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Centre for Adult Education CAE is a leading provider of Adult and Community Education and Theme Icons has been providing lifelong learning opportunities to Victorians for 70 years. CAE has a strong focus on delivering nationally F Fiction Large Print recognised and accredited training as well as non accredited L short courses, and connects with the community through socially N Nonfiction Adapted Books inclusive practices that recognise diversity and creativity. Located S Short Stories Book Group Favourite in the heart of the arts and café area of Melbourne’s CBD, CAE µ offers a vibrant and supportive adult learning environment, E eBook flexible learning options, skills recognition, practical training and supervised work placements. CAE Book Groups New Icon NEW The program has significant autonomy: members of CAE Book Book Groups select their own pool of titles for their year’s reading list; Cover decide on monthly meeting times; choose their own members; and pick a place to meet such as a private home, café or library. Book Title The Rúin CAE Book Group members can also suggest titles for inclusion Author Dervla into the program. From international award winners to debut and McTiernan Australian authors, there are hundreds of books to choose from. Reading guides accompany each box of books and the questions WINNER Australian Book Industry Award Literary provided can be used to frame each group’s discussion. Prize Detective Cormac Reilly doesn’t CAE Book Groups has a long history that can be seen in our expect to be revisiting a case selection of titles, or even in the way the discussion notes are from 20 years ago. He’s never written. We like to think of it as a great trip down memory lane; forgotten the two children left we hope you do too. behind after their mother’s body was discovered in their house. Using Dialogue And what is the connection with a body found in the river? A selection of Reactions (feedback on the books that our Year Published In this gripping crime debut set in members have read) from group members as well as our staff Ireland nothing is what it seems. favourites are included to provide a broad perspective on the Theme type FE 2018 400pp B2305 BOX titles in the program. The Reactions we receive from all our book NUMBER groups provide vital feedback to CAE Book Groups staff. Number There are three indexes: Author Index (arranged alphabetically of Pages An intricately plotted page- by author surname), Title Index and Box Number Index. The Title turner set in Galway, with Index also advises which books are available as eBooks and large complex characters and Group print editions. mystery woven throughout. It will keep you guessing to Reaction Please ensure all members of your group have access to the very end. Dialogue, which can also be downloaded as a PDF via our Group Name Nicole P, CAE Book website at www.cae.edu.au. If you would like to receive a copy Groups staff member as a PDF, just email us and we will send you one. The titles are grouped thematically, with fiction and nonfiction titles often sitting side by side. You will find a description of the themes in the content list. Borrow an eBook As part of your CAE Book Groups membership, you can borrow an eBook version – in addition to the print copy – absolutely free! To receive eBooks, please ensure you have filled out the online form to Register Your Interest. The form is available on the eBook section of the Book Groups website. Please note some titles have limited availability and are only available upon request, and titles will be prioritised for members who are using eBooks due to visual impairment. 4 Join or Start a Book Group

Starting a Book Group CAE Book Groups is a great way to connect with other readers in your How do we receive and return books? local community. Get together with friends, neighbours or colleagues CAE sends a box in advance of each meeting to the delivery address to discuss the sort of books that might appeal to you as a group and nominated by the Group Secretary. Books are returned to CAE by the choose a suitable time and venue. Once you have between 6-15 Group Secretary via courier or post. Return labels are included in all people and have decided on the number of discussion meetings you boxes. Groups operate most efficiently when books are returned to would like to have, you are ready to take the next step of electing a and collected from the Group Secretary by each individual member at CAE Book Group Secretary. the scheduled meeting. Contact CAE Book Groups via phone, email or through our website What do I get for my fee? to receive a New Group Pack so you can begin selecting your books. Your first book will arrive within two weeks of receipt of membership Fees cover the delivery and return of book boxes each month and payments and book selections. access to the CAE eBook catalogue. Each box contains copies of the selected book (maximum 15 copies) and notes on loan for each Joining a Book Group individual member. Group Secretaries should only distribute books If you would prefer to join an existing group, please contact CAE Book to paid members. Group members can also sign up for CAE Book Groups via phone, email or through our website, and we will help you Groups Newsletter to receive timely news on events and competitions, find a group in your area and confirm the appropriate pro-rata fee. To as well as book reviews by CAE Book Groups staff. ensure you and the new group are the right match, your first meeting with a new group is free. Running a Book Group Victorian Annual Membership Fees 2020 (per member) No of meetings Full Fee Seniors Concession Secretary The CAE Book Group Secretary 11 $153 $139 $103 $89 CAE Book Group Secretaries provide a permanent delivery address 9 $142 $129 $96 $83 for books and liaise with CAE staff on book selections, payments 6 $113 $104 $77 $67 and enquiries from potential new members. Secretaries are vital to the success of book groups and ensure CAE keeps in touch with the needs of each group. The role of secretary can rotate between group members from year to year. Interstate Annual Membership Fees 2020 (per member)

Where do CAE Book Groups meet and how often? No of meetings Full Fee Seniors Concession Secretary CAE Book Groups meet whenever they want through the year 11 $176 $154 $121 $100 and choose to receive CAE books 6, 9 or 11 times a year. Groups 9 $159 $140 $110 $91 choose the time, place and format of their meetings and direct their 6 $122 $107 $85 $70 own discussions.

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

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

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Barracuda Breath A B Christos Tsiolkas Tim Winton About a Boy Bad Blood From the author of The Slap WINNER comes an exploration of class, Miles Franklin Literary Award Nick Hornby Lorna Sage identity and the meaning of Will, a 36-year-old bachelor who In Lorna’s bizarre upbringing success. Danny, from a working When paramedic Bruce Pike is delighted to be child-free, in a North Wales town her class background, obtains a arrives too late to save a boy gets mixed up with 12-year-old dissolute vicar grandfather scholarship to a prestigious found hanged in his bedroom, Marcus and his newly separated and furious grandmother are college and builds his identity on he senses this lonely death is an mother. This entertaining dominating figures. ‘A totally becoming an Olympic swimming accident. Pike, too, was once novel is about families, being unexpected book ... rackety, champion. But what happens addicted to extremes, barely a man, being a kid ... and the painful, sometimes menacing when things come crashing knowing when to stop. Winton’s importance of being cool. and mad. Out of it all she has down? Explicit language and ninth novel returns to the remote made something devastatingly content may offend some readers. West Australian coast and the FE 1998 286pp B1706 fictional universe of Sawyer. funny, full of characters and full of FE 2013 516pp B2202 exhilarating resilience and sly wit,’ Simple yet profound, Breath is a All the Pretty Horses said reviewer Anthony Thwaite. moving story of youth’s reckless The Bean Trees compulsion to oblivion. Cormac McCarthy 2000 281pp B1663 NE Barbara Kingsolver 2008 216pp B1992 SHORTLISTED FE Young Taylor Greer has grown National Book Award Balzac and the Little up poor in rural Kentucky and Butterfly While not a formula western or Chinese Seamstress achieved her first two aims – to Sonya Hartnett a ‘man’s book’, this novel has Dai Sijie avoid becoming pregnant and to very American themes. At 16, During Mao’s Cultural Revolution, get away from her hometown. SHORTLISTED John Grady Cole leaves the two sons of doctors are sent to She buys an old car, heads Miles Franklin Literary Award Texan ranch where he grew up the country for ‘reeducation’. West, acquires an unexpected but has no future, to ride into the Plum Coyle is nearly fourteen To keep their sanity, they have responsibility, stops somewhere Mexican frontier: into adventure, and on the fringe of her peer their sense of humour and in Arizona, and begins a romance and rough male justice. group. When her glamorous also some distraction from surprising new life. Strong masculine point of next-door neighbour Maureen, the charming daughter of the 1988 246pp view, powerful landscapes and F B1869 a young wife and mother, local tailor. When they discover distinctive style. befriends her, Plum feels a suitcase full of forbidden The Bell Jar reinvented. But Maureen FE 1992 302pp B1481 literature, new worlds are has an ulterior motive for opened to them. Delightful, funny Sylvia Plath taking Plum under her wing. An Australian Son and unexpected. The only novel by this well-known Gripping, disquieting and 2001 172pp B1671 poet. A brilliant treatment of the beautifully observed. Gordon Matthews F effect of society’s expectations An extraordinary life story without on a sensitive young woman FE 2009 215pp B2045 literary pretensions. Adopted into Barn Blind who went to England, married a Melbourne family in the 1950s, Jane Smiley the poet Ted Hughes, had two Matthews’ distinctive colouring This is a striking study of a children and committed suicide C set him apart at school and in woman of powerful will. Entirely seven years later. adolescence he lost the sense focused on the world of horses 1963 260pp The Catcher in the Rye of where he belonged, until he FE B0188 and riders, Kate has conscripted J.D. Salinger identified as an Aborigine. His all four of her children in the search to uncover his origins The Boy in the Green Suit service of her vision. But their SHORTLISTED opens up questions of adoption, National Book Award own adolescent natures assert Robert Hillman colour and Aboriginality. themselves, and events move to WINNER Holden Caulfield is a 16-year-old N 1996 230pp B1503 a conclusion the family has never National Biography Prize American boy who has just imagined. Written with superb flunked out of his third smart insight into human nature and In 1965, 16-year-old Robert school. His own values reveal the young. Hillman boarded a boat for that he has a deep intuitive sense Ceylon, wearing a green suit and 1980 218pp B1433 of what has gone wrong with Enjoyed FEL carrying a suitcase of books and a the culture to which he belongs, Butterfly? typewriter. When the ship arrived and the book is written from his in Athens instead, a penniless point of view and in his American Hillman began an adventure that period slang. Try led him to Istanbul, Tehran and 1951 224pp B0257 Surrender Kuwait. Punctuated by tales of F growing up in rural Victoria, this is by Sonya Hartnett a tender, funny memoir of a young [B1985] writer-in-the-making. NE 2003 232pp B1872 L Large Print F Fiction N Nonfiction S Short Stories E eBook Adapted Book µ Book Group Favourite 6

Cat’s Eye Margaret Atwood D F G A Canadian painter, returning to for a retrospective David Copperfield For Today I Am a Boy A Gate at the Stairs exhibition of her work, is caught Charles Dickens Kim Fu Lorrie Moore up in a reflection of her life This partly autobiographical novel As the only son of Chinese Tassie, a 20-year-old college and of the driven relationship wonders ‘whether I shall turn out immigrants, Peter struggles with student from the American with her ‘best friend’, Cordelia. to be the hero of my own life’. the strong patriarchal expectations Midwest, gets a job as part-time Comic, mind-stretching, terrible A wonderful blend of comedy of his parents – especially as he nanny for an affluent middle-aged in its grasp of children’s needs and pain, with Dickens’ has always felt he should have couple who harbour a dark family and cruelties, hopeful – and a unforgettable characters: the been born a girl. This delicately secret and are in the process compulsive read! Micawbers and Murdstones, handled coming of age novel of adopting a biracial child. F 1988 421pp B1249 Mrs Gummidge, Uriah Heep, follows Peter and his sisters as Tassie’s time away has changed Miss Betsey and Mr Dick. they journey into the wider world, her perspective and during a The Chosen FE 1850 920pp B0224 finding their places and conquering visit home, she sees her family Growing Up, Moving On Moving Up, Growing the shadows of the past. differently, including her brother Chaim Potok FE 2014 256pp B2203 Robert, who is being approached Two young Jewish boys growing Drinking Coffee by the military. up in Brooklyn around the time Elsewhere FE 2009 322pp B2068 of World War I study Talmud ZZ Packer A Fortunate Life together, but differences in A.B. Facey Surprising, witty and involving, upbringing, attitude and belief The Getting of Wisdom these eight stories follow Abandoned as a child by create tension in their friendship. Henry Handel Richardson characters on the brink of his widowed mother in the Will Danny, the Rabbi’s son, change. Their stories are late 1890s, Facey endured A semi-autobiographical account become a Rabbi himself or will connected by themes of extraordinary hardships in of Laura, a Victorian country girl he break with tradition? Zionism, race, black identity, religion the pioneering days of the whose quirky individuality creates the birth of the state of Israel and and belonging. They range Western Australian wheatbelt, awkwardness in the conformist the destruction of the European from a teenager who flees the experienced Gallipoli, survived atmosphere of a girls’ private Jews are important themes in Pentecostal fanaticism of her the Depression and, having boarding school. this novel. hometown, finding herself in a taught himself to write, penned F 1910 240pp B0131 F 1966 281pp B0121 dangerous world of drugs and this powerful autobiography. sexual exploitation, to a girl NE 1981 326pp B0360 Ghost River Coda who stages a political sit-in at a local café. A remarkable life spanning Tony Birch the twentieth century and Kathleen’s memory and body FS 2003 243pp B1829 the major events of that time WINNER show signs of failing, but she is period. Facey was alone from Victorian Premier’s Literary Award still her feisty, independent self, the age of eight, on a journey Ren and Sonny dedicate their wanting to lead her own life. How E that taught him independence, free time to exploring the Yarra long, she wonders, before she self-reliance and a can-do River and its secrets, stories becomes a dumped granny? In Extremely Loud and approach to life. Universally and adventures. The Yarra this brilliant small book, with its Incredibly Close enjoyed by our group, we gave winds itself through their lives it a rating of 4.5 stars. A must glittering satiric wit and aching Jonathan Safran Foer as the boys grow, and they poignancy, Astley is at her best. read for Australians, highly must eventually find the courage Foer explores grief through the recommended. FE 1993 188pp B1436 to face the threats to their eyes of 9-year-old Oskar, whose Exeter Book Group river – but at what cost? An father died in the 9/11 World atmospheric and haunting novel A Complicated Kindness Trade Center disaster. Oskar Fresh Fields from the bestselling author of Miriam Toews is an intelligent, sensitive and Shadowboxing and Blood. creative kid, whose business Peter Kocan This Canadian novel examines card lists Inventor, Amateur With little money, an indifferent F 2015 305pp B2230 a family whose life within their Entomologist, and Origamist mother and no home, a shy fundamentalist Mennonite as some of his interests. When 14-year-old boy drifts between community has reached a crisis The Go Between he finds a mysterious key in his city and bush, slowly becoming point. Narrator, teenaged Nomi, L.P. Hartley father’s wardrobe, he embarks alienated and distrustful. Fresh is superbly sustained, her voice is A study of early adolescence, as on an investigation to help him Fields is a dark portrait of the funny, dark, and piercing. Tuned an old man recalls his boyhood understand his loss. evolution of a loner sustained in to every hypocrisy yet barely in a country house in the 1920s. only by a potent inner-life, where conscious of her own confusion, FE 2005 326pp B1922 His life has been shaped by his love and death are increasingly she is torn by her love of those involvement in the relationships confused. As a lonely, silent who have left and the father and traumas of three adults. teenager in 1966, award-winning who remains. A profound novel about social novelist Kocan shot and injured stratification, adolescence and FE 2004 246pp B1920 Arthur Caldwell, the federal the sometimes destructive effects opposition leader of the day. of love. F 2004 373pp B1880 F L 1953 280pp B0187

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Great Expectations The Highest Tide The Hundred Johnno Charles Dickens Jim Lynch Secret Senses Late, great Dickens. An 13-year-old Miles O’Malley is Amy Tan David Malouf’s first novel is set anonymously given fortune takes an avid beachcomber who mainly in the Brisbane of the discovers a rare giant squid SHORTLISTED 1940s and ’50s. It is the story Pip, a blacksmith’s apprentice, Orange Prize from his pre-industrial world washed up on the mudflats of of two men who spend much of to a gentleman’s life in 19th the Washington coast. Miles Two half-sisters link the Chinese their time together, although they Growing Up, Moving On century London. The rich cast becomes an overnight sensation, and American cultures when seem to have little in common. of characters includes Miss attracting attention from the life of 5-year-old Olivia is Distinguished by its fine Haversham, Magwitch, Jaggers, scientists, spiritual healers, and taken over by her older sister’s depictions of people and places and Wemmick – incomparable media vultures. This charming traditional Yin world of ghosts and its deep personal feeling. figures of comedy, terror and coming of age story is funny and and stories. For thirty years she F 1975 170pp B0277 human and social insight. well-paced, and raises lots of struggles to get away from them material for discussion. and live a ‘normal’, American FE L 1861 493pp B0063 2005 246pp B1924 life. But the marvellous story F unfolds to surprise her, and us, K into other ways of seeing life in H His Illegal Self both countries. The Kite Runner FE 1995 345pp B1468 Khaled Hosseini The Hanging Garden Che is the precocious son of Amir and Hassan have an Patrick White radical student activists. Raised eventful childhood set against Critics have hailed this in isolated privilege and denied I a backdrop of tumultuous posthumously published novel access to television and news, Afghan history, from the fall as an unfinished masterpiece. his timely rescue pitches him into I for Isobel of the monarchy and Soviet a hippy commune in the jungle intervention, to the flight of It is WWII, and two children Amy Witting are sent to a house with a wild of tropical . Here he refugees to America. When garden overlooking Sydney slowly confronts his life, learning SHORTLISTED unforeseeable events take Amir Harbour. White tenderly explores that nothing is as it seems. Carey Miles Franklin Literary Award back to Afghanistan in the rise the Sydney of his childhood, the lends his narrative wizardry to a of the Taliban regime, he must The small but unrelenting nature of war, and the ceaseless beautiful story of love between right old wrongs in this poignant, cruelties of Isobel’s unloving human yearning for connection. mother and son. moving exploration of love parents make her life a misery, This is an unexpected and responsibility. FE 2008 288pp B2020 but her struggle for creative opportunity to re-connect with an self-knowledge is sustained by FE 2003 324pp B1860 iconic Australian novelist. Hoi Polloi glimpses of kinder adults and FE 2012 240pp B2161 Craig Sherborne by the enchantment of words and writing. A shapely and This boyhood memoir has a L vivid evocation of day to day Hello, Goodbye startling vividness, its comedy Australian life. Emily Brewin and pathos deriving partly The Life and Times of Set in 1968 during the time of the from the remorseless candour FE 1989 158pp B1246 the Thunderbolt Kid Vietnam War, sheltered 17-year- with which Sherborne portrays Bill Bryson old May Callaghan’s future is torn his social-climbing parents In 1950s Des Moines, Iowa, Bill apart when she gets ‘in trouble’ and the sexual fumblings of J Bryson is the thunderbolt kid. with her high school boyfriend adolescent boys. His parents Via this superhero persona (with Sam, who has moved to move to Sydney from a small Jasper Jones a handy death ray for zapping Melbourne and is awaiting draft New Zealand town, where they Craig Silvey morons) he vividly recalls the orders. Once she can no longer hope to join the ‘hoi polloi’, as experiences of his childhood hide from small-town gossip and his mother mistakenly calls the SHORTLISTED in baby boomer America, and her conservative Catholic mother, upper crust. Miles Franklin Literary Award draws on a fascinating breadth of May takes a train to Melbourne NE 2005 197pp B1908 Summer, 1965. Charlie Bucktin, social history to bring alive an era and meets feminist Ruby and a bookish boy of thirteen, is of unprecedented affluence and Indigenous student Clancy who startled by an unexpected downright weirdness. introduces her to the liberal anti- How the Light Gets In M.J. Hyland visitor: Jasper Jones, an outcast NE 2006 309pp B1970 war movement that changes her in the regional mining town of life forever. SHORTLISTED Corrigan. Rebellious and solitary, Lilian’s Story FE 2017 344pp B2271 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Jasper represents danger and intrigue, so when he begs for Kate Grenville A bright 16-year-old cannot The book resonated with Charlie’s help, Charlie nervously The exuberant but painful story wait to escape from the poverty our group having been of a follows and witnesses Jasper’s of a child born in Sydney in 1901, of her family life in Sydney. generation living through those horrible discovery. who bursts beyond constraining Living as an exchange student times. All agreed it was an stereotypes to make herself as with an American family seems FE 2009 368pp B2061 accurate description of the large and unique as her own like a dream come true, but times. Issues and themes in sense of life. Lilian will stay with things quickly begin to unravel. the book led to a reflective you long after you finish this discussion with some very A masterly study of adolescent moving, exceptional and unique personal and moving stories spirit, defiance and longing novel. A must-read for any shared by our group members. for acceptance, as well as the Grenville fan. Jervis Bay Sea Changers complexities of family dynamics. FE 2003 317pp B1820 FE L 1985 211pp B0819

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Miss Gymkhana, Modern Interiors Oranges Are Not M R.G. Menzies and Me Andrea Goldsmith the Only Fruit Kathy Skelton After forty-one years of Middlesex Skelton was born in 1946 and prosperous marriage, Philippa A young girl’s world is forever Jeffrey Eugenides grew up in seaside Sorrento, Finemore is widowed. Hoping changed when she falls in love Victoria. Subtitled ‘Small Town to be not only a grandmother with another girl. Winterson WINNER and babysitter, she makes major Pulitzer Prize Life in the Fifties’, this book is skilfully portrays the ensuing a portfolio of snapshots and changes in her life - but the family emotions and confrontations Because of a rare genetic anecdotes evoking a world of circle responds with indignation common to all human experience deficiency, the narrator is a red-hot commos, the young and fury. - but particularly acute in an hermaphrodite. The book covers Queen, strict Catholics, the F 1991 242pp B1414 evangelical household. a startling family history of Greek- Petrovs, Billy Graham, the FE 1985 171pp B1312 American migrant experience Olympic Games and the and moves into an evocation Saturday matinée. Sure to Mudeye of Callie/Cal’s predicament: in provide laughs of recognition and Bary Dowling The Outcast

Growing Up, Moving On Moving Up, Growing this either/or world, what does it a wave of reminiscences. Dowling’s memory is precise and Sadie Jones mean to discover that one is both N 1990 153pp B1278 detailed, and his clear, sensuous In 1957, 19-year-old Lewis and neither? writing brings to life the highly travels home from prison in the FE 2002 529pp B1792 What an incredibly lively individual past of the boy and south of England. His return discussion! One of the best his family; the provincial city of echoes his father’s return from evenings of reflection and Ballarat – its lake, shops, schools, war a decade earlier, before NEW frivolity as we all exchanged our churches; the surrounding farms; his mother died in a tragic personal memories of growing the people. An emotional and accident. Her death strained the up in the 40s, 50s and 60s. powerful autobiography. relationship between Lewis and Many members could really N 1995 266pp B1465 his father, and as time blends identify with the recollections Lewis’ grief with anger, childhood of Kathy Skelton in this book. friend Kit’s attempts to help will We all loved what we read, Milkman release dark secrets. Anna Burns being transported back to our O early years and wallowed in F 2008 345pp B2040 WINNER reminiscence. Old School Man Blackburn South 3 Tobias Wolff Out Stealing Horses SHORTLISTED Per Petterson SHORTLISTED Mister Pip PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Women’s Prize for Fiction Lloyd Jones WINNER In an American boys’ school in Independent Foreign Fiction An utterly original novel that SHORTLISTED 1960 where a strong culture of explores coming of age in 15-year-old Trond witnesses the Man Booker Prize literature and writing prevails, Northern Ireland during the sudden breakdown of his friend, writers Robert Frost, Ayn Rand Troubles. Burns’ strange and After civil war trouble reaches the first in a series of incidents and Ernest Hemingway visit to ambiguous protagonist (named Matilda’s tropical island, one in the fateful summer of 1948 judge a literary competition, the Middle Sister) is a brilliant white man remains. When Mr leading to the destruction of his prize a private audience with narrator, and through her unique Watts begins to read aloud family. This coming of age tale the writer. This exploration of point of view, we are delivered a from Great Expectations, explores the relationship between adolescent identity, writing and novel that is all too familiar, and Dickens’ hero Pip comes alive father and son, and the impact of the complexities which surround at the same time, completely for Matilda, but on an island war. Winner of the International ambition, offers much to discuss. foreign. Milkman’s unique prose at war, imagination can be a IMPAC Dublin Award. and portrayal of the stigma dangerously provocative thing. F 2003 195pp B1889 F 2005 264pp B1993 of standing out, the pressure This is a moving, uplifting love for conformity, static gender letter to books and reading. One of the Wattle Birds Over the Top with Jim roles and the divisions that FE 2006 220pp B1959 Jessica Anderson exist in society will defy reading Hugh Lunn expectations and provoke a In the days before her exams, Journalist Hugh Lunn was rich discussion. Cecily is more concerned with born in Brisbane in 1941. This questions about the recent death 2018 360pp B2297 engagingly down to earth book FE of her mother than with study. evokes his boyhood in the 1940s Her need to make sense of things and ’50s and is a breath of provides the action in this funny fresh air. Full of resonances for and engaging study of the brio anyone who knew in and independence of the young. those years. Enjoyed F 1994 192pp B1419 N 1989 272pp B1311 Great Expectations? L Try Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones [B1959]

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Purple Hibiscus Romulus, My Father Sing Fox to Me P Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Raimond Gaita Sarah Kanake WINNER From a life whose events were In 1986, 14-year-old Samson and Past the Shallows Commonwealth Writers’ Prize often historically terrible and his twin brother Jonah are sent to Favel Parrett personally tragic emerges an live with Clancy, the grandfather 15-year-old Kambili grows up in extraordinarily brave and dignified they’ve never met. As Samson, SHORTLISTED sheltered privilege in a Nigeria man. Deep gratitude infuses his who has Down syndrome, begins Growing Up, Moving On Miles Franklin Literary Award ravaged by political unrest. She son’s frank, truthful biography. It to understand the situation both lives in fear of her fanatically A deceptively simple story about allows us to see how wisdom, Jonah and Clancy fall into a wild religious and tyrannical father, a two brothers growing up on compassion and an ethical sense obsession to find the Tasmanian charismatic Catholic patriarch. the wild Tasmanian coast, and are developed in a growing child. tiger, a mystery linked to Clancy’s the tragedy that fractured their When Nigeria is shaken by a long-missing daughter. military coup, Kambili and her NE 1998 208pp B1554 family beyond repair. The raw F 2016 264pp B2248 island landscape frames this brother are sent to live with their story, where the austere prose aunt, which allows Kambili to Roundabout at Bangalow belies a book of great sensitivity blossom in a new life amid the Shirley Walker Skylarking turmoil of the old. and power. This debut novel This Australian memoir moves Kate Mildenhall is effortless and commanding, F 2004 307pp B1933 from a childhood in the lush Based on true events, the novel and the last third absolutely rainforests of the Byron Bay revolves around the friendship shattering. You will not forget The Puzzles of Childhood hinterland to farming a sugarcane between Kate and Harriet, two Harry and Miles. Manning Clark property in north Queensland; daughters of lighthouse keepers 2011 254pp B2127 from the restrictive small town in an isolated coastal town of F The author of the six-volume life of Grafton to an enjoyable late 19th century Australia. As History of Australia undertakes Set in the wild east coast time as a mature age student the pair approach womanhood, the history of his own early of Tasmania, near Bruny at university. Walker has a keen the arrival of fisherman McPhail years, from his infancy to his Island, this book captures the eye for her human and natural finds Kate torn by jealousy for Melbourne Grammar days. landscape, the power and surroundings and her writing McPhail’s attention toward beauty of the sea and also the His memories focus on his unfolds in a dryly amusing voice. Harriet. Then, one moment at remoteness of this fractured intensely religious parents whose McPhail’s hut, Kate’s life is forever family. This is a truly great book. existence together was riven by N 2001 232pp B1805 changed. A heartbreaking novel The language is hauntingly various conflicts. Moves between that explores the complexity of beautiful and the story unfolds Sydney, Kempsey, Phillip Island adolescent friendships and the with the backdrop of violence and Belgrave. S price we pay for our mistakes. in the family home, the way children support each other N 1989 213pp B1258 FE 2016 288pp B2249 and finally the end. Where are Saving Jessie those boys now? Every member Imogen Clark The Smallest Color of our group said they were R Only names have been changed in Bill Roorbach reduced to tears in the telling this true story of a Canberra family of this story. We would highly Ride on Stranger who discover that their youngest In this fast-paced, funny, dark recommend this book to all Kylie Tennant child is addicted to heroin. first novel, Roorbach builds groups. Unforgettable. Intelligent, talented and loved, an engaging portrait of the Written with a sly humour, this Blackburn South 3 Jessie did not fit the stereotype turbulent 60s in the States: free novel tells of the trials of the of the young person who turns love and drug experiments, the ‘impossible’ Shannon Hicks sent to drugs to escape from pain or naïve innocence of some and A Portrait of the Artist off to a doughty aunt at a tender abuse. A candid, unsensational the restless violence of others. age. The aunt is impossible too, as a Young Man account of a family trying to learn Gradually, the entwining tales so Shannon makes her own James Joyce how far it is possible to help. join – strands of the present and way in the world of the unskilled, Joyce is one of the great 20th past, the man of 45 and the boy conmen, eccentrics and losers, N 1999 277pp B1741 century novelists. This book of 15, the 60s and the 90s. the world of Sydney in the 1930s. is largely autobiographical F 2001 325pp B1810 and traces Stephen Dedalus’ F 1943 301pp B0928 Shadowboxing boyhood and progressive Tony Birch Solid Bluestone isolation in Ireland and The Road from Coorain A collection of ten linked stories Foundations commitment to art: his Jill Ker Conway about the life of a boy growing up education, the growth of his in Melbourne’s Fitzroy during the Kathleen Fitzpatrick This evocative, readable creative powers, and his religious 1960s. Michael’s world is one of Former Associate Professor autobiography of the author’s and sexual consciousness. simple pleasures, family life and of History at the University of life to her mid-twenties conveys love, punctuated by random acts Melbourne, Kathleen Fitzpatrick FE 1916 256pp B0276 day-to-day details – the smells, of brutality. The reader follows as evokes her South Melbourne sounds, weather, plants and he matures into a sensitive adult girlhood, with its tensions people. Why did she leave who can forgive, but never quite between Protestant grandfather Australia for a distinguished forget, the past. A fascinating and Irish Catholic grandmother, intellectual career, and how snapshot of working-class life in trade and public service, her did her family and the drought- inner-city Australia. schooling and early university vulnerable plains of their sheep experiences. Full of Australian property in New South Wales FSE 2006 178pp B1912 people and places. shape her sensibility? 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Spies Too Close to the Falls Unpolished Gem What Was Lost Michael Frayn Catherine Gildiner Alice Pung Catherine O’Flynn WINNER Growing up in respectable 1950s Set in Melbourne’s western WINNER Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Lewiston, Catherine Gildiner suburbs, this documents the had a highly unusual childhood. arrival of Pung’s Cambodian Costa Book Award Set in Britain during World War Probably today’s hyperactive Chinese family to Australia in the Ten-year-old junior detective II, Spies takes us into a world child, Cathy was set to work 1970s. Populating her pages Kate follows ‘suspects’ at a under threat, but a threat situated in the family pharmacy at age with eccentric characters, she shopping centre and befriends a in the imaginings of two small four under the doctor’s orders. captures the essence of the man called Adrian. But when she boys living out the Blitz in a Prescription delivery rounds Asian immigrant experience. This disappears, Adrian falls under middle-class suburb. Superbly provided a fund of anecdote meditation on cultural difference suspicion. Years later, Adrian’s written, this novel combines and escapade that Gildiner is also a coming of age story of sister Lisa and security guard suspense, anguish, humour and uses to brilliant effect in this a talented woman struggling to Kurt glimpse a little girl on the surprising twists. captivating memoir. balance her parents’ dreams centre’s security cameras. FE 2002 213pp B1691 N 1999 350pp B1798 with her own. Could it be Kate? Growing Up, Moving On Moving Up, Growing NE 2006 282pp B1958 F 2007 242pp B1996 T Tuvalu Andrew O’Connor V When the Night Comes Tell Me I’m Here Outsider Noah exchanges his Favel Parrett Anne Deveson directionless life in Melbourne for a dead-end teaching job in The Voluptuous Delights LONGLISTED When her son Jonathan was Tokyo. His absent girlfriend and of Peanut Butter and Jam Miles Franklin Literary Award 17, Deveson realised he had inability to speak Japanese are Lauren Liebenberg Isla and her brother see the world schizophrenia. Here she traces perfect excuses for isolation In Rhodesia in the late 1970s, in grey until Bo enters their lives. A seven years of his illness, until the gorgeous, manipulative sisters Nyree and Cia’s father cook on a Danish ship bound for showing the fear and anguish Mami Kaketa crashes into his is conscripted to fight against Antarctica, Bo lodges with them which this condition produces life. This intriguingly offbeat the black freedom fighters. The while his ship is in port, expanding in patients and in those close debut explores love, lust, girls inhabit an innocent world, Isla’s world with his stories. This to them. An important book – honesty and commitment. roaming their run-down colonial is an enchanting tale about the informative, warm, humane, and Perceptive and droll, O’Connor farm, until their damaged, magic of the ocean, the mysteries deeply moving. captures the darker side of the orphaned cousin Ronin arrives. of the universe, and of life and N 1991 269pp B1342 expatriate experience. A beautiful, sad story about death, darkness and light. F 2006 347pp B1957 childhood in a time of civil war. F 2014 256pp B2225 The Tin Moon F 2008 245pp B2015 Stephen Lacey When We Were Orphans ‘We had the rocket up on three U house bricks and were ready W A celebrated detective is driven to light the petrol,’ begins Uncle Tungsten to solve the mystery of the this nerve-fraying account of Oliver Sacks disappearance of his parents young boys’ doings in a small Sacks takes a look at himself, NEW when he was a child. The novel town outside Sydney. From a unearthing the source of his becomes a disturbing, challenging 10-year-old’s viewpoint, we take scientific curiosity in a sometimes exploration of the relationship in kaleidoscopic impressions of troubled childhood in wartime between the colonial British, school, family, new words and a Britain. He was born into a Warlight China, and Japan, and of the way world which offers endless scope distinguished, scientifically simplistic ideas of oneself and for getting into everything – oriented London family, and Michael the world might distort reality. Set including trouble. A cliff-hanging developed a fascination with Ondaatje in England and Shanghai in the novel in which hilarity blends into metals, gases, chemistry and the early and mid-20th century, this darker comedy. discoveries of pioneer chemists. LONGLISTED is an ironic, complex and deeply Man Booker International Prize F 2002 300pp B1693 An unusual, warm and witty book. moving tragic comedy. 2001 337pp B1661 From the bestselling author 2000 368pp B1652 N of The English Patient comes F Tirra Lirra by the River a gripping historical narrative Jessica Anderson Under My Skin that questions what remains Wildlife WINNER Doris Lessing after war. In 1945 siblings Richard Ford Miles Franklin Literary Award An outstanding 20th-century Nathaniel and Rachel have been In the summer of 1960, the autobiography, this first volume abandoned by their parents, and town of Great Falls, Montana, Nora Porteous returns as an old takes Lessing from her African left in the care of a man they is ringed by fires. When young lady to the Queensland town of childhood to London in 1949. suspect might be a criminal. Joe’s father loses his job and her girlhood. With an ironic eye, Her freedom in the African They are drawn into his circle goes off firefighting, his mother she reviews her experiences landscape, her turbulent of friends who seem to want meets Warren Mitchell. In spare, there and tries to place them relationship with her parents, to protect and educate them. understated prose Ford evokes a amongst the various strands her intense involvements with Twelve years later, Nathaniel young male making his way in a of her life. A brilliant novel, free people, politics, and everything reflects on this experience, and world of adult upheaval which he from illusion. around her are conveyed with how this time has shaped his life. only partly comprehends. This is F 1978 141pp B0120 keen intelligence. Small print. FE 2018 304pp B2295 a moving, memorable read. N 1994 419pp B1565 FE 1990 162pp B1293

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

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Elizabeth David Friends, Lovers, The Full Cupboard of Life Lisa Chaney F Chocolate Alexander McCall Smith England was still in the grips Alexander McCall Smith The fifth book in the No. 1 of post-war food rationing A Fence Around The second novel in the Sunday Ladies’ Detective Agency series. when Elizabeth David’s first the Cuckoo Philosophy Club series. Isabel Mma Ramotswe has been books appeared, French Dalhousie is an Edinburgh approached by a wealthy lady Country Cooking and A Book philosopher, and when her niece to investigate several suitors. of Mediterranean Food. With WINNER Cat decides to take a holiday, Are these men just interested in her evocations of vibrant The Age Nonfiction Book of the Year Isabel agrees to help out at her money? Alexander McCall colours and flavours, she A lively account of Ruth Park’s her delicatessen. One of her Smith’s ‘novels are … extremely captured the imagination of a early years in New Zealand. customers has recently had a funny: I find it impossible to think generation of cooks. Daughter We see the dense bush of heart transplant and is being about them without smiling’ – of a Conservative MP, David was that country’s isolated regions, haunted by memories he feels Mail on Sunday (UK). courageous and independent, the Maori people whose lives are not his own. Isabel soon F 2003 212pp B2049 a complex character whom one intersected with hers, the dramas finds herself following another reviewer called ‘an elegant, witty, within a battling Irish Catholic risky investigation. charming minor monster’. family, and the intense poverty F 2005 297pp B2051 G N 1998 482pp B1734 during the Depression years. 1992 294pp B1372 NE L From Strength NEW Excellent Women to Strength Barbara Pym First Lady Sara Henderson ‘... practically anything may be Kay Cottee Marriage to a glamorous American The the business of an unattached Making this voyage was Kay soon became life in a tin shack woman with no troubles of her Cottee’s dream. Following her in a sea of red dust on a remote Geography own, who takes a kindly interest triumphant return after 189 days Northern Australian cattle of Friendship Exceptional Women in those of her friends.’ Set in at sea, she was named 1988 station. On Charlie’s death, Sara Sally Piper the shabby-genteel world of Australian of the Year. Here is her discovered he had left her with flats, academic societies and detailed account of the voyage – massive debt and a failing property SHORTLISTED tea rooms of London after World its highs and lows, the extremes which she managed to rebuild. ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year War II, with an Austen like ear she endured, and the dangers Twenty-year-old friends for dialogue. N 1992 337pp B1376 presented by icebergs, whales, L Samantha, Nicole and Lisa set F 1952 238pp B0776 rocks and huge seas. off through the bush, but none N 1989 226pp B1373 From the Beast of them realise what impact this The Eye of the Reindeer to the Blonde adventure will have on them Marina Warner or the danger they will face. Eva Weaver Fishing in the Styx Decades later, they decide to Warner’s book explores the origin In 1913 Ritva is only sixteen Ruth Park revisit this hike to find what they of fairy tales in women’s culture, when she is shipped off to Seili, have lost. A story of the value This second volume of Ruth using symbolic means such as an asylum for troubled women of friendship and how time Park’s popular autobiography magic castles, impossible tasks, on an island in southern Finland. is set in Australia. Her warm, changes us. Her only hope comes in the beasts and blondes to address frank record reveals an admirably urgent life issues. A difficult, FE 2018 264pp B2294 form of Martta, a headstrong productive life – as writer of indigenous Sami woman with stimulating and sumptuously ‘everything’, wife of D’Arcy illustrated book. whom she embarks on a bold Niland, mother of five, and, escape to the North, a mythical above all, a getter of wisdom in N 1994 458pp B1444 place of reindeers where freedom work, trouble, loss and joy. is possible. The novel explores love, family and betrayal and an N L 1994 302pp B1406 exploration of the indigenous Keep your Sami people of Scandinavia. Follow the Rabbit posture and F 2016 384pp B2257 Proof Fence Doris Pilkington & Nugi joints in an Garimara exceptional state with a Nugi Garimara tells the story of three young girls who in 1931 bone boosters escaped from the Moore River or Feldenkrais Enjoyed Native Settlement north of short course. The House of Spirits? Perth intending to walk home to the northern desert. We see the realities of social policy Try at that time, but the focus is The Summer that on an extraordinary effort of Melted Everything willpower, knowledge, strategy by Tiffany McDaniel and stamina. NE 1996 133pp B1756 cae.edu.au [B2256] 03 9652 0611

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Getting Equal In the Company of Joan Makes History Marilyn Lake H Cheerful Ladies Kate Grenville This ‘History of Australian Alexander McCall Smith The several Joans whose stories Feminism’ is an eye opener, full Hanna’s Daughters The sixth book in the No.1 animate this book put women of lively, sharp and generous Marianne Fredriksson Ladies Detective Agency series. into the action of the last two portraits of significant (often From 1871 three generations Precious Ramotswe is now centuries of Australian history. forgotten) women and telling of a Swedish family live through married to Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, Vivacious, diversified vignettes (often amusing) anecdotes. Can marked social change: from but life is still full of mishaps, are set into the narrative of Joan a mother be an independent primitive rural life to industrialised mysteries and personality and Duncan, who also appear in woman? Do you want to society to the information age. clashes. ‘The story unfolds at a Lilian’s Story. be equal? Hugely readable A complex chronicle of women’s familiar gentle pace … evoking FE 1988 285pp B1202 and discussable. lives, unsentimental about the a powerful but simple morality: N 1999 316pp B1759 burdens of family history, gender that sharing our hearts with and character. each other improves us all’ – K The Girls F 1994 299pp B1617 Sunday Times. Robin Levett F 2004 264pp B2050 The Kalahari Typing Hidden Lives School for Men Levett draws on an amazing The Invisible Woman memory and a sprightly, comic, Margaret Forster Alexander McCall Smith Exceptional Women forceful disposition to restore Which lives are significant, and Claire Tomalin The Kalahari Typing School for her part of the Australia of the why? Forster’s ‘family memoir’ This biography opens up the Men is the fourth volume of 1920s and ’30s and her war traces three generations of world of Ellen ‘Nelly’ Lawless the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ service in the ’40s. You’ll find it women: her grandmother, her Ternan, an actress who at Detective Agency series. all here: Sorrento, South Yarra, mother and herself – of working- eighteen met the older, married Precious Ramotswe has the Hermitage, Toorak College, class background, born and Charles Dickens. Tomalin makes competition from a new EX the National Gallery School, the raised in Carlisle, an industrial a strong case for their parenting CID, EX NY, EX cellent detective WRANS and WAS(B), post- town in North England, each of illegitimate children. She agency and Mma Makutsi, war England; the adventurous experiencing radically different follows Nelly’s life through the who believes in ‘enterprise with freedoms and startling circumstances and opportunities. decades after Dickens’ death. compassion’, runs evening constraints of her girlhood. ‘Let no one say that nothing has NE 1990 333pp B1512 classes for men. N 1997 264pp B1533 changed, that women have it as F 2002 210pp B2009 bad as ever,’ Forster concludes. We enjoyed reading this book – it generated a very interesting N 1995 309pp B1510 J and positive group discussion. L The setting was local and The House of the Spirits Jane Austen: A Life historic bringing fond memories. Isabel Allende Claire Tomalin The Little Coffee Keilor Community Centre This is the beautiful, touching The heroines in Austen’s six Shop of Kabul story of the Trueba family, novels inhabit a world of stability Deborah Rodriguez Gravity Well following their lives through the and continuity, yet Tomalin sees Sunny, café proprietor, needs Melanie Joosten post-colonial social and political Jane Austen as a woman living a plan to keep her customers A beautifully constructed novel upheavals in Chile in the Latin on the margins of a competitive, safe; Halajan, her 60-year-old told from the points of view of American magic realism style. money-oriented world, part landlady, is willing to risk all for two very different women: Lotte, Follow volatile patriarch Esteban, of a lively, chaotic family and love; young, pregnant Yazmina an ambitious and free-spirited his wife Clara, their daughter a more volatile character than needs protection; Isabel is a astronomer returning home after Blanca and their granddaughter previously thought. journalist with a story of her own; a devastating diagnosis, and her Alba in this epic novel of love, NE 1997 358pp B1583 Candace, a wealthy American, former best friend Eve, whose magic and fate. follows her Afghan lover to Kabul. passion for sound is matched F 1985 491pp B1176 Jane Eyre This novel captures the fears and by her entry into motherhood. longings of each as the women Joosten intelligently employs Charlotte Brontë make a life under the watchful the use of gravity and solar I Jane Eyre moves from a harsh, eyes of the Taliban. systems to depict the complexity orphaned childhood to Thornfield FE 2011 304pp B2124 of relationships, collision of I Don’t Know How Hall, where she falls in love with timelines, and the drifting apart Mr Rochester, and is menaced and coming together of family: She Does It by the madwoman in the attic. both family we are born to and Allison Pearson Her quest for independence, in the ones we choose. Oh, the chaos of life, balancing romantic circumstances, has exceptional emotional power. Enjoyed FE 2017 288pp B2272 a job as a fund manager, two small children, a husband and FE 1847 560pp B0024 Berlin Syndrome? a nanny who never listens. A L young mother juggles time for her family while struggling with Try the ‘old boys’ network’. Will she Gravity Well cope? Often hilarious, sometimes by Melanie Joosten sad, this novel portrays working [B2272] motherhood in the 21st century. FE 2002 357pp B1785

