Bad Art Mother by Edwina Preston
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Good mothers are expected to be selfless. Artists are seen as selfish. So what does this mean for a mother with artistic ambitions? Enter: frustrated poet Veda Gray, who is offered a Faustian bargain when a wealthy childless couple, the Parishes, invite her to exchange her young son Owen for time to w ...Show more
Pod by Laline Paull
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
Bestselling author of The Bees, Laline Paull returns with an immersive and transformative new novel of an ocean world - its extraordinary creatures, mysteries, and mythologies - that is increasingly haunted by the cruelty and ignorance of the human race. Ea has always felt like an outsider. As a spinne ...Show more
We Come With This Place by Debra Dank
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
A deeply personal, profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs. We Come with This Place is a remarkable book, as rich, varied and surprising as the vast landscape in which it is set. Debra Dank has created an extraordinary mosaic of vivid episodes that move about in t ...Show more
Homecoming: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2022 by Elfie Shiosaki
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Our grandmothers' stories teach us about Aboriginal women's ways of being in our many worlds. Some of the stories in this collection are held in spoken histories, others in archival material, recontextualised with living katitjin. Some are held in my imagination. They are fragments of the many stars in ...Show more
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A powerful, compressed masterwork that explores questions of complicity, power and devotion. A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - fr ...Show more
Losing Face: An unforgettable novel about family and Western Sydney (Miles Franklin Longlist 2023) by George Haddad
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Joey is young, indifferent. He's drifting around Western Sydney unaware that his passivity is leading him astray. And then one day he is involved in a violent crime, one that threatens to upend his life entirely.Elaine, his grandmother, is a proud Lebanese woman with problems of her own. When Joey is ar ...Show more
Hydra (Shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize) by Adriane Howell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'From the treacherous auction houses of Melbourne to the sun-struck islands of Greece, Hydra took me places I never expected to go. Adriane Howell writes with the dreamy precision of Marguerite Duras, the humour-laced disquiet of Patricia Highsmith. A fever dream of a debut - elegant, savage, and deligh ...Show more
Hopeless Kingdom by Kgshak Akec
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Akita’s family have always kept moving to survive. Sudan to Cairo. Cairo to Sydney. Sydney to Geelong. At each new place, challenges test and break Akita, her four siblings and her parents. Just when eight-year-old Akita is feeling settled at her new school and community in Sydney for the first time in ...Show more
Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising hope' Ocean Vuong An extraordinary, original and heartbreaking debut novel about the bonds that connect people even when separated by seas or death itself, from a thrilling new voice.There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the ...Show more
The Gospel According to the New World by Maryse Condé
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"French novelist Condé (Waiting for the Waters to Rise)delivers an ingenious bildungsroman of a messianic figure in contemporaryMartinique. Readers will be transfixed." --Publishers Weekly, starred review A miracle baby is born on Easter Sunday, rumored to be the child of God. Award-winning Caribbea ...Show more
Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov (translated by Reuben Woolley)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Ukraine's greatest living novelist" New European"A Ukrainian Murakami" GuardianA hugely entertaining romp through the beautiful city of Lviv, by the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey BeesStrange things are afoot in the cosmopolitan city of Lviv, western Ukraine. Seagulls are circling and the air ...Show more
Ninth Building by Zou Jingzhi
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Ninth Building is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from Zou Jingzhi's experiencegrowing up during the Cultural Revolution, first as a boy in Beijing and then as a teenager exiled to the countryside. Zou poetically captures a side of the Cultural Revolution that is less talkedabout--the sheer ...Show more