We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958 by Fintan O'Toole
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
The #1 Irish Times bestseller. WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards. 'A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece' Marian Keyes 'Sweeping, authoritative and profoundly intelligent' Colm Tóibín, Guardian 'With the pace and twists of an enthralling novel and the edge of a fine sword' Diarmaid Ferriter ...Show more
Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. Translated brilliantly for the first time by Alison L. Strayer, Getting Lost is a haunting record of a woman in the grips of love, desire and despair. Getting Lost is the diary kept by ...Show more
Also a Poet - Frank o'Hara, My Father, and Me by Ada Calhoun
$50.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poet When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his ...Show more
Checkout 19 by Claire- Louise Bennett
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A thrilling, furious and stunningly original debut novel about womanhood, art and life, from the award-winning author of Pond, for fans of Eimear McBride, Ali Smith and Deborah Levy*A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL, DAILY TELEGRAPH, IRISH TIMES CULTURE AND NEW STATESMAN*'We read in ord ...Show more
Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984-2021 by Gary Indiana
$44.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
"One of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche." -The Guardian The novelist, cultural critic, and indie icon serves up sometimes bitchy, always generous, erudite, and joyful assessments from the last thirty-five years of cutting edge film, art, and literature.Whether he's describing Tracy E ...Show more
Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this 'razor-sharp' and 'dangerously hilarious' novel that "hooks readers from the beginning" (Los Angeles Times), a trans woman reenters life on the outside after more than twenty years in a men's prison, over one consequential Fourth of July weekend. Following her involvement in a liquor store robbe ...Show more
Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the acclaimed author of Severance comes a story collection that is breathtaking in its imaginative feat. What happens when fantasy tears through the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end? In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people makin ...Show more
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'McCarthy writes prose as clean as a bullet cutting through the air and constructs tales as compelling as any you will read' - Telegraph 1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His divel ...Show more
Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2021 'One of Africa's greatest living writers' Giles Foden 'Exquisite' Telegraph' A remarkable novel, by a wondrous writer' Philippe Sands 'To read Afterlives is to be returned to the joy of storytelling' Aminatta Forna 'Effortlessly compelling story ...Show more
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
$40.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
As new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a spell that attracts a fervent following. He reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Cat ...Show more
Yonder - A Novel by Jabari Asim
$47.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Water Dancer meets The Prophets in this spare, gripping, and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid-19th century.They call themselves the Stolen. Their owners call them captives. They are taught their captors' tongues and their be ...Show more
The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander
$29.99 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
*Named one of TIME magazine's Most Anticipated Titles of 2022*From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author and poet comes a galvanizing meditation on the power of art and culture to illuminate America's unresolved problem with race.In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 20 ...Show more