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The Emperor of China, the Mute Canary & the Executioner of Peru

Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes

• Paperback | Engels
• This volume collects three savage plays from the man André Breton designated as one of the only "true Dadas" (alongside Tristan Tzara and Francis Pica... Lees meer

Eight Seasons

Sandra Evans

• Paperback | Engels
• When you face your child's mortality you learn a lot about people and about life ... Tahlia is four when she is diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leu... Lees meer

Llama for Lunch

Lydia Laube

• Paperback | Engels
• Lydia Laube, one of the world's dauntless, intrepid travellers, is off to South America in search of the sun. Poncho in hand, braving hair-raising mou... Lees meer

The Comforting Weight of Water

Roanna McClelland

• Paperback | Engels
• In a near future where it never stops raining, a young adolescent runs wild. With only the cantankerous Gammy and a band of terrified and broken villa... Lees meer

Alas, for the Pelicans!

• Paperback | Engels
• In 1802 a Frenchman and an Englishman famously encountered each other off the shores of South Australia. The voyages of discovery of Nicolas Baudin an... Lees meer

Lonnie's Lament

Ken Bolton

• Paperback | Engels
• In Lonnie's Lament Ken Bolton considers life in 'difficult times' and attempts to register change in the feel of eras as we pass from one to another -... Lees meer

Now in Remission

Ken Clezy

• Hardcover | Engels
• Ken Clezy, AM OBE, is a surgeon whose vocation has taken him many places, not all of them safe. When three colleagues were shot dead at a Yemen missio... Lees meer

The Conductor and Other Tales

Jean Ferry

• Paperback | Engels
• Jean Ferry's only published book of fiction, translated into English for the first time First published in French in 1950 in a limited edition of 100 ... Lees meer

A Dilemma

Joris Karl Huysmans

• Paperback | Engels
• A mordantly satiric and cruel account of bourgeois greed Originally published in book form in French in 1887, Joris-Karl Huysmans' A Dilemma remains a... Lees meer

Wishes

Georges Perec

• Paperback | Engels
• Twelve years of Georges Perec's annual pamphlets filled with homophonic wordplay "In the beginning was the pun," Samuel Beckett once wrote. And so it ... Lees meer

The Book of Monelle

Marcel Schwob

• Paperback | Engels
• The unofficial bible of the French Symbolist movement, admired by Mallarmé, Jarry and Gide, in a new translation When Marcel Schwob published The Book... Lees meer

Arthur Blackburn, VC

Andrew Faulkner

• Paperback | Engels
• Gallipoli hero, Victoria Cross recipient, battalion and brigade commander, conqueror of Damascus and defiant antagonist of the Japanese - by any measu... Lees meer

From Corner to Corner

Adrian Mitchell

• Paperback | Engels
• 'The Collesses. Theirs is the story of Australia itself. Convicts, bushrangers, cattle thieves, pioneers, punters, graziers, ANZACs; floods and drough... Lees meer

Awakening

Eileen Chanin, Steven Miller

• Paperback | Engels
• When Ibsen's controversial play A Doll's House opened to packed audiences at Melbourne's Princes Theatre, the slam of the door as Nora left her husban... Lees meer

The Sensible Sleep Solution

Sarah Blunden, Angie Willcocks

• Paperback | Engels
• Are you uncomfortable with the thought of controlled crying? Unwilling to share your bed with your baby for months in an effort to sleep? Parents need... Lees meer

From Burma to Myanmar

Lydia Laube

• Paperback | Engels
• What a ride! In a death-defying taxi with no windows, I was flown along the roads in a howling gale. Horrible. I sat directly behind the driver hoping... Lees meer

A Place to Run Free

Michael Lareaux

• Paperback | Engels
• Jake Phillips doesn't break the rules because he's a troublemaker. He breaks them because he thinks the rules are stupid. But some rules aren't meant ... Lees meer

Rakkóx the Billionaire & the Great Race

Paul Scheerbart

• Paperback | Engels
• Two novellas from the inventor of perpetual motion and godfather of German science fiction. Rakkóx the Billionaire (1901), a "Protean Novel," tells th... Lees meer

A Hank of Hair

Charlotte Jay

• Paperback | Engels
• For I prefer beauty always a little soured. When it comes to me as a spoonful of syrup, I spit it out. Gilbert Hand hasn't been the same since his wif... Lees meer

Sweating Blood

Léon Bloy

• Paperback | Engels
• First published in French in 1893, Sweating Blood describes the atrocities of war in 30 tales of horror and inhumanity from the pen of the "Pilgrim of... Lees meer

Encountering Terra Australis

Jean Fornasiero, Peter Monteath, John West-Sooby

• Paperback | Engels
• Encountering Terra Australis traces the parallel lives and voyages of the explorers Flinders and Baudin, as they travelled to Australia and explored t... Lees meer

Australia

Friedrich Gerstäcker

• Paperback | Engels
• Friedrich Gerstäcker, the most illustrious and prolific of German travel writers, set foot in Australia in March 1851, having walked across the Andes,... Lees meer

Treatise on Modern Stimulants

Honoré de Balzac

• Paperback | Engels
• "A marvel of brash opinion, contemporary society, politics, and memoir." - Bookforum Honoré de Balzac's Treatise on Modern Stimulants is a meditation ... Lees meer

Not the Same Sky

Evelyn Conlon

• Paperback | Engels
• By 1848 famine has ravaged Ireland, and London remains undecided about what to do. A shortage of female labour in Australia offers a kind of solution ... Lees meer