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The Hunger of Women by Marosia Castaldi; Jamie Richards (Translator)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Rosa, midway through life, is alone. Her husband passed away long ago, and her cosmopolitan daughter is already out the door, keen to marry and move to the city. At loose ends, Rosa decides to transplant herself to the flat, foggy Lombardy provinces from her native Naples and there finds a way to renew ...Show more
The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza ; Sarah Booker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
On a dark and stormy night, an unnamed narrator is visited by two women: one a former lover, the other a stranger. They ruthlessly question their host and claim to know his greatest secret: that he is, in fact, a woman. In increasingly desperate attempts to defend his masculinity, perplexed by the stran ...Show more
The Invisible Painting - My Memoir of Leonora Carrington by Gabriel Weisz Carrington
$42.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Since her death in 2011, the legendary Surrealist Leonora Carrington has been reconstructed and reinvented many times over. In this book, Gabriel Weisz Carrington draws on remembered conversations and events to demythologise his mother, revealing the woman and the artist behind the iconic persona. He tr ...Show more
The Last Language - A Novel by Jennifer duBois
$44.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
From Jennifer duBois, "one of a handful of living American novelists who can comprehend both the long arc of history and the minute details that animate it" (Karan Mahajan) and "a writer of thrilling psychological precision" (Justin Torres), comes a gripping new novel.In 2001, a few months after the dea ...Show more
The Little Buddhist Monk by Cesar Aira
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero; Annie McDermott (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
'Perhaps the luminous novel is this thing that I started writing today, just now. Maybe these sheets of paper are a warm-up exercise. [...] But it's quite possible that if I go on writing - as I usually do - with no plan, although this time I know very well what I want to say, things will start to take ...Show more
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma
$22.99 AUD
Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
An internationally bestselling fable about a spiritual journey, littered with powerful life lessons that teach us how to abandon consumerism in order to embrace destiny, live life to the full and discover joy. * This inspiring tale is based on the author's own search for life's true purpose, providing a ...Show more
The New York Poets : An Anthology by John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler
$37.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
For the first time, "The New York Poets" gathers in a single volume the best work of four extraordinary poets: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler. By the early 1950s all four were settled in Manhattan, collaborating, competing and encouraging each other's radical experiments wi ...Show more
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning by Jeremy R. Lent
$45.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Award This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world. It offers a glimpse into the minds of a vast range of different peoples: early hunter-gatherers and farmers, ancien ...Show more
The Photographs of Zygmunt Bauman by Peter Beilharz (Editor); Janet Wolff (Editor)
$57.99 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Zygmunt Bauman is known internationally as the sociologist of postmodernity and 'liquid' society. But he was also a serious photographer. This book presents a selection of his black-and-white photographs, together with a range of essays by colleagues, friends and family about his work with images. The ...Show more
The Presence of Absence by Simon Van Booy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
"Impossible to resist."--Ilya Kaminsky "A moving, brilliant book."--Ann Beattie As a writer lies dying, he has one last story to tell: a tale of faith and devotion, a meditation on what lies beyond this life, and a prayer of gratitude that may lead to rebirth. This is Simon Van Booy at his visionary be ...Show more
The President's Hat by Antoine Laurain; Gallic Books Staff (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
This prize-winning French bestseller is a charming fable about the power of a hat that takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through French life during the Mitterrand years. Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant Daniel Mercier can hardly believe his eyes when President Francois M ...Show more