St Kilda Recommends: Books
Suicide
$17.95 – Paperback / Dalkey Archive Press
Suicide cannot be read as simply another novel it is, in a sense, the author s own oblique, public suicide note, a unique meditation on this most extreme of refusals. Presenting itself as an investigation into the suicide of a... Buy or find out more→
The Infatuations
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same cafe. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there, and she feels obscurely bereft. It is only later, when... Buy or find out more→
My Last Sigh: The Autobiography of Luis Bunuel
$21.95 – Paperback / Vintage Books
A provocative memoir from Luis Bunuel, the Academy Award winning creator of some of modern cinema's most important films, from Un Chien Andalou to The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Luis Bunuel's films have the power... Buy or find out more→
Benito Cereno
$14.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
With its intense mix of mystery, adventure, and a surprise ending, Benito Cereno at first seems merely a provocative example from the genre Herman Melville created with his early best-selling novels of the sea. However, most... Buy or find out more→
Before I Burn
$27.99 – Paperback / Atlantic Books
In the late 1970s, a pyromaniac runs amok in rural Norway. As homes are burnt to cinders, panic spreads as neighbours wonder who amongst them could cause such fear and anguish. Born in to this chaos, Gaute Heivoll is indelibly... Buy or find out more→
Freya of the Seven Isles
$16.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
First published in The New York metropolitan magazine and London magazine in January 1912 and July 1912, respectively; collected in Twixt land and sea. Buy or find out more→
No World Concerto
$21.95 – Paperback / Dalkey Archive Press
A prismatic and erotic novel of the intersection of multiple worlds, this is the first novel by Roberto Bola o's early writing partner A. G. Porta to be translated into English. Buy or find out more→
The Death of Ivan Ilych
$13.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
Written eight years after the publication of Anna Karenina—a time during which, despite the global success of his novels, Leo Tolstoy renounced fiction in favor of religious and philosophical tracts—THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYCH... Buy or find out more→
Here and Now
$27.99 – Paperback / Faber and Faber
Although Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging... Buy or find out more→
I Was Behind You
$29.95 – Paperback / Pushkin Press
Ero dietro di te: you know what that means in English? It means I was behind you. She was actually sitting at a table behind us for the entire meal and she spent the whole time watching me without me realising. It's funny, but I'm... Buy or find out more→
Benediction
$27.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
Deals with the ordinary life of Dad Lewis, long-time resident of Holt, Colorado, who is now dying of cancer and has months to live and in those last few months the people who love him gather around him. This novel explores the... Buy or find out more→
House of Earth
$22.99 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers
Newly discovered, and with an Introduction by Johnny Depp and Douglas Brinkley, legendary folk singer and American icon Woody Guthrie's only finished novel: a prophetic and powerful portrait of two hardscrabble farmers struggling... Buy or find out more→
Ghost Wife: A Memoir of Love and Defiance
$24.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
Michelle Dicinoski has found the love of her life -- and now she just wants to get married and live happily ever after. The only problem is, she's in love with an American woman, Heather, and neither Australia nor America... Buy or find out more→
Paprika
$20.95 – Paperback / Vintage Books
Brilliant and beautiful psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba is one of the leading brains in the Institute for Psychiatric Research. An expert in the use of 'psychotherapy devices' that trap a patient's dreams and display them on a... Buy or find out more→
Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to be a Pop Star
$35.00 – Hardback / Little, Brown Book Group
A frank and funny pop culture memoir in the vein of Caitlin Moran's How to be a Woman, this is "how to be a woman artist" This is the story of Tracey Thorn, one half of the internationally successful group... Buy or find out more→
My First Wife
$29.99 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
Alexander Herzog, a young writer, who goes to Vienna to escape his debts and a failed love affair. There he is pursued by book-loving Ganna. Dazzled and unnerved by her devotion to him, and attracted to the large dowry offered by... Buy or find out more→
Milk and Honey: Contemporary Art in California
$59.95 – Hardback / AMMO Books LLC
