Leavetaking by Peter Weiss
$27.00 AUD
Category: FEATURED ON INSTAGRAM | Series: Neversink
Leavetaking is the story of an upper-middle-class childhood and adolescence in Berlin between the wars. In the course of the novel, Weiss plumbs the depths of family life: there is the early death of his beloved sister Margot, the difficult relationship with his parents and the fantasies of adolescence ...Show more
Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima
$23.00 AUD
Category: FEATURED ON INSTAGRAM | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality' Margaret Drabble It is Spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Territory of Light follows her over the course of a year, as she struggles to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone. ...Show more
Dimension of Miracles by Robert Sheckley
$23.00 AUD
Category: FEATURED ON INSTAGRAM | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Announced in a thunderclap out of another day's tedium, hapless New Yorker Tom Carmody learns that he is the winner of the Intergalactic Sweepstake. Accepting with a shrug, he is whipped across the universe to collect his prize. The catch? There's no way home. Enlisting the help of galactic bureaucrats, ...Show more
The Gifts of Reading - Essays on the Joys of Reading, Giving and Receiving Books by Jennie Orchard (Curated by); Robert Macfarlane; Jackie Morris; William Boyd; Candice Carty-Williams; Chigozie Obioma; Philip Pullman; Imtiaz Dharker; Roddy Doyle; Pico Iyer; Andy Miller
$35.00 AUD
Category: FEATURED ON INSTAGRAM
'This story, like so many stories, begins with a gift. The gift, like so many gifts, was a book...' So begins the essay by Robert Macfarlane that inspired this collection. In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayist ...Show more
Stoner by WILLIAMS JOHN EDWARD
$30.00 AUD
Category: FEATURED ON INSTAGRAM | Series: New York Review Books Classics
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the ...Show more
Geography of Home by Akiko Busch
$39.50 AUD
Category: FEATURED ON INSTAGRAM
Geography of Home has been hailed as "an appealing, insightful collection of musings on the architecture, psychology, and history of house and home in America" (Kirkus). Now available in paperback, Geography of Home reminds us that the house is home to many things. Far more than four walls and a roof, i ...Show more
18th Century Fashion in Detail by Avril Hart
$55.00 AUD
Category: FEATURED ON INSTAGRAM | Series: V&a Fashion in Detail Ser.
This beautifully illustrated book reveals the decorative seams, refined stitching, voluptuous drapery, strict corseting, slashing, and stamping that make up some of the garments in the Victoria and Albert Museum s superlative fashion collection. With an authoritative text, exquisite color photography of ...Show more
Hell in Japanese Art by Takaoka, Kazuya
$120.00 AUD
Category: FEATURED ON INSTAGRAM
This art book showcases a wide collection of depictions of hell in Japanese art from the 12th century to the 19th century. The single-volume collection focuses primarily on works designated as Japanese National Treasures or Important Cultural Properties and features the various depictions of hell by pro ...Show more
Zhang Huan by Yilmaz Dziewior
$55.00 AUD
Category: FEATURED ON INSTAGRAM | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
One of the most important and innovative artists in China, Zhang Huan (b 1965) brought the burgeoning Chinese art scene to international attention in the 1990s. This monograph provides an analysis of the artist's career.