The Long Form by Kate Briggs
27.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
Windham Campbell Prize-winner Kate Briggs' long-awaited debut novel, imagining new forms of life, writing and experience.
While We Were Dreaming by Clemens Meyer
34.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
While We Were Dreaming is an extraordinary coming of age novel by one of Germany's most ambitious writers, full of passion, rage, hope and despair. Rico, Mark, Paul and Daniel were 13 when the Berlin Wall fell in autumn 1989. Growing up in Leipzig at the time of reunification, they dream of a better lif ...Show more
Porn: An Oral History by Polly Barton
32.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
A landmark work of oral history interrogating everything and anything related to porn. How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral History, her extr ...Show more
The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier ; Daniel Levin Becker (translator)
34.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
Told in rhythmic, propulsive prose that weaves seamlessly from one consciousness to the next over the course of a day, Laurent Mauvignier's The Birthday Party is a gripping tale of the violent irruptions of the past into the present, written by a major contemporary French writer. Buried deep in rural Fr ...Show more
Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda
22.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
The Night Circus meets Lonely Castle in the Mirror in this multi-award-winning Japanese bestseller, available finally in an English translation by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami- AN FT BEST SUMMER READ 2023- OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD IN JAPAN- WINNER OF THE NAOKI PRIZE AND THE JAPAN BOOKSELLE ...Show more
What You Are Looking for is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
22.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this soul-stirring Japanese novel shows how the perfect book recommendation can help us fulfil our dreams. Sayuri Komachi is no ordinary librarian. Sensing exactly what someone is searching for in life, she provides just the book recom ...Show more
A Person Is a Prayer by Ammar Kalia
32.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
An intensely moving, lyrical and often funny novel about a family whose story of migration from Kenya and India to England is told over three separate days, across six decades. Bedi and Sushma's marriage is arranged. When they first meet, they stumble through a faltering conversation about happines ...Show more
Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks
22.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
'Superb' OBSERVER'Cunningly crafted' FINANCIAL TIMES'Faulks is doing what he does best' SUNDAY TIMESIn the depths of the archive, Hannah dances with the ghosts of Vichy France, lost in testimony and a desire to hear the voices of the past. Back in her apartment, Moroccan teenager Tariq crashes on her so ...Show more
Dogs and Monsters by Mark Haddon
34.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
From the bestselling author of The Porpoise come eight mesmerising stories exploring what, ultimately, makes us human. Mark Haddon weaves ancient fables into fresh and unexpected forms, and forges new legends to sit alongside them. The myth of the Minotaur in his labyrinth is turned into a wrenching pa ...Show more
The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi
19.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
One photograph, one treasured memory, one chance to go back... In Mr Hirasaka's cosy photography studio in the mountains between this world and the next, someone is waking up as if from a dream. There is a stack of photos on their lap, one for every day of their life, and now they must choose the pictu ...Show more
More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
24.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
In Tokyo, there is a neighbourhood with the highest number of bookstores in the world. It is called Jinbocho where book lovers can browse to their heart's delight and where hunters of first editions or autographed copies prowl the bookcases. The Morisaki bookshop, a small family-run shop, is so packed ...Show more
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
32.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
'What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet...' When retired Maths teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among t ...Show more