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The Death of Noah Glass
The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
The art historian Noah Glass, having just returned from a trip to Sicily, is discovered floating face down in the swimming pool at his Sydney apartment block. His adult children, Martin and Evie, must come to terms with the shock of their father’s death. But a sculpture has gone missing from a museum in Palermo, and Noah is a suspect. The police are investigating.
None of it makes any sense. Martin sets off to Palermo in search of answers about his father’s activities, while Evie moves into Noah’s apartment, waiting to learn where her life might take her. Retracing their father’s steps in their own way, neither of his children can see the path ahead.
Gail Jones’s mesmerising new novel tells a story about parents and children, and explores the overlapping patterns that life makes. The Death of Noah Glass is about love and art, about grief and happiness, about memory and the mystery of time.
The Death of Noah Glass
A Week in the Life of Cassandra Aberline
The Cage
The Stolen Bicycle
The Shadow Land
Australia Day
Anna
The Restorer
War and Turpentine
My Brilliant Friend
My Last Continent
Keep Me Posted
When the Sky Fell Apart
The Life of Elves
The Story of the Lost Child
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
The Story of a New Name
The Truth and Other Lies
The Well
The Surfacing
Academy Street
Silence Once Begun
The Train to Paris
The Pure Gold Baby
The Secret River
The Gargoyle
The Good Muslim
Genesis
An Exclusive Love
All the Way
For Richer, For Poorer
The Woman Before Me
This Is How
Saving Mozart
Hand Me Down World
Mister Pip
The Dinner
Beatrice and Virgil
Murderer’s Thumb
Serena
The Cove
We Need To Talk About Kevin
The Earth Hums in B Flat
The Minnow
