Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A landmark feminist intervention- a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, fema ...Show more
Murder Most Serene by Gabrielle Wittkop
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the last days of the Venetian Republic, the successive wives of Count Alvise Lanzi suffer mysterious, agonizing deaths. Murder Most Serene offers a cruel portrait of a beautiful but corrupt city-state and its equally extravagant and corrupt inhabitants. Redolent of darkness, death, poison and transgr ...Show more
Quantum Listening by Oliveros Pauline
$19.95 AUD
Category: Music | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
What is the difference between hearing and listening? When do you stop hearing the sound? When does memory begin? Is sound intelligent? Does sound have consciousness? Beginning in the 1960s, musician and composer Pauline Oliveros started experimenting with bringing together meditation, political activis ...Show more
Yellowface by Rebecca Kuang
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Athena Liu is a literary darling. Juniper Hayward is literally nobody. When Athena dies in a freak accident, Juniper steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name June Song. But as evidence threatens Juniper's stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she ...Show more
Barefoot Doctor by CAN XUE
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A profound, poignant story of a village healer and her community, from one of the world’s great contemporary novelists In rural Yun Village, herbalist Mrs. Yi lives with her husband in a cottage at the foot of Niulan Mountain, where she gathers herbs to treat the ailments of the villagers by day and st ...Show more
Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai; Polly Barton (Translator); Kate Zambreno (Introduction by)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The apparently unremarkable Natsumi lives in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she does the laundry, goes to the supermarket, visits friends, and gossips with neighbors. Tracing her conversations and interactions with her family and friends as they blend seamlessly into her own inf ...Show more
Wivenhoe by Samuel Fisher
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Compelling . . . this is a fable for the times ahead that feels essential' Irish Times'Stunning, insightful, deeply humane prose . . . Fisher indicts all of us yet still offers hope that we may change the ending of this story' Olivia SudjicA young man is found brutally murdered in the middle of the sno ...Show more
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking - a tragicomic tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is in meltdown... The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending hi ...Show more
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writers to emerge from the South. Her apocalyptic vision of life is expressed through grotesque, often comic situations in which the principal character faces a problem of salvation: the grandmother, in the titl ...Show more
The Weak Spot by Lucie Elven
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
On a remote mountaintop somewhere in Europe, accessed by an ancient funicular, a small pharmacy sits on a square. As if attending confession, the townspeople carry their ailments and worries through its doors, in search of healing, reassurance, and a witness to their bodies and the stories of their live ...Show more
The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Reading Level: near fine
From the New York Times bestselling author of THE PASSAGE comes a riveting new saga in which a small portion of the human population survives on a hidden island nation - until one man begins to realize that the truth isn't what it seems. Life on the island archipelago of Prospera is everything a person ...Show more
Mona by Pola Oloixarac
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
One of the coolest literary debuts of the year - sexy, funny and thrillingly provocative