Novel About My Wife
Emily Perkins

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Bloomsbury )

If I could build her again using words, I would: starting at her long, painted feet and working up, meticulously shading in every cell and gap and space for breath until her pulse just couldn't help but kick back in to l... More »

Sea Of Many Returns
Arnold Zable

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )

In Sea of Many Returns, master storyteller Arnold Zable delivers a cavalcade of stories, characters and places. He takes us to the island of Ithaca, the Ionian Sea, Kalgoorlie and Melbourne, as well as Port Said, the Bla... More »

The Household Guide To Dying
Debra Adelaide

$32.95$29.95 (Trade paperback / Picador )

On the face of it, Delia's got it all - good marriage, two great kids, dream job writing witty, practical house and garden books. But when she's diagnosed with terminal cancer, she's forced to view her life in an entirel... More »

Bird
Sophie Cunningham

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )

To her lovers and friends, Anna Davidoff was a mystery. Beautiful, charismatic, irresponsible yet disarming; famous, in a way, but ultimately unknowable. To her daughter, she is no less an enigma even now, thirty years a... More »

Petropolis
Anya Ulinich

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )

Petropolis is a funny and poignant debut marking the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.

Sasha Goldberg is the ultimate outsider: she’s a chubby, mixed-race Jewish girl from the Siberian town of Asbestos 2. When her... More »

Quarterly Essay 30: Last Drinks: The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention.
Paul Toohey

$15.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )

In June it will be a year since the Northern Territory intervention was announced. In Quarterly Essay 30, Paul Toohey offers a definitive account of how it came about and what it has achieved. In this riveting piece of r... More »

Gold
Dan Rhodes

$22.95 (Paperback book / Canongate )

Miyuki Woodward, lover of pints and Pot Noodles, has been spending holidays in the same Welsh seaside town for years. She loves the wet walks, she loves The Anchor and most of all she loves the pub-quiz.

This year, follo... More »

Scenes From A Revolution: The Birth Of The New Hollywood
Mark Harris

$45.00 (Hardcover book / Canongate )

At the Academy Awards Ceremony of 1967, In the Heat of the Night took the Best Picture Oscar. It won out of a list of five nominees that also included Bonnie & Clyde, Doctor Dolittle, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and... More »

Once Upon A Time In England
Helen Walsh

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Canongate )

On the coldest night of 1975, a young man with shock-red hair tears though the snowbound streets of Warrington's toughest housing estate. He is Robbie Fitzgerald, and he is running for his life - and that of his young fa... More »

An Iliad
Alessandro Baricco

$22.95 (Paperback book / Canongate )

Alessandro Baricco re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of 21 Homeric characters. Sacrificing none of Homer’s panoramic scope, Baricco forgoes Homer’s detachment and admits us to realms of subjective experienc... More »

The End Of Mr Y
Scarlett Thomas

$22.95 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )

When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of The End of Mr Y in a second-hand bookshop, she can't believe her eyes. She's read about its author before, the outlandish Victorian scientist Thomas Lumas, and this is his most notorio... More »

Twelve
Nick McDonell

$19.95 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )

Nick McDonell’s Twelve created a sensation around the world, establishing its seventeen-year-old author as one of the new and important voices of his generation. The book sold over 300,000 copies worldwide and was publ... More »

Here At The End Of The World We Learn To Dance
Lloyd Jones

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )

A new edition of one of the early novels from the much-loved author of Mister Pip. Jones whirls the reader across three generations, from Buenos Aires to New Zealand, to Sydney ... and it all begins, like the tango, with... More »

Harry, Revised
Mark Sarvas

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )

Harry, Revised is the hilarious and tender story of Harry Rent, a guilt-ridden, down-on-his-luck widower, who tries to reinvent himself following his wife’s untimely death. His emotional journey takes him from his own so... More »

Bonk: The Curious Coupling Of Sex And Science
Mary Roach

$34.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )

The study of sexual physiology—what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better—has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci, James Watson and Napoleon Bonapa... More »

