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Book Cover:  This Is A Book
By Demetri Martin

Demetri Martin is a Very Important Award-Winning Comedian, so spends a lot of his time travelling around, with a notebook, filling it with jokes and incredibly long palindromes (over 500-words long, in fact). The very best of those are collected here, from his acclaimed comic drawings and the world's worst comeback lines, to brilliant charts and graphs (Incidence of Lung Cancer in Dragons, a Sad Clown/Happy...

Demetri Martin is a Very Important Award-Winning Comedian, so spends a lot of his time travelling around, with a notebook, filling it with jokes and incredibly long palindromes (over 500-words long, in...

Published: 26/09/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241957110
RRP: $19.99
Book Cover: A Rainbow Feast
By Mohammad Quayum

A veritable collection of 25 short stories by young and prizewinning Asian writers from 15 countries: Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, the UAE, Guyana, UK, USA and Australia.


The stories dwell on universal themes of human experience—social conflict, the clash of cultures, clash between tradition and modernization, loyalty, betrayal...

A veritable collection of 25 short stories by young and prizewinning Asian writers from 15 countries: Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, the...

Published: 08/03/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9789814302715
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Smalltown

Smalltown is a view of the Australia we politely ignore.

In this rich and austere collaboration, photographer Martin Mischkulnig has joined writer Tim Winton to produce a meditation on the peculiar collision of beauty and ugliness that characterises our far-flung towns.



Smalltown is a view of the Australia we politely ignore.

In this rich and austere collaboration, photographer Martin Mischkulnig has joined writer Tim Winton to produce a meditation on the peculiar collision...

Published: 28/09/2009
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781926428123
RRP: $75.00
Book Cover: The Penguin Book of the Ocean
A hymn to the mystery, beauty and majesty of the ocean, and to the poets and explorers it has inspired.
A hymn to the mystery, beauty and majesty of the ocean, and to the poets and explorers it has inspired.
Published: 25/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781926428161
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  Gravel

Eight brilliant stories by a master of the form, author of the classic 'Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam' and 'The Kiss'

Eight brilliant stories by a master of the form, author of the classic 'Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam' and 'The Kiss'

Published: 01/03/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781926428192
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Like a House on Fire
Published: 26/09/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781922070067
RRP: $27.95
Book Cover:  Blasphemy: new and selected stories
Published: 26/09/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781922070074
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Comedy In a Minor Key
By Hans Keilson

  A penetrating study of ordinary people resisting the Nazi occupation—and, true to its title, a dark comedy of wartime manners— Comedy in a Minor Key tells the story of Wim and Marie, a Dutch couple who first hide a Jew they know as Nico, then must dispose of his body when he dies of pneumonia. This novella, first published in 1947 and now translated into English for the first time...

  A penetrating study of ordinary people resisting the Nazi occupation—and, true to its title, a dark comedy of wartime manners— Comedy in a Minor Key tells the story of Wim and Marie...

Published: 30/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921844072
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  Guilt
By Schirach Ferdinand von

'A cool, patient voice that draws the reader in. von Schirach…has the talent to dazzle.' New York Times Book Review
A private boys' school that harbours a gang of teenage exorcists.
A drug deal that goes bizarrely awry when a dog gets involved.
A couple who like to swing – until one partner hits the wall.
A brutal gang rape whose perpetrators are known but cannot be convicted.
Crimes, bad...




'A cool, patient voice that draws the reader in. von Schirach…has the talent to dazzle.' New York Times Book Review
A private boys' school that harbours a gang of teenage exorcists.
A drug deal that...

Published: 25/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921758911
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  Me and You
By Niccolo Ammaniti

Lorenzo has a few issues. They include the fact that he doesn't have, or want, any friends. Because this is making his parents unhappy, he tells them he has been invited on a skiing holiday with a group from school. In fact, he is planning to spend the week happily ensconced in the cellar of their apartment building with a supply of canned tuna.

Then his estranged older sister Olivia turns up in the...

Lorenzo has a few issues. They include the fact that he doesn't have, or want, any friends. Because this is making his parents unhappy, he tells them he has been invited on a skiing holiday with a group...

Published: 25/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921758775
RRP: $17.95
Book Cover:  Burning Bright
By Ron Rash

Ron Rash has long been a critically acclaimed writer but his novel, Serena, catapulted him to new heights garnering rave reviews across Australia and becoming a New York Times bestseller. The New Yorker said 'Rash's evocative rendering of the blighted landscape and the tough characters who inhabit it recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy.'

Ron Rash has long been a critically acclaimed writer but his novel, Serena, catapulted him to new heights garnering rave reviews across Australia and becoming a New York Times bestseller. The New Yorker...

Published: 01/08/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921758508
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover: The Kid on the Karaoke Stage and Other Stories
By Georgia Richter

'This whole collection is brimming with vibrant and original writing.'
- Brenda Walker

28 life-changing stories about who we are, and what we want to be.

