this enthralling early life as the ‘rubbish child’ – the Kim Edwards N mystery from the author of The fourth daughter of a Singaporean One evening in 1964, a blizzard Forgotten Garden. The Edevane Chinese family in the 1940s. In turn Nine Days forces Dr Henry to deliver his own family live an idyllic life in their funny, sad and insightful about the Toni Jordan beautiful Cornwall home – until twins. His son is born healthy, his tensions and mysteries in families Spend nine days immersed in the their toddler son disappears. When daughter has Down syndrome. fragmented by the dislocations of lives of members of one Melbourne disgraced police constable Sadie Making a decision that will haunt their war and emigration. family from the 1930s to the present stumbles across the house decades lives forever, he asks the nurse to take day. Kit’s family, including his sister, later, she begins to unravel what NE 2000 287pp B1645 their daughter to an institution, and mother and grandchildren, are really happened on that midsummer tells his wife that the baby died. This engaging and real in this evocative evening in 1933. Lovers’ Knots international bestseller is a deeply moving exploration of family secrets and compassionate novel about FE 2015 608pp B2240 Marion Halligan and the redemptive power of love. sacrifice and survival. WINNER FE 2005 401pp B1972 FE 2012 245pp B2172 Last Friends The Age Book of the Year Jane Gardam A capacious, hundred year family The Moor’s Last Sigh Noah’s Compass This is the final title in the trilogy novel which focuses on particular Anne Tyler featuring Old Filth and The Man in Salman Rushdie lives of individuals at key points. Like Retired teacher Liam lives a lonely the Wooden Hat. It charts the life This Indian family saga has a a moving photographic collage, it life in a small apartment. His of Old Filth’s great rival, Terence huge, surprising cast. Its mind lets the reader glimpse the time shifts inertia is broken by an intruder, a Veneering, from his unconventional blowing mixture of the private and which show individual and family knock on the head and a case of childhood to old age in the English public, the historical and invented destinies from unexpected angles. amnesia. His second ex-wife, his countryside. Gardam is a superb is elegiac, outrageous, astute, daughters and his grandson Noah stylist and an astute navigator of F 1992 377pp B1380 funny. An imaginative and human all help Liam find direction. Noah’s the human heart. Last Friends is a challenge – vintage Rushdie! Compass explores the connections must for any group that enjoyed her FE 1995 434pp B1492 that keep us anchored in our lives. previous books. 2009 277pp B2084 F 2013 224pp B2196 FE

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No Great Mischief The Orchard Thieves Our Tiny, Useless Hearts Precious Bodily Fluids Alistair MacLeod Elizabeth Jolley Toni Jordan Charles Waterstreet Driven from the Highlands in 1779, In this beautiful, autumnal work ‘Nothing much happens in the outer Full of event, flavour and brio as Calum MacDonald sails for Nova Jolley creates an insightful and suburbs. It’s just like a spa retreat. eleven-year-old Charlie threads his Scotia, where he and his people artful work about families. The A nudist, adulterous spa retreat.’ way cheekily through a rollicking work as loggers and miners, figures of the grandmother, the Caroline and Henry’s marriage is family memoir of the owners of struggling in the new land and three sisters, and the young teetering on the brink, so it’s lucky Waterstreet’s pub in Albury in 1961. its endless cold. Two centuries grandsons who give the book its that Caroline’s sister Janice is there Irish Catholic family and school later, these red-haired, black-eyed title, open our imaginations to the to look after their daughters. But culture, six o’clock closing, SP MacDonalds are still linked by poignant question of what one Janice is busy dealing with her bookies, police raids and sinister intense clan loyalty. generation can pass on to following feelings toward her ex-husband, plots to fluoridate the town’s water FE 1999 262pp B1627 ones. More a fable than a novel. and to top it all off, Caroline’s nosy are all part of a delightful and Clear print. neighbours seem to be having their dreadful time, now gone. F 1995 134pp B1477 own marital crisis. This entertaining, N 1998 262pp B1718 moving novel explores family, O childhood, and the sacrifices we Other People’s Children make for love. A Private Man Old Filth Joanna Trollope FE 2016 288pp B2245 Malcolm Knox

Jane Gardam What does it feel like, for adults Set in contemporary Sydney, this Families Edward Feathers is well respected and children, when, after losing a is a portrait of three adult brothers and known affectionately as Old partner by divorce or death, a man and their parents, over the days Filth. Filth was a Raj orphan, sent or a woman with children of various P following the father’s unexpected ‘home’ at a young age from what ages enters a new relationship? This death in curious circumstances. was then Malaya, to be fostered absorbing, shrewd and sympathetic Passing On In Knox’s look at different models and receive a proper English novel probing the complexities of Penelope Lively of masculinity, the worlds of education. Gardam’s beautifully modern family life will surely sound An unmarried daughter and son, medical practice, test cricket and written, memorable novel pieces echoes for every reader. of 52 and 49 respectively, are left pornography merge in a literary together the mosaic of experiences F 1998 320pp B1749 by the death of their domineering thriller about a family under that make up the life of this one mother to develop what remains of pressure. Strong language. member of the Establishment, their lives. Compassionate, poised F 2004 385pp B1838 and by extension, a generation of The Other Side and finely written. children of the Raj. of the Bridge F 1989 210pp B1347 The Pure Gold Baby 2004 260pp B1910 Mary Lawson F Margaret Drabble Arthur and Jake Dunn are as The Place on Dalhousie On Beauty different as two brothers can be. Jess is an anthropologist and single Arthur, who is older, is shy, dutiful Melina Marchetta mother. Anna is her pure gold baby Zadie Smith and set to inherit the family farm in Rosie Gennaro’s father rebuilt the – a smiling child with a learning WINNER northern Ontario, Canada, while place on Dalhousie, but passed disability who never ‘grows up’. away. Now Rosie has to share Narrated by their neighbour Eleanor, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Jake is young and reckless. When Laura arrives in their 1930s rural it with Martha – the woman her The Pure Gold Baby profiles a From the bestselling author of White community their uneasy relationship father married far too soon after changing society from ‘60s London Teeth. Howard is an art historian is pushed to the edge. A beautifully her mother’s death. An encounter to the present day, exploring forms at an East Coast college in the told story of love and family that with Jimmy Hailler takes her life of human kinship, the experience US. His marriage to Kiki is strained spans the changes of rural life from in another direction, resulting in of ageing, and the way we care for to breaking point, and their three the Great Depression to World both Jimmy and Rosie reassessing one another. children struggle to cope. When War II. what’s important. A story of finding FE 2013 291pp B2201 Howard’s arch-rival accepts a post family, love and connections in in Howard’s faculty, a cascade of FE 2006 273pp B2003 unexpected places. hilarious and tragic events ensues. FE 2019 288pp B2311 R FE 2005 446pp B1953 Our Father Who Art in the Tree The Poisonwood Bible Reading in Bed Once in a House on Fire Judy Pascoe Barbara Kingsolver Sue Gee A funny, touching novel evoking Andrea Ashworth SHORTLISTED Dido and Georgia have been a family in crisis. A man dies friends since university. They live This is an account of the writer’s Pulitzer Prize early years following the accidental suddenly, leaving four bewildered in a cultured English world of death of her father. The men her children and a distraught wife. In Missionary preacher Nathan Price lovely gardens, good books and mother accepts become violent, the heat of a Queensland summer moves his family to the Congo in the conversation. But for the first time, and the family spirals downward they contend with his absence, and ‘60s, a time of tremendous political Dido has reason to question her into poverty and uncertainty. young Simone is convinced her and social upheaval. The narrative marriage, while widowed Georgia Ashworth’s lucid prose and father is still speaking to her from alternates between Nathan’s has yet to come to terms with the lack of self-pity and the child’s where he now lives in the great tree wife and four daughters in this loss of her husband; their children protectiveness towards her behind the house. powerful, poignant and sometimes are unhappy in love and perfect beautiful, neglectful mother raise F 2002 169pp B1795 funny exploration of religious zeal, health is no longer a given. fascinating questions about human conscience, imperialist arrogance, F 2007 340pp B2016 vulnerability and resilience. and the many paths to redemption. N 1998 330pp B1740 Small print. FE 1998 543pp B1728

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The Rector’s Wife Running in the Family The Shipping News The Slap Joanna Trollope Michael Ondaatje Annie Proulx Christos Tsiolkas In her early 40’s, Anna realises Ondaatje returned to his native WINNER WINNER that her Rector husband’s parish Sri Lanka in the 1970s to retrace Pulitzer Prize Commonwealth Writers’ Prize is ‘the other woman in my life’. Her the baroque mythologies of his children’s needs impel her to get a forebears, outrageous, eccentric, paid job. Trollope’s account of the or embattled: ‘Everyone was WINNER SHORTLISTED National Book Award Miles Franklin Literary Award web of personal, family and parish vaguely related and had Sinhalese, life was reprinted thirteen times in Tamil, Dutch, British and Burgher A hapless New York hack A man slaps a child at a suburban its first two years as a paperback. blood in them going back for journalist takes off with his two barbeque. The child is not his own. Good black print. generations. Love affairs rainbowed small, motherless daughters and This event and its consequences FE 1991 243pp B1423 over marriages and lasted forever redoubtable aunt to storm-battered have a rippling effect on the friends L so it often seemed that marriage Newfoundland, where he gradually and family at the barbeque. Told was the greater infidelity.’ An makes a new life. The characters, from the viewpoints of eight people, Revolutionary Road unforgettable book. wild setting and remarkable writing The Slap is an unflinching look at Richard Yates N 1982 207pp B1650 all come off the page with a blast of the modern family. Strong language freshness. An irresistible comedy of may offend some readers. SHORTLISTED human life and possibility. National Book Award Running with Scissors F 2008 400pp B2034 FE 1993 337pp B1458 Families Frank and April are bored by their Augusten Burroughs 1950s suburban American lives Burroughs’ mother gave him away The Sound of and dream of being extraordinary. to her psychiatrist when he was A Short History of One Hand Clapping But their decision to change their twelve. His bizarre childhood, spent Tractors in Ukrainian Richard Flanagan life leads to tragedy. Tennessee in the doctor’s dilapidated mansion Marina Lewycka Williams said: ‘here is more than where he maintained a relationship SHORTLISTED fine writing; here is what … makes with a paedophilic inpatient, SHORTLISTED Miles Franklin Literary Award a book come immediately, intensely is the basis for this harrowing, Orange Prize Sonja Buloh has gone to Sydney to and brilliantly alive.’ entertaining, and endlessly surreal Sisters Nadezhda and Vera haven’t make herself a carefully ordered life. FE 1961 336pp B2039 memoir. Contains explicit content. always seen eye to eye. But when Her return to Tasmania connects NE 2003 304pp B1892 their father’s young, glamorous her with the traumas of her migrant The Riders fiancée Valentina bursts into their parents’ European and Australian lives ‘like a fluffy pink grenade’ pasts, and the childhood she has Tim Winton S they agree they must rescue him tried to forget. WINNER from her greedy clutches and his FE 1997 425pp B1586 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize The Secret Agent own geriatric fantasies. Enlivened with quirky characters and original A Spot of Bother Fred Scully’s desperate quest to Joseph Conrad dialogue, this spirited story is about get his Australian family together A carefully developed human story love, old age, immigration, Ukrainian Mark Haddon again drives him from Ireland of an agent’s family in the grim history and family secrets. From the author of The Curious across Europe, with his gutsy and world of the agent provocateur. 2005 324pp Incident of the Dog in the Night loving daughter. In the background It is based on a real incident, the FE B1893 Time. George is trying to settle are the mysterious, waiting riders attempted destruction of Greenwich quietly into retirement, but and the Australian experience. Observatory, treated with Conrad’s Sisters his daughter is marrying an Gripping suspense. irony, scepticism and social insight. Drusilla Modjeska inappropriate man, his wife is F 1994 377pp B1455 F 1907 249pp B1013 and others carrying on with his ex-colleague, L and an unsettling rash has Australia’s foremost women writers appeared on his hip. As the Hall – Modjeska, Mears, Yahp, Garner, Rose Boys Seducing Mr Maclean family slides into chaos, George Hewett and Jolley – explore the Peter Rose Loubna Haikal quietly and politely begins to joys and vexations of sisters, in The daughter of a Lebanese family go mad. autobiographical essays and more WINNER enrols in Medicine to fulfil her Biography Prize or less fictional stories. Wonderful F 2006 390pp B1966 family’s dreams. Her Australian glimpses of writers’ lives and into boyfriend, the suspect business Robert Rose was a footballer and all that is involved in being and dealings of her brothers, and Summer at Mount Hope cricketer in a famous Melbourne remembering siblings. sporting family. Suddenly left parents slaving away in their quadriplegic at twenty-two by a car restaurant, are ingredients in this NS 1993 185pp B1427 Ham’s second novel is a 19th- accident, Robert became totally fast-moving comic novel. century romance. Feisty heroine dependent on others. His brother F 2002 318pp B1679 Phoeba Crupp lives with her Peter, a poet, writer and editor, has parents and sister on a small written a memoir about a family farm near Geelong. Her father under great pressure, a tribute to Enjoyed moved his family from the city to his brother and parents and a book The Dressmaker? establish a vineyard, a decision of quiet power. Phoeba’s mother bitterly resents. NE 2001 289pp B1796 With less black comedy than in Try The Summer at The Dressmaker, Ham highlights Mount Hope the efforts of women a century by Rosalie Ham ago to thwart tradition and pursue their dreams. [B1936] FE 2005 296pp B1936

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Swallow the Air There Should Be The Time We Have Taken More Dancing Steven Carroll V When May’s mother dies suddenly, Rosalie Ham WINNER she and her brother Billy are taken Various Pets Alive On Margery’s eightieth birthday Miles Franklin Literary Award in by Aunty. While Billy takes his she reflects back on her life. She and Dead own self-destructive path, May has lived quietly in Brunswick Summer, 1970: television and Marina Lewycka sets off to find her father and her (Melbourne) for the past sixty years wireless shop proprietor, Peter, Unrepentant hippie Marxists Doro pronounces his Melbourne suburb Aboriginal identity. Written in a but now she wants to jump off the and Marcus realise the revolution one hundred years old. As his poetic style, with an excellent ear balcony at her hotel. She doesn’t is never coming. But why do community prepares to celebrate for dialogue, these skilfully crafted trust anyone, least of all her family. their children have to embrace progress, a mural is commissioned interlinked stories about growing However, she doesn’t want to hurt capitalism and consumerism so of the area’s history. But what vision up on society’s fringes herald a anyone below the hotel so instead enthusiastically? A charming story of the past will this painting reveal? distinctive and exciting voice in she thinks back and revisits her about family values and the comedy The third in a trilogy, Carroll’s novel Australian indigenous fiction. life. Told with Rosalie Ham’s wit, of the new generation gap from the is a meditation on the rhythms 2006 198pp B1937 humour and compassion. author of A Short History of Tractors FS of suburban life during a time of in Ukrainian. FE 2011 347pp B2128 radical change. The Sweet Shop Owner 2012 366pp B2165 FE 2007 327pp B2027 FE

Graham Swift A Thousand Acres Families A decisive day in the life of sixty- Jane Smiley Tinkers year-old Willy Chapman evokes the W personal, family and social history WINNER Paul Harding of his life and his shop. Clear, Pulitzer Prize WINNER We Are All Completely compassionate writing reveals Dominating, implacable Larry Cook Pulitzer Prize Beside Ourselves courage, pain, laughter, limitation owns the largest, richest farm in Clockmaker George Washington Karen Joy Fowler and unexpected sweetness in an Zebulon County, Iowa. Without Crosby lies dying and travels back ordinary life. warning he opts to retire, passing WINNER in time through memories of his 1980 222pp B1203 the farm to his three daughters and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction F impoverished childhood in rural setting off a chain of events which Maine, and of his father, a peddler will divide the family and bring dark SHORTLISTED Swimming with who suffered from epileptic seizures. secrets to light. In her modern Man Booker Prize Harding’s language dazzles, whether the Jellyfish reworking of Shakespeare’s tragedy he’s describing the workings of Something in Rosemary’s childhood King Lear, this American novelist Vicki Hastrich clocks or sensory images of nature. turned her from a lively, chatty child produces a compelling tale about With a gift for humour and into a quiet adult with a secret. Her family, human nature, and this FE 2009 191pp B2103 characterisation Hastrich evokes siblings disappeared inexplicably; farming community. a small New South Wales coastal her father, a renowned psychologist, town through the eyes of a likable F 1991 371pp B1499 Trespass brought home his work in surprising eccentric woman, still preoccupied Valerie Martin ways. Rosemary attempts to by the disappearance of her mother Trespass is the story of two families reconcile her present with her twenty years back. A warm, quirky, A Thousand haunted by the past. Chloe Dale jumbled memories, wondering what insightful book with a cast of Splendid Suns is discontent with the American it is we relate to in others – is it the memorable characters. Khaled Hosseini involvement in the Iraq war, and ‘human’, or the ‘being’? F 2001 224pp B1692 Brought together by war, loss, and with her son Toby’s girlfriend F 2014 336pp B2215 marriage to the same cruel man, Salome Drago. An émigré from Mariam and Laila develop a lifelong the former Yugoslavia, Salome has What the Light Reveals T friendship. Spanning the Soviet her own concerns and dangerous invasion of Afghanistan, the Afghan secrets from her past are about to Mick McCoy A Tale of Love civil war and the rule of the Taliban, catch up with her. Set in Melbourne in 1954, this is a moving tale of friendship, F 2007 288pp B2019 Australian-born communist Conrad, and Darkness love and family. his wife Ruby and their two son’s Amos Oz FE 2007 370pp B1961 lives are in shambles when Conrad The single child of a couple who is brought before the commission migrated to Israel in the 1930s, Oz U with false accusations of espionage grew up in Jerusalem and is now The Tiger in the Tiger Pit during the peak of the Cold War. one of Israel’s foremost writers. His Janette Turner Hospital Unless After being vilified by peers and the family chronicle is mesmerising: The tiger is an old man facing Carol Shields media, Conrad uproots his family to funny, intense, tragic. In the layers his 50th wedding anniversary, Norah, beloved adult daughter of Moscow where the family must face of his extended family in Israel irritated and alienated by present Reta Winters, opts out of normal up to their own lies and secrets. A – all transplanted from Eastern incapacities and past lost life in order to sit on a gritty family drama that explores identity, Europe and drenched in European opportunities. His wife strives to street corner mutely displaying a individual beliefs, family and politics languages and culture – we see recompose a family harmony, sign around her neck that reads during the Cold War period. the making of Jewish Jerusalem, recognising that ‘We are all capable ‘GOODNESS’. Her mother’s search FE 2018 368pp B2288 and beyond that the emerging state of brutality, aren’t we?’ for what drove her daughter to of Israel. A deftly woven plot in this thought- this turns into a funny meditation N 2004 564pp B1938 provoking exploration on where we find meaning and of parents and children. hope. A suspenseful fiction about 1983 256pp B1244 supposedly ordinary lives from this FE exceptional Canadian novelist. FE 2002 213pp B1696