Supercapitalism: The Transformation Of Business Democracy and Everyday Life
Robert Reich

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )

Mid-twentieth-century capitalism has turned into global capitalism, and global capitalism — turbocharged, Web-based, and able to find and make almost anything just about anywhere — has turned into supercapitalism. But, a... More »

Crashing Through: A True Story Of Risk Adventure And The Man Who Dared To See
Robert Kurson

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )

Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at the age of three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and fam... More »

Typo: The Last American Typesetter Or How I Made And Lost Four Million Dollars
David Silverman

$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )

Two months before David Silverman’s 32nd birthday, he visited the Charles Schwab branch in the basement of the World Trade Center to wire his father’s life savings towards the purchase of the Clarinda Typesetting company... More »

Christopher's Ghosts
Charles McCarry

$24.95 (Paperback book / Scribe Publications )

Christopher’s Ghosts is the new novel from the unrivalled master of intelligent American spy fiction. In an epic whose cinematic scope brings to life the tension and fear of Europe in the late 1930s, Charles McCarry ta... More »

Boned
Anonymous

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Michael Joseph )

After twenty years at Australia’s number one commercial TV station, the feisty and talented Kate Corish is at the top of her game. She’s come a long way since her days as a starry-eyed graduate and has outwitted many who... More »

Dreamland
Tom Gilling

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )

The long-awaited new novel by the author of The Sooterkin and Miles McGinty

It was just a little lie. But it has landed Nick Carmody in serious trouble. It didn't seem much - to say he was the one driving Danny Grogan's ... More »

The Nearly Happy Family
Catherine Mckinnon

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )

Fifteen-year-old Claire and her mother Jackie, a comedian are reeling in the aftermath of Claire’s father’s death – and they’re driving each other crazy. Claire is outraged when her mother decides to marry a much younger... More »

Big Numbers: New And Selected Poems
Pi O

$39.60 (Paperback book / Collective Effort )

an urban poet. a poet of cafes and coffee shops. a poet of time and space. a poetry of language. a poetry of form and commitment. visual poems, sound poems, number poems, work poems, love poems, greek poems, poems about ... More »

The New Angel
Ali Alizadeh

$27.95 (Paperback book / )

The New Angel is the moving story of Bahram and Fereshteh (Persian for 'angel') growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution and the Iran- Iraq war. At its centre this is a love story between two adolescents at odds ... More »

All The Sad Young Literary Men
Keith Gessen

$34.95 (Trade paperback / Heinemann )

A charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century, All the Sad Young Literary Men charts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith, as they overthink their college years, underthink t... More »

The Outlander
Gil Adamson

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )

In 1903, a mysterious, desperate young woman flees alone across the icy western wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. Her name is Mary Boulton. Bloodhounds track her through the trees. She is nineteen years old. Half mad. A... More »

Attachment
Isabel Fonseca

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Chatto & Windus )

How well do you really know the people you love? How well do you know yourself? What constitutes the examined life - the only kind worth living? A bold and brilliant fictional debut that takes the lid off marriage and lo... More »

The End Of The Alphabet
C.S. Richardson

$24.95 (Hardcover book / Portobello )

Ambrose Zephyr and his wife Zappora Ashkenazi (“Zipper”) have achieved a happy and balanced life together. She is the yin to his yang. He is the only man she has loved without adjustment. The two live contentedly in a na... More »

Devil May Care
Sebastian Faulks

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Michael Joseph )

This really is one of the most anticipated books of the year. Literary novelist Sebastian Faulks takes up Ian Fleming’s mantle as the new scribe of the adventures of the world’s most famous spy: Bond. James Bond. Plot de... More »

Voice Over
Celine Curiol

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Faber )

"VOICE OVER announces the arrival of a major new talent on the literary scene. Not only is it the finest first novel I have read in many years, but it is, quite simply, one of the most original and brilliantly executed w... More »

Bright Shiny Morning
James Frey

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Sphere )

