LoopHoles by Susan McCreery
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
LOOPHOLE, noun. 1. An escape route from a sticky situation. 2. A chink in the system that allows us to circumvent or avoid consequences. These perfectly formed microfictions provide glimpses into the everyday challenges of family life, relationships, ageing and loss. McCreery's characters are typical hu ...Show more
Swan Song: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'The new Donna Tartt.' Vogue 'Brilliantly captures Capote's acid wit and his dramatic downfall.' The Times, Books of the Year 'A dazzlingly assured first novel... This clever book, with the moreish astringency of a negroni, is a perfect summer cocktail. ...Show more
The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
$32.95 AUD
Category: Literature
The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. It follows the life of a mute teenager called Oblivia, the victim of gang-rape by petrol-sniffing youths, from the displaced community where s ...Show more
Antarctica by Claire Keegan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlised Small Things Like These 'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' Sebastian Barry 'Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.' Observer A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sist ...Show more
Bone by Daley-Ward, Yrsa
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
You will come away bruised. You will come away bruised but this will give you poetry.'Global star Yrsa Daley-Ward's collection bone is something unique and beautiful. Visceral, revealing, and unrelenting, Yrsa's poetry ranges from brief glimpses of stark emotional reality that have won her tens of thous ...Show more
Collected Poems Les Murray by Les Murray
$59.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Australian
Les Murray's new and updated Collected Poems displays the full range of his poetic art. This magnificent hardback volume contains all the poems he wants to preserve, apart from the verse novel Fredy Neptune, from his first book The Ilex Tree(1965) to Waiting for the Past(2015). In tracing Murray's artis ...Show more
Complete Poems Of Banjo Paterson by A B Paterson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literature
Australia's most-loved bush poet, Banjo Paterson, is the writer who in many ways defined what it was to be Australian. When a young man submitted a set of verses to the Bulletin in 1889 under the pseudonym 'the Banjo', it was the beginning of an enduring tradition. today Banjo Paterson is still one of A ...Show more
Confabulations by John Berger
$16.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Modern Classics
'Language is a body, a living creature ...and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In this new book he writes about language itself, and how it relates to thought, art, song, storytelling and pol ...Show more
Dinner Party: A Tragedy by Sarah Gilmartin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'Sarah Gilmartin is a natural writer' - Anne Enright Kate meticulously plans a dinner to mark the anniversary of a death in the family, from the fancy table setting to the perfect baked alaska waiting in the freezer. But by the end of the night, dessert is in the bin, the guests are gone, and Kate is s ...Show more
Double Blind by Edward St Aubyn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Three friends encounter the limits of love, life and science in this mesmerising new novel from the author of the Patrick Melrose series.Olivia is a talented geneticist with a personal stake in her field. She thinks deeply about who she is and why -- more deeply than many, perhaps, because her parents, ...Show more
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018**'Daisy Johnson is a new goddamn swaggering monster of fiction.' Lauren Groff Words are important to Gretel, always have been. As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, and together they invented a language that was just their own. She hasn't see ...Show more
In the Fold by Rachel Cusk
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
When eighteen-year-old Michael visits the Hanbury's remote family home he is captivated by their bohemian lifestyle. Years later, when he marries the strong-willed, beautiful Rebecca, he is secretly hoping to create his own version of that free-thinking family, but after the birth of their first child, ...Show more