Happening by Annie Ernaux
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child.This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. I ...Show more
I Remain in Darkness by Annie Ernaux
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
This extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter's attachment to her mother--and of both women's strength and resiliency--recounts Annie's attempt to first help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease and, then, when that proves futile, bear witness to the older woman's gradual decline and her own e ...Show more
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead takes place in a remote Polish village, where Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, she becomes involved in the investigation. Dus ...Show more
Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married foreigner wh ...Show more
Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima
$22.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality' Margaret Drabble It is Spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Territory of Light follows her over the course of a year, as she struggles to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone. ...Show more
The Years by Annie Ernaux
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Shortlisted Man Booker International 2019 Winner of the 2017 Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her entire body of workWinner of the 2016 Strega European Prize Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years was a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008, and ...Show more
A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prize-shortlisted author of The Years. In A Girl's Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the night fifty years earlier when she found herself overpowered by another's will and desire. In the summer of 1958, eighteen-year-old Ern ...Show more
Aetherial Worlds by Tatyana Tolstaya
$19.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
From one of modern Russia's finest writers, a spellbinding collection of eighteen stories, her first to be translated into English in more than twenty years.
Apple and Knife by Intan Paramaditha; Stephen J. Epstein (Translator);
$27.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
Intan Paramaditha's long-awaited English debut, announcing herself to the West as a startling and provocative new voice. Inspired by horror fiction, myths and fairy tales, Apple and Knife is an unsettling ride that swerves to the supernatural, exploring the danger and power of occupying a female body. T ...Show more
Bright by Duanwad Pimwana; Mui Poopoksakul (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
Honorable mention in the Global Humanities Translation PrizeWhen five-year-old Kampol is told by his father to wait for him in front of some run-down apartment buildings, the confused boy does as told--he waits, and waits, and waits, until he realizes his father isn't coming back anytime soon. Adopted b ...Show more
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The surprise hit of the summer and winner of Japan's prestigious Akutagawa Prize, Convenience Store Woman is the incomparable story of Keiko Furukura, a thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident who has been working at the Hiiromachi "Smile Mart" for the past eighteen years. Keiko has never fit in, neither in ...Show more
Crimson by Niviaq Korneliussen
$27.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
Named by the Guardian as one of the top ten modern Nordic fiction books 'An edgy and unputdownable work of modern literature' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti 'Ferocious, inventive and unlike anything I've read in a long time' Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure 'A brave novel reminiscent of Irvine ...Show more