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Book Cover:  Silent House

Never before published in English, Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk's second novel is the moving story of a family gathering the summer before the Turkish military coup of 1980.

Never before published in English, Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk's second novel is the moving story of a family gathering the summer before the Turkish military coup of 1980.

Published: 26/09/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781926428352
RRP: $29.99
Book Cover:  Waratah House
Behind the doors of the servants' quarters lies of cast of unforgettable characters
Behind the doors of the servants' quarters lies of cast of unforgettable characters
Published: 02/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921518744
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Brumby's Run
An accomplished, lively and authentic rural romance in the vein of Rachael Treasure
An accomplished, lively and authentic rural romance in the vein of Rachael Treasure
Published: 02/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921901232
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: The House of Memories
By Monica McInerney


Sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are those that matter most.

Following a tragic accident, Ella O'Hanlon flees to the other side of the world in an attempt to escape her grief, leaving behind the two people she blames for her loss: Aidan, the love of her life, and Jess, her spoilt half-sister.




Sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are those that matter most.

Following a tragic accident, Ella O'Hanlon flees to the other side of the world in an attempt to escape her grief, leaving behind the...

Published: 26/09/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921518645
RRP: $29.99
Book Cover:  Lola Bensky
By Lily Brett

It's the swinging sixties, and nineteen-year-old Lola Bensky – who is heavier than she'd like to be, takes no crap and knows how to work a set of false eyelashes – is a music journalist for Rock-Out in Australia.

It's the swinging sixties, and nineteen-year-old Lola Bensky – who is heavier than she'd like to be, takes no crap and knows how to work a set of false eyelashes – is a music journalist for...

Published: 25/09/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781926428475
RRP: $29.99
Book Cover: The Yalda Crossing
By Noel Beddoe

What action would be best for me?' I asked. We waited together. I thought for a while that he meant not to reply.
'James,' he said at last, 'that's something no-one can decide but you.'

New South Wales, 1832


What action would be best for me?' I asked. We waited together. I thought for a while that he meant not to reply.
'James,' he said at last, 'that's something no-one can decide but you.'

New South Wales...


Published: 02/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702249396
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover: The Rest is Weight
By Jennifer Mills

A girl searches for her lost grandmother while her parents quarrel at home. A young architect finds herself entangled by a strange commission. A man contemplates inertia after toxic fallout changes life in a remote Australian town. A woman imagines a mother's love for her autistic son.

A girl searches for her lost grandmother while her parents quarrel at home. A young architect finds herself entangled by a strange commission. A man contemplates inertia after toxic fallout changes life...

Published: 02/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702249402
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: The Thin Man
By Dashiell Hammett

'So far I had known just where I stood on the Wolf-Wynant-Jorgensen troubles and what I was doing – the answers were, respectively, nowhere and nothing . . . when I opened my eyes and sat up in bed some six hours later Nora was shaking me and a man with a gun in his hand was standing in the bedroom doorway.'

'So far I had known just where I stood on the Wolf-Wynant-Jorgensen troubles and what I was doing – the answers were, respectively, nowhere and nothing . . . when I opened my eyes and sat up in bed...

Published: 02/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241962527
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: The Falcons of Fire and Ice
By Karen Maitland

1539, Lisbon. The Inquisition displays its power and ruthlessly spreads fear. Heretics are tortured and burned. Any who oppose the Church's will realize that silence is preferable to a slow and agonizing death.

Isabela, daughter of the Falconer at the Royal Court, is about to be caught in the Church's terrifying schemes. The slaughter of two of the King's precious white falcons sees her father arrested...

1539, Lisbon. The Inquisition displays its power and ruthlessly spreads fear. Heretics are tortured and burned. Any who oppose the Church's will realize that silence is preferable to a slow and agonizing...

Published: 26/09/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780718156374
RRP: $29.99
Book Cover:  Ancient Light
By John Banville

'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.'

Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small town in 1950s Ireland: the illicit meetings in a rundown cottage outside town; assignations in the back of his lover's car on sunny mornings and rain-soaked afternoons. And with these early memories...

