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Fremantle, WA
T - (08) 9335 2383
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Opening Hours
Monday - Friday
7:30am - 6pm
Saturday
8am - 6pm
Sunday
9am - 6pm
82 High Street
Fremantle, WA
T - (08) 9335 2383
NEW EDITION Northbridge
Opening Hours
Monday - Friday
7.30am - 7pm
Saturday
9am - 7pm
Sunday
10am - 5pm
212 William St,
Northbridge, WA
T - (08) 9227 0930
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New Edition Staff Recommend
Where our staff share their favourite new and old books with you. We hope this helps to inspire you and give you some ideas for that next tasty morsel you'd like to try.
Kita recommends
Pale Fire
Pale Fire by Vladimir NabokovA darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue.
RRP $19.95
Kita recommends
River Cafe Cook Book Easy
River cafe Cookbook Easy by Rose Gray and Ruth RogersWith "River Cafe Cook Book Easy" Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers pioneered a new approach to cooking and eating.
Paperback: $45.00
Hardcover: $65.00
Kita recommends
Invisible Cities
Invisible Cities by Italo CalvinoIn "Invisible Cities" Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice...
RRP $24.95
Kita recommends
How Proust Can Change Your Life
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de BottonDe Botton dissects what (Proust) had to say about friendship, reading, looking carefully, paying attention taking your time, being alive and adds his own delicious commentary...
RRP $25.00
Kita recommends
The Magnificent Meaulnes
Magnificent Meaulnes by Henri Alain FournierWhen Augustin Meaulnes arrives in Francois' home, he changes everything. Life in the little town where they both go to school suddenly becomes far more adventurous and exciting.
RRP $24.95
Harry recommends
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida
Russian Short Stories by Robert ChandlerIncluded are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature - including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn - alongside tales by long-suppressed figures such as the subversive Kryzhanowsky and the surrealist Shalamov.
RRP: $19.95
Matthew recommends
Greatest Show On Earth
Greatest Show On Earth by Richard DawkinsIn "The Greatest Show on Earth" Richard Dawkins takes on creationists, including followers of 'Intelligent Design' and all those who question the fact of evolution through natural selection.
RRP: $27.95
Matthew recommends
God Is Not Great
God Is Not Great by Christopher HitchensIn the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris's recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion.
RRP: $26.95
Harry recommends
Moments of Reprieve
Moments of Reprieve by Primo LeviPrimo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness.
RRP: $22.95
Jeanne recommends
Outliers
Outliers by Malcolm GladwellWhy are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things. In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an invigorating intellectual journey to show us what makes an extreme overachiever.
RRP: $26.95
Jeanne recommends
Take Care Of Yourself
Take Care of Yourself by Sophie CalleI received an email telling me it was over. I didn't know how to respond. It was as if it wasn't meant for me. It ended with the words: Take Care of Yourself.
RRP: $140.00
Jeanne recommends
Every Man In This Village Is A Liar
Every Man In This Village Is A Liar by Megan StackLos Angeles Times foreign correspondent Megan Stack was 24 when the attacks of September 11 occurred and she was sent to chronicle the war in Afghanistan. She spent the next decade of her life in the Middle East, covering the far-flung and ever morphing 'war on terror'.
RRP: $35.00
Jeanne recommends
Keep Your Hair On
Keep Your Hair On by Elizabeth VercoeJess is 16 years old. She's never wagged school. She's on a netball team. Her best friends are Sara and Charlotte. She has cancer. Last week she kissed a boy called Dylan. Today, her hair is going down the plughole.
RRP: $17.00
Jeanne recommends
Mama's Song
Mama's Song by Ben BeatonGeorgina—a teenager, alone and pregnant—is estranged from her mother and father.
When she seeks refuge in a country town, she discovers her grandmother has passed away...
RRP: $17.00
Harry recommends
Last Evenings on Earth
Last Evenings On Earth by Roberto Bolano Ernest Hemingway once said that a good story was like an iceberg; what is visible is always smaller than the part that remains hidden beneath the water, which confers intensity, mystery, power and meaning on what floats on the surface. This is certainly true of the fourteen stories here, the first collection by the universally acclaimed Chilean author to be published in English.RRP: $24.95
Harry recommends
The Complete Short Novels by Anton Chekhov
The Complete Short Novels by Anton ChekhovAnton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels-here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
RRP: $35.00
Harry recommends
Wind, Sand and Stars
Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint ExuperyIn 1926, de Saint-Exupery began flying for the pioneering airline Latecoere - later known as Aeropostale - opening up the first mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes. "Wind, Sand and Stars" is drawn from this experience.
