The Gentle Barbarian by Bohumil Hrabal; Paul Wilson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Gentle Barbarian is Bohumil Hrabal's homage to Vladimír Boudník, one of the greatest Czech visual artists of the 1950s and 1960s, whose life came to a tragic end shortly after the Soviet invasion of 1968. Boudnik and Hrabal had a close and often contentious friendship. For a brief period, in the ear ...Show more
Six Records of a Life Adrift by Shen Fu; Graham Sanders (Intro and Notes by, Translator)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
"Shen Fu's Six Records of a Life Adrift is the most intimate document at our disposal of private life in late imperial China. Graham Sanders now provides us with a new translation for the 21st century, which is not only well researched but also highly readable." --Wilt Idema, Harvard University
The Believer: Encounters with Love, Death & Faith by Sarah Krasnostein
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
This book is about ghosts and gods and flying saucers and certainty in the absence of knowledge. From award-winning author Sarah Krasnostein comes an exploration of the power of belief. Weaving together the stories of six extraordinary ordinary people, The Believer looks at the stories we tell ourselves ...Show more
O by Steven Carroll
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A woman writes a story for her married lover. Something she always thought of as a fairy tale. A fairy tale with a dark side, like the best of fairy tales...' Occupied France, 1943. France's most shameful hour. In these dark times, Dominique starts an illicit affair with a distinguished publisher, a m ...Show more
A Room Called Earth by Madeleine Ryan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A young woman gets ready to go to a party. She arrives, feels overwhelmed, leaves, and then returns. Minutely attuned to the people who come into her view, and alternating between alienation and profound connection, she is hilarious, self-aware, sometimes acerbic, and painfully honest. And by the end o ...Show more
Friends and Dark Shapes by Kavita Bedford
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A group of housemates in Sydney's inner city contend with gentrification, divisive politics, loss, grief, their own complicated privilege as second-generation Australians, the evolving world of dating and work in this wry debut. Losing a father isn't easy. Neither is the split existence you live afterwa ...Show more
Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A passionate account of the toxic culture of bullying and overwork that junior doctors can experience in the workplace as part of their training. Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream: model student, top of her class in medical school and on track to becoming a surgeon. A self-confessed workah ...Show more
Angel Mage by Garth Nix
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
A high fantasy adventure full of pistols, swashbuckling, angels and heroes, Angel Mage is also a breathtaking story about love and power, obsession and passion. WINNER OF THE 2019 AUREALIS AWARD FOR BEST FANTASY NOVEL The icon-maker and angel-summoner Liliath, long believed dead, has woken from her ce ...Show more
Stillness is the Key: An Ancient Strategy for Modern Life by Ryan Holiday
$22.99 AUD
Category: Health & Self Help
The #1 New York Times Bestseller that shows why slowing down is the key to getting ahead.
Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
* WINNER OF THE 2022 STELLA PRIZE *An innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian literary scene.I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconograph ...Show more
Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"One of contemporary fiction's most gifted sentence builders" Beejay Silcox, GuardianBehind the ornate doors of 30, rue du Métal in Brussels, twenty students begin their apprenticeship in the art of decorative painting - that art of tricksters and counterfeiters, where each knot in a plank of wood hides ...Show more
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A woman known for her viral social media posts travels the world speaking to her adoring fans, her entire existence overwhelmed by the internet or what she terms 'the portal'. Are we in hell? the people of the portal ask themselves. Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die? Suddenly, two te ...Show more