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7 ½ by Christos Tsiolkas
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.57A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in the pyrotechnic beauty of nature, just as the world he has... -
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE 2009LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010'A tremendously vital book in every sense.' - Sunday TimesAt a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an... -
Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73Discover the explosive first novel from the author of The Slap Ari is nineteen, Greek, gay, unemployed, looking for something - anything - to take him away from his aimless existence in suburban... -
The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas 9781805461852
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35'[Tsiolkas's] most heartfelt novel to date' Financial Times'A love story par excellence...he's simply one of the great writers of our time' Irish Times'Warm and rewarding...it triumphantly succeeds'... -
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas 9780143117148
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $37.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Booker Prize.Book InformationISBN 9780143117148Author Christos TsiolkasFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Merciless Gods by Christos Tsiolkas
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01A collection of urgent, thrilling and original stories from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Slap and Barracuda. Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, sacrifice and... -
Dead Europe by Christos Tsiolkas
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.64From the international bestselling and Booker Prize nominated author of The Slap comes a blazingly brilliant new novel.Winner of the 2006 Age Fiction Prize Winner of the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing... -
Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas 9781838950224
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'We are despised, yet we grow. We are tortured and crucified and yet we flourish. We are hated and still we multiply. Why is that? You must wonder, how is it we survive?' In a far corner of the Roman... -
7 1/2 by Christos Tsiolkas
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $33.79A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in the pyrotechnic beauty of nature, just as the world he has... -
Christos Tsiolkas: The Utopian Vision by Jessica Gildersleeve 9781604979787
RRP: $178.48Booksplease Price: $157.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604979787Author Jessica GildersleeveFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Cambria PressPublisher... -
Christos Tsiolkas - The Untold Story: His Life and Work by John Vasilakakos 9781922168597
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $59.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922168597Author John VasilakakosFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Connor Court... -
Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique: Politics, Obscenity, Celebrity by Andrew McCann 9781783084043
Booksplease Price: $53.72Christos Tsiolkas is one of the most recognizable and internationally successful literary novelists working in Australia today. He is also one of the country's most politically engaged writers. These... -
Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique: Politics, Obscenity, Celebrity by Andrew McCann 9781783084036
RRP: $147.00Booksplease Price: $142.38Christos Tsiolkas is one of the most recognizable and internationally successful literary novelists working in Australia today. He is also one of the country's most politically engaged writers. These... -
Down The Hume Peter Polites 9780733635564
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24Polites' writing is unpretentious, spare, sharp. Peter's voice is raw, casual, genuine. This is urban storytelling at its best - Maxine Beneba Clarke on Peter Polites.A contemporary noir novel, Down... -
Emergence: The 30 Best New Voices With Powerful Must-Read Stories by SBS Emerging Writers' Competition 9781743799963
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $29.82Emergence brings us thirty of the best short stories chosen from the thousands of entries in the SBS Emerging Writers' Competition. Now in its third year, the anthology features stories by thirty... -
The Dinner by Herman Koch 9781782394884
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER THAT'S GOT EVERYONE TALKING...A summer's evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. Between mouthfuls of food and over the delicate scraping of... -
God Forgets About the Poor: SHORTLISTED FOR THE NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS by Peter Polites 9781761151644
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.94'A stand out amongst contemporary Australian literary fiction for its stylistic and structural ambition, God Forgets About the Poor is the novel Polites has been climbing to. It is moving, poetic,... -
Everyone is Still Alive by Cathy Rentzenbrink
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.48'Incredibly tender' Marian Keyes'A total triumph' Nina Stibbe'Beautiful, moving and so funny and well-observed' Philippa PerryIt is summer on Magnolia Road when Juliet moves into her late mother's... -
The Wrong Hand by Jane Jago
RRP: $6.28Booksplease Price: $5.82We all make mistakes. Moments that change us and the path we are on irrevocably. For Rachel Allen it was the moment that she let her son's hand slip from hers. For Danny Simpson and Graham Harris it... -
The Children's Secret: The pageturning new novel from the highly acclaimed author of What Milo Saw Virginia Macgregor 9780751574883
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24The brand new novel from Virginia Macgregor, perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS ASKING.BUT THEY'RE NOT TELLING . . .At a children's party . . .Nothing ever happens in a sleepy... -
Everyone Is Still Alive by Cathy Rentzenbrink 9781474621144
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54WHAT HAPPENS AFTER HAPPILY EVER AFTER?'I can't stop thinking about it' Elizabeth Day'A total triumph' Nina Stibbe'Beautiful, moving and so funny and well-observed' Philippa PerryWhen Juliet moves... -