RRP: $13.95
Jasmine recommends
The Family Law
Family Law by Benjamin Law'A vivid, gorgeously garish, Technicolor portrait of a family. It's impossible not to let oneself go along for the ride and emerge at the book's end enlightened, touched, thrilling with laughter.' - Marieke Hardy
RRP: $27.95
Freya recommends
Don't Sleep There Are Snakes
Don't Sleep There Are Snakes by Daniel EverettAlthough Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Piranhas, they converted him. He shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its speakers' startlingly original perceptions of the world.
RRP: $25.00
Freya recommends
The Principles of Uncertainty
Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman"The Principles of Uncertainty" is a compilation of Maira Kalman's "New York Times" columns. Part personal narrative, part documentary, part travelogue, part chapbook, and all Kalman, these brilliant, whimsical paintings, ideas, and images-which initially appear random-ultimately form an intricately interconnected worldview, an idiosyncratic inner monologue.
RRP: $29.95
Freya recommends
Musicophilia
Musicophilia by Oliver SacksIn "Musicophilia", he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians and everyday people - those struck by affliction, unusual talent and even, in one case, by lightning - to show not only that music occupies more areas of the brain than language does, but also that it can calm and organize, torment and heal.
Shortlisted for Independent Booksellers' Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2009.
RRP: $25.00
Andy recommends
The Collected Poems by Les Murray
The collected Poems by Les MurrayDisplays the full range of Les Murray's poetic art. This volume includes all the poems he wants to preserve from his first book Ilex Tree to Poems the Size of Photographs, from 1965 to 2002.
RRP: $45.00
Andy recommends
Illywhacker
Illywhacker by Peter CareyIn Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of Peter Carey's uproarious novel, may be the king of them all.
RRP: $24.95
Andy recommends
Hitch 22
Hitch 22 by Christopher HitchensOver the last thirty years Christopher Hitchens has established himself as one of the world's most influential public intellectuals. Hitch-22 is, by turns, moving and funny, charming and irascible and inspiring. It is an indispensable companion to the life and thought of an outstanding political writer.
RRP: $35.00
Andy recommends
Philip Larkin Letters to Monica
Philip Larkin Letters to Monica by Philip LarkinPhilip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. In 1950 Larkin moved to Belfast, and thence to Hull, while Monica remained in Leicester, becoming by turns his correspondent, lover and closest confidante, in a relationship which lasted over forty years until the poet's death in 1985.
RRP: $50.00
Belinda recommends
Frankenstein
Frankenstein by Mary W ShelleyVictor Frankenstein is obsessed with the secret of resurrecting the dead. But when he makes a new 'man' out of plundered corpses, his hideous creation fills him disgust.
RRP: $12.95
Belinda recommends
Art of Travel
Art of Travel by Alain de BottonThe perfect antidote to those guides that tell us what to do when we get there, "The Art of Travel" tries to explain why we really went in the first place - and helpfully suggests how we might be happier on our journeys.
RRP: $26.95
Belinda recommends
In Praise of Slow
In Praise of Slow by Carl HonoreDON'T HURRY, BE HAPPY. Almost everyone complains about the hectic pace of their lives. These days, our culture teaches that faster is better. But in the race to keep up, everything suffers - our work, diet and health, our relationships and sex lives.
RRP: $25.00
Belinda recommends
Careless
Careless by Deborah RobertsonIn the midst of her life with her small brother and unpredictable mother, Pearl is a child who strives to get things right. But the events of one summer's day are about to change her life.
RRP: $22.95
Belinda recommends
Line of Sight
Line of Sight by David Whish WilsonWhen a brothel madam is shot on a Perth golf course in 1975 it should be a routine murder enquiry. But it isn't. In fact, there's barely an investigation at all, and Superintendent Swann thinks he knows why...
Line of Sight is classic crime noir, a tale of dark corruption set in a city of sun and heat...
David Whish-Wilson lives in Fremantle, Western Australia, where he teaches creative writing at Curtin University.
He is the author of short stories and the novel The Summons, published in 2006.
David's new novel, Line of Sight was published in Sept 2010.
RRP: $ 29.95
James R recommends
1984
1984 by George OrwellHidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal.
RRP: $22.95
James R recommends
Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by Dabid Foster WallaceA SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING...brings together Wallace's musings on a wide range of topics, from his early days as a nationally ranked tennis player to his trip on a commercial cruiseliner. In each of these essays, Wallace's observations are as keen as they are funny.
