The Lost Mother
Anne Summers $28.95
Well known feminist Summers inherits a painting when her mother dies. She unravels the story of a portrait painted of her mother as a child. Anne's investigation takes her into a book that is part art history, part detective novel and part family memoir, and uncovers the truth about the author and her mother.

Legacy
Larissa Behrendt $26.95
A vivid first novel about a young clever Aboriginal lawyer and her relationship with her father, a prominent Aboriginal rights activist. While she juggles the challenges of a modern woman's life, family, and career, her father is confronting his double life and his secrets.

So Much For That
Lionel Shriver $35.95
From a best-selling author who this time takes a hard look at America's inadequate health system. Plans and dreams have to be sacrificed as a successful and ambitious couple, Glynis and Shep, hurtle towards bankruptcy because of astronomically expensive treatments. A brilliant expose.

Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel $27.95
Winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize, and now available in small format pbk. A brilliant author presents the brutal world of the Tudors and the rise of Thomas Cromwell. From a lowly and poor beginning he rose to become finally the most powerful of Henry VIII's courtiers.

The Legacy
Kirsten Tranter $35.95
New Australian writer of very promising talent. An unputdownable mystery and a meditation on the nature of art, truth, friendship, and love. Set in Sydney and New York around the time of September 11 2001.