Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life - Gerald Martin
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life is the first comprehensive biography of the author of One Hundred Years of Solitudeand Love in a Time of Cholera.
Central concerns will be the rags to riches element of Garcia Marquez’s story, the tension in his life between celebrity and literary quality, between politics and writing and between power, solitude [...]
Learn MoreThe list is in for the year 2008 - here are the top selling books in Australia for 2008. How many did you read?
1. 4 Ingredients - Kim McCosker & Rachel Birmingham
2. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
3. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
4. Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
5. The Tale of Beedle The Bard - JK Rowling
6. [...]
Ship Of Rome full of magnificent seabattles packed with strong characters torn between two powerful empires is the first book in a new series Masters of the Sea by a brilliant new author - John Stack.
Atticus‚ captain of one of the ships of Rome′s small‚ coastal fleet‚ is from a Greek fishing family. Septimus‚ [...]
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When the going gets tough - the tough go shopping. To coincide with the new movie Sophie Kinsellas novel Secret Dreamworld Of A Shopaholic has been re-launched with the movie title - Confessions of a Shopaholic.
Meet Rebecca Bloomwood.
She’s a journalist. She spends her working life telling others how to manage their money.
She spends her leisure [...]
Teenage author Alexandra Adornetto latest book - Von Gobstopper’s Arcade has just been released.
Master toymaker Gustav VonGobstopper announces plans to build a special Toy Arcade − brimming with the world′s greatest toys −− to commemorate the extraordinary bravery of Drabville′s children who have twice escaped the clutches of the wicked Lord Aldor.
The children couldn′t be [...]
The Twilight Saga has been Bookoffers.com.au most popular books for 2008. You’ve read the Saga, bought the Special Editions and now comes an exclusive US version not available in Australia. Fishpond.com.au have imported the Twilight:The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion and it is ready for 24 hour delivery! You won’t find this one anywhere else in [...]
Maggie Beer is a cook, food author, restaurateur and food manufacturer in the Barossa district of South Australia. Maggie and her husband Colin established the Barossa Pheasant Farm Restaurant in 1978 which became famous for serving locally raised pheasant as well as a high quality pate.
Currently, Maggie operates a business in the Barossa which produces [...]
If you like yours thrillers complex and multi-layered and honed to a sharp political edge, A Simple Act Of Violence will keep you engrossed.
Washington DC, embroiled in the mid-term elections, did not want to hear about serial killings. But when the newspapers reported a fourth murder, when they gave the killer a name and details [...]
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Danny Wallace is a writer and television presenter, who wears glasses and used to have a cat. He wrote Yes Man in which he decided to say ‘Yes’ to everything - and is released in Australia on January 1 with Jim Carry in the lead role.
‘I, Danny Wallace, being of sound mind and body, do [...]
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In Ice, Louis Nowra famous for penning the play Cosi uses his considerable skills to embroider a tale from Australia in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Ice tells the story of Malcolm McEacharn, the man who brings joy to early Sydney in the form of an iceberg and who later pioneers the first successful refrigerated [...]
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The life of Jack Fingleton, formidable opener for Australia during the Bodyline series is chronicled in Jack Fingleton: The Man Who Stood Up To Bradman by Aussie sports writer Greg Growden.
Jack Fingleton is one of Australian cricket’s most important and intriguing characters. In John Arlott’s words: He is himself?and a diverse himself it is.’
Fingleton was [...]