My Friends by Hisham Matar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
By the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Return comes an astonishing new novel about friendship, set between London and Libya in the 1980s and the present Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh- two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of re ...Show more
Freedom - A Disease Without Cure by Slavoj Žižek
$40.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
We are all afraid that new dangers pose a threat to our hard-won freedoms, so what deserves attention is precisely the notion of freedom.The concept of freedom is deceptively simple. We think we understand it, but the moment we try and define it we encounter contradictions. In this new philosophical exp ...Show more
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
She felt their eyes, all those executioners...Enter a world where, watched by millions, prisoners fight like gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom.SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2023'The new maestro of dystopian lit has arrived' ...Show more
Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks by Patricia Highsmith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'My secrets - the secrets that everyone has - are here, in black and white.'Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for the big screen; before Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense; before Carol became a cult classic of romantic obsession, w ...Show more
Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.' From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences and responsibility of disrupting Australia's history. When Dark Emu was adopted by Australia like a new anthem, Bruce ...Show more
The Meiji Guillotine Murders by Futaro Yamada
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Pushkin Vertigo Ser.
A classic Japanese mystery - a pair of sleuths investigate a series of bloody murders in 19th century TokyoJapan, 1869. A time of reform and rebellion.Detectives Kazuki and Kawaji are assigned to investigate a series of seemingly impossible murders. Together with the help of a mysterious shrine maiden, ...Show more
The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA masterful coming-of-age novel and a gripping investigation into the life of a mysterious author who disappeared without a trace, by the first writer from sub-Saharan Africa to be awarded France's prestigious Prix Goncourt.Paris, 2018. Diégane Latyr Faye, a yo ...Show more
Bird Life: a novel by Anna Smaill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The second novel by Booker Prize longlisted author Anna Smaill. A lyrical and ambitious exploration of madness and what it is like to experience the world differently. In Ueno Park, Tokyo, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and two women meet ...Show more
The Freedom of Emma Herwegh by Dirk Kurbjuweit
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From best-selling German author Dirk Kurbjuweit comes the story of Emma Herwegh, a woman ahead of her time. When Emma marries the revolutionary poet Georg Herwegh, she desires and promises only one thing- to love and hate by his side for the rest of their lives. Their marriage creates waves in Berlin a ...Show more
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing
$51.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there's still time? Moving between real and imagined gardens, ...Show more
Hazzard and Harrower: The letters by Brigitta Olubas (Editor); Susan Wyndham (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Two extraordinary writers, one difficult mother and a vanished literary world. Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began a correspondence that would span four decades. They exchanged letters, cards and telegrams and made occasi ...Show more
The Hive and the Honey by Paul Yoon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A boy searches for his father, a prison guard on Sakhalin Island. In Barcelona, a woman is tasked with spying on a prizefighter who may or may not be her estranged son. In the Edo Period, a samurai escorts an orphan to his countrymen. In upstate New York, a formerly incarcerated man starts a new life in ...Show more