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What We're Reading
We all need stories, good stories.
Here are some that have kept us turning pages deep into the night.
If you've been talking to our booksellers in store, there's a good chance they've mentioned these books more than once.
Growing up Disabled in Australia by Carly Findlay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing
'My body and its place in the world seemed quite normal to me.' 'I didn't grow up disabled, I grew up with a problem. A problem those around me wanted to fix.' 'We have all felt that uncanny sensation that someone is watching us.' 'The diagnosis helped but it didn't fix everything.' 'Don't fear the labe ...Show more
For Now (Why I Write) by Eileen Myles
$39.99 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: Why I Write Ser.
"[Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell, and like a hip Virgil, . . . is happy to show us the way."--NPR In this raucous meditation, Eileen Myles offers an intimate glimpse into creativity's immediacy. With erudition and wit, Myles recounts their early years as an awakening writer; existentia ...Show more
Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a holiday: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. ...Show more
Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A woman in a post-election tailspin discovers that her boyfriend is an anonymous online conspiracy theorist in this provocative and subversive debut novel that examines social media, sex, feminism, and fiction, the connection they've all promised, and the lies they help us tell. On the eve of Donald Tru ...Show more
The Performance by Claire Thomas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'A potent meditation on the intensity of women's lives' Charlotte Wood, author of The Weekend 'Read it as soon as you possibly can' Emily Bitto, author of The Strays 'I read from start to finish almost without looking up' Clare Bowditch, author of Your Own Kind of Girl The false cold of the theatre m ...Show more
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Gifty is the younger child in a family of four who have emigrated from Ghana to the American South. While her gorgeous brother is a sports hero, her father longs to return home and her mother is desperate to hold this family of four together. When Gifty's brother's glorious success on the basketball co ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A scathingly funny, wildly erotic and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex and god from the Women's Prize longlisted author of The Pisces, 'A luscious, heartbreaking story of self-discovery through the relentless pursuit of desire. I couldn't get enough of this devastating and extremely sexy book' ...Show more
Artifact by Arlene Heyman
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'A wise, intimate tale that is by turns joyful, sorrowful and explicit' Observer 'The author delves deep into Lottie's psyche, shying away from nothing, to create a rounded and gripping portrait of a woman on the edge of change' Daily Mail Lottie Kristin is independent from the start. Born in the middle ...Show more
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An utterly wonderful debut novel of love, crime, magic, fate and a boy's coming of age, set in 1980s Australia and infused with the originality, charm, pathos, and heart of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The mind can take you anywhere you want ...Show more
Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science & Nature
A work of bright and careful genius. Equal parts Rebecca Solnit and Annie Dillard, Giggs masterfully combines lush prose with conscientious history and boots-on-the-beach reporting. With Giggs leading us gently by the hand we dive down, and down, and down, into the dark core of the whale, which, she con ...Show more
The Narrative of Trajan's Column by Italo Calvino
$9.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished' Italo Calvino was one of the most joyful and imaginative writers of the twentieth century. Here he muses on what the things we leave behind - whether waxworks or ancient graffiti, enigmatic maps or a crumbling Roman column - tell us about the gre ...Show more
