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The Purple Book: Symbolism & Sensuality in Contemporary Art and Illustration

The Purple Book: Symbolism & Sensuality in Contemporary Art and Illustration
Angus Hyland, Angharad Lewis

$70.00 – Hardback / Laurence King Publishing

The Purple Book is a luxurious compendium of contemporary illustration that explores fantasy, sensuality and the erotic imagination.It highlights visual art and the written word as media for representing human desires... Buy or find out more


Southern Cross the Dog

Southern Cross the Dog
Bill Cheng

$29.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan

As the Great Flood of 1927 bursts the levees of Mississippi and sweeps away rural homes, 8-year-old Robert Chatham is separated from his parents. He is entirely alone. Robert's adventures through the brooding swamplands, from the... Buy or find out more



The China Factory
Mary Costello

$22.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

A collection of twelve exquisite stories that explore how ordinary men and women endure the trials and complexities of life and the ripples of disquiet that lie beneath the surface.An elderly schoolteacher recalls the single... Buy or find out more


Creative Writing for Beginners
Colin Batrouney

$24.95 – Paperback / Affirm Press

Joel, a charming drifter, finds his moorings in the world of books. Attending a creative writing class, he strikes up an unlikely friendship which dredges up painful memories.Creative Writing for Beginners is an... Buy or find out more



The Limit

The Limit
Riikka Pulkkinen

$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications

It's a sweltering summer's day, and Anja Aropalo is on her way home with two errands in mind: first, to water the roses, and then to commit suicide. She is slowly losing her husband to Alzheimer's disease, and she has made him a... Buy or find out more


Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro

$19.99 – Paperback / Faber and Faber

In one of the most acclaimed and original novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never... Buy or find out more



A Man in Love   Review

A Man in Love
Karl Ove Knausgaard, Don Bartlett

$27.95 – Paperback / Vintage

Karl Ove Knausgaard leaves his wife and everything he knows in Oslo for a fresh start in Stockholm. There he strikes up a deep and competitive friendship with Geir and pursues Linda, a beautiful poet who captivated him years... Buy or find out more


Steal My Sunshine
Emily Gale

$18.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia

During a Melbourne heatwave, Hannah's family life begins to distort beyond her deepest fears. It's going to take more than a cool change to fix it, but how can a girl who lives in the shadows take on the task alone? Feeling... Buy or find out more



All That is   Review

All That is
James Salter

$24.95 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan

From his experiences as a naval officer in battles off Okinawa during World War II, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as a book editor. He soon inhabits a world where marriages fail as affairs ignite, alcohol... Buy or find out more


Steeplechase
Krissy Kneen

$29.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

I force myself to take the phone away from my ear and search for the last incoming call. I store the number under one word, 'sister'. I know I should have used her name but it is all I can think of in this moment. Sister. My... Buy or find out more



The Crane Wife
Patrick Ness

$27.99 – Paperback / Canongate Books Ltd

One night, George Duncan - decent man, a good man - is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from... Buy or find out more


Levels of Life
Julian Barnes

$24.95 – Hardback / Vintage

Tells about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. Buy or find out more



Harmless
Julienne Van Loon

$22.99 – Paperback / Fremantle Press

Full of suspense, Harmless, is the tightly woven story of eight year old Amanda, whose father is in prison, and Rattuwat, a Thai man burying his daughter in a strange land. Abandoning their broken-down car on the way to the... Buy or find out more


Here and Now
Paul Auster, J. M. Coetzee

$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



Paris Street Style: A Guide to Effortless Chic  

Paris Street Style: A Guide to Effortless Chic
Isabelle Thomas, Frederique Veysset

$24.95 – Paperback / Abrams

One city always seems to win the award for most-wanted style—Paris, where people walking down the avenues mix timeless and trendy pieces in a way that appears effortless. French fashion writers Isabelle Thomas and Frédérique... Buy or find out more


Instructions for a Heatwave   Review

Instructions for a Heatwave
Maggie O'Farrell

$24.95 – Paperback / Headline Publishing Group

Maggie O'Farrell has now sold over a million books in the UK through Bookscan. She is consistently a hardback bestseller - THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE sold just over 15,000 copies in hardback alone. Buy or find out more



Nothing Gold Can Stay
Ron Rash

$29.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash returns again to Appalachia to capture lives haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear in unforgettable stories that span the Civil War to the present day. In... Buy or find out more


Tasmania: The Tipping Point?

Tasmania: The Tipping Point?
Julianne Schultz, Natasha Cica

$27.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

Tasmania, the smallest of Australia's states, has long been on the edge of national conversations about prosperity, equality and identity. In Tasmania: The Tipping Point? Griffith Review serves up strategic slices of Tasmania's... Buy or find out more



Love with a Chance of Drowning: A Memoir

Love with a Chance of Drowning: A Memoir
Torre DeRoche

$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

Love can make a person do crazy things . . . A city girl with a morbid fear of deep water, Torre DeRoche is not someone you would ordinarily find adrift in the middle of the stormy Pacific aboard a leaky sailboat – total... Buy or find out more


Revenge  

Revenge
Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder

$24.95 – Paperback / Vintage

A woman goes into a bakery to buy a strawberry cream tart. The place is immaculate but there is no one serving so she waits. Another customer comes in. The woman tells the new arrival that she is buying her son a treat for his... Buy or find out more



Belomor
Nicolas Rothwell

$29.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

Elegiac and seductive, Belomor is the frontier where truth and invention meet--where fragments from distant lives intermingle, and cohere. Buy or find out more


The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers

The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers
Mungo MacCallum

$19.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.

