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Hermann Burger,
Diabelli

Together with other disillusioned illusionists, the titular magician exposes the dark underside of art, intent on unveiling life's elegant deceptionIn following the tales of these magicians of madness, Di…

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Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud
The Messengers

A Kafkaesque odyssey across a dreamlike, universal landscapeAn unnamed adolescent drifter wanders through an unnamed country at an unspecified point in time in search of warmth and comfort. He finds it at…

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Fernand Combet,
Schrummschrumm, or the Sunday Quicksands Excursion

In translation at last, a delightfully delirious novel in which absurdity gives way to nightmareThis novel by French writer Fernand Combet is at long last available in English. A unique work whose surreal…

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Rick Crump, David Pegram,
Manual of the Practice, Procedure and Usage of the South Australian House of Assembly

The Manual of the Practice, Procedure and Usage of the South Australian House of Assembly is the definitive work on procedure in the Parliament of South Australia's House of Assembly. The Manual provides …

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Alexander M Frey,
Fantastic Orgy

Maimed beggars, female automatons, cultural prosthetics: four tales of opulence, poverty and grotesque empathy from the Weimar RepublicFirst published in 1924, Fantastic Orgy is most notable for its title…

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Troy Hunter
Gus and the Burning Stones

It's been over six months since amateur sleuth Gus Green solved his first real-life case, and started investigating his past. When he receives an anonymous message telling him that his missing birth mothe…

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Joris-Karl Huysmans,
Domesticity

Steeped in sardonic pessimism, this ode to sterility was one of the author's own favorite novels of his careerJoris-Karl Huysmans' semi-autobiographical third novel, first published in French in 1881, sig…

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Gina Inverarity
Snow in the Sky

It weren't me who opened the sky. I dint even die and come back to life, although everyone thought I did. I rose from my coffin and the clouds parted and we all saw the sun and the stars for the first tim…

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Samah Jabr, Gabor Maté MD, Elizabeth Berger MD
Radiance in Pain and Resilience

This book of collected essays 'pulses with the raw truth of Dr Jabr's frontline work. Her words are a rallying cry for Palestinian liberation.' - Dr Jennifer Mullan, Decolonizing Therapy'A revolutionary c…

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Yumiko Kurahashi
Scorpions

A shocking and transgressive work from one of the key figures of postwar Japanese fictionYumiko Kurahashi's 1963 novella Scorpions takes the form of a transcript of a one-sided interview with L following …

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Julie Marcus
Sex and Savagery in the Good Colony

Sex and Savagery in the Good Colony: South Australia 1836-1901 is a wide-ranging look at the realities of British colonisation. It explores how violence undermined the best of colonial intentions and how,…

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Jean-Pierre Martinet,
With Their Hearts in Their Boots

A raucous, macabre tale of failure from the filmmaker-turned-writer whose work has garnered cultish attention in recent yearsGeorges Maman is a down-and-out actor sinking into despair and no longer able t…

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Peter Mcdonald
The Heaslip Bequest for Health

This is the story of Gordon Heaslip and his bequest to a medical school in South Australia to remedy the deficiencies in medical education he suffered before graduating MBBS [Adelaide] in 1929.Born in 190…

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Mises
Stapelia Mixta

A compilation of 16 rigorous, eccentric essays commissioned by the German founder of psychophysicsThe original 1824 German publication of Stapelia Mixta united a bevy of eccentric proposals, meditations a…

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Gerard De Nerval,
Little Castles of Bohemia

Fully translated into English for the first time, Nerval's autobiographical anthology encompasses his complete literary career, which influenced such authors as Marcel Proust, André Breton and Antonin Art…

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Barry Nicholls
Playing to Win

In the early 1970s cricket was on the precipice. Apartheid South Africa was barred from competition, and the 1970/71 Ashes series in Australia had been uninspiring - more a battle of attrition than an ent…

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Maddy Proud
Grace off the Court

Grace took a deep breath and slowly began to understand where she was and what was happening.Just when Grace Parker thought she had finally figured out her complicated life, disaster strikes on and off th…

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Oswald Pryor
Cornish Pasty

'If you haven't been to Moonta, you haven't travelled,' was one of the sayings of the Cornishmen who worked the copper mines of Moonta, South Australia. In Cornish Pasty (which combines the earlier Cornis…

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Christopher Race
The Missing Photograph

The Missing Photograph is a collection of stories and essays, each one matched to a particular photograph that is displayed opposite the text. The pieces touch on the relations between photography and sto…

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Rachilde,
The Tower of Love

"A captivating exercise in intriguing symbolism." --John Taylor, Times Literary SupplementWhen Jean Maleux, a young sailor, is appointed assistant keeper of the Ar-Men lighthouse off the coast o…

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