St Kilda Recommends: Books
Under Stones
$24.95 (Paperback book / Affirm )
Dip into the world of Bob Franklin‘s fiction at your own risk. The calm surface belies a swift undertow and snags galore. These are not horror stories in the traditional sense; they are more unsettling than that.
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Drowned Book
$24.95 (Paperback book / Pan Macmillan )
Sean O'Brien's new collection takes its emotional and imaginative cue from his recent and brilliant Inferno, and, for the larger part, occupies a dark, watery, subterranean world as dramatically compelling (and sometimes... More »
The United States Of McSweeney's: 10 Years Of Accidental Classics
$49.95 (Paperback book / Hamish Hamilton )
Since 1998 McSweeney's Quarterly Concern has been emerging from various kitchens, attics and an old laundromat roughly four times a year – or definitely at least three. In those ten years, almost 100,000 stories have bee... More »
Etchings Indigenous: Black And Sexy
$24.95 (Paperback book / Ilura Press Po Box 680 Elsternwick Victoria 3185 )
Etchings Indigenous: Black and Sexy presents some of the best contemporary writing and art by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from around Australia.
Discover the story of Payback Records, an Indigenous hip h... More »
The Book Of Other People
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
A HOST OF EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTERS IN ALL NEW STORIES BY OUR
BEST CONTEMPORAY WRITERS
INCLUDING:
David Mitchell – 'Judith Castle'
'A masterpiece' Scotland on Sunday
A.L. Kennedy – 'Frank'
'Brilliantly melancholic'... More »
Memories, Dreams And Reflections
$24.95$13.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
In his later years, C. G. Jung sums up the meaning of his life in the light of his own psychological researches, partly in conversations recorded, amplified and edited by his secretary and partly in chapters written by h... More »
Travels With Herodotus
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
Ryszard Kapuscinski was the greatest traveller-reporter of our time. Travels with Herodotus depicts his beginnings as an inexperienced young Polish journalist and reveals what drove him throughout his extraordinary life.... More »
Sum: Forty Tales From The Afterlives
$22.95 (Paperback book / Canongate )
In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. Or you may find the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember. In some afterlives you are split into all your di... More »
Distant Star
$24.95 (Paperback book / )
From Chile's finest contemporary writer.
An unnamed narrator attempts to piece together the life and works of an enigmatic would-be poet turned military assassin during Pinochet's regime in Chile. In the early 1970s Albe... More »
More Things Like This
$59.95 (Hardcover book / Chronicle Books )
Curated by the editors of McSweeney's, this unconventional book explores the intersection of text, humor, and illustration in art created by cartoonists, writers, musicians, and fine artists. A refreshing mixture of high... More »
Jenny Holzer
$99.00 (Hardcover book / Hatje Cantz )
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Going Down Swinging 29
$24.95 (Paperback book / Going Down Swinging )
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The Best Australian Stories 2009
$29.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )
In The Best Australian Stories 2009, Delia Falconer collects the year's most outstanding short fiction, showcasing the strength and diversity of Australian writing today. There are masterful stories from some of th... More »
Look Who's Morphing
$24.99 (Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing )
This is a collection of brilliant stories about transformation, with the storyteller and his family shifting through identities drawn from comics, video games, daytime TV, porn flicks and movies, in fantasies of sexual a... More »
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