Good drinkers, bad swimmers and unlikely heroes. Since Australia's birth in 1901, twenty-seven politicians have run the national show. Their time at the top has ranged from eight days for Frank Forde to eighteen years for Bob... Buy or find out more



I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
Sylvie Simmons

$35.00 – Paperback / Vintage

: 'There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.' Leonard Cohen The genius behind such classic songs as Suzanne, Bird on the Wire and Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen has been one of the most important and influential... Buy or find out more


The Essential Leunig: Cartoons from a Winding Path

The Essential Leunig: Cartoons from a Winding Path
Michael Leunig

$49.99 – Hardback / Penguin Books Australia

Four hundred definitive cartoons spanning five decades From the vast repertoire created by Michael Leunig since 1965 comes this inspired selection of his most universal and timeless pieces. Such is his... Buy or find out more



Jerusalem  

Jerusalem
Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi

$39.95 – Hardback / Ebury Press

Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi are the men behind the bestselling Ottolenghi: The Cookbook. Their chain of restaurants is famous for its innovative flavours, stylish design and superb cooking. At the heart of... Buy or find out more


Grace: A Memoir

Grace: A Memoir
Grace Coddington

$39.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia

Grace Coddington's celebration of fashion has danced along its cutting edge for over 30 years. Abandoning a highly lucrative career as a leading model on the 60s London scene, alongside such swinging contemporaries as Jean... Buy or find out more



Song Reader

Song Reader
Beck Hansen

$35.00 – Hardback / Faber and Faber

A groundbreaking publication: Faber is releasing Beck's new 'album' in the form of twenty songs existing only as individual pieces of sheet music, never before released or recorded. Complete with full-colour,... Buy or find out more


The Midnight Dress
Karen Foxlee

$29.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press

When a teenage girl disappears, a small town is awash with rumours: everyone is talking about the dress she wore, a midnight-blue dress made from the remnants of other dresses, a dress of stories ... Buy or find out more



The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky

$19.99 – Paperback / Simon & Schuster Ltd

Charlie is a shy and introspective boy, a wallflower always standing on the edge of the action. He encounters many of the struggles familiar to everybody from their school days, but he must also deal with his best friend's suicide... Buy or find out more


Just My Typo: From Sinning with the Choir to the Large Hardon Collider

Just My Typo: From Sinning with the Choir to the Large Hardon Collider
Drummond Moir

$24.99 – Hardback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division

A compendium of funny typos, the perfect word-lovers'/pedants' stocking filler for Christmas 2012. From the sublime to the ridiculous, JUST MY TYPO is a hilarious collection of typographical errors, slips of the pen... Buy or find out more



Artful
Ali Smith

$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

Adapted from four lectures given by the author at Oxford University, this book offers a tidal wave of ideas in four thematically organised bursts of thought: 'On Time', 'On Form', 'On Edge' and 'On Offer and On Reflection'. It... Buy or find out more


Paris Review Issue 202 (Autumn 2012)

Paris Review Issue 202 (Autumn 2012)
Lorin Stein

$24.99 – Paperback / Canongate Books Ltd

The Paris Review is a groundbreaking publication bringing together fiction, poetry and prose from great writers all over the world. Its legendary interview series alone represents the single most important body of work that... Buy or find out more



Trifle

Trifle
Michelle Keogh

$24.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

From al fresco dining to a formal dinner party, there's a trifle for every occasion. Simple step-by-step instructions show you how to make each component – the sponge cake, jelly and custard – while the recipes range... Buy or find out more


Dickens at Christmas

Dickens at Christmas
Charles Dickens

$39.95 – Hardback / Vintage

It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas, and within these pages you'll certainly find all the elements of a quintessential traditional Christmas brought to vivid life: snowy rooftops, gleaming shop windows, steaming... Buy or find out more



The 2013 Voiceless Anthology
J. M. Coetzee, et al.

$22.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

... a selection of lively, engaging and often passionately felt stories and essays revolving around one of the more urgent social and philosophical issues of our times. J.M. Coetzee, Winner of the 2003... Buy or find out more


Wool   Review

Wool
Hugh Howey

$24.95 – Paperback / Cornerstone

IS SEEING ALWAYS BELIEVING? How would you live in a world where… Grey skies are blue And air is unbreathable Where love is the greatest release And the deadliest bond Where every birth requires a... Buy or find out more



The Toe Tag Quintet
Matthew Condon

$27.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia

Retirement can be murder!The adventures of a former Sydney detective from 21 Division who, in his prime, collared some of the most murderous criminals in Australian history yet, on retiring to the Gold Coast in Queensland,... Buy or find out more


This is Not a Test
Courtney Summers

$16.99 – Paperback / Griffin Publishing

It’s the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won’t stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a... Buy or find out more



The Rolling Stones: 50  

The Rolling Stones: 50
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood

$39.95 – Hardback / Thames & Hudson Ltd

Celebrates the 50th anniversary of the greatest rock and roll band of all time - Rolling Stones. This title documents all of the albums, gigs and dramas in the bands unique, international history. It also features the work of... Buy or find out more


Hallucinations

Hallucinations
Oliver Sacks

$29.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan

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Feminist Ryan Gosling: Feminist Theory from Your Favorite Sensitive Movie Dude  

Feminist Ryan Gosling: Feminist Theory from Your Favorite Sensitive Movie Dude
Danielle Henderson

