A Woman in Sardinia by Valeria Usala
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Based on a true story, a tale of generations of Sardinian women searching for independence in the face of prejudice and superstition, for fans of Elena Ferrante In this striking debut, based on a true story, Valeria Usala bears witness to an age-old story of violence against women and takes us into the ...Show more
Vladivostok Circus by Elisa Shua Dusapin
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Tonight is the opening night. There are birds perched everywhere, on the power lines, the guy ropes, the strings of light that festoon the tent ... when I think of all those little bodies suspended between earth and sky, it makes me smile to remind myself that for some of them, their first flight begin ...Show more
The Young Man by Annie Ernaux
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior. "A sublime book." --Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle "Once again the work of the writer Annie Ernaux appears as both a rigo ...Show more
The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the International Booker Prize-winning translator, a propulsive, beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a Polish forest. Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the wor ...Show more
Antiquity by Hanna Johansson
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Elegant, slippery, and provocative, Antiquity is a queer Lolita story by prize-winning Swedish author Hanna Johansson - a story of desire, power, obsession, observation, and taboo. Antiquity follows its unnamed narrator, a lonely woman in her thirties who becomes enamoured of a chic older artist, Helen ...Show more
The Mark by Frida Isberg
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the near future, in Reykavik, in a world like our own, society is divided about the controversial Empathy Test, which measures an individual’s capacity for compassion and identifies anti-social behaviour in citizens. Two thirds of the country, including public servants and politicians, have undergone ...Show more
You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue
$40.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the visionary author of Sudden Death, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story set in sixteenth-century Mexico A hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story in sixteenth-century Mexico, from the visionary author of Sudden Death One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernan Cortes rode i ...Show more
The Living and the Rest by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Daniel lives with artist Moira on her native Island of Mozambique. They are awaiting the birth of their child, while also organising the island's first literary festival. But as soon as the first festival guests arrive, the coast is hit by a cyclone.The island is spared, but the bridge to the mainland i ...Show more
Septology by Jon Fosse
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbour, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-fa ...Show more
Nothing Belongs to You by Nathacha Appanah; Jeffrey Zuckerman (Translator)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
***A Financial Times Fiction in Translation Book of the Year 2023*** It's not only grief and loneliness that have tormented Tara since her husband's death. In her, something rises and crests like a wave. As she sits in squalor in a house that once knew love, she hears the deafening cry of a past she tho ...Show more
Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada
$27.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Fish-breeding and weasel infestations punctuate this disarming, strange and strangely resonant story of one man's journey toward impending fatherhood, from an award-winning Japanese novelist. Two friends meet across three dinners. In the back room of a pet shop, they snack on dried shrimps and discuss f ...Show more
The Rome Zoo by Pascal Janovjak; Stephanie Smee (translator)
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A love affair, a rare animal and a secret plot - The Rome Zoo is a powerful and darkly funny novel set in the lush gardens of the Villa Borghese.Rome, too, wants the sound of roaring as evening falls . . . The Rome Zoo- a place borne of fantasy and driven by a nation's aspirations. It has witnessed - an ...Show more