Every Deep-Drawn Breath: an intensive-care doctor's notes on healing by Wes Ely
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
A world-renowned critical-care doctor offers hope for patients, their families, and the future of medicine in this timely, urgent, and compassionate work about the devastating and little-known physical and emotional effects of ICU stays. As COVID-19 survivors are discharged from hospitals, grateful to ...Show more
Everybody : A Book About Freedom by Olivia Laing
$44.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
'Simply one of our most exciting writers' Observer 'One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction' Harper's Bazaar 'Laing combines formidable intelligence with boundless curiosity and fabulous taste' James Lasdun The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant ...Show more
Gentle and Fierce by Vanessa Berry
$26.95 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
New collection of essays on the relationships between humans and animals, by Vanessa Berry, author of Mirror Sydney, and the memoir of adolescence Ninety9. Gentle and Fierce focuses on the world of animals, and the way their presence has shaped the author’s attitudes and her sense of self. Having spent ...Show more
Gunk Baby by Jamie Marina Lau
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The suburbs of Par Mars. Two shopping centres, rows of estates and a thematic design scheme. Twenty-four-year-old Leen is going to open an ear-cleaning and massage salon in the Topic Heights Shopping Centre, taking her mother's Chinese ritual to the West to bring people back to their bodies. But somethi ...Show more
Having and Being Had by Eula Biss
$34.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
A timely and arresting new look at affluence by a consistently surprising writer. 'My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts,' Eula Biss writes, 'the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after.' Having just purchased her first home, she now embarks on a roguish and risky self-au ...Show more
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
From the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature - that asks, what does it mean to love? This is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualiti ...Show more
Leaping into Waterfalls: The enigmatic Gillian Mears by Bernadette Brennan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Leaping into Waterfalls explores the rich, tumultuous life of Gillian Mears, one of Australia's most significant writers of the last forty years. Gillian Mears appeared to many to be a shy woman from Grafton, but her lived and imaginative lives were rich with adventure, risk and often transgressive pass ...Show more
Monsters by Alison Croggon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
A hybrid of memoir and essay from award-winning writer and critic Alison Croggon.'This figure I see in the foreground, this me. How monstrous am I? What does it mean to be a monster? From Latin monstrum, meaning an abomination ... grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible ...'I was born as p ...Show more
Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
You will not recognise me, she thinks, when I find you. Mim’s husband is missing. No one knows where Ben is, but everyone wants to find him – especially The Department. And they should know, the all-seeing government body has fitted the entire population with a universal tracking chip to keep them ‘safe ...Show more
My Tidda, My Sister: Stories of Strength and Resilience 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 ...Show more
My Year Of Living Vulnerably by Rick Morton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
From Rick Morton, the author of the bestselling, critically acclaimed memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt comes a dazzlingly brilliant book about love, trauma and recovery, My Year of Living Vulnerably. 'Wonderfully readable and wide-ranging exploration of the visible and invisible touchstones of our liv ...Show more
Nellie: The life and loves of Dame Nellie Melba by Robert Wainwright
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
The tumultuous life of Australia's most famous opera singer, Dame Nellie Melba. When most Australians think of Nellie Melba they picture a squarish, late middle-aged woman dressed in furs and large hats, an imperious Dame whose voice ruled the world for three decades and was the inspiration for a peach ...Show more