$16.99 – Hardback / Running Press

What started as a silly way for blogger Danielle Henderson and her classmates to keep track of the feminist theorists they were studying in class quickly turned into an overnight sensation. Since its launch in October 2011, the... Buy or find out more


Best European Fiction

Best European Fiction
Aleksandar Hemon, John Banville

$23.95 – Paperback / Dalkey Archive Press

2013 may be the best year yet for Best European Fiction. The inimitable John Banvillejoins the list of distinguished preface writers for Aleksandar Hemon s series, and A. S. Byatt represents England among a luminous cast of... Buy or find out more



Things I Love

Things I Love
Megan Morton

$49.99 – Hardback / Penguin Books Australia

A fun, inspiring and practical guide to loveable interiors. In Things I Love , interiors stylist extraordinaire and author of Home Love Megan Morton inspires by example, sharing her infectious enthusiasm for the houses, people and... Buy or find out more


Fifty Sheds of Grey: A Parody: Erotica for the Not-too-modern Male

Fifty Sheds of Grey: A Parody: Erotica for the Not-too-modern Male
C. T. Grey

$19.99 – Hardback / Pan Macmillan

A compilation of shed erotica for the not-so-modern man 'Hurt me!' she begged, raising her skirt as she bent over the workbench. 'Very well,' I replied, 'You've got fat ankles and no dress sense.' Colin... Buy or find out more



The Hobbit

The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien

$14.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers

The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A reluctant partner in this perilous quest is Bilbo Baggins, a comfort-loving unambitious hobbit, who surprises even... Buy or find out more


Annual Fiction Edition: The Novella Project

Annual Fiction Edition: The Novella Project
Julianne Schultz

$27.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

The annual Griffith REVIEW fiction edition is devoted to novellas. Shorter than a novel, longer than a story, the novella is the perfect length to read on the page or as an e-book. The Novella Project is a competition,... Buy or find out more



Flinders: The Man Who Mapped Australia  

Flinders: The Man Who Mapped Australia
Rob Mundle

$39.95 – Hardback / Hachette Australia

The exciting story of Matthew Flinders the man who named Australia and the first to chart its coastline. Matthew Flinders is a towering figure in Australian history the first to chart our coastline and the leading... Buy or find out more


Both Flesh and Not
Wallace David Foster

$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected non-fiction, by the legendary David Foster Wallace Buy or find out more



Citadel

Citadel
Kate Mosse

$32.99 – Paperback / Orion Publishing Co

Combining the rugged action of Labyrinth with the haunting mystery of Sepulchre, Citadel is a story of daring and courage, of lives risked for beliefs and of astonishing secrets buried in time. Buy or find out more


The Best Australian Stories 2012

The Best Australian Stories 2012
Sonya Hartnett

$29.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.

In The Best Australian Stories 2012, Sonya Hartnett compiles the year's most compelling short fiction from Australian authors. Buy or find out more



Building Stories  

Building Stories
Chris Ware

$49.95 – Hardback / Vintage

Follows the inhabitants of a three-flat Chicago apartment house: a thirty-year-old woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life; a couple who wonder if they can bear each other's company for another... Buy or find out more


The Diviners

The Diviners
Libba Bray

$24.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

1920s New York. A teen clairvoyant. An old evil. It has begun... Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old home town and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City - and she is pos-i-tute-ly thrilled!... Buy or find out more



By the Book: A Reader's Guide to Life
Ramona Koval

$29.99 – Hardback / Text Publishing Co

What is it about reading that we love so much? Why do books make our lives so much richer? Ramona’s Koval’s By the Book is about reading and living, and about the authors that have written themselves into her life:... Buy or find out more


Whole Larder Love: Grow Gather Hunt Cook

Whole Larder Love: Grow Gather Hunt Cook
Rohan Anderson

$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

Food is an integral part of our lives. And in recent years, more and more people have been asking questions about the food they eat: How does that food get to our plates? How was it grown? What chemicals were used? How was the... Buy or find out more



Growing Honest Food: An Oasis of Italian Tradition in the Suburbs

Growing Honest Food: An Oasis of Italian Tradition in the Suburbs
Gabriella Gomersall-Hubbard

$39.95 – Hardback / Hyland House Publishing Pty Ltd

A barren block of land in the Australian suburbs has, over a period of 30 years, been transformed by the Sicilianos' passion, daring, perseverance and hard work into a slice of the Calabrian countryside - a lush and wonderful... Buy or find out more


Every Day
David Levithan

$19.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

Can you love someone who is destined to change each day? Every morning, A wakes in a different person's body. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed.... Buy or find out more



Like a House on Fire
Cate Kennedy

$27.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications

Read Helen Garner's interview with Cate Kennedy about Like a House on Fire... Buy or find out more


Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel

$19.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe... Buy or find out more



Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel

$32.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers

The sequel to the Man Booker-winning Wolf Hall. Buy or find out more


The Best American Short Stories

The Best American Short Stories
Tom Perrotta, Heidi Pitlor

$21.95 – Paperback / Mariner Books

Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Tom Perrotta, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary "antenna for what is going on in the world" (Chicago Tribune). The collection boasts great... Buy or find out more



A Corner of White
Jaclyn Moriarty

$27.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia

The first in a rousing, funny, genre-busting trilogy from bestseller Jaclyn Moriarty! This is a tale of missing persons. Madeleine and her mother have run away from their former life, under mysterious circumstances, and... Buy or find out more


