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Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though more in theory than in practice, his endless lust is all too rarely reciprocated. Both are symptomatic members of our atomise ...Show more
H.P. Lovecraft - Against the World by Michel Houellebecq (with an introduction by Stephen King)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world." In this prescient work-now with an introduction by Stephen King-Michel Houellebe ...Show more
H. P. Lovecraft - Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq
$27.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq pays tribute to the master of horror, H. P. LovecraftPart biographical sketch, part pronouncement on existence and literature, the best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq's H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, was published in France i ...Show more
H.P. Lovecraft : Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
'Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.' In this prescient work, now with an introduction by Stephen King, Michel Houelle ...Show more
Interventions 2020 by Michel Houellebecq
$41.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The death of God in the West was the prelude to a formidable metaphysical soap opera that continues to this day. Christianity's masterstroke was to combine a fierce belief in the individual with the promise of eternal participation in the Absolute. When that dream evaporated, various attempts were made ...Show more
Lanzarote by Michel Houellebecq
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse, walks into a travel agency to book a week in the sun. Sensitive to his limited means and dislike of Muslim countries, the travel agent suggests an island full of 21st century hedonism, set in a bizarre lu ...Show more
Platform by Michel Houellebecq
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years.In his early forties, Michel Renault skims through his days with as little human con ...Show more
Public Enemies by Michel Houellebecq & Bernard-Henri Levy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
'Everything separates us from one another, with the exception of one fundamental point: we're both utterly despicable individuals' - (Houellebecq to BHL). In 2008, two of the most celebrated of French intellectuals began a ferocious exchange of letters. "Public Enemies" is the result. In their inimitabl ...Show more
Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houellebecq's work.' - Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York Times Dissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labrouste begrudgingly works as an engineer for the Ministry of Agriculture, and is in a self-imposed dysfunctional ...Show more
Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZETHE MOST IMPORTANT FRENCH BOOK OF THE YEAR___________________'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houellebecq's work.' Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York TimesDissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labroust ...Show more
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In a near-future France, Francois, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession - the ideas and works of the nineteenth-century novelist and pessimist Joris-Karl Huysmans - has led him nowhere. In a ...Show more
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
$52.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In a near-future France, Francois, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession - the ideas and works of the nineteenth-century novelist and pessimist Joris-Karl Huysmans - has led him nowhere. In a ...Show more