Valentino and Sagittarius by Natalia Ginzburg
$32.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Valentino and Saggitarius are two of Natalia Ginzburg's most celebrated works, tales of love, hope, and delusion that are full of Ginzburg's characteristic mordant humor, keen psychological insight, and unflinching moral realism. Valentino is the spoiled child of doting parents, who have no doubt that t ...Show more
Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold by Daisy Johnson, Kirsty Logan, Emma Glass, Eimear McBride, Natasha Carthew, Mahsuda Snaith, Naomi Booth, Liv Little, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Irenosen Okojie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
'Engaging, modern fables with a feminist tang' Sunday Times DARK, POTENT AND UNCANNY, HAG BURSTS WITH THE UNTOLD STORIES OF OUR ISLES, CAPTURED IN VOICES AS VARIED AS THEY ARE VIVID. Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant archaeologist unearthing impossible bones and lost c ...Show more
A Body of Water by Beverley Farmer
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A Body of Water was first published thirty years ago. The writing of the book takes place over a year, and portrays a complete cycle in the writer’s life. It begins on her forty- sixth birthday, in a period of emotional inhibition and loneliness — her marriage has broken down, and she is living on her o ...Show more
The Eighth Life: (For Brilka) The International Bestseller by Nino Haratischvili
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
‘That night Stasia took an oath, swearing to learn the recipe by heart and destroy the paper. And when she was lying in her bed again, recalling the taste with all her senses, she was sure that this secret recipe could heal wounds, avert catastrophes, and bring people happiness. But she was wrong.’ At t ...Show more
Honeybee by Craig Silvey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The highly anticipated new novel by the bestselling author of Jasper Jones. 'Find out who you are, and live that life.' Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below. At the other end of the same bridge, an old man, ...Show more
Yi Sang: Selected Works by Yi Sang; Jack Jung (Translator); Don Mee Choi Choi (Editor)
$47.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Formally audacious and remarkably compelling, Yi Sang's works were uniquely situated amid the literary experiments of world literature in the early twentieth century and the political upheaval of 1930s Japanese occupied Korea. While his life ended prematurely at the age of twenty-seven, Yi Sang's work e ...Show more
handiwork by Sara Baume
$30.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
In this contemplative short narrative, artist and acclaimed writer Sara Baume charts the daily process of making and writing, exploring what it is to create and to live as an artist.
Novacene - The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence by James Lovelock
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
At 100-years-old, the originator of the Gaia theory welcomes the takeover of artificial intelligence, and offers a mischievous, wit-filled, and scientifically backed vision of a future epoch in which humans and AI together will help the Earth survive--no extraterrestrial influence necessary. Far from vi ...Show more
All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'One of the greatest European prose writers' - Philip Roth. In the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal (author of Closely Observed Trains) bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague. There, until his death, he tended to an ever-growing, unruly community of cats. This is his confessional, ten ...Show more
Ghosts by Dolly Alderton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
32-year-old Nina Dean is a successful food writer with a loyal online following, but a life that is falling apart. When she uses dating apps for the first time, she becomes a victim of ghosting, and by the most beguiling of men. Her beloved dad is vanishing in slow motion into dementia, and she's starti ...Show more
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: The Locked Tomb Trilogy
The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense. Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlif ...Show more
Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A captivating meditation on the power of the sentence by the author of Essayism, a 2018 New Yorker book of the year. In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called "a literary fl neur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin," has written a sequel of sorts to Essayism, hi ...Show more