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Demanding the Impossible by Sylvia Lawson
MUP
Sylvia Lawson is one of Australia’s most acute and eloquent cultural
and political essayists
Demanding the Impossible asks what has become of the ideal and myth of resistance. It searches for the power of ‘no’ and ‘enough’.
$32.99
The Strange Case of Edward Gorey by
Alexander Theroux Fantagraphix
Edward Gorey devised an oblique, Edwardian world of his own design, expressing, in nearly 100 books over a 47-year career, his unique vision with shadowy, black-and-white pen-and-ink drawings and spare, witty, satirical plots. This is his biography.
$22 on Special
Non-Fiction
Casa Moro
Sam and Sam Clarke Ebury Press PB
The exotic culinary traditions of southern Spain and the Muslim Mediterranean are passionately presented by two of London¿s top restaurateurs.The Moro restaurant was born out of a desire to cook within the wonderful tradition of Mediterranean food,.
Was $45 Now $35
The Meat Free Monday Cookbook
w Foreword by Paul and Stella McCartney Kyle Books
The Meat Free Monday Cookbook is guaranteed to tempt even the most confirmed carnivore. The Meat Free Monday campaign was launched by Paul, Stella and Mary McCartney in 2009 and its message is One Day a Week Can Make a World of Difference.
HB Price: $35.00
Charles Dickens a Life by Claire Tomalin
Penguin
Charles Dickens: A Life is the examination of Dickens we deserve. It gives full measure to his heroic stature - his huge virtues both as a writer and as a human being - while observing his failings in both respects with an understanding butan unblinking eye.
HB 39.95
The Last Thread by
Michael Sala
Affirm Press
Reminiscent of the great autobiographical novels of
JM Coetzee and Michael Ondaatje, The Last Thread is a beautifully crafted work from an exceptional new writer.
PB 24.95
Blood by Tony Birch
Penguin UQP
A real story teller, Birch first became well known with Shadow Boxing, stories about Fitzroy.
Set on the back roads of Australia, Blood is a boy's odyssey through a broken-down adult world.
$29.95
The Stories of John Cheever
Vintage PB (R)
Remarkable when published and a classic now.
Cheever tells us everything we need to know about 'the pain and sweetness of life.
Price: $15.00
Chemistry of Tears
Peter Carey
Hamish Hamilton HB
The Chemistry of Tears is a portrait of love and loss that is both wildly entertaining and profoundly moving, simultaneously delicate and anarchic.
HB 39.95
Street Logos by
Tristan Manco
Thames and Hudson
Was 39.95 Now $19.95
All the artists from the Mad Square exhibition and more.
German Expressionism 1915 - 1925 ed by Stephanie Barron,
HB was $90 is now $40
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The Febuary Monthly.
The Australian Book review
Feb edition No 338
Dance:
Alexander Barabanov, a key figure in the Russian dance world, has sifted through many thousands of photographs of dance . Beautiful photographs.
was $100 now $50
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Dali and Film
Tate PB 9781854376855
This illuminating volume presents both the major paintings that reflect the artist's famous preoccupation with film and materials related to the key film projects on which he worked.
Was $50 Now $35
Walker Evans Decade by Decade
Hatje Cantz
examining Evans' complete body of work, and features many rarely seen photographs, including his final works, a sequence of Polaroids shot in the early 1970s
HB was $99 Now $45
Stencil Graffiti
Tristan Manco
Thames and Hudson
PB (R)
Was $39.95 Now $19.95
Graffiti Brasil
Tristan Manco, Lost Art, Calab Neelson Thames and Hudson PB
Was $39.95 Now $19.95
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Graffiti Argentina
Maximiliano Ruiz Thames and Hudson
Price: $22.00
Good new -ish independent quarterly, Kill Your Darlings.
Edition No 8 contains:
Maria Tumarkin on hunger, MasterChef and the fetishisation of food ,
Anthony Morris on Justified and Breaking Bad.
Clementine Ford on her experiences as a phone-sex worker
New fiction from Michael Sala's debut novel
KYD in conversation with Malcolm Knox
$19.95
Cathedral
Raymond Carver Vintage Classics PB
Carver's aim was
'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things with immense, even startling power'
$14.00
