The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The best-known book by Cuba's most important twentieth-century novelist, in its first new English translation in more than sixty years and featuring a new introduction by Leonardo Padura A Penguin Classic Dissatisfied with his empty, Sisyphus-like existence in New York City, where he has abandoned his c ...Show more
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging by Cher Tan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise — something new and something cool was just lurking around the corner and we’d arrive at it if we kick around long enough. Peripathetic is about shit jobs. About being who you are and who you aren’t o ...Show more
The Tattoo Murder by Akimitsu Takagi
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
A classic Japanese murder mystery set in post-war Tokyo and steeped in the illicit subculture of Yakuza tattoos. Kinue Nomura survived World War II only to be murdered in Tokyo, her severed limbs discovered in a room locked from the inside. Gone is the part of her that bore one of the most beautiful ful ...Show more
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
What is the relationship between Marie Kondo and many modern novels? Why do we get addicted to stories - particularly when they're about serial killers? Seven years after #metoo, how can we have the sex we really want? Is it ok to think Troll 2 is a good film? In All Things Are Too Small, virtuoso ...Show more
I Who Have Never Known Men: Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic tale by Jacqueline Harpman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, MAN BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE WATER CURE'A small miracle' The New York Times'For a very long time, the days went by, each just like the day before, then I began to think, and everything changed'Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned ...Show more
The Work by Bri Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The intersections between art, life, power and privilege are explored in this first work of fiction from the bestselling author of Eggshell Skull. Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying off. Pat is a scholarship boy desperate to establish himse ...Show more
The Chinese Pleasure Book by Michael Nylan
$72.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
An examination of pleasure--short-term delight and the cultivation of longer-term satisfaction--in early Chinese thought.In Ordinary Pleasures, Michael Nylan takes up one of the most important themes in Chinese thought: the relation of pleasurable activities to bodily health and the health of the body p ...Show more
Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the victorious powers turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. To them, it was clear that Japan's militaristic leaders needed to be tried and punished for their crimes. For the Allied ...Show more
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Curtis Sittenfeld's most popular novel yet, her breakout new Sunday Times bestseller and reader favourite, THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Reese's Book Club Pick A TV script writer thinks she's done with romance, until an unlikely love interest upends all her assumptions- a humorous, s ...Show more
The Tower by Flora Carr
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A fiery feminist retelling of Mary, Queen of Scot's darkest hour for fans of MATRIX and THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS 'The Tower is such a vivid, visceral read, you feel you're locked in the tower alongside the characters, acting out a royal family drama. I am moved and impressed' TRACY CHEVALIER They are im ...Show more
The Obscene Bird of Night - Unabridged, Centennial Edition by José Donoso; Leonard Mades (Translator); Megan McDowell (Translator)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Deep in La Rinconada's maze of musty, forgotten hallways, Mudito rummages through piles of old newspapers. The mute caretaker of the crumbling former abbey, he is hounded by a coven of ancient witches who are bent on transforming him, bit by bit, into the terrifying imbunche: a twisted monster with all ...Show more
My Brilliant Sister by Amy Brown
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
While Stella Miles Franklin took on the world, her beloved sister Linda led a short, domestic life as a wife, mother and sister. In a remarkable, genre-bending debut novel Amy Brown thrillingly reimagines those two lives – and her own – to explore and explode the contradictions embedded in brilliant ca ...Show more