'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.'

Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small town...

Published: 26/09/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780670920617
RRP: $45.00
Book Cover:  Me and My Sisters

There's more than one way of being a modern woman, not that the Devlin sisters would admit it . . .

Harassed mum Julie used to be the easy-going one, but now she is struggling to keep sane. She needs support, but how could her sisters understand? After all, their lives are perfect.

One drunken mistake is jeopardising everything lawyer Louise has worked so hard for. For a control freak like her, being...



There's more than one way of being a modern woman, not that the Devlin sisters would admit it . . .

Harassed mum Julie used to be the easy-going one, but now she is struggling to keep sane. She needs support...

Published: 02/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241950586
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By Muriel Spark

'Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life . . .'

Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over her group of 'special girls' at Marcia Blaine School. They are the Brodie set, the crème de la crème, each famous for something - Monica for mathematics, Eunice for swimming, Rose for sex - who are initiated into...

'Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life . . .'

Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over her group of 'special...

Published: 02/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241956779
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Heart of Darkness
By Joseph Conrad

'The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.'

'The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.'

Published: 02/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241956809
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: The Periodic Table
By Primo Levi

'So it happens, therefore, that every element says something to someone'

Inspired by the rhythms of the Periodic Table, Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements he associates with his past. From his birth into an Italian Jewish family through his training as a chemist, to the pain and darkness of the Holocaust and its aftermath, Levi reflects on the difficult course of his life...

'So it happens, therefore, that every element says something to someone'

Inspired by the rhythms of the Periodic Table, Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements he associates with...

Published: 02/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241956816
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Three Men in a Boat
By Jerome K Jerome

'Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.'

'Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe...

Published: 02/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241956823
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  In Cold Blood: Penguin Essen
By Truman Capote

'Dick became convinced that Perry was that rarity, 'a natural killer'- absolutely sane, but conscienceless, and capable of dealing, with or without motive, the coldest-blooded deathblows'

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, a wealthy farmer, his wife and their two young children were found brutally murdered. Blood all over the walls, the telephone lines cut, and only a few dollars...

'Dick became convinced that Perry was that rarity, 'a natural killer'- absolutely sane, but conscienceless, and capable of dealing, with or without motive, the coldest-blooded deathblows'

On November 15...

Published: 02/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241956830
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Dubliners
By James Joyce

'Snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.'

From a child grappling with the death of a fallen priest, to a young woman's dilemma over whether to elope to Argentina with her lover, to the dance party at which a man discovers...

'Snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark...

Published: 02/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241956854
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: The Lower River

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:  Fury's Kiss: Midnight's Daughter Volume 3

The new Midnight's Daughter novel from Karen Chance featuring dhampir Dory Basarab...

Dorina Basarab is a dhampir—half-human, half-vampire. Subject to uncontrollable rages, most dhampirs live very short, very violent lives. But so far, Dory has managed to maintain her sanity by unleashing her anger on those demons and vampires who deserve killing...

The new Midnight's Daughter novel from Karen Chance featuring dhampir Dory Basarab...

Dorina Basarab is a dhampir—half-human, half-vampire. Subject to uncontrollable rages, most dhampirs live very...

Published: 26/09/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143206316
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Berlin Noir: March Violets, The Pale Criminal, A German Requiem
By Philip Kerr

Ex-Policeman Bernie Günther thought he¹d seen everything on the streets of 1930¹s Berlin. But then he went freelance, and each case he tackled sucked him further into the grisly excesses of Nazi sub-culture. And even after the war, amidst the decayed, imperial splendour of Vienna, Bernie uncovered a legacy that made the wartime atrocities look lily-white in comparison . . .

'Exceptionally...

Ex-Policeman Bernie Günther thought he¹d seen everything on the streets of 1930¹s Berlin. But then he went freelance, and each case he tackled sucked him further into the grisly excesses...

Published: 26/09/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241962350
RRP: $29.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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