The Tattoo Murder by Akimitsu Takagi
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
A classic Japanese murder mystery set in post-war Tokyo and steeped in the illicit subculture of Yakuza tattoos. Kinue Nomura survived World War II only to be murdered in Tokyo, her severed limbs discovered in a room locked from the inside. Gone is the part of her that bore one of the most beautiful ful ...Show more
I Who Have Never Known Men: Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic tale by Jacqueline Harpman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, MAN BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE WATER CURE'A small miracle' The New York Times'For a very long time, the days went by, each just like the day before, then I began to think, and everything changed'Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned ...Show more
The Chinese Pleasure Book by Michael Nylan
$72.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
An examination of pleasure--short-term delight and the cultivation of longer-term satisfaction--in early Chinese thought.In Ordinary Pleasures, Michael Nylan takes up one of the most important themes in Chinese thought: the relation of pleasurable activities to bodily health and the health of the body p ...Show more
The Tower by Flora Carr
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A fiery feminist retelling of Mary, Queen of Scot's darkest hour for fans of MATRIX and THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS 'The Tower is such a vivid, visceral read, you feel you're locked in the tower alongside the characters, acting out a royal family drama. I am moved and impressed' TRACY CHEVALIER They are im ...Show more
My Brilliant Sister by Amy Brown
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
While Stella Miles Franklin took on the world, her beloved sister Linda led a short, domestic life as a wife, mother and sister. In a remarkable, genre-bending debut novel Amy Brown thrillingly reimagines those two lives – and her own – to explore and explode the contradictions embedded in brilliant ca ...Show more
Barefoot Doctor by Can Xue
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A profound, poignant story of a village healer and her community, from one of the world's great contemporary novelists "A complex and illuminating portrait of a group of healers in China . . . [that] offers profound insights about what it means to pursue and live a fulfilling life."-Publishers Weekly ...Show more
Babel: Or The Necessity Of Violence: An Arcane History Of The Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Tradut ...Show more
Never Was by Honor Gavin
$33.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Part hallucination, part queer bildungsroman, Never Was is a beautifully strange novel about grief, addiction and working-class masculinity, taking us from a limbo of lost dreams to a small salt-mining town and exploring the way identity is both inherited and re-invented. Daniel sits on a clifftop in th ...Show more
Land of Smoke by Sara Gallardo; Jessica Sequeira (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
Dazzling, hallucinatory stories by Sara Gallardo, a rediscovered Argentinian contemporary of Garcia Marquez
Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott
$36.00 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
Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion by Charlie Porter
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Why do we wear what we wear? To answer this question, we must go back and unlock the wardrobes of the early twentieth century, when fashion as we know it was born. In Bring No Clothes, acclaimed fashion writer Charlie Porter brings us face to face with six members of the Bloomsbury Group - the collect ...Show more
Pleasure Beach by Helen Palmer
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Pleasure Beach is a queer love story from the North West’s saucy seaside paradise, Blackpool, on one day: 16 June 1999. Written in multiple voices and styles, Pleasure Beach follows the interconnecting journeys and thoughts of three young women over the course of 24 hours and over 18 chapters which are ...Show more