At the Edge of the Solid World by Daniel Davis Wood
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'the tale is made seamless by a tight structure and a hypnotic style that seems to owe something to the work of Gerald Murnane.' Kerryn Goldsworthy Sydney Morning Herald on Blood and Bone In a snowbound village in the heart of the Alps, a husband and wife find their lives breaking apart in the days and ...Show more
big beautiful female theory (Shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize) by Eloise Grills
35.00 AUD
Category: Sociology
big beautiful female theory is an anarchic and vital memoir unlike anything you've read before. Part feminist manifesto, part comic book, it is a carnivalesque exploration of the ways identity is formed through culture, relationships and the weight of society's expectations. With breathtaking honesty an ...Show more
The Jaguar: 2023 Stella Prize Winner by Sarah Holland-Batt
24.99 AUD
Category: Literature
With electrifying boldness and fearlessness of vision, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishing and deeply humane portrait of a father's Parkinson's Disease, and a daughter forged by grief. Opening and closing with startling elegies set in the charged moments before and ...Show more
Praiseworthy - 2024 Stella Prize WINNER (Miles Franklin Longlist 2024) by Alexis Wright
39.95 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
Winner of the 2024 Stella Prize Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ...Show more
No One by John Hughes
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the ghost hours of a Monday morning a man feels a dull thud against the side of his car near the entrance to Redfern Station. He doesn't stop immediately. By the time he returns to the scene, the road is empty, but there is a dent in the car, high up on the passenger door, and what looks like blood. ...Show more
Body Friend by Katherine Brabon
34.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
'Body Friend is a deeply intimate tribute to the fragile and porous self, written in prose of rare clarity and tenderness. I felt everything reading this book.'--Claire Thomas, author of The Performance and Fugitive Blue Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure ...Show more
The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2019 The art historian Noah Glass, having just returned from a trip to Sicily, is discovered floating face down in the swimming pool at his Sydney apartment block. His adult children, Martin and Evie, must come to terms with the shock of their father''s ...Show more
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A searing debut novel about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal - for fans of Jenny Offill, Deborah Levy, Rachel Cusk and Diana Evans 'I would be lying if I said my mother's misery has never given me pleasure.' This is a tale of obsession and betrayal. This is a poisoned love story. But not be ...Show more
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim
34.99 AUD
Category: History
An award-winning journalist takes to the protest-riven streets of Hong Kong to write this startling landmark account of the island city's complex past and precarious future. The story of Hong Kong has long been obscured by competing myths- to Britain, a 'barren rock' with no appreciable history; to Chin ...Show more
The Rain Heron (The Age Book of the Year 2021) by Robbie Arnott
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting and trading--and forgetting. But when a young soldier comes to the mountains in search of a local myth, Ren is inexorably drawn into her impossible mission. As their lives entw ...Show more
Stone Fruit by Lee Lai
41.95 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
At turns joyful and heartbreaking, Stone Fruit reveals through intimately naturalistic dialog and blue-hued watercolor how painful it can be to truly become vulnerable to your loved ones -- and how fulfilling it is to be finally understood for who you are. Lee Lai is one of the most exciting new voices ...Show more
A Sand Archive by Gregory Day
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Long before I ever met him I knew his name from the leaky desiccated type of a grey-brown slim volume, cheaply printed but essential to my research... Seeking stories of Australia's Great Ocean Road, a young writer stumbles across a manual from a minor player in the road's history, FB Herschell. It is a ...Show more