From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March
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Recently voted Book of the Year and Literary Fiction of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards, People of the Book is a gripping and moving novel about war, art, love and survival.
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Steven Carroll
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Steven Carroll was born in Melbourne and grew up in Glenroy. He went to La Trobe University and taught English in high schools before playing in bands in the 1970s. After leaving the music scene he began writing as a playwright and became the theatre critic for The Sunday Age. He has recently given up his lecturing post at RMIT to write full time and lives in Brunswick, Victoria.
His novels The Art of the Engine Driver and The Gift of Speed were both shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. In 2008 The Time We Have Taken won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, South–East Asia and South Pacific region, and the Miles Franklin Award, Australia's most prestigious literary prize.
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I Know This Much is True
By Wally Lamb
Ahead of the long-awaited publication of Wally Lamb's next novel later this year, why not revisit his classic, much-loved novel I Know This Much Is True, a perennial reading groups favourite which tells the story of two identical twins: one, a paranoid schizophrenic, and his brother whose life
is dominated by his resentment of and love for his damaged twin.
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