What Was Before by Martin Mosebach; Kári Driscoll (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
Martin Mosebach's novel What Was Before opens with a young couple enjoying a moment of carefree intimacy. Then the young woman, turning slightly more serious, asks her lover that fateful question, one that sounds so innocent but carries toxic seeds of jealousy: What was your life like before you met me? ...Show more
Bird Life: a novel by Anna Smaill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The second novel by Booker Prize longlisted author Anna Smaill. A lyrical and ambitious exploration of madness and what it is like to experience the world differently. In Ueno Park, Tokyo, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and two women meet ...Show more
W. E. H. Stanner: Selected Writings by W. E. H. Stanner
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
'The most literate and persuasive of all contributions on Australia's Indigenous people' -Marcia LangtonW.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. In his 1968 Boyer Lectures he exposed a 'cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale', regarding the fate of First Nations people, for which he coined ...Show more
The Years by Annie Ernaux
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, cultural habits, language, photos, books, songs, radio, television, ad ...Show more
Firelight: stories by John Morrissey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An imprisoned man with strange visions writes letters to his sister. A controversial business tycoon leaves his daughter a mysterious inheritance. A child is haunted by a green man with a message about the origins of their planet. In this striking collection of stories, the award-winning John Morriss ...Show more
Pedro Páramo by Juán Rulfo; Douglas J. Weatherford (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
A new translation of the legendary Mexican classic of magic realism which went on to inspire the works of Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa
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
Aunts Up the Cross: Text Classics by Robin Dalton
$14.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
50 years after its original publication, Aunts Up The Cross remains a perennial classic of Australian childhood. Growing up in the 1930s in a grand old home in Sydney's bohemian Kings Cross, Robin Dalton experienced a childhood of curiosity and wonder. Raised by a bevy of idiosyncratic aunts and a revol ...Show more
The Legend by Marie Bronsard; Sonia Alland (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\French List Ser.
Now in paperback, Marie Bronsard's strikingly original memoir reweaves the history of her family--and the legend of her grandmother--leaving no stone unturned and no skeleton in the closet.Egocentric and domineering, Bronsard's grandmother was once a vibrant and sensual beauty. In Indochina at the end o ...Show more
The Last Days of Jeanne D'Arc by Ali Alizadeh
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Jeanne is a young woman from rural France. She's a knight who wears men's clothing. The English call her Joan of Arc. Jeanne has led France to victory in epic battles. She hears ghostly voices and has unspeakable desires. The English want to burn her. Her king has abandoned her. Her heart has been broke ...Show more
Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
$23.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
Garner is a 2016 Windham-Campbell Prize recipient for her non-fiction writings. The judges praised Garner's work as 'intelligent, lucid and often disturbing.' PRAISE FOR EVERYWHERE I LOOK'A captivating collection...No matter the topic, Garner is a charming and courageous writer whose distinctive voice ...Show more
Dialogues in Paradise by Ronald R. Janssen (Translator); Jian Zhang (Translator); Xue Can
$51.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The thirteen stories of Dialogues in Paradise are eloquent in a way the West associates with both the modern and the ancient: the dark oracles of Aeschylus and Sophocles, the paranoid mystery of Kafka, the moving stream of Woolf. The work of Can Xue (a pseudonym of Changsa writer Deng Xiao-hua) renews ...Show more