The Bookworm has been working very hard to strengthen its relationships with overseas publishers in order to bring in more and more hot titles.Our range has grown exponentially and we think you'll approve – just look at the breadth of our book sections.

Bestselling & New Arrivals

	Sea of Poppies Amitav Ghosh		Country Driving Peter Hessler
	The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz		Permanently Temporary Tess Johnston
	Shanghai Walks I Barbara Green, Tess Johnston, Ruth Lear, and Carolyn Robertson		Shanghai Walks II Barbara Green, Tess Johnston, Ruth Lear, and Carolyn Robertson, with Jos Snoodijk

Online Ordering Facility

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Gifts and Deluxe Stationery

Never one to rest on its laurels, The Bookworm has extended its shop beyond merely books. With our cards, notebooks, diaries, calendars, maps, guidebooks, phrasebooks, magazines and even jewellery, shopping for those year-round birthday presents has never been easier. We'll even gift-wrap those special purchases for you.

Book Club Picks

With so many good reads out there, selecting a good range of titles for your book club can be daunting, so we've done it for you and here are our suggestions.

Your Top 10 Reads

This list was submitted by Michael Gericke.

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	Jeffrey Eugenides A superbly written story about the Greek family's adaption to America and some gloomy secrets resulting in a terribly confused daughter that wants to be a son...			The Lost Horizon James Hilton This is the ultimate Tibet novel about the Shangri-La everyone wants to find for him or herself. Those who cannot feel the magic of this book must have serious problems...
	A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving A classic tale of a miraculous person. Read it and you have the feeling as if you would know him by heart.			Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson An intelligent piece about recent US history and a masterpiece about inter-cultural feelings and its limitations.
	Olympia Anita Shreive A tragic love story that plays in a time when women did not really have a chance to live as they liked.

Reviews

The Monkey and the Dragon By Linda Jaivin Memoir, biography and travel book, The Monkey and the Dragon is a story about China like nothing you??ve ever read. This is a book about friendship, music, politics and life on the edge. Linda Jaivin first met Taiwan pop star Hou Dejian in 1981. His song ??Heirs of the Dragon?? was the unifying anthem of an awakening generation in Taiwan, Hong Kong and on mainland China. In June 1983 Hou defected to communist China, a stunning and bizarre move which shocked his friends and fans. In 1989 he was one of the last hunger-strikers on Tiananmen Square where he saved the lives of thousands of protestors, and later, with Linda??s help, took refuge in the Australian Embassy in Beijing. After seventy days he returned to the streets but wouldn??t be silenced. In 1990 the authorities abducted him and put him on a fishing boat bound for Taiwan where he became a fengshui master. He still writes the occasional song.

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