Amazon Kindle – Now Available In Australia – BookOffers Buyers Guide
Amazon.com today announced that the Kindle will become available in Australia from October 19 2009. Australian book lovers will no doubt have the new international Kindle on the top of their Christmas lists this year. BookOffers.com.au predicts that the arrival of the Kindle in Australia will be a game changer for the Australian book industry. [...]
Learn MoreCritics raved about this when it was launched earlier this year – Montefiore weaves the tale of one woman, Sashenka, through the history of modern Russia spanning three generations of women from the time of the Tsars to the oligarchs of today. Shashenka is a truly spellbinding and moving novel.
Winter, 1917: In St Petersburg, snow [...]
Put yourself in these shoes – you give up your cosy, pedestrian existence and move to Afghanistan for three years. Sally Cooper did just that and worked training journalists in radio stations. A Burqa And A Hard Place is her story.
Burqas, car bombs, and Bombay Sapphire welcome to life in post-Taliban Kabul from the viewpoint [...]
There’s nothing like a bit of escapist revenge fiction – from the bestselling author of Getting Rid of Matthew Jane Fallon (Ricky Gervais wife) has released her second novel – Got You Back.
Hell hath no fury like two women scorned…
Stephanie and Katie are strangers but they’re in love with the same man – James Mortimer. [...]
In I Was Told There’d Be Cake “Sloane Crosley channels David Sedaris—and Carrie Bradshaw—in a slightly cracked and often charming collection of essays recounting a suburban girl’s adventures in the big city.”
—Vogue
From accidentally despoiling an exhibit at the Museum of Natural [...]
“As I resigned myself to the fact that the latest Household Guide I’d written would be my last, I conceived in a flash the best idea ever. I rang Nancy and left a message. ‘Think of the title,’ I said. ‘How catchy does The Household Guide to Dying sound?’”
When Delia Bennet – author and domestic [...]
Sophie Cunningham’s absorbing second novel, Bird, is a convincing search for truth, writes Judith Armstrong. – theage.com.au – June 16 2008
To her lovers and friends, Anna Davidoff was a mystery. Beautiful, charismatic, irresponsible yet disarming; famous, in a way, but ultimately unknowable. To her daughter, she is no less an enigma even now, thirty years [...]
When You Are Engulfed in Flames – David Sedaris
The current number 1 bestseller on Amazon.com David Sedaris’ new essay collection When You Are Engulfed in Flames arrives locally on July 1. Pre-order your copy now.
Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the [...]
