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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Jonathan D. Quick,Bronwyn Fryer
It’s the dystopian nightmare pandemic experts have warned about. But it’s happening right now.
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Michael Greger
A vital, timely text on the viruses that cause pandemics and how to face them, by the New York Times bestselling author of How Not to Die.
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Mark Honigsbaum
The most timely and informative history book you will read this year, tracing a century of pandemics, with a new chapter on COVID-19.
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Frank Ryan
A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses - from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera is a brilliantly crafted, beautifully written story of love and the love-sick.
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Ling Ma
Maybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat, wryly funny…
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Jeremy Brown
Dr Jeremy Brown, America’s highest medical authority on emergency care research, offers Australians some enlightening, entertaining and unnerving advice on the flu.
Rebecca Makkai
The Carnegie Medal-winning novel of hope and heartbreak amidst the AIDs crisis, for fans of A Little Life and The Lacuna.
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Daniel Defoe
This work follows Daniel Defoe’s fictional narrator as he traces the devastating progress of the plague through the streets of London. Here we see a city transformed - some of…
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Mark Smith
Mark Smith’s The Road to Winter tells a thrilling, primal, twenty-first century story of courage and survival in the Australian wilderness.
Margaret Atwood
An epic of biblical proportions, The Year of the Flood is a feast of imagination and a journey to the end of the world.
Geraldine Brooks
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘March’ and ‘People of the Book’. A young woman’s struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666, when…
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Emily St. John Mandel
What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty.
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Cormac McCarthy
A father and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. They have…
Laura Jean McKay
Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks.
Albert Camus
Presents a book translated by Stuart Gilbert.