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First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios an ...Show more
Finding the Heart Sutra: Guided by a Magician, an Art Collector and Buddhist Sages from Tibet to Japan by Alex Kerr
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Forty years ago, after learning of the Heart Sutra in Japan, Alex Kerr set out on a quest to seek the wisdom that lies at the heart of this ancient Buddhist scripture. Guided by Zen abbots in Kyoto, Tibetan monks, a French writer, an American art collector, a magician and the writings of Chinese scholar ...Show more
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
$37.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt. These twelve pieces from 1968 to 2000, never before gathered ...Show more
The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A riveting tale of persistence, innovation, and the incalculable wages of war, from the international bestselling author of Talking to Strangers and host of the award-winning podcast Revisionist History Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. ...Show more
One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995 by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Helen Garner's second volume of diaries charts a tumultuous stage in her life. Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming, and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the bombshell that followed it, Garner reveals the inner life of a woman in l ...Show more
The Lost Soul by Olga Tokarczuk
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The Lost Soul is a deeply moving reflection on our capacity to live in peace with ourselves, to remain patient and attentive to the world. It is a story that beautifully weaves together the voice of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and the finely detailed pen-and-ink drawings of il ...Show more
Helgoland (HB) by Carlo Rovelli
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, retreated to a small, treeless island in the North Sea called Helgoland. It was there that he came up with one of the most transformative scientific concepts- quantum theory. Almost a century later, quantum physics has giv ...Show more
Old Seems to Be Other People by Lily Brett
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
'People assume that if you are female and over seventy you are oblivious to men's good looks. No one would blink if a 99-year-old man wearing an oxygen mask mentioned a good-looking woman...' Most of us would like to live to an old age, but few of us actually want to be old. In this disarming and gentl ...Show more
Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
63 rue de Monceau, Paris Dear friend, As you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by accident. I know your street rather well. Count Moise de Camondo lived a few doors away from Edmund de Waal's forebears, the Ephrussi, first encountered in his bestselling memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes. ...Show more
A Jealous Tide by Anna MacDonald
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A restless woman upends her world, abandoning her domestic inertia to seek refuge in a foreign hemisphere. Purposefully unsettled on the labyrinthine streets of London, she assembles a new routine amid the afterglow of a story from a century earlier. A traumatised widow, doubly bereaved, threw herself i ...Show more
Email and the Everyday - Stories of Disclosure, Trust, and Digital Labor by Esther Milne
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
An exploration of how email is experienced, understood, and materially structured as a practice spanning our everyday domestic and work lives. Despite its many obituaries, email is not dead. As a global mode of business and personal communication, email outstrips newer technologies of online interaction ...Show more
The Premonition by Michael Lewis
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The news out of China was not good: there were signs that a new disease might be big--scary big, like a brushfire coming at you uphill. Authorities, medical and political, saw no reason to worry and little need for tests. Michael Lewis's riveting nonfiction thriller pits a rogue band of visionaries, wor ...Show more