Welcome to Normal

An Australian wine-maker tries to crack the Taiwanese market. Two holiday-makers in Spain decide to tell a lie about each other every meal. A man drives home from work trying not to dwell on what he has just done.

From Arizona to Taipei to suburban Brisbane, Nick Earls's characters lead ordinary lives that, in these stories, become far from ordinary. Ranging widely in style, setting and narrator, Welcome To Normal vividly captures the uniqueness of the everyday through its author's eye for detail and his unfailing aim at the human heart.

By turns playful and thought-provoking, these stories showcase the calibre and versatility of Nick Earls at his perceptive best

.Nick Earls publishes books for adults and younger readers and writes, novels, plays and short stories including bestselling novels Zigzag Street, Bachelor Kisses and Perfect Skin. His work has been published internationally in English and in translation. Zigzag Street won a Betty Trask Award in the UK in 1998, and Perfect Skin was the only novel nominated for an Australian Comedy Award in 2003. 48 Shades of Brown and Perfect Skin have been adapted into feature films, with Solo un Padre, the film adapted from the Italian edition of Perfect Skin, a top-ten box office hit in Italy in 2008. After January, 48 Shades of Brown, Zigzag Street and Perfect Skin have all been successfully adapted for theatre, and the Zigzag Street play toured nationally in 2005. The True Story Of Butterfish was also performed as a play. His most recent novel is The Fix.

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Stock Listing

Branch	Stock	Location
The Co-op LTU Bendigo	2	Bendigo, 3550 VIC
The Co-op LTU Bundoora	3	Bundoora, 3083 VIC
The Co-op Macquarie University	2	Macquarie University, 2109 NSW
The Co-op Melbourne University Baillieu	1	The University of Melbourne, 3010 VIC
The Co-op Newcastle University Callaghan	1	Callaghan, 2308 NSW
The Co-op SCU Lismore	2	Lismore, 2480 NSW
The Co-op Sydney University	1	Sydney, 2006 NSW
The Co-op UQ St Lucia	1	St Lucia, 4067 QLD
The Co-op UTAS Hobart	2	Sandy Bay, 7005 TAS
The Co-op UTS Broadway	6	Ultimo, 2007 NSW

These figures were accurate this morning but stock may have been sold or received since then.