Shadowboxing
By: Tony Birch
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Shadow Boxing is a collection of ten linked stories in the life of a boy growing up in the inner-Me…
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1. Black Tide (Jack Irish, #2)
By: Peter Temple
3.94
Format: 398 pages, Paperback
Jack Irish is recovering from his last foray into the criminal underworld when he agrees to look fo… read more
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- australia
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"I slumped in the chair. I'd known it was coming. Absolutely no doubt. You know. I'd been feeling sick about it for weeks. So, why did I now feel even sicker? Love. Not a word for casual use. The life…"-Peter Temple, Black Tide (Jack Irish, #2)
2. Scoop
By: Evelyn Waugh
3.80
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the "Daily Beast", has always prided himself on hi… read more
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- fiction
"Ah well, to the journalist every country is rich."-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
"News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read."-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
"Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'--William Boot"-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
"As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit or belief, they were called a Republic."-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
3. Hag-Seed
By: Margaret Atwood
3.80
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
When Felix is deposed as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival by his devious assist… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"La grandeza está en la virtud, no en la venganza"-Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed
"Suddenly revenge is so close he can actually taste it. It tastes like steak, rare."-Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed
"But once you’ve climbed a ladder, what use is it? You kick it away, if you don’t intend to go down it again."-Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed
"You always do good ones. We trust you, Mr. Duke," Says Dylan. Foolish lads, thinks Felix: never trust a professional ham."-Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed
4. A Moveable Feast
By: Ernest Hemingway
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more
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5. Bad Debts (Jack Irish, #1)
By: Peter Temple
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A phone message from ex-client Danny McKillop doesn't ring any bells for Jack Irish. Life is hard e… read more
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- australia
- fiction
6. The Glass Canoe
By: David Ireland
4.00
Format: 205 pages,
"The Southern Cross is a pub, an old, battered and experienced place, somewhere in the centre of Sy… read more
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- australia
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7. At the Mountains of Madness
By: H.P. Lovecraft , China Miéville , S.T. Joshi
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
8. Shadowboxing
By: Tony Birch
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Shadow Boxing is a collection of ten linked stories in the life of a boy growing up in the inner-Me… read more
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- contemporary
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9. Interpreter of Maladies
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.17
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here Navigating between the Indian tra… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"Sexy means loving someone you do not know."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"You got cats at home?" "No cats. Only a husband."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
10. Steppenwolf
By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more
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11. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
By: Shankari Chandran
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more
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12. 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
13. A Long Petal of the Sea
By: Isabel Allende
4.06
Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of The House of the Spirits, this epic novel spanning decades and crossing continen… read more
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- fiction
"Despite being English, they served an edible meal."-Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea
"She embellished the facts, because she was aware that life is"-Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea
"Victor's nephew was plump and bald: all babies that age looked like Winston Churchill to him."-Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea
"Nothing can grow in the shade of secrets, she would say, love needs light and space to flourish."-Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea
14. Flames
By: Robbie Arnott
4.07
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
A young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his twenty-three-year-old sister, C… read more
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- short stories
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15. Open Water
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.04
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships … read more
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"Trauma makes you considerate."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"You are more than the sum of your traumas"-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"You do not want to die before you can live"-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"...love was not always synonymous with care."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
16. Pheasants Nest
By: Louise Milligan
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
She wonders if they have discovered her missing yet. Has it broken in the news? Who has been assign… read more
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17. Short Stories By Goons, Volume 1
By: Tough Guy Book Club Members
4.29
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
Everyone has got a story, if you take the time to listen. Short Stories By Goons - Volume 1 feature… read more
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18. Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech
By: Julia Gillard
4.28
Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition
Then it was done. After staying silent, I’d had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly an… read more
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19. The Chase
By: Candice Fox
3.89
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
The Chase is a modern The Fugitive with characters only #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestse… read more
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20. The Son of Man
By: Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
3.71
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the “extraordinary” Animalia ( Sunday Times ), winner of the Republic of Conscio… read more
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