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Mrs Cook The No. 1 Ladies’ Over My Tracks M Marele Day Detective Agency Evelyn Crawford & Chris Walsh Before James Cook departed Alexander McCall Smith 65-year-old Evelyn Crawford, Madeleine on his final voyage, he had been Expansive middle-aged female born into the Baarkanji tribal Helen Trinca at home with his wife Elizabeth detective Precious Ramotswe group, goes back over her tracks for only four of their 14 years brings her intelligence and to tell us her eye-opening life WINNER of marriage. She raised their story. Crawford lived in the red Prime Minister’s Literary Award intuition to bear on problems six children, only to outlive and mysteries in her small sandhills back of Bourke: her Late blossoming author them. This ‘nonfiction novel’ town. Far removed from the years of hard work droving and Madeleine St John (The Women imaginatively reconstructs darkness and blood of many mustering, the varying contacts in Black) was brilliant and the domestic life of the sea crime novels, this is a book full of she made with white Australians, troubled. This biography follows captain’s wife. humour, good heart and gently and the ups and downs of her childhood in Sydney to FE 2002 357pp B1775 ironic observation. coping with her fourteen children. years in London council flats, Involvement in her youngest culminating with the publication F 1998 235pp B1794 son’s schooling takes her into the of four acclaimed novels in the N training of Aboriginal teachers. last decade of her life. No Place for a N 1993 319pp B1385 NE 2013 272pp B2194 The Natural Way Nervous Lady of Things Lucy Frost Malinche’s Conquest Charlotte Wood Lucy Frost edits the diaries P Anna Lanyon of 19th-century women pioneers in Australia’s outback. Paradise The gifted young woman who WINNER Stella Prize Compelling and absorbing Toni Morrison translated for Cortes in his 16th- reading from a fascinating time Two women wake to find century conquest of Mexico is in our history, which will lead to The all black town of Ruby themselves held captive in the remembered by the Mexican elite much discussion. was founded by ex-slaves, Exceptional Women as a traitor but is celebrated in desert with a group of eight determined to pass on the popular legend. Lanyon uncovers others, and slowly realise they NS 1984 279pp B0018 unchanging pure faith which her ‘survival amid catastrophe’ all have something in common: had enabled them to survive to see the luminous traces of in each of their pasts is a in the antagonistic American a woman who was among the sexual scandal with a powerful O South. Morrison’s explosively founders of modern Mexico. man. But who is punishing them, imagined novel focuses on the N 1999 233pp B1739 and what for? This is a stark One Life lives of the women in and outside exploration of contemporary Kate Grenville this fictitious town, confronting misogyny and corporate control the difficult issues of black NEW – and the beauty (and courage) One of our favourite storytellers male violence. of sisterly love. is back with this moving tribute to her mother, Nance, F 1999 318pp B1700 FE 2015 320pp B2237 a woman who was in many A Month of ways revolutionary. Grenville’s The Prime of Miss Sundays Nine Parts of Desire voice punctuates her warm and Jean Brodie Liz Byrski Geraldine Brooks heartfelt account which is partly Muriel Spark crafted from Nance’s own diaries. Adele, Judy, Working in the Middle East, This is a story about Australian Miss Brodie is a school teacher; Ros and Simone Brooks learned a lot about consciousness, and how the in the 1930s, and in her prime, know each through an online what life is like for Islamic patterns of the past can be seen she decides to inculcate book club. When Adele decides women. Focusing on individuals in the present. ‘progressive’ ideas about politics, to invite the group to the Blue in different countries and in sex and art into her pupils, Mountains in an effort to enjoy various roles, professional and NE 2015 272pp B2216 much to the consternation of her her retirement, they finally meet domestic, she traces the origins conservative school. face to face. The books they of today’s practices, showing Out of the Silence FE 1961 128pp B0925 choose to bring to the group that oppression of women Wendy James reveal more about themselves, is inconsistent with Islam in and force them to face some of its purest form. Informative, At the turn of the last century, their fears. A love letter to books readable, discussable. three women’s lives are on a Q collision course: Vida, the fiery and their readers, and what our NE 1995 255pp B1543 favourite books can uncover. Melbourne suffragist; Elizabeth, Quicksands far from home and grieving for FE 2018 352pp B2299 her lost love; and the courageous Sybille Bedford young country girl, Maggie. Their From WWI Germany to 21st Enjoyed experiences revolve around century England via Europe Morality for Beautiful Girls Paradise? issues that still touch us deeply and America, Bedford evokes a Alexander McCall Smith today: single motherhood, post- world of writers and diplomats, The third in the bestselling No. 1 Try natal depression, and the role of the dispossessed and the Ladies’ Detective Agency series. women in public life. powerful. An elegant mosaic The Underground of lovers and tragedy, this is a Precious Ramotswe has financial FE 2005 351pp B1932 worries, puzzling cases to solve Railroad spellbinding reflection on the and the ethical dilemma of a intersection between history and by Colson Whitehead personal experience. beauty pageant. [B2270] F 2001 246pp B1987 NE 2005 369pp B1955

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Return to the Little The Signature of Stravinsky’s Lunch R Coffee Shop of Kabul All Things Drusilla Modjeska Deborah Rodriguez Elizabeth Gilbert WINNER Rain Birds In this much-anticipated sequel, Born in Philadelphia in 1800, The Age Nonfiction Book of the Year Harriet McKnight six women remain linked by their Alma Whittaker’s remarkable Stella Bowen and Grace experiences in a café in Kabul. mind and questing spirit reflect A powerful and lyrical novel set in Cossington Smith were born Now on opposite sides of the both the rigours of 19th-century East Gippsland, Victoria, where in the 1890s. One left Australia world, each will deal with the scientific curiosity and the the impact of climate change before the World War I and past in different ways as she exploration of a dimension is destroying the habitat of the remained in Europe, the other faces the future. This delightful beyond the empirical. The endangered black cockatoos. lived for decades on the and poignant novel explores the Signature of All Things is The storyline centres on recent outskirts of Sydney. Their lives legacy of war, the trouble with simultaneously a book of ideas, retiree, Pina, and conservation and work are the focus of culture clash, and the importance a travelogue, an unconventional biologist, Arianna, as they this moving meditation on the of friendship. love story and a testament to struggle to hold their lives friction between creative and female achievement. together. Pina’s once-loving FE 2016 400pp B2238 domestic life. husband is turning aggressive 2013 501pp B2208 FE N 1999 364pp B1623 in the grips of early-onset The Rooms in Alzheimer’s and Arianna deals The Stone Diaries with double standards and My Mother’s House The Summer Exceptional Women incessant misogyny from co- Olga Lorenzo Carol Shields Without Men workers who question a woman’s Driven from Cuba after the WINNER Siri Hustvedt place ‘in the field’. revolution, Dolores, Consuelo Pulitzer Prize Poet Mia Fredrickson has a 2017 288pp B2290 and Ana settle in an old FE Daisy is born on a kitchen floor severe breakdown when her farmhouse in Miami, where they in 1905 in Canada, and the husband leaves her. Returning to battle with each other and the Rebecca West ordinariness of her ordinary the prairie town of her childhood, ghosts that remain in their hearts. life is made remarkable in this she rents a house just down Victoria Glendinning The spirit world blends fabulously original and enjoyable novel. The the road from her mother’s West lived from 1892 to 1983 with their material one in this unforgettable first chapter opens retirement home and spends a and was both an agent and a vibrant novel. Contains themes the way to further surprises summer in the company of some victim of change. She marched that may disturb. and delights. extraordinary women. Hustvedt with the suffragettes, and had 1996 405pp B1582 a ten year liaison with H.G. F F 1993 361pp B1460 has successfully combined the Wells. An accomplished and cerebral with the visceral to affectionate portrayal of a We enjoyed this book immensely create this small gem. complex woman. S and stimulated lively discussion. F 2011 224pp B2136 We admired its clever structure N 1987 288pp B1578 A Scandalous Life and the originality of the author’s The Sunday Mary S. Lovell approach to a biography, Reckoning: A Memoir effortlessly incorporating Philosophy Club Magda Szubanski At 17, a beautiful English girl very different styles. With Alexander McCall Smith married an older aristocrat who first or third person narrative, WINNER kept his mistress. Lady Jane different voices, letters, odd Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Digby responded to this indignity (not just old) photographs, it hosts the Sunday Philosophy with unusual spirit and a highly illustrates the patchiness of Club and uses her philosophy WINNER publicised divorce. The Austrian records of most lives. There training to solve murder and ABIA Book of the Year prince with whom she eloped are vivid (occasionally lengthy) mayhem in Edinburgh. Warm- was succeeded by a baron, a descriptions, convincing hearted with gentle humour, it is Magda Szubanski, one of glimpses of characters, much ‘the literary equivalent of herbal Australia’s most beloved comedic count, and a brigand, before she married a Bedouin sheikh 20 humour and moments of pathos. tea and a cosy fire’ – The New performers, recounts her life A book of great wisdom and York Times. from growing up in the suburb years her junior, and lived among the Syrian desert tribes. subtlety. F 2004 281pp B1979 of Croydon, her career as an Hawthorn Cato Bluffers actor, to the quest to find out the N 1995 365pp B1552 truth about her father, a Polish assassin during World War II. The Secret Life This multi-award winning memoir is a serious exploration on finding of Bees courage, acceptance, and a Sue Monk Kidd daughter’s love for her father. In the deep south in the 1960s, NE 2016 384pp B2266 Lily lives with her strict father and servant Rosaleen. When racial tensions explode, Lily comes to Rosaleen’s aid and the two run away together, finding sanctuary with three beekeeping sisters. A heart-warming and life- affirming tale. F 2001 374pp B2005

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True Pleasures Wicked But Virtuous T Lucinda Holdforth W Mirka Mora Ready for a change in direction, One of Melbourne’s best-known Tears of the Giraffe Holdforth abandoned a career in Walking in the Shade artists, Mirka Mora arrived in Alexander McCall Smith politics and diplomacy for a time Doris Lessing Australia from Paris in 1951 with This second in the No. 1 Ladies’ in Paris, reading deeply about Following Under My Skin, this her husband and baby. Their Detective Agency series starts the lives of French women she second volume of Lessing’s restaurants were a magnet for with the engagement of Mma had long admired and exploring autobiography begins with her the artistic life of the city. The Ramotswe and Mr J.L.B. They the Paris locales with which they 1949 arrival in grey post-war book glows with examples of her deal with the ups and downs of were linked. She reflects on the London (with the manuscript work and splendid photographs. domestic life and find themselves lives of women such as Marie of her first novel and one of This account of an eccentric life with unexpected additions to Antoinette, Germaine de Staël, her three children) and takes lived to the utmost celebrates their family. Mma Ramotswe and Coco Chanel, and writers such us through to 1962. It offers a Mirka’s lovers, work, family – and her secretary must also deal with as Nancy Mitford, Edith Wharton, wonderful sense of those times the rich array of characters who questions of right and wrong Gertrude Stein and Colette. as well as insights into Lessing were drawn into her world. in their Botswanan detective Intelligence and lightness of herself. She speaks with candour N 2000 331pp B1653 agency business. touch makes her book a pleasure about bringing up her son on F 2000 217pp B1847 to read. her own, her love affairs, years Wild Swans N 2004 227pp B1940 of psychotherapy, the realities of living by her writing and her Jung Chang The Trauma Cleaner growing disillusionment with the WINNER Sarah Krasnostein True Stories Communist Party. Society Helen Garner Gold Medal NE 1997 369pp B1705 Three generations, three WINNER This evocative collection is drawn women’s stories in a period when Victorian Premier’s Literary Award from a quarter of a century of the world’s most populous nation Garner’s nonfiction writing. The Watched by Ancestors

Exceptional Women endured almost unimaginable WINNER topics range from the (1970s) Kathy Golski change. One way to begin to ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year four-letter words sex lesson in It’s one thing for trained comprehend the recent history a secondary school – she was Sandra Pankhurst has been a anthropologists to do their of China is through individuals sacked – to her accounts of trauma cleaner for 20 years, but adventurous work, but here who find the courage to 1980s marriages at the Mint in before her life cleaning crime an artist and her four children experience and to voice the Melbourne and of autopsies at scenes and ‘caves of filth’, Sandra accompany her second husband enormities which are the stuff of the morgue in 1992, to births in was also many other things: to the remote highlands of Papua their everyday lives. Long, but a labour ward in Penrith (1995). husband, father, drag queen, New Guinea where they live for compulsively readable. A treasure chest. two years, giving other, often sex worker, businesswomen and 1991 696pp B1397 trophy wife. This touching memoir NS 1996 242pp B1501 surprising, dimensions to the NE explores more than just cleaning lives of all concerned. up death and decay, but portrays N 1998 270pp B1732 an inspiring woman overcoming U a personal history of trauma and The Whole Woman works to bring care and dignity The Unusual Life into the lives of the living and the Germaine Greer dead. of Edna Walling This sequel to The Female Sara Hardy NE 2017 261pp B2281 Eunuch, the book Germaine said Independent and unconventional, she would never write, is vintage Edna Walling was one of the first Greer: intelligent, wide-ranging, True North women to graduate from the energetic, provocative, humorous Brenda Niall Burnley School of Horticulture and tender. Her angry thesis in 1917 and went on to is that ‘real women are being SHORTLISTED phased out’, and it is certain to Victorian Premier’s Literary Award become one of Australia’s finest landscape designers. Though her stimulate strong discussion. This fascinating biography of gardens are well documented, N 1999 350pp B1720 sisters Mary and Elizabeth Hardy draws on memories, Durack looks beyond the legacy anecdotes, facts and documents of Mary’s classic book Kings to explore Edna’s private world – in Grass Castles to examine her family, friends, passions and the dynamics of the Durack sexuality, creating a tribute to a pastoralist dynasty and the woman who was, in retrospect, personal lives of these two way ahead of her time. A must creative, but very different, read for green thumbs as well as women. In particular, it focuses lovers of Australian biography. on their strong, lifelong ties to the 2005 304pp Kimberley region and its people. NE B1945 NE 2012 275pp B2147

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

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Elizabeth Costello Feet of Clay Gogh: Vincent van D J.M. Coetzee Anthony Storr Gogh, 1853–1890 SHORTLISTED Subtitled A Study of Gurus, this Ingo Walther – ART BOOK Death Sentence Miles Franklin Literary Award sets some of the most notorious A complex and obsessive man, Don Watson gurus, including Jim Jones and van Gogh was one of the great In the form of lectures given David Koresh, beside some of forerunners of the modern age. Watson defends the language by an elderly Australian writer the most respected leaders in the This text presents van Gogh’s he loves (the kind with bite, on tour, this challenging novel western world (Ignatius of Loyola, paintings as testimony to a heroic with flavour, with life) against of ideas opens up questions Jesus) to show they have more quest for new colour, line and life. the verbal sludge which now of the systematic cruelties threatens us from every side. in common than meets the eye. involved in farming animals for Why do we view some of them N 1987 96pp B0679 Managerial language has food; the Holocaust; the nature infiltrated the English of politics, as legitimate thinkers or spiritual of belief and reason, of writing leaders and others as madmen? The Golden Mean bureaucracy, education and the and of humanity; spirituality media. Read, laugh, discuss, Other ‘gurus’ considered in Annabel Lyon and morality; Kafka and the the book are Gurdjieff, Steiner, repent, abstain! Told in earthy and contemporary absurd. Nobel Prize winner Freud and Jung. A rich field for prose, this is a story of Aristotle’s NE 2003 198pp B1828 Coetzee shares with his fictional reflection and discussion. character a reluctance to make relationship with the young and public appearances. NE 1996 254pp B1569 gifted Alexander whom he tutors from boyhood. Aristotle strives E FE 2003 230pp B1830 to impart his philosophy of the G golden mean – a balance The Elegance between extremes – to of the Hedgehog F The Gift of Asher Lev young Alexander. Muriel Barbery Chaim Potok FE 2009 282pp B2107 Renée is the concierge of Facing the Music Andrea Goldsmith In this sequel to My Name is a grand Parisian apartment Asher Lev, the painter is drawn The Goldfinch building on the Left Bank. For more than 50 years, Duncan back to the Ladover Hasidic Donna Tartt Beneath her conventional facade Bayle’s glorious talent as a community in Brooklyn. Again, he she is passionate about culture composer was fed by the women experiences the tension between WINNER and the arts. Meanwhile, several in his life. Then his daughter his gift and the community, now Pulitzer Prize floors up, 12-year-old Paloma Anna left Melbourne for London. facing the death of its revered When Theo is thirteen, a traumatic Josse is determined to avoid While her father’s gift faltered, her Rebbe, and making strong experience inextricably entwines the predictably bourgeois future creativity flowered. Goldsmith claims on his family. his fate with a 17th-century Dutch laid out for her. The death of one portrays a toxic struggle between 1990 370pp painting. An engaging cast of of their privileged neighbours them, and family and friends F B1323 characters moves between high brings dramatic change and are caught in their destructive society, the world of antiques, and alters their lives forever. An creativity as the work moves Girl with a murky criminal underground international bestseller. to its conclusion. a Pearl Earring in this beautifully readable Artist, Maker, Thinker Artist, Maker, F 2008 320pp B2046 F 1994 263pp B1441 Tracy Chevalier exploration of love, loss and the This fine historical fiction messy business of being alive. evokes the mid-17th century F 2014 771pp B2211 Netherlands. Griet, a young servant girl, sits for the painter Vermeer, her employer, and Grace Crowley: soon finds herself surrounded Being Modern by rumour. Deeply revealing Elena Taylor about the process of painting Crowley played a central and haunting in its passion, From the canvas to part in introducing modern outrage and perceptions about art to Australia. Rejecting the the screen, unleash human nature. your inner artist with expectations of her Edwardian FE 1999 248pp B1621 upbringing, she pursued a a painting or drawing career as an artist, leaving the short course. Glass After Glass parochial confines of Australia Barbara Blackman and replacing the convention of marriage with a series of close Married for 27 years to the painter friendships. In this beautifully Charles Blackman, Barbara was illustrated edition, Taylor paints an also an artist’s model, muse, evocative portrait of Crowley. writer and mother. Here she writes of the people she has known in N 2006 54pp B1950 Australia’s art world and of day- to-day living. The circle of artists at Heide, her friendships with Joy Hester and with others, and her adaptation to increasing blindness cae.edu.au 03 9652 0611 from a young age are all part of these memoirs. N 1997 403pp B1573

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Great Writers, Harland’s Half Acre Great Loves David Malouf I K Ann Marie Priest The life story of Frank Harland, A fascinating, revealing journey an artist whose first drawings I Am Melba Kandinsky: Wassily through the love lives of eight are made at night on his Ann Blainey Kandinsky, 1866–1944 famous writers: Sylvia Plath, family’s struggling dairy farm in Hajo Düchting – ART BOOK Queensland. Malouf writes with WINNER Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville Kandinsky was one of the most insight about many themes: National Biography Prize West, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine important pioneers of abstract family life; the pressures of Mansfield, Charmian Clift, Dylan A biography of Australia’s art, expressing feelings through poverty and temperament; Thomas and Frank O’Hara. Priest first musical superstar, Nellie a distinctive use of geometric the vocation of the artist; the delves into their letters and their Melba. From an early age shapes, brilliantly coloured and changing patterns of Australian writings. Their stories anticipated Nellie dreamed of fame. Her superbly disposed in space. and reflected the revolutionary social history; the natural world independent spirit took her from rethinking of love, sex and of Australia, rendered with Melbourne and the Queensland N 1991 96pp B0716 marriage that occurred during poetic precision. cane fields to London and the course of the 20th century. FE 1984 230pp B1043 Europe. I Am Melba captures an Killing Me Softly N 2006 298pp B1918 extraordinary life. Philip Nitschke & Here on Earth NE 2009 400pp B2063 Fiona Stewart Tim Flannery Nitschke and Stewart take the H From an ecological viewpoint, we The Imperfectionists view that people should have the have left a trail of destruction as Tom Rachman right to make informed end-of-life decisions. Their book provides Half a Lifetime human civilisation spreads across This collection of stories told information about the current Judith Wright the Earth. We will face climate from the viewpoints of different practice of slow euthanasia; One of Australia’s finest poets, changes, decreasing biodiversity, staff members, from the Editor what is wrong with palliative care; Judith Wright was born into and scarcity of water and food. in Chief to the copy editor, at an anguishing decisions concerning a family of New South Wales Flannery, a palaeontologist and international English language the life or death of very ill babies. pastoralists. Jack McKinney, former Australian of the Year, newspaper, based in Rome. Their These writers envisage a world the philosopher who became suggests solutions to these private lives overlap with work and where a ‘peaceful pill’ could be her lover, partner, and the father problems. From the Stone Age world events. Alternately hilarious to the modern globalised world, relied on to provide a peaceful,

of her daughter, was also her and heart-wrenching. Artist,Maker, Thinker dignified death. An opportunity intellectual companion in her he presents a view of how 2010 274pp B2089 to reflect on and discuss the passionate lifelong commitment sustainability can be achieved FSE many questions presented by to environmental causes and through cooperation rather the euthanasia debate. justice for the Aboriginal peoples than competition. Inside Out of Australia. A poem by Wright NE 2010 316pp B2114 Robert Adamson N 2005 354pp B1885 stands as preface to each of the Sydney poet Robert Adamson chapters in this luminous memoir, grew up in Neutral Bay and on Klimt: Gustav Klimt, an added pleasure for the reader. The Hours Michael Cunningham the Hawkesbury River in the 1862–1918 N 1999 296pp B1760 1950s and ’60s. Bewitched by Gottfried Fliedl – ART BOOK WINNER the natural world, fishing and Pulitzer Prize birds, his later escapades led him The apocalyptic atmosphere The Hare with to incarceration in boys’ homes. of Vienna’s upper middle-class Cunningham takes Virginia Amber Eyes Finally, his prison encounter with society at the turn of the century Woolf’s life and work as Edmund de Waal the work of writers and poets set found expression through the inspiration for this exquisite and him on the path of writing. Full art of Gustav Klimt. Klimt’s art subtle novel. He interweaves WINNER of event, sensation, movement and the Viennese Secession Woolf’s struggle to begin Costa Biography Award and life, his memoir makes movement are explored in this her novel Mrs Dalloway After inheriting a collection of wonderful reading. richly illustrated book. with that book’s effects on Japanese carvings (netsuke), two subsequent readers in 2004 342pp B1833 N 1991 239pp B0683 de Waal felt compelled to trace N 1940s Los Angeles and in its journey through the years. contemporary New York. In doing so, he discovered his Isobel on the Way to family’s history from 19th century FE 1998 228pp B1642 the Corner Shop Odessa to modern Tokyo. An Amy Witting engrossing and moving blend of How Are We to Live? art and social history. SHORTLISTED Peter Singer Miles Franklin Literary Award NE 2010 354pp B2140 The distinguished Australian Enjoyed Determined to make her way philosopher argues that in as a writer, Isobel has resigned A Room of One’s Own? affluent Western society, the from her job with very little to pursuit of material self-interest live on. Acute illness brings is the norm, trapping people Try The Hours her to a sanatorium where into the sense that life is she remains for a long time, by Michael meaningless. Is there anything maintaining her autonomy Cunningham to live for? Likely to prompt as best she can in these unstoppable discussion. [B1642] claustrophobic surroundings. 1993 262pp B1411 N F 1999 352pp B1737

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The Life to Come The Lost Mother More Please L Michelle de Kretser Anne Summers Barry Humphries SHORTLISTED In 1933, Anne’s mother had her Does this reveal the man behind The Lacuna Stella Prize portrait painted by a mysterious the actor, with his vulnerabilities Barbara Kingsolver artist. Anne inherited the portrait including alcoholism? Or is it WINNER SHORTLISTED after her mother died and is another great performance, in Victorian Premier’s Literary Award compelled to unravel its mystery, which there is less generosity Orange Prize exploring the difficult relationship than sharpness? Readable and Told in a mix of narrative forms An intelligent meditation set in she had with her mother. Anne’s often very funny. including diary entries, memoir, Sydney, Paris and Sri Lanka. detailed research encompasses N 1992 334pp B1381 letters and newspaper articles. The novel consists of five Paris, Cairo, Latvia and Born in America and raised in sections that uncovers the lives Russia and evokes memories Mexico, Harrison Shepherd of George, pompous author of Melbourne’s art scene in The Museum of finds himself working for and university lecturer; Pippa, a the 1900s. Modern Love Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. superficial writer who dreams of N 2010 385pp B2123 Heather Rose He meets and befriends the Man Booker success; Celeste, artist Frida Kahlo, goes to work a manuscript translator who WINNER for the Communist Lev Trotsky, is blind to her married lover’s Stella Prize and becomes caught up in intentions; Ash, an academic M a world of art and revolution. who blurs the memories from WINNER The second half of the novel his childhood in Sri Lanka; Mao’s Last Dancer NSW Premier’s Literary Awards shifts to the United States and migrant Christabel, whose Li Cunxin When New York film composer where Harrison is dragged generosity becomes the This is the true story of Li Cunxin, Arky Levin is asked by his into the public arena through target of Pippa’s malice. The a peasant boy from rural China terminally ill wife to keep a the House Un-American novel explores the lies we tell who became a world-class ballet promise, it throws Arky into Activities Committee. to others, the lies we tell to dancer. We follow him through a devastating search for ourselves, and the grand ego FE 2009 507pp B2065 his early training in Beijing to a meaning. Arky discovers of Western Civilization. summer school in the US, his Marina Abramovic in The The Life and Death FE 2017 384pp B2278 defection to the West, and his Artist is Present, and is drawn later transition to a new life in to her performance. As the of Sophie Stark Australia. Memories of his family performance continues, he Anna North Lola Bensky in China are an important thread Lily Brett questions what it means to love Told through the six different in his story. and to be an artist. The novel perspectives of the people Lily Brett drew on her own NE 2003 447pp B1821 explores relationships, illness closest to her, the novel explores experiences as a music journalist and how art shapes us. in the ‘Swinging Sixties’ to the life of an unapologetic film FE 2016 296pp B2253 director who values art over create 19-year-old Lola. When Martin Boyd: A Life people. Sophie Stark uses her not meeting rock icons such as Brenda Niall genius to make movies from Mick Jagger and Janis Joplin, Martin Boyd was a member of My Brilliant Career Artist, Maker, Thinker Artist, Maker, the lives of people who fascinate Lola worries about her hair or the talented Boyd family which Miles Franklin her weight. Like many of Brett’s her, destroying the relationships included Arthur, Merric, Guy The first novel from one of the characters, she also carries the with those that love her most and Robin. Both in background major Australian writers of her legacy of her Holocaust survivor and results in her shocking end. and inclination Martin Boyd time, Stella Maria Sarah Miles parents. Funny and touching, this The novel explores the lengths was Anglo Australian: many of Franklin, who wrote under the novel evokes a time of unique you go for art and the cost of his novels were written during name Miles Franklin. Written social change. artist integrity. the restless expatriate years. A as a romance to amuse the F 2015 304pp B2247 FE 2012 267pp B2176 readable account of this complex author’s friends, the novel follows and private man. imaginative heroine Sybylla The Lost Dog N 1988 268pp B1262 growing up in rural Australia Michelle de Kretser in the 1890s, and many of the issues it raises are still relevant to Set in contemporary Australia Monet: Claude Monet, women writers today. and 20th century India, de 1840–1926 1901 232pp B0062 Kretser’s third novel is a love Karin Sagner Düchting F story entwined with a haunting – ART BOOK mystery. Tom Loxley, an academic, is writing a book Monet was both the most typical on Henry James in a remote and the most individual French Enjoyed bush shack when his dog Impressionist painter. His long Wuthering Heights? goes missing. While searching life, extraordinary capacity for for his dog, Tom revisits his work and furious perfectionism Try emotional past and explores his are explored in this large volume. troubled present. N 1990 228pp B1609 The Women’s Pages 2007 368pp B2028 by Deborah Adelaide F [B2241]

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

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Status Anxiety NEW The Waterlily Alain de Botton W Kate Llewellyn ‘This is a book about an almost ‘A book that captures perfectly universal anxiety ... about what Waging Peace the exact pace and feel of life – others think of us; about whether Anne Deveson the fine-tuning of one moment we’re judged a success or a Waging Peace is a thematic and one mood into the next’ failure, a winner or a loser.’ Teacher memoir. Anne Deveson looks (Grenville). This ‘Blue Mountains In it the author examines back on a long life, from her Journal’ covers a year of Kate Gabbie Stroud Llewellyn’s life in the mountains, lovelessness, snobbery, childhood during WWII to her making a garden and determined expectation, meritocracy, SHORTLISTED experiences as a filmmaker to be happy. dependence; and offers some ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year and social commentator. She ‘solutions’. Is this philosophy or Gabbie loved being a teacher but questions our species’ urge to N 1987 192pp B1345 does the book fall into the self- wage war, and discusses with help genre? The central subject in 2014 she resigned, frustrated with a system that no longer hope the promotion of peace The Weather Makers of keeping up with the Joneses and conflict resolution. Whether Tim Flannery provides plenty to discuss. allowed her to teach children according to her individual needs or not you agree with her views, Flannery’s flair for writing for NE 2004 314pp B1845 and abilities. Now she tells the full this book is bound to promote a general readership is put to story of her journey in education lively discussion. excellent use here. We are the and how the system is unfair to NE 2013 238pp B2184 weather makers, and Flannery T both teachers and children. wants to inspire all of us to do A powerful memoir. Walking on Water something about climate change. He is insightful and inspiring as A Tale for the Time Being N 2018 352pp B2298 Chester Porter Ruth Ozeki he suggests steps we can take This Sydney defence lawyer’s to reduce our carbon footprint at SHORTLISTED Toulouse Lautrec: memoir covers controversial the level of our own households Man Booker Prize Australian cases and Royal and decisions. Henri de Toulouse Lautrec Commissions of the last fifty When 16-year-old Nao’s diary Matthias Arnold – ART BOOK NE 2005 332pp B1943 washes ashore on a lonely years, but more than this, Canadian coastline, Ruth feels Toulouse Lautrec’s bold through the many unpublicised The Women’s Pages cases with which its author compelled to read it. Nao’s and arresting images were Debra Adelaide life is turbulent: her father is instrumental in gaining was involved, it reveals a life in Having read Wuthering Heights suicidal, she is tortured by acceptance for both lithography the Law as experienced by a to her dying mother, Dove finds schoolyard bullies, and her only and the poster as major art good man. Porter’s humbleness forms. This tells Lautrec’s story and humanity, shining through she cannot forget the novel’s friend is her grandmother, a power. Instead of returning to Buddhist nun. Ozeki weaves and gives a vibrant picture of his simple prose, is a bonus, Parisian life. likely to raise the law, the police normal life, she clings to a story together philosophy, the nature she has begun writing: Ellis is a of time, cultural identity and 1988 96pp B0715 and legal practitioners in the N reader’s estimation. normal ‘60s suburban housewife the true meaning of courage – until she decides to leave her Artist, Maker, Thinker Artist, Maker, in this absorbing, beautifully NE 2003 310pp B1898 husband. A beautiful magic written novel. emerges as Dove teases out the FE 2013 422pp B2204 secrets of Ellis’s life, while she attempts to live in her own. FE 2015 305pp B2241

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Ali and Nino Billie’s Kiss A Kurban Said B Elizabeth Knox Considered the Romeo and A novel for almost anyone, The Accidental Tourist Juliet of Azerbaijan, this little- Bel Canto featuring a murder mystery, Anne Tyler known masterpiece follows the Ann Patchett a traditional community faced Sharing a common grief, Macon cross-cultural marriage of a with Edwardian modernisation, young Muslim prince and a rich WINNER a sexy love story, pride and Leary and his wife Sarah now Orange Prize find their differences too great Christian girl. Love does not run prejudice, family and community and they part. Macon makes easily, but it works powerfully A group of international guests loyalties and divisions. A New world trips to write a series of to try to overcome ancient in an unnamed Latin American Zealand view of reality, set in travel guides which reflect his tribal differences. country are taken hostage, but a small island off Scotland. need of defensive routines. F 1937 237pp B1658 the target, the President, is not F 2002 280pp B1669 Funnier than Dinner at the present. Among the hostages are Homesick Restaurant but The Amateur Marriage a famous American opera singer, Breakfast at Tiffany’s with that unmistakable ache and a Japanese businessman. and tenderness. Anne Tyler A charming, unconventional story Truman Capote unfolds as Bel Canto explores 1985 355pp B1193 Pauline and Michael marry in When Fred’s new neighbour Holly FE haste. Slowly and painfully, the themes of art, politics crawls through his window, he is they realise they are completely and love. captivated by the glamorous 19 Addition unsuited. A sensitively handled F 2001 318pp B1991 year old. The wildly successful Toni Jordan portrayal of family dysfunction Audrey Hepburn movie sanitised Grace Vandenburg counts. She and of lives lived always Between a the novella’s complex narrative counts the number of poppy wondering how things ‘could about sexual ambiguity and seeds on her piece of cake, have been’. Tyler’s look at one Wolf and a Dog the struggle between the need she counts the number of steps family and at American family life Georgia Blain for stability and the longing it takes her to reach her local from the 1940s to the present is for freedom. Contains three incisive and poignant. WINNER short stories. café, she even counts the letters Victorian Premier’s Literary Award in her name. Then she meets F 2004 306pp B1817 FS 1958 168pp B2018 Seamus O’Reilly. Addition is a quirky love story with a witty and SHORTLISTED unconventional heroine. American Wife Stella Prize The Bride Stripped Bare Curtis Sittenfeld Anonymous F 2008 256pp B2036 As the rain beats down one Alice is a quiet, bookish only sodden Sydney day, four people A novel about the psychological child from small-town Wisconsin, will slowly come to terms with and physical aspects of a young Aftermath who experiences an event which their pasts – and their futures. woman’s extramarital affair. This Rachel Cusk shatters her identity and makes Ester is finally moving forward candid, fictional memoir raises Subtitled ‘On Marriage and her understand the fragility of life. from her divorce from estranged questions of trust, betrayal, Separation’. Cusk is not telling us A decade later, Alice, a Democrat husband, Lawrence. Her sister, secrecy, cultural expectation how to live; this is her narrative on and school librarian, meets and April, wonders how she can and obsessiveness. It contains marriage, separation, the difficulties marries Charlie, the outgoing heal the deep rift between her sexually explicit material and may of motherhood, loss of identity, wealthy son of a Republican and Ester, while their mother not be suitable for everyone. feminism and more. It is an honest family. When Charlie becomes Hilary considers the momentous F 2003 376pp B1814 exploration of the aftermath of her President of the United States, decision she is making. Subtle, divorce and is guaranteed to spark Alice finds herself in a position of poignant and immersive. a discussion in your group. power, influence and privilege. FE 2016 320pp B2242 C N 2012 152pp B2169 F 2008 555pp B2044 Big Brother Captain Corelli’s The Age of Innocence Atonement Lionel Shriver Mandolin Edith Wharton Ian McEwan Pandora, a chef and Louis de Bernières Newland Archer has chosen a WINNER entrepreneur, must deal with both conventional and rather limited WINNER Commonwealth Writers’ Prize her morbidly obese brother and young woman for his wife. Now her exercise and nutrition fanatic Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Countess Olenska appears on A story that begins with three husband when circumstances During WWII, Italian troops the scene, refreshingly different young people in the garden of bring the three of them under occupy the Greek island of in outlook and separated – a country house on the hottest the same roof. In her distinctive Cephallonia. Billeted with the shockingly – from her European day of 1935, and ends with style, the author of We Need to local doctor and his daughter, husband. Wharton presents an three profoundly changed lives. Talk About Kevin tackles family Captain Corelli, musician and unillusioned view of 1870s New A depiction of love, war, class, dynamics, addiction and our comedian, tries to stay aloof. York, where a constricting social childhood and England, exploring image-conscious society, asking But it is no use: the two young code puts individual lives under shame, forgiveness, and the the question: is blood really people fall in love. possibility of atonement. great pressure. thicker than water? FE 1994 436pp B1472 FE 1920 301pp B1313 FE 2001 372pp B1668 F 2013 373pp B2191

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A Change in the Lighting Crossing to Safety The English Patient Amy Witting Wallace Stegner E Michael Ondaatje From its brilliant opening scene, When Larry and his wife settle Witting’s novel takes us into into their new home in Wisconsin Eleanor Oliphant is WINNER the feelings and decisions of in the late 1930s, they begin a Completely Fine Man Booker Prize a woman whose life changes friendship with the Langs that Gail Honeyman In the destruction and confusion when her husband leaves her will echo through their lives. surrounding the end of the World suddenly for a younger woman. Exploring the mysteries of WINNER War II, a small group of people An insightful study of a woman in friendship, Stegner traces the Costa Book Award find themselves together in Italy. her fifties and her adult children. bond that develops between the 30-year-old accounts assistant Recreating both a devastated A must for appreciators of families in this eloquent, powerful and office eccentric Eleanor Italy and a desert world far Amy Witting. narrative from this Pulitzer Prize- Oliphant lives alone in a tiny away, Ondaatje fuses popular F 1994 291pp B1401 winning author. flat in Glasgow. She has a rigid novel, war story, spy story and 1987 288pp B1522 routine and a timetabled life, and the erotic in a complex work of F wisdom and beauty. Childish Things makes an effort to avoid social interaction. But when Eleanor FE 1992 307pp B1370 Robin Jenkins D meets Raymond, his kindness After the death of his much-loved forces Eleanor to confront the An Equal Music wife, 72-year-old Gregor McLeod tragedy in her past that holds her becomes the focus of several The Deep Field back. A funny, yet deeply moving Vikram Seth women in his Scottish village James Bradley book about profound loneliness, The narrator’s passionate love and again in , where Anna flees the political situation mental illness and survival. of chamber music is infused he escapes for a break. Greed, in Hong Kong for Sydney, where FE 2017 383pp B2283 by his passion for Julia, who selfishness and goings on are the she is drawn to Seth, a blind disappeared from his life when stuff of this ironic, light-hearted, palaeontologist, and they begin he left her in Vienna. Early in the well-paced comic novel. an affair; she also begins a Eligible novel, he sees her through the F 2001 248pp B1778 search for her missing brother. Curtis Sittenfeld window of a London bus. What Bradley’s future evokes a subtle Seeking out the ‘classic next? A CD in each box provides air of menace and decay, but romance’ in modern life, this sound recordings of the music City of Friends ultimately, this is a sensual love Bridget Jones style adaptation referred to in the novel. Joanna Trollope story about love, touch, time of Pride and Prejudice is fresh, F 1999 485pp B1735 When high-powered career and loss. fun and wholly enjoyable. After woman Stacey is made F 1999 412pp B1743 their father’s heart surgery, Liz Eucalyptus redundant from her job, her life and Jane Bennet return home to is thrown into crisis and cracks Cincinnati, where their younger Murray Bail begin to form in her tightly knit Dirt Music sisters run wild and their mother A man plants out his property friendship group. As tension Tim Winton despairs that they will ever marry. with an example of every known increases, secrets come out and WINNER Things change when ER doctor eucalypt and announces that their friendships are pushed to Miles Franklin Literary Award and reality television ‘star’ Chip his daughter will be a marriage the limit. A light and relatable Bingley arrives – but his friend, prize to the first man who read, the novel showcases Winton’s West Australian neurosurgeon Fitzwilliam Darcy, is correctly identifies every tree. various forms of working women coastland is physically and unimpressed by the Bennets. Is Ellen to have no say in her psychologically perilous for and the juggle between their 2016 528pp B2244 own destiny? This is a strangely personal and professional lives. the people who live by it, but FE exhilarating love story, blending its beauty still compels. Each 2017 336pp B2259 European folktale with a piquant FE member of the trio at the story’s Emma Australian rendering of landscape centre is differently damaged and Jane Austen and longing. Cold Mountain dangerous. Winton’s narrative A classic comedy about the FE 1998 255pp B1594 Relationships tension is extraordinary: he draws Charles Frazier development of a young woman, us into their struggles to break A man, wounded in the Civil War, and the disconnect between with the past and regain hope Eyrie deserts from the army and travels an individual’s inner life – her and love. home, while a ‘lady’ learns to be deepest fears and hopes – and Tim Winton a woman on the frontier. As they FE 2001 465pp B1664 the external world of customs SHORTLISTED journey towards their destinies, and manners. Emma’s spirit and Miles Franklin Literary Award Frazier evokes the times and the vivacity make her one of Austen’s southern Appalachians setting most beloved characters. Unlikable and self-pitying drunk with great immediacy in this Inimitable prose. Tom begins to feel compassion beautiful story of love and war. and desire when he encounters FE 1816 432pp B0001 his neighbour, Gemma. Their FL 1997 357pp B1557 meeting brings back memories Enjoyed of the past, forcing Tom to face City of Friends? a physical threat in his present which is far more dangerous than Try the demons in his head. A Month of Sundays FE 2013 424pp B2210 by Liz Byrski [B2299]

