A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding by Amanda Svensson, Nichola Smalley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Are we free to create our own destinies or are we just part of a system beyond our control? A joyful family saga about free will, forgiveness, and how we are all interconnected. In October 1989, a set of triplets is born, and it is this moment their father chooses to reveal his affair. Pandemonium ensue ...Show more
All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
1996 - Cabramatta, Sydney. 'Just let him go.' Those are words Ky Tran will forever regret. The words she spoke when her parents called to ask if they should let her younger brother Denny out to celebrate his high school graduation with friends, in a neighbourhood growing more unpredictable by the day. T ...Show more
Pod: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION by Laline Paull
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Laline Paull succeeds splendidly in rising to the most important literary challenge of our time - restoring voice and agency to other-than-human beings' Amitav Ghosh'A pacy, provocative tale of survival in a fast-changing marine landscape' Daily MailBestselling author Laline Paull returns with an immer ...Show more
The Lovers (Miles Franklin Award Shortlist 2023) by Yumna Kassab
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
What happens when we become used to each other, when we become bored, when we anticipate each other's moods like the seasons cycled in a day? What happens when you are tired of me and I tire of you?Every couple has a story. How they met, how they fell in love - their ups, their downs. What made them wan ...Show more
Waypoints by Adam Ouston
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1910 the famed escapologist Harry Houdini made an ill-fated attempt to become the first person to fly an aircraft over Australian soil—yet while Houdini is remembered today for his failure, the true record-holder has been forgotten. This quirk of history becomes the focus for the obsessions of Berna ...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
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
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
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
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