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![All the birds singing [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781742757308/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
All the birds singing [Book Club Set]
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Winner of the 2014 Miles Franklin AwardWho or what is watching Jake Whyte from the woods? Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. It's just her, her untamed companion, Dog, and a flock of sheep.
![The arsonist : a mind on fire [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780670078189/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
The arsonist : a mind on fire [Book Club Set]
On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno.
![The beloved [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781742611556/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
The beloved [Book Club Set]
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When Roberta 'Bertie' Lightfoot is struck down with polio, her world collapses. But Mama doesn't tolerate self-pity, and Bertie is nobody if not her mother's daughter - until she sets her heart on becoming an artist.
![The birdman's wife [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781925344998/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
The birdman's wife [Book Club Set]
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Inspired by letters from Elizabeth found tucked inside her famous husbands research, The Birdmans Wife takes the form of an intimate memoir of a woman whose talent and adventurous spirit led her from the glittering salons of London to the wilds of Van Diemans land and New South Wales.
![Black Rock White City [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781921924835/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
Black Rock White City [Book Club Set]
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Black Rock White City is a novel about the damages of war, the limits of choice, and the hope of love. During a hot Melbourne summer Jovan's cleaning work at a bayside hospital is disrupted by acts of graffiti and violence becoming increasingly malevolent.
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Border districts [Book Club Set]
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Conceived as Gerald Murnane's last work of fiction, Border Districts was written after the author moved from Melbourne to a small town on the western edge of the Wimmera plains, near the border with South Australia.
![Boy swallows universe [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781460753897/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
Boy swallows universe [Book Club Set]
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Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crim for a babysitter. It's not as if Eli's life isn't complicated enough already.
![The bridge [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781925713015/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
The bridge [Book Club Set]
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Did the dead exist? Were they watching? Were they ghosts? Not the kind he'd imagined as a child, draped with white sheets, with the ability to walk through walls, but the kind that lodged themselves in your heart, in your memories, the kind that came to you in dreams, that you could see...
![Drown them in the sea [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=1741143497/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
Drown them in the sea [Book Club Set]
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Subject: Drown them in the sea tells a compellingly honest story of the challenges and hardships of farming life in Australia. In vivid, vital language, Nicholas Angel captures both devastated landscape and human desire in this powerfully authentic evocation of life on the land.
![Foal's bread [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781742376295/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
Foal's bread [Book Club Set]
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![Golden boys [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781926428611/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
Golden boys [Book Club Set]
With their father, there is always a catch. Colt Jenson and his younger brother Bastian have moved to a new, working-class suburb. The Jensons are different. Their father, Rex, showers them with gifts, toys, bikes, all that glitters most and makes them the envy of the neighbourhood.
![Heart of the Grass Tree [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780143792499/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
Heart of the Grass Tree [Book Club Set]
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Pearl remembers Nell's feet stretched towards the campfires on the beach, her fourth toe curled in and nestled against the middle toe like a small prawn.
![Ladies in Black [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781925603996/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
Ladies in Black [Book Club Set]
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Set in the summer of 1959, when the impact of European migration and the rise of women's liberation is about to change Australia forever, Lisa, aged sixteen, takes a holiday job at the prestigious Sydney department store, Goodes. There she meets the "ladies in black", when she is assigned...
![The life to come [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781760296568/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
The life to come [Book Club Set]
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Set in Sydney, Paris and Sri Lanka, this is a mesmerising novel about the stories we tell and don't tell ourselves as individuals, as societies and as nations. It feels at once firmly classic and exhilaratingly contemporary. Pippa is a writer who longs for success.
![The light between oceans [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781742755700/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
The light between oceans [Book Club Set]
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This is a story of right and wrong, and how sometimes they look the same. They break the rules and follow their hearts. What happens next will break yours. 1926. Tom Sherbourne is a young lighthouse keeper on a remote island off Western Australia.
![Lola Bensky [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781926428475/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=795257797)
Lola Bensky [Book Club Set]
LolaBensky is a nineteen-year-old rock journalist who irons her hair straight and asks a lot of questions. A high-school dropout, she is not sure how she got the job - but she has been sent by her Australian newspaper right to the heart of the London music scene at the most exciting time in ...
