James by Percival Everett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
James is an enthralling and ferociously funny novel that leaves an indelible mark, forcing us to see Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in a wholly new and transformative light. The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in N ...Show more
Hemlock by Helene Cixous
$30.95 AUD
Category: Essays Language and Writing
A compelling work of autobiographical fiction, Hélène Cixous's Hemlock weaves tragedy and comedy in its exploration of various human attachments: between an elderly but still truculent mother and her writer-daughter, between the mother and her sister, and between the writer and her vanished but nonethel ...Show more
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (Times Literary Supplement). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, B ...Show more
Passages by Ann Quin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
A book of voices, landscapes and seasons, Ann Quin's newly republished novel mirrors the multiplicity of meanings of the very word 'passage'--of music, of time, and of life itself. A woman, accompanied by her lover, searches for her lost brother, who may have been a revolutionary, and who may have been ...Show more
The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
$39.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage classics
Turns the 78 tarot cards to a new purpose, linking word and image to the purposes of narrative. A band of travellers, trapped in an gloomy castle in the heart of a wood, find themselves struck dumb and are only able to converse by using the tarot cards to tell one another how they came to be there.
The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal
$23.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
A literary cause c l bre when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal's now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience. Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in "awful ...Show more
Wake in Fright: Text Classics by Kenneth Cook
$14.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant's journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers.
Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics
This is the complete collection of stories from one of the most original and powerful American writers of the twentieth-century. Including "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Everything That Rises Must Converge", this collection also contains several stories only available in this volume.
Extinct: Artistic Impressions of Our Lost Wildlife by Gray
$59.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
Australia is home to an incredible diversity of native animals. While Australian animals are among the most unique in the world, they are also among the most endangered, with hundreds currently on the brink of extinction. We must act quickly if we are to save these species, as once gone, they are gone f ...Show more
Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prizei>i>Stag's Leap, Sharon Olds' stunningly poignant new sequence of poems, tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom. In this wise and intimate telling - which carries us throu ...Show more
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