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The White Earth The World Beneath Andrew McGahan Cate Kennedy WINNER As Sandy and Rich approach Miles Franklin Literary Award middle age they look back on the Franklin Blockade as the highlight of WINNER their lives. While Sandy embraced The Age Book of the Year new age spirituality and the mothering of their fifteen-year-old Do we own the land or does it own daughter, Rich roamed the world us? Who can claim to belong here? with his camera, trying to recapture In the Darling Downs in the years the promise of his youth. Rich when the imminent passage of attempts to rekindle his relationship Native Title is of huge concern to with his daughter on a trek in the local landowners, a fatherless boy Tasmanian wilderness, but disaster and his mother are taken in by the looms. All three go on a journey and family patriarch. Part family saga, let go of the past, while they move part history and part gothic thriller, towards a future together. this novel is set in a landscape 2009 342pp haunted by the ghosts of black F B2071 and white. Families F 2004 389pp B1852 Y

NEW You Gotta Have Balls Lily Brett Ruth is a Jewish Australian running a successful business in New York. The White She worries about her weight, Girl about her husband, and about her father, the irrepressible Edek. Enter Tony Birch Zofia: buxom Polish sixty-something WINNER with one eye for business and NSW Premier’s Literary Awards another for Edek, and Ruth’s worrying reaches hilarious heights. SHORTLISTED In this light-hearted but satisfying Miles Franklin Literary Award novel, Brett tackles serious themes with wit and verve. Frank and with Odette lives on the edge of a small occasional strong language, this town and is determined to keep is delightful social comedy about her granddaughter Sissy safe. She modern family life. knows authorities are removing fair-skinned Indigenous children FE 2005 293pp B1944 from their homes, but it isn’t until a new police officer comes to town that she is forced to risk everything. An intimate and devastating novel of the stolen generation from the acclaimed author of Ghost River. FE 2019 265pp B2333

White Teeth Zadie Smith WINNER Whitbread Novel Award This sparkling, noisy, comic epic of multicultural Britain makes joyful use of vernaculars, various, as it traces the inter-connections of three families, one Indian, one white and one mixed, over 25 years in North London and Oxford. A novel with a relish for ideas, for language and for the tragic comedy of human life. FE 2000 462pp B1772

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1788 Brick Lane City of Djinns Watkin Tench B Monica Ali William Dalrymple First-hand accounts of the First Balanda WINNER Subtitled ‘A Year in Delhi’, the book Fleet’s expedition to Botany Bay Man Booker Prize presents encounters with a range of written by a captain in the marines. Mary Ellen Jordan individuals – Muslims, Sikhs, Anglo Robert Hughes says: ‘An eye that Life for Bangladeshi village girl Indians, Punjabis, Sufi mystics, noticed everything, a young man’s SHORTLISTED Nazreen is duty and obedience until calligraphers, eunuchs, pigeon National Biography Award verve, a sly wit ... the most readable her father arranges her marriage to flyers – whose stories reflect the classic of early Australian history.’ ‘Balanda’ is the word used by Chanu of Tower Hamlets, London. eventful history of this ancient city. Nazreen struggles to reconcile NE 1793 276pp B1517 Aboriginal people in the Northern Lively, diverting and informative: a Territory to describe non-Aboriginal herself both to fate and to choice as real delight. Print smallish but clear. she faces issues surrounding family, people. Fuelled by a desire to make N 1993 350pp B1405 a meaningful contribution to the identity, Islam and community. A lives of indigenous Australians, 2003 492pp B1813 FE Conditions of Faith The Adventures of Jordan spent a year working at a tiny arts centre in Arnhem Land. Brooklyn Alex Miller Huckleberry Finn The transition from Melbourne to A young Australian decides to marry Colm Tóibín Mark Twain Maningrida was extreme and being a Scottish Frenchman and follows Eilis Lacey leaves her small town in This great American novel is a a ‘Balanda’ proved more complex him to 1920s Paris, where he is than Jordan bargained for. As her south-east Ireland in the 1950s, and working on a design tender for the comic and searching examination sets off for a new life in Brooklyn. of American society in the mid- disillusionment grows, her opinions Sydney Harbour Bridge. Inevitably on race, culture, language, art and When tragedy strikes, she is faced the realities of her daily life as wife, 19th century. The depiction of life with a difficult decision between on the Mississippi raises larger political correctness are constantly pregnant woman and mother clash challenged. An honest, perceptive love in her new land and the with her desire for liberty and the questions of individuality, conformity promises to her family back home. and escape. and engaging contribution to the need to use her mind. A splendid relationship between black and FE 2009 256pp B2059 account of the excitement and cruel FE 1884 370pp B0105 white Australians. sacrifices entailed in creative and NE 2005 224pp B1868 intellectual commitment. Almost French C F 2000 406pp B1634 Sarah Turnbull Behind the Wall A frank and engaging travel memoir Colin Thubron Catfish and Mandala from this Australian ex-pat about Andrew X. Pham D her new life in Paris with a ‘very A finely written look at China. Pham’s family escaped Vietnam French Frenchman’. An honest, The big picture is made up of in 1977. Twenty years later, Pham A Death in Brazil often amusing account of the highs, many tiny portraits of people who abandons his engineering career lows and culture clashes associated are simultaneously common and Peter Robb and makes an epic year-long bicycle with living in a foreign country. Read extraordinary. Thubron parades WINNER before us the little lives of babies, journey on a shoestring budget this book for an insider’s account The Age Nonfiction Book of the Year through New Mexico, USA, Japan of life in Paris – food, fashion, social people who have nothing, and finally Vietnam. Part travelogue, Robb paints a picture of South rituals, bloody-minded bureaucrats the greedy and the powerful, part memoir, this is a confronting America’s largest and most and pampered pooches. all as individuals. Informative and rewarding. book about cultural identity, framed mysterious country, blending NE 2002 309pp B1776 within an exciting adventure story. personal journey with a portrait of a NE 1987 302pp B1356 N 1999 342pp B1874 sensual, often violent society with An Authentic Life extremes of poverty and wealth; Bloodletting and a background of Portuguese and Caroline Jones Miraculous Cures A Change of Skies centuries of slavery, workers’ strikes Caroline Jones sees her book Yasmine Gooneratne and organised crime – all flavoured as an invitation to the reader ‘to Vincent Lam A witty, multi-faceted exploration of with lime and coconut juice. reflect on your own story, on your Dr Vincent Lam draws on his life differences and misunderstanding own experience, on the way you experience as he follows a group N 2003 372pp B1827 between cultures, and the impact of are living your life – to discover the of young doctors from medical moving between cultures. Neither revelation it has to offer you’. She school to emergency rooms. Australia nor Sri Lanka will look reveals a few central moments in ‘Each of these interconnected quite the same to you after this. her own life story as she explores stories reveal nuances of different the stories she elicited in her ABC pressures – the immense sense of F 1991 329pp B1319 Radio National program ‘The responsibility, sleep disturbances, Search for Meaning’. psychological problems and the 1998 312pp B1707 failures of imperfection’ – Toronto N Star (Canada). FS 2005 350pp B2024

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Diary of a Welsh Footsteps Swagman, 1869–1894 F Richard Holmes G William Evans A Fez of the Heart These ‘footsteps of a romantic Gilgamesh Joseph Jenkins worked on farms biographer’ appeal to lovers of in the Ballarat and Castlemaine Jeremy Seal biography, travel and history, Joan London area and kept diaries for twenty-five The fez has played a central role in telescoping the joys of several WINNER Turkey’s conflicting desires to be books. Walk with Robert Louis. years. These diaries lay in an attic The Age Book of the Year (in Wales) for seventy years before both Eastern and Western, both Stevenson through France; join they were found and interpreted as a Muslim and secular. Wearing the in the French Revolution with fez was banned in 1925 by Kemal Wordsworth and Wollstonecraft; SHORTLISTED valuable historical document which Miles Franklin Literary Award conveys the personality of the diarist. Atatürk, and Seal sets out to trace visit Shelley’s complicated its history and demise. An engaging, household in Italy. Hunting his A small-town Australian woman N 1975 216pp B1089 gentle, often funny travelogue haunting subject, Holmes struggles journeys to war-torn Armenia to find Some of our group saw Jenkins as an offering real insights into Turkey. towards his own mature identity. the father of her child. Her retelling exceptional man, others saw him as N 1995 291pp B1528 N 1985 288pp B1530 of the ancient Mesopotamian epic a self-serving person, therefore the of the hero Gilgamesh, his mourning discussion was lively. for his beloved friend Enkidu and his Lugarno Book Group The Fig Tree Forest Dark eventual homecoming, resonates Arnold Zable Nicole Krauss with the journey taken. Down Under Including his Polish Jewish parents The novel combines two narrative F 2001 255pp B1695 and his wife’s Greek parents, Zable threads from retired philanthropist Bill Bryson collects stories about belonging Jules Epstein, who goes missing Of course, we all know that Australia and dislocation. We move from when he leaves New York with what A God in Ruins is a huge, mainly empty country of late migrant era Carlton to Ithaca, remains of his wealth to Tel Aviv, Kate Atkinson aggressive climatic extremes and hearing tales of refugees and and American novelist Nicole, who’s Teddy is the younger brother of teeming with poisonous creatures. wanderers, singers and poets. plagued by writer’s block and a stale Ursula in Life After Life, and in Even so, give yourself the pleasure Hospitality and the welcoming of marriage, and discovers a mystery this companion novel we follow of accompanying American born strangers are recurring motifs in a that alters her life. The novel explores the life he would have had, had Anglophile Bryson as he lists many of book which remains relevant today. Jewish culture, Franz Kafka and he survived the war which killed the country’s must-see destinations NE 2002 222pp B1685 personal metamorphosis. him in Ursula’s story. Atkinson and draws such conclusions for writes with sensitivity and humour FE 2017 304pp B2284 Journeys himself. He can’t help just liking it of life’s highs, including a bucolic here, but his account of Oz is still Flight Behaviour childhood, and lows, such as sharp-witted and aware. Barbara Kingsolver From Rice to Riches Teddy’s experience of war and N 2000 319pp B1753 Jane Hutcheon the small disappointments of SHORTLISTED Born in Hong Kong and fatherhood – and of living. Orange Prize part Chinese herself, ABC F 2015 400pp B2221 E Farm-wife Dellarobia sees her world correspondent Jane Hutcheon ignited in a literal blaze of colour takes the reader on a journey into Eat Pray Love when rare Monarch butterflies make her family’s past as well as across their home in the forests on her the new China. With refreshing H Elizabeth Gilbert family’s land. Class differences and directness she recounts her round After a bitter divorce and a turbulent societal values deepen as science as a foreign journalist – meeting Heart of Darkness love affair, Gilbert realised it was clashes with religion around this characters from all levels of society, Joseph Conrad time to pursue three things: small town American family, and outwitting the Security Police and In the Congo during its colonisation pleasure, devotion and balance. the result is a thought-provoking writing self-confessions when found by Belgium, shocks and Her spiritual quest unfolds in an reflection of humanity against a out, and sampling the country’s transformations resulted from engaging and highly enjoyable travel backdrop of a world in flux. varied and delicious cuisine. the clash of cultures. The novel narrative that takes her to Italy, India FE 2012 436pp B2190 NE 2003 371pp B1819 follows a newcomer’s journey and Indonesia. up-river and inland to the heart of N 2006 348pp B2000 All our members found this to be that experience. Floundering great documentary of that time and 1899 340pp B0003 Romy Ash were fascinated with the insight we FE The End of Seeing were given into the lives of a range of Christy Collins SHORTLISTED ordinary citizens. However, the book Heart of the Grass Tree Miles Franklin Literary Award did raise more questions than answers WINNER and some of us were overwhelmed by Molly Murn Seizure Viva La Novella Prize Abandoned by their unreliable so much information, facts and figures. Pearl returns to Kangaroo Island with mother, Tom and Jordy live with We liked the structure of the book. her mother and sister to farewell her Ana is still recovering from the death their grandmother until their Jervis Bay 1 grandmother Nell. But she does not of her daughter when her husband mother’s sudden reappearance. expect to uncover Nell’s secrets and goes missing on a photojournalistic During a haphazard road trip, she the connection to the island’s early- assignment overseas. Nick’s last leaves them again, this time on settler history with the Ngarrindjeri pictures were taken all across Australia’s west coast. Desperate, Enjoyed Author, people. A heart-warming story about Europe, following a theme of the boys turn to an old man for help Author? family, motherhood and connection refugees and forgotten people. – but what danger does he pose? to place and history. Uncovering the trail left by his photographs, Ana sets out to find F 2012 202pp B2162 Try Footsteps by FE 2019 304pp B2306 Nick – or, at least, the truth of what Richard Holmes happened. Beautiful and haunting. [B1530] F 2015 240pp B2233

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Highways to a War In Siberia Iron and Silk Colin Thubron Mark Salzman M WINNER Thubron journeys by train, river and From the age of thirteen, this truck across the vastness of Siberia engaging young American was Mahjar Miles Franklin Literary Award among the people most damaged absorbed by all things Chinese. Eva Sallis ‘Being in battle, like being in by the collapse of Communism. His account of two years he spent Many books have been written love, is one of the fundamental He ranges from Mongolia to the teaching English in Changsha about the experience of migrating human experiences.’ Set in the Arctic Circle, from the site of the in the early 1980s is a series of to Australia from Europe and Great predominantly male world of war last Czar’s murder and Rasputin’s entrancing anecdotes about his Britain. But these eloquent, linked journalism, this novel opens in 1976 village to the graves of ancient students, friends and those who stories take us into the very different with the disappearance of a gifted Scythians, to Baikal, deepest and teach him more about the literature, lives of immigrants from the Middle war photographer in Cambodia, oldest of the world’s lakes. calligraphy and martial arts he loves. East. Sallis explores exile, loss, and follows the highways of his NE 1999 287pp B1762 Unforgettable vignettes of China and personal displacement, growth and life into the countries and wars the Chinese way of doing things. idiosyncrasy with empathy, comic he covered. Inside Outside N 1986 211pp B1304 warmth, and an undercurrent of FE 1996 451pp B1504 anger in this timely book that is a Andrew Riemer We all enjoyed this book. It was joy to read. The Sydney based academic, writer informative of the culture of China at S 2003 168pp B1834 Holy Cow! and critic left Budapest during the time of writing. Our discussion was Sarah Macdonald 1946 at the age of ten. In 1990 he animated, lively and energetic, just like the book. Macdonald starts out as a returned for a visit, hoping to get Mantras and ‘fundamentalist atheist’, but some sense of his family’s past Geelong Gardeners Misdemeanours her encounters with Hinduism, there. A witty, lucid and memorable Vanessa Walker Islam, Judaism, Jainism, Sufis, account of two worlds, also offering The Island of Sea Women Former journalist Vanessa Walker Sikhs, Parsees, Christians and Riemer’s views on issues such as Lisa See decided to spend a year in Macleod an assortment of yogis, sadhus, the importance in a new country A moving story that highlights the Ghanj (home of the Dalai Lama) swamis, nuns and Bollywood of language acquisition. challenges faced by two young researching a book on Tibetans stars leave her with a more N 1991 218pp B1328 women on the Korean island of Jeju in exile and furthering her study of complex agnosticism. in the 1930s. Mi-ja and Young-sook Buddhism, but unexpectedly fell in N 2002 298pp B1784 Interpreter of Maladies work in the sea with an all-female love with an ex-monk and became

diving collective. The novel traverses pregnant three months later. Part Journeys Jhumpa Lahiri many decades and wars, which travelogue, part cross-cultural I WINNER herald many changes and challenges love story, this is an enjoyable, Pulitzer Prize for these women. Mi-ja and Young- educational and insightful read. I Heard the Owl sook endure great change and loss, N 2006 293pp B1928 Wherever each of these nine but also a great friendship. Call My Name short stories is set, from Bengal 2019 384pp B2309 Margaret Craven to Boston, all in some way explore FE The Many-Coloured Land Despite encroaching social change, ‘Indianness’ and the complex Christopher Koch tribal beliefs and ways are still mechanics of adjustment to new Koch’s two great-grandmothers important to the Indian tribe living circumstances, relationships, J settled in Tasmania in the 1840s: in a village of British Columbia. cultures. In transparently simple one a Protestant gentlewoman, How can their new Anglican vicar, writing, devoid of overt comment, Journey to the the other transported as a convict. young Mark Brian, find acceptance, Lahiri uses voice and viewpoint in Stone Country He explores Tasmanian and Irish serve them and learn from them? such a way that the stories linger in Alex Miller connections in a book which Canada’s rivers, salmon, wild geese the mind. combines family history, childhood and changing seasons are central FS 1999 198pp B1763 WINNER memoir and his travels in two rather to this simple and moving tale. Fair Miles Franklin Literary Award different Irelands, in 1956 and sized print. A Melbourne academic and an in 2000. FE 1967 133pp B1235 NEW Aboriginal stockman meet again NE 2002 246pp B1790 and travel together through the high In Search of the ranges of remote North Queensland Invented to the places they have known The Memory of Running Blue Tiger and come from. Miller’s intimate Ron McLarty Lives Robert Power knowledge of the outback resonates Smithy, the middle-aged central Aided by a vivid imagination, Andrea through this cross-cultural love story figure in this American novel, is lonely young Oscar escapes his Goldsmith and exploration of identity, belonging alone and in a bad way. Something brutal home life through a rich In the 1980s, book illustrator Galina and our painful histories. prompts him to resurrect his fantasy world. The relationships Kogan departs Leningrad and F 2002 364pp B1803 old bicycle and head off for Los he forms along the way with settles in Melbourne, knowing she Angeles, through New York, St. widowed librarian Mrs April and can never return. She befriends Louis, and Denver, to find the sister who went missing years ago. His twin girls Perch and Carp will shape the Morrow family, not realising the Enjoyed Heart of their destinies in profound and influence she will have on their lives. encounters on this cycling road trip tragic ways. A story of the search for identity, the Grass Tree? show us an inarticulate, decent, and honest man. His story and voice F 2012 333pp B2160 diaspora and what it means to be exiled in different ways. Try The Yield carry the novel along. FE 2019 336pp B2322 by Tara June Winch F 2005 405pp B1929 [B2336]

