There's No Such Thing As an Easy Job Kikuko Tsumura
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AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job Kikuko Tsumura Convenience Store Woman meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this strange, compelling, darkly funny tale of one woman's search for meaning in the modern workplace Description Convenience Store Woman meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this strange, compelling, darkly funny tale of one woman's search for meaning in the modern workplace A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing Co and ideally, very little thinking. She is sent to a nondescript office building where she is tasked with watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing contraband goods. But observing someone for hours on end can be so inconvenient and tiresome. How will she stay awake? When can she take delivery of her favourite brand of tea? And, perhaps more importantly Co how did she find herself in this situation in the first place? As she moves from job to job, writing bus adverts for shops that mysteriously disappear, and composing advice for rice cracker wrappers that generate thousands of devoted followers, it becomes increasingly apparent that she's not searching for the easiest job at all, but something altogether more meaningful... About the Author Kikuko Tsumura was born in Osaka, Japan, where she still lives today. In her first job out of college, Tsumura experienced workplace harassment and quit after ten months to retrain and find another position, an experience that inspired her to write stories about young workers. She has won numerous Japanese literary awards including the Akutagawa Prize and the Noma Literary New Face Prize, and her first short story translated into English, 'The Water Tower and the Turtle', won a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology recognized Tsumura's work with a New Artist award in 2016. There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job is her first novel to be translated into English. Polly Barton is a translator of Japanese literature and non-fiction, based in the UK. Stories she has translated have appeared in Words Without Borders, Granta and The White Review. Full-length translations include Spring Garden by Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Tomoka Shibasaki and Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda. After being awarded the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions ISBN: 9781526622242 Essay Prize, she is currently working on a non-fiction book entitled Fifty Sounds. Format: Demy Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 0h x 0w mm Extent: 300 pages Bic1: Bic2: <Unrelated Table> Author now living: Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 No Such Thing As An 8 Copy Pack Contains 8 copies of No Such Thing As An Easy Job, plus a free reading copy Description Contains 8 copies of No Such Thing As An Easy Job, plus a free reading copy About the Author Price: AU $239.92 NZ $263.92 ISBN: 9781472999924 Format: Pack Package Type: MIXTURES PACK Dimensions: 0h x 0w mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Bic2: <Unrelated Table> Author now living: Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 The Last Good Man Thomas McMullan Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery' meets Cormac McCarthy's The Road: a taut, mud-spattered debut about violence, shame and redemption Description Duncan Peck has travelled alone to Dartmoor in search of his cousin. He has come from the city, where the fires are always burning. In his cousin's village, Peck finds a place with tea rooms and barley fields, a church and a schoolhouse. Out here, the people live an honest life Co and if there's any trouble, they have a way to settle it. They sit in the shadow of a vast wall, inscribed with strange messages. Anyone can write on the wall, anonymously, about their neighbours, about any wrongdoing that might hurt the community. Then comes the reckoning. The stranger from the city causes a stir. He has not been there long before the village wakes up to the most unspeakable accusation; sentences daubed on the wall that will detonate the darkest of secrets. A troubling, uncanny book about fear and atonement, responsibility and justice, and the violence of writing in public spaces, The Last Good Man dares to ask: what hope can we place in words once extinction is in the air? About the Author Thomas McMullan is a writer, critic and journalist whose work has appeared in publications including the Guardian, Observer, Times Literary Supplement, Frieze and BBC News, and has been published in 3:AM Magazine, Lighthouse and Best British Short Stories. He has worked with visual artists, game studios and theatre companies in London, Amsterdam, Beijing and Los Angeles. He lives in London. Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781526609236 Format: Demy Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 0h x 0w mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Bic2: <Unrelated Table> Author now living: Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 The Last Good Man 8 Copy Pack Contains 8 copies of The Last Good Man, plus a free reading copy Description Contains 8 copies of The Last Good Man, plus a free reading copy About the Author Price: AU $239.92 NZ $263.92 ISBN: 9781472999931 Format: Pack Package Type: MIXTURES PACK Dimensions: 0h x 0w mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Bic2: <Unrelated Table> Author now living: Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Shelter in Place David Leavitt David Leavitt, 'one of the major voices in contemporary fiction' (Guardian), returns with a brilliant new novel about our sense of self and safety in the divisive age of Donald Trump Description 'Very funny and unexpected, a material response to our times, plush as velvet' Rachel Cusk 'A wickedly funny and emotionally expansive novel' Jenny Offill It is the Saturday after the 2016 presidential election, and in a plush weekend house in Connecticut, a group of New Yorkers has gathered to recover from what they consider the greatest political catastrophe of their lives. Liberal and like- minded, the friends have come to the countryside in the hope of restoring the bubble in which they have grown used to living. Moving through her days accompanied by a carefully curated salon, Eva Lindquist is a generous hostess with an obsession for decorating. Yet when, in her avidity to secure shelter for herself, she persuades her husband to buy a grand if dilapidated apartment in Venice, she unwittingly sets off the chain of events that will propel him to venture outside the bubble and embark on an unexpected love affair. A slyly comic look at the shelter industry, Shelter in Place is a novel about house and home, furniture and rooms, safety and freedom and the insidious ways in which political upheaval can undermine even the most seemingly impregnable foundations. About the Author David Leavitt's novels and story collections include Family Dancing (finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award), The Lost Language of Cranes, While England Sleeps, Arkansas, The Indian Clerk (finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize and the IMPAC/Dublin Literary Award), and The Two Hotel Francforts. He is also the author of two non-fiction books, Florence, A Delicate Case and The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. He is co-director of the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Florida, where he is Professor Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 of English and edits the journal Subtropics. ISBN: 9781408846124 Format: C-Format PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 0h x 0w mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Bic2: <Unrelated Table> Author now living: Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Destination Wedding Diksha Basu Thirty years after leaving India for a better future in America, Tina and her family head to Delhi for her cousin's great big Indian wedding extravaganza and wonder if they may have got it all wrong... Description 'Extremely obsessed with this book' CHRISSY TEIGEN Tina wants to feel Indian. Really Indian. Not Indian in the sense of attending a yoga class in Brooklyn, in the country her parents moved to to make a new life for themselves. She wants to know the real India, only whenever she visits, people take her to bars and restaurants and boutiques that could be anywhere in the world. She gets her chance to get to know the country when she heads to Delhi for her glamorous cousin Shefali's week-long wedding, with her best friend Marianne, her parents and her mother's all-American boyfriend in tow. Navigating a world of Delhi playboys, models, dating agencies for widows, and wedding guests with personal bodyguards, Tina is determined to have an authentic Indian experience, now if only someone would tell her what that was... About the Author Diksha Basu is a writer and actor. Originally from New Delhi, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University and now divides her time between New York and Mumbai. 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