Post Office by Charles Bukowski
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Henry Chinaski is a lowlife loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial post office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious, Post Office is a landmark in American literature. The new edition is augmented with an anecdotal introduction b ...Show more
The Bandar-Log: A Labor Story of the 1950s Alan Reid's Previously Unpublished Novel about the Labor Split by Alan Reid, Dr (University of Bath University of Bath, UK University of Bath University of Bath University of Bath University of Bath University of Bath University of Bath University of Bath, UK University of Bath, UK University of Bath, UK University of Bath, UK)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Bandar-Log: A Labor Story of the 1950s is a fictionalised recreation of the great Labor split of the 1950s. This schism in Labor's ranks began in October 1954 when its erratic federal party leader Dr H.V. ("Doc") Evatt denounced the perceived influence wielded over the party by the anti-communist Ca ...Show more
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
$20.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
"Dick is Thoreau plus the death of the American dream."--Roberto Bola o Bob Arctor is a junkie and a drug dealer, both using and selling the mind-altering Substance D. Fred is a law enforcement agent, tasked with bringing Bob down. It sounds like a standard case. The only problem is that Bob and Fred ...Show more
Ablutions by Patrick deWitt
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In a famous but declining Hollywood bar works A Barman. Morbidly amused by the decadent decay of his surroundings, he watches the patrons fall into their nightly oblivion, making notes for his novel. In the hope of uncovering their secrets and motives, he establishes tentative friendships with the cast ...Show more
Crossing by Andrew Miller
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
She is sailing. She is alone. Ahead of her is the world's curve and beyond that, everything else. The known, the imagined, the imagined known. Who else has entered Tim's life the way Maud did? This girl who fell past him, lay seemingly dead on the ground, then stood and walked. That was where it all beg ...Show more
Everybody Rise by Stephanie Clifford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Everybody wants to belong. It's 2006 in the Manhattan of the young and glamorous. At 26, bright, funny and socially anxious Evelyn Beegan is determined to free herself from the social-climbing mother who propelled her through prep school and on to the Upper East Side. Evelyn has long felt like an outsid ...Show more
So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighbourhood by Patrick Modiano
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Jean Daragane is a writer and a recluse. As he enters his third month without contact with another living soul he receives a telephone call from a man who claims to have found his old address book. Though suspicious of his manner, Daragane agrees to meet his mystery caller, one Gilles Ottolini, who intr ...Show more
Pedigree by Patrick Modiano
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Patrick Modiano's early life was defined by the remarkable loves and lives of his mercurial parents, and by a tragedy that left an indelible mark. His mother, a beautiful Belgian who settled in Paris, struggled to find steady work as an actress, and her constant touring and auditioning left little time ...Show more
An Astronaut's Life by Sonja Dechian
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In sparkling prose, Sonja Dechian's profound, moving and wry stories speak to our deepest yearning for connection and the inevitability of our isolation. From a terrorist cell of cyber-bullying victims working to annihilate the digital memory of their humiliation to a pandemic that leaves grieving paren ...Show more
Little Jewel by Patrick Modiano
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
I'd tell him everything, about my mother, about Jean Borand, about the apartment near the Bois de Boulogne, and about the girl they used to call Little Jewel...The same terrifying panic that came over me in the street and woke me with a start at five in the morning. One day in the corridors of the metro ...Show more
Paris Nocturne by Patrick Modiano
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Late at night, long ago, when I was about to turn twenty-one, I was crossing Place des Pyramides on my way to Place de la Concorde when a car appeared suddenly from out of the darkness. At first I thought it had just grazed me, then I felt a sharp pain from my ankle to my knee...In the opening scene of ...Show more
Man at the Helm by Nina Stibbe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This book was nominated for the 2014 National Book Awards Audiobook of the year. Man at the Helm, the debut novel from Nina Stibbe - the much-loved author of Love, Nina - is a wildly comic, brilliantly sharp-eyed novel about the horrors of being an attractive divorcee in an English village in the 1970s, ...Show more