![The Longing [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781864712704/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
The Longing [Book Club Set]
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In Australia in the 1840s, the lives of two very different women intersect. Ellis MacRorie is shipped to Victoria from her Scottish homeland by her bankrupt father; Leerpeen Weelan, her Aboriginal servant known as Louisa, has lost her tribe in a bloody act of violence.
![The Mother-in-Law [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781760552183/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
The Mother-in-Law [Book Club Set]
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Someone once told me that you have two families in your life - the one you are born into and the one you choose. Yes, you may get to choose your partner, but you don't choose your mother-in-law. The cackling mercenaries of fate determine it all.
![The Place on Dalhousie [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780143793533/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
The Place on Dalhousie [Book Club Set]
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When Rosie Gennaro first meets Jimmy Hailler, she has walked away from life in Sydney, leaving behind the place on Dalhousie that her father, Seb, painstakingly rebuilt for his family but never saw completed.
![The rip [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780733641121/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
The rip [Book Club Set]
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It's funny how quick it happens and without you really noticing. Anton said once that it's like walking out into the sea, and you think everything's fine and the water's warm, but when you turn back you're suddenly miles from shore. I've never been much of a swimmer, but I get what he means.
![Room for a Stranger [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781925773545/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
Room for a Stranger [Book Club Set]
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Since her sister died, Meg has been on her own. She doesn't mind, not really--not with Atticus, her African grey parrot, to keep her company--but after her house is broken into by a knife-wielding intruder, she decides it might be good to have some company after all.
![The shepherd's hut [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780143786115/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
The shepherd's hut [Book Club Set]
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For years Jaxie Clackton has dreaded going home. His beloved mum is dead, and he wishes his dad was too, until one terrible moment leaves his life stripped to nothing. No one ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for. And so Jaxie runs.
![The White Girl [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780702260384/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
The White Girl [Book Club Set]
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This novel explores the lengths we will go to in order to save the people we love. Odette Brown has lived her whole life on the fringes of a small country town. After her daughter disappeared and left her with her granddaughter Sissy to raise on her own, Odette has managed to stay under th...
![The strays [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781922213211/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
The strays [Book Club Set]
On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant garde painter Evan Trentham. He and his wife are trying to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia by inviting other like minded artists to live and work at their family home. Lily becomes infa...
![Wake in fright [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781921922169/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
Wake in fright [Book Club Set]
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![Welcome to normal [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781864711547/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
Welcome to normal [Book Club Set]
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![Those who come after [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781405040501/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
Those who come after [Book Club Set]
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![Too Much Lip [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780702259968/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
Too Much Lip [Book Club Set]
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Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent a lifetime avoiding two things - her hometown and prison. But now her Pop is dying and she's an inch away from the lockup, so she takes a Harley and heads south to Durrongo. Kerry's plan is to spend twenty-four hours, tops, over the border.
![The yellow house [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781760632854/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
The yellow house [Book Club Set]
Ten-year-old Cub lives with her parents, older brother Cassie, and twin brother Wally on a lonely property bordering an abandoned cattle farm and knackery. Their lives are shadowed by the infamous actions of her Granddad Les in his yellow weatherboard house, just over the fence.
![Past the shallows [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780733630491/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
Past the shallows [Book Club Set]
Hauntingly beautiful and told with an elegant simplicity, this is the story of two brothers growing up in a fractured family on the wild Tasmanian coast. The consequences of their parents' choices shape their lives and ultimately bring tragedy to them all.
![Taboo [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781925483741/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
Taboo [Book Club Set]
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From Kim Scott, two-times winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, comes a work charged with ambition and poetry, in equal parts brutal, mysterious and idealistic, about a young woman cast into a drama that has been playing for over two hundred years ...
![Tree palace [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781922147325/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
Tree palace [Book Club Set]
Shane, Moira and Midge, along with young Zara and Rory, are 'trants'-itinerants roaming the plains north-west of Melbourne in search of disused houses to sleep in, or to strip of heritage fittings when funds are low. When they find their TreePalace a place in which to settle down.
![Two steps forward [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781925498776/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
Two steps forward [Book Club Set]
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Zoe, a sometime artist, is from California. Martin, an engineer, is from Yorkshire. Both have ended up in picturesque Cluny, in central France. Both are struggling to come to terms with their recent past—for Zoe, the death of her husband; for Martin, a messy divorce.