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Busted in New York and Other Essays - With an Introduction by Zadie Smith by Darryl Pinckney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
'[Pinckney] reveals himself to be a skilful chronicler of black experience in literary criticism, reportage and biography' The New York Times In these twenty-five essays, Darryl Pinckney has given us a view of our recent racial history that blends the social and the personal and wonders how we arrived a ...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
Literature and Evil by George Bataille
$22.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Literature is not innocent', stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles of eight authors and their work, including Emily Bro ...Show more
Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music by Archie Roach
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020 A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen child, musical and lyrical genius, and leader. Not many have lived as many lives as Archie Roach - stolen child, seeker, teenage alcoholic, lover, father, musical and lyrical genius, and leader - but it took him almost a life ...Show more
The Animals In That Country by Laura Jean McKay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to bullshit, Jean is not your usual grandma. She's never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her beloved granddaughter, Kimberly. Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, working as a guide ...Show more
Women by Mihail Sebastian
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser.
A gorgeous, tender modern classic about the complexities of love, with an introduction from the Booker-winning author John Banville. Stefan Valeriu, a young Romanian student, holidays alone in the Alps, where he soon becomes entangled in romantic relationships with three different women who pass throug ...Show more
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Nearing the end of his life, Baron Bela Wenckheim decides to return to the provincial Hungarian town of his birth. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he wishes to be reunited with his high-school sweetheart Marika. What follows is an endless storm of ...Show more
The History of Gangster Rap by Soren Baker
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
The History of Gangster Rap is a deep dive into one of the most fascinating subgenres of any music category to date. Sixteen detailed chapters, organized chronologically, examine the evolution of gangster rap, its main players, and the culture that created this revolutionary music. From still-swirling c ...Show more
Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck; Translated by Susan Bernofsky
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
By the side of a lake in Brandenburg, a young architect builds the house of his dreams - a summerhouse with wrought-iron balconies, stained-glass windows the colour of jewels, and a bedroom with a hidden closet, all set within a beautiful garden. But the land on which he builds has a dark history of vi ...Show more
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The process known as psychoanalysis is sometimes revered, sometimes derided, and most often misunderstood. What good does it do? Can it help anyone? What risks does it pose to both patient and analyst? None of these questions can be easily answered, but in Janet Malcolm's narrative, in which all her ski ...Show more
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Gilead | Reading Level: good
The 2004 Pulitzer Prize winning novelA New York Times Top-Ten Book of 2004Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionA PBS Great American Read selection Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations, from the Civil War to the 2 ...Show more
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