- 1Q84 Books 1, 2 and 3
The year is 1984. Aomame sits in a taxi on the expressway in Tokyo. Her work is not the kind which can be discussed in public but she is in a hurry to carry out an assignment and, with the traffic at a stand-still, the driver proposes a solution. She agrees, but as a result of her actions starts to feel increasingly detached from the real world. She has been on a top-secret mission, and her next job will lead her to encounter the apparently superhuman founder of a religious cult. Meanwhile, Tengo is leading a nondescript life but wishes to become a writer. He inadvertently becomes involved in a strange affair surrounding a literary prize to which a mysterious seventeen-year-old girl has submitted her remarkable first novel. It seems to be based on her own experiences and moves readers in unusual ways. Can her story really be true? Aomame and Tengo's stories influence one another, at times by accident and at times intentionally, as the two come closer and closer to intertwining. As "1Q84" accelerates towards its conclusion, both are pursued by persons and forces they do not know and cannot understand.
As they begin to decipher more about the strange world into which they have slipped, so they sense their destinies converging. What they cannot know is whether they will find one another before they are themselves found. "1Q84" is a magnificent and fully-imagined work of fiction - a thriller, a love-story and a mind-bending ode to George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four". It is a world from which the reader emerges stunned and altered.
Title: 1Q84: Books 1, 2 and 3
Author: MURAKAMI HARUKI
Format: Trade Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 05/04/2012
Price: $39.99
RRP: $39.99
Imprint: Harvill Press
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9781846556692Price: $39.99 - 1Q84 Books 1 2 3
Title: 1Q84 Books 1 2 & 3
Author: MURAKAMI HARUKI
Format: Hardback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 04/11/2011
Price: $55.00
RRP: $55.00
Imprint: Harvill Press
ISBN: 9781846555497Price: $55.00 - A Century of November
This is the tale of Charles Marden an apple grower and judge who sets off from his Vancouver Island home on an impulsive journey to Belgium where his son an Allied soldier in the First World War has just died in battle at the very end of the war. Marden's single-minded mission: finding the exact spot where his son was killed. Upon arriving in England Marden learns that his son left behind a pregnant girlfriend and soon Marden's search widens to include both finding the exact spot where his son died and locating the love his son left behind. Nearing the front lines Marden seems to descend into the fires of hell as he navigates the mine-strewn killing fields of the trenches still reeking with poison gas.
Title: A Century of November
Author: WETHERELL WD
Edition: 01
Year: 0705
Format: Trade Paperback
Publication date: 01/05/2007
Price: $27.00
RRP: $27.00
Imprint: ABC Books
Publisher: ABC Books
ISBN: 9780733320170Price: $27.00 - A Childs Book of True Crime
'Quietly, I closed the classroom door. I bent to lock it, and a shudder ran through me. In the door's olive paintwork, two words were now scratched in a maniac's hand: I KNOW.' In a small town near Port Arthur in Tasmania in the mid-nineties, Kate Byrne is having an affair with the father of her most gifted student. As the young teacher's sexual life is awakened by the father in scenes of escalating eroticism, the guilt she feels towards the son is compounded. Meanwhile, Veronica, her lover's wife, has just published MURDER AT BLACK SWAN POINT, a true crime book about the brutal slaying of a young adulteress some years before, set in a nearby town. Kate becomes fixated on the unsolved crime of passion that occured years earlier, less and less aware of her own reputation in the present. Is it her imagination, or is someone stalking her? Is she caught playing a game where she no longer knows the rules? Has her obsession with the crime aligned her fate with that of the murdered adulteress? Chilling, erotic and rivetingly suspenseful, A CHILD'S BOOK OF TRUE CRIME marks the arrival of a powerful and startlingly original new voice.
Title: A Childs Book of True Crime
Author: HOOPER CHLOE
Edition: 01
Year: 0212
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01/11/2002
Price: $33.00
RRP: $33.00
Imprint: Vintage
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 9781740512084Price: $33.00 - A Man of Parts
'The mind is a time machine that travels backwards in memory and forwards in prophecy, but he has done with prophecy now...' Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H.G.' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. Has it been a success or a failure? Once he was the most famous writer in the world, 'the man who invented tomorrow'; now he feels like yesterday's man, deserted by readers and depressed by the collapse of his utopian dreams. He recalls his unpromising start, and early struggles to acquire an education and make a living as a teacher; his rapid rise to fame as a writer with a prophetic imagination and a comic common touch which brought him into contact with most of the important literary, intellectual, and political figures of his time; his plunge into socialist politics; and, his belief in free love, and energetic practice of it.
Arguing with himself about his conduct, he relives his relationships with two wives and many mistresses, especially the brilliant student Amber Reeves and the gifted writer Rebecca West, both of whom bore him children, with dramatic and long-lasting consequences. Unfolding this astonishing story, David Lodge depicts a man as contradictory as he was talented: a socialist who enjoyed his affluence, an acclaimed novelist who turned against the literary novel; a feminist womaniser, sensual yet incurably romantic, irresistible and exasperating by turns, but always vitally human.
Title: A Man of Parts
Author: LODGE DAVID
Format: Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 12/01/2012
Price: $27.99
RRP: $27.99
Imprint: Vintage
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780099556084Price: $27.99 - A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa. We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist's couch in New York City, confronting her longstanding compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life--divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed up band in the basement of a suburban house--and then revisit him in 1979, at the height of his youth, shy and tender, reveling in San Francisco's punk scene as he discovers his ardor for rock and roll and his gift for spotting talent.
