Summer Catalogue 2011-12 - Hill of Content Bookshop

Fiction
The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides
PB $29.99
With devastating wit and
an abiding understanding
of and affection for his
characters, Jeffrey
Eugenides revives the
motivating energies of
the novel, while creating
a story so contemporary
and fresh that it reads like
the intimate journal of
our own lives.
The Dovekeepers
Alice Hoffman
PB $29.99
Hoffman weaves a
spellbinding tale of four
extraordinary, bold,
resourceful and sensuous
women, each of whom
has come to Masada by a
different path. The lives
of these four complex
and fiercely independent
women intersect in
desperate days. All are dovekeepers and all are also
keeping secrets--about who they are, where they
come from, who fathered them and who they love.
1Q84
Haruki Murakami
HB 39.95
The year is 1984 and the
city is Tokyo. A young
woman named Aomame
follows a taxi driver’s
enigmatic suggestion and
begins to notice puzzling
discrepancies in the
world around her. She has
entered, she realizes, a
parallel existence. A love
story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a
dystopia to rival George Orwell’s – 1Q84 is Haruki
Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet.
The Picture Book
Jo Baker
PB $27.99
Set against the rolling
backdrop of a century
of British history from
WWI to the ‘War on
Terror’, this is a family
portrait captured in
snapshots. Rich in
drama and sensuous in
detail, The Picture
Book is a beautifully
crafted story about fathers and sons, about fate and
repetition and about the possibility of breaking
free.
The Cat’s Table
Michael Ondaatje
PB $29.95
In the early 1950s, an
11-year-old boy boards a
huge liner bound for
England – a ‘castle that was
to cross the sea’. At
mealtimes, he is placed at
the lowly ‘Cat’s Table’ with
an eccentric group of
grown-ups and two other
boys, Cassius and
Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the
ocean, the boys become involved in the worlds and
stories of the adults around them, tumbling from
one adventure and delicious discovery to another.
The Fear Index
Robert Harris
PB $32.95
Dr Max Hoffman is a
legend – a physicist who
now uses a revolutionary
and highly secret system
of computer algorithms
to trade on the world’s
financial markets. Late
one night, an intruder
disturbs Hoffman and his
wife while they are
asleep. This terrifying moment is the start of Robert
Harris’s new novel – a story as compelling and
timely as his most recent contemporary thriller,
The Ghost.