Intervals by Marianne Brooker
$32.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity on the horizon, Marianne Brooker's mother was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis. She made a workshop of herself and her surroundings, combining creativity and activism in inventive ways. ...Show more
The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Finalist for the 2015 PEN Literary Award for Translation Winner of the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature "A quirky, compulsively readable book that deftly hints at the emptiness and sadness at its core."--New York Times A finalist for both the Strega Europeo and Gregor von Rezzori awards (and w ...Show more
This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
*A TIME MAGAZINE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024 **AN OPRAH DAILY MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024**AN OBSERVER 2024 PICK**A GUARDIAN 2024 PICK* 'One of those rare novels which a reader doesn't merely read but lives through with the characters . . . Claire Messud is a magnificent storyteller' Yiyun LiJune 1 ...Show more
Only the Astronauts by Ceridwen Dovey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A transformative new collection from the award-winning author of Only the Animals. Starman, a lovelorn mannequin orbiting the Sun in his cherry-red car, pines for his creator. The first sculpture ever taken to the Moon is possessed by the spirit of Neil Armstrong. The International Space Station, await ...Show more
Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe by Sathnam Sanghera
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
2.6 billion people are inhabitants of former British colonies. The empire's influence upon the quarter of the planet it occupied, and its gravitational influence upon the world outside it, has been profound- from the spread of Christianity by missionaries to nearly 1 in 3 driving on the left side of the ...Show more
Wrong Norma by Anne Carson
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Category: Poetry
Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years. Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-designed book, annotated and corrected by the author. Anne Carson is probably our most celebrated living poet, winner of countless awards and routinely tipped for the Nobe ...Show more
Moon Road by Sarah Leipciger
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An estranged couple meet again after twenty years for a roadtrip across Canada in search of their lost daughter. For fans of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver Beautifully observed portrait of marriage, divorce and reconciliation as an estranged couple go on a road trip to uncover a family myster ...Show more
Table For Two by Amor Towles
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Category: Fiction
Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encou ...Show more
I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me by Juan Pablo Villalobos; Rosalind Harvey (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
"I don't expect anyone to believe me," warns the narrator of this novel, a Mexican student called Juan Pablo Villalobos. He is about to fly to Barcelona on a scholarship when he's kidnapped in a bookshop and whisked away by thugs to a basement. The gangsters are threatening his cousin--a wannabe entrepr ...Show more
Ryder by Djuna Barnes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
From the author of Nightwood, Djuna Barnes has written a book that is all that she was, and must still be vulgar, beautiful, defiant, witty, poetic, and a little mad.Told as through a kaleidoscope, the chronicle of the Ryder family is a bawdy tale of eccentricity and anarchy; through sparkling detours a ...Show more
The Eyes Are The Best Part by Monika Kim
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Boy Parts meets My Sister, the Serial Killer this feminist psychological horror is crawling under reader's skin...Ji-won's life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her Appa's extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her mother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her college freshma ...Show more
Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Sheila Heti kept a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. In the vein of Joe Brainard's I Remember and Edouard Levé's Autoportrait, passionate and reflective, joyful and despairing, these are the alphabetical diaries.