Wild Abandon by Emily Bitto
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
In the fall of 2011, a heartbroken young man flees Australia for the USA. Landing in the excessive, uncanny-familiar glamour and plenitude of New York City, Will makes a vow to say yes to everything that comes his way. By fate or random chance, Will's journey takes him deep into the American heartland w ...Show more
A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tóibín de ...Show more
Six Days In Rome by Francesca Giacco
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
In this decadent, deeply evocative novel for fans of Rebecca Serle, a young artist travels to Rome to heal a broken heart, where she confronts loneliness and intimacy, rage and desire: "Sensorial as hell . . . A stunningly cool and stylish debut" (Paul Beatty, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sel ...Show more
In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It HB by Lauren Graham
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Advice for graduates and reflections on staying true to yourself from the beloved Gilmore Girls actress and New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Talking as Fast as I Can and the novel Someday, Someday, Maybe. "If you're kicking yourself for not having accomplished all you should have by now, ...Show more
The Ascent by Stefan Hertmans
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A fascinating historical novel based on the author's discovery that his home was once owned by a member of the SS In the summer of 1979, a house in Ghent caught Stefan Hertmans' attention. Despite its dilapidated state, he was drawn to the house and bought it on an impulse. Only twenty years later did ...Show more
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
$40.95 AUD
Category: Literature
Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His att ...Show more
The Boy in Time by Stephen Orr
$27.95 AUD
Category: Literature
A plane in the distance, artillery, his father waiting, and the boy wonders what to do. As with every story in this collection, the child born into a world he can't comprehend, but stands waiting for answers, overcome with possibilities. The Boy in Time charts this child's progress from the Outer Hebrid ...Show more
Red Is My Heart by Antoine Laurain; Jane Aitken (Translator); Le Sonneur (Illustrator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
From the author of The Red Notebook, described as 'Parisian perfection' by HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, Red is My Heart is a stunning collection of words and images in collaboration with Parisian street artist, Le Sonneur, about how to mend a broken heart.'Enchanting' Washington PostHow can you mend a b ...Show more
Fifty Forgotten Books by R. B. Russell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book-people of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty backrooms of long vanished used bookstores, a love letter ...Show more
Verge 2023: Defiant by Various
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
New Australian writing from emerging and established writersThe thirty-one stories and poems in this collection explore our defiant acts, from the small, everyday moments of revolt to life-changing actions in possible futures and imagined pasts. From the unbridled ambition of a scientist to the assassin ...Show more
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Erato the Mid-nineteenth Century by Donald Keene (ed.)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The sweep of Japanese literature in its infinite variety and unusual beauty – from earliest times to the mid-nineteenth century – is the focus of this impressive volume. Every genre and style of Japanese literature, from the somber beauty of Noh plays to the eroticism of seventeenth century novels is in ...Show more
Still Water by Rebecca Pert
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'BEAUTIFUL AND BRUTAL...A BREATHTAKING DEBUT' JOANNA CANNON'AN ATMOSPHERIC SLOW BURN...WITH A SENSE OF FOREBODING THAT GROWS WITH EACH PAGE' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'ATMOSPHERIC AND COMPELLING' KATE SAWYER, author of the Costa-shortlisted The StrandingA beautifully written atmospheric story of trauma, grief an ...Show more