Parade by Rachel Cusk
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A writer hides. A mother dies. A woman is attacked. In Parade, Rachel Cusk creates a new documentary voice that operates on the border between fiction and reality. It braids imagined characters with the actual, experience with the philosophical, to altering effect. Midway through his life, an artist b ...Show more
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Butte, Montana, October 1891, and a hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers. Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and balladmaker of the town, but also a doper, a drink ...Show more
Wed by the Wayside by Alana Valentine
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The fascinating true story of Wayside Chapel in Kings Cross, Sydney a quiet revolution in Australian history, from a side street of the red-light district. Alana Valentine's mother, Janice, was married by the charismatic and controversial Methodist minister Ted Noffs at the Wayside Chapel in 1969. Not l ...Show more
A Refiner's Fire (#33 Commissario Brunetti) by Donna Leon
$35.00 AUD
Category: Crime
Brunetti returns with a gripping and powerful case about the murkiness of power and a test of loyalties When two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice's campi, the son of a local hero is implicated. But when Commissario Guido Brunetti is asked by a wealthy foreigner to vet ...Show more
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein 'A stunning exploration of sisterhood and grief, addiction and recovery, pain and pleasure. Captivating' TESS GUNTY 'In Blue Sisters, grief is rendered with gorgeous particularity' RAVEN LEILANI The Blue sisters have always been e ...Show more
Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia's Future: Quarterly Essay 94 by Joëlle Gergis
$28.00 AUD
Category: Essays
What will the climate crisis mean for Australia? What is the price of our inertia? Australia is in peril. Do we truly grasp the impact of a warming planet - in particular, what it will mean for the sunburnt country? This searing essay by a leading climate scientist takes aim at the folly of "adaptation" ...Show more
The Forever War by Nick Bryant
$37.00 AUD
Category: Political
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the American experiment is failing. Division, mistrust and misinformation are now its defining characteristics. The storming of the Capitol, the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the increasing spotlight on Second Amendment rights rai ...Show more
Operation Biting by Max Hastings
$38.00 AUD
Category: War
Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful. In February 1942 RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly-identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. The brilliant scientist Dr RV Jones propos ...Show more
Sandwich by CATHERINE NEWMAN
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
One week in Cape Cod. The perfect family holiday. What could possibly go wrong...? From the author of We All Want Impossible Things, a raucously funny novel with an unexpected punch about being 'sandwiched' between growing children and ageing parents and the power of change. From the bestselling author ...Show more
Imperial Harvest by Bruce Pascoe
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Yen Se has lost everything to the Khan's brutality.Left with one eye and one leg, he is forced out of his home village to work in the city as a horse handler. Witness to the Khan's violent crusade, their raids sweeping across Eurasia, he travels with the theatre of war, but exists outside of it; stunned ...Show more
Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age by Norman Ohler
$33.00 AUD
Category: War
A brilliant and original investigation into the medical origins of LSD and how the Nazis and the CIA turned it into a weapon, by the author of Blitzed. First used as a drug capable of treating mental illnesses, then as a 'truth serum' by the CIA, Tripped reveals how the fortuitous discovery of LSD in A ...Show more
The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion by Cory Leadbeater
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Cory Leadbeater grew up in a working-class town in New Jersey, one of three brothers, a quiet kid looking to find refuge from the rougher parts of his childhood in Dickens, Austen and Frost. Almost a decade ago when he was just starting at Columbia's MFA program, still living at home, he received an off ...Show more