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Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though more in theory than in practice, his endless lust is all too rarely reciprocated. Both are symptomatic members of our atomise ...Show more
Lanzarote by Michel Houellebecq
$20.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse, walks into a travel agency to book a week in the sun. Sensitive to his limited means and dislike of Muslim countries, the travel agent suggests an island full of 21st century hedonism, set in a bizarre lu ...Show more
Platform by Michel Houellebecq
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years.In his early forties, Michel Renault skims through his days with as little human con ...Show more
Public Enemies by Michel Houellebecq & Bernard-Henri Levy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies
'Everything separates us from one another, with the exception of one fundamental point: we're both utterly despicable individuals' - (Houellebecq to BHL). In 2008, two of the most celebrated of French intellectuals began a ferocious exchange of letters. "Public Enemies" is the result. In their inimitabl ...Show more
Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
THE MOST IMPORTANT FRENCH BOOK OF THE YEAR ___________________ 'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houellebecq's work.' Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York Times Dissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labrouste begrudgingly works as an engineer for the Mi ...Show more
Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houellebecq's work.' - Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York Times Dissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labrouste begrudgingly works as an engineer for the Ministry of Agriculture, and is in a self-imposed dysfunctional ...Show more
Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZETHE MOST IMPORTANT FRENCH BOOK OF THE YEAR___________________'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houellebecq's work.' Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York TimesDissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labroust ...Show more
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
$55.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France's most famous living literary figureIt's 2022. Francois is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famous nineteenth-century Decadent author. But Francois's own decadenc ...Show more
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In a near-future France, Francois, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession - the ideas and works of the nineteenth-century novelist and pessimist Joris-Karl Huysmans - has led him nowhere. In a ...Show more
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In a near-future France, Fran ois, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession - the ideas and works of the nineteenth-century novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans - has led him nowhere. In a late-capitalis ...Show more
The Map And The Territory by Michel Houellebecq
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Having made his name with an exhibition of photographs of Michelin roadmaps - beautiful works that won praise from every corner of the art world - Jed Martin is now emerging from a ten-year hiatus. And he has had some good news.
The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of another lamentably awkward Christmas dinner with his father or the memory of his doomed love affair with the beautiful Olga. It is that, for his new exhibition, he has secured th ...Show more