A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey
$29.99 NZD
$33.87 (11% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in western Victoria. Together they enter the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the ancient continent over roads no car will ever quite survive. With them is their lanky fair-haired navigator, Willie Bachhuber, a quiz show champion and f ...Show more
Archipelago by Adam Aitken
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
His most personal poetry to date, Adam Aitken's Archipelago is entirely preoccupied with the experience of living and marrying in France. Much of it written while resident at the Keesing Studio in Paris, and then in the south during a seriously cold spring, many of the poems deal with art, Romantic and ...Show more
Asia's Reckoning - China, Japan, and the Fate of U. S. Power in the Pacific Century by Richard McGregor
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
For more than half a century, American power in the Pacific has successfully kept the peace. But it has also cemented the tensions in the toxic rivalry between China and Japan, consumed with endless history wars and entrenched political dynasties. Now, the combination of these forces with Donald Trump's ...Show more
Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians by Jayne Persian
$47.99 NZD
Category: Prize for Australian History
170,000 Displaced Persons arrived in Australia between 1947 and 1952 - the first non-Anglo-Celtic mass migrants. Australia's first immigration minister, Arthur Calwell, scoured post-war Europe for refugees, Displaced Persons he characterised as 'Beautiful Balts'. Amid the hierarchies of the White Austra ...Show more
Blindness and Rage - A Phantasmagoria by Brian Castro
$34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
"Blindness and Rage is a novel told in 34 cantos, somewhat in the manner of Pushkin's great Russian novel in verse, Eugene Onegin. Castro's hero Lucien Gracq is a townplanner from Adelaide who is writing a book-length poem, Paidia. Doubtful of its reception, he travels to Paris to join a literary club w ...Show more
Border Districts by Gerald Murnane
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Giramondo's publication of Gerald Murnane's new work of fiction comes at a time of heightened international interest in this highly regarded author. Border Districts and Murnane's Collected Short Fiction will be released in the United States by distinguished New York publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux ...Show more
Chatelaine by Bonny Cassidy
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Chatelaine is a collection of poems whose personae, like a family portrait, resemble one another in foxed, latent ways. Its voices stalk across time and space, inhabiting genres of riddle, fragment, confession, lyric and ekphrasis, and returning to images of metamorphosis and possession. A chatelaine is ...Show more
Domestic Interior by Fiona Wright
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Many of the poems in Domestic Interior were written around the same time as Fiona Wright's award-winning collection of essays Small Acts of Disappearance, and they share with that work her acute sensitivity to the details that build our everyday world, and hold us in thrall, in highly charged moments of ...Show more
Feathers by Phil Cummings; Phil Lesnie (Illustrator)
$18.99 NZD
Category: Children's Fiction
As a lone sandpiper's feathers drift down from the sky during its long flight, they shine a powerful light on the importance of kindness, hope and security for the children below. It is time for the sandpiper journey to its winter home, half a world away. Along the arduous journey, it loses a feather wh ...Show more
Figgy Takes the City by Tamsin Janu
$18.99 NZD
Category: Children's Fiction
Both Nana and Figgy receive scholarships to attend the Hope College in Ghana's big city, Accra. Figgy and Nana will have to leave behind the village and family they love, meet lots of new people and learn new things. Figgy does not want to go, but Grandma Ama says she must. But Nana begins acting strang ...Show more
First Person by Richard Flanagan
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
A young and penniless writer, Kif Kehlmann, is rung in the middle of the night by the notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of $700 million, Heidl proposes a deal- $10,000 for Kehlmann to ghost write his memoir in six weeks.But as the wr ...Show more
Hark, It's Me, Ruby Lee! by Lisa Shanahan
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children's Fiction
The story of an irrepressible little girl and her very big imagination, from two award-winning creators of Australian picture books - Lisa Shanahan and Binny Ruby Lee is a little girl with a very big imagination. Every week Ruby's teacher, Mrs Majestic-Jones, asks special people to do special jobs in he ...Show more