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Bestsellers

1. The Private Patient P.D. James Faber
2. The Brass Verdict Michael Connelly Connelly
3. Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert Bloomsbury
4. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer Allen & Unwin
5. Murder on a Midsummer Night Kerry Greenwood Allen & Unwin
6. A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini Bloomsbury
7. The Slap Christos Tsiolkas Allen & Unwin
8. Dead Man Running Ross Coulthart and Duncan McNab Allen & Unwin
9. The Snowball Alice Schroeder Bloomsbury
10. The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton Allen & Unwin

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Kerry Greenwood
Kerry has written twenty novels, a number of plays, including The Troubadours with Stephen D'Arcy, is an award-winning children's writer and has edited and contributed to several anthologies. Her latest book is Murder on a Midsummer Night.

November Events

Michael Connelly is touring Australia and New Zealand this month to celebrate the release of his latest bestseller The Brass Verdict. You can also see Christos Tsiolkas, Margaret Throsby, Kerry Greenwood and Maureen McCarthy, among others; for details of all upcoming author events, please visit our events schedule

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Now filmed as Man on Wire and showing at Dendy Cinemas, To Reach the Clouds is the amazing story of a daredevil Frenchman's tightrope walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
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Anne Michaels' novel Fugitive Pieces is a profound and moving meditation on the resilience of the human spirit and is now a poetic and emotionally charged film about love, loss and redemption. It opens at selected cinemas on 20th November.
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Murder on a Midsummer Night

Kerry Greenwood

The fabulous Phryne - the 1920s most elegant and irrepressible sleuth - returns for her seventeenth adventure

Lucio's Ligurian Kitchen

Lucio Galletto and David Dale, Photography by Paul Green

A sumptuously photographed book featuring delicious recipes from Liguria, the birthplace of ravioli and pesto.

Coming Soon

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gerald Martin

The first comprehensive biography of the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in a Time of Cholera.

Tales of Terror from the Black Ship

Chris Priestley

The second deliciously chilling collection of 'Tales of Terror': Edgar Allan Poe meets Roald Dahl's 'Tales of the Unexpected'.