The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died. One afternoon, a mother opens her front door to find the length of her son's body stretched out on the veranda, swaddled in akwete material, his head on her welcome mat. The Death of Vivek Oji transports us to the day of Vivek's birth, the day his ...Show more
War - How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan
$23.00 AUD
$40.00 (42% off)
Category: War
How the human history of conflict has transformed the world we live in - for good and evil. The time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted period of harmony in human history: the 'long peace', as Stephen Pinker called it. But despite this, there has been a militar ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$65.00 AUD
Category: Political
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
Missionaries by Phil Klay
$30.00 AUD
Category: Crime
An astonishing novel about the moral cost of war, from the author of the National Book Award-winning Redeployment.
Memorial by Bryan Washington
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese-American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a Black day care teacher, and they've been together for a few years - good years - but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the me ...Show more
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burs ...Show more
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine
$35.00 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
Through a series of exquisitely observed autobiographical sketches, Adrian Tomine explores his life in comics - from an early moment on the playground being bullied, to a more recent experience, lying on a gurney in the hospital, and having the nurse say 'Hey! You're that cartoonist!' it's self-deprecat ...Show more
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Mind blowing, dark and wild, the new novel from Sayaka Murata - author of bestseller Convenience Store Woman - asks: how far would you go just to be yourself? Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together w ...Show more
Red Pill by Hari Kunzru
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'The book I wish I'd written? Whatever Hari Kunzru is publishing next' - Aravind Adiga From the author of White Tears comes a breathtaking, state-of-the-world novel about one man's struggle to defend his values and create a reality free from the shadows of the past. 'From now on when you see something ...Show more
Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself. Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she went to Harva ...Show more
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms, a slow and painstaking process. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that's a world away from his childhood growing up in Alabama. His father died a few weeks ago, but Walla ...Show more
Monogamy by Sue Miller
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'One of the most emotionally truthful novels I have ever read' DAISY BUCHANAN Annie is not the first love of Graham's life but she is, he thinks, his last and greatest. Very recently, he has faltered; but he means to put it right. Here they are in marriage, in late middle age, in comfort. Mismatched, a ...Show more