You Are Having a Good Time: Stories by Amie Barrodale
$36.50 AUD
Category: Fiction
In You Are Having a Good Time, Amie Barrodale s collection of highly compressed and charged tales, the veneer of normality is stripped from her characters lives to reveal the seething and contradictory desires that fuel them. In Animals, an up-and-coming starlet harbors a complicated attraction toward h ...Show more
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, MAN BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE WATER CURE'A small miracle' The New York Times'For a very long time, the days went by, each just like the day before, then I began to think, and everything changed'Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned ...Show more
Wilful Disregard: A Novel About Love by Lena Andersson
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Lena Andersson's Wilful Disregard is a story of the heart written with bracing intellectual rigor. It is a stunner, pure and simple.' Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones Winner of the August Prize 2013 On the day that Ester Nilsson, a poet and a sensible person in a sensible relationship, meets re ...Show more
The Collected Works of Jo Ann Beard by Jo Ann Beard
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
'Brilliant, like nobody else' Elizabeth McCracken'Beard's curiosity and amazement are contagious' Financial TimesWeaving a complex tapestry drawn from interviews, anecdotes, moments from Beard's own life, and sheer imagination, these extraordinary pieces embody the hospitality of spectacular writing: th ...Show more
The Golden Notebook (Collins Modern Classics) by Doris Lessing
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer's block. Divorced with a young ch ...Show more
My Mother Laughs by Chantal Akerman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Film & TV
First published in France in 2013, My Mother Laughs is the final book written by the legendary and beloved Belgian artist and director Chantal Akerman (1950-2015) before her death. A moving and unforgettable memoir, the book delves deeply into one of the central themes and focuses of Akerman's often aut ...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
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, am ...Show more
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy; Tim Parks
$32.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: "At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell." But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes ...Show more
The Pisces by Melissa Broder
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend break up in a dramatic flameout. After she bottoms out in Phoenix, her sister in Los Angeles insists Lucy dog-sit for the summer. Annika's home is a gorgeous glass cube on Venice Beach, but Lucy can find little re ...Show more
The Country Girls Trilogy: The Country Girls; The Lonely Girl; Girls in their Married Bliss by Edna O'Brien
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Edna O'Brien's first novel The Country Girls and its sequels The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss changed the temperature of Irish literature in the 1960s. The characters of Kate Brady and her friend Baba Brennan have inspired generation after generation of readers and writers, as we see th ...Show more