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Five Bells The Great Fire Hateship, Friendship, F Gail Jones Shirley Hazzard Courtship, Loveship, Marriage The Feel of Steel SHORTLISTED WINNER Victorian Premier’s Literary Award Miles Franklin Literary Award Alice Munro Helen Garner James and Ellie are haunted Set largely in Japan in the WINNER This nonfiction collection by the intimacy they shared; aftermath of Hiroshima, the Man Booker International Prize ranges from moods of loss and Catherine fled the UK, grieving love story at its centre unfolds desolation to hilarity and awe. Nine short stories from a her older brother; Pei Xing lost delicately and across continents. master of the short story form. A brief diary of heartbreak her parents during the Cultural Peter Craven called this ‘a following a marriage break up, Munro writes about ‘the lives Revolution and survived years in riveting, slow intoxication of a of girls and women’ in her own a journey to Antarctica, fencing a re-education camp. Through novel which has a deliberateness lessons, reading the Bible: these midwestern rural Canada. their eyes we marvel at the and a density of verbal beauty of ‘Whole lives come into focus short pieces add up to a book Sydney Harbour’s spectacular which most literary fiction has lost with the texture of memoir. suddenly through single events clash of natural beauty and iconic even the memory’. or sudden memories which bring 2001 223pp B1659 architecture, but as forewarned NS F 2003 278pp B1831 the past bubbling to the surface

by Slessor’s poem ‘Five Bells’, ... here are people who reinvent its water harbours death. The Finkler Question The Ground Beneath themselves, seize life by the Howard Jacobson F 2011 216pp B2112 Her Feet throat.’ WINNER Salman Rushdie S 2001 323pp B1676 Man Booker Prize The Four Letters of Love Niall Williams Rushdie’s verbal pyrotechnics The Finkler Question tells the conjure up a musical love story Heat and Dust story of Julian Treslove and his In Dublin, the life of 12-year- between many worlds: India Ruth Prawer Jhabvala friends Sam Finkler and Libor old Nicholas is upended when before and after Independence, A young Englishwoman sets out Sevcik. Sam and Libor are lonely William, his father, drops his America, the underworld, and to discover the full story of the widowers, while Julian wishes job in the civil service because above all the global worlds of scandal of her great aunt in the one of his lovers would expire God wants him to be a painter. rock’n’roll and late 20th-century India of the last days of the Raj. romantically in his arms, and Over on an island in the west, showbiz. A heady and heart- In doing so, she sets that India wonders what it would be like to 11-year-old Isabel thinks it is her stirring song of love, loss, pain against the 1970s republic, and be Jewish. This novel touches on fault when her beloved musical and liberation. evokes a country of heat, dust anti-Semitism and Zionism, as brother Sean is disabled after a and passion. fit. Can the plots of God and love FE 1999 575pp B1746 well as obsession, in a complex 1975 181pp and insightful way. override day-to-day trials? FL B1168 F 1997 342pp B1711 F 2010 307pp B2105 H Heat Wave Firehead The Full Catastrophe Happenstance Penelope Lively Edna Mazya In her country house in England, Venero Armanno Carol Shields the love and jealousy of Pauline’s Aware that his beautiful young The decades from 1975 to 1995 The parallel lives in contemporary early marriage resonates in her wife is having an affair, Ilan is and Brisbane are the setting in marriages are linked in two daughter’s experience. While an compelled to track down her this ‘very Sicilian love story’. companion novels within the unusually hot season takes its lover. Ilan’s actions become ‘An eerie story of generations one cover. Husband and wife course, the family story moves to increasingly bizarre and irrational, Relationships and love, of police corruption in a 20-year marriage each tell its startling climax in Lively’s lucid, and his state of mind, super- and a city’s changing terrain, their story of a week apart, she witty prose. sensitivity in reading moods and at a convention where she is and of searching for that one 1996 215pp place in the world you can appalling mother are brilliantly recognised as a gifted quiltmaker, F B1534 finally say is home.’ Armanno depicted in a suspenseful, funny he on home duties while is an Australian writer with a psychological thriller. keeping his academic job going. Honour and Other unique voice: his novel is full F 2005 334pp B1881 Observant and compassionate. People’s Children of the urgency of desire in F 1982 390pp B1446 Helen Garner sensuous prose. The first story, Honour, deals F 1999 401pp B1754 G with the emotional subtleties of the interactions among a Flights of Love The Grass Harp man, his wife, his prospective Bernhard Schlink Truman Capote second wife and the astute child, whose affections and loyalties In these seven sophisticated SHORTLISTED hang in uneasy balance. The short stories Schlink takes up the National Book Award Enjoyed second story, Other People’s theme of love, different kinds of Truman Capote was from the Children, explores the end of a sadness, devotion and desire, Deep South, and this novel is The Ground Beneath close relationship between two misunderstandings, betrayal, steeped in its symbolism and Her Feet? women, and the break up of their midlife crises and the search cultural associations. Three oddly collective household. for renewal. endearing characters defy small- Try F 1980 156pp B0572 FS 2000 309pp B1665 town society; its other levels of meaning will keep you talking The Namesake for hours. by Jhumpa Lahiri F 1952 192pp B0155 [B1835]

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Hotel du Lac Although some found it hard to The Ivory Swing get into, we all ended up loving Janette Turner Hospital L this non-classical romantic WINNER A Canadian couple and their story of true, quirky Australian two children move to a region Lady Susan, The Watsons Man Booker Prize characters. The author shared a of southern India, where Indian lot of craft and control to create and Sanditon Sophisticated and with a expectations, especially about such a rich and real unfolding Jane Austen perceptive eye for the world of caste and women’s roles, where we didn’t know whether Lady Susan is an epistolary appearances and for human confound the visiting family. to emphasise or be frustrated novel that was completed but foibles and needs, this novel Hospital’s first novel draws on by the characters. We all loved not published during Austen’s unveils the self-containment, her time in India, and presents the dog. lifetime. The Watsons is an loneliness, encounters and a disturbing meditation on the Warrandyte 5 unfinished fragment with a longings of a writer of romantic clash of cultures and the rebellion spirited heroine who finds her fiction in sanctuary in Europe and feminine rage in each. after an indiscretion. The Insatiable Desire marriage prospects restricted of Injured Love F 1982 252pp B1449 by poverty and pride. The F 1985 184pp B1325 incomplete novel Sanditon, Sally Morrison written in the last few months of How to Be Good Renata steps off a mountain J Austen’s life, is set in a seaside Nick Hornby into thin air and somehow resort and contemplates a survives. Imprisoned in plaster The Jane Austen changing society. This volume Tired of her irascible husband on her hospital bed, she David, Katie Carr embarks on Book Club includes an introduction by contents with the emotional Margaret Drabble who examines an affair. Meanwhile, David falls fallout from a recent affar and Karen Joy Fowler under the spell of a faith healer these three pieces within the with family members mostly Five women and a man form and disrupts everyone’s lives context of Austen’s work and life. intent on reforming her. This a book group to discuss their with his devotion to the general 2003 224pp B1046 novel springs from a real event favourite Jane Austen novels. F good. A dissection of modern in 1973 when Sally Morrison Each chapter focuses on a morals, family life and a heartfelt fell from a mountain Victoria’s different Austen book, interpreted Last Orders diagnosis of divorce. Cathedral Ranges. through the life experience of 2001 244pp FE B1643 F 2002 235pp B1786 the member hosting the month’s The novel concentrates on a meeting. This is an entertaining group of men whose friendships Instances of the character driven comedy of and lives revolve around I manners. No prior knowledge work, family, racetrack and Number 3 of Austen’s work is required pub. The narrative is initially I Capture the Castle Salley Vickers but her fans will be especially complex because nine different Dodie Smith ‘After Peter Hansome died, thrilled to observe the lives of voices carry it. But this gives a people were surprised that his the members unfold under the wonderful mix of the lyric and When a new American ‘squire’ widow seemed to be spending guiding eye of a much adored the realistic as four men carry moves into the great house in so much time with his mistress.’ 19th-century novelist. out Jack’s strange last request – her village, Cassandra and her This novel explores the power that his ashes be scattered into wildly eccentric family become FE 2004 279pp B1884 of triangles: a man, his wife the sea. embroiled in plots and plans and his mistress, the three that test tempers and hearts. Journey from Venice FE 1996 295pp B1538 people he leaves behind – and Cassandra observes the goings more universal instances of the Ruth Cracknell on in her journal – a modern number three. In 1998, after 41 years of Love, Again Jane Austen, if not quite as marriage, the incomparable Doris Lessing sharp. Recently republished 2001 307pp B1686 F Ruth Cracknell planned a well and a favourite with readers for What happens when someone earned holiday in Venice with many years. falls in love? Is it different for Iris her beloved husband.

Relationships the young and the old? Is F 1949 352pp B1802 John Bayley An unexpected stroke landed it a madness, a blessing, a Oxford critic John Bayley first him in intensive care. This is rationalisation of lust? Lessing’s The Idea of Perfection caught sight of a memoir of their love as they leisurely, discursive novel Kate Grenville (philosopher and writer) in 1954 face the outcome, and further interweaves the 19th century and fell instantly in love. During evidence of the indomitable with the 20th to connect us with WINNER the last four years of their long spirit of this wonderful the pains, delights and puzzles of Orange Prize marriage, Murdoch’s formidable Australian woman. love, particularly that of an older Two Sydney people turn up on intellect and imagination were N 2000 271pp B1764 woman for a younger man. work projects in a struggling consumed by the ‘insidious fog’ FL 1995 352pp B1506 little town in outback New South of Alzheimer’s disease. Bayley Wales. The engineer has been writes in a moving, dignified way sent to replace the old ‘bent’ of the woman who was his wife, timber bridge with a concrete and their life together, in earlier one, but some of the locals have days and at the time of writing. their own thoughts on this. N 1998 294pp B1736 A novel with Grenville’s incisiveness and comic flair. FE 1999 401pp B1733

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Love in the Time Mansfield Park Moral Hazard Northanger Abbey of Cholera Jane Austen Kate Jennings Jane Austen Gabriel García Márquez This heroine lacks the obvious Cath’s much-loved older A high spirited, enjoyable satire The consummation of Florentino temperamental, physical and husband begins to succumb on romance mysteries and gothic Ariza’s passionate love for material advantages of Elizabeth to Alzheimer’s. To earn the tales of horror; one of Austen’s Fermina Daza is delayed for 50 Bennet or Emma Woodhouse. money needed for his care, earliest and most literary works years by her highly satisfactory As Fanny Price struggles to Cath finds work on Wall Street that includes a spirited defence marriage to Dr Juvenal Urbino. make her way among luckier, as an executive speechwriter of novels. more extroverted and less and commutes between two Magical yet realistic – this F 1818 252pp B1199 astonishing work is crowded scrupulous people, Austen’s dementias – one of men, power with life and love stories of the writing combines metaphoric and greed, the other of the Caribbean country where it is set. subtlety and comic delight. crumbling away of the love of Smallish print. F 1814 462pp B0576 her life. A mordant, harrowing, O unsentimental novel. FE 1985 348pp B1247 FE 2002 175pp B1672 Of Love and Shadows Mateship with Birds Isabel Allende Carrie Tiffany Love like Water Journalist Irene has enjoyed Meme McDonald This is a pitch-perfect depiction The Mothers’ Group Fiona Higgins a privileged upbringing and is After the death of her fiancé of the freedoms and strictures engaged to an army captain in Queensland, Cathy spends of country town life in the Following six very different when she is partnered with time in Alice Springs with her 1950s Australian countryside. women in a mothers’ group photographer Francisco. They childhood friend, Margie, hoping Lonely neighbours Harry and through the first years of their soon become an inseparable to work out what to do with her Betty lust after each other, and babies’ lives, this novel explores investigative team, and when life. Cathy’s affair with Aboriginal complicating matters, Harry is motherhood and themes such they discover an unspeakable Jay reveals the underside of also a father figure to Betty’s son; as marriage, new parenting, crime perpetrated under the Alice Springs and the latent but it all goes wrong when he and dealing with loss. One chilling political regime of their racism that simmers beneath tries to teach him about love and day, a shocking event changes country, they must risk everything the surface of Australian society. lust. Contains sexual references. everything, testing the women’s to reveal the truth – and to admit A light and enjoyable read that F 2012 211pp B2159 bonds and revealing secrets that the truth about their passion boldly confronts difficult issues of threaten to shatter their lives. for each other. A magical, place, race and identity. The Mint Lawn F 2012 312pp B2149 captivating read. F 2007 349pp B1951 Gillian Mears F 1987 298pp B1349 A 25-year-old woman’s N M struggles with an unsatisfying Olive Kitteridge marriage, childhood and her NEW Elizabeth Strout mother’s death are conveyed This series of stories is Madame Bovary in sensual, obsessively physical connected by the character Gustave Flaubert prose. A strong sense of a of teacher Olive Kitteridge in a One of the great classics of small New South Wales river small coastal town in Maine, and world literature, this novel is town. Unpleasant material that Normal combines ‘the sustained, messy about a young woman stultified may offend. investigation of the novel with People the flashing insight of the short by marriage and motherhood F 1991 298pp B1332 Relationships in a confined society. Its portrait Sally Rooney story... It illuminates both what of Madame Bovary and the The Mistake WINNER people understand about others bourgeois life of country town Costa Book Award and what they understand about France in the 19th century is vivid Wendy James themselves’– The New York and compelling reading. A decision to adopt out a baby LONGLISTED Times. Small print. FE 1856 361pp B0107 illegally comes back to haunt Man Booker International Prize FSE 2008 270pp B2060 Jodie Garrow 25 years later. The ensuing investigation puts Connell and Marianne are from Major Pettigrew’s pressure on the life and family the same town, but their lives On Chesil Beach Last Stand she has since built as Jodie shouldn’t be this intertwined. Ian McEwan Yet a relationship forms between Helen Simonson becomes entangled in a media It’s 1962. Newlyweds Edward them as they grow up and attend witch hunt. Wendy James and Florence arrive at a hotel on Major Ernest Pettigrew, a Trinity College in Dublin. An explores family dynamics, the Dorset coast. They believe widower, is grieving for his brother intelligent and thoughtful insight motherhood, and the powerful their marriage will bring them when he answers the door to into the complexities of intimate role of the media today. happiness but each faces their Mrs Ali, a widow. They find they relationships and an unflinching wedding night with unspoken share a love of literature, and F 2012 278pp B2148 exploration about femininity and fears. A brilliant portrait of their friendship soon becomes masculinity in a modern-day how a word not spoken can the subject of slanderous town setting. The novel is sharp, the shape an entire life. Contains gossip. Set in a rural English characters three-dimensional, sexual content. village, Major Pettigrew’s Last the writing is intelligent and sure Stand is told with insight, wit, and to provoke a great discussion on FE 2007 166pp B1954 dignity and is an unconventional, intimacy, relationships and so- romantic comedy of manners that called normality. Contains sexual offers much to discuss. content. F 2010 388pp B2077 FE 2018 288pp B2293

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Plain Jane Pride and Prejudice The Rosie Effect P Joan Barfoot Jane Austen Graeme Simsion A plain 28-year-old woman, Amusing and astringent. This Simsion’s humour shines Paula living alone, working in a brilliant novel has become throughout in the second book Isabel Allende library, impulsively answers Austen’s most- loved work. The in the Don Tillman trilogy. Don is ‘In ... 1991 my daughter, Paula, an advertisement to become delightfully spirited Elizabeth ‘not fond of surprises, especially fell gravely ill. These pages were the penpal of a prisoner - and Bennet must contend with if they disrupt plans already in written during the interminable changes her life. Easy to read, the antics of her inappropriate place’, so he is dazed by Rosie’s hours spent ... beside her bed.’ wry and surprisingly tense. younger sisters, her hapless revelation of his impending The novelist mother embarks F 1992 243pp B1421 parents, and the suitors that fatherhood. Don’s fears see on the most magical, real and begin approaching herself and him return to old ways, risking passionate of all her stories, The Poet’s Wife her older sister, Jane. She must his newfound happiness as containing the family legends, also learn to overcome her own he comes to terms with the Chile’s dramatic history, and the Mandy Sayer faults as she deals with those of unpredictability of life. poignant progress of Paula’s Sayer chronicles her turbulent her romantic interests. FE 2014 368pp B2217 illness. Perhaps more Isabel’s marriage to poet Yusef FE 1813 327pp B0210 than Paula’s saga. Komunyakaa in this unflinching The Rosie Project 1994 330pp B1493 and intelligent memoir. She was N 22 and he nearly 40 when they Private Life Graeme Simsion met; she a busker, and he an Jane Smiley In this first book in the Don Perfect Skin out of work professor – yet each Margaret Mayfield is 27 when she Tillman trilogy, Don Tillman, Nick Earls found a kindred spirit in the other. marries Captain Andrew Jackson professor of genetics, leads A single father juggles his day The Poet’s Wife examines their Jefferson Early. Despite her lonely a very ordered life. He has job as a consulting dermatologist troubled relationship, and follows marriage she stands by him launched ‘The Wife Project’ in a with the needs of his 6-month- Sayer’s development as a writer. through grief and tragedy, but bid to find a suitable mate, but old daughter Lily. Brisbane N 2014 417pp B2207 is forced to examine their lives things go awry when impulsive writer Nick Earls brings us a together as things take a darker barmaid Rosie Jarman enters very now novel with a lot about turn when WWII approaches. his life and he finds himself Portrait of a Marriage agreeing to help find her father. bad 80s fashion and music, F 2010 318pp B2099 email etiquette, and dating thirty Nigel Nicolson This feel-good comic novel and somethings. Full of insight, Harold Nicolson and Vita celebrates difference, tolerance perceptive social comment and Sackville West were married Prodigal Summer and the transformative power of Earls’ comedic instinct. for 49 years. During this time Barbara Kingsolver the unexpected. F 2000 354pp B1688 each had affairs with others Over one humid summer in FE 2013 324pp B2182 of the same sex, notably Vita southern Appalchia, as the and Virgina Woolf, yet they urge to procreate overtakes the NEW Persuasion remained inseparably united. countryside, three characters Jane Austen Written by their son, much of discover their connections to How far should one yield to the book is based on work one another and to the flora persuasion from older, wiser, obviously intended to be his and fauna with which they share The Rosie loving people? When is advice mother’s autobiography. a place. A lavish and sexually Result an interference? In Jane Austen’s N 1973 237pp B1073 exuberant read. Graeme last completed work her FE 2000 447pp B1690 Simsion characteristic incisiveness gains Poum and Alexandre: an autumnal tone. A hilarious A Paris Memoir and heartfelt conclusion to the 1818 264pp F B0596 Catherine de Saint Phalle R bestselling trilogy that began with The Rosie Project. Don and Relationships The Philosopher’s Doll SHORTLISTED The Reader Rosie are back in Melbourne Amanda Lohrey Stella Prize Bernhard Schlink and facing new challenges. Don realises that is isn’t enough to be What happens when one partner Set in post-war Paris during A 15-year-old German student the World’s Best Problem-Solver wants a child and the other the decline of the bourgeois becomes involved with a – he has to embark on his most doesn’t? In a culture of affluence, class, this beautifully written 36-year-old woman. Long after important project yet and learn what do we need to be happy, memoir follows Catherine as she has disappeared from his life, how to be a satisfactory parent and how much control do we she recounts her unconventional Michael has cause to reassess and partner. have over our lives? This is an childhood through the life of her the Hanna he knew. This accomplished novel exploring mother, Poum, and her father, haunting tale raises profound FE 2019 384pp B2303 contemporary life and how to Alexandre, two flawed eccentrics questions about action, choice, ‘have it all’. with a love of mythology and the judgement and Germany’s recent old ways. A tender memoir about past. Good clear print. F 2004 306pp B1822 acceptance, loneliness and freedom through the observant F 1995 216pp B1562 eyes of a child. NE 2016 256pp B2254

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NEW The Sugar Mother Thinks . . . S Elizabeth Jolley David Lodge Small Edwin Page, gentle, prim, is on Another delightful comedy of Sense and Sensibility his own while his wife is overseas manners about academia, Jane Austen Blessings for a year. But Leila and her adultery and human Austen portrays sisters Elinor and Emily Brewin mother, the new tenants next consciousness. Ralph is an Marianne, each with contrasting The new door, somehow move in on him, international academic star temperaments and inclinations. novel by the and Edwin becomes aware of in the highly trendy field of In their story, she explores author of Hello, how he longs for the child he language and thought research. distinctions between wisdom Goodbye is a moving tale of never had. Leila, it seems, is Novelist Helen arrives at the and feeling, reserve and secrecy, motherhood and friendships. quite happy to become a sugar – university to teach, and to spontaneity and steadiness. Rosie is struggling to make no, surrogate – mother. recover from the unexpected a life for herself and her son F 1988 210pp B1339 death of her husband. F 1811 368pp B1085 when her ex-boyfriend comes Despite their differences they back into the picture. Isobel is begin a secret affair – with The Sense of an trying to balance her career and Sweet Old World complicated consequences. Ending starting a family, and past issues Deborah Robertson F 2001 342pp B1678 Julian Barnes threaten to make themselves David has always dreamed known. Circumstances brings of becoming a father. When WINNER the two women together in a troubled teen Esther tumbles into Three Dog Night Man Booker Prize story of hope, friendship and his life, David’s initial reluctance Peter Goldsworthy Tony Webster has lived an second chances. to become involved changes Goldsworthy’s intriguing novel ordinary, relatively unexamined FE 2019 248pp B2302 as he finds himself close to the explores human extremes in a life. Then, in retirement, an happiness for which he longs. disturbing narrative of obsessive unexpected bequest forces him This moving novel examines love, mortality and self- to revisit memories of his school A Stranger Here the often ignored male side of deception. His deft and evocative friends and university days that Gillian Bouras yearning for parenthood, and the prose carries the intensity of he had thought immutable. This importance of hope. the book’s dark journey, a Bouras uses three different desert trip where the Australian is a small novel that skilfully voices, each commenting on F 2012 224pp B2150 tackles big themes such as landscape and Aboriginal rituals a recent crisis which concerns amplify the ambiguities and memory, ageing, love, truth, them all: Irene, Australian mother and regret. complexities of his characters of three sons and wife of a T and preoccupations. Challenging FE 2011 150pp B2138 Greek husband, has suddenly and compelling reading. departed from her marriage and Theft: A Love Story 2003 342pp B1850 Shadow Lines the village in Greece. As in her Peter Carey F Stephen Kinnane nonfiction, here Bouras confronts the painful realities of marriage, SHORTLISTED The Time Traveler’s Wife Englishman Edward Smith motherhood, being drawn to two Miles Franklin Literary Award Audrey Niffenegger emigrated to Australia and met cultures and belonging fully to Artist Michael ‘Butcher Bones’ Jessie Argyle, who was born Clare and Henry, met when Clare neither. Print well-spaced. Boone, divorced and bankrupt, in the remote East Kimberley was 6 and Henry was 36 and acts as caretaker for his and taken from her Aboriginal F 1996 247pp B1507 were married when Clare was 22 patron’s remote estate and for and Henry 30. Henry suffers from

family at the age of five. In a Relationships his ‘damaged 220lb brother’. deeply racially divided society, The Submerged a rare condition where his genetic When he meets American Jessie and Edward fell in love clock periodically resets and he Cathedral beauty Marlene, a chain of and married. Despite official finds himself pulled into his past Charlotte Wood unpredictable events unfolds. surveillance and harassment, or future. A moving love story. From rural Australia to New York their Perth home became a SHORTLISTED via Sydney and Tokyo, Theft is a F 2004 518pp B2002 centre for Aboriginal cultural and Miles Franklin Literary Award darkly funny, thought-provoking social life. Taking her title from composer story of love, responsibility Together N 2003 414pp B1842 Claude Debussy’s La Cathédrale and redemption. Julie Cohen Engloutie, Wood has created a F 2006 269pp B1981 Robbie and Emily have been Shallows haunting but beautiful story about the consuming love between together for 43 years, with Tim Winton Jocelyn, an editor and Martin, a grandchildren, a life of success A small coastal town in Western doctor. When their relationship and an unbreakable love. But Australia clings to one of its few is disrupted by a family tragedy, one day Robbie wakes up and surviving industries, whaling. grief forces them to separate and walks into the ocean, leaving a The township witnesses embark on personal journeys of letter that shatters Emily’s world. struggle between whalers and discovery. Wood’s prose is rich in Enjoyed As the story unfolds backwards conservationists; the community imagery and metaphor. Hello, Goodbye? over five decades, we discover divides; a marriage founders. a secret they’ve been protecting FE 2004 302pp B1846 at all costs. A thought-provoking F 1984 235pp B1213 Try read with a jaw-dropping Small Blessings reveal that will get your book by Emily Brewin group talking. [B2302] F 2017 352pp B2282

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

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At Home Bereft Bomb, Book and A Bill Bryson Chris Womersley Compass: Joseph An entertaining, witty and SHORTLISTED Needham and the Great According to Queeney illuminative look at how history Miles Franklin Literary Award Secrets of China shapes our everyday lives. From In 1919, Quinn Walker returns Simon Winchester Savour this complex and the history of hygiene that is brought to bear in the bathroom, home from war, having fled his From the author of The Surgeon fascinating fictionalisation of the hometown as a teenager falsely of Crowthorne and The Map 20-year relationship between to nutrition and the spice trade that are brought home to the accused of killing his younger That Changed the World. A the acclaimed Samuel Johnson sister. On his return, he remains distinguished biochemist working and his benefactor, Mrs Thrale, kitchen. His great skill is making daily life simultaneously strange both an outsider and a wanted at Cambridge University and according to her daughter man. He meets a young orphan married to a fellow scientist, Queeney. A wonderful observer and familiar, helping us to recognise ourselves. girl, Sadie, who seems to know in 1937 Needham was asked of human folly, Bainbridge tells more about the crime and about to supervise a young Chinese a candid story of unrequited N 2010 544pp B2096 Quinn than she should, and she student named Lu Gwei Djen. love, passion, rejection and encourages him to take justice He fell in love with both Lu and possession, skilfully exposing the Everyone enjoyed this book. into his own hands. China and established himself as sexual tensions that lie beneath Bryson’s writing is very 2010 264pp B2106 the pre-eminent China scholar, the surface of Georgian London. insightful of the living/moving FE documenting everything from masses of the time. A delightful Loosely plotted through a series Chinese medicine to philosophy way to provide history. A beautifully written book that of letters, her concise style brings and nautical history. a cast of remarkable characters Keilor Community Centre encompasses historical detail vividly to life. and a surprising relationship NE 2008 336pp B2021 between the damaged survivor F 2001 244pp B1947 of terrible boyhood trauma B and an orphaned child. Totally The Book Thief Markus Zusak All the Light We Bearbrass believable and understated, Cannot See it nevertheless takes the Liesel is sent to live with a foster Robyn Annear reader into personal worlds family near Munich in World Anthony Doerr The authorial self-description typical of the time of the Great War II, and with the help of WINNER sets the delightful and bracing War in a small country town, her accordion-playing foster Pulitzer Prize tone: ‘Robyn Annear is a typist where hardship, poverty and father, learns to read. She is and lives in country Victoria with ignorance were the norm, but soon stealing books, which Werner attends a Nazi boarding somebody else’s husband’. where friendship or love could she shares with her neighbours school, gratefully escaping the History has never been such fun, also be found. The undertone and the Jewish refugee hiding mines of his hometown; Marie and Melbourne – ‘Bearbrass’ of superstition and magic is so in the basement. ‘Death’ is the Laure, blind from a young age, – won’t be the same after this subtle that it can be missed or unconventional narrator of this adores her father who brings the anecdotal, irreverent, informative ignored as superfluous. But international bestseller by an this gives the book its gothic world alive for her. Their eventful book about its past and present. Australian author. childhoods unfold until their description bequeathed by paths cross in Nazi-occupied N 1995 290pp B1471 some reviewers. We all loved it. FE 2005 550pp B1995 France in the walled port city of Mullumbimby Huon Books Saint Malo, where Marie Laure Bring Larks and Heroes hides from heavy shelling – and The Birth House from a stranger who has hunted Ami McKay her from afar. WINNER During WWI, young Dora Miles Franklin Literary Award FE 2014 544pp B2228 befriends the elderly Miss Babineau, midwife in their small This imaginative reconstruction of As I Walked Out One fishing village in Nova Scotia, a convict settlement in Australia Midsummer Morning Canada. Together, they help the in the 1790s tells of the physical Enjoyed women of Scots Bay through and mental demands made on Laurie Lee difficult labour, infertility, and even soldier poet Corporal Halloran: Another re-creation of times All the Light We marital troubles. But when Dr demands by his secret bride, his gone by from the author of Cider Cannot See? Gilbert Thomas moves to town superiors, his Irish comrades and with Rosie, this book deals with with his promise of modern most of all by his conscience. Spain before the Civil War, seen Try medicine, everything changes. FE 1967 248pp B0166 through the eyes of a young ‘An impressive novel, laced with man destined to become a well The Book Thief quirky research and rippling with known British writer. by Markus Zusak muscular poetry’ – Observer (UK). F 1969 186pp B0524 [B1995] F 2006 385pp B2023

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Bring Up the Bodies Célestine NEW Gillian Tindall D In a French peasant village, WINNER Tindall (an English historian) Dancing with Strangers Man Booker Prize came across a bundle of letters Inga Clendinnen The sequel to Man Booker Prize from the 1860s, addressed The Corset winner Wolf Hall, this novel to a young woman, Célestine Laura Purcell WINNER NSW Premier’s Literary Awards concentrates on the short, Chaumette, and used them to When 16-year- brutal period of Anne Boleyn’s carefully reconstruct the lives old Ruth is ‘These people mixed with ours,’ downfall. Thomas Cromwell of the village and its people. imprisoned and awaiting trial wrote James Bradley, ‘and all is at the height of his powers, Subtitled ‘Voices from a French for murder, ‘charitable’ lady hands danced together.’ What masterfully negotiating court Village’, this thoughtful social Dorothea wants to use Ruth went wrong between the British politics to secure Henry VIII a way history is detailed and complex to explore her theories on settlers of New South Wales out of his failed marriage. This is as it creates the vivid sense of phrenology, the science of skull and the Australian inhabitants a ‘must read’ for those who enjoy ordinary daily lives and struggles. measuring. But when the two they encountered? Arthur Phillip Mantel’s stylish prose and sly wit. NE 1995 292pp B1486 women meet, Ruth recounts her and the local leader Bennelong FE 2012 410pp B2155 devastating life of entrenched pursued a difficult path to Charles Hotham poverty, child labour and the conciliation; we follow the painful Burial Rites strange ability to channel her end of that relationship as cultural Shirley Roberts pain into her embroidery. Can differences asserted themselves. Hannah Kent As the first governor of the there be truth to Ruth’s strange N 2003 324pp B1826 colony of Victoria, Hotham tale? This evocative gothic SHORTLISTED was soon faced with troubles novel set in the rough streets Stella Prize in the goldfields and with the of Victorian London asks the In Iceland, 1829, Agnes Eureka crisis. Before this, his question: Is Ruth mad, or E Magnúsdóttir awaits execution. naval career was distinguished a murderer? Electricity Burial Rites chronicles the life that and varied: of particular note 2018 416pp B2296 brought Agnes to this point, and was his posting in West Africa FE Victoria Glendinning explores the effect the doomed where his squadron was This high voltage, informative woman has on those who spend engaged in suppressing the novel set in Victorian England is time with her in her last months. trans-Atlantic slave trade. A Cranford a portrayal of Charlotte Mortimer Kent evokes a harsh world within lucid and positive assessment of Elizabeth Gaskell and her surprising life, illuminating which residents battle for survival, Hotham’s contribution to public First published in instalments in the family, sexual and social a sense of identity and freedom. life. Pleasant hardcover volume: a magazine edited by Dickens, mores of a culture undergoing FE 2013 335pp B2193 clarity of the print is excellent. this is an affectionate portrait of great changes. N 1985 201pp B1241 people and small-town customs F 1995 250pp B1527 and values in mid-Victorian Bush Studies England. In a series of satirical Barbara Baynton Come in Spinner sketches, Gaskell describes with These sharply effective stories Dymphna Cusack & Florence humour and tenderness the lives share time and setting with James of good-natured spinster Miss Lawson’s. But Baynton’s Wartime Sydney, and the influx Matty, her maid Martha, and treatment strips away the of American servicemen, is narrator Mary Smith. romance and the heroics from illuminated through the eyes FE 1853 312pp B0010 the bush and its characters. of six women working in the Contains ‘Squeaker’s Mate’, beauty parlour of a large hotel. the basis of a controversial film. An interesting portrayal of urban FS 1902 140pp B1055 working class Australian society. Love learning about history, arts FE 1951 445pp B0568 or philosophy? Why not consider C one of CAE’s popular talks? Caleb’s Crossing Geraldine Brooks SHORTLISTED Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards Enjoyed Another compelling historical My Brilliant Career? novel from the author of People of the Book, Year of Wonders Try and March. This is inspired by the

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Empire Falls The Good People The Guernsey Literary Richard Russo G Hannah Kent and Potato Peel WINNER SHORTLISTED Pie Society Pulitzer Prize Galileo’s Daughter Readings Prize Mary Ann Shaffer Dava Sobel A dying mill town in central Maine In January 1946, Juliet receives is the setting for Russo’s portrait Galileo was the foremost scientist SHORTLISTED a letter which leads to an of ordinary people swept up in of his day, fighting Church Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction ongoing correspondence with opposition for acceptance of the members of a Guernsey economic and political forces as When Nora Leahy loses her seen through MIles, a cook at his heresy that the sun, not group formed during the German the earth, was the centre of husband and her daughter, occupation of the Channel the Empire Grill. The characters’ she is left as the sole carer for behaviour and preoccupations the Solar System. His much- Islands. When Juliet goes to loved daughter Maria Celeste, Michael, her 4-year-old grandson meet her new friends, her life are utterly compelling without high who cannot walk or speak drama or exaggeration. It gently consigned to a convent at an changes in unexpected ways. early age, wrote to her father and demands her attention This warm and witty epistolary reminds us that life itself, though at all times. Desperate to end often painful, must be cherished. throughout her life, and Sobel novel is a celebration of books has woven a clever narrative the superstitious gossip of the and an exploration of friendship, F 2001 483pp B1684 around these. A fascinating townsfolk surrounding Michael’s love, and sacrifice. deformities, Nora seeks out account of everyday life in 17th 2008 273pp century Italy. Nance Roche, a recluse who FE B2032 F claims to have the otherworldly NE 1999 429pp B1758 knowledge to banish the evil Guns, Germs and Steel Fire Under the Snow from her grandson. Set in Jared Diamond We thought this book was very 1900s poverty-stricken Ireland, good and quite compelling Palden Gyatso The Good People is a chilling in having such a breadth of WINNER Tibet, the last spiritual society, met story about the extremes of Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction subject and setting. It is a an avowedly materialist China, very scholastic achievement, superstition and faith. Ambitiously subtitled ‘A short and lost. Gyatso, then 17, and a demanding a huge amount of FE 2016 380pp B2258 history of everybody for the last monk, tells the strangest story, and research as we see in the index 13,000 years’, this is a thought- the history of contemporary Tibet. at the back. The book had Go Set a Watchman provoking book on human Is reality only materiality? Striving an interesting description of history, tackling the difficult here, innocence, naïveté, brutality, Galileo’s inventions, which the Harper Lee question of why human beings brainwashing, imprisonment, non-scientific among us can This newly rediscovered developed so differently on hope, David and Goliath. Goliath still appreciate, with some of manuscript was intended as different continents. The writer wins, but the Wheel turns. A rarity. his extremely detailed drawings Lee’s first novel before her editor of this Pulitzer Prize winning N 1997 232pp B1570 reproduced. suggested focusing on young work on the origins of human Bendigo Free Spirits Scout’s perspective in what inequality is an American scientist The Floating Brothel became the Pulitzer winning To and explorer, whose writings Kill a Mockingbird. Lee’s original Siân Rees Generations aim to make science accessible. Hugh Mackay text is being published with no Small print. The Lady Julian sailed in 1789 for revisions, and sees an adult 1997 480pp Botany Bay with a cargo of female One of Australia’s best known Scout returning to Maycomb NE B1713 convicts. Rees writes vividly of social researchers analyses twenty years after the events of the social pressures which led to Australian society by generation. Mockingbird. Whatever you think female crime, of squalid prison He looks at baby boomers, of the controversy surrounding H conditions, the routines on an their parents and their children. the book’s release, it will certainly 18th-century sailing ship and a Comparing their various attitudes stimulate discussion. The Help helps us understand the diverse pragmatic approach whereby 2015 320pp B2218 Kathryn Stockett both men at sea and in the young and changing circumstances FE facing all Australians as a new In the American South in the colony might be provided with early 1960s, aspiring writer women. Both aboard and in millennium dawns. Will you agree Gould’s Book of Fish with his findings? Skeeter has graduated from Australia, many women convicts Richard Flanagan university and returns home to found a life preferable to the one N 1997 194pp B1572 This novel plucks a real-life thief pressure from her mother to they had left behind. and prisoner, English forger get married. Aibileen is a black N 2001 248pp B1641 The Glass Room William Gould, from the pages maid raising her seventeenth Simon Mawer of history to act as protagonist- white child, with the knowledge narrator. Sentenced to a prison that this child, too, will come to Step Back in Time The Forgotten Garden Viktor and Liesel Landauer colony off the Tasmanian coast, a certain age, and start to see build their modern home in Kate Morton Gould recounts his life story as her differently. Minny, Aibileen’s the countryside of the Czech This is an international bestseller he paints the island’s native fish, best friend, keeps getting fired Republic in 1928. But when of family secrets, gothic mysteries recalling his grim childhood and because she won’t mind her the Nazis rise to power, the and fairy tales. When Cassandra ill-fated life of crime. Flanagan’s tongue. The three women band Landauers have to flee. The travels from Brisbane to the darkly humorous tale of the 19th- together on a project that puts all house witnesses the Nazis Cornwall coast and a cottage she century world of convicts and of them at risk. inherited from her grandmother, and the Soviet invasion, but colonists slips between the real 2009 451pp she discovers a garden when Communism falls and the and the fantastic. FE B2074 Czech Republic becomes an which holds the secret to her 2001 404pp B1675 grandmother’s birth and journey independent country again, the F to Australia as a stowaway. Landauers can return home. FE 2008 549pp B2116 F 2009 404pp B2125

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A History of the World The Invisible History The Law of Dreams The Luminaries in 10 ½ Chapters of the Human Race Peter Behrens Eleanor Catton Julian Barnes Christine Kenneally Behrens brings alive the WINNER Jokey, sorrowful, resilient, this SHORTLISTED catastrophe of the Irish potato Man Booker Prize unusual book is not so much famine with Fergus O’Brien, who Stella Prize On the New Zealand goldfields in a bird’s as a worm’s eye view is left alone at the age of fifteen. 1866, Walter Moody encounters of history – seeing it from the What is the complex notion Sensing that he must keep twelve men gathered to solve bottom up, hollowing out of ‘identity’? How can DNA moving if he is to live, he survives a series of local crimes. In certainties, tackling the big shape cultures and whole privation, danger and betrayals this vivid and intricate world, human questions by storytelling nations? Award-winning on his route to Canada. fortunes are made and lost and and commentary. journalist Christine Kenneally 2006 394pp B1968 asks these questions and more, F fate is governed by the stars. F 1989 309pp B1324 encompassing genealogy, Ingeniously structured, The science, cultural inheritance The Lieutenant Luminaries reads like a 19th- Human Croquet and the concept of race. This Kate Grenville century murder mystery, but with gripping hidden complexities. Kate Atkinson engrossing book asks what Lieutenant Daniel Rooke arrives we inherit from the past, and Isobel Fairfax, the appealing in New South Wales on the First FE 2013 834pp B2200 guarantees hours of discussion young narrator of this story, Fleet in 1788 and sets up an with its answer. is both character in her own observatory to study astronomy right and representative of all N 2014 368pp B2219 and navigation. Aboriginal people M storytellers. She has the ability soon start to visit his isolated to move in and out of ‘normal’ outpost and a child begins to The Madonnas time, so that the novel consists J teach him her language. As he meticulously records their of Leningrad of varied story strands with Debra Dean different and equally plausible conversations, an extraordinary Jack Maggs friendship develops and Rooke As the German army blockades endings. Part ghost story, part Peter Carey murder mystery, this novel is soon faces a decision that will the beautiful city of Leningrad in also a stimulating presentation WINNER define not only who he is but the World War II, all food stocks are of English history and the people Miles Franklin Literary Award course of his entire life. destroyed, leaving the people who walked through it. 2008 320pp B2031 to struggle for survival in the Set in a vivid 19th century FE bombed out buildings. Recently FE 1998 383pp B1925 London, Carey’s acclaimed employed as a custodian in the novel in some ways reworks The Light Between great art museum the Hermitage both Great Expectations, with Oceans and now sheltering with others in I Magwitch as Maggs, and the M.L. Stedman its ruins, young Marina will always facts of Dickens’ own life in the remember its great paintings of Inglorious Empire figure of Tobias Oates. Other SHORTLISTED Madonna and Child. A moving Shashi Tharoor characters, like Mercy and Percy, Miles Franklin Literary Award exploration of the power of art are pure Carey. Strongly and and memory. Former United Nations diplomat pacily plot driven, it puts a more Returned from WWI Europe, Tom strikes back with the real story Antipodean slant on the society is now the lighthouse keeper F 2006 231pp B1971 of the British colonial oppression from which Australia sprang. on a remote island off Western and plunder of India. Tharoor FE 1997 392pp B1575 Australia, his young wife Isabel The Man Who reveals how the British Industrial his only companion. When Lost Himself Revolution, and its wealth, was tragedy touches their lives, they Robyn Annear founded on the demolishment make a decision with far-reaching of the Indian Empire, whose L consequences. This moving story The author of Bearbrass brings economy matched the entire of love and loyalty probes the us a true story about a 19th- European continent. An The Lamp Still Burns blurry line separating right and century adventurer with a unapologetic and explosive Isabel ‘Spark’ Gill wrong, and the bond between difference. Annear’s account look at the devastating effects of the contested Tichborne Brought up in the Victorian town mother and child. of colonialism. Inheritance sets out the evidence of Clunes, Isabel Gill longed to be FE 2012 362pp B2166 for readers to judge, yet retains 2017 336pp B2287 a nurse, and her autobiography NE the essential question: who was records her training and The Long Song the Claimant? The Invention of Wings experience in hospitals from Andrea Levy 2002 430pp B1687 Sue Monk Kidd 1936 to 1981. With many N photographs, it provides a In this novel, Levy responds to The new novel by the author social history of changes in the question: ‘How can you be of The Secret Life of Bees is nursing, public health and proud of your Jamaican roots, inspired by the lives of abolitionist medical practice. when your ancestors were Enjoyed sisters Sarah and Angelina 1989 187pp B1551 slaves?’ Its narrator is house The Light Between Grimké, born into a wealthy N slave July, born on a sugar Charleston plantation in the mid- Oceans? Step Back in Time in Step Back plantation in the early 19th 19th century. This is the story century. July speaks for those of their slave, ‘Handful’, and the who are silent in the historical Try complex relationships with those record of this repressive social We Must Be Brave around them, marked by guilt, system, but her emotional defiance, and the uneasy ways story is also highly personal by Frances Liardet of love. and entertaining. [B2310] F 2014 373pp B2205 F 2010 308pp B2078 CONNECT WITH US / 9652 0620 / CAE.EDU.AU / @CAEBOOKGROUPS / BOOKGROUPS_CAE / @CAEBOOKGROUPS 35