After Cosmopolitanism by Rosi Braidotti 9780415627214
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $111.17At a time when social and political reality seems to move away from the practice of cosmopolitanism, whilst being in serious need of a new international framework to regulate global interaction, what... -
The Rise of the Australian Neurohumanities: Conversations Between Neurocognitive Research and Australian Literature by Jean-Francois Vernay
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $103.97This exciting one-of-a-kind volume brings together new contributions by geographically diverse authors who range from early career researchers to well-established scholars in the field. It... -
Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature: International Perspectives by David Callahan
RRP: $138.58Booksplease Price: $123.77The contemporary study of Australian literature ranges widely across issues of general cultural studies, the politics of identity (both ethnic and gendered), and the position of Australia within... -
Transnational Television Remakes by Claire Perkins 9781138393172
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $90.47Providing a cross-cultural investigation of the current phenomenon of transnational television remakes, and assembling an international team of scholars, this book draws upon ideas from transnational... -
Song of the Sun God: FROM THE WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD by Shankari Chandran 9781761152290
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01Song of the Sun God spans three continents and three generations of a family that remains dedicated to its homeland, whilst learning to embrace its new home. Nala and Rajan, a young couple, begin... -
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens: WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD by Shankari Chandran 9781761151408
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN AWARD "Deftly traversing time, culture and continent to weave a tale of both home and unbelonging, this is truly a novel not to be missed." - Maxine Beneba Clarke, author... -
Night for Day Patrick Flanery (Author) 9781782396055
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $34.42Los Angeles, 1950. Over the course of a single day, two friends grapple with the moral and professional uncertainties of the escalating Communist witch-hunt in Hollywood. Director John Marsh races to... -
Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead by Nicholas Birns 9781743324363
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $46.89Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire... -
The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature by Jessica Gildersleeve 9780367643577
RRP: $98.68Booksplease Price: $90.22In recent years, Australian literature has experienced a revival of interest both domestically and internationally. The increasing prominence of work by writers like Christos Tsiolkas, heightened... -
Novel Politics: Studies in Australian political fiction by John Uhr 9780522875973
RRP: $83.90Booksplease Price: $30.18Percy Bysshe Shelley once described poets as the 'unacknowledged legislators of the world'. If this is true, Australian political scientists have shown curiously little interest in the role that... -
Reading Greek Australian Literature through the Paramythi: Bridging Multiculturalism with World Literature by Anna Dimitriou 9781839991714
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $162.06This is a comparative textual analysis of a body of relatively neglected works by Greek Australian writers Dimitris Tsaloumas, Antigone Kefala, Stylianos Charkianakis, Dean Kalimnios, Christos... -
Death of an Ordinary Man by Sarah Perry 9781787336001
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.53'Please read this book. It may very well change how you live' Rachel Clarke'I was spellbound' Kathryn MannixDeath of an Ordinary Man is an unforgettable account of this universal aspect of life. It... -
The Sea in the Metro by Jayne Tuttle 9781743797860
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $21.67I am the worst person in the world.Bad mother. Bad lover. Bad worker. Bad woman. Bad friend ... An exploration of motherdom and ego, culture and art, love and pain, The Sea in the Metro tells the... -
Ob-scene Spaces in Australian Narrative. An Account of the Socio-topographic Construction of Space in Australian Literature by Pablo Armellino 9783898218733
Booksplease Price: $75.37Ob-scene Spaces in Australian Narrative is an exhaustive survey of Australian literature proposing itself as a journey through time and space. With a sound selection of texts which recount Australian... -
My Sweet Guillotine by Jayne Tuttle
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $24.76Jayne Tuttle, acclaimed author of Paris or Die, returns to Paris with My Sweet Guillotine. In the wake of a bizarre, shocking accident in Paris, Jayne finds herself back in the city in a strange... -
Death of an Ordinary Man by Sarah Perry 9781787336018
Booksplease Price: $25.20'Please read this book. It may very well change how you live' Rachel Clarke'I was spellbound' Kathryn MannixDeath of an Ordinary Man is an unforgettable account of this universal aspect of life. It... -
Neurocognitive Interpretations of Australian Literature: Criticism in the Age of Neuroawareness by Jean-Francois Vernay
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $103.97This unique book on neurocognitive interpretations of Australian literature covers a wide range of analyses by discussing Australian Literary Studies, Aboriginal literary texts, women writers, ethnic... -
Dice Claire Baylis 9781761067242
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07A compelling courtroom drama, Dice is an incredibly timely exploration of how sexual violence is viewed in our society.'Dice has a forensic depth that is compelling, that challenges and deeply moves... -
Reasons Not to Worry: How to be Stoic in chaotic times by Brigid Delaney 9780349436296
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.43Reasons Not to Worry is an accessible introduction to the Stoic principles of virtue, moderation and self-discipline, adapting this ancient knowledge to inspire practical advice for everyday life...