New Releases
If you’ve run out of books to read, and have already re-read all your favourite authors’ old works, see if any of our forthcoming new titles or recent releases take your fancy!
And What Do You Do, Mr Gable?
Richard Flanagan
Vintage ISBN 9781742752723
Paperback 2011
Price $AU 24.95
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Richard Flanagan is one of Australia's pre-eminent novelists. Collected here for the first time are the very best of his wide-ranging, free-wheeling writings on everything from directing film and writing novels to a near fatal kayak trip; from baking bread to bushfires to art to war; from Kosovar refugees on the run to Jorge Luis Borges to his celebrated essay on the rape of Tasmania's forests, credited as a key to halting Gunns' two billion dollar pulp mill.
Sparkling, moving and always surprising, this is exhilarating reading from one of Tasmania's best-known writers.
Autumn Laing
Alex Miller
Allen & Unwin ISBN 9781742378510
Hardback 2011
Price $AU 39.99
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Autumn Laing seduces Pat Donlon with her pearly thighs and her lust for life and art. In doing so she not only compromises the trusting love she has with her husband, Arthur, she also steals the future from Pat's young and beautiful wife, Edith, and their unborn child. Fifty-three years later, cantankerous, engaging, unrestrainable 85-year-old Autumn is shocked to find within herself a powerful need for redemption. As she begins to tell her story, she writes, 'They are all dead and I am old and skeleton-gaunt. This is where it began...'
Australian author Alex Miller is the winner of a number of literary awards, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and the Miles Franklin Award (twice).
Arguably: Essays
Christopher Hitchens
Allen & Unwin ISBN 9781742377391
Trade paperback 2011
Price $AU 32.99
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Christopher Hitchens is possibly the most provocative writer of our time, fearless and forthright with no subject off limits. Best known for Hitch-22 and the best-selling God is Not Great, he has collected four decades of his writing here in one volume. From early articles in the New Statesman, where he worked alongside writers such as Ian McEwan and Martin Amis, through to his pieces for Salon, The Atlantic and Vanity Fair, these articles display his rare genius, indomitable wit and singular command of language. World figures from Clinton to Mother Teresa, Kissinger to Benazir Bhutto go under his unforgiving microscope. Issues from Vietnam to Iraq, Afghanistan to Iran and literary musings on the leading writers of the last fifty years form the richest tapestry a reader could ask.
Sarah Thornhill
Kate Grenville
Text ISBN 97811921758621
Hardback 2011
Price $AU 39.95
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Finally the long-awaited sequel to The Secret River, and third book in Grenville's 'Colonial Trilogy', is here.
Sarah Thornhill is the youngest child of William Thornhill, convict-turned-landowner on the Hawkesbury River. She grows up in the fine house her father is so proud of, a strong-willed young woman who's certain where her future lies. She's known Jack Langland since she was a child, and always loved him. But the past is waiting in ambush with its dark legacy. There's a secret in Sarah's family, a piece of the past kept hidden from the world and from her. A secret Jack can't live with. A secret that changes everything, for both of them.