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Mermaid Singing; Otherland Peel Me a Lotus N O Maria Tumarkin Charmian Clift The Namesake The Odyssey Maria Tumarkin travels home to In 1954, Australian writers Charmian rediscover her roots and introduce Clift and George Johnston moved Jhumpa Lahiri Homer her Australian born daughter to the with their young family from London A story about an Indian boy Odysseus’ long voyage home from place where she grew up – but the to the Greek Islands – long before growing up in America (and afflicted the Trojan War takes him through the Russia and Ukraine she returns to the ‘seachange’ books of more with a pet name in honour of a terrors of the one-eyed Cyclops, the is not the same as the one she left affluent writers. Clift records the Russian writer), this novel depicts seductive Sirens, and the wandering in 1989. Maria comes to realise she passage of the seasons and her a recognised pattern of cultural islands, before he finally reaches cannot force her daughter to feel family’s experiences, writing with transition: the parents cling to Ithaca and his faithful Penelope. This and think things just because she perceptiveness, warmth and vivacity. their Bengali past, while the next early Greek epic has inspired writers wants her to. generation cannot shed the old and artists in later ages. N 1956;1959 422pp B1791 NE 2010 313pp B2080 ways fast enough. Lahiri writes with FE C8thBC 376pp B0335 subtlety and her characters are Miss Garnet’s Angel beautifully observed. The Other Side The Old Man and Salley Vickers FE 2003 291pp B1835 of the World A retired teacher rents an apartment the Sea Stephanie Bishop in Venice, changing her previously Night Letters Ernest Hemingway WINNER narrow life. Julia Garnet succumbs Readings Prize for to the beauty of the city and its Robert Dessaix WINNER New Australian Fiction Nobel Prize magnificent art and responds to the SHORTLISTED spirituality of the Catholic religion, WINNER Miles Franklin Literary Award In Hemingway’s clear and direct ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year becoming caught up in the lives of prose, this story of an old man’s both locals and visitors. A gentle, Diagnosed with a terminal illness, fishing trip becomes the vehicle for Set in post-war 1960s, Charlotte kind, decorous, funny novel. the novel’s protagonist travels the discovery of a new awareness of struggles with the demands of being to Italy as his exploration of the FE 2000 342pp B1647 the dignity and beauty that can be a new mother. Her husband Henry meaning in life in the proximity found everywhere. A timeless tale. makes a decision to move them of death moves him from the 1952 128pp B0205 from their cottage in Cambridge Montebello world of doing into a realm of FE to sunny Perth, convincing himself being. A beautiful, civilised work Robert Drewe that it’s all for her sake. When their Journeys Drewe writes about ‘islomania’ and of tale-spinning, travel, and richly The Old Man Who new life doesn’t offer the solutions the ocean, of death and renewal, his fanciful speculation. Read Love Stories they’d hoped for, Charlotte and childhood and his career as a writer F 1996 276pp B1542 Luis Sepúlveda Henry embark on personal journeys in this discursive sequel to The Shark that threaten their life together. Antonio Bolívar lives as a recluse Net. At its core is the author’s journey An emotional novel that explores Norwegian by Night deep in the Amazon jungle in with a group of environmentalists to nostalgia, identity and the decisions Ecuador. When an ocelot begins the Montebello islands, site of little Derek B. Miller we make to find ourselves. attacking humans in the small known British nuclear testing in the Ex-marine Sheldon has reluctantly settlement, he is obliged against F 2015 352pp B2268 1950s. Lots to discuss! moved to Oslo, where he remains haunted by his past. When he his will to join a hunting party and NE 2012 286pp B2183 witnesses a woman’s murder by confront the creature and his own Our Woman in Kabul a Balkan gang, he rescues her past. A tale of life, death, atonement and the pleasures of reading. Irris Makler Mr Muo’s Travelling Couch six-year-old son and makes a run Freelance journalist Makler was one Dai Sijie for it, relying on military training now F 1989 128pp B1836 of the first people into Afghanistan Mr Muo, a forty-year-old student decades old. Both a thriller and an after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. With of Freud, returns from long years emotionally haunting novel about One Thousand a humorous and lively insight into ageing and regret. of study in Paris to his country of Chestnut Trees the life of a journalist in the field and birth as its first psychoanalyst at FE 2012 305pp B2186 the contradictions of the American large. China offers few patients and Mira Stout involvement in Afghanistan, Makler he is consumed by a new mission, Notes from a Small Island Irish American-Korean Anna visits writes with a deep sympathy for to liberate his first love from prison Korea to discover her mother’s the Afghan people, particularly the where she has been consigned for Bill Bryson family, a powerful clan stripped of women and children. political dissent. This comic novel Bill Bryson is an unrepentant their lands during the Japanese N 2003 356pp B1837 follows its naïve hero’s adventures Anglophile who happened to be occupation. As the novel unfolds, and mishaps through the maze of born in Iowa. He spent twenty years details of Korean life are evoked present-day China. in England before deciding to return with great piquancy, and we to the land of his birth. This account come to appreciate the country’s F 2005 264pp B1930 of his walking tour of the English turbulent history in this century. countryside is full of genial fun F 1997 324pp B1717 poking at a country he adores. NE 1995 352pp B1599 Enjoyed Otherland?

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Shadow of the Silk Road P R Colin Thubron T River Town Colin Thubron traces the first great That Oceanic Feeling NEW trade route through China, the Peter Hessler mountains of Central Asia, northern Fiona Capp Peter Hessler spent two years in Afghanistan, Iran and Kurdish Capp explores surfing as an Paris Savages Fuling, a remote city in China’s Turkey. Over eight months and 7,000 emblem of freedom, journeying Sichuan province. This charming miles he recounts his experiences from the waters of Byron Bay, Katherine travel memoir is remarkable for its along this historic route. Rich in Hawaii, Cornwall, and Port Phillip Johnson author’s frankness, curiosity and humour, compassion and history. Bay. A unique memoir blending the In 1882, three Batjala unceasing desire to understand N 2006 363pp B2004 power of the sea, physical elation, people are transported from Fraser the people of China. He provides and personal reflection. Island to Europe by a German a unique glimpse into the Chinese N 2003 288pp B1848 scientist and his daughter, with psyche as he considers the Siddhartha the promise that they will be able profound cultural differences Hermann Hesse to share their culture and appeal between China and the USA. Written in Hesse’s ‘Eastern’ phase, That Old Ace in the Hole to Queen Victoria to help their N 2001 402pp B1890 this is a beautifully written novel Annie Proulx community. But what transpires is about a young son of an Indian When naïve young Bob is sent to devastating. A compelling and often Brahmin. His search for truth is first purchase land for a polluting hog horrifying tale, inspired by the true S through the spirit, then through the farm, he finds a tough, wayward story of human zoos. flesh, and finally through both. farming people intent on keeping F 2019 352pp B2326 Salvation Creek F 1957 167pp B0464 their land despite all setbacks. The eccentric and tenacious locals and Susan Duncan a brilliantly-evoked sense of place Postcards Susan Duncan – forty-something, Silences Long Gone blend in this serious yet comic tale. Annie Proulx high profile, successful – seems to Anson Cameron F 2002 361pp B1849 A Vermont farm clan declines have it all. But a series of heartaches and tragedies means she must SHORTLISTED after a son flees in terror following Commonwealth Writers’ Prize the violent death of his girlfriend. rebuild her life out of the self- Things You Get for Free Barely literate, Loyal Blood makes destruction she’s been indulging in. Belle watches as her town in Michael McGirr Despite the grief underscoring this Western Australia is carted away, his way across America, sending Reader-friendly, funny and deeply Journeys occasional postcards to his memoir, Duncan crafts her story with vowing to remain and die in the thought-provoking. Maureen family, unaware that disaster has honesty, humour and wit, wonderful land where she long ago dug McGirr’s long-delayed trip to overtaken them. Heartbreak, hilarity characterisation and exquisite the ashes of her family. This is a Europe with her priest son Michael and Proulx’s unique style combine depictions of place. curiously life-affirming expedition provides a framework for exploring in this remarkable novel. NE 2006 404pp B2091 into the Australian heartland, which life and character, Michael’s F 1992 340pp B1495 considers spiritual allegiance to relationship with his father, and the Seize the Day the land. world, a bus load of fellow tourists and the touristic highlights. Marie de Hennezel F 1998 358pp B1767 2000 296pp B1624 Q This moving compilation of a NE psychologist’s diarised experiences Sing and Don’t Cry Questions of Travel at a palliative care unit in France Cate Kennedy This Book Will Michelle de Kretser explores terminally ill patients in Kennedy describes her years as Save Your Life their last stages of life. Compelling a volunteer in Mexico with vivid A. M. Homes WINNER stories about love and family, giving Miles Franklin Literary Award accounts of food, family life, and Richard trades stocks and shares up and taking charge, with a focus fiestas. This is a poetic travel book on what we can learn from the out of his beautiful LA home, Laura is an Australian traveller who with a social conscience, which is isolated - until an inexplicable and becomes a travel guide editor. dying, make this an inspiring and both troubling and uplifting. emotional read. sudden burst of pain lands him Growing up by the sea in Sri Lanka, N 2005 300pp B1935 in hospital. With his routine and Ravi dreams of other places until N 2012 189pp B2143 his diet broken, Richard begins calamitous events lead him to the his journey to reconnect with life. uncertain life of a refugee. This The Sisters Brothers Seven Years in Tibet This an entertaining and gently tender, witty novel tells their stories Patrick deWitt Heinrich Harrer humourous novel that explores the across decades and around the quirkiness of LA and one man’s Tibet, though torn and vandalised, SHORTLISTED world. De Kretser writes masterfully search for meaning. about identity, authenticity and has still not played out its final Man Booker Prize connection. act with China. Harrer’s personal Oregon, 1851: brothers Eli and F 2006 372pp B2007 FE 2012 515pp B2188 story is high adventure, but he also Charlie Sisters embark upon a became a Tibetan official, friend journey to San Francisco to fulfil and tutor to the 11-year-old Dalai a contract killing of a man who Lama, and fled with him before the is not quite what he seems. The advancing Chinese. expedition offers dark adventures NE 1953 288pp B1360 and comically bizarre encounters in a fun revival of the western genre with a ‘Coen Brothers’ feel. F 2011 325pp B2142

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This Must Be the Place Tuesdays with Morrie Vanishing Points Maggie O’Farrell Mitch Albom Thea Astley SHORTLISTED A journalist renews his friendship Astley’s larrikin humour and lyrically with his old college professor who evocative writing shine through Costa Book Award is dying. Mitch elects to help Morrie these two linked novellas, centered Daniel’s life has careened on his quest to make a study of on life on a tiny Pacific isle for a spectacularly off track – yet again. life’s last step. Written with a kind would-be hermit and a frustrated Banned from seeing his children, he of unsensational sensationalism, wife. Small print, well-spaced. has set up a new home in the Irish this is a fearless book. Morrie and F 1992 234pp B1394 wilds with a startling woman; they Mitch’s stories are affecting and are happy, until he hears news of ultimately joyous. Voyages to the a woman he loved (and wronged) N 1998 192pp B1769 twenty years ago. Across decades South Seas and continents and alongside a Danielle Clode diverse cast of characters, Daniel Two Steps Forward This is a swashbuckling tale of the will slowly learn about love, about Graeme Simsion & adventures of the French explorers forgiveness, and about living. Anne Buist to Australia. Filled with colour F 2016 496pp B2246 Recently widowed Zoe, a illustrations, this lively account Californian artist, and recently brings to life a classic cast of 18th- Throwim Way Leg divorced Martin, a Yorkshire century notables, exploring the engineer, are both looking to Tim Flannery French perspective of colonisation. make a fresh start by walking the 2007 261pp B2012 ‘An Adventure’, promises the 2,000km Camino trail stretching N subtitle – a promise delightfully from France to Spain. As the pair fulfilled by Flannery’s account of his meet and develop an unlikely field-work in Papua New Guinea companionship, their personal W and Irian Jaya. It’s a dazzling yet demons are always close behind. unpretentious combination of his Can the pair follow the same path? When Gods Collide work as a research scientist with Written in alternate chapters by a Kate James his concerns over human rights husband-and-wife team, the novel The daughter of evangelical and our planetary future, lightened explores personal renewal: physical, missionaries who spent most of her Journeys by the marvellous stories of an psychological and spiritual. childhood in India, James became incurably curious and candid man. FE 2017 368pp B2280 an atheist as an adult. This book N 1998 326pp B1564 recounts her journey as she returns to India to examine the nature of Tracks U religious belief and cultural identity, with particular reference to the Robyn Davidson shocking murder of Australian Davidson taught herself from scratch Unaccustomed Earth missionary Graham Staines and to tame and train camels, then Jhumpa Lahiri his sons. travelled with four of them and one dog across 1,700 miles of desert WINNER NE 2012 244pp B2156 from Alice Springs to the coast Commonwealth Writers’ Prize of Western Australia. This is her From the Pulitzer Prize winning When in Rome engrossing book about the journey author comes a poignant collection Penelope Green with plenty to discuss. of short stories that touch upon the Journalist Penelope Green NL 1980 247pp B0599 immigrant experience. Eight stories abandons her comfortable take us from America to Europe, existence and buys a one-way India and Thailand as they follow ticket to Italy. Wrestling with the Travels with My Aunt characters forging new lives. Graham Greene language and culture, Green FS 2008 333pp B2055 writes about Roman life in hilarious Staid, conservative Henry Pulling detail. This enjoyable and readable meets his Aunt Augusta for the first memoir outlines the risks and time in over fifty years, and soon Under the Tuscan Sun rewards of chasing a dream on the finds himself accompanying her on Frances Mayes other side of the world. journeys to exotic countries. Aunt Mayes opens the door to a new 2005 308pp B2026 Augusta is as fascinating as she world when she and her partner N is amoral. buy and restore an abandoned F 1969 265pp B1158 villa in the Tuscan countryside. In sensuous evocative language, she celebrates what she calls ‘the voluptuousness of Italian life’. Armchair travel at its most inviting. N 1996 280pp B1553

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Aman NEW The Bean Patch A Aman Shirley Painter After the Fire, The disturbing story of a Somali The Shirley Painter’s indomitable girl’s first seventeen years in the Application memoir is sourced in her A Still Small Voice 1950s and 1960s. It shows the experience of the extreme child strong traditional culture in which of Pressure abuse she suffered, which was ‘Father is your main blood’, a Rachael Mead perpetrated within the family. WINNER young female is answerable to her Paramedics Tash and Joel serve This is a tribute to the teachers in John Llewellyn Rhys Literary Prize brothers, female circumcision is the Adelaide community as best government schools who opened customary, and any involvement her spirit so that she survived, even This debut novel set in Australia they can, trying to remain upbeat with whites can precipitate flourished, to write this confronting shows the impact of the violence and sane while facing trauma every violence. Enlightening about yet hopeful story. Likely to prompt of war. Frank moves to a seaside day. But they can only take so the tribal and city peoples of animated discussion with very shack after he breaks up with his much before they start to crack. contemporary Africa. different viewpoints. girlfriend. His father and grandfather With each chapter focusing on a before him each came to the N 1994 350pp B1467 different emergency, this is a tense, N 2002 310pp B1801 shack after they served time in the engaging read with moments of Vietnam and Korean wars. humour, highlighting the difficulties Anil’s Ghost emergency services face in an Beloved F 2009 296pp B2102 Michael Ondaatje overloaded public health system. Toni Morrison A forensic anthropologist returns F 2020 288pp B2312 WINNER to Sri Lanka, a land steeped in All the Birds, Singing Pulitzer Prize Evie Wyld culture and tradition, to investigate organised campaigns of murder The Assistant This extraordinary novel reveals WINNER engulfing the island. Ondaatje Bernard Malamud the haunting legacy of slavery and Miles Franklin Literary Award blends the history, art, archaeology A Jewish storekeeper, in the racism: ‘Not a house in the country and folklore of his extravagantly ain’t packed to its rafters with some Tinged with anxiety, Jake’s solitary poverty of New York, is badly beautiful birthplace, now ravaged dead Negro’s grief’. Morrison’s life tending sheep on an isolated hurt by an anonymous attacker by civil war. Telling of a culture’s love song to her people and to the and brooding island in England is who then becomes his assistant. attempt to submerge its history, the country which has so abused the somehow preferable to whatever A compassionate study of novel weaves an intricate chain of African Americans enables us to she left behind in Australia – until the human heart’s growth out human connection. begin to ‘understand the source of something starts killing her flock. of violence. the outrage as well as the source of Tensions of her past mix with her F 2000 311pp B1629 1957 224pp B0232 F the light’. Smallish print. present in this clever and thoughtful mystery which reflects on belonging An Anthropologist F 1987 275pp B1365 and identity. Contains themes that on Mars B may disturb. Birds Without Wings F 2014 240pp B2227 Oliver Sacks The Bad-Ass Librarians Here are seven detailed stories Louis de Bernières about patients living with of Timbuktu An epic novel of love and war is set All Quiet on the neurological conditions such as Joshua Hammer in the former Ottoman Empire. De Bernières recreates a lost world in Western Front autism, the violent tics of Tourette’s Young Abdel embarks on a journey which Greeks and Turks, Christians syndrome, and a sudden and across the deserts of Sahara to E.M. Remarque and Muslims, lived as neighbours, lasting inability to see colour. Sacks’ preserve and save the manuscripts This anti war polemic powerfully sharing their lives, their cultures infectious sense of wonder informs of Timbuktu, first from the ravages portrays the agony and futility of intermingling. Harmonious village these gentle, exploratory, thorough of the desert, then from the hands war. Remarque suffered personally life is destroyed by the events of accounts as he moves into wider of fundamentalist Islamists. The through loss of his German World War I and the collapse of the speculations about the nature of narrative follows the story of Abdel citizenship as a result of this work. Ottoman Empire. This engrossing the mind. setting up library archives, both Many copies were seized and burnt novel is both a celebration of public and private, in Timbuktu and by the Nazis. NS 1995 319pp B1518 humanity and a lament over the then the quest to evacuate them consequences of religious and FE 1929 192pp B0101 On the whole the group found from the clutches of extremists. racial intolerance. the book interesting, enlightening The book examines both the rise of and stimulating. ‘The case history radicalism in Northern Africa and FE 2004 625pp B1871 approach of seek’ writing made Timbuktu’s literary heritage. his scientific knowledge of compassion. Several members of NE 2016 336pp B2264 the group had related experiences in working with people of different abilities and this influenced how we read and understood the book. Mallacoota

