Tell by Jonathan Buckley
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'I can talk for as long as you like, no problem. You'll just have to tell me when to stop. How far back do you want to take it?' Tell is a probing, exuberant and complex examination of the ways in which we make stories of our lives and of other people's. Structured as a series of interview transcripts ...Show more
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over by Anne de Marcken
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over asks how much of yourself can you lose before you are lost…and then what happens? The heroine of this haunting, spare novel is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, our undead narrator notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. She has forgo ...Show more
Kin: Family in the 21st century by Marina Kamenev
$36.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Written by journalist Marina Kamenev, Kin: Family in the 21st century is an incisive and powerful look at how families are created today, and how they might be created in the future. Here’s an exercise: take a piece of paper. Grab a pen, pencil, crayon — any drawing utensil within reach. Now, draw a ty ...Show more
Television by Kate Middleton
$27.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A poetry collection which is part criticism, part autobiography, and always acute in its recollection of the emotions inspired by television dramaIn her new collection Television, award-winning poet Kate Middleton considers the emotional impact that television programs had on her formative years — from ...Show more
Tree Spirits Grass Spirits by Hiromi Ito
$34.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
A collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito—part nature writing, part travelogue, part existential philosophy. Written between April 2012 and November 2013, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits adopts a non-linear narrative flow that mimics the growth of plants, a ...Show more
Enchanted Forests The Poetic Construction of a World Before Time by Boria Sax
$49.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Linking literature, philosophy, art, and personal experience, a moving exploration of the wooded landscape's power. In 1985 Boria Sax inherited an area of forest in New York State, which had been purchased by his Russian, Jewish, and Communist grandparents as a buffer against what they felt was a hostil ...Show more
Monument by Bonny Cassidy
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
An important literary memoir which views white settler family history against the impacts on the Indigenous people with whom they interact. is poet and critic Bonny Cassidy’s fourth book. Moving seamlessly through genres in its recovery of the past — part poetry, part prose, microhistory, memoir, travel ...Show more
World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music by Jeff Tweedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
An exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration from Wilco front man and New York Times bestselling author Jeff Tweedy, sharing fifty songs that changed his life, the real-life experiences behind each one, as well as what he's learned about how music and life intertwine and enhance ea ...Show more
The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata , Haydn Trowell (translator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters - born to the same father but different mothers - struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the younger, has become obsessed with locating a third sibling, ...Show more
One Another by Gail Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Eminent Australian author Gail Jones examines the intersections of art and life via a fictionalised biography of Joseph Conrad in her distinctively immersive and rich prose. At Cambridge University, in the summer of 1992, Australian student Helen is completing her thesis on Joseph Conrad. But she is di ...Show more
Woven: First Nations poetic conversations from the Fair Trade project by Red Room Poetry, Anne-Marie Te Whiu (ed.)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
to open up / to respond as genuinely as possible / to offer hope / we want things to change / weaving solidarity from place and history / into collective purpose (Ellen Van Neerven and Layli Long Soldier) Following from the much-loved Guwayu anthology, this second collaboration between Red Room Poetry ...Show more
A Shining by Jon Fosse
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and ultimately finds himself stuck at the end of a forest road. It soon grows dark and begins to snow. But instead of searching for help, he ventures, foolishly, into the dark forest. Inevitably, the ma ...Show more