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by Lloyd Jones
Published Mar 2016
Read ReviewsPaint Your Wife is a colorful, sensual novel, brimming with rich stories and even richer characters.
I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
by Steve Earle
Published May 2012
Read ReviewsA brilliant excavation of an obscure piece of music history, Steve Earle's I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive is a ballad of regret and redemption, and of the ways in which we remake ourselves and our world through the smallest of miracles.
by Goldie Goldbloom
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsSet in 1940s Australia, The Paperbark Shoe is a remarkable novel about the far-reaching repercussions of war, the subtle violence of displacement, and what it means to live as a captive - in enemy country, and in one's own skin.
by Cate Kennedy
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsA compassionate and unswerving portrait of a broken family whose members go to extraordinary lengths to reclaim their lives and relationships from the mistakes of the past.
After the Fire, a Still Small Voice
by Evie Wyld
Published Nov 2010
Read ReviewsSet in the haunting landscape of eastern Australia, this is a stunningly accomplished debut novel about the inescapable past: the ineffable ties of family, the wars fought by fathers and sons, and what goes unsaid.
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsOne of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character.
by Alexis Wright
Published Apr 2010
Read ReviewsHailed as a "literary sensation" by The New York Times Book Review, Carpentaria is the luminous award-winning novel by Australian Aboriginal writer and activist Alexis Wright.
by John Hart
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsAfter being narrowly acquitted of a murder charge, Adam Chase is hounded out of the only home hes ever known, exiled for a sin he did not commit. For five long years he disappears. Now hes back and nobody knows why, not his family or the cops, not the enemies he left behind.
by Peter Carey
Published May 2007
Read ReviewsMichael Boone is an ex"really famous" painter acting as caretaker for his younger brother, a damaged man of childlike emotional volatility. When a mysterious woman comes into their lives, she upsets their delicate equilibrium sets in motion a chain of events that could be the makingor the ruinof them all.
by Scott Wolven
Published Apr 2005
Read ReviewsPowered by a spare, ruminative prose style that recalls the best of Denis Johnson and Thom Jones, Controlled Burn is an unforgettable debut.
by Ian McEwan
Published Feb 2003
Read ReviewsBrilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class. At its center this is a profoundand profoundly movingexploration of shame, forgiveness and the difficulty of absolution.
by Cormac McCarthy
Published Nov 2002
Read ReviewsThe first volume in the Border Trilogy - the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
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