March Mr Darwin’s Shooter The Night Watch Geraldine Brooks Roger McDonald Sarah Waters P The Night Watch follows the WINNER SHORTLISTED intertwined lives and relationships Parrot and Olivier Pulitzer Prize Miles Franklin Literary Award of four characters, Kay, Helen, in America Viv and Duncan, revealing how Set during the first year of the What part did Syms Covington, Peter Carey the war has changed each of American Civil War, Brooks Darwin’s manservant, play in On Aristocrat Olivier, inspired by them. Through air raids, blacked evokes the life of John March, the Origin of Species? Drawing the French nobleman Alexis out streets, illicit partying and the absent father from Louisa on the sparse historical details de Tocqueville, who wrote sexual adventure, the novel May Alcott’s Little Women. An of Covington’s life, McDonald Democracy in America travels to begins in 1947 during peacetime anti-slavery idealist, March enlists imagines his boyhood, his the new world to study the prison and moves backwards to 1941, with the Union troops – but his seafaring years, and his work system, and to avoid another allowing Waters to connect her beliefs are challenged by the collecting specimens with revolution; Parrot is a frustrated cast in sometimes startling ways. horrors of war. Familiarity with Darwin. Small print. British artist who is sent with him Little Women is not essential. FE 1999 369pp B1598 F 2006 480pp B1931 as spy, protector and servant. FE 2005 338pp B1888 On their journey, they develop an Mr Rosenblum’s List Nothing But Gold unlikely and enriching friendship. Mary Barton Natasha Solomons Robyn Annear F 2009 452pp B2069 The discovery of gold in Australia Elizabeth Gaskell Jakob is a Jewish refugee from in 1851 tempted thousands to Gaskell’s first novel is set in her Nazi Germany who arrives in A Passage to India rush to try their luck. This spirited native Manchester and follows London in 1937, where he is E.M. Forster account of the first year or so of two working-class families handed a list of rules on how Set in the last decades of the the Victorian goldfields conveys in the 1840s. John Barton to assimilate. Jakob takes this Empire, this novel depicts a world the day to day realities of getting begins questioning the unequal seriously – he wants to fit in – of English, Hindu and Muslim there and making a go of it: distribution of wealth, and and begins to update the list difference and misunderstanding, winter’s mud, summer’s dust, becomes involved in the trade- with observations of his own. His and the land seems to have a the hard labour of digging, the union movement; his daughter, actions bewilder his wife Sadie, mind of its own, opposed to unimaginable water and food, the Mary, sees marriage as her only who clings to where they came friendship between races. violence and camaraderie, the way out of poverty. Gaskell’s from and who they left behind. wit shines through this clever, exhilaration of being your own FL 1924 280pp B0012 emotional tale of romance and F 2010 311pp B2081 boss. A feisty recreation. murder. N 1999 329pp B1716 The Passion FE 1848 466pp B0252 N Jeanette Winterson Henri, a young French peasant, Memoirs of a Geisha The Narrow Road to O becomes Napoleon’s chicken Arthur Golden chef, and Villanelle is a Venetian the Deep North One for the Master fishergirl born with webbed feet. Sold into a geisha house in 1929 Richard Flanagan Dorothy Johnston The public and private passions at the age of 9, Sayuri describes of hero worship, war, gambling Helen Plathe, a young girl, wife, the elaborate ritual of making the WINNER and love are explored with deft mother, employee and citizen, creature whose delicacy, artistry, Man Booker Prize realism and magical inventiveness. tells her story in this powerful, conversation and seductiveness A surprising and readable glimpse modest and very readable novel is captive to the entertainment WINNER of early 19th century Europe. of rich and powerful men. Prime Minister’s Literary Award set in Geelong, a Victorian Artifice, eroticism, exploitation country centre, in the decades F 1987 160pp B1226 and survival are part of a world In 1943, surgeon Dorrigo Evans after World War II. Johnston evoked in fascinating detail, is a prisoner of war on the Thai brings to life not only the People of the Book and Sayuri’s voice is perfectly Burma railway. Haunted by his characters in Helen’s personal Geraldine Brooks captured by Golden. affair with the enigmatic Amy, his story but also the woollen mill life intersects the lives of guards with new technologies. SHORTLISTED FE 1998 428pp B1597 and fellow prisoners as they 1997 270pp B1544 Prime Minister’s Literary Award experience the daily brutalities F Midnight’s Children – and their consequences. Pulitzer Prize winning author of Salman Rushdie Juxtaposing beauty with terror, Orphans of History March and bestselling novel Year Flanagan explores the capabilities Robert Holden of Wonders brings us the story of Step Back in Time This vital, wide-ranging novel of the human spirit, and what Hanna Heath, a renowned book inventively relates stories and A look at the lives of the 34 makes up ‘humanity’ in a time conservator. She receives a call characters of India and Pakistan First Fleet children. Starting in of war. in the middle of the night about a since independence, and shows the London of John Hudson, medieval manuscript recovered how politics can penetrate the FE 2013 467pp B2214 a 9-year-old chimney sweep from war-torn Sarajevo, and lives of ordinary and not so sentenced to transportation, it makes her way to Bosnia to ordinary people. It is charged follows the children to prison, the restore the Sarajevo Haggadah, a with Rushdie’s intense creativity. hulks, the voyage to Botany Bay and to Norfolk Island. Holden’s Jewish prayer book, and to piece FE 1981 463pp B1145 tender, clear-sighted focus on together the remarkable story of children allows us access to this manuscript. new facts and insights about our FE 2008 390pp B1990 nation’s colonial origins. N 1999 219pp B1766

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Pure Remembering Babylon Samuel Pepys The Secret River Andrew Miller David Malouf Claire Tomalin Kate Grenville Paris, 1785. Les Innocents Gemmy Fairley stumbles into a Pepys lived through and white settlement perched on the recorded the Great Plague SHORTLISTED cemetery is full to bursting and Miles Franklin Literary Award young provincial engineer Jean Queensland coast in the middle of 1665 and the Great Fire of Baptiste Baratte is chosen to of the 19th century. Is he white or London in the following year, as clear up the mess. The year black? In his new surroundings well as the intimacies of daily life WINNER he spends doing so, and the and with his affinity with the – theatre going, philanderings, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize feared blacks, his presence is business affairs, tiffs with people he meets, are bound Grenville depicts the appalling most unsettling. Another subtle his wife, recorder lessons, to change him forever. Pure is poverty of William Thornhill, who reflection from Malouf on the hangovers, home improvements, elegantly written, with fascinating is transported to New South sense of the self and the other. clothes. Biographer Claire characters and discussable Wales for theft, and his later Tomalin revels in her subject’s subject matter such as themes of F 1993 202pp B1424 wonderment at becoming a free L appetite for experience. corruption, personal integrity and man, able to claim land along social unrest. NE 2002 499pp B1797 the Hawkesbury and support his F 2011 352pp B2146 S family. She brings alive the settler Sarah Thornhill situation as well as the response The Safest Place Kate Grenville of the Aboriginal people who R in London already live on that land. Maggie Joel SHORTLISTED FE 2005 334pp B1934 Prime Minister’s Literary Award Ransom Two women, Nancy and David Malouf Diana, flee with their 3-year- Sarah is the daughter of William The Short Reign SHORTLISTED old daughters to take refuge in Thornhill of The Secret River. of Pippin IV an underground bomb shelter Nicknamed ‘Dolly’, she grows John Steinbeck Miles Franklin Literary Award in London’s East End, while up in the relative privilege of This light-hearted satire on their husbands are away at the her father’s hard-won estate in A lyrical retelling of Homer’s Iliad, French monarchy and politics frontlines of World War II. Set early-settlement Australia, and set against the background is a long way from Steinbeck’s in 1944, the novel explores the must come to terms with the of the Trojan War, Ransom is usual subject – the landless struggles of those left behind and tangled secrets and silent spaces a meditation on grief and war. farm labourers of America. As the hard choices that are made wrought by violent colonisation. Described by the Australian enjoyable as it is unexpected. as a ‘masterpiece, exquisitely to remain safe. Kate Grenville’s masterful story written, pithy and wise and FE 2016 352pp B2261 and colourful characters will stay F 1957 168pp B0212 overwhelmingly moving’. with you. F 2009 240pp B2058 Salt Creek FE 2011 304pp B2115 Sweet Caress Lucy Treloar William Boyd The Red Tent Sea of Poppies Amory Clay is a woman who Anita Diamant SHORTLISTED Amitav Ghosh knows her own mind. Born into a wealthy English family in 1908, Miles Franklin Literary Award India is on the eve of the first Narrated by Dinah, Jacob’s only her search for an interesting Opium War. Fleeing the violence daughter in the Book of Genesis. 15-year-old Hester is troubled life will take her from scandal in of her village customs and caste From her upbringing by the four by her father’s decision to move 1920s Berlin to an affair in New laws, Deeti and ‘untouchable’ wives of Jacob, to becoming one their family of nine from the York in the 1930s; from a stint Kalua become servants on an old of the most influential women of comfort of 1850s Adelaide to a as a war photojournalist in WWII slave ship. The ship becomes a the time, Dinah’s story brings to remote outpost on the Coorong France to the Vietnam War. Her shelter to them and the people life women’s lives during biblical River. When a native boy begins life’s turns and the lovers she they meet on their eventful times, from Mesopotamia to working and then living with picks up along the twists of journey across the Indian Ocean. Canaan to Egypt. their family, Hester watches this story are engrossing, and This is an immersive, rewarding powerlessly as colonialist Amory’s spirit and humour will FE 1998 395pp B1997 read. Unmissable. prejudice comes to play out stay with you long after you finish against the backdrop of a family F 2008 480pp B2017 this fascinating novel. The Remains of – and a country – in flux. FE 2015 464pp B2243 the Day FE 2015 416pp B2234 Those who read this lengthy Kazuo Ishiguro and intensely written book really enjoyed it, admired For decades, Stevens has served Sweet Tooth the writing, the character Ian McEwan as butler to Lord Darlington of development, the range of Darlington Hall. Now he recalls topics that were written about In Britain in 1972, Serena is a lifetime of service. Ishiguro with such authority. We scored recruited by MI5 for Operation perfectly captures the tone and it 4 ½. Sweet Tooth, a secret mission outlook of one to whom dignity Enjoyed Greensborough 2 that brings Serena together with and correctness are all important. The Secret River? writer Tom Haley. Soon she falls Step Back in Time in Step Back There is wonderful comedy here in love and the rules of espionage and a sense of the losses that fall away, but the truth is hard to may lie behind such a life. Try discover. Set during the Cold War FE 1989 245pp B1267 Sarah Thornhill and a time of domestic terrorism, by Kate Grenville Sweet Tooth is complex, layered [B2115] and beautifully written. F 2012 370pp B2178

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The Thousand Autumns Wolf Hall T of Jacob De Zoet U Hilary Mantel David Mitchell Tartar City Woman Under the Same Sun WINNER Trevor Hay WINNER Andy Kissane Man Booker Prize Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Subtitled Scenes from the Life of Two young Italian men migrate In England in the 1520s, Henry Wang Hsin ping, Former Citizen The novel begins in 1799 Japan. to Australia in 1951. One is a VIII finds himself without an heir of China. What understanding Jacob de Zoet is a Dutch metalworker from northern Italy, by Catherine of Aragon, and do you have of China’s history bookkeeper, working for the the other an apprentice chef from charges Cardinal Wolsey with between 1937 and 1990? This Dutch East India Company, when the south. Part one immerses securing him a divorce already remarkable biography will make he falls in forbidden love with a us in the different experiences refused by the Pope. In comes it live in your nerves and senses, Japanese midwife. The Empire of and pressures leading to their Thomas Cromwell, whose through Hay’s account of the life Japan has shut out the outside journeys. Part two brings alive rapid rise to power and ruthless of an outspoken, irrepressible world for a century and a half, the opportunities, pains and agenda lead to reformation, Chinese woman, now living but a European trading post prejudices they face, in their uncertainty, and bloodshed. in Australia. keeps open a narrow corridor to loves and their work, first in Two-month book. the outside world. The midwife N 1990 181pp B1291 Sydney and then in the perilous FE 2009 672pp B2054 uncovers a dark and heart- Snowy Mountains Scheme. breaking secret. F 2000 368pp B1651 Working for Rupert Tess of the F 2010 480pp B2093 D’Urbervilles Hugh Lunn Thomas Hardy Hugh Lunn now gives us his Tin Man W seventeen years before the Moral outrage greeted this story Sarah Winman masthead on the Australian of a classic situation – a wronged Water for Elephants as Rupert Murdoch’s ‘foreign woman, a child conceived SHORTLISTED Costa Book Award Sara Gruen correspondent’ in Queensland. outside marriage, and two Through most of the 1970s and men. Tess is bound up by the A tender and moving novel Jacob Jankowski jumps onto a passing train and enters a ’80s he parades us past a blur social forces of her time in this about two adolescent boys, of editors, entertaining us in great 19th-century novel which Ellis and Michael, whose close world of swindlers and misfits. The second rate circus Benzini Lunn style, and talking about the remains relevant to the lives of friendship turns into first love until newspaper world and how to women today. Annie walks into their life, and Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth is touring the write a story that people will read. FL 1891 512pp B0084 Michael disappears. As the novel switches from Ellis’ to Michael’s backblocks of Depression era N 2001 244pp B1655 point of view, we discover the America. A former veterinary That Deadman Dance heartbreak of first love, the grief student, Jacob becomes Kim Scott of moving on and the journey caretaker of the circus Y menagerie. He meets Marlena, WINNER from boys to men. A short but beautiful read. the star of the equestrian The Year 1000 Miles Franklin Literary Award act, her husband who is a 2017 224pp Robert Lacey & Danny Award-winning author Kim F B2285 violently unpredictable animal Scott’s novel is set in Western trainer, and Rosie, a seemingly Danziger Australia in the 1800s. It tells True History of the unmanageable elephant. Here is the world of the English the complex story of contact Kelly Gang FE 2006 335pp B1984 at the turn of the first millennium. between Aborigines and early Peter Carey This stylish social history charts settlers in a harsh landscape. a typical year of the period, ‘There are many strands to WINNER NEW demonstrating the differences That Deadman Dance: epic The Age Book of the Year between a very old world and our own. coastal journeys, whaling The enthralling voice of Carey’s sequences that will make Ned draws the reader into We Must N 1999 230pp B1656 you gasp in wonder, injustice, understanding how a brave, loyal Be Brave understanding and loss. But it is and gifted boy becomes the Frances Liardet Year of Wonders the characters – flawed, credible doomed, deluded yet compelling human beings, embodying their writer of Kelly’s Jerilderie Letter. Fleeing from the Geraldine Brooks history but never mere ciphers – A wonderful exploration of family horrors of the Blitz to safety in In 1665, the English village of who stay with you’. The Age a small English country town, Eyam became infected with loves and tensions, rural poverty Step Back in Time F 2010 400pp B2118 and hope, the novel gives a voice 21-year-old Ellen finds a little girl the plague. Rather than risk to Australia’s oppressed, then as alone on a bus. Ellen takes the spreading it, the villagers decided now longing to be heard. child to her home convinced to quarantine themselves, and she will be claimed, but as time fear and superstition began to F 2000 401pp B1625 goes by Ellen can’t help getting break down courage and faith. In Enjoyed attached. Is this the family she’s Brooks’ novel, housemaid Anna The Good People? been looking for? At times heart- becomes an unlikely hero - but wrenching and wondrous, this what is it like to survive while so Try novel encapsulates a difficult many die? This is a poignant, time in history and questions the unforgettable read told in Brooks’ The Wonder small moments that define what inimitable style. it means to be brave. by Emma Donogue FE 2001 308pp B1662 [B2250] FE 2019 464pp B2310

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

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Charades Cloud Atlas Death of a River Guide The Explosion Chronicles Janette Turner Hospital David Mitchell Richard Flanagan Yan Lianke SHORTLISTED Six stories explore the intersection A drowning river guide is caught Translated from Chinese, the Miles Franklin Literary Award of history and humanity: an up in visions of the demanding story follows two feuding families American notary’s South story of his family, state and and the second-born son’s quest This novel interweaves an Sea journals, an Englishman people. This strikingly imaginative to transform his small village,

Australian girl’s search for her Grand Visions transcribing for a blind composer, Tasmanian novel conveys the called Explosion, into an urban father and her origins with her a reporter investigates a nuclear feeling of the great Franklin River, metropolis. Poetic and imbued physicist lover’s mind play about cover up, a futuristic fast- and the uncensored experience with elements of magical realism, the origin of the universe, time food robot, and a Hawaiian and idiom of those who live the satirical novel critiques the and uncertainty. It ranges from contemplating post-apocalyptic in the physical, social and rampant growth of capitalism Queensland’s rainforests to life. This thrillingly original ride metaphorical wilderness. in post-Mao China, and the Boston, to MIT and Toronto; from spans genres and themes of consequences of corruption apparently sheltered Australian FE 1994 324pp B1473 colonialism, corporate culture and greed. and Canadian lives to the and the collapse of civilisation. aftermath of the Holocaust. FE 2016 480pp B2262 Challenging and imaginative, this The Devil’s Larder FE 1988 345pp B1243 will reward persistence. The Eyre Affair F 2003 529pp B1875 Food is central to each of the A Child’s Book of 64 brief tales in this literary feast Jasper Fforde True Crime from English novelist Jim Crace, In an alternate version of London Closed for Winter where meals are served with in 1985, literary detective Chloe Hooper Georgia Blain lashings of passion, recipes Thursday is on the trail of criminal A young teacher has begun her What happened to 12-year-old are spiced with unexpected mastermind Hades, who has first job at a Tasmanian primary Frances on that hot summer challenges and hopes and been kidnapping characters school. Through her adulterous day at the beach? The question the ingredients are hilarious, from works of fiction. When Jane affair with the father of a pupil, still haunts her younger sister, delightful and subversive. Full of Eyre is snatched from between she begins to confront issues Elise, now in her twenties. Blain’s exuberant invention. her pages, Thursday steps in surrounding childhood and evocative, well-wrought first FS 2001 193pp B1683 as defender of literature in this adulthood. Distinctions between novel uncovers past and present exuberant, entertaining read. Fans fantasy and reality blur. What is to arrive at an unexpected truth. of Jane Eyre will be rewarded, and the true crime here? Dissection those unfamiliar with the classic FE 1998 249pp B1709 F 2002 238pp B1670 Jacinta Halloran will want to read it. Dedicated GP and mother of F 2001 373pp B1878 The Conjuror’s Bird two boys, Anna’s life begins to NEW Martin Davies unravel when she is sued for During Captain Cook’s second medical negligence. Deeply F expedition to the South Pacific, ashamed of her mistake, she a rare and unique species of retreats into family life, only to become aware of her husband’s Foxybaby bird was captured. Cook later Elizabeth Jolley Circe presented the bird to naturalist growing interest in a younger Madeline Joseph Banks who displayed it woman. A confronting portrayal Miss Alma Porch journeys to of a woman facing personal and a remote Summer School to Miller until 1778 when it inexplicably disappeared from his collection. professional crises. present a version of her novel in SHORTLISTED Two centuries later, the race is FE 2008 240pp B2033 progress to the Creative Drama ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year on to find the Mysterious Bird students. Jolley’s quirky subtlety of Ulieta. Dual narratives shift combines with her sense of Circe is born in the house of the between past and present to human hurtfulness, robustness sub god Helios. She is a strange create an 18th-century romance E and fragility. child, scorned and rejected – inside a modern day thriller. Fast- and her gift of witchcraft causes F 1985 261pp B1310 paced and enjoyable. Everyman’s Rules for her to be banished to a distant Scientific Living 2005 309pp B1921 island. Her encounter with the F Carrie Tiffany The French Tutor mortal Odysseus will change Judith Armstrong everything. An utterly original In 1934, Jean meets and marries novel told from the viewpoint of a D soil scientist Robert. They settle Postgraduate student defiant women scorned by fickle in the impoverished Mallee, Emily begins an affair with a gods, Circe is a must-read for Death in Venice determined to realise Robert’s charismatic older academic who fans of Greek mythology. ambition to live and farm by insists on keeping his options Thomas Mann scientific principles. The ensuing open. The Albertine rose and FE 2018 352pp B2301 A lovely and disturbing evocation struggle slowly chips away at the work of Proust are woven of life in the pre-war period. their idealism and relationship. into the fabric of a psychological An austere, mature German Set against the backdrop of an novel involving obsessive love, writer, Aschenbach, is forced impending threat of world war, deception and betrayal. by failing health to go to Venice. Tiffany captures in a refreshing, F 2003 301pp B1781 In a very different culture, he quirky manner the hopes and becomes obsessed by the disappointments of the era. beauty of a young boy and 2005 256pp B1906 changes profoundly. FE FE 1912 79pp B1157

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How to Be Both Lincoln in the Bardo G Ali Smith L George Saunders NEW WINNER Larry’s Party WINNER Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction Man Booker Prize Carol Shields SHORTLISTED Larry Weller was once a floral WINNER Stella Prize designer, but becomes a Australian Book Industry Award garden maze and landscape The life of a 15th century gardener. The book progresses Centered on the death of Ghost Wall Renaissance artist entwines with episodically from 1977 across Abraham Lincoln’s son William, Sarah Moss that of teenage girl George in this the next twenty years, through Saunder’s experimental novel inventive novel. Smith challenges is set in primarily in the ‘bardo’, Grand Visions Grand two failed marriages and into LONGLISTED the convention that a story which is the Buddhist transitory Women’s Prize for Fiction a third. Shields writes with her should run a reliably smooth characteristic perceptiveness, realm between death and rebirth. Silvie is currently living in course, asking whether history irony and tenderness of this The novel weaves between a hut with her family in can exist simultaneously in the ‘ordinary’ man, as she reflects on passages drawn from historical Northumberland as part of past and present. An element of what it is to be male. texts and the points of view of an experimental archeology dig. chance determines which of the Willie and other spirits within the Her father enforces harsh rules characters you meet first in your FE 1997 339pp B1725 bardo. Saunders blurs the line from a time long past, and copy of the book – guaranteeing between the real and the surreal she is haunted by a bog girl. good discussion! The Left Hand to deliver a reading experience The desolate landscape FE 2014 284pp B2229 of Darkness that purposefully confuses threatens to both reveal and Ursula K. Le Guin fact with fiction, and touches destroy. A short book but on private grief versus public a thrilling and spine-tingling The Hunter The planet Winter is much like persona and the faults of the read, sure to elicit a strong Julia Leigh Earth except for two things: American democratic system. its climate is always subarctic, emotional response. A man takes to Tasmania to track and its inhabitants are all of one FE 2017 368pp B2286 down the last surviving marsupial F 2018 160pp B2292 sex. Le Guin is a distinguished tiger – and soon disappears into The importance for writers writer of speculative fiction and a world of silence and stillness. to break new ground and this book makes for compelling Told in taut, grim prose, the explore new approaches discussion of our attitudes here The Great Gatsby lonely Tasmanian wilderness was acknowledged. An on Earth. F. Scott Fitzgerald is beautifully evoked, and a explanation of the obscure 1969 205pp meaning of the title was This is a richly textured, nuanced group of bruised and bruising F B1064 individuals make up the small essential to understand the exploration of the darker side basic premise of this novel. of the glamour of the Jazz cast. The pace of this impressive Life After Life debut is sustained through to its The Bardo characters and the Age. Seen through the eyes Kate Atkinson historical observers remind of outsider Nick, Jay Gatsby’s unforgettable conclusion, and this compelling tale of obsession SHORTLISTED us that history does not just dream of the beautiful Daisy belong to great figures, but comes to symbolise the classic will haunt you long after its Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction final scene. also to ordinary people. For American dream. Ursula is born on a wintery night some readers, this will not be FE 1925 160pp B0308 F 1999 170pp B1628 in 1910, and when she dies, is an ‘easy-read’ novel, but one reborn on the same day and into that requires some hard work the same family over and over. and contains discomforting K Each of her lives is fascinatingly concepts. But throughout our H different, woven throughout a reading lives we occasionally Kurikka’s Dreaming backdrop of historical events encounter a book which lingers The Handmaid’s Tale including both World Wars. in our thoughts to revisit us Margaret Atwood Craig Cormick Beautifully written, original long after we have turned the A woman designated ‘child- In Russian controlled Finland at and moving. final page. Lincoln in the Bardo bearer’ in a rigid society lives the end of the 19th century, Matti is one such book. FE 2013 480pp B2185 Wye River Book Group in a backlash against feminist Kurikka persuades his followers aspirations and sexual liberation. to search for a utopia where they A compelling depiction of can achieve independence and Life of Pi The Line of Beauty society’s flaws which raises prosperity. In 1899, they arrive Yann Martel Alan Hollinghurst questions about the present. near Cairns in Queensland, their land of ‘eternal summer’; but WINNER This beautifully nuanced comedy FE 1986 324pp B1189 they find themselves in a strange Man Booker Prize of manners portrays England’s and hostile country, where dream A cargo ship carrying zoo rich and powerful in the 1980s becomes nightmare. animals flounders at sea, and at the peak of the Thatcher years. The narrator is a young Enjoyed N 2000 218pp B1644 Pi, a 16-year-old Indian boy, The Handmaid’s Tale? is stranded on a life raft with a man, newly arrived in London hyena, an orangutan, a zebra and mesmerised by the opulent and a Bengal tiger. He must use world of his Tory hosts as he Try all his daring and wit to survive. independently discovers the Alias Grace by An engaging, dazzling novel. pleasures of metropolitan gay life. Margaret Atwood FE 2001 319pp B1788 FE 2004 501pp B1886 [B1556]

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Lovesong My Sister’s Keeper Not the End of the World Only the Animals Elizabeth Jolley Jodi Picoult Kate Atkinson Ceridwen Dovey After many years in an institution, Is it morally correct to do ‘And now for something WINNER Dalton Foster is released into completely different.’ Imaginative Readings Prize for New whatever it takes to save a child’s Australian Fiction a world he barely recognises. life? Anna was conceived as a and distinctive, these twelve The souls of ten animals tell What has he done? There are bone marrow match for her older linked stories create an

captivating stories of their lives in Grand Visions disturbing indications that a sister Kate, who has leukaemia. unexpected sense of what it is times of human conflict, drawing child was involved. Jolley’s Picoult’s portrait of a family on to be alive. They portray ordinary on often surprising literary account of his loneliness and the brink will polarise readers people in confining, dangerous, connections. Henry Lawson’s longings is lyrical and at times and create robust discussion or lonely circumstances camel witnesses the colonisation disturbingly comic. on parenting, ethics and the that unexpectedly, even of Australia, Himmler’s dog F 1997 241pp B1576 implications of bioengineering. bizarrely, break into the mythic experience of Greek gods and ponders the meaning of FE 2004 423pp B1909 magical transformations. Buddhism, and a dolphin in the US Navy composes a letter M FSE 2002 278pp B1774 to Sylvia Plath. Amusing and N touching, their tales explore the The Man from consequences of warfare from Primrose Lane Never Let Me Go O a unique and original perspective. James Renner Kazuo Ishiguro The Ocean at the FSE 2014 248pp B2212 As David struggles to overcome SHORTLISTED End of the Lane his wife’s unexplained suicide, Man Booker Prize Of a Boy he finds himself entangled in a Neil Gaiman Sonya Hartnett complex maze involving child Kathy, Ruth and Tommy attended Neil Gaiman explores memory, In an Australian suburb, three abduction and the murder of an elite school in the English childhood vulnerability, and children set off for the milkbar – a mysterious man. Through countryside that sheltered its hidden trauma in this shadowy, never to be seen again. 9-year- the unpredictable twists of this students from the outside. atmospheric fairytale woven with old Adrian watches the goings on absorbing, genre-hopping thriller, Why were they there? Kathy his trademark touch of fantasy. of his suburban world and tries to David battles with fatherhood, narrates a retrospective journey As the unnamed narrator revisits keep his loneliness and fears of trauma and questions about through memory and fact, slowly his childhood home, memories rejection at bay. Throughout the the future. unfolding details to a startling long obscured lead him to the text weaves the aching true story resolution. An unsettling tale that neighbouring farm where he FE 2012 363pp B2153 of the missing Metford children. probes moral responsibility and spent time as a 7-year-old. He the scientific ethics. remembers Lettie, the girl who F 2002 188pp B1804 The Map That FE 2005 263pp B1864 lived there, and what really Changed the World happened during the summer Simon Winchester Nocturnes they spent together. William Smith, orphan of a village Kazuo Ishiguro F 2013 248pp B2206 blacksmith, was one of the first Ishiguro explores love, music to link the rock strata beneath and the passing of time in the earth’s surface with the this collection of short stories. characteristic fossils found in Characters range from young each layer. He worked 20 years dreamers, to café musicians on an enormous geological map, and faded stars. Throughout the only to find his ideas pirated by five stories, characters struggle gentlemen of science. to keep alive a sense of life’s NE 2001 338pp B1666 romance as they grow older, their relationships flounder, and Make the most of Mara and Dann youthful hopes fade. your Apple devices Doris Lessing FS 2009 221pp B2043 with our iPhone and An orphaned brother and iPad for Seniors sister journey together through Notes on a Scandal short courses. excitement and danger in a future Zoë Heller where an Ice Age covers all of From the first day that beautiful, the northern hemisphere, and bohemian art teacher Sheba much of Africa is dry and famine- joins the staff of St George’s, stricken. Lessing opens up history teacher Barbara questions of how environments realises she is different from can change civilisations, testing her colleagues. When Sheba is human decency, endurance, caught having an affair with a imagination and love. pupil, Barbara appoints herself FE 1999 407pp B1765 her chief defender and closest ally. But all is not as it seems in this compelling read of obsession cae.edu.au and loneliness. 03 9652 0611 FE 2003 244pp B1974

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The Orchid Thief The Precipice Solar Susan Orlean Virginia Duigan S Ian McEwan A nonfiction book which A mix of literary thriller and A Nobel Prize winning physicist reads more like a novel, with psychological drama, with a Saturday and middle-aged philanderer, a wonderful oddball cast of welcome smattering of tongue Ian McEwan Michael is arrogant and selfish fanatics whose lives and crimes in cheek wit. Thea is a retired McEwan creates for us one His career has stalled – until revolve around their mania for school principal living in the day in the life of a London he decides to claim for his orchids. The pacy narrative Blue Mountains. When a young neurosurgeon, a man fully own another man’s work on follows John Laroche, self- couple and their niece move in engaged in his work and alternative energy resources confessed orchid thief, into the next door, old fears and paranoia blessed with a domestic life of that just might save the planet. sucking mud of Florida’s swampy begin to take over her life. Thea contentment, until one Saturday Solar spans several continents is an engrossing, funny and as it explores the frailties of Grand Visions Grand Fakahatchee Strand. he must deal with the fall out unusual protagonist, and there humankind and the threat of NE 1998 350pp B1622 from a minor traffic accident that are a number of provocative morning. Accomplished writing, climate change. issues to discuss. ‘beautifully alive to the fragility of FE 2010 432pp B2066 P FE 2011 284pp B2134 happiness’ – The Times. FE 2005 279pp B1911 State of Wonder The Patron Saint of Eels R Ann Patchett Gregory Day The Scapegoat SHORTLISTED Noel and Nannette are long-time Republic of Women Daphne du Maurier Orange Prize locals of a small coastal town in Merrill Findlay After a chance meeting at a From the bestselling author of Bel the grip of gentrification. When French railway station, John, Canto comes this compelling, a freak flood leaves hundreds Real people from history a lonely professor, assumes thrilling novel. Scientists for a of eels trapped in the ditches walk through the pages of another man’s identity, and pharmaceutical company are around Noel’s home, Fra Ionio, a this book, and anyone who becomes involved in the researching an Amazonian tribe 300-year-old Italian monk, comes knows Melbourne’s St Kilda will complex family relationships, love where women remain fertile to the rescue. Quirky and likeable recognise its threatened inner-city affairs and business life of the until old age, in hope of selling characters together with lyrical environment. ‘In this novel of selfish and arrogant man he is their secret. When the head evocations of bush and sea striking intellectual subtlety and impersonating. An intriguing and researcher disappears and the shine through in this delightful authority, Merrill Findlay probes suspenseful story. man sent to discover the findings contemporary fable. questions of sexual identity in a voice that is radical, humane and FL 1957 320pp B1126 dies, pharmacologist Marina FE 2005 181pp B1865 tender’(Raimond Gaita). leaves Minnesota to track down her former mentor in the depths F 1999 280pp B1752 The Secret Cure Picnic at Hanging Rock Sue Woolfe of the Amazon. Joan Lindsay F 2011 353pp B2120 The Road Determined to find a cure for On a Valentine’s Day picnic in Cormac McCarthy her autistic child and motivated 1900, a group of schoolgirls by her own passion for science, The Strays vanishes with their teacher. A man and his young son walk Eva takes on work as a cleaner Emily Bitto Witnesses are disoriented through a post-apocalyptic in a medical research laboratory. When lonely only child Lily and confused, and the group American wasteland. Danger and Owen is the strange reclusive befriends Eva Trentham, she is are never recovered. The starvation lurk at every turn in this man who has loved her for entranced by the glamour of the consequences of the day are deeply disturbing yet ultimately a lifetime. This moving novel Trentham family and their circle far-reaching for the community, redemptive story. A novel that explores what it means to be of avant garde artists – but their the remaining characters, and asks what we might be capable human, to be honourable, and, seemingly idyllic, bohemian way the once-prestigious school. of when pushed to the brink - above all, what it means to love. of life is not without its costs. The interaction of civilisation with and whether we could make it 2003 429pp B1823 A study of isolation mingles nature is also explored in this back in one piece. Harrowing F with the consequences of enduring Australian classic. scenes may disturb; this book will give your group a lengthy and The Service of Clouds radicalism in this haunting and FE 1967 213pp B0402 vivid discussion. beautifully observed debut novel Delia Falconer which draws on the legacy The Picture of FE 2006 256pp B1977 Set in the Blue Mountains, this of Melbourne’s Heide group Dorian Gray novel is almost hallucinatory in its of artists. evocation of cloud landscapes, 2014 350pp Oscar Wilde and of the heroine Eureka’s F B2226 Scandal erupted over Wilde’s yearning for photographer novel when it was first published Henry Kitchens. Katoomba’s life, as it ‘violated the laws of public Enjoyed personalities and institutions in morality’; though perhaps less the early 20th century are deftly, shocking now, this psychological Only the Animals? even comically presented. thriller remains just as enticing F 1997 322pp B1580 over a hundred years later. Try It examines the cost of self- The Philospher’s Dog indulgence, and the havoc we wreak on our souls in the quest by Raimond Gaita for satisfaction. [B1689] FE 1891 247pp B0112

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Things We Didn’t The Tyrant’s Novel The Unusual Life T See Coming Thomas Keneally of Tristan Smith Steven Amsterdam In an oil-rich country, writer Alan Peter Carey Tehanu is asked to produce a novel Ursula K. Le Guin WINNER explaining the great deeds of WINNER The Age Book of the Year The Age Book of the Year Beautiful, challenging, deceptively its tyrannical ruler and blaming simple writing explores the This collection of nine linked the country’s difficulties on The eponymous hero and Grand Visions stories of a woman who adopts narratives is set in a near-future outside forces. Facing a moral narrator is born dwarfed and a girl crippled and scarred by dystopia, recognisable and dilemma and a tight deadline, badly deformed, the vital abuse, and a once great wizard unsettling. A young boy is caught Alan must resolve both at the and clever son of a beautiful, who has exhausted his magic. up in worldwide Y2K style risk of his own life and those activist actress in one of the Can they survive among brutal panic, and becomes the book’s around him. Keneally’s portrayal richly imagined countries in this enemies in a land rotten with nameless narrator, travelling from of the experiences of asylum unusual, mind-stretching novel. evil? Le Guin reflects on power story to story and negotiating seekers is both terrifying and We follow Tristan’s struggles and and powerlessness; the differing the lawlessness, epidemics, utterly compelling. adventures through worlds which wisdom of women and men; and extreme weather, relationships FE 2003 292pp B1867 are new, yet disturbingly familiar. the possibility of healing. and politics of a post-millennium Not for the squeamish, but full of world. Often dark, sometimes wonders and marvels. F 1990 204pp B1461 funny, this intriguing book should FE 1994 422pp B1462 spark discussion about issues U The Telling potentially facing us all. The Underground Ursula K. Le Guin F 2009 174pp B2070 Railroad V On an alien planet, Sutty now lives under the Corporation, Three Cups of Tea Colson Whitehead Veronika Decides a capitalist dictatorship which Greg Mortenson WINNER to Die burns books and suppresses Pulitzer Prize evidence of the past. From the In 1993, Mortenson drifted into Paulo Coelho mountain people, she learns of a village in Pakistan’s Karakoram Why would a young, attractive, Mountains. Touched by the WINNER the extraordinarily diverse, vital, National Book Award steadily employed woman from integrated culture that once kindness of the villagers, he a good family take an overdose? existed here. This meditation went on to build 55 schools in Cora, a young slave on a How will she feel when she on cultural decimation and remote villages across Pakistan cotton plantation in Georgia is survives only to be told that colonialism is part of the and Afghanistan while the Taliban approached by Caesar, a fellow the damage will quickly prove cycle which includes The was rising to power. Since slave who tells her about the fatal? This accessible novel by Dispossessed and The Left Hand publication, the book’s accuracy Underground Railroad, a network popular and uplifting Brazilian of Darkness. has been questioned, both in a of tracks and tunnels that runs writer Coelho is likely to provoke controversial 2011 documentary 2000 264pp B1806 beneath their feet. When tragic strong discussion about sanity, F and by author Jon Krakauer. events in her life gives her madness, the meaning of NE 2007 368pp B2057 the courage she needs, Cora contemporary urban lives, and There’ll Be New Dreams embarks on a harrowing journey about medical and literary ethics. Philip McLaren The Tin Drum to escape the horrors of slavery F 1998 185pp B1770 and a life lived in servitude. A McLaren weaves together Günter Grass strands of Aboriginal experience brutal book with confronting The Vintner’s Luck across the ages. Lottie, the This is the autobiography of scenes, it’s not an easy read but city raised Aborigine, loses her Oskar Matzerath, a 30-year-old a powerful novel on the dark Elizabeth Knox children to the welfare system detained in a mental hospital, history of slavery. Among the vines of Burgundy in the 1950s and her husband and convicted of murder. It is F 2017 400pp B2270 in 1808, Sobran Jodeau, a to a suspicious death; Matlong taken down with the aid of his young winemaker, has the first saw Cook sail by in 1770; and tiny drum, the chosen symbol of his annual meetings with an Dundiwuy goes to New York as of his way of life. A brilliant and The Unknown Terrorist angel. But this angel is not all a didgeridoo player in the 1970s. challenging work which has been Richard Flanagan he seems, and complicates life Sophisticated and profound, seminal in German writing. Set in post 9/11 Sydney, a even further. A daring, sensuous, human and funny. FE 1961 590pp B0070 Kings Cross pole dancer finds unconventional, addictive novel. 2001 309pp B1667 she has become the most F 1998 241pp B1751 F wanted terrorist in the country, and is caught up in a vortex of murder, media hype and politically manipulated fear Enjoyed mongering. A fast-moving thriller, The Left Hand this is also an angry portrayal of of Darkness? contemporary Australia. FE 2006 320pp B1983 Try The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin [B1806]

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

SIX FAVOURITE BOOK-TO-SCREEN ADAPTATIONS Watching the film adaptation of a book can be a great addition to your book group reads. These are the CAE Book Groups team favourite book-to-screen adaptations.

I Capture the Castle [B1802] Dodie Smith The Hunter [B1628] Julia Leigh A magical, charming, and witty take on this classic coming-of-age A gripping existential drama set in the vast wilderness of Tasmania. novel. It captures our heroine’s voice perfectly, and has great fun with Captures the ferocity of the landscape, the loneliness of the hunter the supporting characters. and his prey, and provides a heartbreaking exploration of mortality. Will creep into your soul. The Handmaid’s Tale [B1189] Margaret Atwood The horrifying autocratic world of Gilead is depicted in stunning and The Dressmaker [B1638] Rosalie Ham unsettling detail, and the stellar cinematography adds new layers of Deviates slightly from the novel, but is a wonderfully sarcastic and emotional depth to deliver one of the best adaptations to grace the slightly absurdist comedy that is supported by brilliant actors who small screen. make the movie a resounding success.

Perfume [B1453] Patrick Suskind Notes on a Scandal [B1974] Zoë Heller A visually rich macabre comedy, heavy with voluptuous period detail. Another adaptation with blistering performances from the lead actors, A film equal parts intelligent and bizarre, but always engaging. exploring the explosive combination of desire and social envy. Very faithful to the book. The screenwriting is spot on.

Looking for more adaptations? Keep an eye out in Dialogue for the camera symbol – that will give you all of the CAE Book Group titles with a TV or film adaptation.

