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“brian castro”

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  • Chinese Postman

    by Brian Castro ...
    **Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award 2025**Abraham Quin is in his mid-seventies, a migrant, thrice-divorced, a one-time postman and professor, a writer now living alone in the Adelaide Hills. In The Chinese Postman he reflects on his life with what he calls 'the mannered and meditative inaction of age', offering up memories and anxieties, obsessions and opinions, his thoughts on solitude, ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • The Bath Fugues

    by Brian Castro ...
    The Bath Fugues is Castro at his best, in a wonderful performance wrought from intrigue, romance, deception and comedy. The book is composed of three interwoven novellas, the first centred on an ageing art forger; the second on a Portuguese poet, opium addict and collector; the third told by a well-connected doctor, with a cabinet of venom, and an art gallery on the north Queensland coast.Around ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Blindness and Rage

    A Phantasmagoria

    by Brian Castro ...
    Winner of the 2018 Prime Minister's Literary Award for PoetrySuffering from a fatal disease, Lucien Gracq travels to Paris to complete the epic poem he is writing and live out his last days. There he joins a secret writers' society, Le club des fugitifs, that guarantees to publish the work of its members anonymously, thus relieving them of the burdens of life, and more importantly, the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Birds of Passage

    by Brian Castro ...
    Series Book 31 - Untapped
    Reading fragments of his ancestor’s journal Lo Yun Shan gives Australian-born Chinese man Seamus O’Young an odd sensation: familiarity. Their lives are quite different—Shan left China for the goldfields in the mid-19th century—but something links them. As Seamus seeks to understand what it is, and what it means, his mind begins to unravel in Brian Castro’s astonishing debut.‘Full of subtle colours ... Read more

    $8.55 USD

  • The Thirsty Algorithm: Dynamic Surge Pricing in Vending Machines

    Temperature, Elasticity, and the Behavioral Economics of Automated Real-Time Retail

    by Brian Castro ...
    You walk up to a vending machine on a freezing winter morning, and a bottle of water costs one dollar. You return to the exact same machine on a sweltering, 100-degree summer afternoon, and the digital display now demands two dollars for the exact same bottle. This is not a glitch; it is the ruthless, algorithmically driven future of automated retail. This book exposes the controversial ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Garden Book

    by Brian Castro ...
    Brian Castro's novel is set in the Dandenong Ranges in the years between the Depression and the Second World War.The story revolves around Swan Hay, born Shuang He, daughter of a country schoolteacher, her marriage to the passionate and brutal Darcy Damon, and her love affair with the aviator and architect Jasper Zenlin. Fifty years after her disappearance, Norman Shih, a rare book librarian, ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Street to Street

    by Brian Castro ...
    Street to Street is one of Brian Castros best books yet, a comic-tragic enactment of the anxieties of the writing life, in which the early twentieth-century Sydney poet Christopher Brennan plays a major role. A legendary figure, with a commanding knowledge of classical and European poetry, Brennan wrote some of the most powerful poems in Australian literature. He died an impoverished alcoholic at ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

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    by Benjamin Law ...
    Writer and columnist Benjamin Law revisits his joyous and much-loved family memoir, spilling the tea on his family's latest anticsThe book that inspired the major SBS television series!Meet the Law family – eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide is Benjamin, the third of five children and a born humourist. Join him as he tries to answer some puzzling questions. Why won't his Chinese ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely

    Australia's Prime Ministers: From Barton to Albanese

    by Mungo MacCallum ...
    From Barton to AlbaneseUpdated editionSince 1901, thirty-one different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing.Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office days before Wall Street crashed into the Great Depression. John Curtin faced the ultimate ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Drowning

    by Bryan Brown ...
    With sales of over 16,000 copies of Sweet Jimmy, Bryan Brown's distinctive storytelling voice continues in this unflinching, gripping novel.'A work of rattling and serpentine suspense ... gripping and sinuous and so, so good.' Trent Dalton'The Drowning has all the hallmarks of great Aussie crime writing ... Brown's punchy prose makes this novel absolutely devourable, and all will be revealed in ... Read more

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  • Paradise

    A totally addictive crime thriller packed with jaw-dropping twists

    by Patricia Wolf ...
    Series Book 2 - A DS Walker Thriller
    Longlisted for the Australian Crime Fiction Award 2024'Wow... Non-stop action from the first pages... So suspenseful!... do yourself a favour and read it... one of my favourite books of 2023' Reader Review, 5 starsIn a beach paradise, an unspeakable crime is committed. The only witness lies in a coma, fighting for her life...Australia's Gold Coast: On a stunningly beautiful stretch of coastline, a ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

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  • The Inner Circle

    A Mystery

    by Mari Jungstedt ...
    Series Book 3 - Anders Knutas
    The Inner Circle opens with an international group of young archeology students sweating on a dig on the island of Gotland, uncovering a Viking fortification dating back over a millennium. They are a fun-loving lot, partying together every night, but the good vibe turns to horror when one of them, twenty-one-year-old Martina Flochten, disappears. Her body is found a short while later, naked, bled ... Read more

    $14.39 USD