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
Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes by Elizabeth Lesser
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Category: Literary Studies
What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her? What if women had been the storytellers? Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women's voic ...Show more
Salt: Selected Essays and Stories by Bruce Pascoe
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Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
A collection of stories and essays by the award-winning author of Dark Emu, showcasing his shimmering genius across a lifetime of work. Bruce Pascoe has been described as a 'living national treasure' and his work as 'revelatory'. This volume of his best and most celebrated stories and essays, collected ...Show more
Shakespeare On The Double! Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Shakespeare on the Double!
"For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. "Romeo and Juliet" is the tragic story of "star-crossed lovers" from feuding families. Complete with a masquerade ball, a duel, a secret marriage, a sleeping potion, and pushy parents, the play packs a lot of action and emotion into f ...Show more
Novel and Short Story Writer's Market 2018 by Rachel Randall
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Category: Literary Studies
Young People and the Arts: An agenda for change by Sue Giles
$16.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Expectations around theatre for young people are too prescribed today. Adults have long-held views on what works are appropriate and yet among all this concern for young people's creativity, it is not acknowledged as art. For the young people who work in the sector, the word `value' is clouded by preced ...Show more
The Writer's Digest Guide to Magazine Article Writing - A Practical Guide to Selling Your Pitches, Crafting Strong Articles, and Earning More Bylines by Kerrie Flanagan; Angela Mackintosh (Foreword by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Your Essential Reference for Writing for Magazines In The Writer's Digest Guide to Magazine Article Writing, accomplished freelance writer, author, and instructor Kerrie Flanagan demystifies the idea that writing for magazines is a difficult process meant only for those with journalism degrees. Drawing ...Show more
Writing Without Rules - How to Write and Sell a Novel Without Guidelines, Experts, or (Occasionally) Pants by Jeffrey Somers
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Stop What You're Doing and Write Yes, You; Write Most writing guides imply--or outright state--that there's a fixed, specific formula or list of rules you must follow to achieve writing and publishing success. And all of them are phonies. Well, not completely. There are real, applicable techniques and ...Show more
Economical Writing - Thirty-Five Rules for Clear and Persuasive Prose by Deirdre N. McCloskey
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
Economics is not a field that is known for good writing. Charts, yes. Sparkling prose, no. Except, that is, when it comes to Deirdre Nansen McCloskey. Her conversational and witty yet always clear style is a hallmark of her classic works of economic history, enlivening the dismal science and engaging r ...Show more
Dickens and Christmas by LUCINDA HAWKSLEY
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Category: Literary Studies
Dickens and Christmas is an exploration of the 19th-century phenomenon that became the Christmas we know and love today and of the writer who changed, forever, the ways in which it is celebrated. Charles Dickens was born in an age of great social change. He survived childhood poverty to become the most ...Show more
Weird but Normal - Essays by Mia Mercado
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Category: Literary Studies
Birth control. Body hair removal cream. Boobs. It's all weird, but also pretty normal. Navigating racial identity, gender roles, workplace dynamics, and beauty standards, Mia Mercado's hilarious essay collection explores the contradictions of being a millennial woman, which usually means being kind of ...Show more