Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time.‘Word-work is sublime, she thinks, because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference—the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning o ...Show more
On Us by Mark Scott
$14.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Little Books on Big Themes
How do we step outside our own echo chamber to understand others? What are we losing when we share fewer and fewer national moments? The new media is enabling despots and disempowering democracy. So when every opinion seems to matter equally, On Usoffers a few more on choice in a concentrated media worl ...Show more
Proud by Various, Various Authors
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
A stirring, bold and moving anthology of stories and poetry by top LGBTQ+ YA authors and new talent, giving their unique responses to the broad theme of pride. Each story has an illustration by an artist identifying as part of the LGBTQ+ community. A boy’s coming out is overshadowed by gay penguins, a m ...Show more
Storytime: Growing up with Books by Jane Sullivan
$26.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
What was it exactly? Wonder, rapture delight, surprised recognition, laughter - but also darker feelings that made my heart beat fast and my stomach turn over, and sometimes a frantic urge to close the book before whatever it was sucked me in and destroyed me. But always, I read on. In Storytime, aut ...Show more
I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
$16.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Aged fifteen and on track to be an Olympic gymnast, Lucia Osborne-Crowley was violently raped in Sydney on a night out, sparking a series of events that left her devastatingly ill for more than ten years of her life. Her path to healing began a decade later, when she told someone about her rape for the ...Show more
C.S. Lewis Signature Classic: Mere Christianity by C S Lewis
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: C.S. Lewis Signature Classics Ser.
Mere Christianity is C. S. Lewis' forceful and accessible doctrine on Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books-The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality-Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis sees as the funda ...Show more
The Big Questions Book of Sex and Consent by Donna Freitas
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
What this book is NOT: The fear-based How-To on sex and consent, oversimplified and focused on technicalities, that represents so much of our sexual education today. What this book IS: A journey into the Big Questions that will turn you into a thinking person about sex and consent, with the ability to w ...Show more
Strong Female Lead: Lessons From Women In Power by Arwa Mahdawi
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
The first two decades of the 21st Century have seen financial collapse, a global pandemic, the devastation of our environment and the disintegration of democracies. But while some at the top are telling us 'it is what is it', there's a new generation of leaders showing the world how to be better. They' ...Show more
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies And Other Writing From The London Review Of Books by Hilary Mantel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel, author of The Wolf Hall trilogy. In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be mo ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 84: The Reckoning: How #MeToo is Changing Australia by Jess Hill
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
This year, Australia's #MeToo moment erupted in the national parliament. In this electrifying essay, Jess Hill, the acclaimed author of See What You Made Me Do, traces the meaning of those events and what could happen next. What are the politics of rage? What couldn't Scott Morrison see? And what hope i ...Show more
Medieval Literature: A Basic Anthology by Dover Publications,Inc.
$12.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Excerpts from works of philosophy and religion, history and drama, fiction, poetry, and other genres introduce the many facets of medieval literature. Contributors include St. Augustine, Boethius, Chaucer, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Marie de France, Snorri Sturluson, Boccaccio, and Dante, among others, along ...Show more
She Who Dares - Ten Trailblazing Society Women by Lyndsy Spence
$42.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
"Oh dear," said Evelyn Waugh of his society friends, "these great ladies." In this book of pen portraits, the reader is introduced to 10 extraordinary women who were society stars in the interwar years, and is offered a fresh perspective on key historical events, such as the abdication, the rise of fasc ...Show more