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Book Cover:  Moth Smoke

'A subtly audacious . . . prodigious descendant of hard-boiled lit and film noir. A steamy and often darkly amusing book about sex, drugs, and class warfare in postcolonial Asia' 
Village Voice
 
'You know you're in trouble when you can't meet a woman's eye, particularly if the woman happens to be your best friend's wife.'


'A subtly audacious . . . prodigious descendant of hard-boiled lit and film noir. A steamy and often darkly amusing book about sex, drugs, and class warfare in postcolonial Asia' 
Village Voice
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Published: 28/06/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241953938
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  My Secret History: A Novel
By Paul Theroux

'Written with a rare intensity of both intelligence and feeling . . . a superbly realistic evocation of the journeys (both dark and comical) of the human heart' 
Salman Rushdie, Observer

'Written with a rare intensity of both intelligence and feeling . . . a superbly realistic evocation of the journeys (both dark and comical) of the human heart' 
Salman Rushdie, Observer

Published: 13/04/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241950494
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  My Other Life: A Novel
By Paul Theroux

A WRITER'S EPIC ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER LIFE, OF OTHER CHOICES - OF TURNING FACT INTO EXTRAORDINARY FICTION . . .

'A memoir; a collection of short stories; an assemblage of fables; an anthology of Theroux: a book in which he is everywhere present, as himself and as someone other . . . Endlessly inventive, beguiling, provocative and insidiously readable' 
Sunday Telegraph



A WRITER'S EPIC ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER LIFE, OF OTHER CHOICES - OF TURNING FACT INTO EXTRAORDINARY FICTION . . .

'A memoir; a collection of short stories; an assemblage of fables; an anthology of Theroux:...

Published: 13/04/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241950517
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Collected Stories: World's End; Sinning with Annie; Jungle Bells;   the Consul's File; the London Embassy
By Paul Theroux

'[Theroux] makes and remakes his own world . . . The smell, sound, sight of his scenes is always strong, even pungent; and, even more, his dialogue is powerfully but also effortlessly accurate'  
Sunday Telegraph

'Theroux willingly explores the blighted territory of a failing marriage; the tangled jungle of a mad poet's secret anti-Semitism; the belated sexual guilt of a Hindu ...

'[Theroux] makes and remakes his own world . . . The smell, sound, sight of his scenes is always strong, even pungent; and, even more, his dialogue is powerfully but also effortlessly accurate'...

Published: 13/04/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241950524
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Art of Camping: The History and Practice of Sleeping Under the Stars
By Abaitua Matthew De

CAMPING IS BACK

CAMPING IS BACK

Published: 12/09/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780241145135
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover: The Kid
By Sapphire

FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF PUSH , SAPPHIRE GIVES VOICE TO ABDUL JONES, THE SON OF HER UNFORGETTABLE HEROINE, PRECIOUS.

FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF PUSH , SAPPHIRE GIVES VOICE TO ABDUL JONES, THE SON OF HER UNFORGETTABLE HEROINE, PRECIOUS.

Published: 28/09/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241145296
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Broken Republic: Three Essays
By Roy Arundhati

MR CHIDAMBARAM'S WAR
'The low, flat-topped hills of south Orissa have been home to the Dongria Kondh long before there was a country called India or a state called Orissa . . . '

WALKING WITH THE COMRADES
'The terse, typewritten note slipped under my door in a sealed envelope confirmed my appointment with 'India's single biggest internal security challenge'.  I'd been waiting for months to hear...



MR CHIDAMBARAM'S WAR
'The low, flat-topped hills of south Orissa have been home to the Dongria Kondh long before there was a country called India or a state called Orissa . . . '

WALKING WITH THE COMRADES...


Published: 07/10/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780241145289
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover:  Noughties
By Ben Masters
Published: 19/03/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241145265
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980
By Susan Sontag

This, the second of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, begins where the first volume left off, in the middle of the 1960s. It traces and documents Sontag's evolution from fledgling participant in the artistic and intellectual world of New York City to world-renowned critic and dominant force in the world of ideas with the publication of the groundbreaking Against Interpretation...

This, the second of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, begins where the first volume left off, in the middle of the 1960s. It traces and documents Sontag's evolution from fledgling...

Published: 02/07/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780241145173
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover: The Lower River
By Paul Theroux

Ellis Hock never believed he would ever return to Africa - to his isolated village where he was happiest. He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his eden in Africa, the four years he spent in Malawi with the Peace Corps, cut short when he had to return to take over the family business. When his wife leaves him, taking the family home, and his daughter...

Ellis Hock never believed he would ever return to Africa - to his isolated village where he was happiest. He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his...