Sufficient Grace
Amy Espeseth

$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications

Read Deborah Robertson's interview with Amy Espeseth here. A revealing, evocative, and... Buy or find out more



Telegraph Avenue
Michael Chabon

$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers

The immensely gifted writer and magical prose stylist Michael Chabon delivers another bravura epic (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) -- a big-hearted, exhilarating novel exploring the profoundly intertwined lives of two... Buy or find out more


Postcards from The New Yorker: One Hundred Covers from Ten Decades  

Postcards from The New Yorker: One Hundred Covers from Ten Decades
New Yorker

$29.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

"The New Yorker" was launched in 1925, and offers reporting, criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, humour, and cartoons. From the very outset, the founders, Harold Ross and Jane Grant, declared that their sophisticated magazine... Buy or find out more



Mine-field: The Dark Side of Australia's Resource Rush

Mine-field: The Dark Side of Australia's Resource Rush
Paul Cleary

$24.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.

‘It is not a case of governments and companies putting royalties and profits before people; instead it is as though people don’t matter at all …’ In Mine-Field, Paul Cleary counts the true cost of Australia’s... Buy or find out more


Train Dreams
Denis Johnson

$24.99 – Hardback / Granta Books

Finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the... Buy or find out more



Umbrella

Umbrella
Will Self

$27.99 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The major new novel by the author of Great Apes, How the Dead Live and The Book of Dave Buy or find out more


American Stories: Tales of Hope and Anger
Michael Brissenden

$29.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press

An engrossing account of America on a knife's edge by one of Australia's most well known journalists. In July 2009, Michael Brissenden, political editor for The 7.30 Report, moved to Washington to take up a new role as... Buy or find out more



Sweet Tooth   Review

Sweet Tooth
Ian McEwan

$29.95 – Paperback / Vintage

Britain, 1972. Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services in her final year at Cambridge. The cultural cold war continues and the country is being torn... Buy or find out more


Shadow Show: An Anthology of Original Short Fiction by 26 Authors, Each of Whom Was Inspired by the Legendary Work of Ray Bradbury

Shadow Show: An Anthology of Original Short Fiction by 26 Authors, Each of Whom Was Inspired by the Legendary Work of Ray Bradbury
Sam Weller, Mort Castle

$22.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers Inc

What do you imagine when you hear the name . . . Bradbury? You might see rockets to Mars. Or bizarre circuses where otherworldly acts whirl in the center ring. Perhaps you travel to a dystopian future, where... Buy or find out more



The Rise of the Fifth Estate: Social Media and Blogging in Australian Politics

The Rise of the Fifth Estate: Social Media and Blogging in Australian Politics
Greg Jericho

$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications

The Rise of the Fifth Estate is the first book to examine the emergence of social media as a new force in the coverage of Australian politics.It makes use of original research to reveal who makes up the Australian political... Buy or find out more


The Dinner
Herman Koch, Sam Garrett

$29.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

Paul Lohman and his wife Claire are going out to dinner with Paul's brother Serge, a charismatic and ambitious politician, and his wife Babette. Paul knows the evening will not be fun. The restaurant will be over-priced and... Buy or find out more



The Marmalade Files

The Marmalade Files
Steve Lewis, Chris Uhlmann

$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

An imaginative romp through the dark underbelly of politics by two veteran Canberra insiders.When seasoned newshound Harry Dunkley is slipped a compromising photograph one frosty Canberra dawn he knows he's onto something... Buy or find out more


The Twelve   Review

The Twelve
Justin Cronin

$26.95 – Paperback / Orion Publishing Co

The epic story of THE PASSAGE continues Buy or find out more



Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream  

Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream
Neil Young

$34.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd

Neil Young is an iconic figure in the history of rock and pop culture (inducted not once but twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame). This title offers an overview of his personal life and musical career, spanning his time in... Buy or find out more


James Halliday Australian Wine Companion

James Halliday Australian Wine Companion
James Halliday

$36.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books

Buy a copy of James Halliday's 2013 Wine Companion in-store or online during August to go in the running to win a case of Brown Brothers wine - rated 5 our of 5 stars by Halliday himself in the 2013... Buy or find out more



Beneath the Darkening Sky
Majok Tulba

$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

Read Alice Pung's interview with Majok Tulba, author of Beneath The Darkening... Buy or find out more


The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern

$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage

In 1886 a mysterious travelling circus becomes an international sensation. Open only at night, constructed entirely in black and white, the Cirque des Rêves delights all who wander its circular paths and warm themselves at its... Buy or find out more



Kill Your Darlings Issue 10

Kill Your Darlings Issue 10
STARFORD REBECCA

$19.95 – Paperback

Kill Your Darlings is a quarterly publication that includes a mix of commentary, essays, reviews and new Australian fiction. This issue features work from journalist and award-winning writer Gideon Haigh, brilliant new fiction... Buy or find out more


State of Wonder
Ann Patchett

$19.99 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The #3 New York Times Bestseller Buy or find out more



The Age Good Bar Guide 2012

The Age Good Bar Guide 2012
Michael Harden

$9.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

THE GOOD BAR GUIDE team is on the trail, testing cocktail making skills, wine lists, beer knowledge, bar snacks and attitude. Firm but fair, we'll direct you to the best bar experiences in town and beyond, whether you're in the... Buy or find out more


Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian

Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian
Eoin Colfer

$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

Eoin Colfer's final instalment in the bestselling Artemis Fowl series! Is this Armageddon for Artemis Fowl? Opal Koboi, power-crazed pixie, is plotting to exterminate mankind and become fairy... Buy or find out more



