Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why Writing Well Matters by Harold Evans
$55.00 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Harry Evans has edited everything from the urgent files of battlefield reporters to the complex thought processes of Henry Kissinger, and he has been knighted for his services to journalism. In Do I Make Myself Clear?,his definitive guide to writing well, Evans brings his indispensable insight to the ar ...Show more
Freeman's: The Future of New Writing by John Freeman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
This special fourth installment of the acclaimed literary anthology from leading editor and critic John Freeman introduces a list - to be announced just before publication - of more than twenty-five poets, essayists, novelists, and short-story writers from around the world who are shaping the literary c ...Show more
More Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: near fine
Follow-up to the phenomenal international bestseller.Including letters from:Jane Austen, Richard Burton, Helen Keller, Alan Turing, Albus Dumbledore, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry James, Sylvia Plath, John Lennon, Gerald Durrell, Janis Joplin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hunter S. Thompson, C. G. Jung, Katherin ...Show more
Fight Like a Girl : 50 Feminists Who Changed the World by Laura Barcella
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Feminism is a hot topic. The battle for gender equality is being fought by everybody from politicians to indie social media campaigners, celebrities to school girls. But how did we get here and who paved the way for today's badass women? Fight Like a Girl profiles 50 fearless women - both the historical ...Show more
Women Who Dared by Linda Skeers
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Women have been doing amazing, daring, and dangerous things for years, but they're rarely mentioned in our history books as adventurers, daredevils, or rebels. This new compilation of brief biographies features women throughout history who have risked their lives for adventure--many of whom you may not ...Show more
Chronicles of a Liquid Society by Umberto Eco
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and profound wisdom. He sees with fresh eyes the upheaval in ideological values, the crises in politics, and the unb ...Show more
The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature by Viv Groskop
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Category: Literary Studies
Viv Groskop has discovered the meaning of life in Russian literature. As she knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened in life has already happened in these novels- from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina) to being in love with someone who doesn't love you ba ...Show more
A Free Flame : Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century by Ann-Marie Priest
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
***Highly commended in the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript*** 'I need to be a writer, ' Ruth Park told her future husband, D'Arcy Niland, on the eve of their marriage. 'That's what I need from life.' She was not the only one. At a time when women were considered incapable of bein ...Show more
Seven Types of Atheism by John Gray
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
From the provocative author of Straw Dogs comes an incisive, surprising intervention in the political and scientific debate over religion and atheismWhen you explore older atheisms, you will find that some of your firmest convictions--secular or religious--are highly questionable. If this prospect distu ...Show more
The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: very good
In elegant, finely honed prose (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life--its fads, trends, crazes, morals, and fashions. By turns ironic, facetious, deadpan, sarcastic, wry, wisecracking, and waggish, Fran Lebowitz is always wickedly entertaining.
50 Queer Music Icons Who Changed the World by Hardie Grant; Michele Rosenthal (Illustrator); Will Larnach-Jones
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Category: Literary Studies
Featuring beautifully illustrated portraits and profiles, 50 Queer Musicians Who Changed the World is a tribute to queer ground breakers who changed the face of music and popular culture. LGBTQ musicians have been pushing for change since the 1920s, with singers such as Bessie Smith crooning about same- ...Show more