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The Complete Tales Of Beatrix Potter
$75.00 (Slipcase / Frederick Warne )
This complete and unabridged collection contains all 23 of Beatrix Potter's Tales in one deluxe volume with all their original illustrations. The stories are arranged in the order in which they were first published to en... More »
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 »
Barley Patch
$27.95 (Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing )
Barley Patch is Gerald Murnane’s first published book of fiction since 1995. It is a meditation on fiction and Murnane’s own dedication to writing, and an examination of the relation between memory, image and lived exper... More »
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The World Of The Book
$59.95$26.95 (Hardcover book / Miegunyah Press )
The World of the Book is a celebration of the book using the world-class rare books collection of the State Library of Victoria. The book includes an extraordinary range of volumes from important historical titles, such ... More »
Parrot and Olivier in America
$49.95$39.95 (Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton )
Olivier is a young aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer, wanted to be an artist but has ended up in middle age as a servant.
W... More »
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Bottersnikes And Other Lost Things: A Celebration of Australian Illustrated Children’s Books
$59.99 (Hardcover book / Miegunyah Press )
Lazy Bottersnikes in outback rubbish tips, Sir Pronoun's dilemma about standing in Miss Noun's place and the story of how Jack built a house, a hut or a shack are all to be found in this treasury of Australian children's... 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 »
Stephanie Alexander's Kitchen Garden Companion: Dig, Plant, Water, Grow, Harvest, Chop, Cook
$125.00 (Hardcover book / Lantern Books )
If you have ever dreamed of picking fresh salad leaves for the evening meal, gathering vine-ripened tomatoes or pulling up your own sweet carrots, this is the book for you. Follow in the footsteps of one of Australia's b... More »
Botanical Riches: Stories Of Botanical Exploration
$49.99 (Paperback book / Pan Macmillan )
Century after century, intrepid plant hunters and botanists travelled to exotic climes, collecting seeds and specimens. Searching for plants with economic value, medicinal benefits, or purely for lavish display, these bo... More »
Her Fearful Symmetry
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape )
At last - another brilliant, original and moving novel from the author of THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE.
dearest e,
I told you I would let you know — so here it is — goodbye.
I try to imagine what it would feel like if ... More »
Arabesques
$34.99 (Trade paperback / Picador )
The paperback of Robert Dessaix's latest travel memoir.
One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the famous French writer Andr Gide spent his childhood. Recallin... More »
Piano Lessons
$27.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )
'Marvellous. Enlightenment and joy on every page' - Helen Garner
'I loved this book. Anna Goldsworthy's memoir left me awed, inspired and humbled.' - Alice Pung
In this remarkable memoir, Anna Goldsworthy recalls her fir... More »
The Year Of The Flood
$45.00$37.95 (Hardcover book / Bloomsbury )
Margaret Atwood's eagerly-awaited new novel The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power.
Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners - a religion devoted to the melding o... More »
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Meanjin Vol 68 Number 3
$24.99 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
Contents Editorial by Sophie Cunningham
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- With Jessica Au, Carol Jenkins, Mike Pottenger, Tim Richards, Pepi Ronalds and Sam Twyford-Moore
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- Notes on Provenance. Or, Tom Ross's Tooth by Carolyn ...
Things We Didn't See Coming
$24.95 (Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing )
It’s the anxious eve of the millennium. The car is packed to capacity, and as midnight approaches, a family flees the city in a fit of panic and paranoid, conflicting emotions.
The ensuing journey spans decades and off... More »
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The World Beneath
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
Once Rich and Sandy were environmental activists, part of a world-famous blockade in Tasmania to save the wilderness. Now, twenty-five years later, they have both settled into the uncomfortable compromises of middle-age ... More »
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Handmade In Melbourne
$29.95 (Paperback book / Geoff Slattery Publishing )
The first edition of Handmade in Melbourne was published in 2006 to great success and acclaim from the artisan world and the general community. For this, the second edition of Handmade, we decided to not only increase th... More »
The Portrait
$27.95 (Paperback book / Scribe Publications )
This is a short and extremely powerful new novel from one of Holland's greatest living writers. Reminiscent of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, it is narrated by a canvas, a key eye-witness and participant in an... More »
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Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature
$69.95$49.95 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )
A landmark anthology of Australian literary writing across all genres from over two centuries, this is an authoritative collection more than six years in the making, providing a window onto Australian culture. An essenti... More »
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Literary Melbourne
$24.95 (Hardcover book / Hardie Grant )
Created to mark the celebration of Melbourne becoming a UNESCO City of Literature, this anthology draws together a selection of the best Melbourne and Victorian writing. Extracts from eighty writers across different genr... More »
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Readings and Writings: Forty Years in Books
$24.95 (Paperback book / )
Since opening in 1969, Readings has grown to become one of the most renowned and beloved bookshops in Melbourne and a landmark on the local literary scene. From the first small shop on Lygon Street to its current six loc... More »
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The Bee Hut
$24.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )
Known for her passionate, sensual and edgy poetry, Dorothy Porter was one of Australia's truly original writers. She was twice short-listed for Australia's premier literary award, the Miles Franklin, and her verse novel&... More »
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