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1	In a Sunburned Country more books like this by Bill Bryson (Read by) add to wishlist Bryson, author of A WALK IN THE WOODS and I'M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF, takes on Australia. Bryson's wit and capacity for observation remain in top working condition despite the heat, and his encounters with the locals are engaging in this typical Brysonian look beyond the obvious. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.64! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Snakehead more books like this by Anthony Horowitz add to wishlist The Australian Secret Service recruits Alex Rider to infiltrate a ruthless gang known as Snakeheads. Alex accepts the assignment, and it becomes his most dangerous mission yet. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	On the Beach more books like this by Nevil Shute add to wishlist After the war is over, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards on the winds, gradually poisoning everything in its path. An American submarine captain is among the survivors left sheltering in Australia, preparing with the locals for the inevitable. Despite his memories of his wife, he becomes close to a young woman struggling to accept the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time more books like this by Doris Pilkington, Nugi Garimara add to wishlist see all copies from $2.45! new only from $6.39! \| SVS
5	Moonfire more books like this by Linda Lael Miller add to wishlist Beautiful Maggie Chamberlin fell in love with wealthy Reeve McKenna, a man as ruggedly splendid as the Australian wilderness. But Reeve's fierce hunger for Maggie is not yet love, and Maggie demands either the breathless pleasure of his passion and the full surrender of his heart--or nothing at all! see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Sound of Waves more books like this by Yukio Mishima add to wishlist Shinji, a fisherman, falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest man in his village, and the couple must persevere despite community disapproval. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Town Like Alice more books like this by Nevil Shute add to wishlist This title features an introduction by Eric Lomax. Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that leads to the deaths of many. Due to her ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.29! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse more books like this by David Ferry (Translator) add to wishlist A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes "Gilgamesh" available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for. see all copies from $2.20! new only from $4.60! \| SVS
9	Pearl Cove more books like this by Elizabeth Lowell add to wishlist A decade ago, the passionate romance between Archer Donovan and Hannah McGarry was extinguished by Archer's domineering half-brother--and Hannah's fiance--Len. But when Len, who is head of the Donovan family's pearl business, is murdered for his possession of some rare black pearls, Hannah calls on Archer to help her track down the killer. Before ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.39! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Nutmeg of Consolation more books like this by Patrick O'Brian add to wishlist The 14th novel in O'Brian's highly acclaimed series, the Aubrey/Maturin novels, about a captain in the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon during the Napoleonic Wars. In this installment, Jack and Stephen must deal with not only a tribe of cannibals but a mysterious and disruptive female convict on board ship. see all copies from $2.50! new only from $4.92! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	This Earth of Mankind more books like this by Pramoedya Ananta Toer add to wishlist Minke is a young Javanese student of great intelligence and ambition. Living equally among the colonists and colonized of 19th-century Java, he battles against the confines of colonial strictures. It is his love for Annelies that enables him to find the strength to embrace his world. see all copies from $2.75! new only from $5.67! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Mutant Message from Forever: A Novel of Aboriginal Wisom more books like this by Marlo Morgan add to wishlist On the heels of the worldwide bestselling "Mutant Message Down Under" comes the powerful tale of aboriginal twins separated at birth and how destiny and a search for their roots reunites them halfway around the world. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.30! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific more books like this by J Maarten Troost add to wishlist When the author's wife was posted to the small island nation of Kiribati in the South Pacific, their culture shock was extreme. Expecting a Gauguin-esque paradise, they actually found a hot, filthy, polluted, isolated, and forgotten place with almost no amenities. After two years of battling bureaucracy and, often, simply trying to find something ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The songlines more books like this by Bruce Chatwin add to wishlist Chatwin combines his own love for wandering the face of the earth with an examination of Australian aboriginal culture in this highly personal, lyrically written travel book by a master of the form. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Transit of Venus more books like this by Shirley Hazzard add to wishlist The life stories of two sisters who leave Australia for England and America as young women. Both have love affairs, marriages, and and families in their new worlds, and it is the history of their domestic and love lives that makes up the greater part of this tale. Considered Hazzard's finest novel, TRANSIT OF VENUS was a winner of the National ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.25! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Tommo & Hawk more books like this by Bryce Courtenay add to wishlist Evoking a time of struggle and triumph in the young Australian colonies, this is the tale of the enduring bond between two brothers, Tommo and Hawk Solomon. The second book in an epic trilogy from Bryce Courtenay. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	I Am the Messenger more books like this by Markus Zusak add to wishlist Being deeply, tragically unaccomplished in music, art, or even revolution, at age 19 Ed Kennedy is behind schedule compared to Bob Dylan, Salvador Dali, and Joan of Arc. Living in a cramped riverside hovel, this underage cab driver spends his time reading obsessively; playing cards with his loser friends Marv, Ritchie, and Audrey (also his intense ... see all copies from $2.54! new only from $2.65! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	True History of the Kelly Gang more books like this by Peter Carey add to wishlist Peter Carey tells the story of Australia's most famous outlaw, Ned Kelly, who was executed as a murderer and a horse thief in 1880. The facts of Kelly's brief life are revealed in a series of letters, very much in his own quirky vernacular voice, that he writes to the baby daughter he never sees. What is clear from Peter Carey's account is that ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee more books like this by Chloe Hooper add to wishlist Hooper's brilliant and searing account of the death of Cameron Doomadgee is written with the pace of a thriller. "Tall Man" tells the story of what happened to one man in an Aboriginal community and provides insight into a world few have ever seen. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Dark Torment more books like this by Karen Robards add to wishlist An Irish rebel and an Australian aristocrat discover passion despite their differences. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Outback more books like this by Aaron Fletcher add to wishlist Outback is the towering saga of the Garrity family, whose founding father was the illegitimate son of a female convict. Brought up in a Sydney orphanage, Patrick Garrity left the brawling city to make a life for himself in the vast backcountry of New South Wales. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.41! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Just Kate more books like this by Linda Lael Miller add to wishlist Kate was caught in the hectic blur of Washington's fast lane, working for her senator father and planning the perfect wedding to the "perfect" man. Until both betrayed her and left her with nowhere to turn--except to an unforgettable man from her past. From the author of Snowflakes on the Sea and Used-To-Be-Lovers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Dreamkeepers: A Spirit-Journey Into Aboriginal Australia more books like this by Harvey Arden add to wishlist Written by the co-author of "Wisdomkeepers", this book reveals the world of the Aborigines of the Kimberley region of Australia - "the land beyond goodby". Harvey Arden introduces readers to aboriginal men and women - rough-edged stockmen and gold hunters, storytellers and healers, poets and artists, spiritual elders and traditional Law Men - as ... see all copies from $2.96! new only from $6.59! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia more books like this by Thomas Keneally add to wishlist Keneally offers a novelistic chronicle of the founding of the colony now known as Australia, focusing on the first five years, 1788 to 1793, when the initial flotillas of boats carrying convicts, their military guard, and administrators arrived in New South Wales. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.29! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over more books like this by Geraldine Brooks add to wishlist A coming-of-age memoir in which the author evokes the pen pals she wrote to as an adolescent in the '60s and '70s. In an attempt to transcend her boring life in Australia, she strives to track down her correspondents many years later, at midlife. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $2.04! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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