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44 Scotland Street And the Mountains Echoed Before We Were Yours The Blind Assassin Alexander McCall Smith Khaled Hosseini Lisa Wingate Margaret Atwood McCall Smith’s Scotland Street From the bestselling author of A WINNER This sad, sharp, humorous Goodreads Choice Award occupies a busy, bohemian Thousand Splendid Suns comes for Historical Fiction reflection on family life spans corner of Edinburgh’s New Town, a multi-generational story that most of the 20th century. Interwoven between present- where the old haute bourgeoisie explores sibling bonds. Beginning With characters attracting day Avery Stafford, groomed rub shoulders with students, in Afghanistan in the early 1950s, sympathy and rancour, to be her father’s successor in poets and portraitists. And the story shifts to France and mysteries unravelling, and politics, and 12-year-old ‘river Number 44 has more than its fair America, and back again, in a themes of sacrifice and betrayal, rat’ Rill in 1939, who helps share of eccentrics and failures. series of tales. inspiring pathos and bathos, take care of her four younger Dry, funny and entertaining, Atwood continues to surprise FE 2013 416pp B2197 siblings in their boat home on 44 Scotland Street was originally and intrigue. written as a serialised novel. the Memphis river. The novel Aphrodite and the Others is based on actual incidents of F 2000 641pp B1619 2005 326pp B2052 F Gillian Bouras kidnapping and forced adoptions of the Tennessee Children’s With candour and compassion, The Book of Emmett Home Society, who made a profit 84 Charing Cross Road Bouras examines the outlook Deborah Forster from stealing children from poor Helene Hanff and life experience of her families to place with prominent Helene Hanff wrote from New mother in law, Aphrodite – SHORTLISTED society members. York to Marks and Co., second priest’s wife, illiterate, and Victorian Premier’s Literary Award hand booksellers in London: unbending matriarch. The book FE 2017 352pp B2276 ‘I enclose a list of my most counterpoints the oral tradition SHORTLISTED pressing problems’. The reply and the literate one, the personal Behind the Scenes Miles Franklin Literary Award and the books that were sent and the political. at the Museum A heartbreaking exploration across the Atlantic began a N 1994 174pp B1402 of domestic abuse. Emmett joyous correspondence that Kate Atkinson is an unpredictable alcoholic lasted 20 years. This book This four generation English and violent father. His children, celebrates friendship, the art of The Art of the family saga is captivating. Louisa, Rob, Peter, Daniel letter writing and a love of books Atkinson’s imagination and Engine Driver and Jessie, are shaped by his and the English language. remarkable way with words lay Steven Carroll destructive presence, but as he open family life – the mismatches 1971 220pp B1200 lies dying they must all come to N SHORTLISTED of personalities and expectations, terms with their past. Miles Franklin Literary Award the strains and trivialities, the 2009 296pp B2100 A In late 1950s Melbourne, Vic ridiculous and the tragic. FE longs to perfect his engine FE 1995 382pp B1520 All That Happened driving technique and achieve Breathing Lessons the perfect smooth ride; his son Anne Tyler at Number 26 Michael dreams of fast bowling Births Deaths Marriages Denise Scott perfection; Rita, mother and wife, Georgia Blain WINNER The much loved comedian tells longs for a life with something In this beautiful collection of Pulitzer Prize the stories that attach themselves more. A distinctively Australian stories, the daughter of Anne Married for 28 years, Maggie and to a family home, exploring novel with a luminous evocation Deveson revisits her bohemian Ira Moran are an unlikely couple: married life and the trials and of ordinary lives. childhood during the social Ira is reticent and detached; triumphs of raising children, and change movement, the collapse FE 2001 278pp B1674 Maggie optimistic, confiding, memories of her outer suburban of her parents’ marriage, her impulsive, and an intervener in childhood. Life outside Number brother’s illness and her path other people’s lives. Marriage and 26 includes her career and to becoming a writer. Deftly B family provide the focus for a wry, friendships forged with other examining her life’s triumphs and tolerant look at life’s absurdity strong, funny women. Like the disappointments, she teases out and underlying comedy. house itself, this book is a bit Basil Street Blues the universal qualities that make ramshackle but warm and fun. Michael Holroyd us both fallible and loveable. FE 1988 327pp B1265 NE 2008 261pp B2101 The acclaimed biographer of NSE 2008 224pp B1998 George Bernard Shaw, Holroyd never explored his own family’s Enjoyed The Guernsey history until his parents’ death, which left a vacuum he felt Literary and the the need to fill. The result? Potato Peel Society? A continuation of his never- ending love affair with human Try 84 Charing Cross nature – part-detective story, part-family saga and part-oblique Road by Helene voyage of self-discovery. Hanff [B1200] NE 1999 309pp B1632 L Large Print F Fiction N Nonfiction S Short Stories E eBook Adapted Book µ Book Group Favourite 46

Brideshead Revisited The Children Cloudstreet Craft for a Dry Lake Evelyn Waugh Charlotte Wood Tim Winton Kim Mahood This is Waugh’s best-known When Mandy and her siblings Artist Kim Mahood drives and return home to watch over their WINNER paints her way across the Tanami novel, thanks largely to the Miles Franklin Literary Award sumptuous 1981 television critically ill father, they struggle to Desert and the cattle station series. When Charles meets reconcile their past. Wardsman Two families of ordinary people where she grew up. Fiona Capp glamorous Sebastian at Oxford, Tony has been waiting for – battlers and losers – share comments: ‘This subtle, sharp- he is seduced by the exotic Mandy’s return, and as he a ramshackle old Perth house eyed, resolutely unsentimental allure of Sebastian’s aristocratic insinuates himself into the family, called Cloudstreet. Over 20 memoir could well mark a new family and their grand country pressure builds with devastating years, the ups and downs of their phase in our literature about house, Brideshead. As his friend force. Wood’s acutely observed lives bring them and the house Australian outback life and the succumbs to alcoholism Charles third novel explores the tenacious closer together in this sprawling, complexities of a white woman’s develops a complex relationship grip of childhood and the price moving novel. relationship with the land and with Sebastian’s sister, Julia. paid for bearing witness to the FE 1991 426pp B1269 with the Aboriginal people who This haunting novel is a portrait suffering of others. inhabit it.’ of love and faith, and a eulogy F 2007 269pp B2025 NE 2000 266pp B1636 for a lost world. The Color of Water James McBride FE 1945 336pp B2130 The Children Act McBride’s unforgettable memoir Ian McEwan tells his mother’s brave, eccentric D The Burgess Boys Family Court judge Fiona daily story in her own words. Daughter Elizabeth Strout takes momentous decisions of a failed orthodox Jewish rabbi Dark Places Families Haunted by the accidental death concerning children, and must in the American South, she Kate Grenville of their father, lawyers Bob and now rule on an unusual and ran away to Harlem, became a SHORTLISTED Jim Burgess leave behind their intelligent 17-year-old whose Baptist, married a black man, Miles Franklin Literary Award sister, Susan, and town in Maine faith has him unable to accept raised 12 children and put them for new lives in New York. But a lifesaving treatment. The all through college. Around her Albion Gidley Singer is the when Susan calls them back consequences of Fiona’s choices story is McBride’s story of his cruel, domineering patriarch home to help her lonely son, echo through her personal life, own struggles for identity, and from Lilian’s Story. Grenville who has thoughtlessly landed and will make you reconsider towards faith in a God neither assumes his voice to give himself in deep trouble, old medical, religious and legal black nor white, but ‘the color of his carelessly misogynistic tensions surface. A beautifully ethics. This is McEwan’s water’. perspective on his life and values as a son, husband, and father written and complex story of succinct, gripping prose at NE 1997 291pp B1593 sibling relationships. its best. in this disturbing and impressive novel that stands alone well, FE 2013 336pp B2192 FE 2015 224pp B2220 The Corrections but perfectly complements Jonathan Franzen Lilian’s Story. The Children’s Bach FEL 1994 375pp B1439 C Helen Garner SHORTLISTED Pulitzer Prize A compact but densely styled Careless Alfred is elderly and increasingly Digging to America novel which teases apart the Anne Tyler Deborah Robertson threads of a number of complex ill, and his wife Enid wants only inter-relationships. An imaginative to have her three adult children Two families living in Baltimore SHORTLISTED and compelling treatment of home for a family Christmas each adopt a baby girl from Miles Franklin Literary Award inner suburban angst from the together. These three moved to Korea and meet up at intervals inimitable Garner. other cities, where they contend over the years: the all American Tragedy enters the lives of two with their own messy adult lives. Donaldsons and the Yazdans, strangers: widowed Sonia, FE 1984 96pp B0569 The black comedy and pathos in an Iranian American family. and Adam, a young sculptor family living are counterpointed International adoption is only one experiencing his first taste of City of the Mind against biting portraits of America of the concerns here, as each artistic success. This superbly Penelope Lively in the late 1990s. An engrossing, parent, child and grandparent in written, convincingly plotted ambitious, powerful, funny, this sensitively observed novel His marriage now evaporated, debut Australian novel skilfully exceptional novel. responds differently to questions Matthew Halland shares in the explores responsibility, for both of being a foreigner, belonging, bringing up of his 8-year-old FE 2001 568pp B1677 the living and the dead. and being American. daughter. An architect, his work F 2006 293pp B1960 takes him all over the ever- FE 2006 277pp B1962 changing cityscape of London. The Casual Vacancy Lively’s characteristic fusing of J.K. Rowling feeling and intellect in this most satisfying novel. Through the microcosm of parish council politics in the rural FE 1991 220pp B1367 town of Pagford, she brings together a multigenerational cast of characters reflecting many aspects of modern Britain. A compelling exploration of community and family dynamics. F 2012 576pp B2174

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Dinner at the Homesick The Fence Foal’s Bread Restaurant F Meredith Jaffe Gillian Mears Anne Tyler Gardening column writer and WINNER Falling Leaves local stickybeak Gwen and her The Age Book of the Year SHORTLISTED Adeline Yen Mah husband Eric have lived in the Pulitzer Prize Embracing historical events same house in suburban Sydney SHORTLISTED Pearl has been left to bring of world importance, Mah’s for decades. When a new hipster Miles Franklin Literary Award up two sons and an unruly, family moves into the house next tale of her life as an unwanted Mears chronicles the hopes and passionate daughter. Anne daughter in thrall to the ideal of door with their four children and Tyler skilfully uses the power of two loud dogs, it is the proposal heartbreaks of two generations of filial devotion is gripping from the a NSW farming family, particularly youth’s perceptions, and sets beginning. A portrait of all the of a fence that is the act of war them off against the reality of for Gwen. Clashes between the marriage of golden boy Roley basic (and base) family feelings – to tough nut Noah. From the pre- ‘adult’ life. Loving descriptions love and tenderness, hate, pain, generations, personalities and of family relationships, including lifestyle break out as the two war rural show jumping circuit to greed, resentment, indifference the changing world of the 50s, youthful jealousies flavour life into and malice. headstrong women battle for middle age. more than just council approval. this is a powerful testament to N 1997 278pp B1558 the Australian landscape and FE 1982 303pp B0777 A relatable, witty look into the struggle between the old ways the vulnerability of the humans Family Matters and the new. within it. Families E Rohinton Mistry F 2016 368pp B2267 FE 2011 361pp B2139 Who in the family will care for its Every Secret Thing ageing patriarch, now helpless Most of us enjoyed this book, A Fraction of the Whole after a fall? His daughter’s family and we certainly had a lot of Steve Toltz Gillian Slovo discussion. For this reason we take him into their crowded Heroes or criminals? Crackpots This astonishing book traces Bombay apartment. The resulting would recommend it to other the life of the daughter of an Book Discussion Groups. or visionaries? Relatives or dilemmas and pressure are enemies? From his prison cell, imperilled South African family interwoven with the old man’s We all had ‘fence stories’ but perhaps not quite as intense as Jasper Dean tells the unlikely of passionate fighters against remembrances of a forbidden in the novel. Several thought it story of his scheming father apartheid. What does it do to love in his earlier life. ‘A luminous your personal life if your parents would make a good sitcom. It Martin, his crazy uncle Terry and compassion, an abundance of was a nice light read but from how the three of them upset an are white, communist and life and piercing moments’. irrepressible? Nadine Gordimer the amount of discussion it is entire continent. Incorporating calls this an ‘extraordinary F 2002 500pp B1818 the clear the book covered a death, parenting and first expression of the very nature of lot of relevant topics that we love this is a scathingly funny, loving’. Compulsive reading. Fault Lines could relate to. One of the heartbreaking story of families clear points was that people and how to survive them. N 1997 282pp B1550 Nancy Huston hate change and find it hard to Told from the perspective of a accept. All in all a great read. FE 2008 711pp B2042 Extinctions series of 6-year-olds, the story Glen Waverley Ralton Josephine Wilson reveals how scars from the past Renegades Frangipani can shape the present. From Célestine Hitiura Vaite WINNER California to New York, from The Fifth Child This mother-daughter novel Miles Franklin Literary Award Haifa to Toronto and Munich, Doris Lessing is full of Tahitian lore about family secrets unwind revealing Lessing’s engrossing novel men, women, children and WINNER disturbing truths including the realities of life. Gossip, Colin Roderick Award the family’s history during explores the ‘old fashioned’ idyll of a couple who meet, marry and intrigues, family crises, and the WWII. Content may offend mother’s flavoursome advice 69-year-old engineer Fred some readers. lovingly fill their house with their Lothian has given up on life, and families. The arrival of their fifth, to her headstrong daughter are moved to a retirement village F 2007 308pp B1989 and very different, child raises conveyed with warmth, charm after the loss of his wife and the dark questions about their family and gusto from this Tahitian- estrangement of his two children. – and about the human family in born author. Surrounded by clutter, Fred contemporary society. F 2004 295pp B1879 reminisces on his failures as a F 1989 159pp B1259 husband and a father. Then Fred meets Jan, a bubbly woman Freedom who accepts no excuses, and The Fine Colour of Rust Jonathan Franzen challenges him to confront the P.A. O’Reilly We follow the lives of Patty wrongs in his life, starting with his Single mum Loretta lives in the and Walter Berglund and their children. Together, they embark dusty rural town of Gunapan with children, while touching on the on a journey of self-discovery, her two kids. She gamely steps environment, overpopulation, forgiveness, disability, ageing and up when the local school is about sustainability and life in Middle racial discrimination. to be closed and the council America after September 11. It F 2016 280pp B2289 approves a dodgy development also tells a personal story that project near town. A book about explores the relationship between love, friendship and community, the Berglunds and Walter’s best covering contemporary issues friend and rival Richard Katz, a with tenderness and humour. rock musician. F 2012 247pp B2151 FE 2010 562pp B2104

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The Glass Castle The Good Parents The Healing Party G Jeannette Walls Joan London Micheline Lee Walls’ father was a hopeless SHORTLISTED Years after fleeing from her The Gathering alcoholic, and her mother an Prime Minister’s Literary Award domineering evangelical father, Anne Enright artist who let her four children Natasha returns to Melbourne’s Maya moves to Melbourne and fend for themselves. Walls’ eastern suburbs to nurse her WINNER begins an affair with her boss attitude to her parents is mother, Irene, who is dying from Man Booker Prize whose wife is dying of cancer. almost always affectionate cancer. When she returns she When her parents arrive to visit, The nine surviving children of the – but readers may not be so quickly realises nothing much has they find out that their daughter Hegarty clan gather for the wake forgiving! This book will elicit changed. When her father claims has disappeared. The award- of their wayward brother Liam. It passionate discussion. to have received a message winning author of Gilgamesh from God saying his wife is to wasn’t the drink that killed him; 2005 341pp it was the events of the winter N B1882 unravels the complex bonds be miraculously cured, Natasha of 1968 in his grandmother’s between parents, siblings, friends struggles with her family’s blind house, which his sister Veronica The God of and lovers to create a portrait of faith. Funny at times, this novel must now come to terms with. Small Things contemporary Australia. tackles the serious issues of faith, Enright follows a line of hurt Arundhati Roy F 2008 351pp B2014 lies and family. and redemption through three FE 2016 304pp B2255 generations, as memories warp WINNER and secrets fester. Orange Prize H Home F 2007 261pp B1985 Twins Estha and Rahel live in the Indian state of Kerala, where Larissa Behrendt Families Hamlet’s Dresser Gilead cruel caste traditions coexist Bob Smith Stretching back to the early alongside a modern communist years of the 20th century, Home Marilynne Robinson movement. This moving novel Having spent his earlier years describes three generations explores the joys and pains of caring for a disabled sister, in his of an Aboriginal family. The WINNER teens he joined the backstage Pulitzer Prize moments of life for a family in novel begins in contemporary a society where love laws ‘lay staff of a theatre company. Australia with Candice, a young From the author of Housekeeping down who should be loved. And Tender, restrained, and glowing indigenous lawyer visiting her comes a beautiful story of faith, how, and how much’. with excerpts from Shakespeare, ancestral country with her father. family, and history. Towards the this book will fasten itself in Behrendt’s characters are vividly end of his life, Reverend John F 1997 340pp B1559 your memory. drawn and there is a buoyancy Ames begins a letter to his son N 2002 285pp B1782 and optimism in her vision. about the strained relationship between his father, a pacifist, F 2004 317pp B1832 and grandfather, an abolitionist, The Hand That who ‘preached men into the First Held Mine The Household Civil War’. Maggie O’Farrell Guide to Dying F 2004 282pp B1963 SHORTLISTED Debra Adelaide Victorian Premier’s Literary Award Australian author and domestic advice columnist Delia Bennet Separated by fifty years, two is diagnosed with cancer. She women are connected in knows she will leave behind her unexpected ways. Lexie is in her husband, two young daughters early twenties when she moves and five chickens. Trying to to London, becoming immersed get her house in order, she in the 1950s Soho art scene. In writes lists, makes plans, and contemporary London, artist Elina contemplates how she should struggles to recover from a difficult spend her remaining time. birth, while her partner Ted faces Impress your book questions from his past. FE 2008 386pp B2011 group with a range F 2010 341pp B2094 of authentic dishes The House in the Light from around the The Harp in the South Beverley Farmer world in our cooking Ruth Park A divorced Australian woman returns to the Greek village where This beloved Australian novel short courses. she was once welcomed as a introduces Hugh and Margaret bride. Against the earthiness Darcy, doing their best to raise and austerities of rural Greece, a family amidst the poverty and Farmer traces the affection, hardship of slum life in 1940s scratchiness and strain in the Sydney. Ruth Park combines relationship between Bell and robust and engaging characters her ageing mother in law, the with acute social observation. matriarch Kyria Sofia. Complex, cae.edu.au Her humanity, humour and skilful with a luminous quality to 03 9652 0611 storytelling make The Harp in the prose. the South as fresh and readable as ever. F 1995 235pp B1447 F 1948 225pp B2198

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Housekeeping Instructions for The Joy Luck Club The Lake House Marilynne Robinson a Heatwave Amy Tan Kate Morton Still at school, Lucille and Ruth Maggie O’Farrell A missing child and a family have high hopes of their aunt SHORTLISTED secret are at the centre of this July, 1976. London is sweltering National Book Award Sylvie who comes to keep house through a heatwave when Robert enthralling mystery from the for them after their mother’s Riordan walks out on his wife A vibrant evocation of four author of The Forgotten Garden. death. But the gentle Sylvie is and disappears. His three adult Chinese women and their first The Edevane family live an idyllic a drifter and her behaviour too children return home, and family generation Chinese American life in their beautiful Cornwall bizarre for some. One sister secrets are revealed as tensions daughters: this brave, heartfelt home – until their toddler son departs and soon Sylvie and mount on a journey to Ireland. novel powerfully communicates disappears. When disgraced Ruth must move on. There is Beautifully written with surprising the intricacies of a double cultural police constable Sadie stumbles bleakness here, but also oddity, twists, this is a moving portrait of identity, illuminating traditional across the house decades later, beauty and a sense of stillness. a family that comes undone. Chinese customs and modern she begins to unravel what really A book that lingers in the mind. mother-daughter relationships. happened on that midsummer F 2013 338pp B2179 FE 1981 187pp B1206 Small print. evening in 1933. All members of the group FE 1989 288pp B1283 FE 2015 608pp B2240 completed the book I and all enjoyed it. Many Last Friends themes stimulated much K Families discussion: family dynamics, Jane Gardam NEW communication (or lack of). The The Kitchen God’s Wife This is the final title in the trilogy individual characters were all featuring Old Filth and The Man richly described. Amy Tan in the Wooden Hat. It charts The Canterbury: Burnside & Beyond Winnie’s story moves from the life of Old Filth’s great rival, Immortalists Shanghai in the 1920s, through Terence Veneering, from his Isa and May the Japanese occupation of unconventional childhood to old Chloe Benjamin China, World War II and the age in the English countryside. If you knew Margaret Forster rise of the communists, to Gardam is a superb stylist and when you would die, how would Isamay is writing a master’s her decades in America after an astute navigator of the human you choose to live your life? thesis about the role of 1949. Her personal life contains heart. Last Friends is a must Four adolescents Simon, Klara, grandmothers in women’s history, much pain, courage and for any group that enjoyed her Daniel and Varya visit a travelling which leads to an examination joy. Emotionally charged yet previous books. of her own grandmothers: psychic who claims she knows unsentimental, the novel explores 2013 224pp B2196 the exact date of their deaths. pugnacious May and chilly Isabel. relationships, uncovers secrets, F What they learn will influence Each harbours intriguing secrets, and describes Chinese customs. which come to light as Isamay Life in Seven Mistakes the course of their lives. A story FE 1991 415pp B1330 about family, choices and fate. examines their lives. Forster’s Susan Johnson F 2018 368pp B2300 writing is entertaining and Elizabeth Barton’s art career is accessible, and a great catalyst L finally taking off. She’s about for exploring the universal themes to fly to New York for her first of family and the multiple roles show at a prestigious gallery Indelible Ink of women. Ladder of Years but first she must survive family Fiona McGregor FE 2010 316pp B2121 Anne Tyler Christmas on the Gold Coast. Marie is 59, recently divorced SHORTLISTED Johnson explores relationships with grown children and living Orange Prize and ageing in a black comedy in an affluent Sydney suburb. with an unexpected climax. J Sensing indifference in her family, When drunk she decides to get F 2008 352pp B2037 a tattoo and develops an unlikely Jesus Wants Me Delia Grinstead vanishes from friendship with the tattoo artist, their lives. Walking along the who shows her a different side for a Sunbeam beach, she keeps right on going of Sydney. An immersing family Peter Goldsworthy to a town nearby where she drama set in the Howard era. Rick, Linda and their two children takes on a new life as a single working woman with no ties. 2010 446pp B2092 represent the perfect Australian F suburban family. When their Where will things go from here? daughter is diagnosed with An unsettling look at marriage, cancer, their world is shattered. family, human complexity and This novella poses important simple needs. Funny and questions about death, the plangent by turns. afterlife and the place of religion. NE 1995 326pp B1466 The conclusion to this moving meditation on love, faith and fate will generate fiercely divided responses. F 1993 133pp B1863

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Little Fires Everywhere Lovesong The Moor’s Last Sigh Celeste Ng Alex Miller Salman Rushdie N WINNER WINNER This Indian family saga has a Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction The Age Book of the Year huge, surprising cast. Its mind Nine Days blowing mixture of the private Toni Jordan When artist and single mother SHORTLISTED and public, the historical and Spend nine days immersed in Mia and her 15-year-old invented is elegiac, outrageous, daughter Pearl rent a house from Miles Franklin Literary Award the lives of members of one astute, funny. An imaginative Melbourne family from the 1930s the affluent Richardson family, In her Tunisian café on the and human challenge – their growing connection to the to the present day. Kit’s family, outskirts of Paris, Sabiha falls in vintage Rushdie! including his sister, mother and seemingly picture-perfect family love with Australian John, and threatens the bonds between FE 1995 434pp B1492 grandchildren, are engaging together they fashion a new life. and real in this evocative and mother and daughter. Then When writer Ken meets them a custody battle to adopt a A Mother’s Disgrace compassionate novel about in Melbourne later in life, the sacrifice and survival. Chinese-American baby tears sadness in Sabiha’s eyes draws Robert Dessaix the town apart, causing the two 2012 245pp B2172 him to tell their story. This is a An unusual and compelling FE families to implode and familial story about home, family, and autobiography written in mid-life secrets are unearthed. A witty 9 of us thoroughly enjoyed this human frailties, raising questions to describe how Dessaix came exploration of white privilege, book. A great storyteller and of morals and purpose. to find and know the woman class snobbery and motherhood beautifully written, poignant, who is his birth mother. He in the ’90s that will leave you FE 2009 368pp B2090 sad, uplifting, humourous. offers a moving account of the questioning: what side are The characters were so real, apparently ordinary couple who Families you on? the setting familiar and much M adopted him and were such discussion on the tensions and F 2017 338pp B2273 loving parents, and talks candidly reality of the times. Kip, Connie The Man in the about his move away from and Jack were our favourites. Love and Vertigo Wooden Hat married life to discover himself as Much to appreciate. Hsu Ming Teo a homosexual. Canterbury: Burnside & Beyond Jane Gardam Pandora is drawn back to her N 1994 195pp B1415 native Singapore to die, and Child of the Empire, spirited Noah’s Compass her Australian-born daughter young woman, Establishment Mother’s Milk Anne Tyler wife of lawyer Edward Feathers; Grace tries to understand her Edward St Aubyn A retired teacher in his 60s, mother’s early life as the ‘rubbish Betty is every bit as intriguing and Patrick’s mother Eleanor, ageing Liam lives a lonely life in a small child’ – the fourth daughter of a vivid as her husband. Gardam and ailing, is determined to sign apartment. His inertia is broken Singaporean Chinese family in explores the landscape of a over his inheritance to a New by an intruder, a knock on the the 1940s. In turn funny, sad and marriage, including its secrets Age Foundation, while his wife head and a case of amnesia. insightful about the tensions and and compromises, with wit and Mary is lost in her obsession with His eccentric second ex-wife, mysteries in families fragmented understanding. This novel stands motherhood. A bitingly witty and his daughters and his grandson by the dislocations of war alone well, and is a remarkable sometimes heart-breaking novel Noah all help Liam find direction. and emigration. companion piece to Old Filth. about family dynamics. Noah’s Compass explores the NE 2000 287pp B1645 F 2009 233pp B2073 meaning of happiness and F 2006 304pp B1952 the connections that keep us The Memory anchored in our lives. Lovers’ Knots My Family and Marion Halligan Keeper’s Daughter FE 2009 277pp B2084 Kim Edwards Other Animals WINNER One evening in 1964, a blizzard Gerald Durrell No Great Mischief The Age Book of the Year forces Dr Henry to deliver his The Durrell family, their eccentric Alistair MacLeod A capacious, hundred year family own twins. His son is born hangers on, and the local Driven from the Highlands in novel which focuses on particular healthy, his daughter has Down animals, birds and insects 1779, Calum MacDonald sails lives of individuals at key points. syndrome. Making a decision provide a steady stream of for Nova Scotia, where he and Like a moving photographic that will haunt their lives forever, hilarious incidents in this light- his people work as loggers and collage, it lets the reader glimpse he asks the nurse to take their hearted book, set in Corfu where miners, struggling in the new the time shifts which show daughter to an institution, and the author lived as a boy in the land and its endless cold. Two individual and family destinies tells his wife that the baby died. 1930s. Small print. centuries later, these red-haired, from unexpected angles. This international bestseller is NEL 1956 300pp B0575 black-eyed MacDonalds are still F 1992 377pp B1380 a deeply moving exploration of linked by intense clan loyalty. family secrets and the redemptive power of love. FE 1999 262pp B1627 FE 2005 401pp B1972

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The Orchard Thieves Our Tiny, Useless Hearts The Poisonwood Bible O Elizabeth Jolley Toni Jordan Barbara Kingsolver In this beautiful, autumnal work ‘Nothing much happens in the SHORTLISTED Old Filth Jolley creates an insightful and outer suburbs. It’s just like a spa Pulitzer Prize Jane Gardam artful work about families. The retreat. A nudist, adulterous spa figures of the grandmother, the retreat.’ Caroline and Henry’s Missionary preacher Nathan Edward Feathers is well Price moves his family to the respected and known three sisters, and the young marriage is teetering on the brink, grandsons who give the book so it’s lucky that Caroline’s sister Congo in the ‘60s, a time of affectionately as Old Filth. Filth tremendous political and social was a Raj orphan, sent ‘home’ its title, open our imaginations to Janice is there to look after their the poignant question of what daughters. But Janice is busy upheaval. The narrative alternates at a young age from what was between Nathan’s wife and then Malaya, to be fostered one generation can pass on to dealing with her feelings toward following ones. More a fable than her ex-husband, and to top it all four daughters in this powerful, and receive a proper English poignant and sometimes education. Gardam’s beautifully a novel. Clear print. off, Caroline’s nosy neighbours seem to be having their own funny exploration of religious written, memorable novel F 1995 134pp B1477 zeal, conscience, imperialist pieces together the mosaic of marital crisis. This entertaining, moving novel explores family, arrogance, and the many paths experiences that make up the Other People’s Children to redemption. Small print. life of this one member of the childhood, and the sacrifices we Establishment, and by extension, Joanna Trollope make for love. FE 1998 543pp B1728 a generation of children of What does it feel like, for adults FE 2016 288pp B2245 Families the Raj. and children, when, after losing Precious Bodily Fluids F 2004 260pp B1910 a partner by divorce or death, a Charles Waterstreet man or a woman with children P of various ages enters a new Full of event, flavour and brio as On Beauty relationship? This absorbing, 11-year-old Charlie threads his Zadie Smith shrewd and sympathetic novel Passing On way cheekily through a rollicking probing the complexities of Penelope Lively family memoir of the owners WINNER modern family life will surely An unmarried daughter and son, of Waterstreet’s pub in Albury Commonwealth Writers’ Prize sound echoes for every reader. of 52 and 49 respectively, are left in 1961. Irish Catholic family and school culture, six o’clock From the bestselling author of F 1998 320pp B1749 by the death of their domineering White Teeth. Howard is an art mother to develop what remains closing, SP bookies, police raids historian at an East Coast college of their lives. Compassionate, and sinister plots to fluoridate in the US. His marriage to Kiki is The Other Side poised and finely written. the town’s water are all part of a delightful and dreadful time, strained to breaking point, and of the Bridge F 1989 210pp B1347 their three children struggle to Mary Lawson now gone. cope. When Howard’s arch-rival Arthur and Jake Dunn are as N 1998 262pp B1718 accepts a post in Howard’s different as two brothers can NEW faculty, a cascade of hilarious be. Arthur, who is older, is shy, A Private Man and tragic events ensues. dutiful and set to inherit the Malcolm Knox 2005 446pp B1953 family farm in northern Ontario, The Place on FE Set in contemporary Sydney, Canada, while Jake is young and Dalhousie this is a portrait of three adult reckless. When Laura arrives in Once in a House on Fire Melina brothers and their parents, over their 1930s rural community their the days following the father’s Andrea Ashworth uneasy relationship is pushed to Marchetta unexpected death in curious This is an account of the the edge. A beautifully told story Rosie Gennaro’s father rebuilt circumstances. In Knox’s look at writer’s early years following the of love and family that spans the place on Dalhousie, but different models of masculinity, accidental death of her father. the changes of rural life from the passed away. Now Rosie has the worlds of medical practice, The men her mother accepts Great Depression to WWII. to share it with Martha – the test cricket and pornography become violent, and the family 2006 273pp B2003 woman her father married far spirals downward into poverty FE too soon after her mother’s merge in a literary thriller and uncertainty. Ashworth’s death. An encounter with Jimmy about a family under pressure. lucid prose and lack of self-pity Our Father Who Hailler takes her life in another Strong language. and the child’s protectiveness Art in the Tree direction, resulting in both Jimmy F 2004 385pp B1838 towards her beautiful, neglectful Judy Pascoe and Rosie reassessing what’s mother raise fascinating important. A story of finding The Pure Gold Baby questions about human A funny, touching novel evoking family, love and connections in vulnerability and resilience. a family in crisis. A man dies unexpected places. Margaret Drabble suddenly, leaving four bewildered 1998 330pp B1740 2019 288pp Jess is an anthropologist and N children and a distraught wife. FE B2311 single mother. Anna is her pure In the heat of a Queensland gold baby – a smiling child with summer they contend with his a learning disability who never absence, and young Simone ‘grows up’. Narrated by their is convinced her father is still neighbour Eleanor, The Pure speaking to her from where he Gold Baby profiles a changing now lives in the great tree behind society from ‘60s London to the the house. present day, exploring forms of F 2002 169pp B1795 human kinship, the experience of ageing, and the way we care for one another. FE 2013 291pp B2201

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Rose Boys Seducing Mr Maclean Sisters R Peter Rose Loubna Haikal Drusilla Modjeska and others WINNER The daughter of a Lebanese Australia’s foremost women Reading in Bed Biography Prize family enrols in Medicine writers – Modjeska, Mears, Yahp, Sue Gee to fulfil her family’s dreams. Garner, Hewett and Jolley – Robert Rose was a footballer and Her Australian boyfriend, the explore the joys and vexations Dido and Georgia have been cricketer in a famous Melbourne friends since university. They suspect business dealings of her of sisters, in autobiographical sporting family. Suddenly left brothers, and parents slaving essays and more or less fictional live in a cultured English world quadriplegic at 22 by a car of lovely gardens, good books away in their restaurant, are stories. Wonderful glimpses accident, Robert became totally ingredients in this fast-moving of writers’ lives and into all and conversation. But for the dependent on others. His brother first time, Dido has reason to comic novel. that is involved in being and Peter, a poet, writer and editor, remembering siblings. question her marriage, while has written a memoir about a F 2002 318pp B1679 widowed Georgia has yet to family under great pressure, a NS 1993 185pp B1427 come to terms with the loss of tribute to his brother and parents The Shipping News her husband; their children are and a book of quiet power. The Slap unhappy in love and perfect Annie Proulx health is no longer a given. NE 2001 289pp B1796 WINNER Christos Tsiolkas F 2007 340pp B2016 Pulitzer Prize WINNER Running in the Family Commonwealth Writers’ Prize The Rector’s Wife Michael Ondaatje WINNER A man slaps a child at a National Book Award Joanna Trollope Ondaatje returned to his native suburban barbeque. The child is Families Sri Lanka in the 1970s to retrace A hapless New York hack not his own. This event and its In her early 40’s, Anna realises the baroque mythologies of his consequences have a rippling that her Rector husband’s parish journalist takes off with his two forebears, outrageous, eccentric, small, motherless daughters effect on the friends and family is ‘the other woman in my life’. or embattled: ‘Everyone at the barbeque. Told from the Her children’s needs impel her to and redoubtable aunt to storm- was vaguely related and had battered Newfoundland, where viewpoints of eight people, The get a paid job. Trollope’s account Sinhalese, Tamil, Dutch, British Slap is an unflinching look at the of the web of personal, family he gradually makes a new life. and Burgher blood in them going The characters, wild setting modern family. Strong language and parish life was reprinted back for generations. Love affairs may offend some readers. thirteen times in its first two and remarkable writing all come rainbowed over marriages and off the page with a blast of F 2008 400pp B2034 years as a paperback. Good lasted forever so it often seemed black print. freshness. An irresistible comedy that marriage was the greater of human life and possibility. FEL 1991 243pp B1423 infidelity.’ An unforgettable book. The Sound of FE 1993 337pp B1458 N 1982 207pp B1650 One Hand Clapping Revolutionary Road Richard Flanagan Richard Yates A Short History of Running with Scissors Tractors in Ukrainian SHORTLISTED Miles Franklin Literary Award SHORTLISTED Augusten Burroughs Marina Lewycka National Book Award Burroughs’ mother gave him Sonja Buloh has gone to Sydney Frank and April are bored by their away to her psychiatrist when SHORTLISTED to make herself a carefully 1950s suburban American lives he was twelve. His bizarre Orange Prize ordered life. Her return to and dream of being extraordinary. childhood, spent in the doctor’s Sisters Nadezhda and Vera Tasmania connects her with the But their decision to change their dilapidated mansion where he haven’t always seen eye to eye. traumas of her migrant parents’ life leads to tragedy. Tennessee maintained a relationship with a But when their father’s young, European and Australian pasts, Williams said: ‘here is more paedophilic inpatient, is the basis glamorous fiancée Valentina and the childhood she has tried than fine writing; here is what … for this harrowing, entertaining, bursts into their lives ‘like a fluffy to forget. An important novel makes a book come immediately, and endlessly surreal memoir. pink grenade’ they agree they about dislocation, work, family. intensely and brilliantly alive.’ Contains explicit content. must rescue him from her greedy FE 1997 425pp B1586 FE 1961 336pp B2039 NE 2003 304pp B1892 clutches and his own geriatric fantasies. Enlivened with quirky A Spot of Bother characters and original dialogue, The Riders S this spirited story is about love, Mark Haddon Tim Winton old age, immigration, Ukrainian From the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night WINNER The Secret Agent history and family secrets. 2005 324pp B1893 Time. George is trying to settle Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Joseph Conrad FE quietly into retirement, but Fred Scully’s desperate quest A carefully developed human his daughter is marrying an to get his Australian family story of an agent’s family in inappropriate man, his wife is together again drives him from the grim world of the agent carrying on with his ex-colleague, Ireland across Europe, with his provocateur. It is based on a and an unsettling rash has gutsy and loving daughter. In the real incident, the attempted appeared on his hip. As the Hall background are the mysterious, destruction of Greenwich family slides into chaos, George waiting riders and the Australian Observatory, treated with quietly and politely begins to experience. Gripping suspense. Conrad’s irony, scepticism go mad. FL 1994 377pp B1455 and social insight. F 2006 390pp B1966 F 1907 249pp B1013

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Summer at Mount Hope A Thousand Acres The Time We Have Taken Rosalie Ham T Jane Smiley Steven Carroll Ham’s second novel is a 19th- WINNER WINNER century romance. Feisty heroine A Tale of Love Pulitzer Prize Miles Franklin Literary Award Phoeba Crupp lives with her and Darkness Dominating, implacable Larry Summer, 1970: television and parents and sister on a small Amos Oz Cook owns the largest, richest wireless shop proprietor, Peter, farm near Geelong. Her father The single child of a couple farm in Zebulon County, Iowa. pronounces his Melbourne moved his family from the city to who migrated to Israel in Without warning he opts to retire, suburb one hundred years old. establish a vineyard, a decision the 1930s, Oz grew up in passing the farm to his three As his community prepares to Phoeba’s mother bitterly resents. Jerusalem and is now one of daughters and setting off a chain celebrate progress, a mural is With less black comedy than in Israel’s foremost writers. His of events which will divide the commissioned of the area’s The Dressmaker, Ham highlights family chronicle is mesmerising: family and bring dark secrets to history. But what vision of the the efforts of women a century funny, intense, tragic. In the light. In her modern reworking past will this painting reveal? The ago to thwart tradition and layers of his extended family of Shakespeare’s tragedy King third in a trilogy, Carroll’s novel pursue their dreams. in Israel – all transplanted from Lear, this American novelist is a meditation on the rhythms FE 2005 296pp B1936 Eastern Europe and drenched in produces a compelling tale about of suburban life during a time of European languages and culture family, human nature, and this radical change. – we see the making of Jewish Swallow the Air farming community. 2007 327pp B2027 Jerusalem, and beyond that the FE Families Tara June Winch emerging state of Israel. F 1991 371pp B1499 When May’s mother dies N 2004 564pp B1938 Tinkers suddenly, she and her brother A Thousand Paul Harding Billy are taken in by Aunty. Splendid Suns That Eye, the Sky WINNER While Billy takes his own self- Khaled Hosseini destructive path, May sets off to Tim Winton Pulitzer Prize Brought together by war, loss, find her father and her Aboriginal Clockmaker George Washington A threatened family struggles to and marriage to the same cruel identity. Written in a poetic Crosby lies dying and travels hold together in the city outskirts. man, Mariam and Laila develop a style, with an excellent ear for back in time through memories The moving story is beautifully lifelong friendship. Spanning the dialogue, these skilfully crafted of his impoverished childhood told in the pungent slangy idiom Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, interlinked stories about growing in rural Maine, and of his father, of 12-year-old Ort Flack. We see the Afghan civil war and the rule up on society’s fringes herald a a peddler who suffered from his family (and the big human of the Taliban, this is a moving distinctive and exciting voice in epileptic seizures. Harding’s questions) through his loving, tale of friendship, love and family. Australian indigenous fiction. troubled, visionary eyes. language dazzles, whether he’s 2007 370pp B1961 FS 2006 198pp B1937 1986 150pp B0875 FE describing the workings of clocks FL or sensory images of nature. The Sweet Shop Owner There Should Be The Tiger in the Tiger Pit FE 2009 191pp B2103 Graham Swift More Dancing Janette Turner Hospital A decisive day in the life of Rosalie Ham The tiger is an old man facing Trespass 60-year-old Willy Chapman his 50th wedding anniversary, Valerie Martin On Margery’s eightieth birthday irritated and alienated by present evokes the personal, family and Trespass is the story of two she reflects back on her life. She incapacities and past lost social history of his life and his families haunted by the past. has lived quietly in Brunswick opportunities. His wife strives to shop. Clear, compassionate Chloe Dale is discontent with (Melbourne) for the past sixty recompose a family harmony, writing reveals courage, the American involvement in years but now she wants to jump recognising that ‘We are all pain, laughter, limitation and the Iraq war, and with her son off the balcony at her hotel. She capable of brutality, aren’t we?’ unexpected sweetness in an Toby’s girlfriend Salome Drago. doesn’t trust anyone, least of all A deftly woven plot in this ordinary life. An émigré from the former her family. However, she doesn’t thought-provoking exploration Yugoslavia, Salome has her own F 1980 222pp B1203 want to hurt anyone below of parents and children. the hotel so instead she thinks concerns and dangerous secrets 1983 256pp B1244 Swimming with back and revisits her life. Told FE from her past are about to catch the Jellyfish with Rosalie Ham’s wit, humour up with her. and compassion. Vicki Hastrich F 2007 288pp B2019 2011 347pp B2128 With a gift for humour and FE characterisation Hastrich evokes a small New South Wales coastal town through Enjoyed the eyes of a likable eccentric A Short History of woman, still preoccupied by the Tractors in Ukrainian? disappearance of her mother twenty years back. A warm, quirky, insightful book with a cast Try of memorable characters. Various Pets Alive F 2001 224pp B1692 and Dead by Marina Lewycka [B2165]

