Top 5 Books

1. Don't Let's Not Go To The Dogs Tonight (Alexandra Fuller)
Intensely moving and even delightful journey through a white African girl's childhood who grew up during the Rhodesian civil war (1971-1979), a world where children over five learned how to load an FN rifle magazine, strip and clean all the guns in the house, and ultimately, shoot-to-kill.

2. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Milan Kundera)
This is, above all, the wonderfully integrated stories of men and women living in a world of public oppression and private longings, a world in which history may be rewritten overnight and in which love may fall victim to either political intrusion or personal betrayal.

3. From the Holy Mountain (William Dalrymple)
Following in the footsteps of Orthodox monks who travelled fourteen hundred years before him, Dalrymple embarks upon a journey through Turkey, Syria, Beirut, and the West Bank to the ancient Egyptian cities of Antioch and Alexandria before encompassing what was once the Christian empire of Byzantium.

4. The Riders (Tim Winton)
The Riders tells the story of Fred Scully, an Australian who has spent the past few years living in London, Paris, and the Greek Islands with his wife & daughter. It follows Australian on a nightmare journey through Europe in search of a wife that has disappeared without explanation.

5. The Shark Net (Robert Drewe)
Both an unforgettable account of the author's coming of age and a haunting anatomy of a serial killer, The Shark Net is a magnificent evocation of boyhood pleasures and dangers, on the white sands of Australia's western coast.