Orbital by Samantha Harvey
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft contemplating the world below. A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, cir ...Show more
Smoke And Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels, The Ibis Trilogy, ten years ago, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers he wrote of were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean, but also by the precious commodity carried in e ...Show more
Eat Your Mind - The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker by Jason McBride
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"It's shocking to learn that this is McBride's first book...Eat Your Mind does everything a good biography should and more" --Los Angeles Times. The first full-scale authorized biography of the pioneering experimental novelist Kathy Acker, one of the most original and controversial figures in 20th-cent ...Show more
Sheep's Clothing by Celia Dale
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It was a livelihood which comprised skill, nerve, an understanding and manipulation of humannature, and risk. The risk made Grace Bradby's cold blood runwarmer and faster. Grace Bradby meets Janice in Holloway Prison. Grace is doing six months for larceny and Janice,three for the most recent of a serie ...Show more
The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap and Damascus. A compelling contemporary love story between two middle-aged men, told with grace, heart and wisdom. No life is simple, and no life is without sorrow. No life is perfect. Two middle-aged men ...Show more
Barbara Tucker: The Art of Being by Hermina Burns
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Much more than a muse; Barbara Tucker was in fact a vital partner in the artistic success of her famed husband. Barbara Tucker- The Art of Being presents a multifaceted view of Tucker and the life she made with her artist husband Albert. Inspired by accounts of family, friends and admirers attending he ...Show more
Grief is for People: A Memoir by Sloane Crosley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley's memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend. Potent and propulsive, a lyrical meditation on loss and what comes after - TARA WESTOVER For most of her adult life, Sloane and Russell worked together and played together a ...Show more
Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography
$79.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography brings together the celebrated writing of Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, with photographs from Maison Européenne de la Photographie’s collection by photographers including Harry Callahan, Claude Dityvon, Dolorès Marat, Daidō Moriyama, Jani ...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
Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin - Freedom, Politics and Humanity by Kei Hiruta
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century's most important thinkers--and the lessons their disagreements continue to offer Two of the most iconic thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) fundamentally dis ...Show more
The Foot of Clive by John Berger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
From the 1972 Booker Prize-winning author comes an examination of masculinity, social covenants and murder that develops into a masterclass in humanity In the centre of a 1960s hospital ward sits a curtained-off bed, guarded by a policeman. In it lies a murderer, hidden from view and likely to die befor ...Show more