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The Secret of Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
From the author of Fun Home, a profound graphic memoir of Bechdel's lifelong love affair with exercise, set against a hilarious chronicle of fitness fads in our timesComics and cultural superstar Alison Bechdel delivers a deeply layered story of her fascination, from childhood to adulthood, with every f ...Show more
Fairweather and China by Claire Roberts
$59.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Ian Fairweather is one of the most significant twentieth-century artists to have worked in Australia. After a life of wandering, including time spent in China, Bali and the Philippines, Fairweather settled on Bribie Island, off the coast of Queensland, where he built his own house. In 1962 a leading art ...Show more
A Lover's Discourse by Xiaolu Guo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A fragmentary meditation on the nature of love' Guardian A Chinese woman comes to post-Brexit London to start over - just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch. Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners, she meets a landscape architect and the two begin to build their ...Show more
The Rabbits by Sophie Overett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the winner of the Penguin Literary Prize.A multigenerational family story with a dose of magical realism. It is about family secrets, art, very mild superpowers, loneliness and the strange connections we make in the places we least expect.The disappearance of Bo Rabbit in 1984 left the Rabbit women ...Show more
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A debut collection of stories in the tradition of George Saunders or Kelly Link that announced the arrival of a major new storytelling talent. Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by ...Show more
Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann
$22.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A scorching collection of essays from the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, NewburyportThe worst thing about men taking over the cooking of fancy food in restaurants is that every dish now arrives covered in ejaculant, all those drizzles and foam and schmeers...Things Are Against Us is the first colle ...Show more
The Bride of Almond Tree by Robert Hillman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Welsey Cunningham grew up running barefoot through the orchards of his Quaker family farm, working with horses and dreaming of one day building himself a house on his own patch of ground above the river. The Second World War interrupted those dreams: it took Wes to New Guinea as a medic, and then sent h ...Show more
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. In these interwove ...Show more
This Is Your Mind on Plants - Caffeine-Opium-Mescaline by Michael Pollan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness- to stimulate, calm, or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. In This Is Your Mind On Plants, Michael Pollan explores three very different drugs - opium, caffeine, and ...Show more
Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The intense, caustically funny first novel from the bestselling author of Bad Behaviour 'Dark, menacing and original' Joanna Briscoe, Guardian Dorothy Never - fat - lives alone in New York, eats and works the night shift as a proofreader. Justine Shade - thin - is a freelance journalist who sleeps with ...Show more
If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A TIME & BBC BEST BOOK OF 2020 'Absolutely stunning. . . Assured, bold, and electrifying' Taylor Jenkins Reid, Sunday Times bestselling author of DAISY JONES & THE SIX 'One of the buzziest debuts of the year, If I Had Your Face transports readers to glittering, futuristic Seoul... Essential re ...Show more
12 Bytes How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next. by Jeannette Winterson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
*A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND EVENING STANDARD* Twelve bytes. Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love - from Sunday Times-bestselling author Jeanette Winterson. ...Show more