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Against the backdrop of Darwin, that small, tropical hothouse of a port, half-outback, half-oriental, lying at the tip of northern Australia, a young and newly arrived southerner encounters the ′maestro′, a Viennese refugee with a shadowed past. The occasion is a piano lesson, the first of many...
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Critical Praise for
Maestro
′A splendid achievement, a wise, deeply felt novel that continues to haunt well after one has finished it.′
Andrew Riemer, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
′A beautifully crafted novel dealing with the tragic gulf between talent and genius ...′
C J Koch
′A profound exploration of European exile and Australian adolescence ... beautifully constructed, elegantly performed, deeply moving.′
Caryl Phillips
′The necessary elusiveness of perfection, the unplumbed ocean beneath articulateness, the ambivalence of beauty : these are the revolving concerns of Peter Goldsworthy, and handled not just with irony, but with an effervescent, compassionate wit. He can′t help being funny, but he′s wise too.′
Gerard Windsor, AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW
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Maestro
Against the backdrop of Darwin, that small, tropical hothouse of a port, half-outback, half-oriental, lying at the tip of northern Australia, a young and newly arrived southerner encounters the ′maestro′, a Viennese refugee with a shadowed past. The...
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Honk If You Are Jesus
From the pen of Peter Goldsworthy - a modern champion of the lost art of storytelling - comes Honk If You Are Jesus, a bestselling novel that resists categorisation, and explodes expectations. Keep your hand on the horn during this startling comic fiction.
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Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam
Written in an evocative, haunting style, this moving tale of loss and the relationship between parents and child was first published in the collection Little Deaths in 1993. Tailor-made for reading groups, it is a unique publication which includes an introduction by an acclaimed...
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All the Summer Girls
By Meg Donohue
In Philadelphia, good girl Kate is dumped by her fiancé the day she learns she is pregnant with his child. In New York City, beautiful stay-at-home mom Vanessa finds herself obsessively searching the Internet for news of an old flame. And in San Francisco, Dani, an aspiring writer who can't...
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Benjamin Franklin's Bastard
By Sally Cabot
An absorbing and compelling work of literary historical fiction, set in colonial Philadelphia, that brings to life a little-known chapter of the American Revolution—the story of Benjamin Franklin and his bastard son, and the women who loved them Sixteen-year-old Anne is an uneducated serving...
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The Iron King
By Maurice Druon
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