Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
$60.00 AUD
Category: Graphic Novel
Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beatons, a tight-knit seaside community. After university, Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush, part of the long tradition of East Coast Canadians who ...Show more
Dr. No - A Novel by Percival Everett
$29.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star keeps rising The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means "nothing" in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for "n ...Show more
Democracy's Data - The Hidden Stories in the U. S. Census and How to Read Them by Dan Bouk
$55.00 AUD
Category: American
From the historian Dan Bouk, a lesson in reading between the lines of the U.S. census to uncover the stories behind the data. The census isn't simply data; it's a ritual of American democracy. And behind every neat grid of numbers is a messy human story--you just have to know how to read it. In ...Show more
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan by Darryl Pinckney
$70.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Critic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein and the introduction they offered him to the New York literary world. Darryl Pinckney arrived at Columbia University in New York City in the early 1970s and had the opportunity to ...Show more
Come Back in September - A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan by Darryl Pinckney
$60.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Critic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein and the introduction they offered him to the New York literary world. Darryl Pinckney arrived at Columbia University in New York City in the early 1970s and had the opportunity to ...Show more
The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Florence Day is a ghost-writer with one big problem. She’s supposed to be penning swoon-worthy novels for a famous romance author but, after a bad break-up, Florence no longer believes in love. And when her strict (but undeniably hot) new editor, Benji Andor, won’t give her an extension on her book dead ...Show more
A Catalog of Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On by Bonnie S. McDougall (Translator); Kai-cheung Dung; Anders Hansson (Translator)
$46.95 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour | Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia Ser.
Dung Kai-cheung's A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On is a playful and imaginative glimpse into the consumerist dreamscape of late-nineties Hong Kong. First published in 1999, it comprises ninety-nine sketches of life just after the handover of the former British colony to China. Each of these ...Show more
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
From the author of the powerful, prescient Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human PandemicBreathless is the story of the worldwide scientific quest to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.Here is the story of SARS-C ...Show more
Black Folk Could Fly - Selected Writings by Randall Kenan by Randall Kenan; Tayari Jones (Introduction by)
$51.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall Kenan was known for his groundbreaking fiction. Less visible were his extraordinary nonfiction essays, published as introductions to anthologies and in s ...Show more
Best Barbarian: Poems by Roger Reeves
$49.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry In his brilliant, expansive second volume, Whiting Award-winning poet Roger Reeves probes the apocalypses and raptures of humanity--climate change, anti-Black racism, familial and erotic love, ecstasy and loss. The poems in Best Barbarian roam acro ...Show more
The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People by Walter Russell Mead
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
From the acclaimed author of God and Gold and Special Providence, a groundbreaking new work that overturns the conventional understanding of the Israeli-American relationship and explores the fate of the Jewish people. In this brilliant investigation, one of our premier scholars of American foreign pol ...Show more
American Midnight - The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
National Bestseller * New York Times Editor's Choice * Selected as one of the most anticipated books of Fall 2022 by the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a "masterly" (New York Times) reassessment of the overlooked but startli ...Show more