Letters of Note - Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher
$49.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Letters of Note is a collection of over one hundred of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name - an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people. From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter, to Q ...Show more
Rise and Resist - How to Change the World by Clare Press
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Rise & Resisttakes a wild trip through the new activism sweeping the world. The political march is back in a big way, as communities rally to build movements for environmental and social justice. But today?s context calls for increasingly creative strategies to make our voices heard. Crossing the gl ...Show more
Lives of Houses by Hermione Lee; Kate Kennedy
$44.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
A group of notable writers — including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow — celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past. What can a house tell us about the person who lives there? D ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 79: The End of Certainty: Scott Morrison and Pandemic Politics by Katharine Murphy
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Quarterly Essay
What has the coronavirus pandemic revealed about Scott Morrison, and where is he taking Australia? Epidemics are mirrors. What has COVID-19 revealed about Australia, and about Scott Morrison and his government? In this gripping essay, Katharine Murphy goes behind the scenes to tell the story of the res ...Show more
Between Us - Women of Letters by Michaela McGuire
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Writing a letter can be an act of confession or celebration, while receiving one can bring joy, insight and vivid memories. Ambassadors for correspondence Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire have lured some of our best and brightest to the literary afternoons of Women of Letters to write and read missive ...Show more
Dolphin Letters (H/B) by E. L. HARDIWICK
$69.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
The Dolphin Letters offers an unprecedented portrait of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick during the last seven years of Lowell's life (1970 to 1977), a time of personal crisis and creative innovation for both writers. Centred on the letters they exchanged with each other and with other members of th ...Show more
Meanjin Vol 79 No 4 by Jonathan Green
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
The issue opens with reflective contributions from all of Meanjin's living past editors ... Tara June Winch and Behrouz Boochani offer a conversational meditation on time and the very notion of a future. Bruce Pascoe writes on the strange relationship non-Indigenous Australians have with trees, and wo ...Show more
Children of the Black Skirt by Angela Betzien
$23.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Teenage S.
Three lost children discover an abandoned orphanage in the bush. They become trapped in this timeless world, haunted by spirits of the past and perpetually tormented by the ominous Black Skirt, the cruel governess who floats up and down the orphanage corridors wielding her enormous scissors. Soon, the c ...Show more
In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World by Padraig O Tuama
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Category: Literary Studies
It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.Drawing on this Irish saying, poet, storyteller and theologian Pádraig Ã? Tuama relates ideas of shelter and welcome to journeys of life, using poetry, story, biblical refelction and prose to open up gentle ways of living well in a troubled world. ...Show more
Reading the Holocaust by Inga Clendinnen
$26.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
In this searching and eloquent book, Inga Clendinnen explores the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' point of view in an attempt to extract the comprehensible - the recognisably human - from the unthinkable. Winner of the 1999 New South Wales Premier's History Award ...Show more
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with reade ...Show more
How To Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist.In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option- until we become part of the solution, we can only be part ...Show more