The first novel from disgraced memoirist James Frey has already caused quite a stir. The knives are out, waiting for another carve-up. But the first review concedes that Frey “has something” and that this book is a page-... More »

Kieron Smith Boy
James Kelman

$49.95 (Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton )

In this warm, funny and occasionally brooding novel, James Kelman has meticulously and generously recreated both the exterior and the interior of the boy Kieron Smith. Continually rejected by his brother and largely igno... More »

Snuff
Chuck Palahniuk

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape )

From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple-X novel that goes where no work of fiction has gone before. "Six hundred dudes. One porn queen. A world record for the ages. A must-have movie for... More »

Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories
Primo Levi

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of seventeen short stories, translated into English for the first time, opens up a world of wonder, love, cr... More »

Trauma
Patrick McGrath

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Bloomsbury )

Charlie Weir is a man who tackles other people's demons for a living. He has seen every kind of trauma during his years as a psychiatrist in New York City, and yet hasn't found a way to resolve the conflicts within his o... More »

Where I Stand
Serge Liberman

$32.95 (Paperback book / )

Told through the eyes of a doctor, these narratives explore the question of what it means to confront life in all its manifestations, to suffer and be human. Raphael Bloom meets a fascinating and complex range of patient... More »

Indignation
Philip Roth

$45.00$39.95 (Hardcover book / Houghton Mifflin )

Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life's unimagined chances and terrifying consequences. It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from N... More »

Human The Science Of What Makes Unique
Gazzaniga Michael S.

$61.95 (Hardcover book / Ecco Press )

One of the world's leading neuroscientists explores how best to understand the human condition by examining the biological, psychological, and highly social nature of our species within the social context of our lives. W... More »

Petrostate Putin Power And The New Russia
Marshall Goldman

$44.95 (Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr )

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Collected Stories
Leonard Michaels

$23.95 (Paperback book / Henry Holt & Company )

“Leonard Michaels’s stories stand alongside those of his best Jewish contemporaries—Grace Paley and Philip Roth.” —Mona Simpson, The New York Times Book Review “Leonard Michaels was an original . . . with a concise, pung... More »

Revolution In Taste
Susan Pinkard

$63.95 (Hardcover book / Cambridge Univ Pres )

Modern French habits of cooking, eating, and drinking were born in the Ancien Regime, radically breaking with culinary traditions that originated in antiquity and creating a new aesthetic. This new culinary culture saw f... More »

The Costello Memoirs
Peter Costello with Peter Coleman

$54.99$44.95 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )

The Costello Memoirs is a frank and fearless look inside the engine-room of the Liberal Party and the Howard Government.

In a political career spanning eighteen years, Peter Costello, Australia's longest serving Treasure... More »

Breath
Tim Winton

$45.00$39.95 (Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton )

Breath is a story about the wildness of youth - the lust for excitement and terror, the determination to be extraordinary, the wounds that heal and those that don't - and about learning to live with its passing.

In his f... More »

The Stories Our Parents Found Too Painful To Tell
Rafael Rajzner & Henry R Lew

$40.00 (Paperback book / )

This book is a retreived version of the first Holocaust memoir published in Australia, in 1948. Is is also one of the earliest memoirs ever written. The orignial book was written in Yiddish. It has now been adapted into ... More »

The Emergence Of Memory: Conversations With W G Sebald
Lynne Sharon Schwartz

$44.00 (Hardcover book / Seven Stories Press )

A portrait in conversations and critical writing of one of the towering literary figures of our times. When German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss... More »

Death Sat On A Pale Horse
Alison Miller

$39.95 (Paperback book / )

The World War One Diaries, Letters and Sketches of Harold Stephens & W. ‘Billy’ O’Neil.Over 90 years ago two friends from the farming community of Cowra, New South Wales joined the Australian Army – the journalist/c...

Colussus Of Marousi
Henry Miller

$24.95 (Paperback book / Wakefield Press )

" I felt the war coming on – it was getting closer and closer every day. For a little while yet there would be peace and men might still behave like human beings."

A memoir of a Greek holiday the great American novelis... More »