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The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
A wildly original first essay collection from the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Mars Room In her twenties Rachel Kushner went to Mexico in pursuit of her first love - motorbikes - to compete in the notorious and deadly race, Cabo 1000. As fellow racers died on the roadside, bikes ...Show more
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
How do you tell the real story of someone misremembered - an icon and idol - alongside your own? Jenn Shapland's celebrated debut is both question and answer: an immersive, surprising exploration of one of America's most beloved writers, alongside a genre-defying examination of identity, queerness, memo ...Show more
As Beautiful As Any Other by Kaya Wilson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When Kaya Wilson came out to his parents as transgender, a year after a near-death surfing accident and just weeks before his father's death, he was met with a startling family history of concealed queerness and shame. As Beautiful As Any Other weaves this legacy together with intimate examinations of ...Show more
New Animal by Ella Baxter
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A stunning, heartbreakingly funny debut novel from a brilliant new literary voice. Sex, death, grief, running away...only one of these makes Amelia feel like a new animal. It's not easy getting close to people. Amelia's meeting a lot of men but once she gets the sex she wants from them, that's it for h ...Show more
A Touch of India by Valerie Britton-Wilson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In A Touch of India, Valerie Britton-Wilson discovers the challenges and charms of modern India whilst uncovering the life of her mother Pearl, a young Anglo-Indian woman growing up in end-of-Empire Bombay.Pearl was a journalist with the Times of India in the 1940s who unexpectedly fell in love with a b ...Show more
Gunk Baby by Jamie Marina Lau
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The suburbs of Par Mars. Two shopping centres, rows of estates and a thematic design scheme. Twenty-four-year-old Leen is going to open an ear-cleaning and massage salon in the Topic Heights Shopping Centre, taking her mother's Chinese ritual to the West to bring people back to their bodies. But somethi ...Show more
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
$27.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: twelve pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of this legendary figure. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, Didion writes about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a ...Show more
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