Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey

Peter Carey delivers a poignant, gorgeously memorable story of love, death and invention.

Catherine, a middle-aged curator in a London museum, loses her lover and her boss endeavours to give her a project to occupy her empty state.  The project, a box containing the remains of an intricate mechanical bird, soon proves to be addictive and Catherine is soon obsessively drawn into its world.  Who was Henry Brandling and the clockmaker commissioned to make the gift for Henry's son?  What was the end result, now in pieces in her studio?

BZRL by Michael Grant

SPECIAL RRP OF $19.95!! A BRAND NEW TRILOGY from the man who brought you the Gone series. It's The Matrix meets The Bourne Identity. It's breathtaking. It's exhilarating. It's Michael Grant at his finest, bursting with his jaw-dropping concepts and heart-stopping pace.It's BZRK and you have never read anything like it.

Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

Starting at the moment 'The Swimming-Pool Library' ended, 'The Line of Beauty' traces the further history of a decade of change and tragedy. In the summer of 1983, 20-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Tory MP Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby - whom Nick had idolised at Oxford - and Catherine, always standing at a critical angle to the family and its assumptions and ambitions. As the Thatcher boom-years unfold, Nick, an innocent in the worlds of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of the glamorous family he is entangled with. Celebrating 40 years of outstanding international writing, this is one of the essential Picador novels reissued in a beautiful new series style.