Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was a beautiful evening. The wind gathered speed, lifting the frangipanis from the grove behind him, pink and yellow petals defying gravity. Beyond the trees, hidden by the foliage and rows of towering palm ...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
I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Further conversations with my psychiatrist by Baek Sehee
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The sequel to the Sunday Times and international-bestselling South Korean therapy memoir, translated by International Booker Prize shortlisted Anton Hur When Baek Sehee started recording her sessions with her psychiatrist, her hope was to create a reference for herself. She never imagined she would reac ...Show more
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century by Simon Kuper
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
An unsparing memoir of the city in the 21st century, from a long-time Parisien d'adoption From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city. Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as ...Show more
A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux; Tanya Leslie (Translator)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography
On 7 April 1986, Annie Ernaux's mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimer's disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which, despite her mother's condition, she had refused to fathom, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time in an effort to reco ...Show more
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024A NEW STATESMAN FICTION HIGLIGHT OF 2024AN OBSERVER FICTION TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024AN IRISH TIMES FICTION TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024October, 1891. Butte, Montana. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city is rich on copper mines and rampant with vi ...Show more
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.
Choice by Neel Mukherjee
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Dazzling...by turns comic, lyrical and heartbreaking' Monica Ali A publisher, who is at war with his industry and himself, embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him; an academic exchanges one story for another after an accident brings a stranger into her li ...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 Ap ...Show more
The Privileged Few by Clive Hamilton, Myra Hamilton
$36.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerful are not only unfair but cause widespread harm, from the everyday slights and humiliations visited on those lower down to the distortions in the labour mark ...Show more
Sonny Boy by Al Pacino
$55.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
A forthcoming book published in autumn 2024 by Century, Penguin Random House.
Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshamsbury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel, is drowning in debt. The only solution, according to his scheming mother, is for him to attend his sister's wedding and seduce a woman with money. Will it be the French ...Show more