Staff Picks > Leni's Favourites
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.
The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An inventive, cacophonous novel about an Aboriginal girl living in a future world turned upside down--where ancient myths exist side-by-side with present-day realities. Oblivia Ethelyne was given her name by an old woman who found her deep in the bowels of a gum tree, tattered and fragile, the victi ...Show more
The Weight of Things by Marianne Fritz
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Description: The Weight of Things is the first book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948-2007), and the first to be translated into English. After winning acclaim with this novel - awarded the Robert Walser Prize in 1978 - she embarked on a brilliant and ambitious literary project called 'The Fortres ...Show more
Theory of Colours by Bella Li
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Theory of Colours takes as its title and point of departure the influential nineteenth-century treatise on colour by Johann Wolfgang Goethe. In Li’s third full-length collection, colour — and its absence — is at once subject, structural principle and medium. Moving from the distant past, through the fle ...Show more
Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki
$19.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser.
With an introduction by Sunday Times bestselling author Victoria Hislop 'That summer we bought big straw hats. Maria's had cherries around the rim, Infanta's had forget-me-nots, and mine had poppies as red as fire. . .' Three Summers is a warm and tender tale of three sisters growing up in the countrys ...Show more