Fiction

The Hanging Garden

Patrick White
Knopf ISBN 9781742752655
Hardback 2012
Price $AU 29.95
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Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. The boy's mother has died in the Blitz. The girl is the daughter of a Sydney woman and a Communist executed in a Greek prison. In wartime Australia, these two children form an extraordinary bond as they negotiate the dangers of life as strangers abandoned on the far side of the world. In this previously unpublished novel, White explores the world of these children, the city of his childhood and the experience of war.

A Land More Kind Than Home

Wiley Cash
Doubleday ISBN 9780857520708
Trade paperback 2012
Price $AU 32.95
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One Sunday, nine-years-old Jess Hall watches in horror as his autistic brother is smothered during a healing service in the mountains of North Carolina. The unimaginable violence that follows must be untangled by a local sheriff with his own tragic past. Cash's debut novel is inspired by a true story.

Cocaine Blues

Kerry Greenwood
Allen & Unwin ISBN 9781742377438
Paperback 2012 (first published 1989)
Price $AU 23.00
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If you haven't read Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher series, then now is the perfect time to start! And if you have, then why not revisit the very first in the series, when Phryne moves from London to Melbourne, and amuses herself with the duties of a lady detective?

Allen & Unwin have republished all the Phryne Fisher books, to coincide with the ABC1 series, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, starring award-winning Tasmanian actress Essie Davis as the fabulous Miss Fisher. Crime, charm, and 1920's Melbourne -- an irresistable combination!

As well as Cocaine Blues, we also have the other titles in the series available, each featuring a delectable cover image from the ABC1 production.

Visit Miss Fisher at the ABC to learn more about the television production.

The Marriage Plot

Jeffrey Eugenides
Fourth Estate ISBN 9780007441303
Paperback 2012
Price $AU 19.99
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The latest novel by one of America's best-know authors is now available in paperback.

Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot -- authors of the great marriage plots. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different men, intervenes. Leonard Bankhead, brilliant scientist and charismatic loner, attracts Madeleine with an intensity that she seems powerless to resist. Meanwhile her old friend Mitchell Grammaticus, a theology student searching for some kind of truth in life, is certain of at least one thing -- that he and Madeleine are destined to be together. But as all three leave college, they will have to figure out how they want their own marriage plot to end.

Fifty Shades of Grey

E.L. James
Arrow Books ISBN 9780099579939
Paperback 2012
Price $AU 17.95
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Fifty Shades Darker

Arrow Books ISBN 9780099579922
Paperback 2012
Price $AU 17.95
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Fifty Shades Freed

Arrow Books ISBN 9780099579946
Paperback 2012
Price $AU 17.95
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The controversial trilogy everyone's talking about. Does it live up to the hype? Read it and find out!

When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating. Unworldly and innocent, Ana is shocked to find she wants this man. And, when he warns her to keep her distance, it only makes her want him more. But Grey is tormented by inner demons, and consumed by the need to control. As they embark on a passionate love affair, Ana discovers more about her own desires, as well as the dark secrets Grey keeps hidden away from public view...