Fire in the Sea

Fire in the Sea
Myke Bartlett

$19.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

Winner of the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing, 2011 Sadie is sixteen and bored with life in Perth. It’s summer, and lazing on the beach in the stifling heat with her cousins and Tom is... Buy or find out more


The Cat's Table
Michael Ondaatje

$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage

In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly 'Cat's Table' with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two other boys. As the ship makes its way across the... Buy or find out more



Crossing to Safety

Crossing to Safety
Wallace Stegner, Jane Smiley

$22.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams Afterword by T. H. Watkins   Called a “magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher inThe Washington Post Book... Buy or find out more


Leaving the Atocha Station
Ben Lerner

$27.99 – Paperback / Granta Books

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. Instead of following the dictates of his... Buy or find out more



Toyo: A Memoir

Toyo: A Memoir
Lily Chan

$29.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.

Toyo learned to ask nothing, to wait and count the days. But they passed and passed and still the doorway remained empty of his deep voice, calling out her name. Blending the intimacy of memoir with an artist's... Buy or find out more


The Prisoner of Heaven

The Prisoner of Heaven
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

$29.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

The third in a series of novels that began with The Angel’s Game and The Shadow of the Wind. The Prisoner of Heaven returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop. It begins... Buy or find out more



Gold
Chris Cleave

$33.00 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division

The extraordinary new novel from the author of international bestseller THE OTHER HAND. Buy or find out more


All of it: A Memoir of Love, Fear and Art  

All of it: A Memoir of Love, Fear and Art
Bev Aisbett

$29.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Bestselling author Bev Aisbett′s no-nonsense text, combined with her insightful cartoon images, have reassured countless people seeking help for anxiety. Now, she reveals the deep spirit that lies behind these deceptively... Buy or find out more



Death Comes to Pemberley

Death Comes to Pemberley
P. D. James

$19.99 – Paperback / Faber and Faber

P. D. James masterfully recreates the world of Pride and Prejudice, and combines it with the excitement and suspense of a brilliantly-crafted crime story. The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six... Buy or find out more


2312  

2312
Kim Stanley Robinson

$29.95 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group

Robinson (Galileo's Dream) delivers a challenging, compelling masterpiece of science fiction. In a spectacularly depicted future of interplanetary colonization, humanity has spread across the entire solar system, from... Buy or find out more



This Is How You Lose Her
Junot Diaz

$27.99 – Paperback / Faber and Faber

Junot Diaz's new collection, This Is How You Lose Her, is a collection of linked narratives about love - passionate love, illicit love, dying love, maternal love - told through the lives of New Jersey Dominicans, as... Buy or find out more


Meanjin

Meanjin
Sally Heath

$24.99 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press

The literary magazine, Meanjin reflects the breadth of contemporary thinking and writing through essays, interviews, memoir, fiction, poetry and visual art. Highlights include Neil Armfield remembering Patrick White;... Buy or find out more



The Kingdom and the Quarry: China, Australia, Fear and Greed

The Kingdom and the Quarry: China, Australia, Fear and Greed
David Uren

$29.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.

China has rapidly become Australia’s most important trading partner. It is also the rising power in our region. In The Kingdom and the Quarry David Uren takes us inside the high-stakes world of the two countries’ relationship.... Buy or find out more


Bring Up The Bodies Special Signed Limited Ed

Bring Up The Bodies Special Signed Limited Ed
MANTEL HILLARY

$55.00 – Hardback

Winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize Please note, special price available for a limited time only. The sequel to Hilary Mantel's Booker-winning Wolf Hall. ‘My boy Thomas, give him a... Buy or find out more



The Cook
Wayne Macauley

$29.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

Read Wayne Macauley's interview with Ben Pobjie about The Cook. Power through service, says Head... Buy or find out more


Living, Thinking, Looking

Living, Thinking, Looking
Siri Hustvedt

$22.99 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division

A dazzling collection of essays by the bestselling author of What I Loved - thought-provoking, engaging, illuminating reflections on what it means to be human. Buy or find out more



Winter Journal
Paul Auster

$29.99 – Paperback / Faber and Faber

In Winter Journal, Auster presents the abandonment of the family by his father from his mother's point of view: her struggle as a single mother; love found again late in life, a love that was short-lived; her troubled... Buy or find out more


Green Monkey Dreams

Green Monkey Dreams
Isobelle Carmody

$19.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

A brilliant collection of stories full of ideas and memorable images. Beauty and death, hatred and love, hope and despair join to spawn roads of paradox that branch from reality into myth and imagination. Winner of the Aurealis... Buy or find out more



City of Lost Souls

City of Lost Souls
Cassandra Clare

$19.95 – Paperback / Walker Books Australia

Can the lost be reclaimed? What price is too high to pay for love? Who can be trusted when sin and salvation collide? Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge. Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth book of... Buy or find out more


Mildred Pierce Dvd
HAYNES TODD

$19.95

Divorced single mom Mildred Pierce decides to open a restaurant business, which tears at the already-strained relationship with her ambitious elder daughter, Veda. Buy or find out more



A Game of Thrones: Graphic Novel, Volume One

A Game of Thrones: Graphic Novel, Volume One
George R. R. Martin

$24.99 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers

George R. R. Martin's epic fantasy masterwork A Game of Thrones is brought to life in the pages of this full-color graphic novel. This is the first volume in what is sure to be one of the most coveted collaborations of the year. Buy or find out more


Darth Vader and Son

Darth Vader and Son
Jeffrey Brown

$17.95 – Hardback / Chronicle Books

What if Darth Vader took an active role in raising his son? What if "Luke, I am your father" was just a stern admonishment from an annoyed dad? In this hilarious and sweet comic reimagining, Darth Vader is a dad like any... Buy or find out more



Granta 119 Britain

Granta 119 Britain
John Freeman

$27.99 – Paperback / Granta Publications Ltd

It is a nation defined by tradition and built on expansion. Now it has more languages spoken within its capital than any other city in the world. What are the stories Britain is telling about itself today? Buy or find out more


What is Australia For?

