An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rosa
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Oscillating between elation and despair, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life is the debut short story collection from the award-winning Paul Dalla Rosa. 'How can these stories be so funny, dazzling, deep and dark? This is a sharp collection that will grip you with strange force; the people here are despera ...Show more
The Transgender Issue - An Argument for Justice by Shon Faye
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
An incisive overview of transgender oppression and a brilliant argument for transgender rights, from a powerful new voice Trans people today have become a culture war issue, the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarized debate' which generates reliable controversy for newspapers and talk shows. T ...Show more
Returning To Reims by Didier Eribon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'There was a question that had come to trouble me a bit earlier, once I had taken the first steps on this return journey to Reims . . .Why, when I have had such an intense experience of forms of shame related to class, shame in relation to the milieu in which I grew up, why, when once I had arrived in P ...Show more
Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A hotly charged new work of fiction from the Booker Prize shortlisted author of Real Life. In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, set among young adults in the American midwest, a young man treads delicate emotional waters as he navigates a series of sexually fraught encounters ...Show more
The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977 by Adrienne Rich
$26.95 AUD
Category: Queer
The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman s heart and mind in language for everybody language whose plainness, laughter, questions and nobility everyone can respond to. . . . No one is writing better or more needed verse than this. Boston Evening Globe"
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms, a slow and painstaking process. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that's a world away from his childhood growing up in Alabama. His father died a few weeks ago, but Walla ...Show more
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman
$35.95 AUD
Category: History
In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years (1981 1996), Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and mainstream consumerism. Schulman takes us back to her Lo ...Show more
Orlando (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Modern Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England ...Show more
Great Expectations by Kathy Acker
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Great Expectationsis a punk, fairytale reimagining of Charles Dickens's original masterpiece. Pip, our narrator -familiar and unfamiliar - is transplanted to New York City in the 1980s; an orphan whose adventures incorporate desire, gender and identity, the dislocation between sex and love, art and crea ...Show more
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. Uncompromising, angry and yet full of hope, this co ...Show more
Fighting for Our Lives - The History of a Community's Response to AIDS by Nick Cook
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Fighting For Our Lives is the inspirational story of communities directly affected by the AIDS crisis. Against a harrowing backdrop of illness and death, fear and anger, hate and discrimination, they bravely took action. During the darkest years of the epidemic, marginalised communities – mostly gay men ...Show more
Zami: A New Spelling of my Name by Audre Lorde
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem. Around her, a heady swirl of passers-by, car horns, kerosene lamps, the stock market falling, fried bananas, tales of her parents' native Gr ...Show more