Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century by Simon Kuper
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
An unsparing memoir of the city in the 21st century, from a long-time Parisien d'adoption From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city. Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as ...Show more
A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux; Tanya Leslie (Translator)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography
On 7 April 1986, Annie Ernaux's mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimer's disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which, despite her mother's condition, she had refused to fathom, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time in an effort to reco ...Show more
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024A NEW STATESMAN FICTION HIGLIGHT OF 2024AN OBSERVER FICTION TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024AN IRISH TIMES FICTION TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024October, 1891. Butte, Montana. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city is rich on copper mines and rampant with vi ...Show more
Parade by Rachel Cusk
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A writer hides. A mother dies. A woman is attacked. In Parade, Rachel Cusk creates a new documentary voice that operates on the border between fiction and reality. It braids imagined characters with the actual, experience with the philosophical, to altering effect.
Choice by Neel Mukherjee
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Dazzling...by turns comic, lyrical and heartbreaking' Monica Ali A publisher, who is at war with his industry and himself, embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him; an academic exchanges one story for another after an accident brings a stranger into her li ...Show more
Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age by Norman Ohler
$33.00 AUD
Category: War
A brilliant and original investigation into the medical origins of LSD and how the Nazis and the CIA turned it into a weapon, by the author of Blitzed. First used as a drug capable of treating mental illnesses, then as a 'truth serum' by the CIA, Tripped reveals how the fortuitous discovery of LSD in Ap ...Show more
The Paris Trilogy: A Life in Three Stories by Colombe Schneck
$55.00 AUD
Category: General
The Paris Trilogy is celebrated French author Colombe Schneck's first English language publication, translated by Lauren Elkin and Natasha Lehrer. Writing in response to Annie Ernaux and in conversation with Elena Ferrante, Colombe Schneck's three semi-autobiographical takes on a woman’s life form ...Show more
Operation Biting by Max Hastings
$38.00 AUD
Category: War
Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful. In February 1942 RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly-identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. The brilliant scientist Dr RV Jones propose ...Show more
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein 'A stunning exploration of sisterhood and grief, addiction and recovery, pain and pleasure. Captivating' TESS GUNTY 'In Blue Sisters, grief is rendered with gorgeous particularity' RAVEN LEILANI The Blue sisters have always been exce ...Show more
The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley
$33.00 AUD
Category: Crime
WELCOME TO THE MANORTHE PARTY'S ON FIRE **Book your place at the table … The brand new murder mystery thriller from the No.1 bestseller**________________________________________________________________Midsummer, the Dorset coastIn the shadows of an ancient wood, guests gather for the opening weekend of ...Show more
Peter Marino - Ten Modern Houses by Peter Marino; Pilar Viladas (Introduction by); Sam Lubell (Contribution by)
$200.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
An exclusive look inside world-renowned architect Peter Marino's private, residential projects In this stunning new collection, internationally acclaimed architect Peter Marino shares a look inside his private, residential projects. In contrast to the architecture and design for his luxury commercial cl ...Show more
The Afghans: Three lives through war, love and revolt by Asne Seierstad
$35.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation' Luke Harding In her international bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad studied life in Afghanistan before and after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. Now twenty years later, the Taliban is ...Show more