Published: 25/07/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780241145326
RRP: $40.00
Book Cover:  Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism
By John Updike

'Gossip of a higher sort' was how the incomparable John Updike described the art of the review. Here then is the last collection of his best, most dazzling gossip. Influential reviews of Toni Morrison, John le Carré and Ann Patchett and expert critique on exhibitions of El Greco, Van Gogh and Schiele are included alongside previously uncollected short stories, poems and essays on his 'pet topics'...

'Gossip of a higher sort' was how the incomparable John Updike described the art of the review. Here then is the last collection of his best, most dazzling gossip. Influential reviews of Toni Morrison...

Published: 25/07/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780241145524
RRP: $39.99
Book Cover:  NW
By Zadie Smith

Hobbes, Smith, Bentham, Locke and Russell.

Five identical blocks make up the Caldwell housing estate in North West London.

If you grew up in this relic of seventies urban design, the plan was to get out and get on, to something better, somewhere else. Thirty years later, Caldwell kids Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan have all moved on, with varying degrees of success - whatever that means. Living only...



Hobbes, Smith, Bentham, Locke and Russell.

Five identical blocks make up the Caldwell housing estate in North West London.

If you grew up in this relic of seventies urban design, the plan was to get out...



Published: 22/08/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241145555
RRP: $29.99
Book Cover:  Toby's Room
By Pat Barker

Toby and Elinor, brother and sister, closest friends and confidants, are sharers of a dark secret, carried from the sweltering summer of 1912 into the battlefields of France and wartime London in 1917.

Toby and Elinor, brother and sister, closest friends and confidants, are sharers of a dark secret, carried from the sweltering summer of 1912 into the battlefields of France and wartime London in 1917...

Published: 22/08/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241145227
RRP: $29.99
Book Cover:  Eating Animals

EATING ANIMALS

Is a uniquely passionate, powerful and provocative exploration of what we eat, and why, by the bestselling author of Everything is Illuminated and E xtremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

EATING ANIMALS

Is a uniquely passionate, powerful and provocative exploration of what we eat, and why, by the bestselling author of Everything is Illuminated and E xtremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

Published: 30/10/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241144251
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover:  Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight
By James Attlee

Potent, beautiful, mysterious . . . The moon and the light it casts have been a muse for writers, artists, composers and visionaries throughout history. But today, in our increasingly urbanised world, the spread of artificial lighting seems set to rob the moon of its power.

Potent, beautiful, mysterious . . . The moon and the light it casts have been a muse for writers, artists, composers and visionaries throughout history. But today, in our increasingly urbanised world...

Published: 06/05/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780241144329
RRP: $45.00
Book Cover:  Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project
By Iain Sinclair

A MEMOIR and a series of expeditions undertaken to explore the hidden nature of today's grand projects, Ghost Milk is Iain Sinclair's personal investigation of landscapes ravaged by vanity architectures shaped from smoke and mirrors.
 

A MEMOIR and a series of expeditions undertaken to explore the hidden nature of today's grand projects, Ghost Milk is Iain Sinclair's personal investigation of landscapes ravaged by vanity architectures...

Published: 12/09/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780241144350
RRP: $45.00
Book Cover:  There but for the
Ali Smith's dazzling new novel is a funny, moving book about time, memory, thought, presence, quietness in a noisy time, and the importance of hearing ourselves think.
Ali Smith's dazzling new novel is a funny, moving book about time, memory, thought, presence, quietness in a noisy time, and the importance of hearing ourselves think.
Published: 08/07/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241144541
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Light Boxes
Steeped in visual imagery, this is a hauntingly enigmatic modern fairy tale – in which nothing is as it seems.
Steeped in visual imagery, this is a hauntingly enigmatic modern fairy tale – in which nothing is as it seems.
Published: 30/06/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241144954
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: The Shape of the Beast
Unabashedly political, this is also a deeply personal collection that talks about the necessity of taking a stand.
Unabashedly political, this is also a deeply personal collection that talks about the necessity of taking a stand.
Published: 14/04/2010
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780241144961
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover:  Skippy Dies
'Glorious, a very funny novel . . . Skippy Dies overflows with wonderful writing and incisive imagery.' Sunday Telegraph
'Glorious, a very funny novel . . . Skippy Dies overflows with wonderful writing and incisive imagery.' Sunday Telegraph
Published: 08/02/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241144978
RRP: $32.95

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16 May 2012
2012 John Button Prize - longlisted

The Australian Moment by George Megalogenis.

The prize winner will be announced at the John Button Oration to be held with the Melbourne Writers' Festival in August.

For more information please visit: http://johnbuttonprize.org.au

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