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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Klara and the Sun is the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017.From the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature - that asks, wha ...Show more
A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure by Hoa Nguyen
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Hoa Nguyen's latest collection is a poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and post-"Fall-of-Saigon" and comprises a verse biography on her mother, Diep Anh Nguyen, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe. Multilayered, plaintive, and provocative, th ...Show more
Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
$28.50 AUD
Category: Fiction
Now in paperback, Satantango, the novel that inspired Bela Tarr's classic film, is proof that the devil has all the good times. Set in an isolated hamlet, the novel unfolds over the course of a few rain-soaked days. Only a dozen inhabitants remain in the bleak village, rank with the stench of failed sch ...Show more
No Document by Anwen Crawford
$26.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
No Document is an elegy for a friendship cut short prematurely by death. The memory of this friendship becomes a model for how we might relate to others in sympathy, solidarity and rebellion. At once intimate and expansive, Anwen Crawford's book-length essay explores loss in many forms: disappeared artw ...Show more
My Rock 'n' Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
An exploration of female friendship and women in music, from the iconic singer-songwriter and bestselling author of Another Planet and Bedsit Disco Queen. In 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey's music career was just beginning, while Lindy, drumme ...Show more
Return to Uluru by Mark McKenna
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A killing. A hidden history. A story that goes to the heart of the nation. When Mark McKenna set out to write a history of the centre of Australia, he had no idea what he would discover. One event in 1934 - the shooting at Uluru of Aboriginal man Yokunnuna by white policeman Bill McKinnon, and subseque ...Show more
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is now a cult film. When Kitchen was first published in Japan in 1987 it won two of Japan's mos ...Show more
For Love Alone by Christina Stead
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Miegunyah Modern Library Ser.
Set in Sydney and London in the 1930s, 'For Love Alone' is the story of Teresa Hawkins, an intelligent, ardent young woman, and her search for the ideal passion of love.
Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Liza used to say that she saw her past life as a string of roughly-graded balls, and so did Hilda have a linear conception of hers, thinking of it as a track with detours. But for some years now I have likened mine to a globe suspended in my head, and ever since the shocking realisation that waste is ir ...Show more
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'Brilliant ... a panorama of a remarkable talent ... McCullers's finest stories' The New York Times Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as the American writer Carson McCullers, and The Ballad of the Sad Ca ...Show more
Mr. Norris Changes Trains (Vintage Classics) by Christopher Isherwood
$25.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship with the mildly sinister Arthur Norris. Norris is a man of contradictions; lavish but heavily in debt, excessively polite but sexually deviant. First published in 1933, "Mr Norris Changes Trains" piquantly ...Show more
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