I Don't by Clementine Ford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against marriage for the modern woman. Provocative, controversial and above all, compellingly and persuasively argued. I want this book to end marriages. But more importantly, I want it to prevent marriages. Women ...Show more
Some Achieve Greatness: Lessons on leadership and character from Shakespeare and one of his greatest admirers by John Bell
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Category: Literary Studies
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.” William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Around the globe people have been crying out for “Leadership”: demanding it, begging for it. From the farcical spectacle of short-lived Australian prime ministers shoving each other ...Show more
You're Doing it Wrong: A History of Bad & Bonkers Advice to Women by Kaz Cooke
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Category: Literary Studies
A fresh, funny and furious look at the terrible advice women have been told for centuries. Stroll with bestselling author Kaz Cooke through instructions on how to day-drink, wear a dress made of arsenic, pretend you're an idiot, have sex with a billionaire biker, curtsey, get properly harassed at work, ...Show more
Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy Behind the Revolution by Carol Hay
$19.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Think Like a Feminist is an irreverent yet rigorous primer that unpacks over two hundred years of feminist thought. In a time when the word feminism triggers all sorts of responses, many of them conflicting and misinformed, Professor Carol Hay provides this balanced, clarifying, and inspiring examinatio ...Show more
In Defence of Witches: Why Women Are Still on Trial by Mona Chollet
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Category: Literary Studies
What remains of the witch hunts? A stubborn misogyny, which still tints the way our societies look at single women, childless women, aging women, or quite simply, free women . . . Today more than ever, witches tell us about our world and lead the way.' - Telerama A source of terror, a misogynistic image ...Show more
A Kind of Confession: The writer's private world by Alex Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
A deeply personal, behind-the-scenes exploration of Alex Miller's six-decade writing life. A Kind of Confession is a secret look into Alex Miller's writing life, spanning sixty years of creativity and inspiration. As a young man in 1961 Miller left his work as a ringer in Queensland and set out to achi ...Show more
Simple Act of Reading by Debra Adelaide
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Category: Literary Studies
For it is in the simple act of reading where the living and the dead, the real and the imagined, meet. It is in the simple act of reading where we exercise those two most sacred of human vocations: compassion and creativity. For as we know, without either of these primes there is no possibility for a hu ...Show more
Book in a MonthThe Fool-proof System for Writing a Novel in 30 Days by Victoria Lynn Schmidt
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Category: Literary Studies
What Can You Accomplish in 30 Days?If you make time to write and put away all of your excuses, could you stay on track and finish your novel in only a month? With a structured plan and a focused goal, yes, you can!Using a combination of flexible weekly schedules, focused instruction, and detailed worksh ...Show more
Why I Write? - The Early Prose from 1945 To 1952 by Bohumil Hrabal
$32.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Modern Czech Classics Ser.
"Glimmers in anticipation of Hrabal's later virtuosity." --New Yorker "A collection of formative fiction from a writer whose work has earned comparison with Joyce and Beckett. . . . Early work from a writer who merits a larger readership." --Kirkus Reviews This collection of the earliest prose by one ...Show more
The First Stone: Some Questions About Sex and Power by Helen Garner
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Category: Literary Studies
In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused was the head of their co-ed residential college. The shock of these charges split the community and painfully focused the debate ...Show more