What is Australia For?
Julianne Schultz

$27.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

It is time to revive the debate about national identity. The clichés of old have long exceeded their use-by date. This is a trying time of global transition and uncertainty, for societies and for individuals. Yet it is... Buy or find out more



More: The Architecture of Lyons 1996-2011  

More: The Architecture of Lyons 1996-2011
Justine Clark, Juliana Engberg

$99.95 – Hardback / Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd

Presents images, plans, sketches and notes from Lyons - one of Australia's most significant architectural practices - from key projects cross the country. Known for their major commercial, institutional, educational... Buy or find out more


Transit of Venus: 1631 to the Present

Transit of Venus: 1631 to the Present
Nick Lomb

$59.95 – Hardback / UNSW Press

The transit of Venus across the sun in June 2012 will be the last chance in our lifetime to see this rare planetary alignment that has been so important in history. Rich in historical detail and cutting edge science, along with... Buy or find out more



Metro Winds

Metro Winds
Isobelle Carmody

$24.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

A girl is sent across the world to discover her destiny in the dark tunnels of the Metro. Another seeks a lost sister in a park where winter lasts forever. A young man fulfils a dying wish. A mother works magic to summon a true... Buy or find out more


Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)
Jenny Lawson

$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Internet star Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut. Here she takes listeners on a hilarious journey through her life, recalling her redneck upbringing in rural Texas, her devastatingly awkward high school years, and... Buy or find out more



The Weight of a Human Heart
Ryan O'Neill

$27.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.

Read our Q&A with Ryan O'Neill about The Weight of a Human Heart. Sometimes comic, sometimes... Buy or find out more


Madlands: A Journey to Change the Mind of a Climate Sceptic

Madlands: A Journey to Change the Mind of a Climate Sceptic
Anna Rose

$29.99 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press

An idealistic twenty-something environmentalist. A retired right-wing finance minister. All their lives, they’ve happily ignored each other. Until now. Anna Rose, environmental crusader since the age of... Buy or find out more



Jamie's 30-Minute Meals

Jamie's 30-Minute Meals
Jamie Oliver

$49.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd

Shows that, by mastering a few tricks and being organized and focused in the kitchen, it is absolutely possible, and easy, to get a complete meal on the table in the same amount of time you'd normally spend making one dish. Buy or find out more


Paris In Love

Paris In Love
Eloisa James

$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

In 2009,New York Timesbestselling author Eloisa James took a leap that many people dream about: she sold her house, took a sabbatical from her job as a Shakespeare professor, and moved her family to Paris.Paris in... Buy or find out more



The Beginner's Goodbye
Anne Tyler

$29.95 – Paperback / Vintage

When Dorothy came back from the dead, Aaron noticed that some people simply ignored the fact; some seemed to have forgotten she'd died in the first place; and others just walked straight on by. The accident that killed Dorothy... Buy or find out more


Fifty Shades of Grey

Fifty Shades of Grey
E. L. James

$17.95 – Paperback / Cornerstone

Romantic, liberating and totally addictive, Fifty Shades of Grey is a novel that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you for ever. When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur... Buy or find out more



When I Was a Child I Read Books

When I Was a Child I Read Books
Marilynne Robinson

$39.99 – Hardback / Little, Brown Book Group

Since the 1981 publication of Marilynne Robinson?s novel Housekeeping a stunning debut that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize she has built a reputation not only as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, but also as a... Buy or find out more


Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott
David Marr

$19.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.

Read our Q&A with David Marr about Political Animal here. Tony Abbott is the... Buy or find out more



Leaving the Atocha Station
Dr Ben Lerner

$23.95 – Paperback / Coffee House Press

In Madrid on a fellowship, a young American poet examines his ambivalence about authenticity in this noteworthy debut novel by acclaimed poet Lerner, whose poetry collection, Angle of Yaw, was a finalist for the 2006 National... Buy or find out more


The Hanging Garden
Patrick White

$29.95 – Hardback / Random House Australia

A previously unpublished novel from the winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature. Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. The boy's mother has died in... Buy or find out more



The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins

$18.99 – Paperback / Scholastic

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. But Katniss has been close to death before - and survival,... Buy or find out more


The Fine Colour of Rust
P. A. O'Reilly

$24.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers

Read our Q&A with Paddy O'Reilly about The Fine Colour of Rust. Single mother and dreamer... Buy or find out more



The Doors

The Doors
Greil Marcus

$32.99 – Hardback / Faber and Faber

The author saw the Doors band many times at the legendary Filmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. This title tells the story of the band. Buy or find out more


A Tiger in Eden
Chris Flynn

$22.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

Read our Q&A with Chris Flynn about A Tiger in Eden. Beautiful beaches, sexy young backpackers, cheap... Buy or find out more