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The White Earth The World Beneath U W Andrew McGahan Cate Kennedy WINNER As Sandy and Rich approach Unless We Are All Completely Miles Franklin Literary Award middle age they look back on Carol Shields Beside Ourselves the Franklin Blockade as the Norah, beloved adult daughter Karen Joy Fowler WINNER highlight of their lives. While of Reta Winters, opts out of The Age Book of the Year Sandy embraced new age normal life in order to sit on WINNER spirituality and the mothering PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction a gritty street corner mutely Do we own the land or does of their 15-year-old daughter, displaying a sign around her it own us? Who can claim to Rich roamed the world with neck that reads ‘GOODNESS’. SHORTLISTED belong here? In the Darling his camera, trying to recapture Her mother’s search for what Man Booker Prize Downs in the years when the the promise of his youth. imminent passage of Native drove her daughter to this Something in Rosemary’s Rich attempts to rekindle his Title is of huge concern to local turns into a funny meditation childhood turned her from a relationship with his daughter landowners, a fatherless boy on where we find meaning and lively, chatty child into a quiet on a trek in the Tasmanian and his mother are taken in by hope. A suspenseful fiction adult with a secret. Her siblings wilderness, but disaster looms. the family patriarch. Part family about supposedly ordinary disappeared inexplicably; her All three go on a journey and let saga, part history and part lives from this exceptional father, a renowned psychologist, go of the past, while they move gothic thriller, this novel is set in a Canadian novelist. brought home his work in towards a future together. landscape haunted by the ghosts surprising ways. Rosemary 2009 342pp FE 2002 213pp B1696 of black and white. F B2071 attempts to reconcile her present 2004 389pp Families with her jumbled memories, F B1852 V wondering what it is we relate to Y in others – is it the ‘human’, or White Teeth Various Pets Alive the ‘being’? Zadie Smith You Gotta Have Balls 2014 336pp B2215 and Dead F WINNER Lily Brett Marina Lewycka Whitbread Novel Award Ruth is a 54-year-old Jewish What the Light Reveals Australian running a successful Unrepentant hippie Marxists Doro This sparkling, noisy, comic epic business in New York. She and Marcus realise the revolution Mick McCoy of multicultural Britain makes worries about her weight, is never coming. But why do Set in Melbourne in 1954, joyful use of vernaculars, various, about her husband, and about their children have to embrace Australian-born communist as it traces the inter-connections her 87-year-old father, the capitalism and consumerism Conrad, his wife Ruby and their of three families, one Indian, irrepressible Edek. Enter Zofia: so enthusiastically? A charming two son’s lives are in shambles one white and one mixed, over buxom Polish 60-something with story about family values and the when Conrad is brought before 25 years in North London and one eye for business and another comedy of the new generation the commission with false Oxford. A novel with a relish for for Edek, and Ruth’s worrying gap from the author of A Short accusations of espionage during ideas, for language and for the reaches hilarious heights. In this History of Tractors in Ukrainian. the peak of the Cold War. After tragic comedy of human life. light-hearted but satisfying novel, FE 2012 366pp B2165 being vilified by peers and the media, Conrad uproots his family FE 2000 462pp B1772 Brett tackles serious themes with to Moscow where the family wit and verve. Frank and with must face up to their own lies occasional strong language, this and secrets. A family drama is delightful social comedy about that explores identity, individual modern family life. beliefs, family and politics during FE 2005 293pp B1944 the Cold War period. FE 2018 368pp B2288

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

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Footsteps D E F Richard Holmes These ‘footsteps of a romantic A Death in Brazil Eat Pray Love A Fez of the Heart biographer’ appeal to lovers of Peter Robb Elizabeth Gilbert Jeremy Seal biography, travel and history, After a bitter divorce and a The fez has played a central role telescoping the joys of several WINNER books. Walk with R. L. Stevenson The Age Nonfiction Book of the Year turbulent love affair, Gilbert in Turkey’s conflicting desires to realised it was time to pursue be both Eastern and Western, through France; join in the French Robb paints a picture of South three things: pleasure, devotion both Muslim and secular. It was Revolution with Wordsworth and America’s largest and most and balance. Her spiritual quest banned in 1925 by Kemal Atatürk, Wollstonecraft; visit Shelley’s mysterious country, blending unfolds in an engaging and and Seal sets out to trace its complicated household in Italy. personal journey with a portrait highly enjoyable travel narrative history and demise. An engaging, Hunting his haunting subject, of a sensual, often violent that takes her to Italy, India and gentle, often funny travelogue Holmes struggles towards his society with extremes of poverty Indonesia. offering real insights into Turkey. own mature identity. and wealth; a background of N 1985 288pp B1530 Portuguese and centuries of N 2006 348pp B2000 N 1995 291pp B1528 slavery, workers’ strikes and organised crime – all flavoured The End of Seeing The Fig Tree Forest Dark with lime and coconut juice. Christy Collins Arnold Zable Nicole Krauss N 2003 372pp B1827 Including his Polish Jewish Moving from New York to Tel WINNER parents and his wife’s Greek Aviv, the novel combines two Seizure Viva La Novella Prize parents, Zable collects stories narrative threads from retired Diary of a Welsh philanthropist Jules Epstein, who Swagman, 1869–1894 Ana is still recovering from the about belonging and dislocation. We move from late migrant era goes missing when he leaves William Evans death of her daughter when New York with what remains her husband goes missing on Carlton to Ithaca, hearing tales of Joseph Jenkins worked on farms refugees and wanderers, singers of his wealth to Tel Aviv, and a photojournalistic assignment 39-year-old American novelist in the Ballarat and Castlemaine overseas. Nick’s last pictures and poets. Hospitality and the area and kept diaries for 25 welcoming of strangers are Nicole, who’s plagued by writer’s were taken all across Europe, block and a stale marriage, and years. These diaries lay in an attic following a theme of refugees recurring motifs in a book which (in Wales) for 70 years before remains relevant today. discovers a mystery that alters and forgotten people. her life. The novel explores they were found and interpreted Uncovering the trail left by his 2002 222pp B1685 as a valuable historical document NE Jewish culture, Frankz Kafka and photographs, Ana sets out to personal metamorphosis. which conveys the personality of find Nick – or, at least, the truth the diarist. of what happened. Beautiful Flight Behaviour FE 2017 304pp B2284 Journeys N 1975 216pp B1089 and haunting. Barbara Kingsolver F 2015 240pp B2233 SHORTLISTED The Fountain of Age Down Under Orange Prize Betty Friedan Bill Bryson The English Farm-wife Dellarobia sees her Friedan covers many of the Of course, we all know that Jeremy Paxman world ignited in a literal blaze issues and choices facing people of colour when rare Monarch as they age. She attacks our Australia is a huge, mainly empty The English are an ineradicable butterflies make their home in the society’s fear and denial of age, country of aggressive climatic part of Australian history. This forests on her family’s land. Class and its belittling stereotypes of extremes and teeming with witty, penetrating book analyses differences and societal values older women and men. She poisonous creatures. Even so, English society, offering historical deepen as science clashes with offers facts, anecdotes and give yourself the pleasure of and sociological explanations religion around this small town experience in a discursive and accompanying American born for the way the English are. American family, and the result is cheerfully resilient account of the Anglophile Bryson as he sights a Paxman’s scholarship and a thought-provoking reflection of third age – not a dead end, but a range of the country’s must-see intellectual rigour forces a humanity against a backdrop of a fountain! Smallish print. destinations and draws such careful consideration. conclusions for himself. He can’t world in flux. 1993 654pp B1407 1998 309pp B1639 NL help just liking it here, but his NE FE 2012 436pp B2190 account of Oz is still sharp-witted Generated much unprovoked and aware. From Rice to Riches discussion. The book did Floundering Jane Hutcheon N 2000 319pp B1753 enlighten many on the current Romy Ash trend in Britain. Although some Born in Hong Kong and found the text complex they SHORTLISTED part Chinese herself, ABC enjoyed the discussion. The Miles Franklin Literary Award correspondent Jane Hutcheon majority rated the book between takes the reader on a journey into good and very good. Abandoned by their unreliable her family’s past as well as across Enjoyed mother, Tom and Jordy live with Glen Waverley Uniting the new China. With refreshing Flight Behaviour? their grandmother until their directness she recounts her mother’s sudden reappearance. round as a foreign journalist Try During a haphazard road trip, – meeting characters from all she leaves them again, this levels of society, outwitting the Animal, Vegetable, time on Australia’s west coast. Security Police and writing self- Miracle Desperate, the boys turn to an confessions when found out, and old man for help – but what sampling the country’s varied and by Barbara Kingsolver danger does he pose? [B2006] delicious cuisine. F 2012 202pp B2162 NE 2003 371pp B1819

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NEW Interpreter of Maladies G I Jhumpa Lahiri WINNER Gilgamesh I Heard the Owl Pulitzer Prize Joan London Call My Name Heart of the Margaret Craven Wherever each of these nine WINNER Grass Tree short stories is set, from Despite encroaching social The Age Book of the Year Molly Murn Bengal to Boston, all in some change, tribal beliefs and ways way explore ‘Indianness’ SHORTLISTED Pearl returns are still important to the Indian and the complex mechanics Miles Franklin Literary Award to Kangaroo Island with her tribe living in a village of British of adjustment to new mother and sister to farewell her Columbia. How can their new circumstances, relationships, A small-town Australian woman grandmother Nell. But she does Anglican vicar, young Mark Brian, cultures. In transparently journeys to war-torn Armenia not expect to uncover Nell’s find acceptance, serve them simple writing, devoid of overt to find the father of her child. secrets and the connection to and learn from them? Canada’s comment, Lahiri uses voice and Her retelling of the ancient the island’s early-settler history rivers, salmon, wild geese and viewpoint in such a way that the Mesopotamian epic of the hero with the Ngarrindjeri people. changing seasons are central to stories linger in the mind. Gilgamesh, his mourning for his A heart-warming story about this simple and moving tale. Fair beloved friend Enkidu and his family, motherhood and sized print. FS 1999 198pp B1763 eventual homecoming, resonates connection to place and history. FE 1967 133pp B1235 with the journey taken. FE 2019 304pp B2306 Iron and Silk F 2001 255pp B1695 In Search of the Mark Salzman Blue Tiger From the age of 13, this engaging A God in Ruins Highways to a War young American was absorbed Robert Power Kate Atkinson by all things Chinese. His account Aided by a vivid imagination, of two years he spent teaching Teddy is the younger brother of WINNER lonely young Oscar escapes his English in Changsha in the early Ursula in Life After Life, and in Miles Franklin Literary Award brutal home life through a rich 1980s is a series of entrancing this companion novel we follow ‘Being in battle, like being in fantasy world. The relationships anecdotes about his students, the life he would have had, had he forms along the way with friends and those who teach he survived the war which killed love, is one of the fundamental human experiences.’ Set in the widowed librarian Mrs April and him more about the literature, him in Ursula’s story. Atkinson Journeys predominantly male world of war twin girls Perch and Carp will calligraphy and martial arts he writes with sensitivity and humour shape their destinies in profound loves. Unforgettable vignettes of of life’s highs, including a bucolic journalism, this novel opens in 1976 with the disappearance and tragic ways. China and the Chinese way of childhood, and lows, such as doing things. Teddy’s experience of war and of a gifted war photographer F 2012 333pp B2160 the small disappointments of in Cambodia, and follows the N 1986 211pp B1304 fatherhood – and of living. highways of his life into the In Siberia countries and wars he covered. F 2015 400pp B2221 Colin Thubron 1996 451pp B1504 NEW FE Thubron journeys by train, river and truck across the vastness H Holy Cow! of Siberia among the people The Island of Sarah Macdonald most damaged by the collapse Sea Women Heart of Darkness Macdonald starts out as a of Communism. He ranges from Lisa See Joseph Conrad ‘fundamentalist atheist’, but Mongolia to the Arctic Circle, A moving story her encounters with Hinduism, from the site of the last Czar’s In the Congo during its that highlights Islam, Judaism, Jainism, Sufis, murder and Rasputin’s village to colonisation by Belgium, shocks the challenges faced by two Sikhs, Parsees, Christians and the graves of ancient Scythians, and transformations resulted young women on the Korean an assortment of yogis, sadhus, to Baikal, deepest and oldest of from the clash of cultures. The island of Jeju in the 1930s. Mi-ja swamis, nuns and Bollywood the world’s lakes. novel follows a newcomer’s and Young-sook work in the stars leave her with a more 1999 287pp journey up-river and inland to the NE B1762 sea with an all-female diving complex agnosticism. heart of that experience. collective. The novel traverses FE 1899 340pp B0003 N 2002 298pp B1784 Inside Outside many decades and wars, which Andrew Riemer herald many changes and The Hungry Tide The Sydney based academic, challenges for these women. Mi- Amitav Ghosh writer and critic left Budapest ja and Young-sook endure great during 1946 at the age of 10. change and loss, but also a great Piya, an Indian born American is in friendship. search of a rare river dolphin in the In 1990 he returned for a visit, wandering strands of the Ganges. hoping to get some sense of his FE 2019 384pp B2309 Enjoyed When she hires an illiterate local family’s past there. A witty, lucid Salt Creek? fisherman, to guide her through and memorable account of two the backwaters, sophisticated worlds, also offering Riemer’s Delhi businessman Kanai must act views on issues such as the Try as translator. Ghosh skilfully binds importance in a new country Heart of the Grass Tree three people together in an exotic of language acquisition. [B2306] place to examine ideas of love, N 1991 218pp B1328 jealousy, pride and trust. FE 2004 403pp B1883

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The Many-Coloured Land Montebello Night Letters J Christopher Koch Robert Drewe Robert Dessaix Koch’s two great-grandmothers Drewe writes about ‘islomania’ SHORTLISTED Journey to the settled in Tasmania in the 1840s: and the ocean, of death and Miles Franklin Literary Award Stone Country one a Protestant gentlewoman, renewal, his childhood and Alex Miller the other transported as a his career as a writer in this Diagnosed with a terminal illness, convict. He explores Tasmanian discursive sequel to The the novel’s protagonist travels WINNER and Irish connections in a book Shark Net. At its core is the to Italy as his exploration of the Miles Franklin Literary Award which combines family history, author’s journey with a group meaning in life in the proximity of death moves him from the A Melbourne academic and an childhood memoir and his travels of environmentalists to the world of doing into a realm of Aboriginal stockman meet again in two rather different Irelands, in Montebello islands, site of little being. A beautiful, civilised work and travel together through the 1956 and in 2000. known British nuclear testing in of tale-spinning, travel, and richly high ranges of remote North the 1950s. Lots to discuss! NE 2002 246pp B1790 fanciful speculation. Queensland to the places they NE 2012 286pp B2183 have known and come from. F 1996 276pp B1542 Miller’s intimate knowledge of The Memory of Running Ron McLarty Mr Muo’s Travelling the outback resonates through Couch Norwegian by Night his novel, both a cross-cultural Smithy, the middle-aged central Derek B. Miller love story and an exploration figure in this American novel, Dai Sijie 82-year-old ex-marine Sheldon of identity, of how and where is alone and in a bad way. Mr Muo, a 40-year-old student has reluctantly moved to Oslo, one belongs, and of our Something prompts him to of Freud, returns from long years where he remains haunted by painful histories. resurrect his old bicycle and head of study in Paris to his country of his past. When he witnesses a off for Los Angeles, through New birth as its first psychoanalyst at F 2002 364pp B1803 woman’s murder by a Balkan York, St. Louis, and Denver, to large. China offers few patients gang, he rescues her 6-year-old find the sister who went missing and he is consumed by a new son and makes a run, relying years ago. His encounters on mission, to liberate his first love on military training now fifty M this cycling road trip show us an from prison where she has been years old. Both a thriller and an inarticulate, decent, and honest consigned for political dissent. emotionally haunting novel about Mahjar man. His story and voice carry This comic novel follows its naïve ageing and regret. Eva Sallis the novel along. hero’s adventures and mishaps Many books have been written F 2005 405pp B1929 through the maze of present- FE 2012 305pp B2186 about the experience of migrating day China. to Australia from Europe and Mermaid Singing; F 2005 264pp B1930 Notes from a Small Island Great Britain. But these eloquent, Bill Bryson Journeys linked stories take us into the Peel Me a Lotus very different lives of immigrants Charmian Clift Bill Bryson is an unrepentant N Anglophile who happened to be from the Middle East. Sallis In 1954, Australian writers born in Iowa. He spent 20 years explores exile, loss, personal Charmian Clift and George in England before deciding to displacement, growth and Johnston moved with their The Namesake return to the land of his birth. idiosyncrasy with empathy, comic young family from London to Jhumpa Lahiri This account of his walking tour warmth, and an undercurrent of the Greek Islands – long before A story about an Indian boy of the English countryside is full anger in this timely book that is a the ‘seachange’ books of more growing up in America (and of genial fun poking at a country joy to read. affluent writers. Clift records the afflicted with a pet name in he adores. S 2003 168pp B1834 passage of the seasons and her honour of a Russian writer), family’s experiences, writing with this novel depicts a recognised NE 1995 352pp B1599 We had a very stimulating perceptiveness, warmth and pattern of cultural transition: the discussion. It provided an vivacity. parents cling to their Bengali interesting cultural insight and N 1956;1959 422pp B1791 past, while the next generation O wonderful folklore. Good visual cannot shed the old ways word painting. A delight to read. fast enough. Lahiri writes with The Odyssey Canberra 3 Miss Garnet’s Angel subtlety and her characters are Homer Salley Vickers beautifully observed. Odysseus’ long voyage home Mantras and A retired teacher rents an FE 2003 291pp B1835 from the Trojan War takes him apartment in Venice, changing Misdemeanours through the terrors of the one- her previously narrow life. Julia Vanessa Walker eyed Cyclops, the seductive Garnet succumbs to the beauty Sirens, and the wandering Former journalist Vanessa of the city and its magnificent art islands, before he finally reaches Walker decided to spend a and responds to the spirituality of Ithaca and his faithful Penelope. year in Macleod Ghanj (home the Catholic religion, becoming This early Greek epic has inspired of the Dalai Lama) researching caught up in the lives of both Enjoyed writers and artists in later ages. a book on Tibetans in exile and locals and visitors. A gentle, kind, furthering her study of Buddhism, decorous, funny novel. The Odyssey? FE C8thBC 376pp B0335 but unexpectedly fell in love 2000 342pp B1647 with an ex-monk and became FE Try pregnant three months later. Part travelogue, part cross-cultural Circe love story, this is an enjoyable, by Madeline Miller educational and insightful read. [B2301] N 2006 293pp B1928

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The Other Side of the World Q Interested in Stephanie Bishop reading international Questions of Travel WINNER books? Expand Readings Prize for Michelle de Kretser New Australian Fiction your language skills WINNER with one of our WINNER Miles Franklin Literary Award ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year elementary language Laura is an Australian traveller short courses. Set in post-war 1960s, Charlotte who becomes a travel guide struggles with the demands editor. Growing up by the sea in of being a new mother. Her Sri Lanka, Ravi dreams of other husband Henry makes a decision places until calamitous events to move them from their cottage lead him to the uncertain life of a in Cambridge to sunny Perth, refugee. This tender, witty novel convincing himself that it’s all tells their stories across decades for her sake. When their new and around the world. De Kretser life doesn’t offer the solutions writes masterfully about identity, they’d hoped for, Charlotte authenticity and connection. cae.edu.au and Henry embark on personal 03 9652 0611 FE 2012 515pp B2188 journeys that threaten their life together. An emotional novel that explores nostalgia, identity and the decisions we make to R The Old Man and One Thousand find ourselves. River Town the Sea Chestnut Trees F 2015 352pp B2268 Peter Hessler Ernest Hemingway Mira Stout Our Woman in Kabul Peter Hessler spent two years in WINNER Irish American-Korean Anna visits Fuling, a remote city in China’s Korea to discover her mother’s Irris Makler Sichuan province. This charming Nobel Prize travel memoir is remarkable for

family, a powerful clan stripped of Freelance journalist Makler Journeys In Hemingway’s clear and their lands during the Japanese was one of the first people into Hessler’s frankness, his curiosity direct prose, this story of an occupation. As the novel unfolds, Afghanistan after the terrorist and his unceasing desire to old man’s fishing trip becomes details of Korean life are evoked attacks of September 11. With understand the people of China. the vehicle for the discovery of with great piquancy, and we a humorous and lively insight He provides a unique glimpse a new awareness of the dignity come to appreciate the country’s into the life of a journalist in the into the Chinese psyche as he and beauty that can be found turbulent history in this century. field and the contradictions of considers the profound cultural everywhere. A timeless tale. differences between China and F 1997 324pp B1717 the American involvement in FE 1952 128pp B0205 Afghanistan, Makler writes with the USA. a deep sympathy for the Afghan N 2001 402pp B1890 Otherland people, particularly the women The Old Man Who Maria Tumarkin and children. Read Love Stories Maria Tumarkin travels home N 2003 356pp B1837 S Luis Sepúlveda to rediscover her roots and Antonio Bolívar lives as a recluse introduce her Australian born Salvation Creek deep in the Amazon jungle daughter to the place where she P in Ecuador. When an ocelot grew up – but the Russia and Susan Duncan begins attacking humans in the Ukraine she returns to is not Susan Duncan – forty-something, small settlement, he is obliged the same as the one she left in Postcards high profile, successful – seems against his will to join a hunting 1989. Maria comes to realise she Annie Proulx to have it all. But a series of party and confront the creature cannot force her daughter to feel A Vermont farm clan declines heartaches and tragedies means and his own past. A tale of and think things just because she after a son flees in terror following she must rebuild her life out life, death, atonement and the wants her to. the violent death of his girlfriend. of the self-destruction she’s pleasures of reading. NE 2010 313pp B2080 Barely literate, Loyal Blood been indulging in. Despite the F 1989 128pp B1836 makes his way across America, grief underscoring this memoir, Many loved Tumarkin’s sending occasional postcards to Duncan crafts her story with language and her involvement his family, unaware that disaster honesty, humour and wit, Enjoyed with literature and her strong has overtaken them. Heartbreak, wonderful characterisation and social conscience. We knew hilarity and Proulx’s unique style exquisite depictions of place. The Other Side little about Ukraine so the book combine in this remarkable novel. NE 2006 404pp B2091 of the World? encouraged much discussion 1992 340pp about how badly the Russians F B1495 were treated in the war. Try We were expecting a travel The Hand That book which this was not, but First Held Mine interesting. by Maggie O’Farrell Barwite Bookworms [B2094]

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Seize the Day Sing and Don’t Cry Things You Get for Free Tracks Marie de Hennezel Cate Kennedy Michael McGirr Robyn Davidson This moving compilation of a Kennedy describes her years as Reader-friendly, funny and deeply Davidson taught herself from psychologist’s diarised experiences a volunteer in Mexico with vivid thought-provoking. Maureen scratch to tame and train camels, at a palliative care unit in France accounts of food, family life, and McGirr’s long-delayed trip to then travelled with four of them explores terminally ill patients in fiestas. This is a poetic travel Europe with her priest son and one dog across 1700 miles their last stages of life. Compelling book with a social conscience, Michael provides a framework of desert from Alice Springs to stories about love and family, giving which is both troubling for exploring life and character, the coast of Western Australia. up and taking charge, with a focus and uplifting. Michael’s relationship with his This is her engrossing book on what we can learn from the NL 2005 300pp B1935 father, and the world, a bus about the journey with plenty to dying, make this an inspiring and load of fellow tourists and the discuss. emotional read. touristic highlights. The Sisters Brothers NL 1980 247pp B0599 2012 189pp B2143 2000 296pp B1624 N Patrick deWitt NE Travels with My Aunt Seven Years in Tibet SHORTLISTED This Book Will Man Booker Prize Graham Greene Heinrich Harrer Save Your Life Staid, conservative Henry Pulling Oregon, 1851: brothers Eli and Tibet, though torn and vandalised, A. M. Homes meets his Aunt Augusta for the Charlie Sisters embark upon a has still not played out its final act Richard trades stocks and shares first time in over 50 years, and journey to San Francisco to fulfil with China. Harrer’s personal story out of his beautiful LA home, soon finds himself accompanying a contract killing of a man who is high adventure, but he also isolated - until an inexplicable her on journeys to exotic is not quite what he seems. The became a Tibetan official, friend and sudden burst of pain lands countries. Aunt Augusta is as expedition offers dark adventures and tutor to the 11-year-old Dalai him in hospital. With his routine fascinating as she is amoral. and comically bizarre encounters Lama, and fled with him before and his diet broken, Richard in a fun revival of the western F 1969 265pp B1158 the advancing Chinese. begins his journey to reconnect genre with a ‘Coen Brothers’ feel. NE 1953 288pp B1360 with life. This an entertaining and F 2011 325pp B2142 gently humourous novel that Tuesdays with Morrie explores the quirkiness of LA and Mitch Albom Shadow of the Silk Road one man’s search for meaning. Colin Thubron A journalist renews his friendship T F 2006 372pp B2007 with his old college professor Colin Thubron traces the first who is dying. Mitch elects great trade route through That Oceanic Feeling This Must Be the Place to help Morrie on his quest China, the mountains of Central Fiona Capp to make a study of life’s last Asia, northern Afghanistan, Maggie O’Farrell step. Written with a kind of Journeys Iran and Kurdish Turkey. Over Capp explores surfing as an unsensational sensationalism, eight months and 7000 miles emblem of freedom, journeying SHORTLISTED Costa Book Award this is a fearless book. Morrie and he recounts his experiences from the waters of Byron Bay, Mitch’s stories are affecting and along this historic route. Rich in , Cornwall, and Port Phillip Daniel’s life has careened ultimately joyous. humour, compassion and history. Bay. A unique memoir blending spectacularly off track – yet the power of the sea, physical N 1998 192pp B1769 2006 363pp B2004 again. Banned from seeing his N elation, and personal reflection. children, he has set up a new N 2003 288pp B1848 home in the Irish wilds with Two Steps Forward Siddhartha a startling woman; they are Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist happy, until he hears news of a Hermann Hesse Recently widowed Zoe, a That Old Ace in the Hole woman he loved (and wronged) Written in Hesse’s ‘Eastern’ Californian artist, and recently Annie Proulx 20 years ago. Across decades phase, this is a beautifully written divorced Martin, a Yorkshire and continents and alongside a novel about a young son of an When naïve young Bob is sent to engineer, are both looking to diverse cast of characters, Daniel Indian Brahmin. His search for purchase land for a polluting hog make a fresh start by walking the will slowly learn about love, about truth is first through the spirit, farm, he finds a tough, wayward 2000km Camino trail stretching forgiveness, and about living. then through the flesh, and finally farming people intent on keeping from France to Spain. As the pair through both. their land despite all setbacks. F 2016 496pp B2246 meet and develop an unlikely The eccentric and tenacious F 1957 167pp B0464 companionship, their personal locals and a brilliantly-evoked demons are always close sense of place blend in this Throwim Way Leg Tim Flannery behind. Can the pair follow the Silences Long Gone serious yet comic tale. same path? Written in alternate Anson Cameron F 2002 361pp B1849 ‘An Adventure’, promises the chapters by a husband-and- subtitle – a promise delightfully wife team, the novel explores SHORTLISTED fulfilled by Flannery’s account Commonwealth Writers’ Prize personal renewal: physical, of his field-work in Papua New psychological and spiritual. Belle watches as her town in Guinea and Irian Jaya. It’s a Western Australia is carted away, dazzling yet unpretentious FE 2017 368pp B2280 vowing to remain and die in the combination of his work as land where she long ago dug a research scientist with his the ashes of her family. This is a concerns over human rights and curiously life-affirming expedition our planetary future, lightened into the Australian heartland, by the marvellous stories which considers spiritual of an incurably curious and allegiance to the land. candid man. F 1998 358pp B1767 N 1998 326pp B1564

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Under the Tuscan Sun Voyages to the When in Rome U Frances Mayes South Seas Penelope Green Mayes opens the door to a new Danielle Clode Journalist Penelope Green Unaccustomed Earth world when she and her partner This is a swashbuckling tale of abandons her comfortable Jhumpa Lahiri buy and restore an abandoned the adventures of the French existence and buys a one-way villa in the Tuscan countryside. explorers to Australia. Filled with ticket to Italy. Wrestling with the WINNER language and culture, Green Commonwealth Writers’ Prize In sensuous evocative language, colour illustrations, this lively she celebrates what she calls account brings to life a classic writes about Roman life in From the Pulitzer Prize winning ‘the voluptuousness of Italian cast of 18th-century notables, hilarious detail. This enjoyable author comes a poignant life’. Armchair travel at its exploring the French perspective and readable memoir outlines collection of short stories that most inviting. of colonisation. the risks and rewards of chasing a dream on the other side of touch upon the immigrant 1996 280pp experience. Eight stories take N B1553 N 2007 261pp B2012 the world. us from America to Europe, N 2005 308pp B2026 India and Thailand as they follow Vanishing Points characters forging new lives. Thea Astley W FS 2008 333pp B2055 Astley’s larrikin humour and lyrically evocative writing shine When Gods Collide All members enjoyed the through these two linked Kate James book and some even declared novellas, centered on life on a The daughter of evangelical it one of the best they had tiny Pacific isle for a would-be missionaries who spent most of read. The book stimulated a hermit and a frustrated wife. her childhood in India, James good deal of discussion about Small print, well-spaced. became an atheist as an adult. families in different cultures and particularly those who F 1992 234pp B1394 This book recounts her journey were migrants. The difference as she returns to India to between first and second examine the nature of religious generation migrants’ reaction belief and cultural identity, to life produced a good deal of with particular reference to the comment. All found the writing shocking murder of Australian style very easy to read. missionary Graham Staines and

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Choose discussion-worthy books Be aware of what’s out there Remember that discussion-worthy books can often be divisive books, Popular books don’t necessarily make for lengthy discussion books. but this makes for rich and memorable discussions. Try this tip: first, Keep your eye on award winners and literary reviews to get an rate the book on overall reading experience. Second, rate the book understanding of the range of books that critics and readers are on potential for themes and discussion. The combined highest rating discussing. will make up your shortlist. Timeless books make for a universal discussion Collaborate Choosing a book with timeless themes means different generations Choosing books is an art, not a science. Everyone has a reading bias and types of readers within your book group can relate to it, and we all lean toward a certain type of genre, style, or theme. Invite and a book that stands the test of time can be re-read years later and include all member suggestions as your longlist will cater to all for a unique and fresh discussion. different types of readers.

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L Large Print F Fiction N Nonfiction S Short Stories E eBook Adapted Book µ Book Group Favourite 62 Surviving, Prevailing Whether it is the inhumanity of man’s actions towards fellow man or the conquering of personal demons, this chapter explores the resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity.

Aman Birds Without Wings A Aman B Louis de Bernières The disturbing story of a Somali An epic novel of love and war After the Fire, girl’s first 17 years in the 1950s The Bad-Ass Librarians is set in the former Ottoman A Still Small Voice and 1960s. It shows the strong of Timbuktu Empire. De Bernières recreates Evie Wyld traditional culture in which ‘Father Joshua Hammer a lost world in which Greeks and is your main blood’, a young Turks, Christians and Muslims, Young Abdel embarks on a WINNER female is answerable to her lived as neighbours, sharing their journey across the deserts of John Llewellyn Rhys Literary Prize brothers, female circumcision is lives, their cultures intermingling. Sahara to preserve and save customary, and any involvement Harmonious village life is This debut novel set in Australia the manuscripts of Timbuktu, with whites can precipitate destroyed by the events of World shows the impact of the violence first from the ravages of the violence. Enlightening about War I and the collapse of the of war. Frank moves to a seaside desert, then from the hands of the tribal and city peoples of Ottoman Empire. This engrossing shack after he breaks up with fundamentalist Islamists. The contemporary Africa. novel is both a celebration of his girlfriend. His father and narrative follows the story of humanity and a lament over the grandfather before him each N 1994 350pp B1467 Abdel setting up library archives, consequences of religious and came to the shack after they both public and private, in racial intolerance. served time in the Vietnam and Anil’s Ghost Timbuktu and then the quest Korean wars. 2004 625pp B1871 Michael Ondaatje to evacuate them from the FE F 2009 296pp B2102 clutches of extremists. The A forensic anthropologist returns book examines both the rise of to Sri Lanka, a land steeped Black Rock White City radicalism in Northern Africa and A.S. Patric All the Birds, Singing in culture and tradition, to Timbuktu’s literary heritage. Evie Wyld investigate organised campaigns NE 2016 336pp B2264 WINNER of murder engulfing the island. Miles Franklin Literary Award WINNER Ondaatje blends the history, Miles Franklin Literary Award art, archaeology and folklore The Bean Patch Serbian academics Jovan and Tinged with anxiety, Jake’s solitary of his extravagantly beautiful Shirley Painter Suzana move to the Melbourne life tending sheep on an isolated birthplace, now ravaged by civil suburb of Black Rock, leaving Shirley Painter’s indomitable and brooding island in England is war. Telling of a culture’s attempt behind two dead children when memoir is sourced in her somehow preferable to whatever to submerge its history, the novel they were forced to flee war-torn experience of the extreme child she left behind in Australia – until weaves an intricate chain of Sarajevo. While at his cleaning abuse she suffered, which was something starts killing her flock. human connection. job at Bayside Hospital, Jovan perpetrated within the family. Tensions of her past mix with discovers bizarre graffiti that F 2000 311pp B1629 This is a tribute to the teachers her present in this clever and escalates into acts of violence. in government schools who thoughtful mystery which reflects For Jovan, the seemingly opened her spirit so that she on belonging and identity. Contains An Anthropologist nonsensical graffiti he cleans survived, even flourished, themes that may disturb. on Mars away evokes the trauma of his to write this confronting yet Oliver Sacks past and he begins to see the F 2014 240pp B2227 hopeful story. Likely to prompt meaning behind the vandalism. Here are seven detailed stories animated discussion with very This literary award-winner All Quiet on the about patients living with different viewpoints. offers a compelling insight into Western Front neurological conditions such N 2002 310pp B1801 displacement, language and the as autism, the violent tics of immigrant experience. E.M. Remarque Tourette’s syndrome, and a This anti war polemic powerfully sudden and lasting inability to Beloved FE 2015 248pp B2252 portrays the agony and futility see colour. Sacks’ infectious Toni Morrison of war. Remarque suffered sense of wonder informs these The Boat personally through loss of his gentle, exploratory, thorough WINNER Nam Le German citizenship as a result accounts as he moves into wider Pulitzer Prize of this work. Many copies were speculations about the nature of This extraordinary novel reveals WINNER seized and burnt by the Nazis. the mind. the haunting legacy of slavery Prime Minister’s Literary Award FE 1929 192pp B0101 NS 1995 319pp B1518 and racism: ‘Not a house in These short stories travel the the country ain’t packed to its globe and include a grim journey rafters with some dead Negro’s of Vietnamese refugees on a The Assistant grief’. Morrison’s love song to small boat and a child living Enjoyed Aman? Bernard Malamud her people and to the country in Hiroshima during WWII. A Jewish storekeeper, in the which has so abused the African Le intuitively conveys the poverty of New York, is badly Americans enables us to begin psychological conflicts people Try hurt by an anonymous attacker to ‘understand the source of the experience when they find their Songs of a War Boy who then becomes his assistant. outrage as well as the source of hopes and ambitions slamming by Deng Thiak Adut A compassionate study of the light’. Smallish print. up against familial expectations [B2251] the human heart’s growth out F 1987 275pp B1365 or the facts of history. of violence. FSE 2008 312pp B2022 F 1957 224pp B0232 CONNECT WITH US / 9652 0620 / CAE.EDU.AU / @CAEBOOKGROUPS / BOOKGROUPS_CAE / @CAEBOOKGROUPS 63

Boomer and Me Coonardoo The Day We Had Jo Case C Katharine Susannah Prichard Hitler Home Jo Case’s son, ‘Boomer’, was Coonardoo is an Aboriginal girl Rodney Hall diagnosed with Asperger’s Café Scheherazade brought up by a white woman A blind Hitler illegally enters Syndrome in primary school – Arnold Zable as companion to her little boy. Australia in 1919 with our something that led the writer You can go to this café in St The boy is indoctrinated against returning soldiers, and has to view herself and her family Kilda and eat the delicious food. marrying black, and their love to be smuggled out. Audrey from a fresh perspective. This But to find its real life, you need changes from an idyll to a stark McNeil, a young Australian book (subtitled A memoir of to read this haunting novel. It tragedy. A moving account cinematographer, grabs her motherhood, and Asperger’s) interweaves the stories told of the fate of black women in chance to escape a difficult family, is sure to spark discussion by remarkably different Jewish ‘White’ Australia. and goes to 1920s Germany. about what is ‘normal’, and émigrés from mid-20th century FE 1929 208pp B0201 At first incredulous, we come to whether difference necessarily Europe – Avram and Masha, recognise home truths – about means disability. the proprietors, and three of The Curious Incident of Australia’s present and past, our NE 2013 337pp B2195 their regulars, Yossel, Laizer and the Dog in the Night Time insights and blind spots. Zelman. Trauma and dislocation F 2000 351pp B1637 Brain on Fire are here transfigured by awe Mark Haddon and lyricism. Susannah Cahalan 15-year-old Christopher finds a Disgrace F 2001 223pp B1620 neighbour’s dog lying dead on Cahalan was a bright young the lawn and decides to write J.M. Coetzee journalist when a sudden illness a murder mystery about it. He An academic faces retribution plunged her into terrifying Close Range: has Asperger’s syndrome, and when his sexual encounters with psychosis, which was in fact Wyoming Stories his flair for maths and scientific one of his students are exposed. a rare autoimmune disease Annie Proulx investigation is offset by unease Refusing to offer the public affecting her brain. Part memoir, and unusual behaviour in the apology demanded from him, part journalism, part medical SHORTLISTED presence of other people. he resigns and retreats to his detective story, this fascinating Pulitzer Prize Christopher is a brilliant creation: adult daughter’s isolated farm. book explores Cahalan’s Proulx is one of America’s great this depiction of the world from A powerful, quietly disturbing harrowing experience from storytellers, and here Wyoming his viewpoint leaves a strong study of moral and historical multiple perspectives. forms the harsh territory of impression with much to discuss. accountabilities in the new NE 2012 264pp B2175 eleven stories peopled by rugged FE 2003 272pp B1816 South Africa. eccentrics – ranchers, rodeo F 1999 256pp B1745 riders, country women – all Burnt Shadows struggling to survive in a world Kamila Shamsie of raw loneliness, brutality, D The Diving Bell and After 9/11, an unnamed man longing, sexual urgency and the Butterfly waits to be clothed in the orange sometimes bizarre events. Dangerous Love Jean Dominique Bauby jumpsuit of Guantanamo Bay Includes ‘Brokeback Mountain’, a Ben Okri At forty-two and the father of and wonders ‘how did it come story about two men gripped by A love story alive with the sounds two young children, Bauby found to this?’ In August 1945 in a fierce attraction to each other and the smells of Nigeria in the himself speechless and paralysed Nagasaki, Hiroko Tanaka survives when working as cowhands, 1970s where the ordinary and after a massive stroke. His mind the bomb blast. Her fiancé which became a multi-award the poor live in almost impossible was unimpaired. To dictate this Konrad Weiss does not. The winning film.

conditions. Struggling with small book, Bauby blinked for Surviving, Prevailing novel spans the intervening years NS 1999 318pp B1907 post-colonial realities and the each letter of every word. More and the interweaving lives of aftermath of the civil war, the extraordinary is the writing itself two families. Confessions of young artist and lover Omovo – the keen gaze, lightness of F 2009 363pp B2087 is still in touch with potent touch and sensuousness with a Clay Man communal, cultural and spiritual which he evokes his present Igor Gelbach traditions. A gripping novel from circumstances and memories. Bury Me Standing this Booker Prize-winning author. Isabel Fonseca The decay of a picturesque NE 1997 139pp B1555 Black Sea resort during the F 1996 325pp B1523 The Gypsies are the decline of the Soviet empire untouchables of Europe, the forms the setting for this The Drowned and lowest of the low – a scattered philosophical novel. The novel’s the Saved nation of 12 million people main character, Bronhauser, Primo Levi without a homeland. Fonseca, struggles to make sense in a a journalist, describes the four Levi’s last book argues that as a Kafkaesque world. Gelbach, Holocaust survivor he is a proxy years she spent with them in who in 1994 was nominated for Enjoyed various countries of Eastern witness for the true witnesses – the Russian Booker Prize, now The Eye of the Sheep? those who were annihilated. He is Europe to bring back her lives and writes in Melbourne. ‘A insightful, personal account of lucid and with neither hatred nor wise and enchanting book,’ says forgiveness as he investigates this mysterious people and the Robert Dessaix. Try Boomer and Me way they live. Many photographs. the genocide and its relevance to F 2001 184pp B1657 by Jo Case the present. His insight into the N 1995 322pp B1521 [B2195] issues of guilt and shame makes this an important book for any nation confronting violence and racism in its past and present. N 1986 170pp B1440

