A Dream Life by Claire Messud
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
When the Armstrong family moves from New York at the dawn of the 1970s, Australia feels, to Alice Armstrong, like the end of the earth. Residing in a grand manor on the glittering Sydney Harbour, her family finds their life has turned upside down. As she navigates this strange new world, Alice must fin ...Show more
Silences So Deep - Music, Solitude, Alaska by John Luther Adams
$36.99 AUD
Category: Music
A memoir of a composer's life in the Alaskan wilderness and a meditation on making art in a landscape acutely threatened by climate change. In the summer of 1975, the composer John Luther Adams, then a twenty-two-year-old graduate of CalArts, boarded a flight to Alaska. So began a journey into the moun ...Show more
20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic' This is the story of Fenfang who, determined to carve out a life more independent than her provincial roots, gets a job as a film e ...Show more
Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Citizen changed the conversation. Just Us moves it forward again - and this time, urges all of us to take part At home and in government, contemporary America finds itself riven by a culture war in which aggression and defensiveness alike are on the rise. It is not alone. In such partisan conditions, ho ...Show more
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Easily the best thing I have read all year' KILEY REID, AUTHOR OF SUCH A FUN AGE 'Intense, incisive, I loved this and have still not quite shaken off the unease' DAVID NICHOLLS 'Simply breathtaking . . . An extraordinary book, at once smart, gripping and hallucinatory' OBSERVER ***THE INSTANT NEW YO ...Show more
How We Love: Notes on a life by Clementine Ford
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and bestselling author of Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys. There is love in this place, just like there is love everywhere we care to look for it. There is beauty and there is hope and there is a boy and there is a mothe ...Show more
The History of Bones - A Memoir by John Lurie
$42.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
The quintessential depiction of 1980s New York and the downtown scene from the artist, actor, musician, and composer John Lurie. In the tornado that was downtown New York in the 1980s, John Lurie stood in its vortex. After founding the band The Lounge Lizards with his brother in 1979, Lurie quickly beca ...Show more
Whisper by Yu-Ko Chang; Roddy Flag
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Victims all describe hearing a voice before they die gruesomely. Sometimes it’s singing an old Taiwanese song, sometimes it’s in Japanese, and sometimes it’s an anguished call for help from a loved one. Can Wu Shih-Sheng, a degenerate taxi driver in Taipei, hunt down the source of the voice that killed ...Show more
Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a riveting noir thriller about a daydreaming secretary and a lonely enforcer - and the missing woman they are both seeking.1970s Mexico City: while student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite escapes from her humdrum li ...Show more
Queer As Fiction by Bronwyn Mehan (Editor); Ygraine McLaughlin (Editor); Quinn Eades (Introduction by)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: SW Smalls Ser.
This is a collection of contemporary stories from the Queer community. It is about love, sex and identity told through diverse stories from buying a double bed, meeting neighbourhood witches and early morning swims. They talk about freedom and misery, victories and injustices. The result is a slew of fa ...Show more
TAKE CARE: Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2022 by Eunice Andrada
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
TAKE CARE explores what it means to survive within systems not designed for tenderness. Bound in personal testimony, the poems situate the act of rape within the machinery of imperialism, where human and non-human bodies, lands, and waters are violated to uphold colonial powers. Andrada explores the mag ...Show more
Robot by Adam Wisniewski-Snerg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Is BER-64 a human or a machine? As he navigates the corridors and locked rooms of a strange bunker, he must solve the mysteries of murderous doppelgangers, a slow-motion city on the verge of destruction, and ultimately, the all-powerful Mechanism itself... Considered to be one of the most important and ...Show more