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'One of the Great Italian Writers of the 20th Century.' - The New York Times

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Seven seminal essays addressing loneliness, friendship and feminism, written in Gornick's inimitable voice, this collection has never been published in Australia.

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'A strange and wonderful book, plausible as kitchens, but shapely as a folktale, and with the same disturbing resonance.' - Margaret Atwood

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Belly Up is a story collection that contains ghosts, mediums, a lover obsessed with the sound of harps tuning, teenage girls who believe they are actually plants, gulag prisoners who outsmart a terrible warden, and carnivorous churches.

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Twelve writers consider the subject of rivers and how they shape us throughout our lives, demarcating cities as well as moulding our creative consciousness. Tessa Hadley revisits Rumer Goddens The River; Jo Hamya pays homage to Virginia Woolf; Michael Malay goes nightfishing for eels by the river Severn.

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'I can only be overwhelmed by Dorothy Baker's continuing brilliance.' - Carson McCullers

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If you've ever stayed with dull people during what is alleged to be the festive season, you'll know a good dose of Saki is the only cure.

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'Eating an oyster is like French kissing a mermaid.' - Tom Robbins

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'This is a heart-warming anthology, celebrating one ofour most beloved animals. Rich with joy and delight,but there is also real depth, poignancy and surprisinglydark humour here.'

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From the author of All Our Yesterdays and The Little Virtues, two novellas chronicling domestic life, isolation and the passing of time.

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Intimate, enchanting and comedic, Family Lexicon is an unforgettable novel about memory, language, and the lasting power that family holds over all of us.

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In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence.

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Natalia Ginzburg's most beloved book in Italy and one of her finest achievements, Happiness, As Such is an original, wise, raw, comic novel that cuts to the bone.

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HEADSHOT is the story of the eight best teenage girl boxers in the United States, told over the two days of a championship tournament and structured as a series of face-offs. As the girls pasts and futures collide, the specific joy and violence of the sport comes to life.

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A fierce and moving memoir on returning to Palestine, the meaning of exile and homeland, and the habitual place and status of a person, from Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti.

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A lyrical western about loneliness, companionship and wonder.

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An essay collection about gardening and our relationship to nature, following on from the success of At the Pond and In the Kitchen.

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A collection to savour and inspire, In the Kitchen brings together thirteen contemporary writers whose work brilliantly explores food, capturing their reflections on their culinary experiences in the kitchen and beyond.

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From the acclaimed, best-selling memoirist and novelist - 'a writer of rare talent' (Cheryl Strayed) - a memoir about the staggering family secret uncovered by a genealogy test: an exploration of the urgent ethical questions surrounding fertility treatments and DNA testing, and a profound inquiry of paternity, identity, and love.

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'Scanlan can make a sentence do the work of apage.' - Chris Power

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'Last year I lost my cat Gattino. He was very young, at seven months barely an adolescent. He is probably dead but I don't know for certain.'

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Fisher's memoir of the French provincial capital of Aix-en-Provence is, as the author tells us, 'my picture, my map, of a place and therefore of myself,' and a vibrant and perceptive profile of the kinship between a person and a place.

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Inspired by a glass of freshly-squeezed juice he drank at Penn Station, Pulitzer Prize-winner John McPhee takes us on an idiosyncratic and remarkable journey in search of the world's most popular fruit.

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These Black notes may land in silence or a tone, a sound,a pitch, a record, or an observation made with care; thesenotes might just reach you across distance, time andspace, and with them you may be 'held/and held'.