Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955-1964 (Biography)
By: Paul Genoni
3.69
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Half the Perfect World is an account of the expatriate artist community on the Greek island of Hydr…
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1. Cousin Bette
By: Honoré de Balzac , Francine Prose , Kathleen Raine
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially s… read more
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2. The Colossus of Maroussi
By: Henry Miller
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Colossus of Maroussi is an impressionist travelogue by Henry Miller, written in 1939 and first … read more
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3. Ghost Empire
By: Richard Fidler
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
GHOST EMPIRE is a rare treasure - an utterly captivating blend of the historical and the contempora… read more
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4. Baumgartner
By: Paul Auster
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more
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"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
5. The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.39
Format: 759 pages, Paperback
With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with … read more
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"Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
6. The Bookbinder
By: Pip Williams
4.07
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more
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"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
7. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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8. Stone Yard Devotional
By: Charlotte Wood
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more
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9. Limberlost
By: Robbie Arnott
4.25
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more
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"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
10. Novelist as a Vocation
By: Haruki Murakami
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more
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"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
11. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more
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"It is for love. You are doing this for love."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
12. Underland: A Deep Time Journey
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.22
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more
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13. The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1)
By: Amanda Hampson
3.79
Format: 368 pages, Trade Paperback
They keep everyone's secrets, until there's a murder... Sydney, 1965: After a chance encounter w… read more
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14. Green Dot
By: Madeleine Gray
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more
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15. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2)
By: Benjamin Stevenson
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the … read more
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16. Son of Sin
By: Omar Sakr
3.69
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
Poet Omar Sakr’s debut novel is a fierce and fantastic force that illuminates the bonds that bind f… read more
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17. Weekends with the Sunshine Gardening Society
By: Sophie Green
3.75
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Noosa Heads, 1987: Newly-divorced Cynthia has returned to her hometown from Los Angeles to reconnec… read more
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18. The End of the Morning
By: Charmian Clift
4.14
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The never-before-published novel by Charmian Clift.‘In those days the end of the morning was always… read more
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19. Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955-1964 (Biography)
By: Paul Genoni
3.69
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Half the Perfect World is an account of the expatriate artist community on the Greek island of Hydr… read more
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20. The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift
By: Nadia Wheatley
4.24
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The award-winning biography of one of Australia's most charismatic and misunderstood writers. Charm… read more
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