A bookstore is at heart a place to browse, to let serendipity and chance guide you, and though that experience will always be our primary focus, it's also important to seek different avenues of conveying our loves of books to you. That's where this page comes in handy.
Offering preorders is a way to share our excitement about upcoming books and offers benefits to authors, publishers, and us, your bookseller. You can preorder any forthcoming book on our site or in the store, so we'll limit our selection here to books of particular interest to us.
Alexis Wright's Praiseworthy should be the last novel ever published: it's the ultimate expression of what fiction can do, a marvelous beast that gobbles and spits up all genres; whispers and screams and moans in all registers; and the vision of our world that it casts back in its distorted funhouse mirror seems more real than piddling reality itself. -- Stephen
Remembering Peasants is a fascinating and evocative history of peasant culture that demonstrates just how much humanity loses as we continue to disassociate ourselves from the land. Joyce, the son of Irish peasants, paints a picture of a nearly extinct world of soil and toil without romanticism, but with a sober appreciation of the trials and abiding connection to place, among other things, that a peasant's deep roots instill. A lovely book. -- Stephen