Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978-1987 by Helen Garner
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Diaries
Finally, Helen Garner has opened her diaries and invited readers into the world behind her novels and works of non-fiction. Recorded with frankness, humour and steel-sharp wit, these accounts of her everyday life provide an intimate insight into the work of one of Australia's greatest living writers. Ye ...Show more
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city's most radical modern art. All the while, they talk: about the weather, hor ...Show more
20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic' This is the story of Fenfang who, determined to carve out a life more independent than her provincial roots, gets a job as a film e ...Show more
Exteriors by Annie Ernaux
$19.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Taking the form of random journal entries over seven years, Exteriors captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris. Poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive.
Gentle and Fierce by Vanessa Berry
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
New collection of essays on the relationships between humans and animals, by Vanessa Berry, author of Mirror Sydney, and the memoir of adolescence Ninety9. Gentle and Fierce focuses on the world of animals, and the way their presence has shaped the author’s attitudes and her sense of self. Having spent ...Show more
Bear by Engel Marian
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A strange and wonderful book, plausible as kitchens, but shapely as a folktale, and with the same disturbing resonance.' - Margaret Atwood
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an in ...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.
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'If Ferrante is a friend, Ginzburg is a mentor.' - Guardian
This Little Art by Kate Briggs
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes's l ...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
Blind Spot by Teju Cole
$55.00 AUD
Category: Photography
The shadow of a tree in upstate New York. A hotel room in Switzerland. A young stranger in the Congo. In Blind Spot, readers will follow Teju Cole's inimitable artistic vision into the visual realm, as he continues to refine the voice and intellectual obsessions that earned him such acclaim for Open Cit ...Show more