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Black Rock White City Burnt Shadows Close Range: The Curious Incident of A.S. Patric Kamila Shamsie Wyoming Stories the Dog in the Night Time WINNER After 9/11, an unnamed man waits Annie Proulx Mark Haddon to be clothed in the orange jumpsuit Miles Franklin Literary Award of Guantanamo Bay and wonders SHORTLISTED WINNER Serbian academics Jovan and ‘how did it come to this?’ In August Pulitzer Prize Whitbread Book Award Suzana move to the Melbourne 1945 in Nagasaki, Hiroko Tanaka Proulx is one of America’s great WINNER suburb of Black Rock, leaving survives the bomb blast. Her fiancé storytellers, and here Wyoming Commonwealth Writers’ Prize behind two dead children when Konrad Weiss does not. The novel forms the harsh territory of they were forced to flee war-torn spans the intervening years and the eleven stories peopled by rugged Fifteen-year-old Christopher finds Sarajevo. While at his cleaning job at interweaving lives of two families. eccentrics – ranchers, rodeo riders, a neighbour’s dog lying dead on Bayside Hospital, Jovan discovers F 2009 363pp B2087 country women – all struggling to the lawn and decides to write a bizarre graffiti that escalates into acts survive in a world of raw loneliness, murder mystery about it. He has of violence. For Jovan, the seemingly Bury Me Standing brutality, longing, sexual urgency Asperger’s syndrome, and his flair nonsensical graffiti he cleans away and sometimes bizarre events. for maths and scientific investigation evokes the trauma of his past and he Isabel Fonseca Includes ‘Brokeback Mountain’, a is offset by unease and unusual begins to see the meaning behind The Gypsies are the untouchables story about two men gripped by behaviour in the presence of other the vandalism. This literary award- of Europe, the lowest of the low – a fierce attraction to each other people. Christopher is a brilliant winner offers a compelling insight a scattered nation of twelve million when working as cowhands, which creation: this depiction of the world into displacement, language and the people without a homeland. became a multi-award winning film. from his viewpoint leaves a strong immigrant experience. Fonseca, a journalist, describes FS 1999 318pp B1907 impression with much to discuss. FE 2015 248pp B2252 the four years she spent with them in various countries of Eastern FE 2003 272pp B1816 Europe to bring back her insightful, Confessions of a The Boat personal account of this mysterious Clay Man Nam Le people and the way they live. D Many photographs. Igor Gelbach WINNER The decay of a picturesque Black Dangerous Love Prime Minister’s Literary Award N 1995 322pp B1521 Sea resort during the decline of the Soviet empire forms the setting Ben Okri These short stories travel the A love story alive with the sounds globe and include a grim journey for this philosophical novel. The C novel’s main character, Bronhauser, and the smells of Nigeria in the of Vietnamese refugees on a small 1970s where the ordinary and boat and a child living in Hiroshima struggles to make sense in a Café Scheherazade Kafkaesque world. Gelbach, who in the poor live in almost impossible during World War II. Le intuitively conditions. Struggling with post- conveys the psychological conflicts Arnold Zable 1994 was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize, now lives and writes in colonial realities and the aftermath people experience when they of the civil war, the young artist find their hopes and ambitions WINNER Melbourne. ‘A wise and enchanting NSW Premier’s Award for Fiction book,’ says Robert Dessaix. and lover Omovo is still in touch slamming up against familial with potent communal, cultural expectations or the facts of history. You can go to this café in St Kilda F 2001 184pp B1657 and spiritual traditions. A gripping FSE 2008 312pp B2022 and eat the delicious food. But to novel from this Booker Prize- find its real life, you need to read NEW winning author. this haunting novel. It interweaves Boomer and Me the stories told by remarkably F 1996 325pp B1523 Jo Case different Jewish émigrés from mid- Prevailing Surviving, Jo Case’s son, ‘Boomer’, was 20th century Europe – Avram and A Constant The Day We Had diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome Masha, the proprietors, and three Hitler Home in primary school – something that of their regulars, Yossel, Laizer and Hum led the writer to view herself and Zelman. Trauma and dislocation Alice Bishop her family from a fresh perspective. are here transfigured by awe Families visit the remains of their A blind Hitler illegally enters Australia This book (subtitled A memoir of and lyricism. homes and decide whether to return. in 1919 with our returning soldiers, and has to be smuggled out. motherhood, and Asperger’s) is sure F 2001 223pp B1620 A grieving mother witnesses a trial to spark discussion about what is of the man accused of starting a Audrey McNeil, a young Australian ‘normal’, and whether difference bushfire. A firefighter deals with the cinematographer, grabs her chance necessarily means disability. aftermath. Tender short stories of to escape a difficult family, and grief, loss and recovery after bushfire. goes to 1920s Germany. At first NE 2013 337pp B2195 incredulous, we come to recognise FSE 2019 240pp B2313 home truths – about Australia’s Brain on Fire present and past, our insights and Susannah Cahalan Coonardoo blind spots. Cahalan was a bright young journalist Katharine Susannah Prichard F 2000 351pp B1637 when a sudden illness plunged her Coonardoo is an Aboriginal girl into terrifying psychosis, which was brought up by a white woman as in fact a rare autoimmune disease companion to her little boy. The boy affecting her brain. Part memoir, part is indoctrinated against marrying journalism, part medical detective black, and their love changes from story, this fascinating book explores an idyll to a stark tragedy. A moving Cahalan’s harrowing experience from account of the fate of black women in multiple perspectives. ‘White’ Australia. NE 2012 264pp B2175 FE 1929 208pp B0201

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Disgrace Edward Koiki Mabo A Fine Balance J.M. Coetzee Noel Loos & Koiki Mabo Rohinton Mistry G WINNER The 1992 Mabo Decision overturned In India in 1975, two tailors and a the concept of terra nullius. Born college student come to the vast, The Golden Age Booker Prize on one of the remotest islands in teeming city and end up lodging in Joan London An academic faces retribution when the Torres Strait, Mabo found that cramped quarters with a struggling his sexual encounters with one of his he had no legal title to his land on widow. Their efforts to survive are WINNER Prime Minister’s Literary Award students are exposed. Refusing to Murray Island, which spurred him at the heart of this unforgettable offer the public apology demanded into a ten year battle as a land rights portrait of kindness, dignity, heroism, from him, he resigns and retreats to activist on behalf of his people. cruelty and corruption which is well SHORTLISTED Stella Prize his adult daughter’s isolated farm. A N 1996 206pp B1526 worth the read. Small print. powerful, quietly disturbing study of F 1995 614pp B1516 The Gold family are immigrants moral and historical accountabilities from war-torn Hungary, and while in the new South Africa. An Evil Cradling The First Stone 13-year-old Frank recovers from F 1999 256pp B1745 Brian Keenan polio in a convalescent home in Keenan’s story of his years as Helen Garner Perth, his parents can’t help missing hostage in Beirut is remarkable This is a fictionalised account of the elegance and charm of the city The Diving Bell and for the humour, resilience and the sexual harassment case at the they left behind. This beautiful story the Butterfly compassion which inform his University of Melbourne, which led touches on how we come to terms Jean Dominique Bauby experience and suffering. It to the resignation of the master, with the past, the many forms of At forty-two and the father of two includes the record of a friendship despite being cleared of charges. recovery, and the healing power young children, Bauby found himself between the writer – a working- The approach and the institutional of music. speechless and paralysed after class Northern Irishman – and the issues raised make it both relevant FE 2014 256pp B2222 a massive stroke. His mind was upper class English public school and controversial. humanist, John McCarthy. unimpaired. To dictate this small NE 1995 222pp B1442 A Good Day to Die book, Bauby blinked for each letter 1992 297pp B1371 N Lisa Birnie of every word. More extraordinary Flying with Paper Wings is the writing itself – the keen gaze, The Eye of the Sheep Is euthanasia either desirable or lightness of touch and sensuousness Sandy Jeffs necessary, or could accessible with which he evokes his present Sofie Laguna Poet Sandy Jeffs grew up in palliative care supplant the need for circumstances and memories. WINNER a violent family, and her world it? In her search to understand what collapsed at twenty-three with the this question means, Lisa Birnie Miles Franklin Literary Award NE 1997 139pp B1555 onset of schizophrenia. Since then, asked the patients, family and staff SHORTLISTED she has become a community of McCulloch House (a short-term The Drowned and educator and speaker about living palliative care centre) to tell their own Stella Prize the Saved with mental illness. An insightful stories. With her commentary, they This beautifully nuanced coming-of- look at mental illness, from the make a wonderful book, based on Primo Levi age story follows Jimmy, a kid not social and medical to the personal. the compassionate conviction that Levi’s last book argues that as a quite like the others. Buffered by his N 2009 268pp B2082 everyone should die with dignity and Holocaust survivor he is a proxy mother’s love, Jimmy negotiates the free of pain. witness for the true witnesses – those realities of his world as his father N 1998 231pp B1712 who were annihilated. He is lucid and oscillates between alcohol and For Esther with neither hatred nor forgiveness as violence – and when his home life Alex Sage he investigates the genocide and its Prevailing Surviving, alters beyond recognition, Jimmy Born in 1924 into a devout The Grass is Singing relevance to the present. His insight must learn to navigate an alien and Chassidic family, Alex Sage Doris Lessing into the issues of guilt and shame grown-up world that the reader describes a childhood of acute In this powerful novel set in South makes this an important book for aches to protect him from. poverty. A life of living off his wits Africa in the 1930s, we experience any nation confronting violence and ensued, until he reached Australia the life of Mary Turner. Lessing racism in its past and present. FE 1995 614pp B2231 via a death camp and Palestine. writes with insight and compassion N 1986 170pp B1440 Sage attended English classes at of Mary’s formative years, her young CAE, and conveys his story with adulthood and her marriage to Dick. F compelling directness. We learn of the racial attitudes of E N 2000 281pp B1757 that earlier society and the way in The Fault in Our Stars which blacks were treated during John Green South Africa’s Apartheid. First novel Educated Fred Hollows: Tara Westover 16-year-old Hazel knows she has by this Nobel Prize winning author. a limited time to live, but everything Westover grew up in a family of An Autobiography F 1950 220pp B0427 she has ever thought about life, love survivalists in the Idaho wilderness. Fred Hollows and death is upended when she She was isolated from mainstream Appalled by the eye diseases he meets handsome Augustus Waters. society and forbidden to visit a school found among outback Aborigines, A beautiful story about what it or hospital. There was no one to ophthalmologist Fred Hollows gave means to be truly alive - it will make intervene when her brother became years to a program which improved you sob and laugh. violent. Educating herself became a the eye health of thousands of them, necessity – and she taught herself F 2012 313pp B2181 and also worked in Eritrea and Nepal. enough to be admitted to university. This life story of a doer, a maverick A moving story of Westover’s struggle and a humanitarian emphasises his to find knowledge and herself amid public rather than private life. family loyalty. NL 1991 240pp B1375 N 2018 352pp B2308

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The Great World Half the Sky Hindustan Contessa The Human Stain David Malouf Nicholas Kristof & Jane Watson Philip Roth Sheryl WuDunn A book where myth blends with the WINNER everyday, and where the implications WINNER Miles Franklin Literary Award PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction WINNER of cross-cultural relationships are This ambitious novel traces the lives Pulitzer Prize tested. Indian born Milan and his A college professor is forced to of two Australian men who survive Written by the first married couple Australian wife Tilly travel to India retire when his colleagues declare World War II and Changi. Malouf’s to win a Pulitzer Prize for journalism, where they fall into the hands of him to be a racist. Not true, but usual interest in relatedness and Half the Sky grew from the authors’ kidnappers. They must accept the real truth about Silk would wisdom is combined with an desire to tell the personal stories their fate as prisoners and deal with have astonished even his most exploration of some key national of women whose lives have been the challenges they face within the self-righteous accuser. Set in the myths. Print smallish but clear. catastrophically impacted by factors intricacies of Indian culture. late ’90s against the backdrop F 1990 332pp B1275 such as poverty, sex trafficking F 2002 308pp B1783 of the Clinton/Lewinsky affair, and gender-based violence. It also this novel interweaves one man’s David Malouf is an author examines the ways many women Home Fire story with the wider history of much loved by our members. have reclaimed their lives from modern America. While several felt this particular oppression, and offers suggestions Kamila Shamsie tittle suffered to some extent FE 2000 361pp B1618 to readers who want to help in comparison to some of his SHORTLISTED other books, all rated it highly alleviate global poverty. Readers Costa Book Award for its poetic writing and for may find some material in this I its sympathetic and sensitive book distressing. WINNER treatment of the characters. N 2009 295pp B2111 Women’s Prize for Fiction Malouf deftly develops I Confess: Revelations his characters through an A modern retelling of Greek tragedy in Exile unsentimental but insightful Hand Me Down World Antigone, Home Fire is a story of Kooshyar Karimi exploration of their psychological familial loyalty, politics, sacrifice, and Lloyd Jones Growing up in the slums of Tehran, mediations and a mastery of what it means to be Muslim in the This is a hauntingly beautiful tale Karimi had to hide his Jewish faith. dialogue. To appreciate his skill West. The novel is told from different of a mother’s search for her son, Through force of will, he became a with words, we suggest you points of view: Isma, the responsible taken by his father when only a few surgeon and successful author, until try reading parts aloud to hear sister who leaves her two younger days old. Told from the point of he was kidnapped by the Iranian how he captures the rhythm of siblings to study in America; Aneeka, vernacular speech. He handles the view of the people who meet the Intelligence Service, and forced to the beautiful and headstrong sister shifts in time and place smoothly mysterious North African woman betray his own people. He and his who worries about the fate of her naive and to good effect in developing after she is washed ashore in Sicily, family fled to Turkey and now live twin brother Parvaiz, who has been the story. different versions of the truth emerge in Australia. recruited by ISIS. When Eamonn, the Hawthorn Cato Bluffers to reveal a complex narrative of a son of an influential British Muslim 2012 365pp B2173 displaced person struggling for self N politician enters the lives of the two determination and justice. sisters, love and family loyalties collide The Inheritance of Loss H F 2010 313pp B2122 and the two British families’ fates are devastatingly entwined. Kiran Desai Half of a Yellow Sun The Happiest Refugee FE 2017 272pp B2277 WINNER Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Anh Do Man Booker Prize In this popular memoir, comedian WINNER The Horses Too are Gone In an isolated house at the foot Prevailing Surviving, Orange Prize and actor Anh Do traces his Michael Keenan of the Himalayas live a retired, family history from war-torn 1970s embittered Cambridge educated Set in 1960s Nigeria during the When drought took hold in New Vietnam to the current day. He also judge, his granddaughter, and his Biafran war, Adichie follows the South Wales in 1994, like so many describes his own personal and cook. A Nepalese insurgency soon lives of three characters caught up others, the Keenan property was professional journey with endearing disrupts their lives; while in New in the turbulent events of the time. overstocked. His efforts to keep his candour and humour, in this story of York the cook’s son tries to stay As Nigerian troops advance and cattle fed and watered finally took strength, hope and forgiveness. one step ahead of US immigration they run for their lives, their ideals, Mike Keenan onto the stock routes services. Sometimes funny, intimacies, and loyalties are severely NE 2010 232pp B2141 of south-west Queensland, where he sometimes sad, the possibility for tested. Half of a Yellow Sun is an coped with one setback after another. hope or betrayal hangs over every emotional exploration of Africa, This true account of his experiences is Hidden Agendas moment. Small print. moral responsibility, race, class, John Pilger a page turner and a great Aussie yarn. and love. F 2006 384pp B1967 As reporter, polemicist and N 1998 348pp B1595 F 2006 448pp B1964 partisan, Pilger crusades against We were impressed by the the power agendas of the media House Rules quality of the writing. We and the global markets and Jodi Picoult all thought the writing was supports those whom they ignore wonderfully descriptive. Jacob has Asperger’s syndrome. Willie Worms – the poor who are getting poorer, He can’t read social clues, doesn’t the peoples of Iraq, Africa, Burma, like to make eye contact, and has a and East Timor. His immediate, singular focus. He is obsessed with urgent and lucid style, and the forensic analysis. He keeps showing gripping subject matters are up at crime scenes and telling the nevertheless highly readable. Plenty police what to do – usually he is right. to talk about, probably with many But then his tutor is found dead and different opinions. Jacob is accused of murder. N 1998 687pp B1574 F 2010 529pp B2076

