The Nest
by Paul Jennings

Sixteen-year-old Robin lives with his single father in the Victorian alps where they run a snowmobile hire business. Robin lives in fear of his bullying father and believes that it was his (Robin's) fault that his mother left them when he was a baby, which is why his father hates him and is the cause of all his problems.

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Journey to the Edge of the World
by Billy Connolly

In the summer of 2008 Billy Connolly set sail on a ten-week journey from ocean to ocean: from the Atlantic to the Pacific, by way of the Northwest Passage - a fabled route deep within the Arctic Circle that has thwarted explorers and fortune-hunters for centuries.

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Love in the Age of Drought
by Fiona Higgins

When Fiona meets Stuart at a conference, she isn't looking for a relationship, let alone the upheaval of falling in love with an intelligent, eco-friendly cotton farmer from Queensland. But that's exactly what happens, and Fiona moves from her comfortable Sydney life to Stuart's farm.

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Choir Man
by Jonathon Welch

He is the man who brought you the award-winning Choir of Hard Knocks - made up of the homeless and the disadvantaged - the judge on Battle of the Choirs, a highly renowned opera singer and conductor who has worked with some of Australia's most talented performers.

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Wanting
by Richard Flanagan

Shortlisted for Miles Franklin 2009. Sir John Franklin, the most celebrated explorer of his age, and his Wife Lady Jane. adopt Mathinna a young Aboriginal girl to prove that a savage can be civilised.

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The Weight of Silence
by Catherine Therese

The Weight of Silence is the gravity of all the unsaids, the unseens, and how they shape our lives. A father's drinking, a mother's shame, a daughter's longing to hold on to a trouser leg to hear someone speak of what never happened. The Weight of Silence = 9 lbs 4 ozs.

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