Under the Skin: racism, inequality, and the health of a nation by Linda Villarosa
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
From an award-winning writer at The New York Times Magazine comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll that racism takes on individuals and the health of the nation.In 2018, Linda Villarosa's New York Times Magazine article on maternal and ...Show more
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
It's 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He's forty, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. Within a deca ...Show more
You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A delightful, decadent romance, and a joyful celebration of Black excellence, from an award-winning author. It's the opportunity of a lifetime: Feyi is about to be given the chance to escape the City's blistering heat for a dream island holiday: poolside cocktails, beach sunsets, and elaborate meals. An ...Show more
Either/Or by Elif Batuman
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
SELIN IS THE LUCKIEST PERSON IN HER FAMILY: the only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's her second year, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order of business: to figure out the meaning of everything that happened over the summer. Why did Selin's elusiv ...Show more
Trust by Hernán Diaz / Hernan Diaz
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Even through the roar of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the brilliant daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth. But the secrets around their aff ...Show more
The Old Woman With the Knife by Gu, Byeong-mo ; Chi-Young Kim (translator)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Crime
Hornclaw is a sixty-five-year-old female contract killer who is considering retirement. A fighter who has experienced loss and grief early on in life, she lives in a state of self-imposed isolation, with just her dog, Deadweight, for company. While on an assassination job for the 'disease control' compa ...Show more
Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A new novel about art, love, death and time from the author of Motherhood and How Should A Person Be? Here we are, just living in the first draft of creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart. In this first draft, a woman named Mira leaves home for school ...Show more
The Palace Papers by Tina Brown
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
William, Harry, Kate, Meghan, Andrew, Charles, Camilla, Diana . . . and the Queen. Based on unprecedented sources and research, bestselling author Tina Brown takes readers behind the palace walls to tell the real story of the Windsors over the last twenty years since the death of Diana. Full of powerful ...Show more
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Daiyu is the orphaned daughter of a once influential, now missing, family. Alone and on the streets, she must rely on her wit and quick thinking to discover what happened to her family. But when Daiyu is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, she must relinquish the home and futur ...Show more
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
An astonishing and brave memoir of life, love, and assisted death, from the author of White Houses. In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his life while Amy sat with him and held his hand. Brian was terminally ill and for the ...Show more
The Return of Faraz Ali by Aamina Ahmad
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A gripping read - everything beautifully evoked, from the alleys of the Old City to the atmosphere of corruption and secrets.' Kamila ShamsieA spellbinding debut set in Pakistan during the anarchic late '60s - a multi-layered tale of family, identity and the politics of power in a caste-ridden society. ...Show more
Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China by Jing Tsu
$45.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, transforming China into a superpower in the process What does it take to reinvent the world's oldest living language? China today is one of the world's most powerful nations, yet just ...Show more