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
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
What's Good: Notes on Rap and Language by Daniel Levin Becker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
A love letter to the verbal artistry of hip-hop, What’s Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis. Much has been asserted about hip-hop’s lyrical inventiveness, but there have been very few, if any, dives as deep into the way rap lyrics function. The book is as up to the moment as possible and embr ...Show more
My Father's Diet by Adrian Nathan West
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
In a broken-down Middle American town, the disintegration of a struggling family--its ambitions and emotions worn thin--is laid bare through the cold eyes of its only son. While studying at the local community college to finish his degree, he works what his divorced parents deem to be menial jobs and tr ...Show more
The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Pushkin Vertigo Ser.
A hugely enjoyable, page-turning murder mystery with one of the best and most-satisfying conclusions you'll ever read: clever enough that you're unlikely to guess it, but simple enough that you'll kick yourself when it's revealed. That's what has made it a classic in Japan, and what readers of this firs ...Show more
Waypoints by Adam Ouston
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1910 the famed escapologist Harry Houdini made an ill-fated attempt to become the first person to fly an aircraft over Australian soil—yet while Houdini is remembered today for his failure, the true record-holder has been forgotten. This quirk of history becomes the focus for the obsessions of Berna ...Show more
Robot by Adam Wisniewski-Snerg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Is BER-64 a human or a machine? As he navigates the corridors and locked rooms of a strange bunker, he must solve the mysteries of murderous doppelgangers, a slow-motion city on the verge of destruction, and ultimately, the all-powerful Mechanism itself... Considered to be one of the most important and ...Show more
The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy; Gini Alhadeff (Translator)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Even among Fleur Jaeggy's singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth's odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part structured as a play: the dramatis personae include the various relatives, friends, and servants of a man name ...Show more
Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I sometimes wonder what my life would be like if I had found this book earlier.' - The New York Times
Child of Fortune by Yuko Tsushima
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A terrific novel' Angela Carter Koko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment. And now, after a casual affair, she is unexpectedly pregnant again. What will this mean for her already troubled relationship with ...Show more
A Heart So White (PB) by Javier Marias
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"A Heart so White" is the breathtaking international bestseller and IMPAC Award-winning masterpiece by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel "The Infatuations" is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by Jonathan Coe. "A Heart so White" begins as ...Show more
The Transit Of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted long and hopelessly by young scientist, Ted Tice, she is to find that love brings passion, sorrow, betrayal and finally hope. The milder Grace seeks fulfilment in an apparent ...Show more
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