Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba--the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people--and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Ne ...Show more
Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese ...Show more
Burning down the House - Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party by Julian E. Zelizer
$55.00 AUD
Category: Political
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice The story of how Newt Gingrich and his allies tainted American politics, launching an enduring era of brutal partisan warfare When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, President Obama observed that Trump "is not an outlier; he is a culmination, a logi ...Show more
Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn to Be Animals by Carl Safina
$37.00 AUD
Category: Animals
"In this superbly articulate cri de coeur, Safina gives us a new way of looking at the natural world that is radically different."--The Washington PostNew York Timesbestselling author Carl Safina brings readers close to three non-human cultures--what they do, why they do it, and how life is for them.Som ...Show more
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women - A Memoir by Wayétu Moore
$50.00 AUD
Category: General
An engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United States When Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in Monrovia, Liberia, but all she can think about is how much she misses her mother, who ...Show more
Desert Notebooks - Journals for the End of Time by Ben Ehrenreich
$45.00 AUD
Category: General
Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, National Magazine Award winner Ben Ehrenreich "has built a potent memorial to our own ongoing end-times" (The New York Times Book Review). As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us abo ...Show more
Why I Don't Write - And Other Stories by Susan Minot
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A superb collection of short fiction--her first in thirty years and spanning many geographies--from the critically acclaimed author of Monkeys, Evening, and Thirty Girls A writer dryly catalogs the myriad reasons she cannot write; an artist bicycles through protests in lower Manhattan and ruminates on a ...Show more
The Memory Monster by Yishai Sarid; Yardenne Greenspan (Translator)
$36.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"A brilliant short novel that serves as a brave, sharp-toothed brief against letting the past devour the present" (The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice), Yishai Sarid's The Memory Monster is a harrowing parable of a young historian who becomes consumed by the memory of the Holocaust.Written as ...Show more
Man of My Time: A Novel by Sofer, Dalia
$42.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in Iran and New York City, <i>Man of My Time</i> tells the story of Hamid Mozaffarian, who is as alienated from himself as he is from the world around him. After decades of ambivalent work as an interrogator with the Iranian regime, Hamid travels on a diplomatic mission to New York, wher ...Show more
Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A visionary novel about our interconnected world, about the collision of horror and humanity, from the Man Booker-shortlisted master of the spine-tingling tale One of Huffington Post India's '50 Books to Look Forward to in 2020' They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of ...Show more
His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding' Afi Tekple is a young seamstress living in a small town in Ghana with her widowed mother. Even Afi doesn't believe her future holds much excitement. Until one day she is offered a life-changing opportunity - a proposal of marriage from the ...Show more
Everywhere You Don't Belong by Bump, Gabriel
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2020 "A comically dark coming-of-age story about growing up on the South Side of Chicago, but it's also social commentary at its finest, woven seamlessly into the work . . . Bump's meditation on belonging and not belonging, where or with whom, how love is a w ...Show more