This Other Eden by Paul Harding
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a profoundly moving story of an island refuge, and a community of outcasts living on borrowed time. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discovered an island where they could make a life together. More than a century later, the H ...Show more
Homesick by Jennifer Croft
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, Homesick is about learning to love language in its many forms, healing through words and the promises and perils of empathy and sisterhood. Sisters Amy and Zoe grow up in Oklahoma where they are homeschooled for an unexpected reason: Zoe suffers f ...Show more
Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
* WINNER OF THE 2022 STELLA PRIZE *An innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian literary scene.I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconograph ...Show more
Memphis by Tara M Stringfellow
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Tara Stringfellow will be an author to watch for years to come . . . A stellar debut' - Jacqueline Woodson, bestselling author of Red at the Bone Joan can't change her family's past. But she can create her future. Joan was only a child the last time she visited Memphis. She doesn't remember the bustle ...Show more
Stone Blind: Medusa's Story by Natalie Haynes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Natalie Haynes - the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of A Thousand Ships - brings the infamous Medusa to life as you have never seen her before . . . 'So to mortal men, we are monsters. Because of our flight, our strength. They fear us, so they call us monsters.' Medusa is the only mortal in a family ...Show more
The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier ; Daniel Levin Becker (translator)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Told in rhythmic, propulsive prose that weaves seamlessly from one consciousness to the next over the course of a day, Laurent Mauvignier's The Birthday Party is a gripping tale of the violent irruptions of the past into the present, written by a major contemporary French writer. Buried deep in rural Fr ...Show more
No Document by Anwen Crawford
$26.95 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
No Document is an elegy for a friendship cut short prematurely by death. The memory of this friendship becomes a model for how we might relate to others in sympathy, solidarity and rebellion. At once intimate and expansive, Anwen Crawford's book-length essay explores loss in many forms: disappeared artw ...Show more
Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A sweeping, multi-generational tale blending fable, farce and fantasy. A woman sells her daughter to a passing beekeeper for two jars of honey. A baby weighing fifteen pounds is born in the depths of winter but named "Girl of Spring". A storm brings down the roof of a ramshackle restaurant to reveal a ...Show more
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home is nestled in the quiet suburb of Westgrove, Sydney - populated with residents with colourful histories, each with their own secrets, triumphs and failings. This is their safe place, a ...Show more
The Jaguar: 2023 Stella Prize Winner by Sarah Holland-Batt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
With electrifying boldness and fearlessness of vision, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishing and deeply humane portrait of a father's Parkinson's Disease, and a daughter forged by grief. Opening and closing with startling elegies set in the charged moments before and ...Show more