We learn what became of his high school gang--who thrived and who faltered--and we encounter Lou Kline, Bennie's catastrophically careless mentor, along with the lovers and children left behind in the wake of Lou's far flung sexual conquests and meteoric rise and fall. This is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. In a breathtaking array of styles and tones ranging from tragedy to satire to Powerpoint, Egan captures the undertow of self-destruction that we all must either master or succumb to; the basic human hunger for redemption; and the universal tendency to reach for both--and escape the merciless progress of time--in the transporting realms of art and music. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.
Title: A Visit from the Goon Squad
Author: EGAN JENNIFER
Format: Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 09/06/2011
Price: $25.00
RRP: $25.00
Imprint: Constable & Robinson
Publisher: Constable and Robinson
ISBN: 9781780330969Price: $25.00 - All That Follows
Title: All That Follows
Author: CRACE JIM
Format: Trade Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Price: $12.00
RRP: $40.00
Imprint: Picador
ISBN: 9780330513920Price: $12.00 - All That I am
"When Hitler came to power I was in the bath. The wireless in the living room was turned up loud, but all that drifted down to me were waves of happy cheering, like a football match. It was Monday afternoon..." Ruth Becker, defiant and cantankerous, is living out her days in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. She has made an uneasy peace with the ghosts of her past - and a part of history that has been all but forgotten. Another lifetime away, it's 1939 and the world is going to war. Ernst Toller, self-doubting revolutionary and poet, sits in a New York hotel room settling up the account of his life. When Toller's story arrives on Ruth's doorstep their shared past slips under her defences, and she's right back among them - those friends who predicted the brutality of the Nazis and gave everything they had to stop them. Those who were tested - and in some cases found wanting - in the face of hatred, of art, of love, and of history. Based on real people and events, All That I am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices some people make for their beliefs, and of heroism hidden in the most unexpected places.
Title: All That I am
Author: FUNDER ANNA
Format: Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 21/03/2012
Price: $30.00
RRP: $30.00
Imprint: Penguin Books
Publisher: Penguin Books Australia
ISBN: 9780143567516Price: $30.00 - Amateur Science of Love
Title: Amateur Science of Love
Author: SHERBORNE CRAIG
Format: Trade Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 30/05/2011
Price: $40.00
RRP: $40.00
Imprint: Text Publishing Co
ISBN: 9781921758010Price: $40.00 - Amulet
This is a highly charged novel that embodies the violent recent history of Latin America. It is September 1968 and the Mexican student movement is about to run head-on into the repressive right-wing government of Mexico: hundreds of young people will soon die. When the army invades the university, one woman hides in a fourth-floor ladies' room and for twelve days she is the only person left on campus. Staring at the floor, she recounts her bohemian life among the young poets of Mexico City - inventing and reinventing freely - and along the way she creates a cosmology of literature. As they grow ever more hallucinatory, her 'memories' become mythologies before completely transforming into riveting dark prophecies. Hair-raising and enthralling, Amulet is a heart-breaking novel and another brilliant example of the art of Roberto Bolano, 'the most admired novelist,' as Susan Sontag noted, 'in the Spanish-speaking world.'
Title: Amulet
Author: BOLANO ROBERTO
Format: Trade Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 04/09/2009
Price: $35.00
RRP: $35.00
Imprint: Picador
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330511834Price: $35.00 - Amy Isabelle
Isabelle Goodrow has been living in self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy for 15 years. Shamed by her past and her affair with Amy's father she has submerged herself in the routine of her dead-end job and her unrequited love for her boss. But when Amy, frustrated by her quiet and unemotional mother, embarks on an illicit affair with her maths teacher, the disgrace intensifies the shame Isabelle feels about her own past. Throughout one long, sweltering summer as the events of the small town ebb and flow around them Amy and Isabelle exist in silent conflict until a final act leads ultimately to the understanding they both crave.
Title: Amy & Isabelle
Author: STROUT ELIZABETH
Format: Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 09/06/2011
Price: $26.00
RRP: $26.00
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
ISBN: 9781849833042Price: $26.00 - AnnabelIn 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador in the far north-east of Canada, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once. Only three people share the secret u the baby's parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina. Together the adults make a difficult decision: to go through surgery and raise the child as a boy named Wayne. But as Wayne grows to adulthood within the hyper-male hunting culture of his father, his shadow-self u a girl he thinks of as 'Annabel' u is never entirely extinguished, and indeed is secretly nurtured by the women in his life. As Wayne approaches adulthood, and its emotional and physical demands, the woman inside him begins to cry out. The changes that follow are momentous not just for him, but for the three adults that have guarded his secret. Haunting and sweeping in scope, this is a first novel as much concerned with its characters as it is with their predicament, as much about humanity as it is about a rigidly masculine culture that shuns the singular and the unique. Told with great elegance and empathy, Annabel is the powerfully moving story of one person's struggle to discover the truth and the strength to change, to find tenderness in a severe and unforgiving land.
Title: Annabel
Author: WINTER KATHLEEN
Format: Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 20/04/2012
Price: $27.00
RRP: $27.00
Imprint: Vintage
ISBN: 9780099555025Price: $27.00
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