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
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.
Gilgi, One of Us by Irmgard Keun
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Gilgi knows where she's going in life: she's ambitious, determined and fearless. She's not even derailed when her parents drop a massive bombshell on her twenty-first birthday. But then she meets the charming but aimless Martin, and for the first time, Gilgi finds herself blown bewilderingly and dangero ...Show more
At The Pond: Swimming At The Hampstead Ladies' Pond by Margaret Drabble,Esther Freud,Sophie Mackintosh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
Tucked away along a shady path towards the north-east edge of Hampstead Heath is a sign: Women Only. This is the Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond. Floating in the Pond’s silky waters, hidden by a canopy of trees, it’s easy to forget that you are in the middle of London. On a hot day, thousands of swimmers f ...Show more
House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann by Evelyn Juers
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1933 the prominent author and political activist Heinrich Mann and his partner Nelly Kroeger were forced to flee Germany, finding refuge in France and later, in great despair, Los Angeles. There Nelly committed suicide in 1944 and Heinrich dies in 1950. Prior to their death they formed a unique cliqu ...Show more
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