Some of us just blow with the breeze, and some of us feel every wind-shift.  Some of us are never blown the same way twice, and some of us are never the same way wherever we're blown
- Glen Hunting

When Satan appears in the story, he looks a...





'This whole collection is brimming with vibrant and original writing.'
- Brenda Walker

28 life-changing stories about who we are, and what we want to be.

Some of us just blow with the breeze, and some...



Published: 02/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921696831
RRP: $27.95
Book Cover:  You Lose These and Other Stories
By Goldie Goldbloom

'What you staring at?'
he said, looking quickly into the rearview and touching the place his eyebrow might have been.
'You're not exactly Marilyn Monroe yerself.'

Short stories from Goldie Goldbloom.
Dark.  Delicious.  Superb.


'What you staring at?'
he said, looking quickly into the rearview and touching the place his eyebrow might have been.
'You're not exactly Marilyn Monroe yerself.'

Short stories from Goldie Goldbloom.
Dark...


Published: 30/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921696879
RRP: $27.95
Book Cover:  Griffith REVIEW 30: The Annual Fiction Edition
By Julianne Schultz

Griffith REVIEW 's second annual fiction collection will focus on the Pacific region: from the Americas to Asia, the Pacific islands, New Zealand and Australia. What binds us? What pulls us apart? 

As economic, political and cultural power moves from North America and Europe to the Asia-Pacific, Australia is enjoying a new relationship with its neighbours. The shift of individuals and ideas across...

Griffith REVIEW 's second annual fiction collection will focus on the Pacific region: from the Americas to Asia, the Pacific islands, New Zealand and Australia. What binds us? What pulls us apart? ...

Published: 25/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921656187
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It
By Maile Meloy

A love-struck young ranch hand, an aging Argentine lover, a trusted confidante who isn't a friend and two hitchhikers named Bonnie and Clyde.

Caught between opposing forces—fidelity and desire, impulse and security, innocence and experience—Meloy's unforgettable characters have each reached a fork in the road. But what kind of fool wants it only one way?

These eleven stories are funny...

A love-struck young ranch hand, an aging Argentine lover, a trusted confidante who isn't a friend and two hitchhikers named Bonnie and Clyde.

Caught between opposing forces—fidelity and desire, impulse...

Published: 03/05/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921656279
RRP: $27.95
Book Cover:  New Australian Stories 2
By Aviva Tuffield

This eclectic anthology of new stories showcases some of our finest short-story writers, and proves that the short story is alive and well in Australia.

From seasoned practitioners of the form through to rising and emerging stars of the short-story firmament, New Australian Stories 2 caters for all tastes. There's humour, mystery, drama, and even some delusion and deceit. Whole lives are captured in...

This eclectic anthology of new stories showcases some of our finest short-story writers, and proves that the short story is alive and well in Australia.

From seasoned practitioners of the form through...

Published: 22/11/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921640865
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  What the World Will Look Like When all the Water Leaves Us
By den Berg Laura van

The stories in Laura van den Berg's rich and inventive debut illuminate the intersection of the mythic and the mundane.

A failed actress takes a job as a Bigfoot impersonator. A grieving missionary becomes obsessed with a creature rumoured to live in the forests of the Congo. And, in the title story, a young woman travelling with her scientist mother in Madagascar confronts her burgeoning...

The stories in Laura van den Berg's rich and inventive debut illuminate the intersection of the mythic and the mundane.

A failed actress takes a job as a Bigfoot impersonator. A grieving missionary becomes...

Published: 31/01/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921640896
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Theory of Light and Matter
By Andrew Porter

These ten stories offer a stunning vision of contemporary American suburbia, littered with tension, heartbreak and revelations.  Andrew Porter's stories take readers across the country - from rural Pennsylvania to Southern California to the quiet streets of Connecticut.

At the heart of each story characters struggle to find meaning in their daily lives.  Among them a college student searches...

These ten stories offer a stunning vision of contemporary American suburbia, littered with tension, heartbreak and revelations.  Andrew Porter's stories take readers across the country - from rural...

Published: 01/03/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921656057
RRP: $27.95
Book Cover: The Pen and the Stethoscope
By Leah Kaminsky

The Pen and the Stethoscope is a unique collection of fiction and non-fiction by doctor–writers that gives us a fascinating look behind the doctor's mask and gets inside the minds of those who deal with enormous existential issues and traumatic situations on a daily basis.

It is through writing that many doctors have plumbed the depths and richness of their experience. This book takes a critical...

The Pen and the Stethoscope is a unique collection of fiction and non-fiction by doctor–writers that gives us a fascinating look behind the doctor's mask and gets inside the minds of those who deal...

Published: 25/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921640735
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover:  War Dances
By Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie delivers a heartbreaking and hilarious collection of stories that explore the precarious balance between self-preservation and external responsibility in art, family, and the world at large.

Sherman Alexie delivers a heartbreaking and hilarious collection of stories that explore the precarious balance between self-preservation and external responsibility in art, family, and the world at large...

Published: 27/09/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921640803
RRP: $26.95

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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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