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The Eye of the Sheep The First Stone E Sofie Laguna Helen Garner G WINNER This is a fictionalised account NEW Miles Franklin Literary Award of the sexual harassment case The Golden Age at the University of Melbourne, Joan London SHORTLISTED which led to the resignation of WINNER Stella Prize the master, despite being cleared Educated of charges. The approach Prime Minister’s Literary Award Tara Westover This beautifully nuanced coming- and the institutional issues Westover grew of-age story follows Jimmy, a raised make it both relevant SHORTLISTED up in a family kid not quite like the others. and controversial. Stella Prize of survivalists in the Idaho Buffered by his mother’s love, NE 1995 222pp B1442 The Gold family are immigrants wilderness. She was isolated Jimmy negotiates the realities of from war-torn Hungary, and while from mainstream society and his world as his father oscillates Flying with Paper Wings 13-year-old Frank recovers from forbidden to visit a school or between alcohol and violence polio in a convalescent home hospital. There was no one – and when his home life alters Sandy Jeffs in Perth, his parents can’t help to intervene when her brother beyond recognition, Jimmy must Poet Sandy Jeffs grew up in missing the elegance and charm became violent. Educating learn to navigate an alien and a violent family, and her world of the city they left behind. This herself became a necessity – and grown-up world that the reader collapsed at 23 with the onset beautiful story touches on how she taught herself enough to be aches to protect him from. of schizophrenia. Since then, we come to terms with the past, admitted to university. A moving FE 1995 614pp B2231 she has become a community the many forms of recovery, and story of Westover’s struggle to educator and speaker about the healing power of music. find knowledge and herself amid living with mental illness. An FE 2014 256pp B2222 family loyalty. F insightful look at mental illness, N 2018 352pp B2308 from the social and medical to Everyone enjoyed this book. The Fault in Our Stars the personal. Discussion flowed easily as John Green N 2009 268pp B2082 there were so many themes Edward Koiki Mabo in the book. The writing is 16-year-old Hazel knows she concise, not flowery but with Noel Loos & Koiki Mabo has a limited time to live, but For Esther beautiful and apt imagery. The 1992 Mabo Decision everything she has ever thought Alex Sage We all agree that this is an overturned the concept of terra about life, love and death is Born in 1924 into a devout outstanding book, evocative nullius. Born on one of the upended when she meets Chassidic family, Alex Sage of the era. remotest islands in the Torres handsome Augustus Waters. describes a childhood of acute Leongatha 1 Strait, Mabo found that he had A beautiful story about what it poverty. A life of living off his no legal title to his land on Murray means to be truly alive - it will wits ensued, until he reached A Good Day to Die Island, which spurred him into a make you sob and laugh. Australia via a death camp and Lisa Birnie ten year battle as a land rights F 2012 313pp B2181 Palestine. Sage attended English activist on behalf of his people. classes at CAE, and conveys his Is euthanasia either desirable or story with compelling directness. necessary, or could accessible N 1996 206pp B1526 The Fiftieth Gate palliative care supplant the need Mark Raphael Baker N 2000 281pp B1757 for it? In her search to understand An Evil Cradling Baker grew up in Melbourne, what this question means, Lisa Brian Keenan the son of Polish Jewish parents Fred Hollows: Birnie asked the patients, family and staff of McCulloch House (a Keenan’s story of his years as who survived the Holocaust. In An Autobiography short-term palliative care centre) hostage in Beirut is remarkable this ‘journey through memory’, Fred Hollows to tell their own stories. With for the humour, resilience and he seeks to draw his parents Appalled by the eye diseases her commentary, they make a compassion which inform back into the terror of their he found among outback wonderful book, based on the his experience and suffering. childhood, attempting to Aborigines, ophthalmologist Fred compassionate conviction that It includes the record of a understand his own experience Hollows gave years to a program everyone should die with dignity friendship between the writer of growing up with their largely Surviving, Prevailing Surviving, which improved the eye health and free of pain. – a working-class Northern unspoken memories. of thousands of them, and also 1998 231pp Irishman – and the upper class N 1997 339pp B1529 worked in Eritrea and Nepal. This N B1712 English public school humanist, life story of a doer, a maverick John McCarthy. A Fine Balance and a humanitarian emphasises The Grass is Singing N 1992 297pp B1371 Rohinton Mistry his public rather than private life. Doris Lessing 1991 240pp In India in 1975, two tailors and NL B1375 In this powerful novel set in a college student come to the South Africa in the 1930s, we vast, teeming city and end up experience the life of Mary Turner. lodging in cramped quarters Lessing writes with insight and with a struggling widow. Their compassion of Mary’s formative efforts to survive are at the heart years, her young adulthood and of this unforgettable portrait of her marriage to Dick. We learn of kindness, dignity, heroism, cruelty the racial attitudes of that earlier and corruption which is well society and the way in which worth the read. Small print. blacks were treated during South Africa’s Apartheid. F 1995 614pp B1516 F 1950 220pp B0427

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The Great World Hand Me Down World Hindustan Contessa The Horses Too are Gone David Malouf Lloyd Jones Jane Watson Michael Keenan WINNER This is a hauntingly beautiful A book where myth blends with When drought took hold in Miles Franklin Literary Award tale of a mother’s search for her the everyday, and where the New South Wales in 1994, like son, taken by his father when implications of cross-cultural so many others, the Keenan This ambitious novel traces only a few days old. Told from relationships are tested. Indian property was overstocked. His the lives of two Australian men the point of view of the people born Milan and his Australian wife efforts to keep his cattle fed who survive World War II and who meet the mysterious North Tilly travel to India where they and watered finally took Mike Changi. Malouf’s usual interest African woman after she is fall into the hands of kidnappers. Keenan onto the stock routes of in relatedness and wisdom is washed ashore in Sicily, different They must accept their fate south-west Queensland, where combined with an exploration of versions of the truth emerge to as prisoners and deal with the he coped with one setback after some key national myths. Print reveal a complex narrative of a challenges they face within the another. This true account of his smallish but clear. displaced person struggling for intricacies of Indian culture. experiences is a page turner and F 1990 332pp B1275 self determination and justice. F 2002 308pp B1783 a great Aussie yarn. F 2010 313pp B2122 N 1998 348pp B1595 Home Fire H The Happiest Refugee Kamila Shamsie House Rules Half of a Yellow Sun Anh Do SHORTLISTED Jodi Picoult Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie In this popular memoir, comedian Costa Book Award Jacob has Asperger’s syndrome. and actor Anh Do traces his He can’t read social clues, WINNER family history from war-torn WINNER doesn’t like to make eye contact, Orange Prize 1970s Vietnam to the current Women’s Prize for Fiction and has a singular focus. He is obsessed with forensic analysis. Set in 1960s Nigeria during the day. He also describes his own He keeps showing up at crime Biafran war, Adichie follows the personal and professional journey A modern retelling of Greek scenes and telling the police lives of three characters caught with endearing candour and tragedy Antigone, Home Fire is what to do – usually he is right. up in the turbulent events of humour, in this story of strength, a story of familial loyalty, politics, But then his tutor is found dead the time. As Nigerian troops hope and forgiveness. sacrifice, and what it means to and Jacob is accused of murder. advance and they run for their NE 2010 232pp B2141 be Muslim in the West. The novel lives, their ideals, intimacies, is told from different points of F 2010 529pp B2076 and loyalties are severely tested. We all agreed this was an view: Isma, the responsible sister Half of a Yellow Sun is an amazing, uplifting book. The who leaves her two younger siblings to study in America; The Human Stain emotional exploration of Africa, humour in it made me feel moral responsibility, race, class, happy. A beautiful book about Aneeka, the beautiful and and love. life and honesty and joy in headstrong sister who worries about the fate of her naive twin WINNER the simplest things. It was PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction F 2006 448pp B1964 simply written and easy to brother Parvaiz, who has been understand – almost like having recruited by ISIS. When Eamonn, A college professor is forced Half the Sky a conversation with him. the son of an influential British to retire when his colleagues Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl Jervis Bay 1 Muslim politician enters the declare him to be a racist. Not lives of the two sisters, love and true, but the real truth about Silk WuDunn Hidden Agendas family loyalties collide and the would have astonished even WINNER two British families’ fates are his most self-righteous accuser. John Pilger Surviving, Prevailing Pulitzer Prize devastatingly entwined. Set in the late ’90s against the As reporter, polemicist and 2017 272pp B2277 backdrop of the Clinton/Lewinsky Written by the first married partisan, Pilger crusades against FE affair, this novel interweaves one couple to win a Pulitzer Prize for the power agendas of the man’s story with the wider history journalism, Half the Sky grew All members enjoyed the book media and the global markets but with a range of ratings of modern America. from the authors’ desire to tell the and supports those whom they personal stories of women whose between 3.5 and 4.5 stars. FE 2000 361pp B1618 ignore – the poor who are getting It was an extremely topical lives have been catastrophically poorer, the peoples of Iraq, read with the current situation impacted by factors such as Africa, Burma, and East Timor. in Raqqa and so many ISIS poverty, sex trafficking and His immediate, urgent and lucid ‘brides’ and fighters seeking I gender-based violence. It also style, and the gripping subject to return to their homelands. examines the ways many matter make for easy reading. The book generated intense I Confess: Revelations women have reclaimed their Stacks to talk about, probably discussion along varied lines. in Exile lives from oppression, and offers with many different opinions. Essendon 6 Kooshyar Karimi suggestions to readers who want to help alleviate global poverty. N 1998 687pp B1574 Growing up in the slums of Tehran, Readers may find some material Karimi had to hide his Jewish faith. in this book distressing. 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The Inheritance of Loss In the Country of Men Little Bee Kiran Desai Hisham Matar J Chris Cleave WINNER WINNER Little Bee and her sister are from Man Booker Prize Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Jackson’s Track Nigeria; Sarah O’Rourke and her Daryl Tonkin & Carolyn Landon husband are British tourists. Their In an isolated house at the foot meeting on a beach in Nigeria of the Himalayas live a retired, SHORTLISTED Not far from Drouin in the Man Booker Prize Gippsland district of Victoria, an involves a choice that impacts embittered Cambridge educated all of their lives. A few years later judge, his granddaughter, and his almost utopian community of Set in Libya during 1979, Matar white and Aboriginal people lived and Sarah and Little Bee (who cook. A Nepalese insurgency soon vividly evokes the brutalities of has been in a British immigration disrupts their lives; while in New and worked together in the timber a terrifying regime from a child’s industry from the 1930s onwards detention centre) meet again. York the cook’s son tries to stay perspective. Suleiman’s father is Some distressing material. one step ahead of US immigration - yet Daryl Tonkin’s choice of an away on business but Suleiman Aboriginal wife caused a serious F 2008 378pp B2119 services. Sometimes funny, is certain he sees him standing sometimes sad, the possibility for rift in his family. This life story of a across the street. Why doesn’t hardworking, principled man and hope or betrayal hangs over every he wave? Fears and whispers A Long Long Way moment. Small print. a vanished way of life offers much intensify and in an effort to save to discuss. Sebastian Barry 2006 384pp B1967 his family, Suleiman may end up F 1999 297pp B1596 In this thoughtful, moving novel, betraying his friends, his parents N Willie Dunne joins the Royal In My Skin and ultimately himself. Dublin Fusiliers in 1914 and is Kate Holden FE 2006 360pp B1965 sent to the killing fields of Europe. K When the 1916 Easter Rising in Highly explicit and confronting Ireland is brutally quashed, he memoir told in a vivid narrative Into the Darkest Corner A Kindness Cup and other Irish soldiers begin to voice. Holden, a quiet, sensitive Elizabeth Haynes Thea Astley wonder why they are fighting for university graduate from a This suspenseful psychological A schoolteacher returns to a the Crown. This is a fascinating comfortable middle-class thriller unfolds over two insight into a rarely examined background, spiralled into Queensland town’s reunion, and timelines: one follows the attempts to force the citizens aspect of Ireland’s troubled past. heroin addiction and prostitution relationship between Cathy at the age of 21. The book is to recognise their cruelty to the F 2005 292pp B1927 and the almost perfect Lee; town’s Aborigines in an incident beautifully written in parts, but the other, Cathy suffering from Holden’s attitude to sex work in which they took part two Look at Me obsessive-compulsive disorder. decades previously. will enrage some readers and Dark themes are handled with Anita Brookner intrigue others. Love it or hate 1974 154pp B0437 finesse and insight, drawing F Frances Hinton, shy and clever, it, this book will generate fierce you in to Cathy’s world to works by day in a medical library discussion, not least about the explore the power of obsession. and goes back every evening relationship between female Contains graphic language and L to the solitude of her London sexuality and self-esteem. sex scenes. flat to write fiction. When she Contains strong language, sex The Land of Green Plums is adopted socially by Nick and and drug use. F 2011 416pp B2152 Herta Müller his wife, her heart is full of hope. 2005 285pp B1926 N This unusual autobiographical Brookner’s poised, elegant novel is a haunting account of a prose is a superb vehicle for this group of students in Ceausescu’s novel, seen by one reviewer as totalitarian Romania. Weaving being about ‘monsters and their back and forth between the victims’. provinces and the city, the FE 1983 192pp B1715 narrator traces the story of her survival and escape. A complex Overcome your stage and poetic evocation of another M country, culture and politics. fright and express Surviving, Prevailing Surviving, F 1998 242pp B1747 The Man Who Mistook yourself with a His Wife for a Hat performing arts The Last Magician Oliver Sacks short course. Janette Turner Hospital These extraordinary pieces SHORTLISTED show human beings striving to preserve their identity when Miles Franklin Literary Award things go wrong in different Traces the link between a gifted parts of the brain. The author is photographer and the female lovingly and respectfully curious image which compels him and about his patients and gifted in others, as it moves between a presenting their states briefly Queensland rainforest childhood and memorably. A book to make and contemporary Sydney. you wonder. 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The Mind’s Eye My Left Foot Oliver Sacks Christy Brown O R Neurologist and acclaimed Christy Brown was born in author Oliver Sacks explores the 1932, one of the 23 children Once Were Warriors Reading Lolita in Tehran relationship between the eye and of a Dublin bricklayer. Born Alan Duff Azar Nafisi the brain, and what happens to with cerebral palsy, he could The Heke family’s world In the mid-90s seven young our perception of the world when not control his speech or his of unemployment, racism, Iranian women gathered in this relationship is disrupted. movement, apart from his left dispossession, alcohol and Nafisi’s home to discuss the Using his signature style, Sacks foot. Here he tells his own story violence is rendered in their own work of forbidden Western turns medical case studies into of learning to read, write, paint brutalised idiom. From within this writers. Their main focus was on fascinating and moving human and finally type with his left foot, alienated Maori experience, Duff Lolita, The Great Gatsby, and stories – particularly poignant and of his wonderfully supportive finds the seeds of reconnection novels of Henry James and Jane because, this time, he includes family. The film of the same to their own past, and shows the Austen. A narrative which begins his own experiences. name, starring Daniel Day Lewis birth of communal and individual with secret literature classes NE 2010 240pp B2199 as Christy, is based loosely on change, pride and hope. expands into a picture of life in a this book. F 1990 198pp B1451 totalitarian regime. A Month in the Country N 1954 184pp B1301 N 2003 347pp B1839 J.L. Carr An Orphan’s Escape This book stimulated a lively SHORTLISTED N Frank Golding discussion among our group. Man Booker Prize In 1940, three young brothers It was a solid read but worth the effort. We admired the women Returning from the Great War, were admitted to the Ballarat Nickel and Dimed of Iran who find it quite difficult the narrator goes to a small Orphanage, but like many of the Barbara Ehrenreich living under the present regime. village to restore a historic wall children at the orphanage they This US journalist gave up her We all realised how often we painting. He works on it, works had living parents. Frank Golding comfortable middle-class life for take everyday freedoms in out its artist’s story and is drawn recalls the 12-bleak years of their three months to live and work for Australia for granted. We all into the local networks, making time there and pieces together poverty-level wages. A readable admired what the author has friends with another war survivor, the story of his parents’ struggle book which examines the been able to achieve in her life. and piecing his own life together against the state to get their enormous disproportions in wealth Blackburn 10 during the English summer. children back. that exist in America today and N 2005 247pp B1946 FE 1980 111pp B0783 raises many discussable issues. Resilience Does the ‘American dream’ really Anne Deveson apply to all citizens of the USA? The Multiple Effects P Drawing on her own experience of Rainshadow N 2001 221pp B1793 and her work with media and Thea Astley The Plague social justice organisations, Anne NEW Deveson asks what enables WINNER Albert Camus individuals and communities to The Age Book of the Year A brilliant novel which examines cope with adversity. Her book the reactions of a town’s people interweaves memoir and stories, SHORTLISTED No Friend to a plague which kills much of and her writing is effortlessly Miles Franklin Literary Award but the the population. It is set in Algeria readable, as usual.

in the 1940s, and can be read Surviving, Prevailing Astley is on her Queensland Mountains also as an allegory of the spread N 2003 296pp B1808 home ground, earlier this century. Behrouz of Fascist beliefs. The narrative, woven from Boochani & Omid Tofighian F 1947 288pp B0098 The Rituals of Dinner many voices and viewpoints, Margaret Visser uncovers the extraordinary WINNER nature of everyday life for both Victorian Premier’s Literary Award Pushing Time Away Visser’s focus is on table Aborigines and settlers. Poignant Peter Singer manners – the customs, and revealing. WINNER expectations and proprieties of Singer’s biography of his Australian Book Industry Award eating together. Subtitled The F 1996 296pp B1541 Austrian grandfather David Origins, Evils, Eccentricities Imprisoned on Manus Island, Oppenheim before his death and Meaning of Table My Dirty Shiny Life Boochani wrote this book one in the Theresienstadt ghetto Manners, this frolic will produce Lily Bragge message at a time for Tofighian traces the personal, intellectual, animated discussion. to translate. It is an essential family and cultural richness of Child of a career criminal father exploration of the Australian his grandfather’s life. A portrait N 1991 432pp B1389 and a head teacher mother, Lily government’s horrifying treatment unfolds of a complex, admirable, became a successful comedian of ‘boat people’ on Manus surprising man. Full of important and journalist. Uncompromisingly Island. Boochani lays bare the and discussable matters. honest and highly entertaining in daily life, abuses and the power Enjoyed N 2003 322pp B1812 equal measure, Bragge’s bumpy structures of Manus Prison, Year of Wonders? personal journey and the way and delivers a poetic novel that she eventually finds salvation are highlights his skills as a journalist bound to stimulate discussion. and political commentator. The Try The Plague Contains sex, violence and book is an urgent reminder of the by Albert Camus drug use. horrors that exist on our shores. [B0098] N 2010 272pp B2097 N 2018 416pp B2304

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The Road Home Most members of the group The Stolen Children Rose Tremain S found the book an interesting Carmel Bird expose of the terrible situation WINNER Carmel Bird’s short book of the Shadow Child in Sudan during its ongoing stolen children’s own stories sits Orange Prize wars, and the exploitation alongside a copy of the formal Rosalie Fraser of young children with their After the death of his wife, Lev Report of the National Inquiry into moves to London from his small Born in 1958, Rosalie Fraser development into fighting was removed from her parents soldiers. We felt he told his the separation of Aboriginal and town in Eastern Europe to look Torres Strait Islander children from for work so he can support his at two and a half years old. story honestly and it was Her story is an eye-opener very moving. It led to a good their families. Their unadorned young daughter and elderly accounts are anguishing, but it mother. Despite isolation and about the way children could discussion of the problems of be ‘cared’ for in foster homes assimilating refugees into our is necessary witness not only to loneliness, he finds a job at a tragedies and wrongs that were restaurant, discovers a passion and institutions, and how our society, and the problems they must have finding acceptance hidden and suppressed but to for cooking, and slowly begins to governments saw to the ‘welfare’ and adapting to our different the importance of acknowledging transform from dreamer to doer. of their wards during Australia’s most prosperously comfortable Western world values. the truth. F 2007 365pp B2013 decades. The teller’s persistence, Shoal Bay Bridge Bookies N 1998 188pp B1589 frankness and enduring spirit The Rugmaker of make the deprivation and The Spare Room Streets of Hope Mazar e Sharif brutalities of her life bearable Helen Garner in this ‘memoir of the stolen Tim Costello Najaf Mazari & Robert generation’. WINNER Reverend Tim Costello is a Hillman N 1998 270pp B1730 Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction Melbourne lawyer and minister Mazari was a shepherd in Helen prepares her spare room of religion for whom private faith and social issues have always Afghanistan who fled the Taliban So Much for That for her friend Nicola, who is regime to Melbourne, where he coming to town to receive inter-connected. His book set up a successful rug shop. Lionel Shriver treatment for her advanced chronicles the time leading up to His memoir, captured in his own cancer. Helen becomes Nicola’s his election as Mayor of St Kilda voice by writer Robert Hillman, SHORTLISTED and his battle for the democratic National Book Award nurse, protector, guardian angel is a fascinating insight into what and stony judge in this story of rights of St Kilda’s street workers, compels people to leave behind Shep Knacker has just sold his compassion and rage as two drug users and homeless. It their homes and histories to company and decided to move women negotiate their way provides a rare insight into his search for peace for themselves to an island paradise, hoping through gruelling treatments. life, his beliefs and his ongoing and their children. his wife Glynis will move with A provocative novel that provides struggle on behalf of others. N 2008 253pp B2010 him. But Glynis has a bombshell rich material for discussion on N 1998 242pp B1703 of her own, and reveals she friendship, faith and death. has been diagnosed with a The Rules of Inheritance rare and aggressive form of F 2008 195pp B1999 Suite Française Claire Bidwell Smith cancer. Personal neuroses and Irène Némirovsky This is a moving memoir of a relationships are examined as the Stasiland Némirovsky depicted the woman whose identity was question arises – how much is a Anna Funder experience of war and occupation formed amidst the illness and life worth? as it affected the people around death of her parents, both F 2010 436pp B2075 WINNER her, writing the two sections diagnosed with cancer when she Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction of Suite Française as events was a teen. Unconventionally Songs of a War Boy Forty years of communism in unfolded. The first part portrays framed around the five stages of East Germany ended when the a group of Parisians as they flee grief – denial, anger, bargaining, Deng Thiak Adut, Ben McKelvey Berlin Wall came down in 1989. the Germans and make their way depression, and acceptance – SHORTLISTED This book blends travel, history through the chaos of the French the story follows Claire’s journey Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and biography in the true stories countryside. The second concerns as she battles to overcome and of bravery and betrayal under the inhabitants of a small rural resolve her unhappy inheritance Sydney-based lawyer and 2017 the Stasi, the omnipresent secret community under occupation. of grief. NSW Australian of the Year, Deng police of the former East German Surviving, Prevailing Surviving, Adut overcame deadly adversity FE 2004 403pp B1913 2012 298 B2163 Government. Moving, exhilarating NE before calling Australia his and at times funny. home. At the age of six, he was conscripted as a child soldier into N 2002 282pp B1680 T the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, armed with an AK-47. Still Alice The Tattooed Flower Rescued by his brother John, Lisa Genova Suzy Zail Deng lived in refugee camps When Holocaust survivor Emil is before coming to Australia as Alice is a 50-year-old Harvard diagnosed with motor neurone Enjoyed a refugee. This inspirational professor when she starts disease, he gathers his family to biography tells his journey of experiencing symptoms of Reckoning: A Memoir? share the secrets of his remarkable overcoming the horrors of war early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. life. Emil’s daughter Suzy Zail takes and the challenges faced by She is forced to re-evaluate her us through his past and present, Try refugees to Australia. relationship with her husband The Tattooed Flower and three grown children. crafting an inspirational story on N 2016 320pp B2251 Genova cleverly addresses the father-daughter relationships and by Suzy Zail fundamental issue of disease and the extent to which we shape our [B1939] mental illness: what is left of Alice? own destinies. FE 2009 292pp B2098 N 2006 211pp B1939

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The Tattooist of Auschwitz Tiger’s Eye Traitor Well Done, Those Men Heather Morris Inga Clendinnen Stephen Daisley Barry Heard Based on the true story of Burning bright on every page, Barely released before being As a young man from a small Melbourne-based Lale Sokolov, this is the arresting story of what swamped under awards and Victorian country town, Barry a former Auschwitz-Birkenau happened to the distinguished praise, Traitor asks the question: Heard was conscripted into tattooist and privileged prisoner Geelong born historian when What would make a soldier the army at age 21, fought in who fell in love with Gita, a serious illness in her early betray his own country? This is Vietnam and came back to cope Jewish girl whose arm he was fifties pitched her into an Alice an important book about love, as best he could. In his laconic, forced to tattoo with her prisoner in Wonderland otherworld of loneliness, compassion, war and Aussie, blokey voice, Heard identification number. The hospitals, organ transplant and the bond between two people. tells us simply what happened novel differentiates itself from hallucination. She used writing Both brutal and beautiful, the – during his training, in action, other Holocaust memoirs by to ‘cling to the shreds of self’. writing is nuanced and personal, and after his return to civilian life. Lale’s outlook: Lale is not just The publisher’s blurb is accurate: and gently suffused with the Sufi Writing this memoir marked his determined to survive, but to ‘Lucid, fearless, passionate and philosophy. The writing style is emergence from the massive manipulate the system to ensure wise, its true subject is being alive.’ unusual but stick with it and you breakdown which finally overtook the survival of the prisoners and will be rewarded. him. Gripping, at times funny, NE 2000 289pp B1742 his lover Gita. A unique survivor’s F 2011 293pp B2132 affecting, alarming, this book account and love story full of enlarges our understanding of heartbreak, hope, and triumph The Tiger’s Wife the damage war can do. The Turning inside and outside the walls of Tea Obreht NE 2005 290pp B1914 the Auschwitz prison. Tim Winton WINNER N 2018 270pp B2275 The run-down coastal town of Orange Prize Angelus in Western Australia’s The Wilderness Natalia is a doctor visiting south is the setting for seventeen Samantha Harvey The Tears of Strangers orphanages in the Balkans after a overlapping stories, men and Stan Grant SHORTLISTED devastating war when she receives women, young and old, their Orange Prize Grant recounts the story of the news that her beloved grandfather hopes, longings, second Wiradjuri people of New South has died. As Natalia struggles to thoughts, disappointments, as Jake has Alzheimer’s disease. It’s Wales and the landowning understand his life’s quest, Obreht they scan the horizon, looking his birthday, his wife has passed Grants, descendants of an Irish spins around her a series of to the world beyond and caught away, his son is in prison, and it rebel. White as well as black, magical tales that bring home the at a point of change or altered is unclear where his daughter is. he has ultimately to reconcile tragedy of chronic conflict. awareness. The natural world Told from Jake’s point of view, The Wilderness sifts through that he is descended from F 2011 336pp B2117 and human destinies within it are the oppressors as well as the superbly evoked: this is Winton his past. What really happened oppressed and his personal at his best. and what may have happened To Kill a Mockingbird blur together until it’s difficult success has removed him from FSE 2004 317pp B1896 the violence, alcoholism and Harper Lee to tell what is true and what is despair experienced by many of not. Beautifully written, this is a his cousins. WINNER compelling study of human frailty. Pulitzer Prize W 2002 259pp B1681 F 2009 328pp B2086 N Atticus Finch is a lawyer who defends a black man who Wanamurraganya Three Dollars has been accused of raping a Sally Morgan The Woman Who

Walked Into Doors Surviving, Prevailing Elliot Perlman white woman. The best and Morgan met Jack McPhee while worst of life in a Southern town searching for her extended family Roddy Doyle WINNER are brought to life through The Age Book of the Year in Western Australia’s north. Paula Spencer’s uncensored the eyes of Scout, Atticus’ Here, aged 84, he tells her his life voice convincingly takes us into What effect has the emphasis on young daughter. story. Of mixed Aboriginal and her brave attempt to struggle ‘the bottom line’ – downsizing, FL 1960 290pp B0037 European ancestry, he worked free from a violent marriage, her corporatising, consulting, from the age of seven as an drinking problem and her own outsourcing – had on the well Touching the Void itinerant station hand and mine denial: ‘After all the years and educated young couples who worker in the Pilbara. Despite the the broken bones and teeth and are supposed to be among Joe Simpson harsh government policies which torture I still keep blaming myself.’ its main beneficiaries? In his In 1985 two climbing friends affected his life, his story is told Doyle’s writing pulls no punches compassionate first novel, succeeded in scaling the without rancour. Photographs as she is seen in the wider Perlman gives a moving spectacularly dangerous West through the text. context of the poor in Ireland. and imaginative portrait of face of the Siula Grande, a peak in 1989 196pp B1254 1996 226pp B1505 a loving family at risk in the the Peruvian Andes. Catastrophe N F heartless environment of struck on the descent, leaving contemporary Victoria. one severely injured, the other F 1998 381pp B1581 also in extreme danger. Would Enjoyed both perish? Could one survive? This anguishing dilemma, Joe’s The Wilderness? almost unbelievable will to persist and the quality of his writing make Try Together this a gripping modern classic of mountain writing. by Julie Cohen N 1988 216pp B1866 [B2282]

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2005 345pp 1996 314pp 1983 450pp L F This chilling, suspenseful novel is about what we owe to our abandoned, young. Three end up at a damaged children students select school where in an rigidly controlled are of subtle menace. atmosphere One, a boy in his teens, has to and what can work out why, be done. F The Broken Shore Joe Cashin is sent to a quiet Victorian coastal town to do the undemanding work of a country cop. But a brutal attack on the town benefactor brings him back into the thick of things. A politics novel about place, family, less like and power which reads like literary crime fiction and more language. fiction. Strong FE The Brush Off Shane Maloney the opening sultry sex From scene between the ministerial minder and the editor of a small arty magazine, this circulation entertaining thriller deftly mixes and the pleasures satire humour, of the whodunit, as Maloney highlights the hypocrisy in the carryings on of politicians, the acquisitive art world and the corporate high fliers. greedy The Bone People The Bone Keri Hulme of theAn unusual exploration and alives of a woman, a child startlingman. This novel portrays terror psychological and physical towards as the characters move which weaves a resolution andtogether Maori spirituality of Eastthe traditional wisdom Not easy to read, and West. abut a gripping novel with considerable reputation. F Borderliners Peter Høeg B1858 B1853 B2113 BOOKGROUPS_CAE / 2005 320pp 1999 356pp 2011 246pp FE Black Tide Black Tide Peter Temple A ne’er do well son has fleeced and Jack his ageing parents, Irish, AFL devotee and one- to look promises time solicitor, into it. The action shifts from and pub to Toorak Fitzroy to the horsetrack. Peter across masterly, settings are Temple’s convincing, his characters are and he writes some of the best dialogue on the current Australian scene. F Blood from a Stone Donna Leon Commissario Brunetti In Venice, looks into the case of an African vendor shot dead while street selling fake goods to tourists. illegal status and his The man’s linked into country of origin are the investigation, and matters with disturbing international interwoven with implications are family living. Venetian B Berlin Syndrome Melanie Joosten by aA psychological thriller Clare debut Australian author. whois a young backpacker Andimeets native Berliner Heat Checkpoint Charlie. with himinvites her to move in andand a tale of obsession begins.psychological intrigue withThis is an intelligent novel a masterful description of the loneliness and isolation that can city - and be found in a foreign the potential vulnerability of a woman travelling alone. F

@CAEBOOKGROUPS / B2291 B1588 Try Enjoyed [B1853] Black Tide SHORTLISTED Victorian Premier’s Literary Award LONGLISTED Stella Prize 2018 272pp 1998 278pp by Peter Temple by Temple Peter The Broken Shore? NEW NE In 2009 the worst bushfires In 2009 the worst bushfires Victoria had ever seen ripped the landscape, claiming through the lives of 173 people. fires some of these Unthinkably, deliberately lit. Hooper were and the Gippsland fires explores the investigation and prosecution of the arsonist behind the devastation, and the impact on She goes the wider community. deep into the issue and asks: What causes someone to create a tragedy? FE The Arsonist Chloe Hooper Another World Another writing combines Wonderful today’s sharp observation of family lives with resonant and evocations of murders of oldmysteries. The power thewounds to hurt or heal in another is explored present intelligent, honest, generous- spirited novel by Pat Barker. It concerns families, two blended late 20thone 19th and the other and the centenarian century, World who fought in Geordie, I. War 9652 0620 / CAE.EDU.AU / / 9652 B1861 B2137

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

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A haunting and of the themes of loss, memory crime yarn tackles issues of The authors, former horrific tale, with insight into the and the human capacity land, lore and relations between UN employees, met on gentle, driven woman at its centre. for regeneration. black and white Australians. peacekeeping assignment in F 1983 142pp B1366 FE 1987 220pp B1316 Strong language may offend Cambodia. The trio cross paths some readers. in Somalia, Haiti, and Bosnia, and their friendship strengthens. The Cove F 2006 322pp B1949 Interweaving stories reveal C Ron Rash idealism, humour and desire, In a gloomy valley in the The Dinner beneath accounts of war that Carry Me Down Appalachians there is a farm Herman Koch will educate and outrage. Confronting descriptions of sex M.J. Hyland that the locals believe is cursed. Paul and his wife are on their and genocide will offend some, In rural Ireland in the 1970s, The farm’s owners are Laurel, way to a dinner, which he knows but this is well worth the effort for painfully awkward and acutely an object of derision with a port neither of them will enjoy, and its brilliant investigation into the observant 11-year-old John wine birthmark, and her brother his satiric, humorously snide human cost of global politics. believes he possesses a gift for Hank, maimed from war in observations slowly reveal the lie detection, a belief that will Europe. When mute stranger reasons for this over five courses. N 2004 352pp B1877 have devastating consequences Walter enters her life, Laurel Expertly paced twists expose for his family. The crisp prose in finds happiness she has never dark events, and the veneer of Enduring Love Hyland’s second novel presents known. But will Walter’s secret middle-class respectability is Ian McEwan an enthralling portrait of a family, destroy them? questioned in the face of parental and a chilling study of lies FE 2012 255pp B2158 angst, loyalty and justice. Joe becomes the object of interpreted through the eyes of obsessive attentions from a a boy struggling on the cusp FE 2012 309pp B2171 young man whom he has only of adolescence. The Cuckoo’s Calling seen once before. Under this FE 2006 313pp B1919 Robert Galbraith The Dressmaker stress, his previously happy (J.K. Rowling) Rosalie Ham marriage begins to fail. A chilling study of the troubling Published under a pseudonym, Tilly returns from fashionable Case Histories phenomenon of the stalker, J.K. Rowling’s first crime Europe to her mother, ‘old Mad from a novelist with an uncanny Kate Atkinson novel tells the story of Private Molly’, and to the small country ability to portray disturbing states Private investigator Jackson Investigator Cormoran Strike, a town in the Victorian wheatbelt of mind. Brodie finds himself immersed wounded war veteran with too where she grew up. In this in three unsolved mysteries, many debts and not enough inventive first novel, part pastoral, FE 1997 247pp B1710 and as he traces the threads clients. When Strike is asked to part Gothic, there is much comic of these interweaving tragedies investigate the death of a famous brio as Tilly brings haute couture we discover his own painful supermodel, he enters the to the backblocks. F misfortunes. This unconventional privileged world of the rich and FE 2000 296pp B1638 detective novel focuses on famous where things are never Farewell, My Lovely those who are left to pick up the what they seem. pieces, trapped by their need to The Dry Raymond Chandler 2014 560pp B2265 know the truth. Each character F Jane Harper Chandler is one of the most is haunted by desperation to enthralling thriller writers and this, remember their loved ones, while WINNER his best-known book, withstands seeking the relief of closure. D CWA Gold Dagger Award the test of time. You may F 2004 304pp B1873 have seen the film with Robert Dead Man Walking WINNER Mitchum and Charlotte Rampling Ned Kelly Award All members present Helen Prejean in the leading roles. Dark Deeds thoroughly enjoyed the book This passionate case against Set in draught-ravaged rural FE 1940 253pp B1060 and agreed that it was a very capital punishment comes from Victoria, 36-year-old Federal different style of ‘detective a nun brought into contact with Agent Aaron Falk arrives back in mystery’. The characters and violent criminals on Death Row. his hometown Kiewarra to attend Dark Deeds stories engendered a very Remarkable for exploring evil, the funeral of his former best Enjoyed wide-ranging, thoughtful and love, and grace. friend, Luke Hadler, who allegedly insightful discussion, and some The Dry? N 1993 358pp B1502 committed suicide after shooting members were inclined to and killing his wife and their follow up and read the other 6-year-old son. Falk’s unwelcome books in the series. 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Fatal Remedies Fingersmith Gone Girl Havana Bay Donna Leon Sarah Waters Gillian Flynn Martin Cruz Smith Police investigator Guido Brunetti When a seemingly happy woman Arkady Renko first appeared in deals with domestic tension SHORTLISTED 1981 as the maverick Moscow Man Booker Prize disappears without a trace, as his articulate, strong-willed convincing evidence points to policeman in Gorky Park. Now wife makes a stand on an issue Sue grows up in a house of the involvement of her oddly Arkady has arrived in Cuba of great concern. As crime fingersmiths (petty thieves) in unemotional husband. This well to investigate the death of a escalates from the local to the a grimy back alley of Victorian crafted psychological thriller Russian embassy worker. A richly international scene, Leon deals London. Baby farming, surprises with each turn of the intricate spy thriller, made more with issues of corruption in the gloomy mansions, inheritances investigation, unfolding disturbing compelling by its evocation of a local scene of Venice, where she and conspiracies, hanging, information with every twist. threadbare, vibrant, dangerous has lived for 25 years. oppressive relatives and The unpredictable characters, Havana with the insinuation of F 1999 303pp B1855 eccentrics and lunatic asylums absorbing storyline and creative music never far away. – it’s all here. Full of deceptions, structure are stimulating F 1999 453pp B1761 twists and unfolding romance, discussion points, and questions The Fig Eater this novel is brilliantly written. and interview with author Gillian Jody Shields The lesbian love interest and Flynn are included. reference to the thriving Victorian I Vienna in 1910. It seems at first F 2012 496pp B2177 that this will be a straightforward pornography industry are post- historical crime novel, but Dickensian. The Ice Princess it mines the fertile tension F 2002 548pp B1807 Camilla Lackberg between morality and passion H When writer Erica Falck returns that provided such rich material to her hometown in Sweden, for Freud himself. Beneath G The Hamilton Case she learns that her childhood the imperial city’s respectable Michelle de Kretser friend Alex has died. Police are facade are layers of deception, The Girl with the treating it as a suicide, but as abuse and sexual perversion. WINNER Erica interviews people about Interweaving two parallel Dragon Tattoo Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Alex’s death, it becomes clear investigations of a young girl’s Stieg Larsson This brilliant evocation of life in that deeper secrets are hiding murder, Shields explores the The first book in the Millennium 1930s Ceylon, at the end of the beneath the surface of the small, nature of investigation itself. What trilogy. Set in Sweden, this British colonial period, focuses idyllic town of Fjallbacka. is the role of logic, and what unconventional and gripping on the murder of an English FE 2011 400pp B2145 of intuition? mystery delves into social issues, tea planter and the tangled FE 2000 349pp B1640 particularly about violence against personal life of the narrator. A women. Disgraced journalist Ceylonese lawyer who prides In Cold Blood Mikael Blomkvist is hired by himself on being more English Truman Capote a wealthy businessman to than the English, Sam’s complex A Kansas farmer and his family investigate the disappearance, of character and distorted view were murdered early one his niece Harriet Vanger. Lisbeth of the world are beautifully morning in 1959, an event that Salander, an anti-social, tattooed, sustained. De Kretser’s historical captivated Capote’s interest. In computer hacker becomes his novel is complex and satisfying. an effort to escape subjectivism, unlikely assistant. Content may FE 2003 369pp B1862 he spent five years on the offend some readers. case, made friends of the two F 2008 533pp B2067 The Harmony Silk Factory murderers, and wrote this ‘nonfiction novel’ about it all. Tash Aw N 1966 288pp B0100 WINNER Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Want to pen your The Invisible Ones A kaleidoscopic portrait of Stef Penney own crime novel? Johnny Lim, textile merchant, Discover the petty crook and inventor, who In 1980s England, private eye Ray Lovell is investigating the building blocks of marries local beauty Snow Soong. Years later, their son disappearance of a young a great story with Jasper seeks to unravel the truth woman who married into a travelling Gypsy family.

our creative writing about his parents’ relationship. Dark Deeds Meanwhile, Romani teenager short courses. Dealing with loyalty, love, and betrayal in 1940s Malaysia on JJ struggles to unravel long-held the brink of abandonment by the family secrets. Inspired by film British, Aw brilliantly exposes the noir, this thriller explores hidden Dark Deeds cultural tensions of an era. secrets, and the lives of those on the fringes of society. From FE 2005 362pp B1923 the author of The Tenderness of Wolves. F 2011 438pp B2135

