The Iliad by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson)
$65.95 AUD
Category: Classics
After an invocation to the Muses, the story launches in medias res towards the end of the Trojan War between the Trojans and the besieging Greeks. Chryses, a Trojan priest of Apollo, offers the Greeks wealth for the return of his daughter Chryseis, held captive by Agamemnon, the Greek leader. Although m ...Show more
The Hunger of Women by Marosia Castaldi; Jamie Richards (Translator)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Rosa, midway through life, is alone. Her husband passed away long ago, and her cosmopolitan daughter is already out the door, keen to marry and move to the city. At loose ends, Rosa decides to transplant herself to the flat, foggy Lombardy provinces from her native Naples and there finds a way to renew ...Show more
Siblings by Brigitte Reimann
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A stirring novel of idealist loyalty and sibling love, by one of East Germany's most important writers The border between East and West Germany has closed. For Elisabeth - a young painter - the GDR is her generation's chance to build an egalitarian socialist future. For her brother Uli, it is a pl ...Show more
I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me by Juan Pablo Villalobos; Rosalind Harvey (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
"I don't expect anyone to believe me," warns the narrator of this novel, a Mexican student called Juan Pablo Villalobos. He is about to fly to Barcelona on a scholarship when he's kidnapped in a bookshop and whisked away by thugs to a basement. The gangsters are threatening his cousin--a wannabe entrepr ...Show more
Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin - Freedom, Politics and Humanity by Kei Hiruta
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century's most important thinkers--and the lessons their disagreements continue to offer Two of the most iconic thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) fundamentally dis ...Show more
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch
$26.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Canons Ser.
A foundational text since 1990 and previously translated into nine languages, Free Play is a masterful and joyful meditation on how improvisation can be applied to not just art but the art of living - and in doing so unlock boundless creativity This book is about the inner sources of spontaneous creatio ...Show more
The Foot of Clive by John Berger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
From the 1972 Booker Prize-winning author comes an examination of masculinity, social covenants and murder that develops into a masterclass in humanity In the centre of a 1960s hospital ward sits a curtained-off bed, guarded by a policeman. In it lies a murderer, hidden from view and likely to die befor ...Show more
Pity by Andrew McMillan
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The debut novel from award-winning poet Andrew McMillan exploring community, masculinity and post-industrialisation in Northern England
No Church in the Wild by Murray Middleton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It's been five long years since violence erupted between young migrants and local police in Melbourne's inner west. A police-led trip to hike the Kokoda Trail hopes to rebuild relationships in the community, but as training gets underway, fresh allegations of racial profiling have everyone on a knife-ed ...Show more
Enchanted Forests The Poetic Construction of a World Before Time by Boria Sax
$49.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Linking literature, philosophy, art, and personal experience, a moving exploration of the wooded landscape's power. In 1985 Boria Sax inherited an area of forest in New York State, which had been purchased by his Russian, Jewish, and Communist grandparents as a buffer against what they felt was a hostil ...Show more
City in Ruins: The epic conclusion and final book in THE CITY series from the international number one bestselling author of The Cartel Trilogy by Don Winslow
$34.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: The\City Ser.
Following City on Fire and City of Dreams, City in Ruins is the explosive, impossible to put down conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow's epic, genre-defining crime trilogy and the final book of Winslow's extraordinary career. Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect w ...Show more
My Work by Olga Ravn; Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell (Translator)
$38.50 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the acclaimed author of the International Booker Prize-shortlisted literary sensation, The Employees, comes a radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood. Anna is utterly lost. Still in shock after the birth of her son, she moves to snowbound Stockholm with her newborn and boyfri ...Show more