To her lovers and friends, Anna Davidoff was a mystery. Beautiful, charismatic, irresponsible yet disarming; famous, in a way, but ultimately unknowable. To her daughter, she is no less an enigma even now, thirty years after her death. Of course Ana-Sofia knows the stories of Anna’s unlikely transformations. How the young post-war refugee from a devastated Soviet Union became a Hollywood starlet, a muse to jazz greats, a friend of the Beats— and along the way a heroin addict. How later, ordained as a Buddhist nun, she died alone in a Himalayan cave at the age of forty-three. The stories, too, are famous.
But now Ana-Sofia is the same age Anna was when she died. Successful, content, single in New York City and hopeful of new love. And Anna has begun to haunt her.
Sophie Cunningham’s compelling new novel sets an exquisite depiction of the equivocal bond between mother and daughter against the traumas and social upheavals of the mid-twentieth century.
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Resurrectionist
$22.95 – Paperback book / Picador
From the internationally acclaimed author of Wrack and The Deep Field comes a gothic thriller that is absolutely unputdownable!
London, 1826: Gabriel Swift has left behind his father's failures to study with Edwin Poll, ... Buy or find out more →
The Murray Whelan Trilogy: Stiff, The Brush Off, Nice Try
$34.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Stiff
Single father and true believer Murray Whelan makes his debut in
Shane Maloney's first thriller set among the ethnic feuds, union
shenanigans and sexual politics of his city's working class
heartland. Murray has to... Buy or find out more →
Up The Duff Second Edition
$45.00 – Trade paperback / Viking
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Breath
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Winner of the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award
Breath is a story about the wildness of youth - the lust for excitement and terror, the determination to be extraordinary, the wounds that heal and those that don't - and ... Buy or find out more →
Wanting
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
It is 1839. A young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, is running through the long wet grass of an island at the end of the world to get help for her dying father, an Abori... Buy or find out more →
Bird
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
To her lovers and friends, Anna Davidoff was a mystery. Beautiful, charismatic, irresponsible yet disarming; famous, in a way, but ultimately unknowable. To her daughter, she is no less an enigma even now, thirty years a... Buy or find out more →
Sophie Cunningham
Geography
$25.00 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Geography travels widely across our planet while exploring the extremes of relationships, and it is the juxtaposition of these that makes for compelling reading. Sophie Cunningham describes the powerlessness of extreme d... Buy or find out more →
Bird
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
To her lovers and friends, Anna Davidoff was a mystery. Beautiful, charismatic, irresponsible yet disarming; famous, in a way, but ultimately unknowable. To her daughter, she is no less an enigma even now, thirty years a... Buy or find out more →