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In My Skin Little Bee A Month in the Country Kate Holden J Chris Cleave J.L. Carr Highly explicit and confronting Little Bee and her sister are from SHORTLISTED memoir told in a vivid narrative Jackson’s Track Nigeria; Sarah O’Rourke and her Man Booker Prize voice. Holden, a quiet, sensitive Daryl Tonkin & husband are British tourists. Their university graduate from a Carolyn Landon meeting on a beach in Nigeria Returning from the Great War, the comfortable middle-class Not far from Drouin in the Gippsland involves a choice that impacts narrator goes to a small village to background, spiralled into heroin district of Victoria, an almost utopian all of their lives. A few years later restore a historic wall painting. He addiction and prostitution at the age community of white and Aboriginal and Sarah and Little Bee (who works on it, works out its artist’s of 21. The book is beautifully written people lived and worked together has been in a British immigration story and is drawn into the local in parts, but Holden’s attitude to sex in the timber industry from the detention centre) meet again. Some networks, making friends with work will enrage some readers and 1930s onwards - yet Daryl Tonkin’s distressing material. another war survivor, and piecing intrigue others. Love it or hate it, this choice of an Aboriginal wife caused F 2008 378pp B2119 his own life together during the book will generate fierce discussion, a serious rift in his family. This life English summer. not least about the relationship story of a hardworking, principled A Long Long Way FE 1980 111pp B0783 between female sexuality and self- man and a vanished way of life offers esteem. Contains strong language, much to discuss. Sebastian Barry sex and drug use. The Multiple Effects N 1999 297pp B1596 In this thoughtful, moving novel, N 2005 285pp B1926 Willie Dunne joins the Royal Dublin of Rainshadow Fusiliers in 1914 and is sent to Thea Astley the killing fields of Europe. When In the Country of Men K the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland WINNER Hisham Matar is brutally quashed, he and other The Age Book of the Year WINNER A Kindness Cup Irish soldiers begin to wonder why Thea Astley they are fighting for the Crown. SHORTLISTED Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Miles Franklin Literary Award A schoolteacher returns to a This is a fascinating insight into a Queensland town’s reunion, and rarely examined aspect of Ireland’s Astley is on her Queensland home SHORTLISTED troubled past. Man Booker Prize attempts to force the citizens ground, earlier this century. The to recognise their cruelty to the F 2005 292pp B1927 narrative, woven from many voices Set in Libya during 1979, Matar town’s Aborigines in an incident and viewpoints, uncovers the vividly evokes the brutalities of in which they took part two extraordinary nature of everyday life a terrifying regime from a child’s decades previously. M for both Indigenous Australians and perspective. Suleiman’s father is settlers. Poignant and revealing. away on business but Suleiman F 1974 154pp B0437 is certain he sees him standing The Man Who Mistook F 1996 296pp B1541 across the street. Why doesn’t he His Wife for a Hat wave? Fears and whispers intensify L Oliver Sacks My Dirty Shiny Life and in an effort to save his family, These extraordinary pieces show Lily Bragge Suleiman may end up betraying his The Land of Green Plums human beings striving to preserve Child of a career criminal father friends, his parents and ultimately Herta Müller their identity when things go wrong and a head teacher mother, Lily himself. This unusual autobiographical novel in different parts of the brain. The became a successful comedian FE 2006 360pp B1965 is a haunting account of a group of author is lovingly and respectfully and journalist. Uncompromisingly students in Ceausescu’s totalitarian curious about his patients and honest and highly entertaining in Prevailing Surviving, Into the Darkest Corner Romania. Weaving back and forth gifted in presenting their states equal measure, Bragge’s bumpy between the provinces and the city, briefly and memorably. A book to personal journey and the way she Elizabeth Haynes the narrator traces the story of her make you wonder. eventually finds salvation are bound This suspenseful psychological survival and escape. A complex and NE 1985 233pp B1260 to stimulate discussion. Contains thriller unfolds over two timelines: poetic evocation of another country, sex, violence and drug use. one follows the relationship culture and politics. between Cathy and the almost The Mind’s Eye N 2010 272pp B2097 1998 242pp B1747 perfect Lee; the other, Cathy F Oliver Sacks suffering from obsessive- Neurologist and acclaimed My Left Foot compulsive disorder. Dark themes The Last Magician author Oliver Sacks explores the Christy Brown are handled with finesse and Janette Turner Hospital relationship between the eye and Christy Brown was born in 1932, insight, drawing you in to Cathy’s the brain, and what happens to our one of 23 children of a Dublin world to explore the power of SHORTLISTED perception of the world when this bricklayer. Born with cerebral palsy, obsession. Contains graphic Miles Franklin Literary Award relationship is disrupted. Using his he could not control his speech or language and sex scenes. Traces the link between a gifted signature style, Sacks turns medical his movement, apart from his left F 2011 416pp B2152 photographer and the female case studies into fascinating and foot. Here he tells his own story of image which compels him and moving human stories – particularly learning to read, write, paint and others, as it moves between a poignant because, this time, he finally type with his left foot, and of Queensland rainforest childhood and includes his own experiences. his wonderfully supportive family. contemporary Sydney. Disturbingly NE 2010 240pp B2199 The film of the same name, starring connects the powerful establishment Daniel Day Lewis as Christy, is and the desperate underworld based loosely on this book. of the young, the homeless and N 1954 184pp B1301 the vulnerable. FE 1992 352pp B1379

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The Rituals of Dinner N P Margaret Visser S Visser’s focus is on table manners Nickel and Dimed The Plague – the customs, expectations and NEW Barbara Ehrenreich Albert Camus proprieties of eating together. This US journalist gave up her A brilliant novel by this Nobel Prize Subtitled The Origins, Evils, comfortable middle-class life for winner examines the reactions of Eccentricities and Meaning of Table See What three months to live and work for a town’s people to a plague which Manners, this frolic will produce poverty-level wages. A readable kills much of the population. It is animated discussion. You Made book which examines the enormous set in Algeria in the 1940s. The N 1991 432pp B1389 Me Do disproportions in wealth that exist novel is widely regarded as an Jess Hill in America today and raises many allegorical treatment of the French discussable issues. Does the resistance to Nazi occupation. The Road Home WINNER ‘American dream’ really apply to all F 1947 288pp B0098 Rose Tremain Stella Prize citizens of the USA? WINNER 2001 221pp B1793 SHORTLISTED N Pushing Time Away Orange Prize ABIA General Nonfiction Book of the Year Peter Singer After the death of his wife, Lev A searing investigation into the No Friend but the Singer’s biography of his moves to London from his small world of domestic abuse, this is Mountains Austrian grandfather David town in Eastern Europe to look a shocking but imperative read. Behrouz Boochani & Oppenheim before his death for work so he can support his Hill delves deep in the core issues in the Theresienstadt ghetto young daughter and elderly mother. Omid Tofighian behind domestic violence and traces the personal, intellectual, Despite isolation and loneliness, he coercive control and how society WINNER family and cultural richness of finds a job at a restaurant, discovers can respond to stop this from Victorian Premier’s Literary Award his grandfather’s life. A portrait a passion for cooking, and slowly happening. Strong themes of unfolds of a complex, admirable, begins to transform from dreamer domestic abuse. surprising man. Full of important to doer. WINNER N 2019 416pp B2327 Australian Book Industry Award and discussable matters. F 2007 365pp B2013 While imprisoned on Manus Island, N 2003 322pp B1812 Boochani wrote this book one The Rugmaker of Shadow Child message at a time for Tofighian Mazar e Sharif Rosalie Fraser to translate. It is an essential R Najaf Mazari & Born in 1958, Rosalie Fraser was exploration of the Australian removed from her parents at two government’s horrifying treatment Reading Lolita in Tehran Robert Hillman and a half years old. Her story is an of ‘boat people’ on Manus Island. Azar Nafisi Mazari was a shepherd in eye-opener about the way children Boochani lays bare the daily life, Afghanistan who fled the Taliban In the mid-90s seven young Iranian could be ‘cared’ for in foster homes abuses and the power structures of regime to Melbourne, where he women gathered in Nafisi’s home and institutions, and how our Manus Prison, and delivers a poetic set up a successful rug shop. to discuss the work of forbidden governments saw to the ‘welfare’ novel that highlights his skills as a His memoir, captured in his own Western writers. Their main focus of their wards during Australia’s journalist and political commentator. voice by writer Robert Hillman, was on Lolita, The Great Gatsby, most prosperously comfortable The book is an urgent reminder of is a fascinating insight into what and novels of Henry James and decades. The teller’s persistence, the horrors that exist on our shores. compels people to leave behind Jane Austen. A narrative which frankness and enduring spirit make

their homes and histories to search Prevailing Surviving, begins with secret literature classes the deprivation and brutalities of her N 2018 416pp B2304 for peace for themselves and expands into a picture of life in a life bearable in this ‘memoir of the their children. totalitarian regime. stolen generation’. 2008 253pp B2010 O N 2003 347pp B1839 N N 1998 270pp B1730 An Orphan’s Escape Resilience The Rules of Inheritance So Much for That Frank Golding Anne Deveson Claire Bidwell Smith Lionel Shriver This is a moving memoir of a In 1940, three young brothers were Drawing on her own experience woman whose identity was formed SHORTLISTED admitted to the Ballarat Orphanage, and her work with media and social amidst the illness and death of National Book Award but like many of the children at the justice organisations, Anne Deveson her parents, both diagnosed with orphanage they had living parents. asks what enables individuals and Shep Knacker has just sold his cancer when she was a teen. Frank Golding recalls the twelve communities to cope with adversity. company and decided to move Unconventionally framed around bleak years of their time there and Her book interweaves memoir to an island paradise, hoping his the five stages of grief – denial, pieces together the story of his and stories, and her writing is wife Glynis will move with him. anger, bargaining, depression, and parents’ struggle against the state effortlessly readable, as usual. But Glynis has a bombshell of to get their children back. acceptance – the story follows her own, and reveals she has N 2003 296pp B1808 Claire’s journey as she battles to N 2005 247pp B1946 been diagnosed with a rare and overcome and resolve her unhappy aggressive form of cancer. Personal inheritance of grief. neuroses and relationships are NE 2012 298 B2163 examined as the question arises – how much is a life worth? F 2010 436pp B2075

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Songs of a War Boy Still Alice Three Dollars Deng Thiak Adut, Lisa Genova T Elliot Perlman Ben McKelvey Alice is a fifty-year-old Harvard WINNER professor when she starts The Tattooed Flower The Age Book of the Year SHORTLISTED experiencing symptoms of Suzy Zail Victorian Premier’s Literary Award early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. When Holocaust survivor Emil is What effect has the emphasis on Sydney-based lawyer and 2017 She is forced to re-evaluate her diagnosed with motor neurone ‘the bottom line’ – downsizing, NSW Australian of the Year, Deng relationship with her husband and disease, he gathers his family to corporatising, consulting, Adut overcame deadly adversity three grown children. Genova share the secrets of his remarkable outsourcing – had on the well before calling Australia his home. At cleverly addresses the fundamental life. Emil’s daughter Suzy Zail takes educated young couples who the age of six, he was conscripted issue of disease and mental illness: us through his past and present, are supposed to be among as a child soldier into the Sudan what is left of Alice? crafting an inspirational story on its main beneficiaries? In his People’s Liberation Army, armed FE 2009 292pp B2098 father-daughter relationships and compassionate first novel, Perlman with an AK-47. Rescued by his the extent to which we shape our gives a moving and imaginative portrait of a loving family at risk brother John, Deng lived in refugee The Stolen Children own destinies. camps before coming to Australia N 2006 211pp B1939 in the heartless environment of as a refugee. This inspirational Carmel Bird contemporary Victoria. biography tells his journey of Carmel Bird’s short book of the F 1998 381pp B1581 overcoming the horrors of war and stolen children’s own stories sits The Tattooist of Auschwitz the challenges faced by refugees alongside a copy of the formal Heather Morris to Australia. Report of the National Inquiry into Based on the true story of The Tiger’s Wife Tea Obreht N 2016 320pp B2251 the separation of Aboriginal and Melbourne-based Lale Sokolov, a Torres Strait Islander children from former Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist their families. Their unadorned WINNER and privileged prisoner who fell in Orange Prize The Spare Room accounts are anguishing, but it love with Gita, a Jewish girl whose Helen Garner is necessary witness not only to arm he was forced to tattoo with Natalia is a doctor visiting tragedies and wrongs that were her prisoner identification number. orphanages in the Balkans after a WINNER hidden and suppressed but to Lale is not just determined to devastating war when she receives Prize for Fiction the importance of acknowledging survive, but to manipulate the news that her beloved grandfather Helen prepares her spare room for the truth. system to ensure the survival of has died. As Natalia struggles to her friend Nicola, who is coming to N 1998 188pp B1589 the prisoners and his lover Gita. understand his life’s quest, Obreht town to receive treatment for her A unique survivor’s account and spins around her a series of magical advanced cancer. Helen becomes Streets of Hope love story full of heartbreak, hope, tales that bring home the tragedy of Nicola’s nurse, protector, guardian and triumph inside and outside the chronic conflict. angel and stony judge in this story Tim Costello walls of the Auschwitz prison. F 2011 336pp B2117 of compassion and rage as two Reverend Tim Costello is a F 2018 270pp B2275 women negotiate their way through Melbourne lawyer and minister of gruelling treatments. religion for whom private faith and To Kill a Mockingbird A provocative novel that provides social issues have always inter- The Tears of Strangers Harper Lee rich material for discussion on connected. His book chronicles Stan Grant the time leading up to his election WINNER friendship, faith and death. Grant recounts the story of the Pulitzer Prize 2008 195pp B1999 as Mayor of St Kilda and his battle Wiradjuri people of New South F for the democratic rights of St Wales and the landowning Grants, Atticus Finch is a lawyer who Kilda’s street workers, drug users descendants of an Irish rebel. defends a black man who has been Prevailing Surviving, Stasiland and homeless. It provides a rare White as well as black, he has accused of raping a white woman. insight into his life, his beliefs and ultimately to reconcile that he is The best and worst of life in a his ongoing struggle on behalf descended from the oppressors Southern town are brought to life WINNER of others. as well as the oppressed and his through the eyes of Scout, Atticus’ Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction N 1998 242pp B1703 personal success has removed him young daughter. Forty years of communism in from the violence, alcoholism and FL 1960 290pp B0037 East Germany ended when the despair experienced by many of Suite Française his cousins. Berlin Wall came down in 1989. Touching the Void This book blends travel, history Irène Némirovsky N 2002 259pp B1681 and biography in the true stories Némirovsky depicted the Joe Simpson of bravery and betrayal under the experience of war and occupation In 1985 two climbing friends Stasi, the omnipresent secret as it affected the people around succeeded in scaling the police of the former East German her, writing the two sections spectacularly dangerous West Government. Moving, exhilarating of Suite Française as events face of the Siula Grande, a peak in and at times funny. unfolded. The first part portrays the Peruvian Andes. Catastrophe 2002 282pp B1680 a group of Parisians as they flee struck on the descent, leaving one N the Germans and make their way severely injured, the other also in through the chaos of the French extreme danger. Would both perish? countryside. The second concerns Could one survive? This anguishing the inhabitants of a small rural dilemma, Joe’s almost unbelievable community under occupation. will to persist and the quality of his FE 2004 403pp B1913 writing make this a gripping modern classic of mountain writing. N 1988 216pp B1866

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Traitor Well Done, Those Men Stephen Daisley Barry Heard WINNER As a young man from a small Victorian country town, Barry Prime Minister’s Literary Award Heard was conscripted into the Barely released before being army at age 21, fought in Vietnam swamped under awards and praise, and came back to cope as best he Traitor asks the question: What could. In his laconic, Aussie, blokey would make a soldier betray his voice, Heard tells us simply what own country? This is an important happened – during his training, book about love, loneliness, in action, and after his return to compassion, war and the bond civilian life. Writing this memoir between two people. Both brutal marked his emergence from the and beautiful, the writing is nuanced massive breakdown which finally and personal, and gently suffused overtook him. Gripping, at times with the Sufi philosophy. The writing funny, affecting, alarming, this book style is unusual but stick with it and enlarges our understanding of the you will be rewarded. damage war can do. F 2011 293pp B2132 NE 2005 290pp B1914

The Turning The Wilderness Tim Winton Samantha Harvey The run-down coastal town of SHORTLISTED Angelus in Western Australia’s Orange Prize south is the setting for seventeen overlapping stories, men and Jake has Alzheimer’s disease. It’s women, young and old, their his birthday, his wife has passed hopes, longings, second thoughts, away, his son is in prison, and it disappointments, as they scan is unclear where his daughter is. the horizon, looking to the world Told from Jake’s point of view, beyond and caught at a point of The Wilderness sifts through his change or altered awareness. The past. What really happened and natural world and human destinies what may have happened blur within it are superbly evoked: this is together until it’s difficult to tell what Winton at his best. is true and what is not. Beautifully FSE 2004 317pp B1896 written, this is a compelling study of human frailty. W F 2009 328pp B2086 The Woman Who Wanamurraganya Walked Into Doors Sally Morgan Roddy Doyle Prevailing Surviving, Morgan met Jack McPhee while Paula Spencer’s uncensored voice searching for her extended family convincingly takes us into her in Western Australia’s north. Here, brave attempt to struggle free from aged eighty-four, he tells her his a violent marriage, her drinking life story. Of mixed Aboriginal and problem and her own denial: ‘After European ancestry, he worked from all the years and the broken bones the age of seven as an itinerant and teeth and torture I still keep station hand and mine worker blaming myself.’ Doyle’s writing pulls in the Pilbara. Despite the harsh no punches as she is seen in the government policies which affected wider context of the poor in Ireland. his life, his story is told without rancour. Photographs through F 1996 226pp B1505 the text. N 1989 196pp B1254

