Australian Festival of Travel Writing
Tracks
$21.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A cult classic with an ever-growing audience, Tracks is the brilliantly written and frequently hilarious account of a young woman's odyssey through the deserts of Australia, with no one but her dog and four camels as com... Buy or find out more →
African Psycho
$29.95 – Paperback book / Serpents Tail
Luckily, he has a mentor to call on, the far more accomplished serial killer Angoualima. The fact that Angoualima is dead doesn t prevent Gregoire from holding lengthy conversations with him. Little by little, Gregoire i... Buy or find out more →
One Night At The Call Centre
$23.95 – Paperback book / Black Swan
Work. Romance. Lift itself... Now everything's on the line! Six friends are selling home appliances to the US from a call centre in India. They have serious issues of the heart. Call agent Sam (real name Shyam) works rig... Buy or find out more →
Last Seen In Lhasa
$24.95 – Paperback book / Rider
Some go to Tibet seeking inspiration, others for adventure. The award-winning journalist, Claire Scobie, found both when she left her ordinary life in London and went to the Himalayas in search of a rare red lily. Her jo... Buy or find out more →
The Picador Book Of Journeys
$24.99 – Paperback book / Picador
Journeys is a provocatively different and shamelessly idiosyncratic travel anthology. In its pages we encounter an astonishing assortment of peopleat leisure, at war, in grand luxury and great discomfort, running away an... Buy or find out more →
Tom Is Dead
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Translated from the French by Lia HIlls
Set in the Blue Mountains and in Sydney, Tom is Dead is a suspense novel about grief. The narrator’s son has been dead for ten years; he was four and a half. For the first time sin... Buy or find out more →
Hoax Nation
$18.00 – Paperback book / Arcade
Not for nothing did Mark Twain famously describe Australian history as ‘reading like the most beautiful lies’. But when he uttered those words, Twain didn’t know the half of it.
In this cook’s tour of 2500 years of... Buy or find out more →
My Mother Was A Bag Lady
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
When Dora and her eight-year-old daughter Josiane are arrested in France, they do not have the one franc coin that the law requires to prove they are not vagrants. To the authorities, the solution is simple. They are pen... Buy or find out more →
Father's Day
$24.95 – Paperback book / Hunter Publishers
‘To make stories look and sound so heartbreakingly real you need an unflinching eye and a compassionate ear and Tony Birch knows just what details are going to go straight to his reader’s heart. Loss, memory, and the inv... Buy or find out more →
Known Unknowns
$24.95 – Paperback book / Affirm
Emmett Stinson is an American who moved to Australia in 2004 – and it was only with distance from his homeland that he could write Known Unknowns, his debut collection. Set largely in Washington DC immediately after Sept... Buy or find out more →
The Byron Journals
$19.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Andrew and his mate Benny have finished school and are heading for the holiday of their lives in Byron Bay. They are not sure what they’re looking forward to most: the surf, the girls, the music, the partying or just bei... Buy or find out more →
A Woman Of Seville
$27.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Paula Sánchez is famous in Seville. Now she is sitting for The Penitent Magdalen, along with Father Rastro and the monk Victor Maria, and watched over by the young painter Diego Vel ázquez.
But Seville in 1616 is a dan... Buy or find out more →
Broken Glass
$10.00 – Paperback book / Soft Skull Press
Alain Mabanckou's riotous new novel centers on the patrons of a run-down bar in the Congo. In a country that appears to have forgotten the importance of remembering, a former schoolteacher and bar regular nicknamed Broke... Buy or find out more →