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Liam has over a decade of experience as a bookseller, including a four year stint owning Grub Street Bookshop. They co-founded Crime Factory Publications, a now-defunct small-press, and have worked extensively as an editor and publisher. When they aren't working, they enjoy paying their landlords' mortgage. They have been with the Little Bookroom family for five years, but now work solely at Neighbourhood Books.
Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller; Olivia Laing (introduction)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
A new edition of the cult classic, with over two dozen additional stories, from the godmother of autofiction. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black is the only story collectiion from the legendary writer, actress, ex-biker and columnist Cookie Mueller. Mueller chronicles her high-risk, h ...Show more
Acting Class by Nick Drnaso
$39.99 AUD
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels
"Every single person has something unique to them which is impossible to re-create, without exception." —John Smith, acting coach From the acclaimed author of Sabrina, Nick Drnaso's Acting Class creates a tapestry of disconnect, distrust, and manipulation. Ten strangers are brought together under the t ...Show more
Angels and Magpies: The Love and Rockets Library by Jaime Hernandez
$32.99 AUD
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels | Series: Love and Rockets Ser.
The sublime, the superpowered, and the senior citizen converge in Angels and Magpies, which collects the Gods and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls and Love Bunglers storylines from the Love and Rockets: New Stories series, as well as Hernandez's 2006 serial for the New York Times. In the latter, Maggie p ...Show more
Crisis Zone by Simon Hanselmann
$52.50 AUD
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels
As the Covid-19 pandemic continued to escalate far beyond any reasonable expectations, Crisis Zone escalated right alongside, in real time, with daily posts on Instagram. Crisis Zone's battle mission was to amuse the masses: no matter how horrible and bleak everything seemed, at least Werewolf Jones was ...Show more
Sailor & Lula, Expanded Edition - The Complete Novels by Barry Gifford
$49.99 AUD
Category: Crime
"The Romeo and Juliet of the South" are back in this new edition of the internationally best-selling Sailor and Lula novels, now including for the first time the culminating novel, The Up-Down, by American master Barry Gifford. "Barry Gifford invented his own American vernacular--William Faulkner by way ...Show more
Savage Season by Joe R. Lansdale
$23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Hap and Leonard Thrillers Ser.
A rip-roaring, high-octane, Texas-sized thriller, featuring two friends, one vixen, a crew of washed-up radicals, loads of money and bloody mayhem. Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are best friends, yet they couldn't be more different. Hap is an East Texas white boy with a weakness for women. Leonard is a ...Show more
The Spiral by Iain Ryan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
It's not just the truth that lurks at the bottom of the spiral...the utterly original and brilliantly compelling new thriller by the twice Ned Kelly Award shortlisted Iain Ryan. Erma Bridges' life is far from perfect, but entirely ordinary. So when she is shot twice in a targeted attack by a colleague, ...Show more
The Strip by Iain Ryan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Crime
When a local doctor is brutally murdered, Detective Constable Lana Cohen joins Strike Force Diablo on the notorious Gold Coast, where she finds herself navigating a world of chaos and corruption. As she delves deeper into the case, Lana reluctantly pairs up with Henry Loch, a detective with a tarnished ...Show more
The Years by Annie Ernaux
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Shortlisted Man Booker International 2019 Winner of the 2017 Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her entire body of workWinner of the 2016 Strega European Prize Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years was a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008, and ...Show more
Big Bosoms and Square Jaws - The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film by Jimmy McDonough
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Russ Meyer, cult hero, creator of the sexploitation film, and the man the Wall Street Journal called the King Leer of Hollywood, made movies that filled the big screen with "big bosoms and square jaws." In the first candid and fiendishly researched account of the late cinematic instigator's life, Jimmy ...Show more
Dog Songs by Mary Oliver
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming' -- Boston Globe In Dog Songs, Mary Oliver celebrates the special bond between human and dog, as understood through her connection to the dogs who across the years accompanied her on her daily walks, warmed ...Show more
Doom Patrol by Rachel Pollack Omnibus by Rachel Pollack; Linda Medley (Illustrator)
$200.00 AUD
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels
Science-fiction author Rachel Pollack brings her unique and inventive sensibility to DC's weirdest super-team! This massive hardcover collects her entire Doom Patrol run for the first time. Starting in 1989, Doom Patrol evolved into something truly bizarre-and brilliant-with some of the most unique ide ...Show more