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Another World Black Tide The Broken Shore A Pat Barker Peter Temple Alias Grace Wonderful writing combined with A ne’er do well son has fleeced WINNER sharp observation of today’s family his ageing parents, and Jack Irish, Ned Kelly Award Margaret Atwood lives with resonant evocations of AFL devotee and one-time solicitor, murders and mysteries. The power promises to look into it. The action Joe Cashin is sent to a quiet SHORTLISTED of old wounds to hurt or heal the shifts from Fitzroy pub to Toorak Victorian coastal town to do the Orange Prize present is explored in another and across to the horsetrack. Peter undemanding work of a country A large, complex fiction combining intelligent, honest, generous- Temple’s settings are masterly, his cop. But a brutal attack on the town murder mystery with social spirited novel by Pat Barker. characters are convincing, and he benefactor brings him back into the comment on class and sexual It concerns two blended families, writes some of the best dialogue on thick of things. A novel about place, relationships, and based on one 19th and the other late 20th the current Australian scene. family, politics and power which historical fact: a notorious murder century, and the centenarian F 1999 356pp B1853 reads less like crime fiction and more case in Canada. Atwood explores Geordie, who fought in World War I. like literary fiction. Strong language. the ambiguities of 16-year-old FE 1998 278pp B1588 FE 2005 345pp B1917 Grace Marks, and also brings her Blood from a Stone usual wit and insight to psychology, Donna Leon morality and the management of The Arsonist In Venice, Commissario Brunetti The Brush Off Victorian homes and prisons. A Chloe Hooper looks into the case of an African Shane Maloney must for Atwood lovers. Small print. WINNER street vendor shot dead while From the opening sultry sex scene selling fake goods to tourists. between the ministerial minder and F 1996 545pp B1556 Indie Book Awards The man’s illegal status and his the editor of a small circulation arty country of origin are linked into magazine, this entertaining thriller All That I Am SHORTLISTED the investigation, and matters with deftly mixes humour, satire and Victorian Premier’s Literary Award Anna Funder disturbing international implications the pleasures of the whodunit, as In 2009 the worst bushfires Victoria are interwoven with Venetian Maloney highlights the hypocrisy in WINNER had ever seen ripped through the family living. the carryings on of politicians, the Miles Franklin Literary Award landscape, claiming the lives of 173 FE 2005 320pp B1858 acquisitive art world and the greedy Funder’s debut novel moves people. Unthinkably, some of these corporate high fliers. between contemporary Sydney, fires were deliberately lit. Hooper F 1996 314pp B1484 Weimar Germany, and wartime New explores the Gippsland fires and the The Bone People York and London. It fictionalises the investigation and prosecution of the Keri Hulme true story of German revolutionary arsonist behind the devastation, and The Butcher’s Wife Ernst Toller and his circle of friends the impact on the wider community. WINNER Li Ang Man Booker Prize and associates as they struggled She goes deep into the issue and In a small traditional town in Taiwan, to publicise the brutality of the Nazi asks: What causes someone to An unusual exploration of the a wife kills her husband, and her regime. A compelling exploration of create a tragedy? lives of a woman, a child and a community cannot believe that she sacrifice, betrayal, and the need to NE 2018 272pp B2291 man. This novel portrays startling does not have a lover. In showing what bear witness. psychological and physical terror led to this violent act, Li Ang does FE 2011 365pp B2137 as the characters move towards a not censor the crude language or the resolution which weaves together brutality of the husband. A haunting B Maori spirituality and the traditional and horrific tale, with insight into the Amsterdam gentle, driven woman at its centre. Berlin Syndrome wisdom of East and West. Not easy Ian McEwan to read, but a gripping novel with a F 1983 142pp B1366 Melanie Joosten considerable reputation. WINNER A psychological thriller by a Booker Prize F 1983 450pp B0404 debut Australian author. Clare is C Two friends of many years are a young backpacker who meets Borderliners among the mourners gathered native Berliner Andi at Checkpoint Case Histories at the North London funeral of Charlie. He invites her to move in Peter Høeg Kate Atkinson Molly Lane, one an esteemed with him and a tale of obsession This chilling, suspenseful novel is composer, the other, editor of a and psychological intrigue begins. about what we owe to our young. Private investigator Jackson Brodie quality broadsheet. Also present This is an intelligent novel with Three abandoned, damaged finds himself immersed in three is the Foreign Secretary. Each, a masterful description of the children end up at a select school unsolved mysteries, and as he traces it transpires, had at one time loneliness and isolation that can where students are rigidly controlled the threads of these interweaving been Molly’s lover. Incriminating be found in a foreign city - and the in an atmosphere of subtle menace. tragedies we discover his own painful revelations are made, and the potential vulnerability of a woman One, a boy in his teens, has to work misfortunes. This unconventional careers and destinies of the three travelling alone. out why, and what can be done. detective novel focuses on those who are left to pick up the pieces, trapped men are in question. A cleverly F 2011 246pp B2113 F 1993 252pp B1483 plotted, blackly comic morality tale. L by their need to know the truth. Each character is haunted by desperation FE 1998 178pp B1861 to remember their loved ones, while seeking the relief of closure. F 2004 304pp B1873

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The Child in Time The Dinner Enduring Love Fingersmith Ian McEwan Herman Koch Ian McEwan Sarah Waters WINNER Paul and his wife are on their way Joe becomes the object of Sue grows up in a house of to a dinner, which he knows neither obsessive attentions from a young fingersmiths (petty thieves) in Whitbread Novel Award of them will enjoy, and his satiric, man whom he has only seen a grimy back alley of Victorian The only child of a young couple humorously snide observations once before. Under this stress, his London. Baby farming, gloomy suddenly disappears in McEwan’s slowly reveal the reasons for this previously happy marriage begins to mansions, inheritances and complex, haunting, almost magical over five courses. Expertly paced fail. A chilling study of the troubling conspiracies, hanging, oppressive interweaving of the themes of loss, twists expose dark events, and the phenomenon of the stalker, from a relatives and eccentrics and lunatic memory and the human capacity veneer of middle-class respectability novelist with an uncanny ability to asylums – it’s all here. Full of for regeneration. is questioned in the face of parental portray disturbing states of mind. deceptions, twists and unfolding FE 1987 220pp B1316 angst, loyalty and justice. FE 1997 247pp B1710 romance, this novel is brilliantly FE 2012 309pp B2171 written. The lesbian love interest and reference to the thriving The Cove Victorian pornography industry are Ron Rash The Dressmaker F post-Dickensian. In a gloomy valley in the Rosalie Ham F 2002 548pp B1807 Appalachians there is a farm that the Tilly returns from fashionable Europe Farewell, My Lovely locals believe is cursed. The farm’s to her mother, ‘old Mad Molly’, and Raymond Chandler owners are Laurel, an object of to the small country town in the Chandler is one of the most derision with a port wine birthmark, Victorian wheatbelt where she grew enthralling thriller writers and this, G and her brother Hank, maimed from up. In this inventive first novel, part his best-known book, withstands war in Europe. When mute stranger pastoral, part Gothic, there is much the test of time. You may have The Girl with the Walter enters her life, Laurel finds comic brio as Tilly brings haute seen the film with Robert Mitchum Dragon Tattoo happiness she has never known. But couture to the backblocks. and Charlotte Rampling in the Stieg Larsson will Walter’s secret destroy them? FE 2000 296pp B1638 leading roles. The first book in the Millennium FE 2012 255pp B2158 FE 1940 253pp B1060 trilogy. Set in Sweden, this unconventional and gripping The Dry This book elicited very good The Cuckoo’s Calling Jane Harper mystery delves into social issues, discussion. Opinions were varied, particularly about violence against Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) ranging from 1.5 to 4 stars. WINNER women. Disgraced journalist Mikael Published under a pseudonym, Most admired Chandler’s use of CWA Gold Dagger Award language, with his pithy dialogue Blomkvist is hired by a wealthy J.K. Rowling’s first crime novel tells businessman to investigate the the story of Private Investigator and description of place. WINNER Shoalhaven 1 disappearance, of his niece Harriet Cormoran Strike, a wounded war Ned Kelly Award Vanger. Lisbeth Salander, an anti- veteran with too many debts and not social, tattooed, computer hacker Set in drought-ravaged rural enough clients. When Strike is asked Fatal Remedies becomes his unlikely assistant. to investigate the death of a famous Victoria, Federal Agent Aaron Falk Donna Leon Content may offend some readers. supermodel, he enters the privileged returns to his hometown Kiewarra Police investigator Guido Brunetti world of the rich and famous where to attend the funeral of his former F 2008 533pp B2067 deals with domestic tension as things are never what they seem. best friend, Luke Hadler, who his articulate, strong-willed wife 2014 560pp B2265 allegedly committed suicide after F shooting and killing his wife and makes a stand on an issue of great NEW their young son. Falk’s unwelcome concern. As crime escalates from arrival unearths the suspicion of the local to the international scene, D a mysterious death that digs up a Leon deals with issues of corruption The long-buried secret. in the local scene of Venice, where Dead Man Walking she has lived for 25 years. Godmother FE 2016 339pp B2274 Helen Prejean F 1999 303pp B1855 Hannelore This passionate case against capital Cayre punishment comes from a nun The Fig Eater brought into contact with violent E WINNER Grand Prix de Littérature Policière criminals on Death Row. Remarkable Jody Shields for exploring evil, love, and grace. Emergency Sex and Other Vienna in 1910. It seems at first Widow Patience Portefeux is an Desperate Measures that this will be a straightforward underpaid translator. When she N 1993 358pp B1502 historical crime novel, but it mines Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait interprets some wiretaps ahead Dark Deeds & Andrew Thomson the fertile tension between morality of the authorities, she decides to and passion that provided such rich Diamond Dove The authors, former UN employees, intervene and becomes embroiled material for Freud himself. Beneath Adrian Hyland met on peacekeeping assignment in the drug trade. An offbeat and sly the imperial city’s respectable Drifting back to the Aboriginal in Cambodia. The trio cross paths in crime novel with a hint of French noir. facade are layers of deception, community she left years ago, Emily Somalia, Haiti, and Bosnia, and their abuse and sexual perversion. F 2019 208pp B2320 doesn’t know where she belongs. friendship strengthens. Interweaving Interweaving two parallel Within hours of her return, an old stories reveal idealism, humour and investigations of a young girl’s friend is brutally murdered and an desire, beneath accounts of war that old enemy is the only suspect. This will educate and outrage. Confronting murder, Shields explores the nature outback crime yarn tackles issues descriptions of sex and genocide will of investigation itself. What is the of land, lore and relations between offend some, but this is well worth the role of logic, and what of intuition? black and white Australians. Strong effort for its brilliant investigation into FE 2000 349pp B1640 language may offend some readers. the human cost of global politics. F 2006 322pp B1949 N 2004 352pp B1877

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Gone Girl Havana Bay Gillian Flynn Martin Cruz Smith J L When a seemingly happy woman Arkady Renko first appeared in disappears without a trace, 1981 as the maverick Moscow Joe Cinque’s The Legacy convincing evidence points to policeman in Gorky Park. Now Consolation Kirsten Tranter the involvement of her oddly Arkady has arrived in Cuba to Helen Garner Reimagines The Portrait of a Lady unemotional husband. This well investigate the death of a Russian by Henry James. Ingrid inherits crafted psychological thriller embassy worker. A richly intricate WINNER a fortune, moves to New York, surprises with each turn of the spy thriller, made more compelling Ned Kelly Award marries, becomes stepmother to investigation, unfolding disturbing by its evocation of a threadbare, In this ‘true story of death, grief teenage Fleur, and immerses herself information with every twist. The vibrant, dangerous Havana with the and the law’ Garner unravels the in the art scene. The morning of unpredictable characters, absorbing insinuation of music never far away. bizarre killing of an unsuspecting 9/11, Ingrid disappears after an storyline and creative structure are 1999 453pp B1761 young man by his girlfriend. Why appointment downtown, and her stimulating discussion points, and F did those who knew of the murder cousin Ralph asks his friend Julia to questions and interview with author do nothing? An onlooker during the find out what happened. Gillian Flynn are included. I legal proceedings, Garner comes to F 2010 438pp B2095 F 2012 496pp B2177 know the Cinque family, especially The Ice Princess Maria, Joe’s mother. The Little Stranger H Camilla Lackberg NE 2004 328pp B1859 Sarah Waters When writer Erica Falck returns to her hometown in Sweden, she SHORTLISTED The Hamilton Case Man Booker Prize learns that her childhood friend Alex K Michelle de Kretser has died. Police are treating it as In post-war rural Warwickshire, WINNER a suicide, but as Erica interviews The Killing of Sister country GP Dr Faraday becomes Commonwealth Writers’ Prize people about Alex’s death, it McCormack involved in a spiralling series becomes clear that deeper secrets of disturbing events involving This brilliant evocation of life in are hiding beneath the surface of Anne Henderson the crumbling estate of grand 1930s Ceylon, at the end of the the small, idyllic town of Fjallbacka. Sister Irene McCormack was the local family, the Ayres. A ghost first Australian Catholic missionary British colonial period, focuses on FE 2011 400pp B2145 story, a family in decline, and a the murder of an English tea planter to be murdered abroad. What rapidly changing society make and the tangled personal life of prompted her to travel to rural this compelling reading from this the narrator. A Ceylonese lawyer In Cold Blood Peru, where she lived simply and popular author. who prides himself on being more taught the children of the poor? Truman Capote F 2009 501pp B2038 English than the English, Sam’s A Kansas farmer and his family Henderson skilfully teases out complex character and distorted were murdered early one morning the many different facets of Sister view of the world are beautifully in 1959, an event that captivated McCormack’s life and death: The Lovely Bones sustained. De Kretser’s historical Capote’s interest. In an effort to theology, politics, terrorism, Alice Sebold novel is complex and satisfying. relationships, mission work, escape subjectivism, he spent five 14-year-old Susie is brutally and passion. FE 2003 369pp B1862 years on the case, made friends of murdered, and tells her story the two murderers, and wrote this N 2002 308pp B1673 looking down from heaven. The Harmony Silk Factory ‘nonfiction novel’ about it all. Haunting, compelling, and N 1966 288pp B0100 Kittyhawk Down unsettling, this is an original and Tash Aw challenging novel about healing, Garry Disher recovery, and moving on towards a WINNER Set on the Mornington Peninsula Commonwealth Writers’ Prize The Invisible Ones newly defined future. not far from Melbourne, this Stef Penney FE 2002 328pp B1789 A kaleidoscopic portrait of Johnny In 1980s England, private eye crime novel offers dead bodies, Lim, textile merchant, petty crook Ray Lovell is investigating the manhunts, suspense and intrigue. and inventor, who marries local disappearance of a young woman Disher’s character development is beauty Snow Soong. Years later, who married into a travelling Gypsy excellent, especially in unfolding the M their son Jasper seeks to unravel family. Meanwhile, Romani teenager private and professional life of his the truth about his parents’ JJ struggles to unravel long-held police investigator, Hal Challis. Midnight In Sicily relationship. Dealing with loyalty, family secrets. Inspired by film noir, 2003 275pp B1787 Peter Robb love, and betrayal in 1940s Malaysia FE this thriller explores hidden secrets, A fascinating collage of Italian art,

on the brink of abandonment by the Dark Deeds and the lives of those on the fringes history and travel – and the story of British, Aw brilliantly exposes the of society. From the author of The the Mafia in Sicily. Robb claims that cultural tensions of an era. Tenderness of Wolves. during the ‘season of distinguished FE 2005 362pp B1923 F 2011 438pp B2135 corpses’, the ‘men of honour’ built on their conservative Sicilian power It was generally agreed that this base, and with the support of the was a different and interesting anti-left Vatican and CIA, moved Enjoyed style of book. While some into the top positions in Italy. A The Invisible Ones? found the format of two first- crime story like no other. person narrators a challenge, others thought it worked quite N 1996 326pp B1549 Try The Godmother well and added insight as the by Hannelore Cayre story unfolded. [B2320] Blackburn 22

