Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Norwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiWhen he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.

Instead she is adopted and becomes a prized hunting dog

Fiona was later made Australian of the Year

Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto that which connects us all: the modern family and domestic life in the twenty-first century

But it was somebody's land

Nate looks like her best option to advance in competition

We have all felt that uncanny sensation that someone is watching us

The Last Muster is set on a cattle station on Bunuba country in the Kimberley district of Western Australia

we also have the innate ability to awaken to and change the behaviours that no longer serve us

angry and yet full of hope

an outside world she would never see

silly (and smelly) way

the echidnas shuffle across the land and down to the water's edge where a sleepy crocodile lies