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September 1, 2016‘The Hate Race’ by Maxine Beneba Clarke
Hachette; $32.99
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April 1, 2016‘The High Places’ by Fiona McFarlane
Hamish Hamilton; $32.99
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February 1, 2016‘Second Half First’ by Drusilla Modjeska
Knopf; $39.99
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September 1, 2015‘A Guide to Berlin’ by Gail Jones
Random House; $32.99
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July 1, 2015‘Forever Young’ by Steven Carroll
HarperCollins; $29.99
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March 1, 2015‘The Illuminations’ by Andrew O’Hagan
Faber & Faber; $29.99
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November 1, 2014‘The Golden Age’ by Joan London
Vintage Australia; $32.99
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September 1, 2011‘Her Father’s Daughter’ by Alice Pung
Alice Pung’s first book, Unpolished Gem (2006), was the work of a young, amusing and astute writer. While Her Father’s Daughter again makes use of Pung’s family background (she was born in Australia to ethnically Chinese refugees …
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August 5, 2010‘Rocks in the Belly’ by Jon Bauer
British–Australian writer Jon Bauer’s superb first novel Rocks in the Belly is a finely drawn vision of jealousy, resentment and self-vindication, revealing how this toxicity can flourish in childhood and develop in adult life. As a novel …