Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
$19.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
Joe Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. He reads his comics, collects birds' eggs and treasures his marbles, particularly his prized dobbers. When Treacle Walker appears off the Cheshire moor one day – a wanderer, a healer – an unlikely friendship is forged and the young boy is introduced to ...Show more
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Today I might trace the rungs of her larynx or tap at her trachea like the bones of a xylophone or cook up or undo some great horrors of my own because here is the thing about bodies: they are impossibly easy to prowl, without anyone suspecting a thing. Until, of course, they do. And then, of course, t ...Show more
Grimmish by Michael Winkler
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Fiction
Pain was Joe Grim's self-expression, his livelihood and reason for being. In 1908-09 the Italian-American boxer toured Australia, losing fights but amazing crowds with his showmanship and extraordinary physical resilience. On the east coast Grim played a supporting role in the Jack Johnson-Tommy Burns F ...Show more
The Performance by Claire Thomas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The false cold of the theatre makes it hard to imagine the heavy wind outside in the real world, the ash air pressing onto the city from the nearby hills where bushfires are taking hold.The house lights lower.The auditorium feels hopeful in the darkness.As bushfires rage outside the city, three women wa ...Show more
After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
A literary reimagining of some of history's greatest queer women. What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. It's 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who raped her-the man she has been forced to m ...Show more
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
$22.99 AUD
Category: 2022 Women's Prize Shortlist
A soaring, breathtakingly ambitious novel that weaves together the astonishing lives of a 1950s vanished female aviator and the modern-day Hollywood actress who plays her on screen. From her days as a wild child in prohibition America to the blitz and glitz of wartime London, from the rugged shores of ...Show more
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Booker-shortlisted, million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the infamous, ill-fated Booth family. Charmers, liars, drinkers and dreamers, they will change history forever. Junius is the patriarch, a celebrated Shakespearean actor who f ...Show more
7 1/2 Seven and a Half by Christos Tsiolkas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An audacious and transformative novel about the past, the present and the power of writing and imagination from the award-winning author of Damascus and The Slap. A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in th ...Show more
The Magpie Wing by Max Easton
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Helen, Walt and Duncan are looking for ways to entertain themselves in the sprawl of Sydney’s western suburbs. Walt, scrappy and idealistic, wants to prove a point, and turns to petty vandalism. His friend Duncan sticks to his fledgling football career, and sexual encounters in strange houses. Walt’s si ...Show more
TAKE CARE: Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2022 by Eunice Andrada
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
TAKE CARE explores what it means to survive within systems not designed for tenderness. Bound in personal testimony, the poems situate the act of rape within the machinery of imperialism, where human and non-human bodies, lands, and waters are violated to uphold colonial powers. Andrada explores the mag ...Show more
Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the twice-winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Scary Monsters is an affecting, profound and darkly funny exploration into racism, misogyny and ageism. 'When my family emigrated it felt as if we'd been stood on our heads.' Michelle de Kretser's electrifying take on scary monsters turns the novel upsi ...Show more
Permafrost: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2022 by SJ Norman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
This brilliant collection of short fiction explores the shifting spaces of desire, loss and longing. Inverting and queering the gothic and romantic traditions, each story represents a different take on the concept of a haunting or the haunted. Though it ranges across themes and locations - from small-to ...Show more