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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.
Australian Fiction Forecast: Turbulence Janet Turner Hospital HB $22.95 An exquisitely lyrical collection of nine short stories and one memoir piece from the acclaimed Janette Turner Hospital. Featuring a compelling and enigmatic cast of characters, Turner Hospital sensitively weaves their stories of raw emotion, heartbreaking vulnerability and incredible resolve, revealing their quest to hold their centres and maintain equilibrium in a turbulent and uncertain world. War & Peace and Sonya: A Novel Judith Armstrong PB $29.99 In 1862 Sonya Tolstoy married the greatest author the world has ever known. For 48 years they shared their lives in an enmeshed union that was both passionate and combative. Sixteen years younger than her husband, Sonya bore him 13 children and worked for years as his copyist. Judith Armstrong tells the story of the Tolstoys through Sonya’s eyes, exploring their devotion and their immense passion for great literature. Cold Light Frank Moorhouse PB $32.95 It is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed United Nations has rejected all those who worked and fought for the League. Edith Campbell Berry, who joined the League in Geneva before the war, is out of a job. She comes back to Australia to live in Canberra and has ambitions to become Australia’s first female ambassador, but she finds herself caught up in the planning of the national capital. Silence Rodney Hall PB $24.99 An exquisite, poignant collection of ‘fictions’ by one of Australia’s finest writers. Each piece has its own startling imagery. This is a book that constantly surprises with its echoes of famous voices and where the astonishing breadth of material – historical, personal, imagined – is held together by its central theme and by a web of subtle connections. What The Family Needed Steven Amsterdam PB $24.95 “Okay, tell me which you want: to be able to fly or to be invisible?” And so begins the tale of one particularly gifted family as it finds itself. Following his acclaimed debut, Things We Didn’t See Coming, Amsterdam lets each member speak, opening up an intimate wilderness. He captures their secrets over 30 years, the many voices revealing an uneasy peace. Life Kills Miles Vertigan PB $24.95 Life Kills follows the dark journey and twisted mind of a mysterious unnamed terrorist as he goes about his business. Our terrorist antihero faces terrible choices along the way. Here is a unique work of dark and comedic avantgarde literary fiction, in the mode of Hunter S. Thompson crossed with Kinky Friedman.
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