Like Love: Essays and Conversations by Maggie Nelson
$45.00 AUD
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'One of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation'. Olivia Laing. Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tribute ...Show more
Caliban Shrieks by Jack Hilton
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WITH NEW INTRODUCTIONS BY ANDREW McMILLAN AND JACK CHADWICKFrom a childhood of poverty, yet joy and freedom, to the punishing grind of factory life and the idiocy of being sent blindly into war, Caliban Shrieks' narrator takes readers on a lyrical tour of life as a young man born into the first days of ...Show more
Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Cespedes
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Out running an errand, Valeria Cossati gives in to a sudden impulse - she buys a shiny black notebook. She starts keeping a diary in secret, recording her concerns about her daughter, fears her husband will discover her new habit and the constant churn of the domestic routine. With each entry Valeria pl ...Show more
Until August by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
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The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude - a moving tale of female desire and abandon. Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happi ...Show more
Is It Ever Just Sex? by Darian Leader
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A delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian Leader 'It was just sex.' It's a familiar claim. But is it really possible? The old idea that sexuality is a smouldering, animalistic force within us, desperate for release yet restrained by social forces, ...Show more
What You Are Looking for is in the Library: The uplifting Japanese fiction bestseller by Michiko Aoyama
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At once heart-rending and heartwarming, this bestselling shortlistee of the Japan Booksellers' Prize is a celebraton of community libraries and the life-changing power of book recommendation. 'I definitely want to visit this library. I feel kinder after this book' 5***** - Reader review What are you l ...Show more
Teddy Boys: Post-War Britain and the First Youth Revolution by Max Decharne
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The story of Britain's first youth counterculture With their draped suits, suede creepers and immaculately greased hair, the Teddy Boys defined a new era for a generation of teenagers raised on a diet of drab clothes, Blitz playgrounds and tinned dinners. From the Edwardian origins of their fashion to t ...Show more
Clear (HB) by Carys Davies
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A wondrous tale of bonds forged when two men are pitted against each other on a remote island during the Highland Clearances, from the prize-winning author of West. 1843. On a remote Scottish island, Ivar, the sole occupant, leads a life of quiet isolation until the day he finds a man unconscious on th ...Show more
The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent by Kazuo Ishiguro
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A unique collaborative publication which documents the lyrics written by Nobel Prize winning author Kazuo Ishiguro for the platinum selling, Grammy nominated, Jazz singer Stacey Kent.
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
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Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, says Le, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, is ‘the book I need to write. The b ...Show more
Remembering Peasants by Patrick Joyce
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'A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book' Annie Proulx A way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the greatest transformations of our time: the eclipse of the rural world by the urban. In this new history o ...Show more
The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East by Christopher Harding
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From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia consisted for the most part of outrageous tales of strange beasts and monsters, of silk and spices shipped over vast distances and an uneasy sense of unknowable empires fantastically far away. By the twentieth century much of ...Show more