Beryl: In Search of Britain's Greatest Athlete by Jeremy Wilson
$40.00 AUD
Category: Sport
The remarkable life of champion cyclist Beryl Burton, one of the greatest cyclists of all time. Cyclist Beryl Burton - also known as BB - dominated her sport much as her male contemporary Eddy Merckx, but with a longevity that surpasses even sporting legends like Muhammad Ali, Serena Williams and Sir St ...Show more
Motherland: A Jamaican Cookbook by Melissa Thompson
$52.00 AUD
Category: Food
'Melissa captures her love of food and its roots deliciously' - Ainsley Harriott'A masterful work and a must for any lover of the food of Jamaica and the Caribbean region or simply anyone who loves good food' - Dr Jessica B. HarrisMotherland is a cookbook that charts the history of the people, influence ...Show more
Closer to the Edge: Climbing to the Ends of the Earth by Leo Houlding
$50.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
One of Great Britain's finest climbers and adventurers, Leo Houlding started out climbing at ten years of age in the Lake District literally learning the ropes tackling the many historic peaks and crags in the area. Honing his skills as he grew, at eighteen Leo became one of the very first to free climb ...Show more
The Illustrated Woman by Helen Mort
$33.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION*'A raw, tender, potent collection' - JESSICA ANDREWS'Gorgeous poems - profound, exploratory, wild, playful - and completely now' - RUTH PADEL________The brilliant new collection from T.S. Eliot Prize and Costa Award shortlisted poet Helen MortL ...Show more
Heritage Aesthetics by Anthony Anaxagorou
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The third collection from the award-winning author ofAfter the Formalities, tackling migration, identity andhistory. Witty and wide-ranging, Heritage Aesthetics draws from Anthony's family'smigratory histories - between Cyprus and the UK - to interrogate patriarchy,xenophobia and national divides. Spann ...Show more
Ti Amo by Hanne Orstavik
$35.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women by Lyse Doucet; Lucy Hannah (editors)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"My pen is the wing of a bird; it will tell you those thoughts we are not allowed to think, those dreams we are not allowed to dream"A woman's fortitude saves her village from disaster. A teenager explores their identity in a moment of quiet. A petition writer reflects on his life as a dog lies nursing ...Show more
A Book of Falsehoods by Jaan Kross (trans Merike Lepasaar Beecher)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The third part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writer1578. A ship from Rostock arrives in Tallinn loaded with printed copies of Balthasar Russow's Chronicle - the culmination of our hero's life's work. But though it is an instant success ...Show more
Yell, Sam, If You Still Can: Le Tiers Temps by Maylis Besserie ; Clíona Ní Ríordáin (translated by)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This novel by Maylis Besserie, the first of her Irish trilogy, shows us Samuel Beckett at the end of his life in 1989, living in Le Tiers-Temps retirement home. It is as if Beckett has come to live in one of his own stage productions, peopled with strange, unhinged individuals, waiting for the end of da ...Show more
Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Eastbound maps the fast-paced story of two fugitives on the Trans-Siberian Railway, where a desperate Russian conscript hopes a chance encounter with an older French woman will offer him a line of flight.; Published in France one year after Kerangal’s award-winning novel Birth of a Bridge (2010), Eastbo ...Show more
Salt Crystals by Cristina Bendek; Robin Myers (Translator)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
San Andrés rises gently from the Caribbean, part of Colombia but closer to Nicaragua, the largest island in an archipelago claimed by the Spanish, colonised by the Puritans, worked by slaves, and home to Arab traders, migrants from the mainland, and the descendants of everyone who came before. For Victo ...Show more
Identitti: A Novel by Mithu Sanyal
$55.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"A searing satire, one similar to those of Percival Everett or Paul Beatty.... Sanyal has created an exhaustively researched, entertaining, and timely novel about the ways social media and scandals dictate so much of the discourse about identity politics." -Starred review, BooklistNivedita (a.k.a. Ident ...Show more