The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock

$22.99 AUD

Category: Crime

"The Devil All the Time is a hauntingly intense portrait of America and a shattering vision of violence and redemption. Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, it follows a cast of riveting and bizarre characters from the end of the Second World War to the 1960s. Willard Russell is a tormented vet eran of the carnage in the South Pacific who can t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from a slow death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his 'prayer log'. Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, trawl America s highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. The spider-handling preacher Roy, and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, are running from the law. And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte s orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right. Donald Ray Pollock braids his plot lines into a taut, gothic narrative that will leave readers astonished and deeply moved. With his first novel, he proves himself a master storyteller in the grittiest and most uncompromising American grain." ...Show more

Arelhekenhe Angkentye Women's Talk: Poems of Lyapirtneme from Arrernte Women in Central Australia by Agnes Perrurle Abbott

$24.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

"Arrernte women are constantly stretched across two incongruent worlds. The world of Arrernte language, culture, kinship, country and knowledge systems which they are striving to protect and maintain on a daily basis. The modern world with its ongoing colonisation andrelentless pressures. Both of these worlds are captured in the poems" - Penny Drysdale ...Show more

Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen; Anon

$22.99 AUD

Category: Memoir & Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.

Tove Ditlevsen was born in 1917 in a working-class neighbourhood in Copenhagen. Her first volume of poetry was published when she was in her early twenties, and was followed by many more books, including her three brilliant volumes of memoir, Childhood (1967), Youth (1967) and Dependency (1971). She mar ried four times and struggled with alcohol and drug abuse throughout her adult life until her death by suicide in 1978. ...Show more

Megahex by Simon Hanselmann

$46.95 AUD

Category: Comics & Graphic Novels | Series: Megahex

Megg is a depressed, drug-addicted witch. Mogg is her black cat. Their friend, Owl, is an anthropomorphised owl. They hang out a lot with Werewolf Jones. These characters struggle unsuccessfully to come to grips with their depression, drug use, sexuality, poverty, lack of work, lack of ambition and thei r complex feelings about each other in ways that have made Megg and Mogg sensations on Hanselmann's Girl-Mountain Tumblr. ...Show more

Shoot the Piano Player by David Goodis

$19.99 AUD

Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Once upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs out honky-tonk for drunks in a dive in Philadelphia. But then two people walk into Eddie's life--the first promising Eddie a future, the other dragging him back into a treacherous past. Shoot the Piano Playe r is a bittersweet and nerve-racking exploration of different kinds of loyalty: the kind a man owes his family, no matter how bad that family is; the kind a man owes a woman; and, ultimately, the loyalty he owes himself. The result is a moody thriller that, like the best hard-boiled fiction, carries a moral depth charge. ...Show more

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

$14.99 AUD

Category: Fiction

Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.

Gunshine State by Andrew Nette

$27.99 AUD

Category: Thriller

Gary Chance is a former Australian army driver, ex-bouncer and thief. His latest job takes him to Surfers Paradise, Queensland, working for aging standover man, Dennis Curry. Curry runs off-site, non-casino poker games, and wants to rob one of his best customers, a high roller called Freddie Gao. The j ob seems straightforward but Curry's crew is anything but. Frank Dormer is a secretive ex-soldier turned private security contractor. Sophia Lekakis is a highly-strung receptionist at the hotel where Gao stays when he visits Surfers Paradise. Amber, Curry's female housemate, is part of the lure for Gao. Chance knows he can't trust anyone, but nothing prepares him for what unfolds when Curry's plan goes wrong. Praise for GUNSHINE STATE: "Part heist novel, part revenge tale, Gunshine State is a searing action story in exotic locales populated by fascinating grifters and unsavory characters. You won't know where it's going next but you'll love getting there. Add this to your must read list." --Eric Beetner, author of Criminal Economics and The Year I Died Seven Times "A tense, fast-moving, vividly-drawn thriller." --Garry Disher, author of the Wyatt novels "A gritty slice of Down-Under noir, served lean and mean." --Wallace Stroby, author of The Devil's Share and Shoot the Woman First "A phenomenal, hard-as-nails thriller with more tight corners than a maze and a double cross around every one of them. I loved it." --Timothy Hallinan, award-winning author of the Poke Rafferty and Junior Bender mysteries "A lean, mean, hard-boiled knockout." --David Whish-Wilson, author of Line of Sight and Zero at the Bone "Gunshine State moves like a bullet. The prose is taught without sacrificing atmosphere, character or psychological depth. Brimming with evocative settings, sharp dialogue and vibrant characters, this novel firmly positions Nette as one of Australia's leading writers of hard-boiled crime." --Alex Hammond, author of The Unbroken Line and Blood Witness "Gunshine State is magnificent. Taut, tense-a tremendous thriller." --Andrew Grant, author of False Positive and Run "Gunshine State is a breakneck ride from first page to last. Nette drags the reader into a sharply drawn world of dark motives and even darker morals. A must for lovers of hard-boiled crime fiction." --Emma Viskic, author of Resurrection Bay "This brutal, hard-boiled thriller comes at you like a furious street brawler and pins you to the wall with a white-knuckle plot and authentic characters. Like a vicious left hook to the ribs it will leave you breathless." --Leigh Redhead, author of Peepshow, Rubdown, Cherry Pie and Thrill City ...Show more

