On a farm in remote northern Wisconsin the mute and brilliant Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents Gar and Trudy. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a breed of dog whose thoughtful companionship is epitomised by Almodine, Edgar’s lifelong companion. But when his beloved father mysteriously dies, Edgar blames himself, if only because his muteness left him unable to summon help.

Grief stricken and bewildered by his mother’s desperate affair with her dead husband’s brother, Edgar’s world unravels one spring night when, in the falling rain, he sees his father’s ghost. After a botched attempt to prove that his uncle orchestrated Gar’s death, Edgar flees into the Chequamegon wilderness leading three yearling dogs. Yet his need to face his father’s murderer, and his devotion to the Sawtelle dogs, turn Edgar ever homeward. When he returns, nothing is as he expects, and Edgar must choose between revenge or preserving his family legacy…

Links and Further Reading

• David Wroblewski Website

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2. 4 Ingredients 2 - Kim McCosker & Rachael Bermingham

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4. 4 Ingredients - Kim McCosker & Rachael Bermingham

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6. Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer

7. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer

8. Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer

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Ash Lynch has worked (if you can call it that) in the magazine industry for what feels like forever. But he’s at a very loose end - his ambition to climb the greasy pole of career success long since expired, his personal life at a bit of a standstill.

At yet another of his work colleagues’ birthday drinks, Ash eyes Zoe and it’s infatuation at first sight. But he’s out of practice with the opposite sex, and if he’s receiving any positive signals from Zoe he’s oblivious to them. So it’s not entirely surprising when his more enterprising work-mate, Evan, lands Zoe before the week’s out.

Luckily, Ash finds some sort of solace hanging out with Miller, an ex-roadie taking a break from his trip around Australia to work at the local (birthday drinks) bar. Ash and Miller become great mates, talking heaps, occasionally getting trashed and generally having a good time together.

A weird turn of events finds Miller and Ash taking off overseas, first stop Amsterdam (a destination not entirely surprising). Their often hilarious journey across Europe has more than a dash of sex, drugs and rock and roll, taking them to new places in every sense of the word …

But will Cali, the girl Ash met in Amsterdam and hasn’t been able to get out of his mind since, be the one for him? And is he brave enough to visit her on her Greek island to find out? Or is his sojourn going to dead-end back in Australia with yet another potential relationship biting the dust?

A cross between Nick Earl’s Zigzag Street and Andrew McGahan’s Praise, this is the hilarious, but also poignant, account of two blokes’ adventures and friendship as they journey into the unknown.

Links and Further Reading

• Read a free extract from Taking Off

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Lincoln lawyer Mickey Haller and LAPD Detective Harry Bosch team up in this new novel by Michael Connelly.

Things are finally looking up for defence attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent’s killer may be coming for him next.

Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find Vincent’s killer, he is not opposed to using Haller as bait. But as danger mounts and the stakes rise, these two loners realise their only choice is to work together.

Links and Further Reading

• Watch Michael Connelly Discuss The Brass Verdict

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Warren Buffett is the world’s richest man, worth an estimated USD$62 billion. For the first time in his life, he has agreed to cooperate on a book that will be a biography of his ideas, a perspective that can be applied to business and the day-to-day decisions that dominate our lives.

Buffett has opened his world to Alice Schroeder, giving her unprecedented access to himself, his files, friends and associates. This will be the book that provides the never-before-published insight into his character and life, distilling the principles and philosophies that have guided him on a path to extraordinary success and esteem.

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Links and Further Reading

• Watch an interview of Alice Schroeder discussing the book

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Continuing the story of Susan Duncan’s bestselling and much-loved memoir, Salvation Creek, The House picks up after Bob and Susan marry and, two years later, move from her Tin Shed into his ‘pale yellow house on the high, rough hill’, Tarrangaua, built for the iconic Australian poet, Dorothea Mackellar.

Set against the backdrop of the small, close-knit Pittwater community with its colourful characters and quirky history, The House is about what happens when you open the door to life, adventure, and love. But it’s also about mothers and daughters, as Susan confronts her mother’s new frailty and her own role in what has always been a difficult relationship.

Where Salvation Creek was about mortality - living life in the face of death - The House is about stepping outside your comfort zone and embracing challenges, at any age. In turn funny and moving, Susan Duncan’s beautifully written sequel reminds us to honour what matters in life, and to disregard what really doesn’t.

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On October 8th, 2004, Schapelle Corby was stopped at Bali airport by customs officiacls, carrying 4.1 kg of cannabis in her unlocked bodyboard bag. Tony Wilson, a journalist for the Gold Coast Bulletin, was at work when the news came through. His life has been a rollercoaster ride ever since.

Schapelle was subsequently sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Kerobakan Prison, Bali, where she is today. There is no ventilation, no running water, no mattresses and a fluorescent bulb burns 24 hours a day.

Tony has been a crime reporter for over 20 years. He has seen it all, heard it all - but Schapelle’s story was different. Tony has checked the facts, hunted down the evidence and presented what he believes to be the truth, in this fascinating account of Schapelle and her family.

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The Australian Prime Minister called them ‘absolutely revolting’. Their removal from a Sydney art gallery was hailed by the Daily Telegraph as a ‘Victory for Decency’. Cate Blanchett and members of the arts community claimed charges laid over them would affect Australia’s cultural reputation.

Only now do we have the opportunity to hear the full story behind the Bill Henson photographs, which grabbed national attention in May 2008 when 20 images were removed from an exhibition and the photographer was investigated for child pornography.

David Marr, author of Dark Victory and the award-winning biography Patrick White: A Life, examines the pornography/art debate with exclusive interviews with Bill Henson, members of the NSW police force, child abuse campaigners and important figures in the Australian arts scene.

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This book tells the story of three remarkable scientific friendships during the Romantic Age in Britain. The astronomers William and Caroline Herschel, the chemists Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday and the medical scientists, John Abernethy and William Lawrence all challenged traditional ideas about human identity, morality and religious belief. They were pioneers in a time where distinctions between poetry, art and science were yet to take hold.

Holmes captures an age on the cusp of modernity, when science and faith in God were mutually incompatible, and shows through the vivid dramas of his central relationships how ideas are nurtured, scientific discoveries made, and how religious faith and scientific truth collide.

This book seeks to answer questions that are as relevant to us as they were to Coleridge’s generation: What are the sources of creativity? In what sense is there a human soul? Is it a fundamental mistake to regard science as a purely rational pursuit, or must we also recognise it as an imaginative and emotional one? With Holmes’s customary sense of place, personality, past and period, his ability to get to the heart of what drives a person, his sensitivity to human failings and desires, and his immense authority, this accessible and hugely readable book is breathtaking in its originality and its intellectual importance.

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1. Brisingr - Christopher Paolini

2. 4 Ingredients 2 - Kim McCosker & Rachael Bermingham

3 The Costello Memoirs - Peter Costello & Peter Coleman

4. Devil Bones -Kathy Reichs

5. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer

6. 4 Ingredients - Kim McCosker & Rachael Bermingham

7. Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer

8. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer

9. Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer

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