This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
*A TIME MAGAZINE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024 **AN OPRAH DAILY MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024**AN OBSERVER 2024 PICK**A GUARDIAN 2024 PICK* 'One of those rare novels which a reader doesn't merely read but lives through with the characters . . . Claire Messud is a magnificent storyteller' Yiyun LiJune 1 ...Show more
Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe by Sathnam Sanghera
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
2.6 billion people are inhabitants of former British colonies. The empire's influence upon the quarter of the planet it occupied, and its gravitational influence upon the world outside it, has been profound- from the spread of Christianity by missionaries to nearly 1 in 3 driving on the left side of the ...Show more
Wrong Norma by Anne Carson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years. Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-designed book, annotated and corrected by the author. Anne Carson is probably our most celebrated living poet, winner of countless awards and routinely tipped for the Nobe ...Show more
Moon Road by Sarah Leipciger
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An estranged couple meet again after twenty years for a roadtrip across Canada in search of their lost daughter. For fans of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver Beautifully observed portrait of marriage, divorce and reconciliation as an estranged couple go on a road trip to uncover a family myster ...Show more
Table For Two by Amor Towles
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Category: Fiction
Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encou ...Show more
Ryder by Djuna Barnes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
From the author of Nightwood, Djuna Barnes has written a book that is all that she was, and must still be vulgar, beautiful, defiant, witty, poetic, and a little mad.Told as through a kaleidoscope, the chronicle of the Ryder family is a bawdy tale of eccentricity and anarchy; through sparkling detours a ...Show more
The Eyes Are The Best Part by Monika Kim
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Boy Parts meets My Sister, the Serial Killer this feminist psychological horror is crawling under reader's skin...Ji-won's life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her Appa's extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her mother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her college freshma ...Show more
Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Sheila Heti kept a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. In the vein of Joe Brainard's I Remember and Edouard Levé's Autoportrait, passionate and reflective, joyful and despairing, these are the alphabetical diaries.
Hardy Women - Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses by Paula Byrne
$37.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all' Thomas Hardy is one of the most beloved and most-read British authors. His influence on literature and the minds of his readers is singular. But how is it that the novelist who created some of the most memorable and modern female charac ...Show more
Ædnan - An Epic by Linnéa Axelsson (translated by Saskia Vogel)
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In Northern Sami, the word AEdnan means the land, the ground, the earth. In this majestic verse novel, Linnea Axelsson chronicles the fates of two Indigenous Sami families, telling of their struggle and persistence over a century of colonial displacement, loss and resistance.It begins with Ristin and Be ...Show more
Love's Work by Gillian Rose
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An extraordinary, uncompromising and consoling celebration of a life - through childhood, faith, family, love, friendship, pain and loss - written as its author was facing her own mortality Gillian Rose was a star academic, acclaimed as one of the most dazzling and original thinkers of her time. Told th ...Show more
In the Footsteps of Du Fu by Michael Wood
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel
A beautifully illustrated travelogue, chronicling the life and work of one of the world greatest poets. Du Fu (712-70) is one of China’s greatest poets. His career coincided with periods of famine, war and huge upheaval, yet his secular philosophical vision, combined with his empathy for the common folk ...Show more