We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958 by Fintan O'Toole
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
The #1 Irish Times bestseller. WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards. 'A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece' Marian Keyes 'Sweeping, authoritative and profoundly intelligent' Colm Tóibín, Guardian 'With the pace and twists of an enthralling novel and the edge of a fine sword' Diarmaid Ferriter ...Show more
Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. Translated brilliantly for the first time by Alison L. Strayer, Getting Lost is a haunting record of a woman in the grips of love, desire and despair. Getting Lost is the diary kept by ...Show more
Also a Poet - Frank o'Hara, My Father, and Me by Ada Calhoun
$50.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poet When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his ...Show more
Checkout 19 by Claire- Louise Bennett
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A thrilling, furious and stunningly original debut novel about womanhood, art and life, from the award-winning author of Pond, for fans of Eimear McBride, Ali Smith and Deborah Levy*A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL, DAILY TELEGRAPH, IRISH TIMES CULTURE AND NEW STATESMAN*'We read in ord ...Show more
Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984-2021 by Gary Indiana
$44.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
"One of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche." -The Guardian The novelist, cultural critic, and indie icon serves up sometimes bitchy, always generous, erudite, and joyful assessments from the last thirty-five years of cutting edge film, art, and literature.Whether he's describing Tracy E ...Show more
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan by Darryl Pinckney
$70.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Critic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein and the introduction they offered him to the New York literary world. Darryl Pinckney arrived at Columbia University in New York City in the early 1970s and had the opportunity to ...Show more
Strangers to Ourselves: Stories of Unsettled Minds by Rachel Aviv
$35.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
We place a great deal of trust in the medical system. But does a mental health diagnosis have the power to perpetuate, or even create, symptoms as its subject adapts to live within it? Is there another way of talking about their experience? And are patients being truly heard? In an attempt to answer t ...Show more
Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this 'razor-sharp' and 'dangerously hilarious' novel that "hooks readers from the beginning" (Los Angeles Times), a trans woman reenters life on the outside after more than twenty years in a men's prison, over one consequential Fourth of July weekend. Following her involvement in a liquor store robbe ...Show more
Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the acclaimed author of Severance comes a story collection that is breathtaking in its imaginative feat. What happens when fantasy tears through the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end? In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people makin ...Show more
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'McCarthy writes prose as clean as a bullet cutting through the air and constructs tales as compelling as any you will read' - Telegraph 1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His divel ...Show more
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
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
Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2021 'One of Africa's greatest living writers' Giles Foden 'Exquisite' Telegraph' A remarkable novel, by a wondrous writer' Philippe Sands 'To read Afterlives is to be returned to the joy of storytelling' Aminatta Forna 'Effortlessly compelling story ...Show more