Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982: The international bestseller by Cho Nam-Joo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A fierce international bestseller that launched Korea's new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman's psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny. Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while her broth ...Show more
Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge by Bri Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In 2018 Bri Lee's brilliant young friend Damian is named a Rhodes Scholar, an apex of academic achievement. When she goes to visit him and takes a tour of Oxford and Rhodes House, she begins questioning her belief in a system she has previously revered, as she learns the truth behind what Virginia Woolf ...Show more
Nostalgia by Mircea Cartarescu
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Gripping, impassioned, unexpected' Los Angeles TimesA dreamlike novel of memory and magic, Nostalgia turns the dark world of Communist Bucharest into a place of strange enchantments. Here a man plays increasingly death-defying games of Russian Roulette, a child messiah works his magic in the tenements, ...Show more
Eavesdropping: A Reader by James Parker and Joel Stern (eds)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
The earliest references to eavesdropping are found in law books. According to William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1769), 'eavesdroppers, or such as listen under walls or windows, or the eaves of a house, to hearken after discourse, and thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous ...Show more
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Mariana Enriquez is a mesmerizing writer who demands to be read. Like Bolano, she is interested in matters of life and death, and her fiction hits with the full force of a train' - Dave EggersWelcome to Buenos Aires, a city thrumming with murderous intentions and morbid desires, where missing children ...Show more
A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure by Hoa Nguyen
$33.50 AUD
Category: Poetry
Hoa Nguyen's latest collection is a poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and post-"Fall-of-Saigon" and comprises a verse biography on her mother, Diep Anh Nguyen, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe. Multilayered, plaintive, and provocative, th ...Show more
The Expert System's Champion by Adrian Tchaikovsky
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: The\Expert System's Brother Ser.
It's been ten years since Handry was wrenched away from his family and friends, forced to wander a world he no longer understood. But with the help of the Ancients, he has cobbled together a life, of sorts, for himself and his fellow outcasts. Wandering from village to village, welcoming the folk that t ...Show more
Luster by Raven Leilani
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Longlisted for the Women's Prize For Fiction 2021The Sunday Times Bestseller'A book of pure fineness, exceptional.' Diana Evans, Guardian'Leilani's live-wire sentences are a giddy joy, crafted with mischievous perfection.' Mail on SundayEdie is just trying to survive. She's messing up in her dead-end ad ...Show more
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed - Stories (HB) by Mariana Enriquez; Megan McDowell (Translator)
$46.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"The lauded Argentine author of What We Lost in the Fire returns with enthralling stories conjured from literary sorcery" (O: The Oprah Magazine), in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and Jorge Luis Borges. Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'We were bowled over by this first novel, which creates an amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' - The judges of the Booker Prize 2020. 'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.' Observer It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good fa ...Show more
Passages by Ann Quin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A book of voices, landscapes and seasons, Ann Quin's newly republished novel mirrors the multiplicity of meanings of the very word 'passage'--of music, of time, and of life itself. A woman, accompanied by her lover, searches for her lost brother, who may have been a revolutionary, and who may have been ...Show more
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Hachette Essentials
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDIn 1956, towards the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son: 'I told you last night that I might be gone sometime . . . You reached up and put your fingers on my lips and gave me that look I ...Show more