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February new releases

This February, we’re pleased to share four new books: two glittering short story collections, a tender memoir-in-essays, and an unsparing work of political analysis.

A final gift from celebrated author Georgia Blain, We All Lived in Bondi Then is a powerful collection of previously unpublished stories. Adele Dumont’s The Pulling is a fascinating exploration of the inner workings of a mind, reminiscent of the writing of Leslie Jamison and Fiona Wright. The New World Disorder by Peter R. Neumann is a coruscating analysis of current international relations that sets out the dangers the world will face if the West fails to itself. Your Utopia is an astonishingly creative new collection of short stories from the author of Cursed Bunny, Bora Chung (trans. Anton Hur).

For a chance to win a copy of one of our February books, head to our Facebook or Instagram to let us know what interests you and why.

We All Lived in Bondi Then

From the author of the multi-award-winning bestseller Between a Wolf and a Dog, a powerful collection of previously unpublished stories.

A sister is haunted by the consequences of a simple mistake. A daughter searches for certainty as her mother’s memory degrades. An encounter at a house party changes the course of a life.

In We All Lived in Bondi Then, beloved Australian author Georgia Blain returns to her resonant themes of relationships and family, illness and health, love and death. Composed in Blain’s final years, these nine stories grapple with large questions on a human scale, brimming with her…

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The Pulling

When I’ve been overtaken, I have stood and watched the water in my porridge simmer away into the air, and then the oats turn black and crackle with dryness, and my ears fill with the smoke alarm’s shriek.

When Adele Dumont is diagnosed with trichotillomania — compulsive hair-pulling — it makes sense of much of her life to date. The seemingly harmless quirk of her late teens, which rapidly developed into almost uncontrollable urges and then into trance-like episodes, is a hallmark of the disease, as is the secrecy with which she guarded her condition from her family, friends, and the world at…

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The New World Disorder

A coruscating analysis of current international relations, setting out the dangers the world will face if the West does not succeed in reinventing itself.

The West is facing an unprecedented crisis. Russia has launched a war of aggression against Ukraine — just months after the USA suffered a foreign policy debacle in Afghanistan. And China, the West’s rival in the battle for system superiority, has long since become a decisive superpower.

Yet the triumph of the West had seemed unstoppable not that long ago. After the end of the Cold War, the democratic market economy took hold in the former Eastern…

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Your Utopia

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the Korean by Anton Hur, Your Utopia is full of tales of loss and discovery, idealism and dystopia, death and immortality. “Nothing concentrates the mind like Chung’s terrors, which will shrivel you to a bouillon cube of your most primal instincts” (Vulture), yet these stories are suffused with Chung's inimitable wry humour and surprisingly tender moments, too — often between unexpected subjects.

In ‘The Center for Immortality Research’, a low-level employee runs herself ragged planning a fancy gala…

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