Ohio by Stephen Markley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The critically acclaimed "remarkable debut novel...a wild, angry and devastating masterpiece of a book" (NPR) by Stephen Markley, Ohio is a lyrical, emotional, and "genuinely absorbing" (Washington Post) story set in northeastern Ohio depicting one feverish, fateful summer night when as four former clas ...Show more
Cruise of Shadows - Haunted Stories of Land and Sea by Jean Ray; Scott Nicolay
$33.50 AUD
Category: Fiction
Footsteps in an abandoned holiday resort as the cold weather settles in; a knock on the door of a hut in the middle of an isolated bog; a lane in Rotterdam perceptible to only one inhabitant in the city. In Cruise of Shadows, Jean Ray began to fully explore the trappings of the ghost story to produce a ...Show more
Wishes by Georges Perec
$34.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
“In the beginning was the pun,” Samuel Beckett once wrote. And so it was that Georges Perec brought the good word to his friends and acquaintances on a yearly basis, as an expression of his best wishes for the New Year. Wishes gathers together these ten pamphlets of homophonic wordplay that Perec sent o ...Show more
Imaginary Lives by Marcel Schwob
$29.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
“The art of the biographer consists specifically in choice. He is not meant to worry about speaking truth; he must create human characteristics amidst the chaos.”--Marcel Schwob Imaginary Lives remains, over 120 years since its original publication in French, one of the secret keys to modern literature: ...Show more
Marcel Schwob - the King in the Golden Mask by Marcel Schwob
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
First published in French in 1892 and never before translated fully into English, The King in the Golden Mask gathers 21 of Marcel Schwob's cruelest and most erudite tales. Melding the fantastic with historical fiction, these stories describe moments of unexplained violence both historical and imaginary ...Show more
Aracoeli by Elsa Morante
$18.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
An aging man attempts to recover the past and get his life back on track in the process. His deceased mother, Aracoeli, came from a small Spanish town and married an upper class Italian navy ensign. The idyllic years she spends with her only son, Mauel, are shattered when she contracts an incurable dise ...Show more
Kingdom Animalia by Aracelis Girmay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: American Poets Continuum Ser.
The poems in this highly anticipated second book are elegiac poems, as concerned with honoring our dead as they are with praising the living. Through Aracelis Girmay's lens, everything is animal: the sea, a jukebox, the desert. In these poems, everything possesses a system of desire, hunger, a set of te ...Show more
The Hashish Man and Other Stories by Lord Dunsany
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy
In this collection of 23 short stories, one of the original masters of early-twentieth-century science fiction and fantasy is introduced to a new generation of readers. Fanciful tales of strange adventure in imaginary exotic locales and depictions of otherworldly grim creepiness abound.
For Grace Received by Valeria Parella
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Modern Naples is a city teeming with contradictions. A chaotic metropolis in which modernity collides with history, it is also a frenetic port city whose inhabitants are as volatile as the city itself. From this rough mix Parrella has drawn the four exceptional novellas that comprise For Grace Received. ...Show more
Fusion by Kate Richards
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Conjoined twins Sea and Sabine live shut away in a cottage in the woods, deep in the Australian bush, together with Wren - the young man who helps care for them. Each are damaged but have found peace in the woods, and the three live in relative harmony and are largely self-sufficient. One day Wren disc ...Show more
Ghost Species by James Bradley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When scientist Kate Larkin joins a secretive project to re-engineer the climate by resurrecting extinct species she becomes enmeshed in another, even more clandestine program to recreate our long-lost relatives, the Neanderthals. But when the first of the children, a girl called Eve, is born, Kate canno ...Show more
The Wife and the Widow by Christian White
$16.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Thriller
The second standalone thriller from the award-winning author of The Nowhere Child, Christian White. Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and The Widow is an unsettling thriller told from two perspectives: Kate, a widow whose grief is compounded by what she lea ...Show more