One Would Think the Deep by Claire Zorn
$24.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Sam stared at the picture of the boy about to be tipped off the edge of the world: the crushing weight of water about to pummel him. Sam knew that moment exactly, the disbelief that what was about to happen could even be possible. The intake of breath before the flood. Sam has always had things going on ...Show more
Our Man Elsewhere In Search of Alan Moorehead by Thornton McCamish
$48.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
A world-famous Australian writer, an inspiration to Robert Hughes and Clive James, a legendary war correspondent who also wrote bestselling histories of exploration and conservation . . . and yet forgotten? In this dazzling book, Thornton McCamish delves into the past to reclaim a remarkable figure, Ala ...Show more
Quicksilver by Nicolas Rothwell
$28.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Quicksilverbegins on a quiet day in contemplation of a lizard deep in the heart of the outback but quickly moves to the Russia of Tolstoy and Gorky, and on to other lands and times, bringing into play universal questions about the essential nature of the human condition.Rothwell's chief subject is alway ...Show more
The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Break-throughs in Modern Art- by Sebastian Smee
$0.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists—Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon—whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights. Rivalry is at the heart of some of the most fam ...Show more
The Art of Time Travel : Historians and their Craft by Tom Griffiths
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: 1st
No matter how practised we are at history, it always humbles us. No matter how often we visit the past, it always surprises us. The art of time travel is to maintain critical poise and grace in this dizzy space. In this landmark book, eminent historian and award-winning author Tom Griffiths explores t ...Show more
The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon
$0.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
"Indispensable."-Booklist (starred review) CARNEGIE MEDAL 2017 FINALISTSubhi is a refugee. He was born in an Australian permanent detention center after his mother and sister fled the violence of a distant homeland, and the center is the only world he knows. But every night, the faraway whales sing to h ...Show more
The Easy Way Out by Steven Amsterdam
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ALS GOLD MEDAL 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE INDIE AWARD FOR FICTION 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017 'Amsterdam is so damn good. He is up there with the best, Delillo and the like, original as Tsolkias, but most importantly he is a master storyteller in his own r ...Show more
The Last Days of Ava Langdon by Mark O'Flynn
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
"Ava Langdon is often not herself. Having fled her early life in New Zealand and endured the loss of her children, she now lives as a recluse in the Blue Mountains. Regarded by locals as a colourful eccentric, she dresses in men's clothes and fearlessly pursues her artistic path. All that matters to Ava ...Show more
The Stars at Oktober Bend by Glenda Millard
$22.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
In the new novel by the award-winning author of "A Small Free Kiss in the Dark, " beautiful, lyrical prose, told in two voices, lifts up a poignant story of two traumatized teens who find each other in a small riverside town.
Their Brilliant Careers: The Lives of Sixteen Remarkable Australian Writers by Ryan O'Neill
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award Absurd, original and highly addictive . . . In Their Brilliant Careers, Ryan O'Neill has written a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers. Meet Rachel Deverall, who discovered the secret source of th ...Show more
Valiant for Truth : The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondant by Peter Brune; Neil McDonald
$59.99 NZD
Category: Prize for Australian History
Chester Wilmot (1911-1954) was a renowned Australian war correspondent, broadcaster, journalist and writer. Covering the first triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobruk and Derna, the heartbreaking disaster of the Greek Campaign, the epic struggle along the famed Kokoda Track, the momentous amp ...Show more