Mateship with Birds

Mateship with Birds
Carrie Tiffany

$19.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia

On the outskirts of an Australian country town in the 1950s, a lonely farmer trains his binoculars on a family of kookaburras that roost in a tree near his house. Harry observes the kookaburras through a year of feast, famine,... Buy or find out more


The Long Earth

The Long Earth
Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter

$32.95 – Paperback / Transworld Publishers Ltd

1916:the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where have the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land... Buy or find out more



Blue Nights
Joan Didion

$27.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers

Several days before Christmas 2003, Joan Didion's only daughter, Quintana, fell seriously ill. In 2010, Didion marked the sixth anniversary of her daughter's death. BLUE NIGHTS is a shatteringly honest examination of Joan... Buy or find out more


The Sense of an Ending

The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes

$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage

Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. May be Adrian was a little more... Buy or find out more



History Of Books   Review

History Of Books
Gerald Murnane

$26.95 – Paperback / Giramondo Publishing Co

This new work by Gerald Murnane is a fictionalised autobiography told in thirty sections, each of which begins with the memory of a book that has left an image on the writer's mind. The titles aren't given but the reader... Buy or find out more


The Stranger's Child
Alan Hollinghurst

$19.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan

Alan Hollinghurst's first novel since The Line of Beauty, winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize. It is the late summer of the last year before the first Great War. Cecil Valance, a beautiful young aristocratic... Buy or find out more



Indigenous Australia For Dummies

Indigenous Australia For Dummies
Larissa Behrendt, Malcolm Fraser

$39.95 – Paperback / John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd

A comprehensive, relevant, and accessible look at all aspects of Indigenous Australian history and culture What is The Dreaming? How many different Indigenous tribes and languages once existed in Australia? What is the... Buy or find out more


Sea Hearts

Sea Hearts
Margo Lanagan

$19.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

A mesmerising selkie novel from multi-award winning, internationally acclaimed Australian author, Margo Lanagan - one of the most exciting voices in speculative fiction. Buy or find out more



Existence - Limited Edition 3d Cover

Existence - Limited Edition 3d Cover
David Brin

$30.00 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group

Bestselling, award-winning futurist David Brin returns to globe-spanning, high concept SF Buy or find out more


Rosemary Dobson - Collected Poems

Rosemary Dobson - Collected Poems
Rosemary Dobson

$27.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press

THE COLLECTED WORKS OF AN AUSTRALIAN LITERARY LUMINARY Since the publication of her first book in 1944, Rosemary Dobson has built a reputation as one of Australia’s most important poets. This volume collects and... Buy or find out more



Into The Woods: The Battle For Tasmania's Forests

Into The Woods: The Battle For Tasmania's Forests
Anna Krien

$19.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.

For decades, the Tasmanian wilderness has been the site of bitter struggle. Sawmillers and police face off with protestors deep in the forest, while political games are played in the courts and parliaments. At stake is the future... Buy or find out more


Reframe How To Solve The Worlds Trickiest Problems

Reframe How To Solve The Worlds Trickiest Problems
Eric Knight

$29.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.

In the tradition of Freakonomics and The Tipping Point, Reframe brings a fresh perspective to our toughest political problems. This is a book by a young Australian thinker that turns conventional thinking on its head. Buy or find out more



Fall Girl
Toni Jordan

$19.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

A conwoman and a millionaire meet in a story about passion and loyalty, deceit and integrity, and the importance of believing in things that don't exist. Buy or find out more


The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers

The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers
Mungo MacCallum

$29.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.

Good drinkers, bad swimmers and unlikely heroes. Since Australia's birth in 1901, twenty-seven politicians have run the national show. Their time at the top has ranged from eight days for Frank Forde to eighteen years for Bob... Buy or find out more



Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation

Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation
Laura Tingle

$19.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.

Why are Australians so disenchanted and angry when it comes to politics? Given how well the country is going, by all rights we should be delighted with our political leadership. And yet we’re not. In Quarterly Essay 46,... Buy or find out more


Riding The Trains In Japan Travels In The Sacred And Supermodern East
Patrick Holland

$29.95 – Paperback / Transit Lounge Publishing

Arriving late in Kyoto Patrick Holland cannot find a room for the night. Homeless and disorientated and in a place where loitering is not encouraged his only solution is to ride the trains. The train journey is the starting point... Buy or find out more



The Casual Cyclist Guide to Melbourne

The Casual Cyclist Guide to Melbourne
Matthew Hurst, Guests

$19.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books

“The city and the bike – they were made for each other” begins The Casual Cyclist’s Guide, bringing a fresh and entertaining perspective to this much-loved mode of transport. Beginning with the quest for personal... Buy or find out more


77 Shadow Street

77 Shadow Street
Dean Koontz

$32.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers

The stunning new thriller from the bestselling author of The Dead Town and What the Night Knows. Buy or find out more



Panic

Panic
David Marr

$29.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.

Australians see themselves as a relaxed and tolerant bunch. But scratch the surface and you'll uncover an extraordinary level of panic about politics, art, sexuality, drugs, boat people, protest, religion and terror. Through it... Buy or find out more


The Fault in Our Stars
John Green

$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

John Green is the best-selling author of Looking for Alaska; An Abundance of Katherines; Paper Towns; Will Grayson, Will Grayson and can be found on the WWW at johngreenbooks.com. The reviewers say: 'A novel of life and death and... Buy or find out more



Common Loss
Kirsten Tranter

$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Washington Square Press fiction original trade --T.p. verso. Buy or find out more


Melbourne   Review

Melbourne
Sophie Cunningham

$29.95 – Hardback / NewSouth Publishing

Sophie Cunningham writes a year in the city's life, a year that takes us from the heatwave that culminated on Black Saturday when temperatures soared to 47 degrees to the destructive deluge of a hailstorm. She walks through... Buy or find out more



Her Father's Daughter
Alice Pung

$29.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.

