Reciprocity - A Celebration on the Life of Jean-Paul Delamotte by Ramsland, Marie
39.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
Jean-Paul Delamotte A.M. (1931-2019) was a French writer and film producer who visited Australia in 1974, and promptly engaged with translating and promoting Australian culture through its films and books. This book celebrating his life, is a mosaic of memories that cover his zeal for a reciprocity betw ...Show more
The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston
32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
As foot and mouth disease spreads across the hills of Cumbria, emptying the valleys of sheep and filling the skies with smoke, Steve Elliman and William Herne, two neighbouring farmers, join forces to reverse their fortunes by rustling livestock from the south. With the struggles of the land never far a ...Show more
Ekho by Roslyn Orlando
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
From Greek mythology to the Amazon Echo smart speaker, Orlando restores the Ekh into a dynamic poetic voice. Ekho is a poem in three parts. Through poetic narrative, this work considers the 'echo' as a social and historical phenomenon. From Echo, the nymph of Greek mythology who's voice was stolen by th ...Show more
The White Cockatoo Flowers: Stories by Ouyang Yu
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A father and son muse on the value of fame and fortune and the path of chujia or receding from the world by becoming a monk. On Christmas Eve a lonely immigrant travels from his deserted outer suburb to the city in search of life. Spouses navigate their adult son's need to 'rebrand' himself with an Engl ...Show more
Looking Out (PB) by Fiona McCallum
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Beneath the facade not everything is as it seems... A moving and suspenseful story of family dynamics, obsession and the power of true friendship from Australia's master storyteller, Fiona McCallum. On the surface Natasha and Mitchell live an idyllic life in the Adelaide Hills with their two daughte ...Show more
The Mistress of Dara Island by Averil Kenny
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A tropical paradise is her birthright ... but will its dark secrets destroy her dreams? In the 1960s, a tropical island in the Coral Sea hides dark secrets behind its primordial beauty. Thalia - 'Tally' - Ramsey has grown up barefoot, wild and free on the island purchased by her maternal grandfather. It ...Show more
Kill Your Husbands by Jack Heath
32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
A witty, page-turning, twisty whodunit from the bestselling author of the Hangman series, perfect for fans of Benjamin Stevenson. Three couples, friends since high school, rent a luxurious house in the mountains for an unplugged weekend of drinking and bushwalking. No internet, no phones, no stress. On ...Show more
Everything is Perfect by Maxine Fawcett
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Cassandra seems to have it all - but behind her perfect fa ade she's barely hanging on. A captivating, honest and wry novel about a forty-something woman on the brink. Is it Peri? A midlife crisis? Or simply a cry for help? Cassie Prince lives in a beautiful beach suburb with her successful husband Jon ...Show more
The Wonder of Seldom Seen by J.D. Cregan
32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Miles Jordon is a wanted man. But not in a good way. The police are after him. So too is the erratic, renegade ASIO agent Robert Wilson, and Greg Sweeney, a violent man whose wife Miles can't resist. Only a few weeks earlier he had driven up the Gippsland Highway with his dog in search of a new life. Br ...Show more
Your Utopia by Bora Chung (translated by Anton Hur)
27.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the Korean by Anton Hur, Your Utopia is full of tales of loss and discovery, idealism and dystopia, death and immortality. "Nothing concentrates the mind like Chung's terrors, which will shrivel you to a boui ...Show more
Acts of Self Consumption by Chua, Ally
19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
The dictionary defines consumption as both the 'use of a resource' and 'a wasting disease'. This collection explores the different acts of self consumption a person can go through-sacrifice and selfishness, defeat and hubris. It's an unpacking of guilt for making the wrong choices; for contradictory com ...Show more
The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey
32.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
* Winner of New Zealand's Fiction Book of the Year 2023 A dazzling portrayal of humanity and the natural world that perfectly balances violence and humour. Everywhere, the birds, but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree, and we're staying, and you need to leave and ...Show more