Aliss at the Fire - WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Jon Fosse
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A haunting exploration of love and loss by the Beckett of the twenty-first century (Le Monde). In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November ...Show more
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Myth Ser.
In this ingenious and spellbinding retelling of the life of Jesus, Philip Pullman reimagines the most influential story ever told. Charged with mystery, compassion and great power, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ says something new about who Jesus was and asks questions that will resonate lo ...Show more
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba--the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people--and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Ne ...Show more
Too Much of Life - The Complete Cronicas by Clarice Lispector; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
$54.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The things I've learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot about Antonioni that they don't know. Or maybe they do even when they don't. There are various ways of knowing by not-knowing. I know: it happens to me too. The crônica ...Show more
They (Faber Editions) by Kay Dick
$28.00 AUD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: FABER EDITIONS
Introduced by Carmen Maria Machado, the radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years: in a nightmarish Britain, THEY are coming closer. 'A creepily prescient tale ... Insidiously horrifying!' Margaret Atwood Deft, dread filled, hypnotic and hopeful. Completely got under my skin.' Kiran Millwood Hargr ...Show more
Murder in the Age of Enlightenment - Essential Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Tom Clohosy Cole (Illustrator); Bryan Karetnyk
$26.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
'One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. Akutagawa was a born short-story writer' - Haruki Murakami
Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A highly personal new collection of stories by the bestselling, twice Booker-winning cultural icon Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. This new collection showcases her many talents -- and the return of her beloved characters Nell & Tig They explore the ...Show more
The Body in Question - A Novel by Jill Ciment
$27.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
*** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR *** A 52 year-old photographer and a 41 year-old anatomy professor are jurors sequestered during a sensational three-week trial: a toddler murdered by one of his twin sisters. At the court appointed cut-rate motel off the interstate, they fall into an int ...Show more
To the Letter: Poems by Tomasz Rozycki
$37.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
R życki collects moments of illumination - a cat dashing out of a window and "feral sun" streaking in, a body planting itself in the ground like rhubarb and flowering. He collects and collects, opens a crack, and clutches a shrapnel of epiphany. Tomasz R życki's To the Letter follows Lieutenant Anielew ...Show more
The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu by Augusto Higa Oshiro; Jennifer Shyue (Translator)
$37.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Reminiscent of Kurasawa's film Ikiru, Enlightenment explores the interior mindscape of a Japanese-Peruvian man and his luminous unraveling Katzuo Nakamatsu is having a recurring dream. He's strolling down the glinting avenues of Lima, branches crowning overhead, when he hears someone snickering from th ...Show more
January by Sara Gallardo; Frances Riddle (Translator); Maureen Shaughnessy (Translator)
$37.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
** ONE of THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 ** "Elegant and forceful - I couldn't put it down." - Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X A pioneering, revelatory masterpiece of modern literature that conjures the life of 16-year-old girl living on the Argentine pampas -- now in English for the very ...Show more
Lanny by Max Porter
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. Not far from London, there is a village. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England's mysterious past and its confounding present. It belongs to families dead for generat ...Show more