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Midnight In the Garden The Moonstone Nineteen Minutes Orpheus Lost of Good and Evil Wilkie Collins Jodi Picoult Janette Turner Hospital John Berendt A superb novel which has been Picoult delves into small-town There is an explosion on the This ornate, readable book regarded as the first modern life to explore ‘difference’ in underground, terrorists are transports us to the lush setting of detective story, and was originally our society. In Sterling, New suspected, and Leela, a gifted Savannah, Georgia, a city which serialised in Charles Dickens’ Hampshire, seventeen-year-old American mathematician, is taken is inward looking, ingrown, and magazine. After a theft in a grand Peter has endured years of verbal to an interrogation centre outside caught in a time warp. It’s full of home, Sergeant Cuff must solve and physical abuse at the hands the city. Her childhood friend, Cobb, eccentric people and anecdotes, a mystery with as many facets as of classmates. One final incident is conducting an unconventional with a murder and four trials for the priceless missing diamond, sends Peter over the edge, leading investigation and reveals that good measure. including tracking down a missing him to an act which forever changes Leela’s love interest Mishka, a nightgown as the key to a murder. the town’s residents. Rich with talented Australian musician, is not N 1994 388pp B1476 L FE 1868 526pp B1170 psychological and social insight, who he seems. Picoult asks: how well can we really FE 2007 358pp B2008 The Midnight Watch know someone? Morality Play David Dyer FE 2007 600pp B2001 Barry Unsworth On the night the Titanic sank, her P passengers and crew noticed In 14th-century England, a troupe another ship nearby. That ship was of travelling players is beset by winter, plague and banditry. The O The People in the Trees the Californian, and as the details Hanya Yanagihara of the tragic night emerge, reporter players decide to replace their usual One Good Turn John Steadman is intrigued by miracle play with an improvisation Scientist Norton Perina reflects the reactions of her crew. Based of the events leading up to a recent Kate Atkinson on his controversial Nobel Prize on true events, this gripping novel murder. Historical novel and murder At the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, winning discovery amid a media explores the human failings of those mystery blend as we witness the Jackson Brodie (from Case storm of allegations of child who could have prevented disaster birth of modern drama. Histories) becomes enmeshed in abuse. His matter of fact viewpoint – and yet, stood by. F 1995 188pp B1511 a number of murders that ripple out contrasts his questionable morality, from a road rage incident. An array lending a dark psychological FE 2016 336pp B2239 of characters, from the quirky to the element to a book which will The Mystery bizarre, feature in this fast moving, leave you considering Western Miss Smilla’s of a Hansom Cab deftly plotted comic novel. colonisation, ecological disruption, Feeling for Snow Fergus Hume F 2006 396pp B1975 and the subjective way we view ourselves – and our heroes. This handsome 1999 edition Peter Høeg Endlessly discussable. Contains restores the local Melbourne detail On the Java Ridge themes that may disturb. WINNER and language of the original text of CWA Silver Dagger Award this early murder mystery, which Jock Serong FE 2013 384pp B2209 A small boy fell to his death from sold 20,000 copies here when it SHORTLISTED the roof of an apartment block. But was first printed. This readable, Indie Book Award Perfume: The Story was this really an accidental death? historically significant example of crime fiction is a period piece of late Skipper Isi Natoli is charge of tour of a Murderer Smilla Jaspersen, descended boat Java Ridge, currently hosting a from the Inuit people of Greenland, 19th century Melbourne. Patrick Süskind group of rich Australian surf tourists Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born has a feeling for snow – and she FE 1886 309pp B0408 in search of perfect waves in the thinks not. The action moves from with an astounding sense of smell, remote Indonesian islands. When yet he himself has no scent. He Denmark to the Arctic icecap, and a storm approaches, the crew and snow and ice, beauty and extremity learns the art of the perfumer and N passengers are anchored beside creates a scent for himself that are central to the world of this an idyllic reef where they come unusual thriller. can fool people’s perceptions of Nice Try into contact with the wreckage his personality. One day, inspired F 1992 410pp B1413 Shane Maloney of Takalar, a people-smuggling to possess the scent of a young boat harbouring asylum seekers. Melbourne may be the Australian girl, he murders her, embarking Everyone wanted to talk about The novel deals with the unfolding this book which created vigorous capital of performance comedy on a journey to the dark side of political dilemma in Canberra, at discussion with an unusual and Maloney lives up to this humanity. the same time as depicting the female protagonist written by a reputation with this delightful tale. desperation to survive. FE 1985 263pp B1453 male author. We had a love hate Murray Whelan’s involvement relationship with Miss Smilla who with Melbourne’s bid to stage the FE 2017 309pp B2279 Dark Deeds was funny and eccentric. The Olympic Games allows hilarious One drama followed the next relationship between Greenland insights into 1990s politics, gym and Denmark was fascinating and keeping us interested and waiting culture, and Aboriginal activism. well highlighted with echoes of for the next incident. We noted the treatment of the indigenous FE 1998 312pp B1577 how well the author Jock Serong population in Australia. It was described swimming, surfing, written in a very visual style, diving and the sea, we really especially with the boat moving felt we were seeing or doing the from scene to scene and we can actions. His of these activities was see why it became a movie. evident. Altogether a fascinating Barwite Bookworms and well written book which we all enjoyed, although challenging. Tathra

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The Poison Principle Rebecca The Robber Bride Gail Bell Daphne du Maurier Margaret Atwood S Enticingly subtitled A Memoir WINNER WINNER of Family Secrets and Literary Secrets of the Jury Room National Book Award Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Poisonings. Bell’s grandfather was Malcolm Knox known inside the family to have Max de Winter’s second wife lives Zenia was ‘pure, freewheeling What happens if twelve randomly poisoned his two young sons with him in a suffocating atmosphere malevolence’, a manipulator who chosen men and women do not with strychnine in 1927. Herself a of mystery and rising menace, as brilliantly exploited the generosity easily reach a unanimous decision? trained pharmacist, Bell spent years she becomes vested in the mystery and weaknesses of friends. They Prompted by his own experience disentangling these events, and of what became of his first wife, the attended her funeral with relief - but of jury duty in a criminal case, interweaves her discoveries with dazzling Rebecca. A classic thriller now she returns to disrupt their lives Malcolm Knox (literary editor of precise detail about how arsenic, and still a gripping story even if you again. Atwood at her best: wittily the Sydney Morning Herald) has strychnine, and cyanide work, and know Hitchcock’s film version. observant, emotionally engaging, produced a readable book about accounts of famous poisoners and FL 1938 397pp B1137 and positive about friendship. jury trials, and their advantages their victims. F 1993 470pp B1456 and disadvantages. N 2001 279pp B1660 Restless N 2005 352pp B1956 William Boyd Room The Power and In the summer of 1976, Ruth Emma Donoghue The Scholl Case the Glory discovers the strange truth about SHORTLISTED Anja Reich-Osang her elderly mother, Sally. Russian Graham Greene Orange Prize by birth, she worked for the British SHORTLISTED Set in Mexico at the time of CWA Daggers Award religious persecution in the name Secret Service during World War II. Five-year-old Jack lives in one room of revolution, and in many ways A suspenseful novel of a female spy with his mother, and believes they are When a woman’s body is found in like a thriller, the story is of the last, that sheds a fascinating light into the only real people in a world that the forest near Berlin, suspicion falls hunted days of a whisky-sodden wartime British American relations exists only within ‘Room’ – until his on her husband, Heinrich Scholl, priest determined to continue the and explores the consequences of mother confides her terrible secret. former mayor and well-respected Church’s ministry. betrayal and duplicity. Jack is by turns poignantly naïve and member of the community. They F 2006 304pp B1976 wise beyond his years, and his story had been married almost fifty years F 1940 288pp B0139 will haunt you long after you finish this and were considered the perfect powerful novel. Disturbing content couple, could he really be capable Resurrection Bay with plenty of material for discussion. of her murder? But when award- R Emma Viskic FE 2010 400pp B2110 winning journalist Anja Reich- WINNER Osang investigates deeper into The Railway Station Man their marriage, she discovers not Ned Kelly Award The Rúin Jennifer Johnston everything is what it seems. This is Helen has retreated to a small Dervla McTiernan a true crime that reads more like a WINNER fiction novel. town on the Irish coast as she Davitt Award WINNER recovers from the tragic death of her Davitt Award NE 2016 213pp B2263 husband. She begins painting again, Deaf since childhood, Caleb has and slowly forms a relationship with always relied on his instincts. When WINNER his best friend is murdered, Caleb The Shark Net war hero Roger who lives at the Australian Book Industry Award nearby railway station house – but begins an investigation that will Robert Drewe happiness can be fleeting among the force him to face the demons from Detective Cormac Reilly doesn’t In this memoir, subtitled Memories tensions of life. An explosive, well- his past. Laced with a dark humour, expect to be revisiting a case from and Murder, Drewe captures key plotted novel from this Whitbread this original, fast-paced thriller 20 years ago. He’s never forgotten images from his youth in Perth. Novel Award-winning author. questions what it means to pass for the two children left behind after After his family’s transfer from a ‘normal’ in a world where otherness their mother’s body was discovered more conservative Melbourne he FE 1984 187pp B1234 is often seen as ‘disability’, asking in their house. And what is the experiences the Perth locals as intriguing questions about identity connection with a body found in the strange and fascinating. There’s Reading in the Dark and belonging. river? In this gripping crime debut set humour, perceptiveness and Seamus Deane FE 2015 192pp B2232 in Ireland nothing is what it seems. also dread – as a serial murderer FE 2018 400pp B2305 menaces the city, a figure who SHORTLISTED turns out to be more closely Man Booker Prize The Return of the connected with their family than

anyone realises. Dark Deeds In the town of Derry in Northern Dancing Master Ireland, a young boy from a Catholic Henning Mankell NE 2000 358pp B1843 family is gripped with secrets, fears, In a remote location in northern suspicions and betrayals, all having Sweden, an off the job policeman to do with IRA involvement and the decides to find out more about the police. The boy’s gradual piecing violent death of a colleague. Mankell Enjoyed The Ruin? together of events provides chilling is a master of suspense and suspense, but together with this tension, able to take on big ideas Try bleakness Deane renders a magical such as the resurgence across world of a child’s imaginings; of Europe of neo-Nazism. Intelligent, The Wife and the Widow tales, songs and myths. complex crime writing. by Christian White F 1996 233pp B1545 F 2000 520pp B1840 [B2334]

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NEW Something Fishy The Surgeon of The Tall Man Shane Maloney Crowthorne Chloe Hooper It may be summer at the beach, but Simon Winchester WINNER Sheerwater the Hon. Murray Whelan MP is onto The Oxford English Dictionary, a WA Premier’s Award for Fiction Leah Swann something: criminality in one area massive work which took seventy Ava takes her two of the fishing industry. There are years to complete, was based on sharply observed scenes of Lorne, WINNER boys to the Great the contributions of thousands Davitt Award Ocean Road for a fresh start, away and Maloney’s usual liking for fast, of volunteers, but a mystery from her husband, Laurence. But funny action. surrounded W.C. Minor, one of the In 2004, Cameron Doomadgee when she stops to assist at the FE 2002 242pp B1844 most prolific and helpful of these. was arrested for swearing at a scene of an accident, her children Winchester’s bestselling book sets white police officer. Within forty-five disappear. What could have Started Early, out the bizarre tale of Minor and his minutes he was dead in a watch happened to them? A raw visceral torments, and also offers a diverting house cell, the main suspect is and often shocking tale. Strong Took My Dog account of dictionaries. well respected Senior Sergeant themes of domestic abuse. Kate Atkinson Christopher Hurley. Hooper tells N 1998 207pp B1704 the full story of the subsequent trial FE 2020 304pp B2328 The fourth Jackson Brodie book in and its repercussions. Her reports the bestselling series that began with won her a Walkley Award and were Case Histories and was followed Surrender published around the world. Silvermeadow by One Good Turn and When Sonya Hartnett Barry Maitland Will There Be Good News? This Gabriel once did a thing NE 2008 288pp B2062 A missing teenager and a sighting gripping mystery is as compelling as unforgivable in the eyes of his of a vicious bank robber are both its precursors. community. Now twenty years old The Tenderness of Wolves linked to Silvermeadow, a glitzy new F 2010 400pp B2088 and dying, he has only his faithful Stef Penney shopping centre on the outskirts dog and his childhood friend of London. Maitland brings his Finnigan with whom he made a WINNER architecture background into play, Sucked In chilling pact. This demanding, Costa Book Award not just with the design of the mall Shane Maloney disturbing and exhilarating 1867, Canada. As winter grips the but with the social psychology The discovery of a body in a psychological thriller explores isolated settlement of Dove River, that underpins it. Well written and recently drained lake in country the impact of suffering on a a man is brutally murdered and a plotted, with convincing characters. Victoria sends Murray Whelan into child’s mind. teenage boy disappears. Tracks Small print. investigation mode. Are these the FE 2005 245pp B1895 outside the dead man’s cabin F 2000 346pp B1856 remains of a union leader, drowned two decades ago? Maloney head north. One by one journalists, brings us a sharp-witted picture of The Suspicions of trappers, and traders set out Snow Falling on Cedars Melbourne during the late 1990s. Mr Whicher across a desolate and dangerous David Guterson landscape; pursuing the tracks F 2007 276pp B1978 Kate Summerscale before the snow erases the past for SHORTLISTED WINNER good. But do they want to solve the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction The Summer That Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction crime or exploit it? In 1954 on an island off the Pacific Melted Everything The murder of a child lies at F 2006 440pp B1980 coast of America, a fisherman Tiffany McDaniel the heart of this biography of a is found dead, and a second- When thirteen-year-old Sal arrives middle-class Victorian family, The Thirteenth Tale generation Japanese American is in the summer of 1984 to Breathed, Summerscale’s meticulous Diane Setterfield accused of murdering him. This Ohio, claiming to be the devil, he is research turns a mystery into Angelfield House was once the novel about a small community adopted into the Bliss family as one of an accessible social history of home of the March family – the examines prejudice, racial injustice, their own. As the Bliss family struggle Britain’s 19th-century love affair manipulative Isabelle, her brutal war, love and conscience. A page- with their own personal demons, a with detectives, and the birth of the brother Charlie, and wild twins turner offering much to discuss. scorching heat-wave brings out a detective novel. Emmeline and Adeline. But now the F 1994 404pp B1497 fanatical hysteria of the town’s people N 2008 372pp B2085 house stands forgotten, its chilling that question the nature of good secrets hidden from view - until a The Snowman and evil. A poetic, lyrical and literary biographer begins investigating depiction of a fractured family and a Angelfield’s past. Jo Nesbo small town in crises. T The first day of snow has fallen on F 2006 459pp B1994 F 2016 320pp B2256 The Tainted Trial

Oslo, and police investigator Harry Dark Deeds Hole is involved in solving a series of Farah Jama This House of Grief of brutal murders. Hole finds himself Julie Szego Helen Garner trapped in the killer’s evil game, A Somali teen in Melbourne Garner was shocked by the tragic which will bring him to the verge of was convicted of the rape of an story of a man whose three children insanity. Content may disturb. Australian woman – but the tireless drowned when his car plunged into FE 2010 576pp B2154 efforts of his lawyer led to shocking a dam on Father’s Day in 2005. revelations eighteen months later. Here, she follows the engrossing Raising questions about justice, twists of the man’s court case and migration, cultural taboos, prejudice various appeals in this true crime and gender politics, this is a story, watching as the theatre of confronting story about the legal the law tries to determine: was this system in Australia. accidental, or deliberate? N 2014 242pp B2213 NE 2014 288pp B2223

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This Is How The White Tiger M.J. Hyland U W Aravind Adiga This is a vividly imagined novel The Unfortunate Victim We Need to Talk WINNER about a young man on the edge Man Booker Prize of sanity. Patrick is moving into Greg Pyers About Kevin a boarding house on the English Set in the gold-mining town of Lionel Shriver The son of a rickshaw puller, seaside, leaving behind his parents, Daylesford in 1864, this historical Balram leaves school to work in an unfinished university degree, crime fiction revolves around the WINNER a teashop. When a rich village and a failed engagement. There brutal murder of a newlywed, and Orange Prize landlord hires him as a chauffeur is a mounting sense of unease the chase to find her killer. Based When her son commits mass in Delhi, Balram’s re-education as we follow the emotionally on a true story, the novel offers murder days before his sixteenth begins, but to access the wealth inarticulate Patrick in this study in plenty of discussion around the birthday, Eva is robbed of and opportunity of the city he claustrophobia and loneliness. treatment of female victims and the everything important to her. In a must embrace a new morality. F 2009 320pp B2056 state of law enforcement during series of letters to her estranged Provincialism and the caste system Australia’s gold-rush period. husband, Eva revisits the events clash with the economic glitter of the techno-boom, where murder is FE 2017 320pp B2260 that led to the horrific incident. Trespass This chilling, deeply psychological sometimes the best option. Rose Tremain novel asks controversial questions FE 2008 336pp B2030 Antiques dealer Anthony escapes The Untouchable about parenting and family in the his fading London life to his sister’s John Banville modern age. house in France, where his presence Quintessential member of the F 2005 468pp B1942 NEW disrupts her life and relationship. English Establishment, Anthony When he decides to buy the run- Blunt was disgraced in 1979 down family home of local siblings when he was revealed as one of When Will There Aramon and Audrun, he becomes The Wife and the Cambridge spies recruited in Be Good News? the Widow entangled in a struggle between the 1930s. The central figure in Kate Atkinson brother and sister which runs deeper Christian White Banville’s exploration of the spy’s From the bestselling author of than he can know. Tremain explores Kate goes to pick up her husband mentality is loosely based on Blunt, Case Histories and One Good Turn family history and what it means to from the airport after a work with a supporting cast of randy, comes the third literary mystery ‘trespass’ in this haunting novel. trip, only to find he was never heavy drinking dissemblers. A with Jackson Brodie. Dr Hunter is on the plane – or on a work trip. F 2010 253pp B2072 dazzling read: cool, ironic, sad missing and Reggie raises the alarm. Kate seeks answers in an island and funny. In a series of deadly coincidences, This book was very much enjoyed community where her husband 1997 405pp B1566 Jackson joins Reggie’s search and by our group. Although at times F used to live, where Abby is also it was painful for some to read, reconnects with Detective Chief delving into secrets about her there were many themes running Inspector Louise Monroe. With own husband that will turn all their throughout the story, which strong character development and V lives upside down. A fast-paced provoked much discussion. multiple plot twists accompanying layered mystery. Rylstone DGGs The Verge Practice Atkinson’s dark, humorous style. F 2019 384pp B2334 Barry Maitland F 2008 348pp B2029 Truth The glamorous world of architect Peter Temple Charles Verge is disturbed when his White Dog The Woman in White WINNER second wife is murdered, and he Peter Temple Wilkie Collins Miles Franklin Literary Award disappears. Is Verge the killer, now Jack Irish, gambler, cook, cabinet One of the first mystery novels and on the run, or has someone killed maker and one-time lawyer has still a fine example of the genre one Inspector Stephen Villani is head of both Verge and his wife? The action the Victoria Police Homicide Squad a quiet, understated appeal. In a hundred and fifty years after it was moves between London, Barcelona rainy autumn he moves in a world written. Walter helps a distressed and he faces a series of new murders and the British countryside as to solve. A dark novel that explores of shady property deals, the squalid young woman dressed in white, police investigators Kolla and Brock exploitation of young women, then realises that she had escaped corruption, deceit and truth. ‘Truth is follow the trail. Small print. both confronting and electrifying. It is and untimely death. Peter Temple from a nearby asylum. This sets up Temple’s best book’ – The Age. F 2003 313pp B1854 is admired for his superb ear for a surprising plot involving insanity, dialogue and Australian idiom and hidden identities and illegitimate F 2009 387pp B2083 Vernon God Little his disillusioned portrayal of the children. It is said that politician Melbourne and Australian scene. William Gladstone cancelled an Two Caravans D.B.C. Pierre evening at the theatre to read F 2003 337pp B1799 Dark Deeds Marina Lewycka WINNER it; novelist William Makepeace From the author of the international Man Booker Prize Thackeray sat up all night to finish bestseller A Short History of it – and it may produce a similar Tractors in Ukrainian comes a WINNER response in you. Small print. hilarious, yet gritty look at what lies Whitbread Novel Award FE 1859 648pp B1059 behind the arrival of food at our The riotous adventures of 15-year- tables. Lewycka’s depiction of the old Vernon Gregory Little in small- exploitation involved in the global town Texas and beachfront Mexico labour market is just one part of a mark one of the most spectacularly picaresque tale involving itinerant irreverent, satirically acute and migrant workers, young love and a critically acclaimed debuts of the caravan journey from the strawberry 21st century. Strong language. fields of Kent. F 2003 279pp B1941 FE 2007 310pp B1982

