Homecoming: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2022 by Elfie Shiosaki
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Our grandmothers' stories teach us about Aboriginal women's ways of being in our many worlds. Some of the stories in this collection are held in spoken histories, others in archival material, recontextualised with living katitjin. Some are held in my imagination. They are fragments of the many stars in ...Show more
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families. He is a father, chancer, petty criminal. He is a smooth-talker with rakish charm and an eye for a good game. He is many things, but he is not a murderer. ...Show more
The Lovers by Yumna Kassab
24.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
What happens when we become used to each other, when we become bored, when we anticipate each other’s moods like the seasons cycled in a day? What happens when you are tired of me and I tire of you? Every couple has a story. How they met, how they fell in love – their ups, their downs. What made them w ...Show more
No Document by Anwen Crawford
26.95 AUD
Category: Biography
No Document is an elegy for a friendship cut short prematurely by death. The memory of this friendship becomes a model for how we might relate to others in sympathy, solidarity and rebellion. At once intimate and expansive, Anwen Crawford's book-length essay explores loss in many forms: disappeared artw ...Show more
Grimmish by Michael Winkler
29.95 AUD
Category: Modern 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
Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Must a girl always be a part?How can she become a whole?In the late 1970s, in the forgotten outer suburbs, a girl has her hands in the engine of a Holden. A sinister new man has joined the family. He works as a mechanic and operates an unlicensed repair shop at the back of their block.The family is unde ...Show more
The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A fierce and beautiful novel about coming of age in a dying world.
The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey
22.99 AUD
29.99 (23% off)
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Erica Marsden's son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on the south-east coast near the prison where he is serving his sentence. There, in a rundown ...Show more
Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
24.99 AUD
Category: Literature
* WINNER OF THE 2022 STELLA PRIZE *An innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian literary scene.I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconograph ...Show more
The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt
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Category: Literature
With electrifying boldness and fearlessness of vision, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishing and deeply humane portrait of a father's Parkinson's Disease, and a daughter forged by grief. Opening and closing with startling elegies set in the charged moments before and ...Show more
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
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Category: Fiction
Too much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get to swallow her opinions. The avalanche of bullshit in the world would drown her if she let it; the least she could do was raise her voice in anger. Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent a lifetime avoiding two ...Show more
The Other Half of You: Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2022 by Michael Mohammed Ahmad
32.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
Any mistakes which brought me to this moment, I would not hesitate to make again. Bani Adam has known all his life what was expected of him. To marry a good girl. To live in a nice home. To have a respectable job. To start a family. In a series of letters to his son Kahlil, Bani recounts each of his adu ...Show more