If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes

$19.99 AUD

Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics

Robert Jones is a crew leader in a naval shipyard in Los Angeles in the 1940s. He should have a lot going for him, being educated, with a steady job and a steady relationship. But in the four days covered in this novel, the impossibility of life as a black man in a white world is made devastatingly clea r. Jones is surrounded by prejudice, suspicion and paranoia, and his daily experiences influence his thoughts, dreams and behaviour. Immediately recognised as a masterful expose of racism in everyday life, If He Hollers Let Him Go is Chester Himes' first book, originally published in 1945. ...Show more

Literature and Evil by George Bataille

$22.99 AUD

Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.

'Literature is not innocent', stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles of eight authors and their work, including Emily Bro nte's "Wuthering Heights", Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal" and the writings of Sade, Kafka and Sartre, explore subjects such as violence, eroticism, childhood, myth and transgression, in a work of rich allusion and powerful argument. ...Show more

Miami Blues by Charles Ray Willeford

$22.99 AUD

Category: Fiction

After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room at the un-illustrious El Dorado Hotel and nurses a glass of brandy. With his guard down, he doesn’t think twice when he hears a knock on the door. The next day, he finds himself in the hospital, badly bru ised and with his jaw wired shut. He thinks back over ten years of cases wondering who would want to beat him into unconsciousness, steal his gun and badge, and most importantly, make off with his prized dentures. But the pieces never quite add up to revenge, and the few clues he has keep connecting to a dimwitted hooker, and her ex-con boyfriend and the bizarre murder of a Hare Krishna pimp. Chronically depressed, constantly strapped for money, always willing to bend the rules a bit, Hoke Moseley is hardly what you think of as the perfect cop, but he is one of the the greatest detective creations of all time. ...Show more

My Tidda, My Sister: Stories from Australia's First Women by Marlee Silva

$29.99 AUD

Category: Memoir & Biography

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and society has existed on this continent for millennia. It is a culture that manifests as the ultimate example of resilience, strength and beauty. It's also a culture that has consistently been led by its women. My Tidda, My Sister shares the experiences of many Indigenous women and girls, brought together by author and host of the Tiddas 4 Tiddas podcast Marlee Silva. The voices of First Nations' women that Marlee weaves through the book provide a rebuttal to the idea that 'you can't be what you can't see'. For non-Indigenous women, it demonstrates the diversity of what success can look like and offers insight into the lives of their Indigenous sisters and peers. Featuring colourful artwork by Goreng Goreng artist Rachael Sarra, this book is a celebration of the Indigenous female experience through truth-telling. Some stories are heart-warming, others shine a light on the terrible realities for many Australian Indigenous women, both in the past and today. But what they all share is the ability to inspire and empower, creating a sisterhood that all Australian women can be part of. Also features foreword by Leah Purcell and illustrations by Wiradjuri, Ngiyampaa woman Charlotte Allingham. ...Show more

Peepshow by Leigh Redhead

$11.99 AUD

$23.99 (50% off)

Category: Fiction | Series: Simone Kirsch Ser.

A sassy, sexy and very funny novel introducing Simone Kirsch (aka Vivien Leigh), stripper and PI, who is determined to find the real killer of strip club owner, Frank Parisi. The first in the Simone Kirsch series.