Lament for Julia by Susan Taubes; Francesca Wade (Introduction by)
$35.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A celestial overseer observes--and is continually confounded by--a young woman's path into adulthood in this uncanny and darkly humorous novel, unpublished until now and accompanied by a selection of the author's stories. Susan Taubes's novella "Lament for Julia" is the story of a young woman coming ...Show more
Confessions of a Mask: A Novel Translated from the Japanese by Yukio Mishima
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Long regarded as one of the most important novels to appear in post-war Japan, Confessions of a Mask is an allegory of a lonely boy’s yearning quest for belonging and his gradual acceptance of his homosexuality. With its overlay of intense sado-masochistic fantasy, the author draws deeply from the well ...Show more
Since the Accident by Jen Craig
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In a suburban Sydney pub, a woman tells her younger sister the story of how her life has changed since a serious car accident. She speaks of the blossoming of romance, the rediscovery of her long-dormant creativity: her ability to draw. And yet an exhibition comes to nothing, a lover is abandoned. She l ...Show more
What I Saw - Reports from Berlin 1920-33 by Joseph Roth; Michael Hofmann (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A classic of reportage: Roth's compassionate, incisive account of Berlin in the 1920s, chronicling the moral bankruptcy of the Jazz Age and the rising threat of fascism.
Schappi by Anna Haifisch
$27.95 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
In Schappi, Anna Haifisch blurs the boundaries between humans and animals in subtle and absurd ways. In these five collected comics short stories, carnivores and herbivores meet at a disastrous congress of the animals; we get to know a merciless, art-collecting lizard; and are introduced to dancing ostr ...Show more
Plain Pleasures by Jane Bowles
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
In this collection of short fiction, ranging from North Africa to South America, Bowles explores her fascination with the hidden lives of apparently ordinary middle-aged women.'One of the finest modern writers of fiction in any language' John Ashberry'A modern legend' Truman Capote'A thoroughly original ...Show more
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
Horse Crazy by Gary Indiana
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The first novel from Gary Indiana, Horse Crazy tells the story of a 35 year-old writer for a New York arts and culture magazine whose life melts into a fever dream when he falls in love with handsome, charming, possibly heroin-addicted, and almost certainly insane Gregory Burgess. In the derelict browns ...Show more
Jakob Von Gunten by Robert Walser
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Robert Walser's great masterpiece, reissued with a foreword by J. M. Coetzee.
The Word of the Speechless - Selected Stories by Julio Ramon Ribeyro; Katherine Silver (Editor, Translator); Alejandro Zambra (Introduction by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Peruvian writer Julio Ram n Ribeyro is one of the masters of the short story and a major contributor to the great flourishing of Latin American literature that followed the Second World War. In a letter to an editor, Ribeyro said about his stories, "in most of them those who are deprived of words in ...Show more
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
WINNER THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 Born in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens - on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles - the narrator of The Sellout is raised by his single father, a controversial sociologist, and spends his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. Led to believ ...Show more
Agony by Mark Beyer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
ENJOY THE ECSTASY OF AGONY. Amy and Jordan are just like us: hoping for the best, even when things go from bad to worse. They are menaced by bears, beheaded by ghosts, and hunted by the cops, but still they struggle on, bickering and reconciling, scraping together the rent and trying to find a decent m ...Show more