Silliness - A Serious History by Peter Timms
$24.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Silliness is to be savoured. It exposes the cracks in our reasoning, raising a gleeful two-finger salute to convention and common sense. In a world awash with stupidity and cruel politics, silliness is childish, anarchic, mischievous, rude and sometimes shocking. But it's not new. This delightful yet i ...Show more
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
An Emma Watson "Our Shared Shelf" Selection for November/December 2018 *NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY:The New York Public Library*Mashable* The Atlantic*Bustle*The Root *NPR* Fast Company("10 Best Books for Battling Your Sexist Workplace") Roxane Gay: "I encourage you to check outEloquent Rage out now." ...Show more
Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise by Katherine Rundell
$12.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Katherine Rundell - Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children - explores how children's books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children's fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playfulness, can awaken old hungers and create new perspectives ...Show more
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
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Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: near fine
Clive James is a life-long admirer of the work of Philip Larkin. Somewhere Becoming Rain gathers all of James's writing on this towering literary figure of the twentieth century, together with extra material now published for the first time.The greatness of Larkin's poetry continues to be obscured by th ...Show more
The Romantic Period by Stephen Greenblatt
$66.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with NEW complete major works, NEW contemporary writers, and dynamic and easy-to-access digital resources. NEW video modules help introduce students to literature in multip ...Show more
Books That Saved My Life by MICHAEL MCGIRR
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Great literature is thrilling. It will feed your hungry mind and take your heart on a journey. It will help you on the wonderful path to one of life's most elusive and hard-won freedoms, freedom from the ego.Here is a book about the sheer joy of living, exploring forty texts that can enrich us in all ma ...Show more
Heide by Pi O
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Heide is an epic poem about history, painting, painters, patrons and the people who made art happen in Australia — from Louis Buvelot to Edith Rowan, Tom Roberts and Robert Streeton to Vassilief, Nolan, Tucker, Joy Hester, the Boyds, Mirka Mora, and Albert Namatjira, with a particular focus on the artis ...Show more
George Seddon: Selected Writings by Andrea Gaynor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
George Seddon, one of Australia's most revered environmental scholars, was renowned for championing 'a sense of place'. He was a connoisseur of landscapes - from the rugged Snowy River Mountains to the humble domestic backyard - who explored the contested relationship between metropolitan suburbs, agric ...Show more
Conversations with RBG - Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law by Jeffrey Rosen
$42.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
In her own words, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers an intimate look at her life and career, though an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center. Conversations with RBG is a remarkable and unique book, an informal portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing o ...Show more
Meanjin Quarterly Summer 2019 - Vol 78 No 4 by Jonathan Green
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Rediscovering Captain James Cook- Paul Daley combs through the archives, visits Cook's papers in the National Library, speaks with Indigenous Australian thinkers and comes up with a reappraisal of the great explorer's impact.Selling the farm- the author of Rusted Off Why Country Australia Is Fed Up, Gab ...Show more
Split: True stories of leaving, loss and new beginnings by Peter Bishop; Lee Kofman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: True Stories by Prominent Australian Writers
In this compelling anthology of personal essays, curated by award-winning author Lee Kofman, some of Australia's most beloved writers reveal, for the first time, powerful, occasionally funny and often heartbreaking stories of significant endings and their aftermath. Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie P ...Show more
Breaking News - The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now by Alan Rusbridger
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Category: Literary Studies
We are living in a modern world where falsehood regularly seems to overwhelm truth. The ability of billions of people to publish has created a vast amount of unreliable and false news which now competes with and sometimes drowns more established forms of journalism. So where can we look for reliable, ve ...Show more