The Plotinus by Rikki Ducornet
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Nvla Ser.
Incarcerated for his subversive connection to the old, living world, a prisoner makes the most of his isolation in this captivating allegorical tale about tyranny, conviction, and the enduring power of imagination. Upon setting out for a morning walk with his knobby stick in hand, a young man is arrest ...Show more
Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott
$38.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929--the story of a divorce and its aftermath, which scandalized the Jazz Age. It's 1924, and Peter and Patricia have what looks to be a very modern marriage. Both drink. Both smoke. Both work, Patricia as a head copywriter at a major departmen ...Show more
Alone: Reflections on Solitary Living by Daniel Schreiber
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A book for our times: a moving meditation on the tension between loneliness and freedom, individualism and love. At no time before have so many people lived alone, and never has loneliness been so widely or keenly felt. Why, in a society of individualists, is living alone perceived as a shameful failure ...Show more
I Hear You're Rich: Stories by Diane Williams
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'The writer who saved my life - or my soul.' Merve Emre, The New Yorker 'A true living hero of the American avant-garde.' Jonathan Franzen 'One of the very few contemporary prose writers who seem to be doing something independent, energetic, heartfelt.' Lydia Davis A new collection of stories from th ...Show more
Body Friend by Katherine Brabon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Body Friend is a deeply intimate tribute to the fragile and porous self, written in prose of rare clarity and tenderness. I felt everything reading this book.'--Claire Thomas, author of The Performance and Fugitive Blue Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure ...Show more
Paper Lantern - Love Stories by Stuart Dybek
$17.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A new collection of short stories by a master of the form with a common focus on the turmoils of romantic love Ready Aim On command the firing squad aims at the man backed against a full-length mirror. The mirror once hung in a bedroom, but now it's cracked and propped against a dumpster in an alley ...Show more
The Modern by Anna Kate Blair
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In an age driven by desire, what happens when you want two different things? Set in the pristine, precarious world of MoMA, The Modern is a brilliantly wry and insightful debut about art, sexuality, commitment and whether being on the right path can lead to the wrong place. Things seem to be working ...Show more
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story - and about who deserves to be believed. It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cous ...Show more
Lament for Julia by Susan Taubes; Francesca Wade (Introduction by)
$35.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A celestial overseer observes--and is continually confounded by--a young woman's path into adulthood in this uncanny and darkly humorous novel, unpublished until now and accompanied by a selection of the author's stories. Susan Taubes's novella "Lament for Julia" is the story of a young woman coming ...Show more
The Gull Yettin by Joe Kessler
$38.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
The life of an orphaned boy is shaped by the devotion of a fantastical Gull in this lovingly rendered, entirely wordless graphic novel by a contemporary comics innovator.Joe Kessler is at the forefront of European comics. Co-founder and art director of UK's Breakdown Press, and winner of the Angoulême I ...Show more
Francisco by Alison Mills Newman
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Alison Mills Newman's innovative, genre-bending novel has long been out of print and impossible to find. A "fluently funky mix of standard and nonstandard English," as the poet and scholar Harryette Mullen once put it, Francisco is the first-person account of a young actress and musician and her growing ...Show more
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A landmark feminist intervention- a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, fema ...Show more