When You Are Engulfed In Flames
David Sedaris

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Little Brown )

Sedaris, king of the poignantly absurd, triumphs in this sixth essay collection (after 2004's Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim). There is less focus here on the Sedaris clan as a whole, though the various members ... More »

Alfred and Emily
Doris Lessing

$27.99 (Trade paperback / Fourth Estate )

'I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of... More »

The Boat
Nam Le

$29.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )

The Boat will take you everywhere.

In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the world.

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