Barefoot Doctor by CAN XUE
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A profound, poignant story of a village healer and her community, from one of the world’s great contemporary novelists In rural Yun Village, herbalist Mrs. Yi lives with her husband in a cottage at the foot of Niulan Mountain, where she gathers herbs to treat the ailments of the villagers by day and st ...Show more
The Light Room by Kate Zambreno
$52.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
"Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup." --Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From "one of our most formally ambitious writers" (Esquire), a moving account of caretaking in a time of uncertainty and loss "Kate Zambreno's ...Show more
The Weak Spot by Lucie Elven
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
On a remote mountaintop somewhere in Europe, accessed by an ancient funicular, a small pharmacy sits on a square. As if attending confession, the townspeople carry their ailments and worries through its doors, in search of healing, reassurance, and a witness to their bodies and the stories of their live ...Show more
The Hero of this Book by Elizabeth McCracken
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, about a writer's relationship with her larger-than-life mother - and about the very nature of writing, memory, and love. Ten months after her mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book takes a tri ...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
Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Ozlu
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A lyrical autofictional account of the author's fight to survive depression and carve out her own path in 1950s and 60s Istanbul.The narrator of Cold Nights of Childhood grows up in a rapidly changing Turkey, where the atmosphere is nationalist, patriarchal, technocratic. As a misfit in search of freedo ...Show more
Greek Lessons by Han Kang
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: near fine
A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian, In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woma ...Show more
The Call Out by Cat Fitzpatrick
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A fast-paced, debut tragicomedy of manners written in verse about queer (mostly trans) women that is funny, literary, philosophical, witty, sometimes bitchy and sometimes heartbreaking. Anvi, Kate, Bette, Keiko, Gaia, and Day are six queer, mostly trans women surviving and thriving in Brooklyn. Visiting ...Show more
A Horse at Night by Amina Cain
$22.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
"A Horse at Night is like light from a candle in the evening: intimate, pleasurable, full of wonder. It asks us to consider fiction as life and life as fiction. Amina Cain is our generous, gentle guide through an exquisite library. A truly beautiful book." --Ayşegül Savaş"I adore her work, and sensibili ...Show more
What Happens at Night by Peter Cameron
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Like a Kafka story and a Wes Anderson movie combined.' - Literary Hub An unnamed American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby. It’s a difficult journey that leaves the wife, who is struggling with cancer, desperately weak, and her husband worries that her illness will pre ...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.