The Airways by Jennifer Mills
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
I had a body once before. I didn't always love it. I knew the skin as my limit, and there were times I longed to leave it.bI knew better than to wish for this. This is the story of Yun. It's the story of Adam. Two young people. A familiar chase. But this is not a love story. It's a story of revenge, tra ...Show more
Study For Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest disco ...Show more
Praiseworthy - 2024 Stella Prize WINNER by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Fiction
Winner of the 2024 Stella Prize Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ...Show more
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
The top ten Sunday Times bestselling portrait of a marriage Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband - and longtime, on-ag ...Show more
She is the Earth by Ali Cobby Eckermann
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
She Is the Earth is the luminous new verse novel from celebrated poet Ali Cobby Eckermann. It charts a journey through grief and celebrates the healing power of Country. We follow Eckermann’s soft footfalls in the open (but far from empty) spaces between earth and sky; from sandstone to wetlands, from p ...Show more
Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?;Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats ...Show more
Bad Art Mother by Edwina Preston
$32.95 AUD
Category: 2023 Stella Prize Longlist
Good mothers are expected to be selfless. Artists are seen as selfish. So what does this mean for a mother with artistic ambitions? Enter: frustrated poet Veda Gray, who is offered a Faustian bargain when a wealthy childless couple, the Parishes, invite her to exchange her young son Owen for time to w ...Show more
big beautiful female theory (Shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize) by Eloise Grills
$35.00 AUD
Category: 2023 Stella Prize Longlist
big beautiful female theory is an anarchic and vital memoir unlike anything you've read before. Part feminist manifesto, part comic book, it is a carnivalesque exploration of the ways identity is formed through culture, relationships and the weight of society's expectations. With breathtaking honesty an ...Show more
Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia. Rather than offer yet another account of 'the Aboriginal problem', she theorises a strategy for living in a social world that has only ...Show more
Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
A cerebral, compulsive psychological novel from the bestselling author of His Bloody ProjectI am convinced, you see, that Dr Braithwaite killed my sister, Veronica. I do not mean that he murdered her in the normal sense of the word, but that he is, nonetheless, as responsible for her death as if he had ...Show more
The Other Half of You: Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2022 by Michael Mohammed Ahmad
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Any mistakes which brought me to this moment, I would not hesitate to make again. Bani Adam has known all his life what was expected of him. To marry a good girl. To live in a nice home. To have a respectable job. To start a family. In a series of letters to his son Kahlil, Bani recounts each of his adu ...Show more
The Open: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2022 by Lucy Van
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Introduction by Merlinda Bobis. All doors are open in Lucy Van's poetry. Ingress and egress are multiple, even coincident. We've just touched what's here, or are about to touch it, when apprehension is quickly uns ...Show more