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Happiness, As Such by Natalia Ginzburg
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Natalia Ginzburg's most beloved book in Italy and one of her finest achievements, Happiness, As Such is an original, wise, raw, comic novel that cuts to the bone.'Dear Michele, she wrote, I'm writing principally to tell you that your father is sick. Go visit him. He says he hasn t seen you for days.'Mic ...Show more
Intimate Antipathies by Luke Carman
$24.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Intimate Antipathies is a collection of essays on the writing life, offering Luke Carman's unique comic perspectives on writers' festivals, residencies and conferences, the particular challenges faced by writers who grow up in contested borderlands like the suburbs of Western Sydney, and the connections ...Show more
The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'An astonishing portrait of an innocent on the verge of discovering the cruelties of love... there are whispers here of the future work of Elena Ferrante' Elizabeth Strout, from the introduction 'Life was a perpetual holiday in those days...' It's the height of summer in 1930s Italy and sixteen-year-old ...Show more
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
WINNER THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 Born in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens - on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles - the narrator of The Sellout is raised by his single father, a controversial sociologist, and spends his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. Led to believ ...Show more
Smile Please by Jean Rhys
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A brilliant companion piece to Wide Sargasso Sea, this is Jean Rhys's beautifully written, bitter-sweet autobiography, covering her chequered early years in Dominica, England and Paris. Jean Rhys wrote this autobiography in her old age, now the celebrated author of Wide Sargasso Sea but still haunted by ...Show more
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Bennett's debut is a slim volume that eschews traditional narrative conventions. It may be read as 20 mostly interlinked stories or as a novella fractured into twenty parts. It is narrated by a nameless woman living in a small cottage in rural Ireland. Its sections vary in length, with some as short as ...Show more
Aunts Up the Cross by Robin Dalton
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
50 years after its original publication, Aunts Up The Cross remains a perennial classic of Australian childhood. Growing up in the 1930s in a grand old home in Sydney's bohemian Kings Cross, Robin Dalton experienced a childhood of curiosity and wonder. Raised by a bevy of idiosyncratic aunts and a revol ...Show more
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost..." The hero of Hanif Kureishi's debut novel is dreamy teenager Karim, desperate to escape suburban South London and experience the forbidden fruits which the 1970s seem to offer. When the unlikely opportunity of a life in the theatre ...Show more
Speedboat by Renata Adler
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"It has been more than thirty-five years since Renata Adler’s Speedboat charged through the literary establishment, blasting genre walls and pointing the way for a newly liberated way of writing. This unclassifiable work is simultaneously novel, memoir, commonplace book, confession, and critique. It is ...Show more
Bright Lights Big City by Jay McInerney
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial offices, and loft parties as he attempts to outstr ...Show more
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