Eat Me

Romance

Jaivin, Linda

Contemporary

Text Publishing Company

A powerful political novel based on the sudden, mysterious death of the man who had been handpicked to succeed the hated Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha.Did he commit suicide or was he murdered? That is the burning question. The man who died by his own hand, or another+s, was Mehmet Shehu, the presumed heir to the ailing dictator, Enver Hoxha. So sure was the world that he was next in line, he was known as The Successor. And then, shortly before he was to assume power, he was found dead.THE SUCCESSOR is simultaneously a mystery novel, an historical novel-based on actual events and buttressed by the author+s private conversations with the son of the real-life Mehmet Shehu-and a psychological novel (How do you live when nothing is sure?). Vintage Kadare, THE SUCCESSOR seamlessly blends dream and reality, legendary past, and contemporary history.

The Successor

Literature & Fiction

Ismail-Kadare

Literary

Brush Off

Shane Maloney

An extraordinary audiobook of non-fiction, spanning 25 years of work, by one of Australia’s great writers.Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning 50 and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her story on the murder of the two-year-old Daniel Valerio wins her a Walkley Award. Garner looks at the world with a shrewd and sympathetic eye. Her non-fiction, with its many voices, is always passionate and compelling. True Stories is an extraordinary audiobook, spanning 25 years of work, by one of Australia’s great writers.

True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction

Biographies & Memoirs

Helen Garner

Community & Culture

The reputation of Alan Moorehead as the greatest war correspondent of WWII'The very best book written by a war correspondent in this war' - The Times Literary Supplement. 'A classic ...Moorehead is more than a first-calss reporter. He is an artist ...Some of the battle scenes stand comparison with the famous battle descriptions of Stendhal and Tolstoy.' - The Observer

African trilogy: The North African campaign 1940-43 : comprising Mediterranean front, A year of battle, The end in Africa

History

Moorehead, Alan.

Africa

Wraith

Lee Tulloch

<p>1999 Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and The Commonwealth Writers Prize.Love Story!</p>

Eucalyptus

Murray Bail

<p>The Hilarious, riveting and sometimes terrifying adventures of an Australian field bioligist in the jungles and mountains of New  Guinea, one of the last frontiers left on earth.  In New Guinea Pidgin, throwin way leg means to go on a journey. It describes the action of thrusting out your leg to take the  first step of what can be a long march.  Flannery observes the collision of cultures as Catholic missionaries seek to reform traditional beliefs and mining companies  exploit the huge gold and copper resources of the island.</p>

Throwim Way Leg: An Adventure

TIM FLANNERY

Silence in October: A Novel

Grøndahl, Jens Christian

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