If a city is its people, and its people are what they eat, then shouldn't food play a larger role in our dialogue about how and where we live? The food of a metropolis is essential to its character. Native plants, proximity to farmland, the locations of supermarkets, immigration, food-security... More Info

Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book! Nine-year-old Phineas William Walsh has an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world. What he can't understand is people and why they're poisoning the planet around him. Shouldn't everyone be losing sleep over the fact that so... More Info

A welfare cheque floats down the river, a cowboy spreads the Word of the Lord and crotches tick like clocks: the world of Spare Parts is unpredictable, evocative and vividly distorted. Its initial appearance, in 1981, caused a stir; at a time when linear narrative was the m.o. of feminist writing,... More Info

As a blizzard buries the ground, it uncovers the resentments, hopes, and aches of a small town in northeastern Arkansas. Julie ?nds herself, at forty-six, unexpectedly expectant. Her husband, Charlie, has ended his affair with Wilson, but he's found a new and unusual kind of intimacy--with a calf.... More Info