RRP: $25.00
James R recommends
Surely You're Joking Mr.Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safe cracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustible combination made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity and eternal scepticism. Over a period of years, Feynman's conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped and then set down as they appear here, little changed from their spoken form, giving a wise, funny, passionate and totally honest self-portrait of one of the greatest men of our age.RRP: $ 27.95
Essie recommends
The Empty Family
The Empty Family by Colm ToibinEach of Toibin's nine stories in this collection manages to contain whole worlds: stories of fleeing the past and returning home, of family threads lost and ultimately regained. A stellar collection from one of the greatest writers in the English language.
RRP: $30.00
Freya recommends
Cradle to Cradle
A tree produces thousands of blossoms in order to create another tree, yet we consider its abundance not wasteful but safe, beautiful and highly effective. Waste equals food. Guided by this principle, McDonough and Braungart explain how products can be designed from the outset so that, after their useful lives, they will provide nourishment for something new - continually circulating as pure and viable materials within a \'cradle to cradle\' model. 
James R recommends
The Self Sufficiency Manual
The Self Sufficiency Manual by John SeymourMake the break, realise the dream and start living "The Good Life!" with John Seymour. The new edition of this enduring classic from the founding father of modern self-sufficiency, John Seymour, is still the key reference to living off the land. Covering all the practicals from ploughing fields to milking cows as well as information on how to create an urban organic garden and harness natural energy, this is perfect for anyone aspiring to the self-sufficient lifestyle.
RRP: $ 59.95
Kirk recommends
Kiss Of The Spider Woman
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel PuigIn the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; Molina believes in the magic of love which makes all else endurable.
RRP: $24.95
Kirk recommends
Marquise of O- and Other Stories
The Marquise of O and Other Stories by Heinrich von KleistIn The Marquise of O, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baffled Marquise has no idea when this happened, she must prove her innocence to her doubting family and discover whether the perpetrator is an assailant or lover.
RRP: $24.95
Kirk recommends
Labyrinths
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesBorges used essays and brief tantalizing parables to explore the enigmas of time, identity and imagination. Playful and disturbing, scholarly and seductive, his is a haunting and utterly distinctive voice.
RRP: $19.95
Kirk recommends
Patrimony
Patrimony by Philip RothA true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written.
RRP: $27.95
Kirk recommends
Sixty Stories
Sixty Stories by Donald BarthelmeSixty Stories now stands as one of the broadest overviews of his work, containing selections from eight previously published books, as well as a number of other short works that had been otherwise uncollected.
RRP: $24.95
Matthew recommends
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThis is Wilde's masterful and wonderfully entertaining exploration of art and morality, in a chic new deluxe edition. The novel was a succes de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.
RRP: $19.95
Matthew recommends
Inferno
Inferno by DanteOf the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the INFERNO, Dante not only judges sin but strives to understand it so that the reader can as well.
RRP: $12.95
Matthew recommends
Fraktur Mon Amour
Fraktur Mon Amour by Judith SchalanskyWhen was the last time a book on typography made you swoon? Just wait until you feast your eyes on Fraktur Mon Amour, Berlin-based graphic designer Judith Schalansky's love letter to Blackletter fonts. Blackletter, also known as Fraktur or Gothic type, was commonly used throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
RRP: $149.50
Freya recommends
Hare with Amber Eyes
Illustrated Edition!The definitive illustrated edition of the international bestseller with gorgeous new photography of the celebrated netsuke collection, and sumptuous full-colour images hand-picked by Edmund de Waal from his family archive
264 Japanese wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great-uncle Iggie\'s Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the \'netsuke\', they unlocked a story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have imagined.
From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siècle Paris, from occupied Vienna to post-war Tokyo, Edmund de Waal traces the netsuke\'s journey through generations of his remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century.
Summer Reading Guide special price $39.95 for a limited time
Matthew recommends
Pinocchio
Pinocchio by Carlo CollodiA Beautifully Illustrated Adaptation Of The Childrens Classic; This beautiful edition signifies a modern link to the Pinocchio tradition, with a newly revised text based on the translations by Carol del Chiesa, and the extraordinary award-winning illustrations by lassen Ghiuselev.
RRP: $35.00
Matthew recommends
Neuromancer
Neuromancer by William GibsonNeuromancer is the most influential science fiction novel of our time. Cyberspace and virtual reality were invented in this book. It changed forever the way we look at tomorrow. The Matrix unfolds like neon origami beneath clusters and constellations of data.
