Summer Catalogue 2011-12 - Hill of Content Bookshop

Australian Fiction
The Street Sweeper
Elliot Perlman
PB $32.95
Two very different men
try to survive in early
21st century New York
and history comes to life
in ways neither of them
could have foreseen.
Their paths lead to one
greater story as The
Street Sweeper, in dealing
with memory, love, guilt,
heroism, the extremes of racism and unexpected
kindness, spans the 20th century to the present
and spans the globe from New York to Melbourne,
Chicago to Auschwitz.
Blood
Tony Birch
PB $29.95
Jesse has sworn to
protect his sister,
Rachel, no matter what.
It’s a promise that
cannot be broken. A
promise made in blood.
But, when it comes
down to life or death,
how can he find the
courage to keep it? Set
on the back roads of
Australia, Blood is a boy’s odyssey through a
broken-down adult world.
Animal People
Charlotte Wood
PB $29.99
Set in Sydney over a
single day, Animal
People traces a
watershed day in the
life of Stephen, aimless,
unhappy, unfulfilled –
and without a clue as to
how to make his life
better. Sharply
observed, hilarious,
tender and heartbreaking, Animal People is a
portrait of urban life, a meditation on the
conflicted nature of human-animal relationships
and a masterpiece of storytelling.
The Cook
Wayne Macauley
PB $29.95
At Cook School, where
troubled youths learn to be
master chefs by bowing to
decadence and whim, by
offering up a part of
themselves on every plate,
a teenage boy with a
difficult past throws
himself into the world and
work of haute cuisine.
Blackly funny and
deliciously satirical, The Cook feeds our hunger to
know what goes on in the kitchen, while
skewering our culture of food worship.
Autumn Laing
Alex Miller
HB $39.99
Autumn Laing has long
outlived the legendary
circle of artists she
cultivated in the 1930s.
Now ‘old and skeleton
gaunt’, she reflects on her
tumultuous relationship
with the abundantly
talented Pat Donlon and
the effect it had on her
husband, on Pat’s wife and the body of work which
launched Pat’s career. A brilliantly alive and
insistently energetic story of love, loyalty and
creativity.
Foal’s Bread
Gillian Mears
PB $32.99
Foal’s Bread tells the
story of two generations
of the Nancarrow family
and their fortunes as
dictated by the
vicissitudes of the land.
It is a love story of
impossible beauty and
sadness, a chronicle of
dreams ‘turned inside
out’ and miracles that never last, framed against a
world both tender and unspeakably hard.