Brian Bethune

The long-suffering head goes on to tell a series of intricately interlocked tales of headlessness—the helpless, stultifying effects of oppression, that is.

Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of January 20th, 2009)

Reality and fiction collide spectacularly in Cornelia Funke’s beloved ‘Inkworld’ trilogy, a magical ode to reading

The result is The Optimist, an ultimately serious book that’s actually pretty funny.

Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of January 13th, 2009)

Garner’s taut, angry and loving little novel, The Spare Room, about a grandmother putting up a dying friend who’s come to Melbourne for last-ditch “alternative” cancer treatment.

Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of January 6th, 2009)

Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of December 30th, 2008)

Longest gestation, best baby: Now 69, Patrick Lane had been an iconic poet for decades and, more recently, the author of an...

Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of December 16th, 2008)