RRP: $19.95
Matthew recommends
Letter Fountain: The Anatomy of Type
This title deals with the anatomy of type. It offers everything you could ever want to know about printing letters and numbers. Looking back as far as man\'s first efforts to communicate with visual signs and drawings, "Letterfountain" is a completely unique typeface handbook: in addition to examining the form and anatomy of every letter in the alphabet (as well as punctuation marks and special characters), the book cross-references type designs with important works of art and art movements from Gutenberg\'s times until today. Further attention is given to the esthetics of the digital age and typographical recommendations such as the choice of the right typeface for a job. Rounding out the guide are an in-depth comparison between sans-serif and serif typefaces, an essay about measuring systems and indications, advice about typographic rules, plus a manual for developing digital fonts.RRP $100
Matthew recommends
Four Laws That Drive the Universe
Four Laws That Drive the Universe by Peter AtkinsGuiding the reader from the Zeroth Law to the Third Law, he introduces the fascinating concept of entropy, and how it not only explains why your desk tends to get messier, but also how its unstoppable rise constitutes the engine of the universe.
RRP: $27.95
Freya recommends
Age of Wonder
How the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science. This book tells the story of three remarkable scientific friendships during the Romantic Age in Britain. The astronomers William and Caroline Herschel, the chemists Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday and the medical scientists, John Abernethy and William Lawrence all challenged traditional ideas about human identity, morality and religious belief. They were pioneers in a time where distinctions between poetry, art and science were yet to take hold.
Holmes captures an age on the cusp of modernity, when science and faith in God were mutually incompatible, and shows through the vivid dramas of his central relationships how ideas are nurtured, scientific discoveries made, and how religious faith and scientific truth collide.
Matthew recommends
The Divine Proportion: A Study in Mathematical Beauty
Engaging introduction to that curious feature of mathematics which provides framework for so many structures in biology, chemistry, and the arts. Discussion ranges from theories of biological growth to intervals and tones in music, Pythagorean numerology, conic sections, Pascal\'s triangle, the Fibonnacci series, and much more. $15.95 
Matthew recommends
Eat Ate
Eat Ate is a celebration of Italian food, capturing the spirit of simplicity, fresh ingredients and sumptuous colours and flavours. Guy Mirabella weaves his recipes, images and stories around the themes of extravagance, generosity, love, tradition, life and food. $39.95 
Harry recommends
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - become one of the most important tools in modern medicine.
RRP: $35.00
Matthew recommends
A Single Man
'The best prose writer in English' - Gore Vidal. Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, "A Single Man" is the story of George Falconer, an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim. With devastating clarity and humour, Christopher Isherwood shows George's determination to carry on, evoking the unexpected pleasures of life as well as the soul's ability to triumph over loneliness and alienation. 'A virtuoso piece of work...courageous...powerful' - "Sunday Times". 
Harry recommends
Complete Prose
Complete Prose of Woody Allen by Woody AllenA collection of 52 pieces of writing displaying Woody Allen's own brand of humour.
'An ideal bedside companion' - Will Self
RRP: $29.95
Freya recommends
Essays in Love
Essays in Love by Alain de BottonEssays in Love is a stunningly original love story.
Taking in Aristotle, Wittgenstein, history, religion and Groucho Marx, Alain de Botton charts the progress of a love affair from the first kiss to argument and reconciliation, from intimacy and tenderness to the onset of anxiety and heartbreak. Essays in Love is a wholly modern attempt to define the age-old dilemmas of the heart.
RRP: $24.95
Matthew recommends
It Must Be Beautiful - Great Equations of Modern Science
It Must be Beautiful edited by Graham FarmeloEquations lie at the heart of many of the most extraordinarily successful scientific theories. Here, some of the greatest living scientists unpack the best known equations so that they become understandable, and we are entertained and enlightened by a knowledge of how it was arrived at, what it can do and what remains to be understood about it.
$24.95
Matthew recommends
Meme Machine
Humans are extraordinary creatures, with the unique ability among animals to imitate and so copy from one another ideas, habits, skills, behaviours, inventions, songs, and stories. These are all memes, a term first coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene. Memes, like genes, are replicators, and this enthralling book is an investigation of whether this link between genes and memes can lead to important discoveries about the nature of the inner self. Confronting the deepest questions about our inner selves, with all our emotions, memories, beliefs, and decisions, Susan Blackmore makes a compelling case for the theory that the inner self is merely an illusion created by the memes for the sake of replication. RRP $15.95
Essie recommends
Disgrace
Disgrace by J. M. CoetzeeIn spectacularly powerful and lucid prose, Coetzee uses all his formidable skills to engage with a post-apartheid culture in unexpected and revealing ways. This examination into the sexual and politcal lawlines of modern South Africa as it tries desperately to start a fresh page in its history is chilling, uncompromising and unforgettable.
RRP: $24.95