A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
'Comrade Stalin wishes to speak with you.' A fascinating exploration of the relationship between writers and tyranny, from the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize. In June 1934, Joseph Stalin allegedly telephoned the famous novelist and poet Boris Pasternak to discuss the arrest of fell ...Show more
Happy by Celina Baljeet Basra
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
'PLAYFUL AND PROFOUND . . . USING WRY HUMOUR TO DELIVER A DEAD SERIOUS MESSAGE' MELISSA FU 'A BONKERS STORY THAT READS LIKE A FINE TEN-COURSE MEAL' GARY SHTEYNGART A young cinephile leaves his rural village in India with big dreams, only to find himself trapped in menial jobs and forced to work off a ...Show more
Boulder by Eva Baltasar
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname "Boulder." When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants to have a child. She is already forty and can't bear to let the opportu ...Show more
Hyacinth by Will Cox
$20.00 AUD
Category: New Australian Fiction
Hyacinth asks Richard about the people in the house. Has he seen them too?When she, Richard, and Sheridan first moved into this house, decades previously, Hyacinth had the notion that there was an old couple still living there. She never saw them, but she felt them, in the air, behind her, around corner ...Show more
The Scope of Permissibility by Zeynab Gamieldien
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
How do you balance desire, ambition and expectations? Feeling alienated from wider society, Sara, Abida and Naeem gravitate towards their university’s Muslim Students’ Association. Within its austere confines, Sara watches Naeem. Over time, the pair commence a furtive relationship outside of the gaze of ...Show more
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten ...Show more
Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller; Olivia Laing (introduction)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
A new edition of the cult classic, with over two dozen additional stories, from the godmother of autofiction. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black is the only story collectiion from the legendary writer, actress, ex-biker and columnist Cookie Mueller. Mueller chronicles her high-risk, h ...Show more
A - A Novel by Andy Warhol
$26.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Part novel, part Pop artwork, Andy Warhol's a is an electrifying slice of life at his Factory studio'A work of genius' NewsweekIn the early 1960s, Andy Warhol set out to turn the novel into pop art. a, the first book he wrote, is the result. Transcribed from audiotapes recorded in and around his legenda ...Show more
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
The bestselling novel--and one of Barack Obama's summer reading picks--from the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele. "From one of the world's great contemporary writers comes the story of two Nigerians making their way in the U.S. and the UK, raising universal questions ...Show more
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The debut novel from the author of Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You. A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of adulthood in the 21st century Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman vaguely pursuing a career in writ ...Show more
Dirty Books: Erotic fiction and the avant-garde in mid-century Paris and New York by Barry Reay, Nina Attwood
$44.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
From the 1930s to the 1970s, in New York and in Paris, daring publishers and writers were producing banned pornographic literature. The books were written by young, impecunious writers, poets, and artists, many anonymously. Most of these pornographers wrote to survive, but some also relished the freedom ...Show more
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Winner of the PEN/ Hemingway AwardWinner of the NBCC's John Leonard AwardShortlisted for the British Book Award - Debut of the YearA New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Time, Oprah.com, Harper's Bazaar, San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, E ...Show more