Close To The Machine by Ullman, Ellen
$18.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Close to the Machine has become a cult classic: Ellen Ullman's humane, insightful, and beautifully written memoir explores the ever-complicating intersections between people and technology; the strange ecstasies of programming; the messiness of life and the artful efficiency of code. It is a deeply pers ...Show more
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by Cyril Lionel Robert James
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1791, inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution, the slaves of San Domingo rose in revolt. Despite invasion by a series of British, Spanish and Napoleonic armies, their twelve-year struggle led to the creation of Haiti, the first independent black republic outside Africa. Only three years later ...Show more
Nevada by Imogen Binnie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Maria, a trans woman in her thirties, is going nowhere. She spends her aimless days working in a New York bookstore, trying to remain true to a punk ethos while drinking herself into a stupor and having a variety of listless and confusing sexual encounters. After her girlfriend cheats on her, Maria stea ...Show more
People from Bloomington by Budi Darma; Tiffany Tsao (Translator, Introduction by); Intan Paramaditha (Foreword by)
$31.00 AUD
Category: Classics
An eerie, alienating, yet comic and profoundly sympathetic short story collection about Americans in America by one of Indonesia's most prominent writers, now in an English translation for its fortieth anniversary, with a foreword by Intan ParamadithaA Penguin ClassicIn these seven stories of The People ...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
The Adversary by Ronnie Scott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In a house in Brunswick, summer is coming, and a young man is being strongly encouraged to go outside against his will. He says he's not a shut-in, but he certainly acts like one, spending all day taking hot showers and eating Vegemite toast. But when his housemate and best friend, Dan, gets a boyfriend ...Show more
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC Designer Collection
'One of the funniest books I've ever read' - Gore Vidal * The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. It is, as the Guardian observes, 'one of the best novels about growing up fast'.Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mis ...Show more
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
There was a time when no one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated “its own kind of moral laws,” spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the 1960s and '70s. But there was one m ...Show more
The Monkey's Mask by Dorothy Porter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Monkey's Mask is a totally unique experience. It's poetry. It's a crime thriller. It's where high art meets low life, passion meets betrayal, and poetry faces profanity on the streets of a harsh modern city. Dorothy Porter's internationally bestselling verse novel holds you in its grip from the firs ...Show more
Another Country by James Baldwin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by ...Show more
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