Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumat ...Show more
Only the Astronauts by Ceridwen Dovey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A transformative new collection from the award-winning author of Only the Animals. Starman, a lovelorn mannequin orbiting the Sun in his cherry-red car, pines for his creator. The first sculpture ever taken to the Moon is possessed by the spirit of Neil Armstrong. The International Space Station, await ...Show more
Table For Two by Amor Towles
$34.99 AUD
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
Until August by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
One Another by Gail Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Eminent Australian author Gail Jones examines the intersections of art and life via a fictionalised biography of Joseph Conrad in her distinctively immersive and rich prose. At Cambridge University, in the summer of 1992, Australian student Helen is completing her thesis on Joseph Conrad. But she is dis ...Show more
Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin
$36.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apart. In 2019, Anna, a psychoanalyst, is processing a recent miscarriage. Her husband, David, takes a job in London so she spends days obsessing over renovating the kitchen while befriending a younger woman ...Show more
Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From renowned author Paul Theroux comes the fascinating, atmospheric tale of George Orwell's years in Burma. 'There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is fixed forever.' - George Orwell Before George Orwell was Orwell - the pen name he took on becoming a writer - he was Eric Blair, ...Show more
Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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.
The End of the Morning by Charmian Clift
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In those days the end of the morning was always marked by the quarry whistle blowing the noon knock-off. Since everybody was out of bed very early, morning then was a long time, or even, if you came to think about it, a round time — symmetrical anyway, and contained under a thin, radiant, dome shaped co ...Show more
On Kim Scott : Writers on Writers by Tony Birch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Books on Literature
'I value Kim Scott's fiction so highly because I feel that his approach is to put the flags aside. That Deadman Dance asks us not to consider who we were so much as who we could be, collectively, in the future.'Noongar writer Kim Scott has won the Miles Franklin Award twice for his novels. In this movin ...Show more
Bullet, Paper, Rock: A Memoir of Words and Wars by Abbas El-Zein
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In Abbas El-Zein's new memoir, conflicts abound - either tragic or amusing, sometimes both - between teachers and students, left- and right-wing factions, civilians and militiamen and, not least, French and Arabic, two languages vying for primacy in the post-colonial worlds of Beirut and the Levant, wit ...Show more
Always Will Be: Stories of Goori Sovereignty from the Futures of the Tweed by Mykaela Saunders
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the 2022 David Unaipon winner comes an outstanding and timely collection of speculative fiction imagining futures where Indigenous sovereignty is fully reasserted. In this stunningly inventive and thought-provoking collection, Mykaela Saunders poses the question- what might country, community and c ...Show more