| Author: | Clementine Ford |
| Category: |
Literary Studies |
The incendiary new book about toxic masculinity and misogyny from Clementine Ford, author of the best-selling feminist manifesto, Fight Like A Girl .
| Author: | Sebastian Smee |
| Category: |
Literary Studies |
| Reading Level: | 4 Non Fiction |
What is the inner life? And is it vanishing in the digital age?
Throughout history, artists and philosophers have cultivated the deep self, and seen value in solitude and reflection. But today, through social media, wall-to-... read more
| Author: | Lee Israel |
| Category: |
Literary Studies |
Before turning to her life of crime, running a one-woman forgery business out of a phone booth in a Greenwich Village bar, and dodging the FBI, Lee Israel had a legitimate, even celebrated, career as an author of biographies. Her first book... read more
| Author: | Mandy Sayer |
| Category: |
Literary Studies |
"I fell in love with my first misfit at the age of three. He was a disabled man in a wheelchair who sold newspapers every afternoon outside the Empire Hotel in Annandale. Whenever I glimpsed him in the distance I would break into a run, jump onto his lap, ... read more
| Author: | Shirleene Robinson; Alex Greenwich |
| Category: |
Literary Studies |
Yes Yes Yes, written by two advocates intimately involved in the struggle for marriage equality, reveals the untold story of how a grassroots movement won hearts and minds and transformed a country. From its tenta... read more
| Author: | Michael McGirr |
| Category: |
Literary Studies |
| Reading Level: | 4 Non Fiction |
Here are forty texts to read at some stage in your life: forty texts that can enrich you in all manner of ways. Some are recent, like Harry Potter; some ancient, like Homer and Lao Tzu. There are memoirs (Nelson Mandela), poetry ... read more
| Author: | Modern Books |
| Category: |
Literary Studies |
Some stories couldn_t happen just anywhere or any time _ often the scenery , landscape or era is as central to the tale as any character _ and just as easily recognised. Wh at adventures would Heidi have had without her mountai... read more
| Author: | Blanche d'Alpuget |
| Category: |
Literary Studies |
On Lustand On Longingtogether for the first time. When On Lustwas first published it caused a media sensation- Blanche d'Alpuget wrote of a pillar of society who had molested children and of events that ended in mystery. Now she reveals all. On Longingcaused a similar ... read more
| Author: | Emma Glass |
| Category: |
Literary Studies |
'An immensely talented young writer ... Her fearlessness renews one's faith in the power of literature' George Saunders, author of Lincoln in he Bardo, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize Something has happened to Peach. It hurts to walk but she staggers home to parents that don't seem ... read more
| Author: | Olympe de Gourges |
| Category: |
Literary Studies |
Olympe de Gouges was the most important fighter for women's rights you've never heard of.
An activist and writer in revolutionary Paris, she published 'The Declaration of the Rights of Women'... read more
| Author: | Laura Tingle |
| Category: |
Literary Studies |
In this crisp and timely essay, Laura Tingle examines political leadership in general - some profiles in courage, and cunning - as well as styles of leadership. She looks at Macron and Merkel, Keating and Obama. Ting... read more
| Author: | Don Watson |
| Category: |
Literary Studies |
Corrosive, mad and frequently fatal, indignation is a great destructive force in human affairs, and just as often a wellspring of mirth and merriment. Don Watson traces this seemingly ineradicable emotion in a journey that takes us, via his forebears, Flaubert and The Sopranos,... read more
