Dirty Books: Erotic fiction and the avant-garde in mid-century Paris and New York by Barry Reay, Nina Attwood
$44.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
From the 1930s to the 1970s, in New York and in Paris, daring publishers and writers were producing banned pornographic literature. The books were written by young, impecunious writers, poets, and artists, many anonymously. Most of these pornographers wrote to survive, but some also relished the freedom ...Show more
Enclave (Miles Franklin Longlist 2023) by Claire G. Coleman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
From the critically acclaimed author of Terra Nullius comes a novel in the tradition of Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman that explores a future of surveillance, disruption and segregation that echoes the horrors of a colonial past. 'These are troubling times. The world is a dangerous place,' the voi ...Show more
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Winner of the PEN/ Hemingway AwardWinner of the NBCC's John Leonard AwardShortlisted for the British Book Award - Debut of the YearA New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Time, Oprah.com, Harper's Bazaar, San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, E ...Show more
How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Reeling from a failed marriage, Sheila, a twenty-something playwright, finds herself unsure of how to live and create. When Margaux, a talented painter and free spirit, and Israel, a sexy and depraved artist, enter her life, Sheila hopes that through close-sometimes too close-observation of her new frie ...Show more
Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
'Deeply impressive . . . Energy and inventiveness distinguish every page' HILARY MANTEL'Hungry Ghosts is an astonishing novel - linguistically gorgeous, narratively propulsive and psychologically profound'BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Beautiful, biblical, vast in scope and power . . . Hosein is a new, enormous gi ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Volume 9 of The Complete Works of George Orwell'It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.' This is the opening sentence of the most influential novel of the century, in English or in any of the sixty or more languages which boast a translation. Nineteen Eighty-Four has bee ...Show more
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms, a slow and painstaking process. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that's a world away from his childhood growing up in Alabama. His father died a few weeks ago, but Walla ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husb ...Show more
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
God. Truth. Existence. From the legendary author Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris is a masterful coda to The Passenger.'It's an uncanny, unsettling dream, tuned into the static of the universe' - New York TimesA mathematician, twenty years-old, is admitted to the hospital. She has forty thousand dollars in ...Show more
Strangers at the Port by Lauren Aimee Curtis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Giulia is ten. She lives on the greenest island in a volcanic archipelago. She has never left. Her best friend, beside her older sister, Giovanna, is a donkey. She ties ribbons around his head and thinks she will marry him when the time comes. The sisters' days on the island are shaped by ritual, commu ...Show more
The Book Of Goose by Yiyun Li
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
'A dazzling, subtle, skilful knockout - I loved it' Charlotte Mendelson 'One of our finest living authors ... propulsively entertaining' New York Times 'Wonderfully strange and alive' Jon McGregor A propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation and intimacy from the prize-winning autho ...Show more
The Gospel According to the New World by Maryse Condé
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary 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