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Midnight In the Garden Morality Play J L of Good and Evil Barry Unsworth John Berendt In 14th-century England, a troupe Joe Cinque’s The Legacy This ornate, readable book of travelling players is beset by Consolation Kirsten Tranter transports us to the lush setting winter, plague and banditry. Helen Garner Reimagines The Portrait of a of Savannah, Georgia, a city The players decide to replace their usual miracle play with In this ‘true story of death, grief Lady by Henry James. Ingrid which is inward looking, ingrown, an improvisation of the events and the law’ Garner unravels the inherits a fortune, moves to and caught in a time warp. It’s leading up to a recent murder. bizarre killing of an unsuspecting New York, marries, becomes full of eccentric people and Historical novel and murder young man by his girlfriend. stepmother to teenage Fleur, and anecdotes, with a murder and mystery blend as we witness the Why did those who knew of the immerses herself in the art scene. four trials for good measure. birth of modern drama. murder do nothing? An onlooker The morning of September NL 1994 388pp B1476 during the legal proceedings, 11, Ingrid disappears after an F 1995 188pp B1511 Garner comes to know the appointment downtown, and her The Midnight Watch Cinque family, especially Maria, cousin Ralph asks his friend Julia David Dyer The Mystery Joe’s mother. to find out what happened. of a Hansom Cab 2004 328pp B1859 F 2010 438pp B2095 On the night the Titanic sank, her NE passengers and crew noticed Fergus Hume another ship nearby. That ship This handsome 1999 edition The Little Stranger was the Californian, and as restores the local Melbourne K Sarah Waters the details of the tragic night detail and language of the original emerge, reporter John Steadman text of this early murder mystery, The Killing of Sister SHORTLISTED Man Booker Prize is intrigued by the reactions of which sold 20,000 copies here McCormack her crew. Based on true events, when it was first printed. This Anne Henderson In post-war rural Warwickshire, this gripping novel explores the readable, historically significant country GP Dr Faraday becomes human failings of those who example of crime fiction is Sister Irene McCormack was involved in a spiralling series could have prevented disaster – a period piece of late 19th the first Australian Catholic of disturbing events involving and yet, stood by. century Melbourne. missionary to be murdered the crumbling estate of grand abroad. What prompted her local family, the Ayres. A ghost FE 2016 336pp B2239 FE 1886 309pp B0408 to travel to in rural Peru, where story, a family in decline, and a she lived simply and taught rapidly changing society make Miss Smilla’s the children of the poor? this compelling reading from this Feeling for Snow N Henderson skilfully teases out popular author. the many different facets of Sister Peter Høeg F 2009 501pp B2038 Nice Try McCormack’s life and death: A small boy fell to his death from Shane Maloney theology, politics, terrorism, the roof of an apartment block. relationships, mission work, The Lovely Bones But was this really an accidental Melbourne may be the Australian and passion. death? Smilla Jaspersen, capital of performance comedy Alice Sebold and Maloney lives up to this 2002 308pp B1673 descended from the Inuit people N 14-year-old Susie is brutally of Greenland, has a feeling for reputation with this delightful tale. murdered, and tells her story snow – and she thinks not. The Murray Whelan’s involvement Kittyhawk Down looking down from heaven. action moves from Denmark with Melbourne’s bid to stage the Garry Disher Haunting, compelling, and to the Arctic icecap, and snow Olympic Games allows hilarious unsettling, this is an original and insights into 1990s politics, gym Set on the Mornington Peninsula and ice, beauty and extremity challenging novel about healing, culture, and Aboriginal activism. not far from Melbourne, this are central to the world of this recovery, and moving on towards unusual thriller. crime novel offers dead bodies, a newly defined future. FE 1998 312pp B1577 manhunts, suspense and 1992 410pp B1413 2002 328pp B1789 F intrigue. Disher’s character FE Nineteen Minutes development is excellent, The Moonstone Jodi Picoult especially in unfolding the private and professional life of his police M Wilkie Collins Picoult delves into small-town investigator, Hal Challis. A superb novel which has life to explore ‘difference’ in our society. In Sterling, New 2003 275pp B1787 Midnight In Sicily been regarded as the first of FE the modern detective stories, Hampshire, 17-year-old Peter Peter Robb has endured years of verbal and was originally serialised in Dark Deeds A fascinating collage of Italian Charles Dickens’ magazine. and physical abuse at the art, history and travel – and the After a theft in a grand home, hands of classmates. One final story of the Mafia in Sicily. Robb Sergeant Cuff must solve a incident sends Peter over the claims that during the ‘season mystery with as many facets as edge, leading him to an act Dark Deeds of distinguished corpses’, the the priceless missing diamond, which forever changes the Enjoyed ‘men of honour’ built on their including tracking down a town’s residents. Rich with The Little Stranger? conservative Sicilian power base, missing nightgown as the key to psychological and social insight, and with the support of the anti- a murder. 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Orpheus Lost The Poison Principle All members enjoyed this O Janette Turner Hospital Gail Bell book and greatly admire the author. Her descriptions of the There is an explosion on the Enticingly subtitled A Memoir On Beulah Height of Family Secrets and Literary Irish countryside and weather underground, terrorists are were particularly good. She Poisonings. Bell’s grandfather Reginald Hill suspected, and Leela, a gifted really brought the characters was known inside the family to Three children are abducted American mathematician, is to life and we felt we knew in the small Yorkshire village taken to an interrogation centre have poisoned his two young personally. She developed their of Dendale. Fifteen years later, outside the city. Her childhood sons with strychnine in 1927. relationships very well against Andy Dalziel, the uncouth but friend, Cobb, is conducting an Herself a trained pharmacist, the background of political astute detective who worked unconventional investigation and Bell spent years disentangling trouble in Ireland at the time. on the earlier case, is called in reveals that Leela’s love interest these events, and interweaves Toowoomba 1 U3A when another child goes missing. Mishka, a talented Australian her discoveries with precise detail A haunting novel with sharply musician, is not who he seems. about how arsenic, strychnine, and cyanide work, and accounts observed characters, humour, FE 2007 358pp B2008 spirit and an aching sense of of famous poisoners and loss. Small print. their victims. SHORTLISTED F 1998 440pp B1727 P N 2001 279pp B1660 Man Booker Prize In the town of Derry in Northern One Good Turn The People in the Trees Postmortem Ireland, a young boy from a Kate Atkinson Hanya Yanagihara Patricia Cornwell Catholic family is gripped with secrets, fears, suspicions and At the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scientist Norton Perina reflects Set in Cornwell’s hometown of Richmond, Virginia; the betrayals, all having to do with Jackson Brodie (from Case on his controversial Nobel IRA involvement and the police. Histories) becomes enmeshed in Prize winning discovery amid investigator is Dr Kay Scarpetta, a forensic pathologist. A serial The boy’s gradual piecing a number of murders that ripple a media storm of allegations together of events provides out from a road rage incident. of child abuse. His matter of killer is on the loose; three women have been attacked and chilling suspense, but together An array of characters, from the fact viewpoint contrasts his with this bleakness Deane quirky to the bizarre, feature in questionable morality, lending killed in their own bedrooms. When a fourth victim is renders a magical world of a this fast moving, deftly plotted a dark psychological element child’s imaginings; of tales, songs comic novel. to a book which will leave you discovered, the pressure is on for Scarpetta to produce results. A and myths. 2006 396pp B1975 considering Western colonisation, F ecological disruption, and the real spine-chiller: not for the faint- F 1996 233pp B1545 subjective way we view ourselves hearted. Small print. On the Java Ridge – and our heroes. Endlessly F 1990 293pp B1422 Rebecca Jock Serong discussable. Contains themes Daphne du Maurier SHORTLISTED that may disturb. The Power and the Glory 2013 384pp B2209 WINNER Indie Book Award FE Graham Greene National Book Award Set in Mexico at the time of Max de Winter’s second wife LONGLISTED Perfume: The Story religious persecution in the name Australian Book Industry Award lives with him in a suffocating of a Murderer of revolution, and in many ways atmosphere of mystery and rising Skipper Isi Natoli is charge of Patrick Süskind like a thriller, the story is of the menace, as she becomes vested last, hunted days of a whisky- tour boat Java Ridge, currently Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is in the mystery of what became sodden priest determined to hosting a group of rich Australian born with an astounding sense of his first wife, the dazzling continue the Church’s ministry. surf tourists in search of of smell, yet he himself has no Rebecca. A classic thriller and perfect waves in the remote scent. He learns the art of the F 1940 288pp B0139 still a gripping story even if you Indonesian islands. When a perfumer and creates a scent know Hitchcock’s film version. storm approaches, the crew and for himself that can fool people’s FL 1938 397pp B1137 passengers are anchored beside perceptions of his personality. R an idyllic reef where they come One day, inspired to possess the Restless into contact with the wreckage of scent of a young girl, he murders The Railway Station Man Takalar, a people-smuggling boat William Boyd her, embarking on a journey to Jennifer Johnston harbouring asylum seekers. The the dark side of humanity. In the summer of 1976, Ruth novel deals with the unfolding 1985 263pp B1453 Helen has retreated to a small discovers the strange truth political dilemma in Canberra, at FE town on the Irish coast as she

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Resurrection Bay Room The Scholl Case Snow Falling Emma Viskic Emma Donoghue Anja Reich-Osang on Cedars WINNER SHORTLISTED SHORTLISTED David Guterson Ned Kelly Award Orange Prize CWA Daggers Award SHORTLISTED Five-year-old Jack lives in one When a woman’s body is PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction WINNER room with his mother, and found in the forest near Berlin, In 1954 on an island off the Davitt Award believes they are the only real suspicion falls on her husband, Pacific coast of America, a people in a world that exists only Heinrich Scholl, former mayor fisherman is found dead, and a Deaf since childhood, Caleb has and well-respected member of always relied on his instincts. within ‘Room’ – until his mother second-generation Japanese confides her terrible secret. Jack the community. They had been American is accused of When his best friend is murdered, married almost fifty years and Caleb begins an investigation is by turns poignantly naïve and murdering him. This novel about wise beyond his years, and his were considered the perfect a small community examines that will force him to face the couple, could he really be demons from his past. Laced story will haunt you long after prejudice, racial injustice, war, you finish this powerful novel. capable of her murder? But love and conscience. A page- with a dark humour, this original, when award-winning journalist fast-paced thriller questions what Disturbing content with plenty of turner offering much to discuss. material for discussion. Anja Reich-Osang investigates it means to pass for ‘normal’ deeper into their marriage, she F 1994 404pp B1497 in a world where otherness is FE 2010 400pp B2110 discovers not everything is what often seen as ‘disability’, asking it seems. This is a true crime that The Snowman intriguing questions about identity reads more like a fiction novel. and belonging. NEW Jo Nesbo 2016 213pp B2263 2015 192pp NE The first day of snow has fallen FE B2232 on Oslo, and police investigator Harry Hole is involved in solving The Return of the The Shark Net Robert Drewe a series of brutal murders. Hole Dancing Master The Rúin finds himself trapped in the killer’s Henning Mankell Dervla In this memoir, subtitled evil game, which will bring him McTiernan Memories and Murder, Drewe to the verge of insanity. Content In a remote location in northern captures key images from his may disturb. Sweden, an off the job policeman youth in Perth. After his family’s WINNER FE 2010 576pp B2154 decides to find out more about Australian Book Industry Award transfer from a more conservative the violent death of a colleague. Melbourne he experiences the Mankell is a master of suspense Detective Cormac Reilly doesn’t Perth locals as strange and Something Fishy and tension, able to take on big expect to be revisiting a case fascinating. There’s humour, Shane Maloney ideas such as the resurgence from 20 years ago. He’s never perceptiveness and also dread – It may be summer at the beach, across Europe of neo-Nazism. forgotten the two children left as a serial murderer menaces the but the Hon. Murray Whelan MP Intelligent, complex crime writing. behind after their mother’s body city, a figure who turns out to be is onto something: criminality in was discovered in their house. more closely connected with their F 2000 520pp B1840 one area of the fishing industry. And what is the connection with family than anyone realises. a body found in the river? In this There are sharply observed The Robber Bride gripping crime debut set in Ireland NE 2000 358pp B1843 scenes of Lorne, and Maloney’s Margaret Atwood nothing is what it seems. usual liking for fast, funny action. Silvermeadow WINNER FE 2018 400pp B2305 FE 2002 242pp B1844 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Barry Maitland An intricately plotted page-turner A missing teenager and a Started Early, Zenia was ‘pure, freewheeling sighting of a vicious bank robber malevolence’, a manipulator who set in Galway, with complex Took My Dog characters and mystery woven are both linked to Silvermeadow, Kate Atkinson brilliantly exploited the generosity a glitzy new shopping centre and weaknesses of friends. throughout. It will keep you guessing to the very end. on the outskirts of London. The fourth Jackson Brodie book They attended her funeral with Nicole P, CAE Book Maitland brings his architecture in the bestselling series that relief - but now she returns to Groups staff member background into play, not just began with Case Histories and disrupt their lives again. Atwood with the design of the mall but was followed by One Good Turn at her best: wittily observant, with the social psychology and When Will There Be Good emotionally engaging, and that underpins it. Well written News? This gripping mystery is positive about friendship. S and plotted, with convincing as compelling as its precursors.

1993 470pp B1456 Dark Deeds F Secrets of the Jury Room characters. Small print. F 2010 400pp B2088 F 2000 346pp B1856 Malcolm Knox Sucked In What happens if twelve randomly Shane Maloney chosen men and women do Dark Deeds The discovery of a body in a not easily reach a unanimous recently drained lake in country Enjoyed decision? Prompted by his own Victoria sends Murray Whelan The Tall Man? experience of jury duty in a criminal into investigation mode. Are case, Malcolm Knox (literary editor these the remains of a union of the Sydney Morning Herald) has Try The Arsonist leader, drowned 20 years back? produced a readable book about Maloney brings us a sharp-witted by Chloe Hooper jury trials, and their advantages picture of Melbourne during the and disadvantages. [B2291] late 1990s. 2005 352pp B1956 N F 2007 276pp B1978

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The Summer That This House of Grief Two Caravans Melted Everything T Helen Garner Marina Lewycka Tiffany McDaniel Garner was shocked by the From the author of the When 13-year-old Sal arrives in The Tainted Trial tragic story of a man whose international bestseller A Short the summer of 1984 to Breathed, of Farah Jama three children drowned when History of Tractors in Ukrainian Ohio, claiming to be the devil, he Julie Szego his car plunged into a dam on comes a hilarious, yet gritty look Father’s Day in 2005. Here, she at what lies behind the arrival of is adopted into the Bliss family A Somali teen in Melbourne follows the engrossing twists of food at our tables. Lewycka’s as one of their own. As the Bliss was convicted of the rape of the man’s court case and various depiction of the exploitation family struggle with their own an Australian woman – but the appeals in this true crime story, involved in the global labour personal demons, a scorching tireless efforts of his lawyer led to watching as the theatre of the market is just one part of a heat-wave brings out a fanatical shocking revelations 18 months law tries to determine: was this picaresque tale involving itinerant hysteria of the town’s people that later. Raising questions about accidental, or deliberate? migrant workers, young love question the nature of good and justice, migration, cultural taboos, and a caravan journey from the evil. A poetic, lyrical and literary prejudice and gender politics, this NE 2014 288pp B2223 strawberry fields of Kent. depiction of a fractured family is a confronting story about the and a small town in crises. legal system in Australia. This Is How FE 2007 310pp B1982 F 2016 320pp B2256 N 2014 242pp B2213 M.J. Hyland This is a vividly imagined novel U The Surgeon of The Tall Man about a young man on the edge Crowthorne Chloe Hooper of sanity. Patrick is moving into a boarding house on the English The Unfortunate Victim Simon Winchester In 2004, Cameron Doomadgee seaside, leaving behind his Greg Pyers The Oxford English Dictionary, was arrested for swearing at a parents, an unfinished university Set in the gold-mining town of a massive work which took 70 white police officer. Within 45 degree, and a failed engagement. Daylesford in 1864, this historical years to complete, was based on minutes he was dead in a watch There is a mounting sense crime fiction revolves around the the contributions of thousands house cell, the main suspect is of unease as we follow the brutal murder of a newlywed, of volunteers, but a mystery well respected Senior Sergeant emotionally inarticulate Patrick and the chase to find her killer. surrounded W.C. Minor, one of the Christopher Hurley. Hooper tells in this study in claustrophobia Based on a true story, the novel most prolific and helpful of these. the full story of the subsequent trial and loneliness. offers plenty of discussion Winchester’s bestselling book sets and its repercussions. Her reports around the treatment of female out the bizarre tale of Minor and won her a Walkley Award and F 2009 320pp B2056 victims and the state of law his torments, and also offers a were published around the world. diverting account of dictionaries. enforcement during Australia’s NE 2008 288pp B2062 Trespass gold-rush period. 1998 207pp B1704 N Rose Tremain FE 2017 320pp B2260 The Tenderness of Wolves Antiques dealer Anthony escapes Surrender Stef Penney his fading London life to his The Untouchable Sonya Hartnett sister’s house in France, where WINNER his presence disrupts her life and Gabriel once did a thing Costa Book Award unforgivable in the eyes of his relationship. When he decides to Quintessential member of the community. Now 20 years old 1867, Canada. As winter grips buy the run-down family home English Establishment, Anthony and dying, he has only his faithful the isolated settlement of of local siblings Aramon and Blunt was disgraced in 1979 dog and his childhood friend Dove River, a man is brutally Audrun, he becomes entangled when he was revealed as one of Finnigan with whom he made a murdered and a 17-year-old in a struggle between brother the Cambridge spies recruited chilling pact. This demanding, boy disappears. Tracks outside and sister which runs deeper in the 1930s. The central figure disturbing and exhilarating the dead man’s cabin head than he can know. Tremain in Banville’s exploration of the psychological thriller explores north. One by one journalists, explores family history and what spy’s mentality is loosely based the impact of suffering on a trappers, and traders set out it means to ‘trespass’ in this on Blunt, with a supporting child’s mind. across a desolate and dangerous haunting novel. cast of randy, heavy drinking landscape; pursuing the tracks F 2010 253pp B2072 dissemblers. A dazzling read: FE 2005 245pp B1895 before the snow erases the past cool, ironic, sad and funny. for good. But do they want to F 1997 405pp B1566 The Suspicions solve the crime or exploit it? Truth Peter Temple of Mr Whicher F 2006 440pp B1980

Kate Summerscale WINNER Dark Deeds WINNER The Thirteenth Tale Miles Franklin Literary Award Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction Diane Setterfield Inspector Stephen Villani is head of the Victoria Police Homicide Enjoyed Angelfield House was once the The murder of a child lies at Squad and he faces a series of Dark Deeds home of the March family – the We Need to Talk the heart of this biography of new murders to solve. A dark manipulative Isabelle, her brutal a middle-class Victorian family, novel that explores corruption, About Kevin? brother Charlie, and wild twins Summerscale’s meticulous deceit and truth. ‘Truth is both Emmeline and Adeline. But now research turns a mystery into confronting and electrifying. It is Try the house stands forgotten, an accessible social history of Temple’s best book’ – The Age. Britain’s 19th-century love affair its chilling secrets hidden from Nineteen Minutes with detectives, and the birth of view - until a biographer begins F 2009 387pp B2083 by Jodi Picoult the detective novel. investigating Angelfield’s past. [B2001] N 2008 372pp B2085 F 2006 459pp B1994

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White Dog The Woman in White V W Peter Temple Wilkie Collins Jack Irish, gambler, cook, cabinet One of the first mystery novels The Verge Practice We Need to Talk maker and one-time lawyer has and still a fine example of the Barry Maitland About Kevin a quiet, understated appeal. genre one hundred and fifty The glamorous world of architect Lionel Shriver In a rainy autumn he moves years after it was written. Walter Charles Verge is disturbed when in a world of shady property helps a distressed young woman his second wife is murdered, WINNER deals, the squalid exploitation dressed in white, then realises and he disappears. Is Verge Orange Prize of young women, and untimely that she had escaped from a the killer, now on the run, or When her son commits mass death. Peter Temple is admired nearby asylum. This sets up a has someone killed both Verge murder days before his sixteenth for his superb ear for dialogue surprising plot involving insanity, and his wife? The action moves birthday, Eva is robbed of and Australian idiom and his hidden identities and illegitimate between London, Barcelona and everything important to her. In a unillusioned portrayal of the children. It is said that politician the British countryside as police series of letters to her estranged Melbourne and Australian scene. William Gladstone cancelled an investigators Kolla and Brock husband, Eva revisits the events F 2003 337pp B1799 evening at the theatre to read follow the trail. Small print. that led to the horrific incident. it; novelist William Makepeace Thackery sat up all night to finish 2003 313pp B1854 This chilling, deeply psychological F novel asks controversial The White Tiger it – and it may produce a similar questions about parenting and Aravind Adiga response in you. Small print. Vernon God Little family in the modern age. WINNER FE 1859 648pp B1059 D.B.C. Pierre F 2005 468pp B1942 Man Booker Prize WINNER The son of a rickshaw puller, Man Booker Prize When Will There Balram leaves school to work in a teashop. When a rich village WINNER Be Good News? Kate Atkinson landlord hires him as a chauffeur Whitbread Novel Award in Delhi, Balram’s re-education The riotous adventures of From the bestselling author of begins, but to access the wealth 15-year-old Vernon Gregory Case Histories and One Good and opportunity of the city he Little in small-town and Turn comes the third literary must embrace a new morality. beachfront Mexico mark one of mystery with Jackson Brodie. Provincialism and the caste the most spectacularly irreverent, Dr Hunter is missing and Reggie system clash with the economic satirically acute and critically raises the alarm. In a series of glitter of the techno-boom, acclaimed debuts of the 21st deadly coincidences, Jackson where murder is sometimes century. Strong language. joins Reggie’s search and the best option. reconnects with Detective Chief F 2003 279pp B1941 Inspector Louise Monroe. With FE 2008 336pp B2030 strong character development and multiple plot twists accompanying Atkinson’s dark, humorous style. F 2008 348pp B2029

FIVE WAYS TO LIVEN UP YOUR BOOK GROUP Although familiarity and routine are great factors in keeping a successful book group meeting month after month, sometimes a bit of change can energise your book group’s dynamic and bring some fun into your discussions. Here are six tips for livening up your next meeting.

Read the book, watch the movie Plan a potluck dinner Compliment your book discussion with the film or television Have each member bring their their own signature or themed dish for adaptation, which can also be a fun night in for the group! As you flick the entire group to share. Similarly, get different members to choose through Dialogue, keep an eye out for the film symbol next to titles, so a venue each month if your group meets out of home – expand your you know which of our titles have been adapted. palate while you expand your mind! Dark Deeds

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

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Egan, Jennifer 30 Garner, Helen Hartnett, Sonya 5, 41, 76 Ehrenreich, Barbara 67 16, 25, 46, 64, 68, 73, 76 Harvey, Samantha 69 J Jacobson, Howard 25 Ellmann, Richard 21 Gaskell, Elizabeth 32, 35 Hastrich, Vicki 53 Jaffe, Meredith 47 Enright, Anne 48 Gee, Sue 52 Haynes, Elizabeth 66 James, Clive 21 Eugenides, Jeffrey 8 Gelbach, Igor 63 Hay, Trevor 37 James, Florence 32 Evans, William 56 Genova, Lisa 68 Hazzard, Shirley 25, 30 Ghosh, Amitav 36, 57 Heard, Barry 69 James, Kate 61 F Gilbert, Elizabeth 15, 56 Heller, Zoë 41 James, Wendy 14, 27 Gildiner, Catherine 10 Jeffs, Sandy 64 Facey, A.B. 6 Hemingway, Ernest 59 Gill, Isabel ‘Spark’ 34 Jenkins, Robin 24 Falconer, Delia 42 Henderson, Anne 73 Glendinning, Victoria 15, 32 Jennings, Kate 27 Farmer, Beverley 48 Henderson, Sara 12 Golden, Arthur 35 Jin, Ha 30 Fforde, Jasper 39 Herbst, Peter 17 Golding, Frank 67 Joel, Maggie 36 Findlay, Merrill 42 Hesse, Hermann 60 Goldsmith, Andrea 8, 18 Johnson, Susan 49 Fitzgerald, F. Scott 40 Hessler, Peter 59 Goldsworthy, Peter 29, 49 Johnston, Dorothy 35 Fitzpatrick, Kathleen 9 Hewett, Dorothy 30 Flanagan, Richard Golski, Kathy 16 Higgins, Fiona 27 Johnston, Jennifer 74 33, 35, 39, 43, 52 Gooneratne, Yasmine 55 Hillman, Robert 5, 68 Jolley, Elizabeth 29, 38, 39, 41, 51 Flannery, Tim 19, 22, 60 Grant, Stan 69 Hill, Reginald 74 Flaubert, Gustave 27 Grass, Günter 43 Hitiura Vaite, Célestine 47 Jones, Caroline 55 Fliedl, Gottfried 19 Greene, Graham 60, 74 Høeg, Peter 70, 73 Jones, Gail 25 Flynn, Gillian 72 Green, John 64 Holden, Kate 66 Jones, Lloyd 8, 65 Fonseca, Isabel 63 Green, Penelope 61 Holden, Robert 35 Jones, Sadie 8 Ford, Richard 10 Greer, Germaine 16 Holdforth, Lucinda 16 Joosten, Melanie 13, 70 Forster, Deborah 45 Grenville, Kate Hollinghurst, Alan 40 Jordan, Mary Ellen 55 Forster, E.M. 35 7, 13, 14, 26, 34, 36, 46 Hollinrake, Rosalind 17 Jordan, Toni 23, 50, 51 Forster, Margaret 13, 49 Gruen, Sara 37, 38 Hollows, Fred 64 Joyce, James 9 Fowler, Karen Joy 26, 54 Guterson, David 75 Holmes, Richard 56 Juchau, Mireille 44 Franklin, Miles 20 Gyatso, Palden 33 Holroyd, Michael 45 June Winch, Tara 53 Franzen, Jonathan 46, 47 Homer 58 Fraser, Rosalie 68 H Homes, A. M. 60 K Frayn, Michael 10 Haddon, Mark 52, 63 Honeyman, Gail 24 Kanake, Sarah 9 Frazier, Charles 24 Haikal, Loubna 52 Hooper, Chloe 39, 70, 76 Karimi, Kooshyar 65 Frazier, Nancy 21 Halligan, Marion 50 Hornby, Nick 5, 26 Keenan, Brian 64 Fredriksson, Marianne 13 Halloran, Jacinta 39 Hosseini, Khaled 7, 45, 53 Keenan, Michael 65 Friedan, Betty 56 Hall, Rodney 63 Hulme, Keri 70 Keneally, Thomas 31, 43 Frost, Lucy 14 Hamilton, Clive 17 Hume, Fergus 73 Kenneally, Christine 34 Fu, Kim 6 Hammer, Joshua 62 Humphries, Barry 20 Kennedy, Cate 54, 60 Funder, Anna 68, 70 Ham, Rosalie 53, 71 Huston, Nancy 47 Kent, Hannah 32, 33 Hanff, Helene 45 Hustvedt, Siri 15, 30 Kingsolver, Barbara G Harding, Paul 53 Hutcheon, Jane 56 5, 11, 20, 28, 51, 56 Gaiman, Neil 41 Hardy, Sara 16 Huxley, Aldous 38 Kinnane, Stephen 29 Gaita, Raimond 9, 21 Hardy, Thomas 37 Hyland, Adrian 71 Kissane, Andy 37 Galbraith, Robert 71 Harper, Jane 71 Hyland, M.J. 7, 71, 76 Knox, Elizabeth 23, 43 García Márquez, Gabriel 27 Harrer, Heinrich 60 Knox, Malcolm 51, 75 Gardam, Jane 49, 50, 51 Harris, Joanne 11 I Kocan, Peter 6 Garimara, Nugi 12 Hartley, L.P. 6 Ishiguro, Kazuo 10, 17, 36, 41 Koch, Christopher 57, 58

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Koch, Herman 71 Lynch, Jim 7 McTiernan, Dervla 75 O’Connor, Andrew 10 Krasnostein, Sarah 16 Lyon, Annabel 18 Mears, Gillian 27, 47 O’Faolain, Nuala 11 Krauss, Nicole 56 Michaels, Anne 30 O’Farrell, Maggie 48, 49, 60 Kristof, Nicholas 65 M Mildenhall, Kate 9 O’Flynn, Catherine 10 Mabo, Koiki 64 Miller, Alex 17, 21, 50, 55, 58 Okri, Ben 63 L Macdonald, Sarah 57 Miller, Andrew 36 Ondaatje, Michael 10, 24, 52, 62 Lacey, Robert 37 Mackay, Hugh 21, 33 Miller, Catherine 11 O’Reilly, P.A. 47 Lacey, Stephen 10 MacLeod, Alistair 50 Miller, Derek B. 58 Orlean, Susan 42 Lackberg, Camilla 72 Mahood, Kim 46 Miller, Madeline 39 Orwell, George 38 Laguna, Sofie 64 Maitland, Barry 75, 77 Ming Teo, Hsu 50 Oz, Amos 53 Lahiri, Jhumpa 57, 58, 61 Makler, Irris 59 Mistry, Rohinton 47, 64 Ozeki, Ruth 22 Lake, Marilyn 13 Malamud, Bernard 62 Mitchell, David 37, 39 Lam, Vincent 55 Maloney, Shane 70, 73, 75 Modjeska, Drusilla 15, 52 P Lanchester, John 38 Malouf, David 7, 19, 36, 65 Monk Kidd, Sue 15, 34 Packer, ZZ 6 Landon, Carolyn 66 Mankell, Henning 75 Moore, Lorrie 6 Painter, Shirley 62 Lanyon, Anna 14 Mann, Ida 11 Mora, Mirka 16 Park, Ruth 12, 48 Morgan, Sally 69 Larsson, Stieg 72 Mann, Thomas 39 Parrett, Favel 9, 10 Morris, Heather 69 Lawson, Mary 51 Mantel, Hilary 32, 37, 38 Pascoe, Judy 51 Marchetta, Melina 51 Morrison, Sally 26 Lee, Harper 33, 69 Patchett, Ann 23, 42 Martel, Yann 40 Morrison, Toni 14, 62 Lee, Laurie 17, 31 Patric, A.S. 62 Martin, Valerie 53 Mortenson, Greg 43 Lee, Micheline 48 Paull, Laline 38 Matar, Hisham 66 Morton, Kate 33, 49 Le Guin, Ursula K. 40, 43 Paxman, Jeremy 56 Matthews, Gordon 5 Moss, Sarah 40 Leigh, Julia 40 Pearson, Allison 13 Mawer, Simon 33 Müller, Herta 66 Le, Nam 62 Penney, Stef 72, 76 Mayes, Frances 61 Munro, Alice 25, 30 Leon, Donna 70, 72 Perlman, Elliot 69 Mazari, Najaf 68 Murakami, Haruki 44 Lessing, Doris Petterson, Per 8 10, 11, 16, 26, 41, 47, 64 Mazya, Edna 25 Murn, Molly 57 Pham, Andrew X. 55 Levett, Robin 13 McBride, James 46 Picoult, Jodi 41, 65, 73 Levi, Primo 63 McCall Smith, Alexander N 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 45 Pierre, D.B.C. 77 Levy, Andrea 34 Nafisi, Azar 67 McCarthy, Cormac 5, 42 Pilger, John 65 Lewycka, Marina 30, 52, 54, 76 Némirovsky, Irène 68 McCoy, Mick 54 Pilkington, Doris 12 Lianke, Yan 39 Nesbo, Jo 75 McDaniel, Tiffany 76 Piper, Sally 12 Liardet, Frances 37 Ness, Patrick 17 McDonald, Meme 27 Pipkin, John 38 Liebenberg, Lauren 10 Newell, Patrice 21 McDonald, Roger 35 Plath, Sylvia 5 Lindsay, Joan 42 Ng, Celeste 50 McEwan, Ian Porter, Chester 22 Lively, Penelope 25, 46, 51 23, 27, 36, 42, 46, 70, 71 Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda 9 Postlewait, Heidi 71 Llewellyn, Kate 22 McGahan, Andrew 54 Niall, Brenda 16, 20 Potok, Chaim 6, 18 Locke Elliott, Sumner 30 McGirr, Michael 60 Nicolson, Nigel 28 Power, Robert 57 Lodge, David 17, 21, 29 McGregor, Fiona 49 Niffenegger, Audrey 29 Prawer Jhabvala, Ruth 25 Lohrey, Amanda 21, 28 McKay, Ami 31 Nitschke, Philip 19 Prejean, Helen 71 London, Joan 48, 57, 64 McKelvey, Ben 68 Noah Harari, Yuval 17 Prichard, Katharine Susannah 63 Loos, Noel 64 McKnight, Harriet 15 North, Anna 20 Priest, Ann Marie 19 Lorenzo, Olga 15 McLaren, Philip 43 Proulx, Annie 52, 59, 60, 63 Lovell, Mary S. 15 McLarty, Ron 58 O Pung, Alice 10 Lunn, Hugh 8, 37 McPhee, Hilary 21 Obreht, Tea 69 Purcell, Laura 32

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Pyers, Greg 76 See, Lisa 57 Walls, Jeannette 48 Pym, Barbara 12 Sepúlveda, Luis 59 T Walsh, Chris 14 Tan, Amy 7, 49 Serong, Jock 74 Walther, Ingo 18 Tartt, Donna 18 Seth, Vikram 24 Warner, Marina 12 R Taylor, Elena 18 Rachman, Tom 19 Setterfield, Diane 76 Waters, Sarah 35, 72, 73 Temple, Peter 70, 76, 77 Rash, Ron 71 Shaffer, Mary Ann 33 Waterstreet, Charles 51 Tench, Watkin 55 Rees, Siân 33 Shamsie, Kamila 63, 65 Watson, Don 18 Tennant, Kylie 9 Reich-Osang, Anja 75 Sherborne, Craig 7 Watson, Jane 65 Tharoor, Shashi 34 Watts, Peter 11 Remarque, E.M. 62 Shields, Carol 15, 25, 40, 54 Thiak Adut, Deng 68 Shields, Jody 72 Waugh, Evelyn 46 Renner, James 41 Shriver, Lionel 23, 68, 77 Thomson, Andrew 71 Weaver, Eva 12 Rhys, Jean 44 Sijie, Dai 5, 58 Thubron, Colin 55, 57, 60 Wells, Rebecca 11 Richardson, Henry Handel 6 Silvey, Craig 7 Tiffany, Carrie 27, 39 Westover, Tara 64 Riemer, Andrew 57 Simonson, Helen 27 Tindall, Gillian 32 Wharton, Edith 23 Robb, Peter 56, 73 Simpson, Joe 69 Toews, Miriam 6 Whitehead, Colson 43 Robertson, Deborah 29, 46 Simsion, Graeme 28, 60 Tofighian, Omid 67 White, Patrick 7 Roberts, Shirley 32 Singer, Peter 19, 67 Tóibín, Colm 55 Wilde, Oscar 42 Robinson, Marilynne 48, 49 Sittenfeld, Curtis 23, 24 Toltz, Steve 47 Williams, Niall 25 Rodriguez, Deborah 13, 15 Skelton, Kathy 8 Tomalin, Claire 13, 17, 36 Wilson, Frances 11 Rooney, Sally 27 Slovo, Gillian 47 Tonkin, Daryl 66 Wilson, Josephine 47 Roorbach, Bill 9 Smiley, Jane 5, 28, 53 Tranter, Kirsten 73 Wilson, Valerie 21 Rose, Heather 20 Smith, Ali 38, 40 Treloar, Lucy 36 Winchester, Simon 31, 41, 76 Rose, Peter 52 Smith, Bob 48 Tremain, Rose 68, 76 Wingate, Lisa 45 Roth, Philip 65 Smith, Dodie 26 Trinca, Helen 14 Winman, Sarah 37 Rowling, J.K. 46, 71 Smith, Zadie 51, 54 Trollope, Joanna 24, 51, 52 Winterson, Jeanette 8, 35 Roy, Arundhati 48 Sobel, Dava 33 Tsiolkas, Christos 5, 52 Winton, Tim 5, 24, 29, 46, 52, Rushdie, Salman 25, 35, 50 53, 69 Solomons, Natasha 35 Tumarkin, Maria 59 Russo, Richard 33 Witting, Amy 7, 19, 24 Sontag, Susan 30 Turnbull, Sarah E 55 Wolff, Tobias 8 Spark, Muriel 14 Turner Hospital, Janette 26, 39, 53, 66, 74 Womersley, Chris 31 S St Aubyn, Edward 50 Twain, Mark 55 Wood, Charlotte 14, 29, 46 Sacks, Oliver 10, 62, 66, 67 Stedman, M.L. 34 Tyler, Anne Woolfe, Sue 42 Safran Foer, Jonathan 6 Stegner, Wallace 24 23, 45, 46, 47, 49, 50 Woolf, Virginia 21 Sage, Alex 64 Steinbeck, John 36 Wright, Judith 19 Sage, Lorna 5 Stewart, Fiona 19 WuDunn, Sheryl 65 Sagner Düchting, Karin 20 St John, Madeleine 30 U Unsworth, Barry 73 Wyld, Evie 62 Said, Kurban 23 Stockett, Kathryn 33 Salinger, J.D. 5 Storr, Anthony 18 Sallis, Eva 58 Stout, Mira 59 V Y Salzman, Mark 57 Stroud, Gabbie 22 Vickers, Salley 26, 58 Yanagihara, Hanya 74 Saunders, George 40 Strout, Elizabeth 27, 46 Viskic, Emma 75 Yates, Richard 52 Sayer, Mandy 28 Summers, Anne 20 Visser, Margaret 67 Yen Mah, Adeline 47 Schlink, Bernhard 25, 28 Summerscale, Kate 76 Scott, Denise 45 Süskind, Patrick 74 W Z Scott, Kim 37 Swift, Graham 26, 53 Walker, Brenda 21 Zable, Arnold 56, 63 Seal, Jeremy 56 Szego, Julie 76 Walker, Shirley 9 Zail, Suzy 68 Sebold, Alice 73 Szubanski, Magda 15 Walker, Vanessa 58 Zusak, Markus 31

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21 Lessons for the 21st Anthropologist on Mars, An 62 Between a Wolf and a Dog E 23 Bury Me Standing 63 Century E 17 Ape House E 38 Beyond Black E 38 Bush Studies 32 44 Scotland Street 45 Aphrodite and the Others 45 Big Brother 23 Butcher’s Wife, The 71 84 Charing Cross Road 45 Are You Somebody? E 11 Billie’s Kiss 23 ButterflyE 5 1788 E 55 Arsonist, The E 70 Birds Without Wings E 62 1984 E L 38 Artist of the Floating World, Birth House, The 31 C An 17 Births Deaths Marriages E 45 Cabin Fever E 38 A Art of the Engine Driver, Black Rock White City 62 The E 45 Café Scheherazade 63 About a Boy E 5 Black Tide 70 Artist of the Floating Caleb’s Crossing E 32 Accidental, The 38 Blind Assassin, The 45 World, An E 17 Cape Grimm E 38 Accidental Tourist, The E 23 Blind Astronomer’s Daughter, As I Walked Out One Capital 38 According to Queeney 31 The 38 Midsummer Morning 31 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin E 23 Accursed Mountains, The 55 Blood from a Stone E 70 Assistant, The 62 Careless 46 Bloodletting and Miraculous Addition 23 At Home 31 Cures 55 Carry Me Down E 71 Adventures of Huckleberry Atonement 23 E Case Histories 71 Finn, The 55 Bloody Chamber, The E 11 E Australian Son, An 5 Boat, The 62 Casual Vacancy, The 46 Affluenza 17 E E Authentic Life, An 55 Bomb, Book and Compass: Catcher in the Rye, The 5 Aftermath 23 Author, Author 17 Joseph Needham and the Catfish and Mandala 55 After the Fire, A Still Autumn Laing 17 Great Secrets of China E 31 Small Voice 62 Cat’s Eye 6 Bone People, The 70 Age of Innocence, The E 23 Célestine E 32 Book of Emmett, The E 45 Ali and Nino 23 B Cézanne: Paul Cézanne, Book Thief, The E 31 Alias Grace 70 Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, 1839-1906 17 The E 62 Boomer and Me E 63 All Quiet on the Western Change in the Lighting, A 24 Borderliners L 70 Front E 62 Bad Blood E 5 Change of Skies, A 55 Boy in the Green Suit, The E 5 All That Happened at Balanda E 55 Charades E 39 Number 26 45 Balzac and the Little Chinese Boyds: The Art of the Boyds, E Charles Dickens: A Life The 17 E 17 All That I Am E 70 Seamstress 5 Brain on Fire E 63 Charles Hotham 32 All the Birds, Singing 62 Barn Blind E L 5 Brave New World 38 Chase, The 11 All the Light We Cannot Barracuda E 5 Child in Time, The E 71 See E 31 Basil Street Blues E 45 Breakfast at Tiffany’s 23 Childish Things 24 All the Pretty Horses E 5 Bean Patch, The 62 Breath E 5 Children Act, The E 46 Almost French E 55 Bean Trees, The 5 Breathing Lessons E 45 Children’s Bach, The E 46 Aman 62 Bearbrass 31 Brick Lane E 55 Children, The 46 Amateur Marriage, The 23 Bees, The E 38 Brideshead Revisited E 46 Child’s Book of True Crime, A 39 American Wife 23 Before We Were Yours E 45 Bride Stripped Bare, The 23 Chocolat E 11 Amsterdam E 70 Behind the Scenes at Bring Larks and Heroes E 31 Chosen, The 6 And the Mountains the Museum E 45 Bring Up the Bodies E 32 Echoed E 45 Behind the Wall E 55 Broken Shore, The E 70 Cider with Rosie E L 17 Anil’s Ghost 62 Bel Canto 23 Brooklyn E 55 Circe E 39 Animal Farm E 38 Bell Jar, The E 5 Brush Off, The 70 City of Djinns 55 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle E 11 Beloved 62 Burgess Boys, The E 46 City of Friends E 24 Annotated Alice, The 38 Bereft E 31 Burial Rites E 32 City of the Mind E 46 Another World E 70 Berlin Syndrome 70 Burnt Shadows 63 Clarice Beckett 17

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Closed for Winter E 39 Dinner at the Homesick Extremely Loud and Incredibly For Today I Am a Boy E 6 Close Range: Wyoming Restaurant E 47 Close E 6 Fortunate Life, A E 6 Stories 63 Dinner, The E 71 Eye of the Reindeer, The 12 Fountain of Age, The L 56 Cloud Atlas 39 Dirt Music E 24 Eye of the Sheep, The E 64 Four Letters of Love, The 25 Cloudstreet E 46 Disgrace 63 Eyre Affair, The 39 Foxybaby 39 Coda E 6 Dissection E 39 Eyrie E 24 Fraction of the Whole, A E 47 Cold Mountain L 24 Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Frangipani 47 Color of Water, The E 46 Sisterhood E 11 F Fred Hollows: An Come in Spinner E 32 Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Autobiography L 64 The E 63 Facing the Music 18 Complicated Kindness, A E 6 Freedom E 47 Down Under 56 Falling Leaves 47 Conditions of Faith 55 French Tutor, The 39 Drawn from Life 11 Family Matters 47 Confessions of a Clay Man 63 Fresh Fields 6 Dressmaker, The E 71 Farewell, My Lovely E 71 Conjuror’s Bird, The 39 Friends, Lovers, Chocolate 12 Drinking Coffee Elsewhere 6 Fatal Remedies 72 Consolations of Philosophy 17 From Rice to Riches E 56 Drowned and the Saved, The 63 Fault in Our Stars, The 64 Coonardoo E 63 From Strength to Strength L 12 Dry, The E 71 Fault Lines 47 Corrections, The 46 From the Beast to the Blonde 12 E Feel of Steel, The 25 Corset, The E 32 Full Catastrophe, The 25 Feet of Clay E 18 Courtesan’s Revenge, The E 11 E Full Cupboard of Life, The 12 Fence Around the Cuckoo, A Eat Pray Love 56 Cove, The E 71 E L 12 Edna Walling and Her Craft for a Dry Lake E 46 Fence, The 47 Gardens 11 G Crane Wife, The E 17 Educated 64 Fez of the Heart, A 56 Galileo’s Daughter E 33 Cranford E 32 Edward Koiki Mabo 64 Fifth Child, The 47 Gate at the Stairs, A E 6 Crossing to Safety 24 Eleanor Oliphant is Fiftieth Gate, The 64 Gathering, The 48 Cuckoo’s Calling, The 71 Completely Fine E 24 Fig Eater, The E 72 Generations 33 Curious Incident of the Dog Electricity 32 Fig Tree, The E 56 Geography of Friendship, in the Night Time, The E 63 Elegance of the Hedgehog, Fine Balance, A 64 The E 12 The 18 Fine Colour of Rust, The 47 Getting Equal 13 Eligible 24 D E Fingersmith 72 Getting of Wisdom, The 6 Dancing with Strangers 32 Elizabeth Costello 18 Ghost River 6 E Finkler Question, The 25 Dangerous Love 63 Elizabeth David 12 Ghost Wall 40 Firehead 25 Dark Places 46 Emergency Sex and Other Gift of Asher Lev, The 18 E L Fire Under the Snow 33 David Copperfield 6 Desperate Measures 71 Gilead 48 E First Lady 12 Day We Had Hitler Home, The Emma E 24 Gilgamesh 57 First Stone, The E 64 63 Empire Falls 33 Girls, The 13 Fishing in the Styx L 12 Dead Man Walking 71 End of Seeing, The 56 Girl with a Pearl Earring E 18 Five Bells 25 Death in Brazil, A 56 Enduring Love E 71 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Flight Behaviour E 56 Death in Venice E 39 English Patient, The E 24 The 72 Flights of Love 25 Death of a River Guide E 39 English, The E 56 Glass After Glass 18 Floating Brothel, The 33 Death Sentence 18 Equal Music, An 24 Glass Castle, The 48 Floundering 56 Deep Field, The 24 Eucalyptus E 24 Glass Room, The 33 Flying with Paper Wings 64 Desert Flower 11 Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Go Between, The L 6 Foal’s Bread 47 Devil’s Larder, The 39 Living E 39 E God in Ruins, A 57 Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence 12 Diamond Dove 71 Every Secret Thing 47 God of Small Things, The 48 Footsteps 56 Diaries of Jane Somers, The 11 Evil Cradling, An 64 Gogh: Vincent van Gogh, Diary of a Welsh Swagman, Excellent Women 12 Forest Dark E 56 1853-1890 18 1869-1894 56 Explosion Chronicles, The E 39 For Esther 64 Golden Age, The E 64 Digging to America E 46 Extinctions 47 Forgotten Garden, The 33 Golden Mean, The E 18 L Large Print F Fiction N Nonfiction S Short Stories E eBook Adapted Book µ Book Group Favourite 84

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