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Leni has been a bookseller for four years. She studied literature at university with particular attention to Romanticism and ecology. When reading, her first instinct is toward fiction in contemporary, realist settings with female protagonists but also loves historical and speculative novels. She has recently become hooked on classic Japanese crime novels. She also likes to read around her interests in politics, modern dance, literary theory but this seems to take her much longer.
Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social Justice
In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia. Rather than offer yet another account of 'the Aboriginal problem', she theorises a strategy for living in a social world that has only ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Horror | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'If Ferrante is a friend, Ginzburg is a mentor.' - Guardian
The Furies: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2023 by Mandy Beaumont
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Cynthia was just about to turn sixteen when the unthinkable happened. Her mother was taken away by the police, and her father left without a word three months later. After that night, Cynthia began to walk in slow circles outside the family home looking for traces of her sister Mallory - she's sure tha ...Show more
Voices In The Evening by Natalia Ginzburg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this elegant novel, a young unmarried woman conveys the tragedies, loves, and social entanglements of a village at the time of fascism, war and postwar urbanization.
Argosy by Bella Li
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Drawing inspiration from the surrealist collage novels of Max Ernst, Bella Li's debut full-length collection Argosy is an arresting and utterly unique assemblage of poetry, collage and photography. In two parts, the book engages with themes of travel and exploration, language and loss, identity and orig ...Show more
Blueberries by Ellena Savage
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
Blueberries could be described as a collection of essays, the closest term available for a book that resists classification; a blend of personal essay, polemic, prose poetry, true-crime journalism and confession that considers a fragmented life, reflecting on what it means to be a woman, a body, an arti ...Show more
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A New York Times 'Notable Book of 2020' One of Elena Ferrante's 'Top 40 Books by Female Authors' 'A sharply observed and heartbreaking portrait of what it means to be a woman, in Japan and beyond' -Time, 'The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020' 'Breathtaking' - Haruki Murakami, author of The Wind-up Bird Chron ...Show more
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: A Key To All Mythologies 1
Set in a historical moment of moral crisis, Crossroads – the first instalment of the trilogy A Key to All Mythologies – is the stunning foundation of a sweeping investigation of human mythologies, as the Hildebrandt family navigate the political and social crosscurrents of the past fifty years A Daily M ...Show more
Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'A really beautiful book about obsession, longing and science' RAVEN LEILANI'Wise, funny, suspenseful' JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER'Sardonic and strange ... With its dark humour and loopy lyricism, it bewitches' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Reads like a botanist's cross-breeding of The Secret History and Department of Specu ...Show more
Hollywood's Eve - Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L. A. by Lili Anolik
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture capital of the world--a movie factory, a music factory, a dream factory. Eve Babitz was the ultimate factory girl, a pure product of LA, and Vanity Fair writer "Lili Anolik decodes, ruptures, and ultimately intensifies Eve's singular irresistible glit ...Show more
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: YA (Young Adult) | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink...' This is the story of Cassandra, precocious and charming, who begins a journal detailing her life with her bohemian family in a crumbling o ...Show more