Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Edwidge Danticat's groundbreaking debut, with new introduction from Booker-prize-winning Bernardine Evaristo. An Oprah Book Club selection 'A vision of female solidarity which transcends place and time' Sunday Times 'A novel that rewards the reader again and again with small but exquisite and unforget ...Show more
Dirty Bird Blues by Major, Join
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A quietly influential force in African American literature and art, Clarence Major makes his Penguin Classics debut with the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Dirty Bird BluesThe PRH Audio book of Dirty Bird Blues by Clarence Major won a 2022 EARPHONE AWARD. Narrated by Dion Graham.A Penguin ClassicSe ...Show more
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck; Warren French (Intro and Notes by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A riveting novel of labor strife and apocalyptic violence that maps the frontier where the masses become a mobAt once a relentlessly fast-paced, admirably observed novel of social unrest and the story of a young manâe(tm)s struggle for identity, In Dubious Battle is set in the California apple country, ...Show more
What the Mugwig Has to Say & Silvalandia by Julio. Cortázar; Julio Silva (Illustrator, Artist); Chris Clarke (Translator)
$37.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The writer Julio Cortázar and the artist Julio Silva were fast friends, from the time, as Cortazar remembers, his younger compatriot "came to Paris from Buenos Aires in fifty-five and a few months later visited me and spent a night talking about French poetry." The two would collaborate frequently, most ...Show more
Mystery Train by Can Xue; Natascha Bruce (Translator)
$34.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A chicken-farm employee named Scratch, sent by his manager to buy feed, has boarded the right train. Hasn't he? So what if the destination on the ticket is wrong, or if he's locked in his compartment, or if the lights are off and it's suddenly freezing cold? And surely the whispers of a pending accident ...Show more
Pharmakon by Almudena Sánchez; Katie Whittemore (Translator)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Pulling no punches in its 150 pages, Pharmakon is the story of an explosion, of the moment depression blew up the life the author thought she knew and settled in her body. But Pharmakon isn't a sad book; it is testimony, written with humour and intimacy by one of Spain's most singular voices, one that d ...Show more
A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire is her best friend, also a girl. It's the kind of power that could implode a family, a friendship, a life. On a quiet summer night in Newcastle, 1972, a choice must be made: to act upon these desires, or su ...Show more
Anyone's Ghost by August Thompson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'An overwhelmingly beautiful love story. This book will make you cry' - Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated The lonely life of fifteen-year-old Theron David Alden is transformed when he meets Jake. Older, cooler, more confident and startlingly beautiful, Jake likes the same bands, ...Show more
Ask Me Again by Clare Sestanovich
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From Clare Sestanovich, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize nominee whose short stories received instant acclaim, a debut novel about a young woman's coming of age, in parallel with a renegade male friend who challenges her beliefs and the course of her life.Eva meets Jamie by chance. She is sixteen, living ...Show more
Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A beautiful and moving first novel about grief, sisterhood and a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself. Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes h ...Show more
An Honourable Exit by Eric Vuillard
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the International Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Order of the Day and The War of the Poor comes a searing account of a conflict that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism. 'Excoriating and profound . . . A remarkable work' - Scotsman 'Absolutely spectacular' - France Info 19 October 19 ...Show more