Read our Q&A with Alice Pung about Her Father's Daughter. From the bestselling author of... Buy or find out more


A Game of Thrones: Book 1 of a Song of Ice and Fire

A Game of Thrones: Book 1 of a Song of Ice and Fire
George R. R. Martin

$19.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers

The first volume in the hugely popular and highly acclaimed epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire. There is passion here, and misery and charm, grandeur and squalor, tragedy, nobility and courage. Now a major HBO TV... Buy or find out more



I Curse the River of Time

I Curse the River of Time
Per Petterson, Charlotte Barslund

$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage

An enthralling novel of a mother and son's turbulent relationship from the author of Out Stealing Horses. It is 1989: Communism is crumbling, and Arvid Jansen, thirtyseven, is facing his first divorce. At the... Buy or find out more


Sarah Thornhill
Kate Grenville

$29.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

A new novel from Kate Grenville and a journey back to the Thornhill family of the bestselling The Secret River Buy or find out more



Forty-six Square Metres of Land Doesn't Normally Become a House: Maximising Living Space - Australia and New Zealand

Forty-six Square Metres of Land Doesn't Normally Become a House: Maximising Living Space - Australia and New Zealand
Stuart Harrison

$70.00 – Hardback / Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd

Stuart Harrison writes about residential architecture again in Forty-six square Metres Doesn't Normally Become a House, this time exploring how the constraints of space often result in the most innovative results. Buy or find out more


Indochine: Baguettes and Bank Mi: Finding France in Vietnam

Indochine: Baguettes and Bank Mi: Finding France in Vietnam
Luke Nguyen

$69.99 – Book / Murdoch Books

The French colonisation of Vietnam, which lasted for nearly one hundred years, had a profound influence on Vietnamese lifestyle, architecture and cuisine. Chef and author Luke Nguyen revisits his beloved Vietnam to delve deeper... Buy or find out more



Women's Stuff

Women's Stuff
Kaz Cooke

$59.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Australia

Whether you're starting or ending a relationship, a friend has found a lump in her breast, you're in debt, your partner's lost interest in sex or you don't know whether to believe the moisturiser label, Women's Stuff is your... Buy or find out more


A Tragedy in Two Acts: Marcus Einfeld and Teresa Brennan

A Tragedy in Two Acts: Marcus Einfeld and Teresa Brennan
Fiona Harari

$34.99 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press

This was not the ending either of them expected. Marcus Einfeld, former Federal Court judge and human rights champion, and his old friend Teresa Brennan, an exuberant, sometimes controversial US-based academic, had each spent... Buy or find out more



Blackwattle Creek
Geoffrey McGeachin

$29.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

From the winner of the 2011 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel comes a cracking new Charlie Berlin mystery. It's September 1957, two days before the VFL grand final, and Detective Sergeant Charlie Berlin, former bomber... Buy or find out more


Looking For The Light On The Hill

Looking For The Light On The Hill
Troy Bramston

$32.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications

Today, the Australian Labor Party is in crisis. Reduced to minority government after just one term, and at rock bottom in the opinion polls, the party seems to be at a defining moment in its history. The perception of the... Buy or find out more



The Hunger Games   Review

The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins

$10.00 – Paperback / Scholastic

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. But Katniss has been close to death before - and survival,... Buy or find out more


The Sleepers Almanac No. 7

The Sleepers Almanac No. 7
Zoe Dattner, Louise Swinn

$24.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books

Every year, Sleepers assembles a motley crew of new and established (but mostly new – mostly never heard of) writers for their critically acclaimed collection of short fiction (with occasional miscellany): The Sleepers... Buy or find out more



Sinning Across Spain: A Walker's Journey from Granada to Galicia

Sinning Across Spain: A Walker's Journey from Granada to Galicia
Ailsa Piper

$29.99 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press

I WILL WALK OFF YOUR SINS. Pilgrim seeks sinners for mutually beneficial arrangement. Seven Deadlies a specialty. With these words Ailsa Piper’s journey begins. Less than a month later she finds herself hiking... Buy or find out more


Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Alison Bechdel

$30.95 – Hardback / Houghton Mifflin

From the best-selling author of "Fun Home," "Time "magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home" was a pop... Buy or find out more



Look at Me

Look at Me
Jennifer Egan

$19.99 – Paperback / Constable and Robinson

A fashion model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown with her face so badly shattered that it takes eighty titanium screws to reassemble it. She returns to New York still beautiful but oddly... Buy or find out more


Before I Go to Sleep
S. J. Watson

$19.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love - all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the... Buy or find out more



Swamplandia!
Karen Russell

$20.95 – Paperback / Random House USA Inc

The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline and Swamplandia!, their island home in the Florida Everglades and gator-wrestling theme park, is swiftly being encroached upon by a sophisticated competitor known as The World... Buy or find out more


Heels on Wheels: A Lady's Guide to Owning and Riding a Bike

Heels on Wheels: A Lady's Guide to Owning and Riding a Bike
Katie Dailey

$19.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books

Learning to ride a bike is easy, but getting back on one if you're over the age of 12 -- and have developed a penchant for high heels -- can be a daunting task. In Heels on Wheels Katie Dailey offers sage advice to the modern... Buy or find out more



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