Everything You Need to Know about the Voice by Megan Davis, George Williams
$27.99 AUD
Category: Adult
In late 2023 Australians will vote in a referendum on enshrining an Indigenous Voice to parliament in the Constitution. What benefits will the Voice bring? And what was the journey to this point?Everything You Need to Know About the Voice to Parliament, written by co-author of the Uluru Statement from t ...Show more
Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri
$24.99 AUD
Category: Adult
Translating Myself and Others is a collection of disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages. With subtlety and emotional immediacy. Lahiri draws on Ovid's myth of Echo and Narcissus ...Show more
The Lucky Ones: Stories of Australian refugee journeys by Melinda Ham
$34.99 AUD
Category: Adult
A moving and meticulously researched book of refugee stories from award-winning journalist Melinda Ham. Following the narratives of new Australians from Iraq, Afghanistan, Poland, Tibet, Vietnam and Zaire, The Lucky Ones is a testament to human resilience and the power of new beginnings. For fans of Th ...Show more
Botchan by Natsume Soseki
$22.99 AUD
Category: Adult
New in Penguin Japanese Classics- Japan's favourite novel about growing up and finding yourself Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics- a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th century writers, with covers inspired by Japanese art and design. Taking us from a sun-drenched ...Show more
But the Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei YU
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult
Irreverent, witty and wise, But the Girl is a campus novel set off campus, and a coming-of-age story about not wanting to leave your family behind I used to have this line I saved and brought out for grant applications and writers festivals - that having been Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Esther Greenwo ...Show more
Letter to Pessoa by Michelle Cahill
$24.95 AUD
Category: Adult
"Line by line, Cahill's writing is musical, assured: cumulatively, her seriousness is evident, her ambition impressive." - Hilary Mantel Letter to Pessoa is the first collection of short stories by award-winning Goan-Australian poet Michelle Cahill. It is an imaginative tour de force, portraying the ex ...Show more
Growing Up African in Australia by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Adult
People of African descent have been in Australia for at least 200 years, yet their stories are largely missing from Australian writing. Australians of the African diaspora have arrived here in many different ways- directly from the continent; via the Caribbean, the Americas and the United Kingdom; makin ...Show more
A Perfect Day to be Alone by Nanae Aoyama
$22.99 AUD
Category: Adult
It was raining when I arrived at the house. The walls of my room were lined with cat photos, set in fancy frames just below the ceiling. When her mother emigrates to China for work, twenty-year-old Chizu moves in with 71-year-old Ginko, an eccentric distant relative, taking a room in her ramshackle Tok ...Show more
Hospital (PB) (Miles Franklin longlist 2024) by Sanya Rushdi
$26.95 AUD
Category: Adult
In Melbourne a one-time research student with interests in philosophy and psychology is diagnosed with her third episode of psychosis. As she is moved from her family home to a community house and then to hospital, she questions the diagnosis of her sanity or insanity, as determined and defined by a med ...Show more
Lost Lake by Bella Li
$35.00 AUD
Category: Adult
Following on from the groundbreaking Argosy, Li's second collection Lost Lake ups the ante, taking the reader and literature alike into new reaches and realms of the imagination. Lost Lake, which exhibits Li's distinctive use of text and image, consists of eight extended sequences of poetry, collage, an ...Show more
Loose Parts 2 - Inspiring Play with Infants and Toddlers by Miriam Beloglovsky; Lisa Daly; Janet Gonzalez-Mena (Foreword by)
$80.00 AUD
Category: Adult
Teachers' Choice Award for Preschool 2018 Winner Loose parts capture children's curiosity, give free reign to their imagination, and encourage creativity. This form of play allows infants to be in control and recognize the power of their bodies and actions. A variety of new and innovative loose parts i ...Show more