"Milk and Honey: Contemporary Art in California" highlights new work by contemporary artists who are aesthetically and regionally joined through a variety of mediums and demographics. By showcasing unknown and emerging artists... Buy or find out more→
The Human Part
$29.99 – Paperback / Quercus Publishing Plc
An elderly woman agrees to sell her life to a blocked writer she meets at a book fair. She needs to talk - her husband has not spoken since a family tragedy some months ago. She claims that her grown-up children are doing well,... Buy or find out more→
101 Essential Rock'n' Roll Albums
$59.95 – Hardback / Gingko Press, Inc
This volume celebrates 101 seminal rock 'n' roll records, from the Beatles 1963 debut through the Sex Pistols' 1977 classic "Never Mind The Bollocks." The blue-chip artists are there, but this thoughtful book is also peppered... Buy or find out more→
Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories
$35.95 – Hardback / Scribner Book Company
From a prizewinning young writer whose stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and New Stories from the South comes a heartwarming and hugely appealing debut collection that explores the way our... Buy or find out more→
Doing it Differently: Urban Trends
$24.95 – Paperback / Kylie Legge
The Urban Trends books aim to share key ideas, movements and influences on city making and urban living. Doing it Differently looks at a range of creative and innovative solutions to the challenges of urban living. Creativity... Buy or find out more→
Beside The Sea
$21.95 – Paperback / Peirene Press Ltd
A single mother takes her two sons on a trip to the seaside. They stay in a hotel, drink hot chocolate and go to the funfair. She wants to protect them from a cold and uncomprehending world. She knows that it will be the last trip... Buy or find out more→
Sea of Ink
$24.95 – Paperback / Peirene Press Ltd
In 1626, Bada Shanren is born into the Chinese royal family. When the old Ming Dynasty crumbles, he becomes an artist, committed to capturing the essence of nature with a single brushstroke. Then the rulers of the new Qing Dynasty... Buy or find out more→
The Brothers
$24.95 – Paperback / Peirene Press Ltd
Finland in the year 1809. Henrik and Erik are brothers who fought on opposite sides in the war between Sweden and Russia. With peace declared, they both return to their snowed-in farm to court the same woman. Tragedy looms, but... Buy or find out more→
The Murder of Halland
$24.95 – Paperback / Peirene Press Ltd
Denmark's foremost literary author turns crime fiction on its head. Bess and Halland live in a small town, where everyone knows everyone else. When Halland is found murdered in the main square the police encounter only riddles.... Buy or find out more→
The Passion According to G. H.
$23.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
Lispector’s most shocking novel. The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector’s mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of... Buy or find out more→
Agua Viva
$21.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. Buy or find out more→
Near to the Wild Heart
$23.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
Clarice Lispector's first novel, Near to the Wild Heart (Perto do coracao selvagem), was published in 1944, when ts author was only nineteen years old. Buy or find out more→
Faithful Ruslan: The Story of a Guard Dog
$22.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
"A dog will never bite anyone who truly loves him. . . only man is capable of such a perverse act." Set in a remote Siberian depot immediately following the demolition of one of the gulag’s notorious camps and... Buy or find out more→
The President
$19.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
Restored to print for the first time in more than forty years, The President was hailed by the New York Times as a "tour de force" At 82, the former premier lives in alert and suspicious retirement— self exile—on the... Buy or find out more→
The Late Lord Byron: A Biography
$26.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
Originally published in England by John Murrray Ltd. in 1961. --T.p. verso. Buy or find out more→
After Midnight
$21.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
In 1937, German author Irmgard Keun had only recently fled Nazi Germany with her lover Joseph Roth when she wrote this slim, exquisite and devastating book. It captures the unbearable tension, contradictions and hysteria of... Buy or find out more→
The Train
$20.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
Against all expectations Marcel Féron has made a "normal" life in a bucolic French suburb in the Ardennes. But on May 10, 1940, as Nazi tanks approach, this timid, happy man must abandon his home and confront the "Fate" that... Buy or find out more→
The Rattler And Other Stories
$19.99 – Paperback / Spineless Wonders
This entertaining collection includes a romp of a novella called The Rattler, as well as short stories and micro fiction all set in and around contemporary Melbourne. Buy or find out more→