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Bell, Gail 69 Carroll, Lewis 36 Day, Marele 14 A Benjamin, Chloe 45 Carroll, Steven 42, 49 Dean, Debra 32 Adamson, Robert 19 Berendt, John 68 Carter, Angela 11 Deane, Seamus 69 Adelaide, Debra 21, 45 Berger, John 28 Case, Jo 58 de Bernières, Louis 22, 57 Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi 8, 60 Bidwell Smith, Claire 62 Catton, Eleanor 32 de Botton, Alain 17, 20, 21 Adiga, Aravind 71 Birch, Tony 6, 9, 50 Cayre, Hannelore 66 de Hennezel, Marie 55 Albom, Mitch 56 Bird, Carmel 36, 63 Chandler, Raymond 66 de Kretser, Michelle 19, 20, 55, 67 Ali, Monica 51 Birnie, Lisa 59 Chaney, Lisa 12 Desai, Kiran 60 Allende, Isabel 13, 20, 26 Bishop, Alice 58 Chang, Jung 16 de Saint Phalle, Catherine 26 Aman 57 Bishop, Stephanie 54 Chater, Lauren 31 Dessaix, Robert 54 Amsterdam, Steven 40 Bitto, Emily 40 Chevalier, Tracy 18 Dessaix,Robert 46 Anderson, Jessica 8, 9 Blackman, Barbara 18 Chung, Catherine 15 Deveson, Anne 9, 21, 62 Ang, Li 65 Blainey, Ann 19 Clark, Imogen 9 Clark, Manning 8 de Waal, Edmund 18 Annear, Robyn 29, 32, 33 Blain, Georgia 22, 37, 42 Cleave, Chris 61 deWitt, Patrick 55 Armanno, Venero 24 Boochani, Behrouz 62 Clendinnen, Inga 30 Diamant, Anita 34 Armstrong, Judith 37 Bouras, Gillian 27 Clift, Charmian 54 Diamond, Jared 31 Armstrong, Karen 21 Bowen, Stella 11 Clode, Danielle 56 Dickens, Charles 6 Arnold, Matthias 21 Boyd, William 34, 69 Coelho, Paulo 41 Dirie, Waris 11 Ash, Romy 52 Bradley, James 28 Coetzee, J.M. 18, 59 Disher, Garry 67 Ashworth, Andrea 47 Bragge, Lily 61 Cohen, Julie 28 Do, Anh 60 Astley, Thea 6, 56, 61 Brett, Lily 19, 50 Collins, Christy 52 Dobrez, Patricia 17 Atkinson, Kate Brewin, Emily 7, 27 Doerr, Anthony 29 31, 38, 39, 42, 52, 65, 68, 70, 71 Brontë, Charlotte 13 Collins, Wilkie 68, 71 Donoghue, Emma 41, 69 Atwood, Margaret Brontë, Emily 28 Conrad, Joseph 48, 52 3, 6, 15, 38, 40, 41, 42, 65, 69 Conway, Jill Ker 8 Dovey, Ceridwen 39 Brookner, Anita 24 Austen, Jane 23, 25, 26, 27 Cormick, Craig 38 Dowling, Bary 8 Brooks, Geraldine Aw, Tash 67 14, 30, 32, 33, 35 Costello, Tim 63 Doyle, Roddy 64 Brown, Christy 61 Cottee, Kay 12 Drabble, Margaret 47 B Bryson, Bill 7, 29, 52, 54 Crace, Jim 37 Drewe, Robert 54, 69 Bail, Murray 23 Buist, Anne 56 Cracknell, Ruth 25 Düchting, Hajo 17, 19 Bainbridge, Beryl 29 Burroughs, Augusten 48 Craven, Margaret 53 Duigan, Virginia 39 Banville, John 71 Byrski, Liz 13 Crawford, Evelyn 14 du Maurier, Daphne 39, 69 Barbery, Muriel 18 Cruz Smith, Martin 67 Duncan, Susan 55 Barfoot, Joan 26 C Cunningham, Michael 19 Durrell, Gerald 46 Barker, Pat 9, 65 Cahalan, Susannah 58 Cusack, Dymphna 30 Dyer, David 68 Barnes, Julian 27, 31 Cain, Kenneth 66 Cusk, Rachel 22 Barry, Sebastian 61 Cameron, Anson 55 E Bauby, Jean Dominique 59 Camus, Albert 62 D Earls, Nick 26 Bayley, John 25 Capote, Truman 22, 24, 67 Daisley, Stephen 64 Edwards, Kim 46 Baynton, Barbara 29 Capp, Fiona 55 Dalrymple, William 51 Egan, Jennifer 28 Bedford, Sybille 14 Carey, Peter Davidson, Robyn 56 Ehrenreich, Barbara 62 Behrendt, Larissa 45 7, 27, 32, 33, 35, 41 Davies, Martin 37 Elliott, Sumner Locke 28 Behrens, Peter 32 Carr, J.L. 61 Day, Gregory 39 Ellmann, Richard 20

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21 Lessons for the 21st Anthropologist on Mars, An 57 Between a Wolf and a Dog E 22 Bush Studies 29 Century E 17 Ape House E 36 Beyond Black E 36 Butcher’s Wife, The 65 44 Scotland Street 42 Application Of Pressure, The 57 Big Brother 22 ButterflyE 5 84 Charing Cross Road 42 Are You Somebody? E 11 Billie’s Kiss 22 1788 E 51 Arsonist, The E 65 Birds Without Wings E 57 C 1984 EL 36 Artist of the Floating World, An E Birth House, The 29 Cabin Fever E 36 17 Births Deaths Marriages E 42 Café Scheherazade 58 A Art of the Engine Driver, The E Black Rock White City 58 Caleb’s Crossing E 30 About a Boy E 5 42 Black Tide 65 Cape Grimm E 36 Accidental, The 36 A Scandalous Life 15 Blind Assassin, The 42 Capital 36 As I Walked Out One Accidental Tourist, The 22 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin E 22 Midsummer Morning 29 Blind Astronomer’s Daughter, According to Queeney 29 The 36 Careless 43 Assistant, The 57 Accursed Mountains, The 51 Blood from a Stone E 65 Case Histories 65 A Stranger Here 27 Addition 22 Bloodletting and Miraculous Casual Vacancy, The 43 At Home 29 Cures 51 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Cat’s Eye 6 The E 51 Atonement E 22 Bloody Chamber, The E 11 Catcher in the Rye, The 5 AffluenzaE 17 Australian Son, An 5 Boat, The E 58 Catfish and Mandala 51 Aftermath 22 Authentic Life, An 51 Bomb, Book and Compass: Célestine E 30 After the Fire, A Still Small Voice Author, Author 17 Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China E 29 Cézanne: Paul Cézanne, 57 Autumn Laing 17 1839–1906 17 Age of Innocence, The E 22 Bone People, The 65 Book of Emmett, The E 42 Change in the Lighting, A 22 A Good Day to Die 59 B Book Thief, The 29 Change of Skies, A 51 Ali and Nino 22 Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, E Boomer and Me 58 Charades E 36 Alias Grace 65 The E 57 E Borderliners 65 Charles Dickens: A Life E 17 All Quiet on the Western Front Bad Blood E 5 L E 57 Balanda E 51 Boy in the Green Suit, The E 5 Charles Hotham 30 All That Happened at Balzac and the Little Chinese Boyds: The Art of the Boyds, Chase, The 11 Number 26 E 42 Seamstress 5 The 17 Child in Time, The E 66 All That I Am E 65 Barn Blind EL 5 Brain on Fire E 58 Childish Things 23 All the Birds, Singing 57 Barracuda E 5 Brave New World 36 Children Act, The E 43 All the Light We Cannot See E Basil Street Blues E 42 Breakfast at Tiffany’s 22 Children’s Bach, The E 43 29 Bean Patch, The 57 Breath E 5 Children, The 43 All the Pretty Horses E 5 Bean Trees, The 5 Breathing Lessons E 42 Child’s Book of True Crime, A 36 Almost French E 51 Bearbrass 29 Brick Lane E 51 Chocolat E 11 Aman 57 Bees, The E 36 Brideshead Revisited E 42 Chosen, The 6 Amateur Marriage, The 22 Before We Were Yours E 42 Bring Larks and Heroes E 29 Cider with Rosie EL 17 American Wife 22 Behind the Scenes at the Bring Up the Bodies E 29 Circe E 37 Amsterdam E 65 Museum E 42 Broken Shore, The E 65 City of Djinns 51 And the Mountains Echoed E 42 Behind the Wall E 51 Brooklyn E 51 City of Friends E 23 Anil’s Ghost 57 Bel Canto 22 Brush Off, The 65 City of the Mind E 43 Animal Farm E 36 Bell Jar, The E 5 Burgess Boys, The E 42 Clarice Beckett 17 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle E 11 Beloved 57 Burial Rites E 29 Closed for Winter E 37 Annotated Alice, The 36 Bereft E 29 Burnt Shadows 58 Close Range: Wyoming Stories Another World E 65 Berlin Syndrome 65 Bury Me Standing 58 58

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Cloudstreet E 43 Digging to America E 43 Extinctions 44 Fortunate Life, A E 6 Coda E 6 Dinner at the Homesick Extremely Loud and Incredibly Four Letters of Love, The 24 Close E 6 Cold Mountain L 23 Restaurant E 43 Foxybaby 37 Eye of the Reindeer, The 12 Color of Water, The E 43 Dinner, The E 66 Fraction of the Whole, A E 44 Eye of the Sheep, The E 59 Come in Spinner E 30 Dirt Music E 23 Frangipani 44 Eyre Affair, The 37 Complicated Kindness, A E 6 Disgrace 59 Fred Hollows: An Eyrie E 23 Autobiography 59 Conditions of Faith 51 Dissection E 37 L Confessions of a Clay Man 58 Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya French Tutor, The 37 Sisterhood E 11 Conjuror’s Bird, The 37 F Fresh Fields 6 Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Facing the Music 18 Consolations of Philosophy 17 Friends, Lovers, Chocolate 12 The E 59 Falling Leaves 44 Constant Hum, A E 58 From Rice to Riches E 52 Down Under 52 Family Matters 44 Constant Pressure, The E 58 From Strength to Strength L 12 Drawn from Life 11 Farewell, My Lovely E 66 Coonardoo E 58 Full Catastrophe, The 24 Dressmaker, The E 66 Fatal Remedies 66 Corrections, The E 43 Full Cupboard of Life, The 12 Drinking Coffee Elsewhere 6 Fault in Our Stars, The 59 Corset, The E 30 Drowned and the Saved, The 59 Fault Lines 44 Courtesan’s Revenge, The E 11 G Dry, The E 66 Feel of Steel, The 23 Galileo’s Daughter 30 Cove, The E 66 E Feet of Clay E 18 Gate at the Stairs, A 6 Craft for a Dry Lake E 43 E E Fence Around the Cuckoo, A Gathering, The 44 Crane Wife, The E 17 Eat Pray Love 52 EL 12 Generations 30 Cranford E 30 Edna Walling and Her Gardens Fence, The 44 Geography of Friendship, The Crossing to Safety 23 11 Fez of the Heart, A 52 E 12 Cuckoo’s Calling, The 66 Educated 59 Fifth Child, The 44 Getting Equal 12 Curious Incident of the Dog in Edward Koiki Mabo 59 Fig Eater, The E 66 Getting of Wisdom, The 6 the Night Time, The E 58 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fig Tree, The E 52 Ghost River Fine E 23 6 Fine Balance, A 59 Electricity 30 Ghost Wall 37 D Fine Colour of Rust, The 44 Dancing with Strangers 30 Elegance of the Hedgehog, The Gift of Asher Lev, The 18 Fingersmith 66 Dangerous Love 58 18 Gilead 44 Finkler Question, The 23 Dark Emu E 17 Elephants with Headlights E 44 Gilgamesh 52 Firehead 24 Dark Places EL 43 Eligible E 23 Girls, The 12 Fire Under the Snow 30 David CopperfieldE 6 Elizabeth Costello E 18 Girl with a Pearl Earring E 18 First Lady 12 Day We Had Hitler Home, The 58 Elizabeth David 12 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The First Stone, The E 59 66 Dead Man Walking 66 Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures 66 Fishing in the Styx L 12 Girl, Woman, Other 12 Death in Brazil, A 51 Emma 23 Five Bells 24 Glass After Glass 18 Death in the Ladies’ Goddess E Club E 11 Empire Falls 30 Flight Behaviour E 52 Glass Castle, The 44 Death in Venice E 37 End of Seeing, The 52 Flights of Love 24 Glass Room, The 31 Death of Noah Glass, The E 43 Enduring Love E 66 Floating Brothel, The 30 Go Between, The L 6 Death of a River Guide E 37 English Patient, The E 23 Floundering 52 God in Ruins, A 52 Death Sentence 18 Equal Music, An 23 Flying with Paper Wings 59 God of Small Things, The 45 Desert Flower 11 Eucalyptus E 23 Foal’s Bread E 44 Godmother, The 66 Devil’s Larder, The 37 Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence 12 Gogh: Vincent van Gogh, Diamond Dove 66 Living E 37 Footsteps 52 1853-1890 18 Diaries of Jane Somers, The 11 Every Secret Thing 44 Forest Dark E 52 Golden Age, The E 59 Diary of a Welsh Swagman, Evil Cradling, An 59 For Esther 59 Golden Mean, The E 18 1869-1894 52 Excellent Women 12 Forgotten Garden, The 30 Goldfinch, The 18 Dictionary of Lost Words, The 30 Explosion Chronicles, The E 37 For Today I Am a Boy E 6 Gone Girl 66

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Residential address: �������������������������������������� Postal address (if different to Residential): ���������������������� �������������������������������������������������������� �������������������������������������������������������� �������������������������������������������������������� �������������������������������������������������������� State: ______Postcode:______State: ______Postcode:______

Do you wish to join/re-join our complementary eBook service? NO EXTRA COST  Yes  No Book Groups E‑Newsletter: Please tick box if you DO NOT want to receive Book Groups Newsletter by email  CAE Marketing: Please tick the box if you DO NOT want to receive any marketing communication from us  Fee Schedule 2021 Please select either VICTORIA or INTERSTATE. Tick the number of meetings your group is having and tick the appropriate fee. If you are a new member or group starting partway through the year, please contact our office for the applicable pro-rata fee.

VICTORIA INTERSTATE

No. of group Full Seniors Concession Secretary No. of group Full Seniors Concession Secretary meetings Fee Fee Fee Fee meetings Fee Fee Fee Fee

 11  $153  $139  $103  $90  11  $176  $154  $121  $101  9  $142  $129  $96  $84  9  $159  $140  $110  $92  6  $113  $104  $77  $68  6  $122  $107  $85  $71

Please note: Interstate membership fees differ due to postage/delivery charges.

Seniors, Students and Concession Fees If you are claiming a reduced fee, please attach a photocopy of your card. Senior Fees – Must have a valid Seniors Card or Commonwealth Seniors Health Card (Senior Business Card not included). Student Fees – Same as the Seniors Fee. Must have a valid Student Card. Concession Fees – Must have a valid Pensioner Concession Card, Health Care Card or Veterans Affairs Gold Card.  Senior/Student  Pensioner  Health Care  Veterans Affairs Gold

Payment Details: Cash and EFTPOS payments can only be made by paying in person at the CAE reception counter on Level 2, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000.  Cheque (to Box Hill Institute)  Money Order  Visa  Mastercard Total Amount $ ______Card No. ______/ ______/ ______/ ______Exp. __ __ /__ __ CVC:______Card Holders Name:______Card Holder’s Signature:______

Please note: Your credit card statement will say Box Hill Institute upon payment. Receipt Options (please tick one):  Send by email  Mail by post

Terms and Conditions Refunds, less a $30 administrative fee, will only be made if requested at least 4 working days prior to the group’s first discussion date. Otherwise, no refunds or credit notes will be issued. CAE is a brand of Box Hill Institute and you will be enrolled as a Box Hill Institute student. By enrolling in this book group you agree to abide by the policies, procedures, regulations, Student Code of Conduct and General Conditions of Enrolment of Box Hill Institute available to be viewed at www.boxhill.edu.au

OFFICE USE ONLY Date Received _____ / ______/ ______BG Approval  Yes  No Sign RTO 4687 M3186 11/20 RTO

CENTRE FOR ADULT EDUCATION / 253 FLINDERS LANE, MELBOURNE / CAE.EDU.AU / 03 9652 0620