Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literature
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with reade ...Show more
Woven: First Nations poetic conversations from the Fair Trade project by Red Room Poetry, Anne-Marie Te Whiu (ed.)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
to open up / to respond as genuinely as possible / to offer hope / we want things to change / weaving solidarity from place and history / into collective purpose (Ellen Van Neerven and Layli Long Soldier) Following from the much-loved Guwayu anthology, this second collaboration between Red Room Poetry ...Show more
Meanjin Vol 82, No 4
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Summer warms us, brings us together, opens our hearts. Meanjin's writers began 2023 imploring us to get our house in order and prepare for what comes next. At the end of this momentous year, Australia's journal of record offers that perfect art-fiction focus to accompany all your summer adventures. We b ...Show more
Griffith Review 83 Past Perfect by Carody Culver (Editor)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
The past, famously, is a foreign country — but in the twenty-first century, it’s one in which we increasingly seek solace. No matter the relentless pace of technological innovation and the digitisation of everything from money to media – our appetites for retro design and aesthetics, for cultural produc ...Show more
Chinese Fish by Grace Yee
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
When Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of the Long White Cloud is not the prosperous paradise she was led to believe it would be. Every day she works in a rat-infested shop frying fish, and every evening she waits for her waywa ...Show more
The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It; Quarterly Essay 92 by Alan Kohler
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literature
What caused Australia's housing crisis - and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Australian life is that a land of sweeping plains, with one of the lowest population densities on the planet, has a shortage of land for houses. As a result, Sydney's median house price is the second most exp ...Show more
A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return it is With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return ...Show more
House of Snow: An Anthology of the Greatest Writing About Nepal by Ellen Parnavelas
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A ground-breaking collection of stories, poems and articles about Nepal covering the length and breadth of this enchanting nation and its people. 'If you want a book in English that tells you about Nepalese thinking, and gives a taste of the country's contemporary literature, you could hardly do better ...Show more
The School of Life: Collected Essays by The School of Life
$55.00 AUD
Category: Literature
A 15th anniversary collection of The School of Life's most popular andessential essays on self-knowledge, relationships, work and culture. The School of Life is an organisation with a focused mission at its heart: to help foster calm, self-understanding and greater emotional maturity. Over 15 years, we ...Show more
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles; Fagles (trans)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Drama | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Robert Fagles with introductions and notes by Bernard Knox.Collected here are Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at ...Show more
In the Land of the Cyclops Essays 1996-2013 by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Martin Aitken (Translator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle series broke new ground in fiction. In the Land of the Cyclops is his first collection of full-length essays to be published in English, and these brilliant and wide-ranging pieces meditate on themes familiar from his fiction. Collected here is a selection of his writin ...Show more