Why Dylan Matters by Richard F. Thomas
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Category: Literary Studies
A GUARDIAN AND INDEPENDENT BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2017. 'At last an expert classicist gets to grips with Bob Dylan' Mary Beard 'Thomas's elegant, charming book offers something for everyone - not just the super-fans' IndependentWhen the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan, the literary world ...Show more
Drag Dictionary - An Illustrated Glossary of Fierce Queen Slang by Alba De Zanet; Roberto Garcia
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Category: Literary Studies
"No tea no shade, Judy, but your mug looks pretty badly beaten " With RuPaul's Drag Race catapulting drag into the mainstream, queens are well and truly owning the spotlight, and introducing us to their quirky and hilarious slang. But are you struggling to keep up with the lingo? Desperate to "throw ...Show more
Let Me Tell You What I Mean [HB] by Joan Didion
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Category: Literary Studies
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: twelve pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of this legendary figure. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, Didion writes about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a ...Show more
The Mitford Girls' Guide to Life by Lyndsy Spence
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Category: Literary Studies
The six Mitford girls were blessed with beauty, wit and talent, yet they led very distinct, cultural lives and not one sister, except for Diana and Unity, shared the same opinion or ideology. Nancy Mitford was the ultimate tease and her talent for mockery reformed the publishing industry in the 1930s an ...Show more
Bookish Broads: Women Who Wrote Themselves into History by Lauren Marino
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Category: Literary Studies
A boldly illustrated celebration of literary history's most revolutionary, talented women writers Women have written some of our most extraordinary literary works while living in societies and cultures that tried to silence them. These women dared to put pen to paper to express the multifaceted female e ...Show more
The Fat Lady Sings: Black Britain: Writing Back by Roy Jacqueline
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Black Britain: Writing Back Ser.
It is the 1990s, and Gloria is living in a London psychiatric ward. She is unapologetically loud, audacious and eternally on the brink of bursting into song. After several months of uninterrupted routine, she is joined by another young black woman - Merle - who is full of silences and fear.Unable to con ...Show more
The Man They Wanted Me to Be - Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making by Jared Yates Sexton
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Category: Literary Studies
Based on the provocative and popular New York Times op-ed, this memoir alternates between the examination of a working-class upbringing and a cultural analysis of the historical, psychological, and sociological sources that make up the roots of toxic masculinity and its impact on society. As progressiv ...Show more
The Story: Love, Loss & The Lives of Women: 100 Great Short Stories by Victoria Hislop
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Category: Literary Studies
Witty, heartbreaking, shocking, satirical: the short story can excite or sadden, entice or repulse. The one thing it can never be is dull. Now Victoria Hislop has collected 100 stories from her favourite women writers into one volume. Here are Man Booker Prize-winners and Nobel Laureates, feminists and ...Show more
Bombshells - Five Women Who Set the Fifties on Fire by Shar Daws
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Category: Literary Studies
Jean Harlow, the Godmother of Blondes, lit the torch for the blonde bombshell, creating an image and persona that would be passed on for generations to come. Jean's life was cut tragically short at the age of 26, but the flame reignited in the 1950s with the most notorious blondes of all time: Ruth Elli ...Show more
It's up to the Women by Eleanor Roosevelt; Jill Lepore (Introduction by)
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Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: very good
Written at the height of the Great Depression, It's Up to the Women is Eleanor Roosevelt's advice to women of all ages on every aspect of life. During a time of extreme hardship, she called on women particularly to do their part-cutting costs where needed, spending reasonably, and taking a personal resp ...Show more
A Life in Words: Collected writings from Gallipoli to the Melbourne Cup by Les Carlyon
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Category: Literary Studies
The collected writing of one of Australia's most admired authors and journalists, Les Carlyon. 'Les Carlyon has died, and Australia has lost one of its greatest wordsmiths.' Greg Baum, The Age 'He's been called Australia's Damon Runyon, but that tag is far too limiting to do him justice. Certainly his ...Show more
Signs and Wonders: Dispatches from a time of beauty and loss by Delia Falconer
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Category: Literary Studies
The celebrated, Walkley Award-winning author on how global warming is changing not only our climate but our culture. Beautifully observed, brilliantly argued and deeply felt, these essays show that our emotions, our art, our relationships with the generations around us – all the delicate networks that ...Show more